Re: Pirates - Was: Places: Dragon Rock Map

David Shepheard wrote:

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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
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>>In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Sun 06 Mar, Danton May wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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?
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>>So, they don't produce any waste at all?
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>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.
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Maeby its a leftover from the spelljammers big game hunting safari in
Chult...