From: Ml10@aol.com Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 3:02 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Character Generator Yes, I am up to version 2.0 of my Javascript web based one. (I am holding off on Java as Sun and Microsoft are still in court over it) The character creation rules have some very nasty quirks when one is trying to create abstract data contructs so it is taking me longer than I first thought. I have about half of the professions, all the bio-mods, and the backend left to go. Mike Z *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: BIOHZD@aol.com Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 5:52 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Undercurrents 6 & 7 Hello Dungate, You write: I vote for a aborigines issue! Ah...have you been peeking in Biohazard's files? Jeff Barber Biohazard Games *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Rehability [jcook@net-serv.com] Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 11:40 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Character Generator Well, I'm willing, but I don't currently have the time. I'd probably be able to get on it around spring-time. Any other takers? Thanks, James Cook >Hi folks. > > Want to ask you if someone have ever tried to do a program to create a BP >character, with the stats and ChIPs... > > > >******************************************** >*Alexandre "Tarrask" Freire Filho * *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Heivilin, Jim [banzai@missouri.edu] Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 2:28 PM To: 'blue_planet@mpgn.com' Subject: RE: [BLUE PLANET] - Character Generator > -----Original Message----- > From: Alexandre "Tarrask" Filho [mailto:tarrask@netwaybbs.com.br] > Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Character Generator > > Want to ask you if someone have ever tried to do a > program to create a BP character, with the stats and ChIPs... > Jim Cook had mentioned that he was going to do one similar to the Deadlands Character Generator he had done (check it out at http://www.peginc.com). I haven't heard much about it since but then he's pretty busy from what I hear. Jim H. Jim Heivilin, Webmaster Biohazard Games mailto:ccbanzai@showme.missouri.edu http://www.biohazardgames.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Tun Kai Poh [t_poh@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, December 12, 1998 1:04 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: [BLUE PLANET] - Hybrids Here's my take on the whole hybrid culture issue: You can't look at them as a separate species, although in the genetic sense they sort of are. These are an otherwise human people who were created to be professional soldiers for life. That has got to mess with your head, even after you get independence. That's why I had an entire clan of cat hybrid mercenaries in my Nomad campaign. Many of them didn't know where else to fit in. Society expected them to be claws for hire, so they bought into that stereotype, except for a couple of them who just wanted to live like normal people. They developed a fledgling warrior culture with bits borrowed from Euro-chivalry and Bushido - honor was important, but also ill-defined. So you had a community dedicated solely to the art of battle. My cats were not necessarily typical, but it's one way that a hybrid community might go. Kai Poh, who just got his B.S. in Computer Science today. Yay! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: BIOHZD@aol.com Sent: Friday, December 11, 1998 5:52 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Re: Blue Planet Women, Hybrids, you name it... Hello Suvi, You write: Add one more double-X chromosomed mammal to the count. >>>>Welcome aboard! I am an aspiring game moderator in the very slow and meandering process of creating a campaign. A friend of mine happened to buy the BP sourcebook, and eventually gave it to me on a sort of permanent loan (since I was borrowing it about once a day). I'm going to try to nudge both slightly into a more hard SF direction, >>>>Nudge away... I really don't like the cyber/biotech in BP (or, at least the minimal information approach that makes it just a special effect). >>>>I don't track - as far as RPGs go, there is a lot more detail in the descriptions of BP tech than in most games. Given the size of the thing, including anymore in the first book was...well..impossible ; (. Hybrids aren't believable either >>>> Why so? (Your answer could be useful in their further development). Incidentally, given the speech impediment the Cats have, I thought a derogatory term used of them by humans could be "Sylvesters". >>>> That would fit - especially if we had called them S'y'lvas instead of the gorrilla hybrids. (Cats and Silvas aren't human IMHO, but what are they then? The sourcebook isn't very clear on that. >>>>They are enhanced humans, with