06-08-2004 17:50									#31
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I'll certainly redo it, but perhaps at a later date.

	06-08-2004 17:54									#32
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Let's use an OT theme.

	06-08-2004 18:00									#33
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Excellent idea

	06-08-2004 18:13									#34
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please!

	06-08-2004 19:15									#35
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Can I be HARDMAN?

Room for one more on top I think.

	06-08-2004 19:58									#36
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I think I'm just barely in right?

I call CivNation

	06-08-2004 20:06									#37
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Eh, I'm not sure if my Apolytonian knowledge is sufficient. It does have its interesting possibilities though.

	06-08-2004 20:42									#38
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* Adagio skips most posts...

Has the theme been decided yet?

	06-08-2004 20:49									#39
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Jurassic Park could definitely be fun, but whoever gets to play the raptor will probably have a life expectancy roughly equal to that of William Pitt in the French Revolution game. (The T-Rex, on the other hand, we might be too scared of to vote for.)

I hope I get the nutty pretentious mathematician.

	06-08-2004 21:37									#40
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But what about a Jurassic Park theme where all players are humans stuck on the island...

	06-08-2004 22:00									#41
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And what fun would that be? Besides, the humans can use robo-jaws to try and simulate a dino attack, and if the raptors are smart enough to open doors, they can probably wield knives & fire guns & other stuff too, and some of the other dinos are poisoners.

More to the point, there were only so many named humans. Using dinos means less "Guard #2."

Last edited by SnowFire on 06-08-2004 at 22:10

	06-08-2004 22:49									#42
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It doesn't have to be the same people from the movie...

	06-08-2004 22:50									#43
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And I would say it would be more fun, than having each player play some dino, who just runs around acting like a human

	06-08-2004 23:01									#44
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OT personalities?

That could be interesting...

Won't the GM get to assign personalities to players?

	06-08-2004 23:08									#45
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quote: Won't the GM get to assign personalities to players?

Yep, that's the GM's prerogative.

	06-08-2004 23:09									#46
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Jurassic Park.

	07-08-2004 00:24									#47
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quote: Originally posted by Kassiopeia I like that. I watched JP way too many times as a kid. I'm already getting ideas. I'm all game with it.

Go with the book characters though

	07-08-2004 00:57									#48
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I've read the book only once, so my knowledge on the characters is more than a bit iffy. Hm.

	07-08-2004 01:03									#49
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Well, the differences are important. Of the top of my head...

Dr. Grant was the same.
Dr. Satler
Timmy was the computer nerd, who also always had "dinosaurs on the brain"
His older sister was a sports person
Hammond was a bad character, and died
Muldoon was black, IIRC
Nedry was about the same
Wu was a much bigger character, and was a "bad" character (he died too, IIRC)
In the movie, the lawyer was actually a merger of two characters. I'll look them up later. Both were evil, but only one died
The vet, Dr. Hardy, was a bigger character, but about the same. I forget if he dies or not.
Malcom was even cooler in the book (can I be him?)
Arnold was about the same, though a bigger character (they were all bigger, of course, cuz it's a book)

That's twelve. I'm sure there are a few more that I've forgotten. We can also have technicians, the helicopter pilot(s), the captain of the ship, etc.

	07-08-2004 02:10									#50
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Adagio: No... not the thumbs down!

Ah, if you couldn't tell, I was mostly being silly, although if Kass wants to be silly as well, he's certainly free to use dinos as characters.

Kuci: Seems about right. The other bad guy was the public-relations guy in the lawyer merger... what was his name? (shuffle shuffle) Ah, here it is, Ed Regis. I don't recall Dr. Wu as being "evil" so much, by the way. He had a cute tiny elephant with a cold! Which he used to attract investors. Awww.

I don't know what they were thinking with Hammond in the movie. He was Captain Evil Capitalist in the book, caring only about making tons of money, while he was senile ol' Grandpa in the movie who only cared about giving dreams to children, or some sillyness.

Oh, and let's not forget about the random Asian cook. I forget if he or she had a name or not.

It's not appropriate for the book, but we could also stick Lews Dodgson on the island as well, the guy who hired Nedry to do the industrial espionage. Came to check up and make sure the job was done right, or something.

	07-08-2004 02:24									#51
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I was thinking of trying to set up an entirely new set of characters with some characters, shall I say, strongly inspired by the "real" ones. So you'd have the evil capitalist owner there, but he wouldn't necessarily be old, a man, or called Hammond. That sort of thing. (Of course, that means more work for me. Hmmm.)

	07-08-2004 05:21									#52
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quote: Originally posted by SnowFire Kuci: Seems about right. The other bad guy was the public-relations guy in the lawyer merger... what was his name? (shuffle shuffle) Ah, here it is, Ed Regis. I don't recall Dr. Wu as being "evil" so much, by the way. He had a cute tiny elephant with a cold! Which he used to attract investors. Awww.

Year before last we analyzed the book in English. He's "evil" in that sense - like, he was a "bad guy" from Crichton's POV.

quote: It's not appropriate for the book, but we could also stick Lews Dodgson on the island as well, the guy who hired Nedry to do the industrial espionage. Came to check up and make sure the job was done right, or something.

	07-08-2004 19:15									#53
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I'll sign up but only if we don't do multiple personalities.

	07-08-2004 19:17									#54
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quote: was thinking of trying to set up an entirely new set of characters with some characters, shall I say, strongly inspired by the "real" ones. So you'd have the evil capitalist owner there, but he wouldn't necessarily be old, a man

I think it would be more interesting with real characters from the books.

	07-08-2004 20:19									#55
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I'm in, if there is room.

ACK!

	08-08-2004 10:45									#56
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quote: I'm in, if there is room.

	08-08-2004 11:11									#57
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quote: I think it would be more interesting with real characters from the books.

But I don't think I have enough knowledge of the books. If someone else, like Kuciwalker or you, wants to GM with Jurassic Park, go right ahead. Then again the knowledge supplied before probably suffices, it's not like I'm writing a novel or anything.

	08-08-2004 12:49									#58
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I could try it...

	08-08-2004 13:30									#59
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If you will, I will take your player slot. Always nice to have a new GM. Are you fine with 24 players?

So the list would then be:

1. Whoha
2. Spaced Cowboy
3. Method
4. Gamecube64
5. Jonny
6. rah
7. Ljube-ljcvetko
8. SnowFire
9. Hercules
10. Kuciwalker/Kassiopeia
11. loinburger
12. joncha
13. FlameFlash
14. Ben Kenobi
15. Skanky Burns
16. Duke o' york
17. Adagio
18. DrSpike
19. gjramsey
20. Tuberski
21. DarkCloud
22. Kalius
23.
24.

Or we could go ahead with the 22 we have now.

	08-08-2004 14:58									#60
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Let's start.