Lord Liaden Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Originally posted by Starlord Hey, that's a spiffy new avatar ya got there, LL. Thanks! High praise from a man of obvious taste. I hesitated to use it at first because I thought it was too pretentious; then I thought, "This is for a forum about a game where we pretend to be legendary heroes. How much more pretentious could you get?" BTW, since you were kind enough to share your reservoir of avatars on the "History" thread, I thought I should at least put up the fine site where I got mine, "Cadfael's Avatars": http://www.e-cadfael.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/Avatars.htm No animations, I'm afraid, but many famous people, characters and images mixed in. Don't forget to check out the "Collections" at the bottom of the menu. The smallest of these is 65 X 65, though, so you would need some imaging program to resize them. I used a good freeware program, "Irfanview:" http://www.irfanview.com/ Hope you enjoy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Originally posted by Starlord actually I don't care what you wrote, and snipped, because... I keep looking at that damn avatar you have now. I admit it, I'm easily distracted by "such things". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zornwil Posted June 9, 2003 Report Share Posted June 9, 2003 Originally posted by Monolith [snippage] The HERO System and the Champions Universe has always been a foundation to a good campaign, a starting point for thousands of GMs to build upon. Freedom City is a finished product and is full of finished characters. I think that is the ultimate difference between the two games. Good point. Regarding sourcebooks and characters represented in sourcebooks, though, I don't want some sort of bland "do something with this" "foundation", I want it to be fleshed out. Otherwise it's just so much paper I gloss over because it doesn't catch my interest. I'm perfectly capable of creating characters on my own; if something isn't going to interest me then I don't need it. A toolkit character is only good to me as a mechanics example and rarely as inspiration. Regarding rulebooks/systems, though, I prefer the HERO toolkit approach. By the way, speaking of inspiration in rulebooks, I think M&M does do a good "middle ground" job as I just started reading SAS and it's OVERBEARING in its attempt to get you to get into the spirit of it. Really annoying. It's a good example of too much color/character. (By the way, lemming, if you're reading this, don't worry I don't have (and never had) an interest in running SAS, I just wanted to read through it). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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