only basic and isolated physical modifications. The infant hybrid psyche is purely human, and any deviation from human norms is based on the consequences of the child's physical characteristics and socialization. Certainly they can't interbreed with humans (naturally at least) so they are effectively a separate species. >>>>You will have to wait for UC 6 for info on this ; (. Do Cats exhibit catlike behavior either instinctively or culturally?) >>>>In my own little BP universe - no, not at all. Cat hybreds are no more mentally cats that I am mentally a dolphin. (ACCESS DENIED) If the Creators created the wormhole between Poseidon and Earth, shouldn't there be other wormholes linking these two planets to whole chains or webs of worlds? >>>>This question was asked several times in early days of this list. All the GEO has authorized me to say is that there is a book on the BP release schedule titled...ahem...Wormhole. Ah... nuff said. (/ACCESS ENABLED) One of my primary interests is biology, and the BP sourcebook provides woefully inadequate information >>>>Ah...well...I wouldn't go that far. As RPGs go we crammed in an aweful lot. I mean BP is a game, not an encyclopedia... I'd have liked much more information on the ecology, natural history and diversity of life on Poseidon. >>>>Not to worry. The sourcebook Survey (working title only) will have more hard science on Poseidon that you can shake a whollop fish spine at. *Why is fast fungus such an effective decomposer of bioplastic? >>>>Because bioplastic is an organic polymer and fast fungus is really hungry ; ). Actually, the normally durable and semi-inert material is readily reduced to various monomers by uniquely reactive fast fungus enzymes. *How similar is the biochemistry of Poseidon life to that of Earth? >>>>In most cases, it is almost interchangeable. As we have alluded to in the main book, the genetic basis of life on both Earth and Podeidon are the same. Makes ya go hmmmm? ; ) Would humans be violently allergic to some group of species? >>>>YES! How susceptible are humans to nerve toxins in Poseidon life? >>>>OW! This red bug-thing just stu....[croak]. *Why can parasites from Poseidon infect humans? >>>>Generalized parasites can because of the similiar biochemistry. Many parasites however are host-species specific and would be unable to survive in other species. *How have the animals introduced by humans affected the ecology of Poseidon? >>>>Except for the marine iguana (and ecologists are still trying to figure that one out) Earth species introduced to Poseiodon do not do well without human intervention, husbandry or cultivation, and even then survival is often hit or miss. Most ecologists agree Poseidon's ecology is too aggressive for most Earth species to pose a competative threat. *What are the main groups in the diversity of life on Poseidon? >>>>Evolutionary biologists continue to propose classification schemes, and endlessly debate the research. We hope there will be a concensus before Survey goes to press ; ). *What adaptations have evolved in the lifeforms of Poseidon for dispersal between islands and hurricane survival (or both combined)? >>>>There is some about this in the Field Guide section of BP, and there will certainly be more in Survey. Well, we can never be accused of not responding to our customers! Hope this helps, Jeff "it's how many pages?!!" Barber Biohazard Games *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: SemiColon@aol.com Sent: Saturday, December 12, 1998 5:54 AM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Character Generator I tried making up charts for it There was so much to type in, I found it slow an inefficient. I would think that an interactive program that allowed you to answer questions while creating the character would be exceptional -jim *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message. From: Robert P. Stefko [rpsst16@pop.pitt.edu] Sent: Saturday, December 12, 1998 6:53 PM To: blue_planet@MPGN.COM Subject: Re: [BLUE PLANET] - Hybrids "Society expected them to be claws for hire, so they bought into that stereotype, except for a couple of them who just wanted to live like normal people. They developed a fledgling warrior culture with bits borrowed from Euro-chivalry and Bushido - honor was important, but also ill-defined. So you had a community dedicated solely to the art of battle. My cats were not necessarily typical, but it's one way that a hybrid community might go." Considering that Germany was one of the three nations active in the hybrid design project (with the United States and Biogene), there could be some Prussian militarism in there, along with a dash of Latin machismo and old fashioned American belligerence. *************************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list send mail to majordomo@mpgn.com with the line 'unsubscribe blue_planet' as the body of the message.