Guest Celt Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 A Way to Harness Free Electric Currents Discovered by Nikola Tesla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... thanks for the link must spread rep. Tesla makes a great Super Villain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... I read the first sentence in the article as "The sorcerer-electricians who have for years been trying..." and instantly became more interested until I saw I'd misread "scientist". Thanks, though! Now I have a new idea for Fantasy Hero! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Celt Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... I read the first sentence in the article as "The sorcerer-electricians who have for years been trying..." and instantly became more interested until I saw I'd misread "scientist". Thanks, though! Now I have a new idea for Fantasy Hero! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Lightning bolt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dino Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... thanks for the link must spread rep. Tesla makes a great Super Villain. Umm, I think you mean super Hero. After all, Tesla wanted his inventions to free humanity from bondage to evil monopolies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Umm' date=' I think you mean super [i']Hero[/i]. After all, Tesla wanted his inventions to free humanity from bondage to evil monopolies. In my game he started as a hero but then went nuts after the other major Super-Villains Edison and Marconi stole all his patents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... In my game he started as a hero but then went nuts after the other major Super-Villains Edison and Marconi stole all his patents.And we all know that patents is a virtue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tasha Posted February 25, 2011 Report Share Posted February 25, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Umm' date=' I think you mean super [i']Hero[/i]. After all, Tesla wanted his inventions to free humanity from bondage to evil monopolies. Yeah, and Edison was the one that went around electricuting animals to discredit Tesla's AC power... Edison would make a far better Super Villain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... thanks for the link must spread rep. Tesla makes a great Super Villain. While I agree that he would make a great super villain I have him as a NPC. He works in Doc Storm's lab ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
st barbara Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... In my game he started as a hero but then went nuts after the other major Super-Villains Edison and Marconi stole all his patents. You can't rally blame him can you ? Does he appear to help the heros thwart the evil plans of Eddison and Marconi from time to time ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... You can't rally blame him can you ? Does he appear to help the heros thwart the evil plans of Eddison and Marconi from time to time ? That particular adventure was a extra-dimentional/time travel adventure. The PCs kind of made a botch of it with them ending up chased by all sides until they jumped to the next world. Good time had by all:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted March 7, 2011 Report Share Posted March 7, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Hero or villain, Tesla just had so much more style than Eddison. Tesla's public demonstrations display great panache and showmanship. Of course, his having gone certifiably crazy later in life opens up so many mad-scientist possibilities, he's hard to resist working into a story or game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gojira Posted March 9, 2011 Report Share Posted March 9, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Great find. If anyone has any good books on Tesla, especially explaining his inventions and discoveries, I'm interested. For some reason, I have had a hard time finding information about him. It's like he's a bit of an un-person, or at least not popular enough to write books about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 13, 2011 Report Share Posted March 13, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Have you checked the Wikipedia article? It leaves the very distinct impression that Tesla was a patent troll, and that we would hear very little of him today were it not for a Tesla cult rooted in Serbian nationalism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlHazred Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Tesla makes a great character because he was a showman. All engineers and scientists from that era have a strong egotistical streak, and many were more than a little boastful when it came to taking credit for inventions, but Tesla had panache. Sitting there reading a book while great arcs of lightning shoot around is just the sort of thing to entertain people. Besides, Tesla invented the Atomic Robot. That puts him one up in my book! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Smithen Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... While it appears that Tesla was a patent whore that is what they (Edison, Marconi, U.S. Gov) wanted you to believe. He was known as the Wizard of the West and had numerous inventions and late in life even worked with Einstien. The primary reason for everyone's misunderstanding of him came when he developed his "Death Ray" and its successful test for the US Army so scarred them that they didn't want anything to do with it. Tesla then shopped it around the world causing the US to buy the prototype and all plans for it and then shelved it. I read a biography about him that had interviews with his descendants and they believe he was killed by the US Gov and didn't die because of heart attack. I think all this adds to his mysterious legacy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawnmower Boy Posted March 14, 2011 Report Share Posted March 14, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Uhm, yeah. Totally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted March 19, 2011 Report Share Posted March 19, 2011 Re: From the Tesla files... Great find. If anyone has any good books on Tesla' date=' especially explaining his inventions and discoveries, I'm interested. For some reason, I have had a hard time finding information about him. It's like he's a bit of an un-person, or at least not popular enough to write books about.[/quote'] It's hard to find information about Tesla because he's a foreigner and you know how we feel about them. [overly sensitive] No wonder people want to portray him as a pulp villain. [/overly sensitive] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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