January 27, 2003
Signs you are playing a Science Fiction role playing game.
- Your character has more than two legs.
- Your character has no legs.
- Your character's statistics are in metric.
- A critical or fumble by your character may significantly change the known amount of mass in the universe.
- You have a debate with your gamemaster about whether you can see an event before you hear it.
- Your character became erased, indirectly due to an affect s/he caused during a time travel adventure.
- Your character carries an emergency boot disk.
- Your character climbs some stairs but cannot tell if he/she is ascending or descending.
- Your character gets through a worm hole without finding loot.
- You require dice bigger than a d10 for damage rolls.
- A brief description of your player character's armor requires third-year biochemistry.
- Your character shops at Radio Shack instead of the blacksmith.
- Your character has numerals and letters in their name.
- Your character's home ends with a roman numeral.
- Your character has talked to another version of himself.
- Your character distrusts the ship's computer more than the thieves in the party.
- Your character has killed an npc over how many rings/moons/stations surround a planet.
- Your character has excessive fur/scales/gills/wings/eyes, yet IS in the core rulebook as a permissable race.
- Your adventuring party has ever gotten too close to a black hole due to a processor rounding error.
- Your character has ever had to reboot.
- Your character blames character flaws on faulty programming.
- Your character has ever solved a difficult problem by asking "What if we reverse the flux?"
- Your character has ever had to roll versus falling out of their chair.
- Your character is allergic to water.
- Your character has a hard time finding suitable underwear in a department store.
- Your character's family tree reads like the history of Microsoft.
- Your character has a firewire port instead of a bellybutton.
- Your character's family tree is actually a big tree.
- You have to keep track of what physical form your character is in (gas, liquid, solid).
April 3, 2002
AND FINALLY...
January 27, 2003