Re: Pirates - Was: Places: Dragon Rock Map

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From: "Dreamer" <dreamer@??????.?????.??.uk>
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Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 9:34 AM
Subject: Re: [SPELLJAMMER] Pirates - Was: Places: Dragon Rock Map


> In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sun 06 Mar, Danton May wrote:
> > There is a breed of animal I use in my campaign called
> > "pog."  A pog is a magical cross between a pig and a
> > dog that eats anything and breeds uncontrollably, like
> > the tribbles from star trek.  They only grow about the
> > size of a chihuahua, and look like a dog with pig
> > hooves, a pig nose, and a pig tail.  They breed them
> > in pits large cities and throw their garbage in the
> > pits, to get rid of it.  On spelljamming ships some of
> > the more savage races put them in barrels and use them
> > as both waste disposals and food sources.  Throw in
> > that bone you got sick of chewing on and it will feed
> > one pog enough for it to reproduce and produce ten
> > pogs, which will eat each other if you don't 'weed'
> > them out by eating a couple.  It's an exponentialy
> > increasing food source on par with animals such as
> > carp or rats.  Goblins love them.
>
> Are you suggesting that these actually produce food from nowhere,
> as long as they are fed? Or, do they just have very high
> efficiency metabolisms?
>
> So, they don't produce any waste at all?

Pogs sound fun. Don't forget that they will not be able to transform food into other pogs
with 100% efficiency. Firstly it is impossible to absorb everything that you eat. Secondly
just being alive burns up energy so you can't use all of it to produce more pogs. I think
that a bone would have to be *very* big in order to be turned into 10 baby pogs.

David "Big Mac" Shepheard
Virtual Eclipse Role Playing Club
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