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Re: Reviewing Teen Champions (& Ravenswood Academy) Plot Holes can be fun. Fall into one some day. You might like it.

Re: Reviewing Teen Champions (& Ravenswood Academy) The writing hints at some sort of guiding intelligence around the site of Ravenswood. It wouldn't be too hard to build something out of that. Perhaps Rowan is aware of it. Perhaps not. (Probably would have to be or else she's pretty optimistic about keeping secrets. )

Re: Reviewing Teen Champions (& Ravenswood Academy) The old schtick with Lois Lane was that she was trying to prove to everyone else that Clark Kent was Superman.

Re: Opinion: EuroStar This post is a perfect example of why I think you should stay on the M&M boards.

Re: Opinion: EuroStar Steve Long is mighty but the idea that nothing slips by him, I don't accept; especially after reading some FAQs and his rules responses. Some of that stuff just makes my head hurt at the idea of actually implementing.

Re: Just Picked Up Champions Worldwide This is sort of funny to me in reference to comics. Comic book supers are often silly stereotypes and not just for non-American characters either. How about the Texas Twister or Razorback? I have the first appearance of Razorback from Spectacular Spiderman as, being from Arkansas, I just had to have the first definitive depiction of an Arkansas native superhero; a trucker with the electrified "coat" of a wild boar. No stereotyping there...

Re: Build me Looney Tunes! I'm thinking Wile E. Coyote has a lot of dice of Unluck.

Re: Opinion: EuroStar Technically the build is an unfinished thought. As GM, any of us would have the right to point out that the unfinished thought should be finished to mean that a force field with the sort of sfx Gravitar has provides the sort of protection that is required versus the dart. So, technically, we should reason from effect that the limitation should be interpreted as such. After all, DOJ character sheets are shorthand and leave some things to interpretation. For example: They often don't indicate whether an attack is an energy attack or physical attack when their is nothing in the power description to provide an answer.

Re: How does this grab you? IRL, I've never had trouble once I put a choke on someone, keeping the choke on them. It's more difficult to switch from the arm to the choke than to maintain the choke. And keeping the pressure on the neck just isn't that hard to do. It's possible for someone to work out of a choke but they have to know what they're doing and they have to be "better" than the guy putting the choke on. Someone working out of the choke ought to be an action on the part of the chokee not the choker. The choker doesn't "re-cinch" the choke or anything. All they have to do is maintain pressure and react to the movements of the chokee (assuming they are in a good guarded position from the chokee performing a groin grab/groin smash/eye gouge/instep stomp or the like. The grab rules don't seem to want to admit the advantages someone actually possesses once they have someone in their grasp. Steve Long seems to be needlessly complicating things... again.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy It's a little weird. Hopefully, my background as a teacher will give me some insight. I've had college courses in Adolescent Psychology, Educational Psychology, and Psychology of the Exceptional Child and years of observation of the speech and thought processes of teenagers. I'm not sure how well I will do but I know the difference between adult speech and teen speech when I hear it.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy I think it's going to be tough for folks to really get into character in little ways that may likely be missed. I've looked at the dialogue from the other Teen Champions PBEM that's already up and running and I've noticed some pretty sophisticated language and very thoughtful forms of expression that seem a little odd for high school kids to be making. I just want to play and Kirby is my style of player in that it's not about sex, ultra-violence, or pseudo-intellectualizing that quite a few gamers are into. Doesn't matter if it's teen or silver age or golden age or bronze age or low powered or high powered. I just want the "feel" to be within certain limits and he has expressed a similar viewpoint concerning some of those issues.

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Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy Nope. He's a brawler with a grapnel gun and a pistol.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy Just checked out the HeroCentral page again - We've got: 1. Enforcer's Superboyish character 2. McCoy's Pulpish Martial Artist 3. My Creeperish character 4. Hermit's teen boy with Invisible Woman style powers 5. Yiyth's wealthy sonic girl 6. Greg's genius gadgeteer 7. Bullseye's size changer/density manipulator Kirby said he's keeping the published NPCs in our class so... A winged boy A wind manipulator And one other I can't remember what they do

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy Mr. X is a reporter-by-day/masked-hero-by-night who fought organized crime figures in Millennium City in the 30s and 40s. Sound sorta familiar?

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy I think Yiyth's character has sonic powers. I'm playing the son of a supervillain who was sort of a fusion of the Joker (more Caesar Romero version than Satanic Mass Murderer version) and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. The character is dextrous and strong, but not 'real brick' strong, can regenerate, alter his basic features, and wall crawl. Naturally, he has issues with being the son of a supervillain.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy BTW, Kirby - I've applied for your PBEM on HeroCentral and have the HDC version of the character there for your perusal.

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Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy I'll have to get membership on Hero Central but I will go ahead and e-mail you the character.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy I've got a character built. He's a future acrobatic, low-strength brick. Background concept is that he's the son of a ?dead? supervillain and has to deal with all that that entails, especially because he and daddy have a distinctive appearance.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy I'm working something up today.

Re: Are the Early Wolfman/Perez Titans a ripoff of the Avengers? Yep, and I was that kid. And I did get a hold of a few of the Baxter Paper books. They were out of context (because I couldnt' get all of them) and just plain less fun as a result. It turned me off of the DC titles I had actually been trying to regularly follow.

Re: Reviewing Teen Champions (& Ravenswood Academy) Hey, I'd love to get in a PBEM game of Teen Champions that you ran based on your opinion of the book alone.