A thoroughly enjoyable read. Many of these holidays can be turned into mini quests or adventures for travellers to halfling lands, so the list is also very useable. If you could fix your numbered links ( type the full name of the submission between square brackets eg 30 Exotic Birds ), that would help with the flow.
A day for the elders to complain about how things nowadays are horrible?
A day celebrating the clever defeat of ogres?
A day for a game that lasted 27 years this one time?
It is well worth the golden vote I just bestowed upon it. 5/5 Go to Comment
Love the details about the fat and social ranking, a great description overall. With sverigesson's note aside, it is a solid ethnographic description with quite a bit colorful history and essence packed in. Me likey! Go to Comment
This is truly a great write up for a culture. I would give it a 4.5 or 5, but there are numerous grammatical errors that drag it down slightly, so it gets a 4. Keep it up, and I hope to hear more about this land of Parna. Go to Comment
Imagine the evening sky, sun setting, the night is almost here... and a host of triangular things slowly floating upon a city. Soon they will be invisible and find their targets.
Surely they have their weaknesses, but they do fill a niche, as said. Go to Comment
Its a reengineering of the laser guided bomb, (the first case) and the MIRV ICBM, which we've been using since Vietnam and 1986, respectively. I suspect this will be used in a similar manner- the main delivery vehicle handles the risk over 99 percent of the flight time, this only flies the "last mile", and as such, is generally not particularly easy to handle in the chaos and surprise of war.
Not terribly bad, all in all, it's just one more niche filled. Go to Comment
Since the gliders seem to rely on remote operation, aren't they going to be vulnerable to signal jamming or worse for the deployers, signal hacking? Go to Comment
You make some good points, but nothing that I didn't address. I tried to address it more clearly.
First- a ten ton glider is big and yes it would be vulnerable to anti-aircraft fire. Also why do you think a glider would be slower than any other unpowered bomb?
There is no mention of stealth, but the lack of a powerful engine, the use of a carbon shell will make it harder to detect by radar. I think I noted that, but stealth glider could also be employed.
If you launch a glider from space, you may have greater than 30 minutes of flight time, but you are a right bad weather could reduce flight time and reduce the effectiveness of the weapon. How long does it take the space shuttle to land?
I didn't mean to suggest this was great weapon, but was instead a cost effective one. Sometime 40 technologically limited and easy to maintain tanks are better than 1 excellent but difficult to maintain tank. But often I think wars are fought by weapons that could be improved and are not the top the line. The point of this item was give the players something to interact with that was different than the typical bomb or surface lander, but I believe could have a realistic backstory.
As to the payload, the space shuttle weighs more than 10-tons, WW2 gliders carried more than 7-tons. Go to Comment
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