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Autoduel/Champions would be a useful thing to look at because Autoduel was absolutely skirmishing vehicles.

A note to all my critics: You all know where you can stick it.

Appalling. So much for respecting your roots...

We will continue beating the dead horse until its morale improves.

Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen, because I didn't have enough to worry about already. Technically fiction, but I'm putting it here because it is a highly plausible scenario based on years of research and interviews with people who have been at high levels in the U.S. strategic armed forces. The good news is that I already had a pretty good grasp of the effects of nuclear weapons, perhaps because I own a copy of The Effects Of Nuclear Weapons, a cornerstone reference book in the field. The bad news is that there are some new weapons systems, and some old systems that don't work very well, which alter the calculus of responding to a potential nuclear threat, and not in a good way. A quick read--300 pages--partly because global thermonuclear war only takes an hour or so, and partly because that hour is really packed full of action and drama.

Start your tortured poets…

Armor and Concealment Corsets made of whale bone (actually baleen) would provide resistant defenses. Maybe similar to the Armored Undershirt on page 133. And skirts made of layers of stiffened wool or starched cotton might be similar to leather armor. According to the Victoria and Albert Museum, there was a movement toward more practical and comfortable women’s clothing. Even “divided skirts”, essentially trousers, were available. It would also be easy to hide items in a large skirt, bustle, or petticoat. And it’s pretty easy to go to a CosPlay convention and find a woman wearing a corset with a concealed knife or other item. Victoria and Albert Museum - Victorian Underwear https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/corsets-crinolines-and-bustles-fashionable-victorian-underwear

Rio de los Guanos

You are an idiot.

I do like the Mechanon option, and I was looking at Unearthed Mechana as one of the adventures to use already. It would be different than Dr Destroyer, and maybe give the players something that feels both familiar and slightly fresh instead of yet another big tough guy who wants to rule the world.

From the new Steve Hackett album.

WOTC began imploding on her watch, after her boasting that she would turn D&D into a billion dollar brand. They had a plan based on getting out of book publishing and moving to the VTT. The debacle with the OGL was the first major step of the implosion, and it just went downhill from there with failure after failure.

I've come to some grudging acceptance of the "hush money" label simply because large swaths of the electorate wouldn't pay attention at all if it were a "mere" election fraud trial. I know my fellow Americans well enough to know that high treason isn't nearly as interesting as a porn star.

Sorry, didn't mean to be repetitive. But it just sticks in my craw, because it encourages people not in the know to downplay how serious the charge is. But of course "hush money" is an easier sell to an audience who don't follow the details of a story. It does highlight how Trump has managed to retain his personal fortune despite his managerial ineptitude. He uses other people's money. The "crowds" of Trump supporters appearing outside the courthouse during the past two days of the trial have numbered in the dozens. That must sting Donnie as badly as the mean tweets.

Great minds think alike.

I'm getting pretty annoyed with the press continuing to call this a "hush money" trial. There's nothing illegal for paying someone to not reveal details of actions which aren't criminal. This is a campaign-fund misappropriation felony trial, over a significant amount of money explicitly raised for funding an election campaign allegedly being diverted to another purpose, deliberately mislabeled as "legal expenses," and the payment not being reported to the FEC. EDIT: Added "allegedly" for legal reasons.

Book Of The Destroyer includes alternate power level character sheets for the Doctor, as well for models of his armor from his earliest days to the present, mirroring the evolution of the character from his first appearance in The Island of Dr. Destroyer to his most recent 6E version. One of those could be used as the basis for the debut of the character in whatever venue you choose, and can thus be "aged" for subsequent adventure encounters. Pursuant to my suggestion of Mechanon above, Book Of The Machine treats that character the same way. For any villains in this Champions Rises book, I'd take a cue from the core books from past editions, and make the majority of them lower power level, suitable as opposition for beginning heroes.

As far as adventures go, I believe those which appeared in Digital Hero would all be usable with Hero Games' permission. I'm pretty certain it was stipulated that anything which was published in DH belongs to Hero Games. Technically that would be the property of whoever owns Champions Online now, but nobody on the MMO side appears to pay any attention to what's happening in PnP any more. Almost all of them include full write-ups for NPCs, artwork, and maps. They'd only need game stats updated from 5E to 6E. Several of those adventures were written as convention-style games to introduce new players to Hero, so setup and power level would make any of them appropriate to include with the book being discussed here. My own suggestion would be "Unearthed Mechana" from DH #12. That would be a way to introduce Mechanon and its robotic forces as the "big bad" of a campaign, just as it was included in most past editions of the Champions core book.

I vote for Howler and Oculus as an odd couple of supervillains working together on a bank robbery. Their origins could even work together.

Following the colonisation of Mexico by Spain throughout the 15th century, it became a practice of the Spanish upper classes to eat small fragments of the búcaros, which had been broken on the journey from Mexico to Spain. Some shards were eaten whole, while others were ground down into a finer powder and mixed with water. Contemporary accounts mention the taste of Tonalá clay, but also highlight its apparent medical benefits: eating the clay was believed to aid stomach and skin problems, symptoms of menstruation and even to act as a contraceptive.