Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24972506-20141026202255/@comment-24577221-20141030034411

I've heard of "punkin chunkin'" as a thing, but I don't think I'd heard about the show. I can easily imagine that there might be legal issues for a show that encourages people to lob heavy objects for long distances.

One of my favourite classes in university was a History of Science and Technology course. The prof, Trevor Hodge, encouraged the students to build a working model or do some other form of hands-on research. Iron smelting was a perennial challenge, and I don't know if anyone succeeded using early-historical methods. (I tried, with a classmate, and we didn't manage it even using some advanced-for-their-time techniques from Tanzania.)  One team of engineers built a replica of a Roman siege engine, which I gather was able to toss its load for the length of a football field. I don't know what its capacity was. Last I checked, it was still on display in the lobby of one of the buildings on campus.

I'm glad that Tiger Hoola has worked well for you! And I share your irritation with the character restrictions in the monsters' names. It's clear that there isn't a problem with the monsters' names having some of those characters, since the default names provided by the game include them. So it has to be a user-interface limitation.