Midgets
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Re: Midgets
That's because they find the term "midget" to be offensive.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
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Braden Campbell
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Re: Midgets
You mean like Dwarves, Gnomes, In'Valians, and the like?
Yeah. I agree. In the Phase World setting almost every race is seven feet tall and has either an impossibly thin build and/or superhuman attributes.
It stems from the fact that gamers (both the players and the writers) aren't always happy with the way they look in real life, and so when they escape intot he fantasy of the game, they want to play (or write about) tall, pysically fit, agile, handsome characters.
Until our society gets over its height stigma, it isn't likely to change either.
Yeah. I agree. In the Phase World setting almost every race is seven feet tall and has either an impossibly thin build and/or superhuman attributes.
It stems from the fact that gamers (both the players and the writers) aren't always happy with the way they look in real life, and so when they escape intot he fantasy of the game, they want to play (or write about) tall, pysically fit, agile, handsome characters.
Until our society gets over its height stigma, it isn't likely to change either.
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Braden wrote:Thundercloud Galaxy has a flock of ducks in it that can slag a Glitterboy in one melee.
If that doesn't prompt you to buy it, I don't know what else I can say.
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Aramanthus
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Re: Midgets
You could always add some little RCCs to the RCC thread here in the Dimensional forum. 
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
Re: Midgets
Braden Campbell wrote:It stems from the fact that gamers (both the players and the writers) aren't always happy with the way they look in real life, and so when they escape intot he fantasy of the game, they want to play (or write about) tall, pysically fit, agile, handsome characters.
I always assumed it was because the aliens were from a low gravity world so they evolved skeletons that dispersed weight over a greater height...
That and none of the artists/creators wanted to reinvent the ewok.
"But you can't make an omelet without ruthlessly crushing dozens of eggs beneath your steel boot and then publicly disemboweling the chickens that laid them as a warning to others." -Order of the Stick #760
Re: Midgets
Midgets?
Why... I, mean.... Aww, nevermind.
Why... I, mean.... Aww, nevermind.
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Re: Midgets
yes I want my charecters to have to go to homecoming with there ears taped up becasue there ears got so cauliflowered they had to be lanced becasue of picking up OCC skill wrestling
no escapism what so ever
actaully I am a big fan of the power leech. Those are awesome midjets. I alos am fond of Bubble Makers from Pscyscape but they are all cyberknight of course and sound as much like Yolda as my poor impreesion skills allow
no escapism what so ever
actaully I am a big fan of the power leech. Those are awesome midjets. I alos am fond of Bubble Makers from Pscyscape but they are all cyberknight of course and sound as much like Yolda as my poor impreesion skills allow
I remember days like this when my father took me to the forest and we ate wild blueberries. More than 20 years ago. I was just a boy of four or five. The leaves were so dark and green then. The grass smelled sweet with the spring wind...For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.
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Re: Midgets
There is nothing wrong with creating some new RCCs. Try you hand at it. And post them over on the RCC thread here.
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
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Re: Midgets
gnome888 wrote:There arent enuff midget D-Bees in rifts or anywhere else. I ment to put this in the Rifts forum not dimensions
"Midgets? I use 'midgets' all the time! They make such wonderful hardwired organic missile guidance systems!"
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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Re: Midgets
Braden Campbell wrote:You mean like Dwarves, Gnomes, In'Valians, and the like?
Yeah. I agree. In the Phase World setting almost every race is seven feet tall and has either an impossibly thin build and/or superhuman attributes.
It stems from the fact that gamers (both the players and the writers) aren't always happy with the way they look in real life, and so when they escape intot he fantasy of the game, they want to play (or write about) tall, pysically fit, agile, handsome characters.
Until our society gets over its height stigma, it isn't likely to change either.
Faerie Folk. Faerie 'Bots....small, dangerous....
Also Land of the Damned for the PFRPG introduces the Rabbler and Kokossan, both short and suitably nasty...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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Aramanthus
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Re: Midgets
ROFLMAO!!! Great one Taalismn! So that is what the sploogies do with their midgets! Hopefully those little people kick his sorry rear end into the sun!
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
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taalismn
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Re: Midgets
Aramanthus wrote:ROFLMAO!!! Great one Taalismn! So that is what the sploogies do with their midgets! Hopefully those little people kick his sorry rear end into the sun!
Just not happening...that's like the shrimp appetizers at a seafood bar staging a revolt...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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Re: Midgets
taalismn wrote:Aramanthus wrote:ROFLMAO!!! Great one Taalismn! So that is what the sploogies do with their midgets! Hopefully those little people kick his sorry rear end into the sun!
Just not happening...that's like the shrimp appetizers at a seafood bar staging a revolt...
Who is evil?
Who is joy
Who is pain
Who is death
Who is good
Who is blind
Who is foolish
Who is smart
Me and you that's who
For we are mankind.
Who is joy
Who is pain
Who is death
Who is good
Who is blind
Who is foolish
Who is smart
Me and you that's who
For we are mankind.
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taalismn
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Re: Midgets
Remember that the next time you're served live seafood....
A Hero of the Revolution may just be awaiting its chance to strike...
A Hero of the Revolution may just be awaiting its chance to strike...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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Aramanthus
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Re: Midgets
And cause you to choke to death on it! Fortunately for me I don't eat sea food!
Fortunately for me I don't eat sea food!"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
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taalismn
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Re: Midgets
Aramanthus wrote:And cause you to choke to death on it!
The clams are coming for you...
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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"Trouble rather the Tiger in his Lair,
Than the Sage among his Books,
For all the Empires and Kingdoms,
The Armies and Works that you hold Dear,
Are to him but the Playthings of the Moment,
To be turned over with the Flick of a Finger,
And the Turning of a Page"
--------Rudyard Kipling
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Re: Midgets
I use clams for fish food and bait. And then when I catch a fish I release it!!!
"Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled or dead?"
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE
"My Lady," the protector of Grayson told his Champion, "I do not wish him to leave this chamber alive."
"As you will it, your Grace."
HH....FIE