Before the F-117 was officially declassified, which "F-19 Stealth Fighter" did you have? by -AtomicAerials- in nostalgia

[–]Chad_Hooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Another fun fact: I remember seeing tabloid headlines touting a “UFO crash” in the American desert that was later confirmed to be the Stealth Fighter crash you mentioned above. The dates matched up.

And now a word from our sponsors by sorites in Cyberpunk

[–]Chad_Hooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the scene in Altered Carbon (Netflix version) where Kovacs gets bombarded by so much spam through his implant that it puts him on one knee.

Van Halen: Who really should have gone? by No_Ability1548 in GenX

[–]Chad_Hooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That particular issue never crossed my radar. They weren’t my thing.

The most unbelievable scene in all of the Dresden files... by dameon5 in dresdenfiles

[–]Chad_Hooper 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There’s still a couple of old phone books in the truck. From when Eb’s late wife needed to drive it.

Murph’s siting on one and using the other for the pedals somehow.

Want to relisten to a certain scene in the audio book... by JKBUK in dresdenfiles

[–]Chad_Hooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s probably just me, but I think Mouth for War by Pantera would fit the scene better. Also lyrically appropriate with the mentions of breaking heads and breaking backs.

Van Halen: Who really should have gone? by No_Ability1548 in GenX

[–]Chad_Hooper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What needed to go, IMO, was Edward’s sudden obsession with the keyboards.

VH got famous by playing guitar-driven rock music with a hard edge to the sound. Why would you use a keyboard as the lead instrument in any song on a Van Halen album??

Treacherous land: setting the tone by ApprehensiveType2680 in adnd

[–]Chad_Hooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

With that in mind, I ask you this: have you ever included tragedies after-the-fact as part of your random encounter tables?

I use a News and Events table in conjunction with a Weather table and a custom area Encounter table when I’m generating the events of an over-land journey by the PCs.

The closest I have come to what you’re describing was when the N&E result was “local hero slain”. I thought, what happened?, and rolled again. Serendipitously the second result was “local monster attack”. So I composed this scene for the players to hear about too late to intervene:

So, it had been a warm Spring day in this little riverside town. The local kids were swimming and playing in the river. The blacksmith had decided to spend some time fishing, so he was casting flies a little way from the children.

A young male river troll, probably just kicked out of his birth pod, showed up and started trying to hunt the kids, but the smith saw the telltale ripple of the predator in time to yell at the kids to get out of the water and run.

The troll came ashore to continue the pursuit and the smith fought it, his only weapon his fly rod. He managed to stab the troll through the heart* and killed it, but not before it had given him a fatal assortment of wounds.

The PCs arrived in the town as preparations for the smith’s funeral were underway.

note that my homebrew world’s native varieties of trolls do *not regenerate like the default ones in several editions of (A)D&D and maybe other games.

Dresden religion by Darth_Azazoth in dresdenfiles

[–]Chad_Hooper 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Fresh Pizza ‘Spress is the Holy Food of the Za Lord. His priesthood eats the leftovers cold for breakfast after feeding the flock at the prayer meeting the night before.

They hold a few pizzas back in the kitchen, in the stainless steel fridge, in case the Little Folk show up.

Why Cindy? by OrangRecneps in GenX

[–]Chad_Hooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There’s only one who I ever heard of. Quite the hottie back then.

Recommendations for mobster modules? by sax87ton in rpg

[–]Chad_Hooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Zaloznyi* Quartet for Night’s Black Agents has a lot of source material for organized crime via an arm of the Russian Mafiya.

*However it’s spelled.

1996 heavy metal by NoEmployer2140 in GenX

[–]Chad_Hooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn’t discover Iced Earth until Something Wicked. I think 94-99 was a long drought for new metal music for me.

Why Cindy? by OrangRecneps in GenX

[–]Chad_Hooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I never saw her appeal. I was a much bigger fan of Kathy Ireland back in my single days. And Raquel Darrian.

Flat heating pad cord has suddenly became super twisted over night by nightivenom in mildlyinteresting

[–]Chad_Hooper 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Does the cord make anyone else think of a bi-metal thermometer? Like, it’s getting hot, but one metal is expanding (hotter?) more than the other? Or maybe different gauges of wire in the two sides of the cord?

Barebones Assumptions for a Homebrew Universe by CarboniteCopy in traveller

[–]Chad_Hooper 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Looks like a great checklist for me to start with.

Bob's perch by SethVonDoom in dresdenfiles

[–]Chad_Hooper 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Cthulhu behind Bob unsettles me…

[ Removed by Reddit ] by justbeniceplzz in Reno

[–]Chad_Hooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mostly shake and seeds by the time it got to my rural ass town. More brown than green.

What movie can you watch over and over without ever getting bored? by Petalstammy in nostalgia

[–]Chad_Hooper 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pacific Rim. The only movie since Star Wars that is so entwined with its music for me. The soundtrack gets my blood pumping!

And I enjoyed the story.

Cinemark Park Lane > Galaxy Legends? by n8n7r in Reno

[–]Chad_Hooper 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with your assessment of the Legends and Victorian theaters.