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Trencher

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Trencher last won the day on May 30 2023

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  1. I am saying Clown is bait for violent solutions. Not that non violent solutions are bad as you try to imply. Clown have soft targets mixed in with their hard targets spesifically made to make the players feel bad. This correlate with Clown being made to p**s on the pc's in general.
  2. Well if you modify Clown to have better defenses atleast the players dont have to feel like murderers for fighting them.
  3. Clown exist only for one reason and that is to p**s on the players. Its a GM tool to either make them feel stupid for failing to defeat them or making them feel bad about killing half of them if you do defeat them. That is how they are designed. Glass cannons that can whallop regular PC's but die almost instantly if they are hit with big attacks. There are exceptions but that only makes it more annoying. Dr Destroyer is not meant to be particularly interesting personality wise, he is designed as an final boss of this game. He is an powerhouse and generally the most powerful enemy the players will ever defeat. Kicking his ass is meant to be something to be bragged about for years to come. He is an mechanical creation for maximum battle game play. Role playing games are a different medium from cooperative fiction writing. And while there is overlap since role playing is a part of the role playing game Dr Destroyer are much more a part of the game than the roleplaying. The roleplaying would be about the team cooperating and coming up with a way to defeat this incredibly powerful villain. And there not being that much underneath that cool armour than an old narcissistic pompous douche is actually perfectly reasonable for his role in the role playing narrative. As an aside he can also be a victim. Sometimes bad things happen to bad people. Being a victim is not an status in itself that makes you better or worse than any other you are simply a victim. Clown are by far the most annoying enemies a player can ever face because facing them means your heroic fantasy is going to end right then and there and the evening you set aside to play that heroic fantasy is going to be wasted by the GM making fun of you. Because here is the thing. Clown are not killers so there really are no reason to dress up in a costume and go stopping them from whatever nonsense they are doing. Think of Clown as the youtube pranksters of the current day. You either have to laugh with the GM or be a stick in the mud. And or you have to have your character get smacked around, and or you have to be guilt tripped for going to far against whatever clown your character took out. The only defense against clown is to be a bigger douche than they are: "Wow my eybeam cut that skatboarder in half yuck-yuck-yuck" If you like to play an hero saving the day you know your not going to if Clown arrive. And if you like the concept of Clown and are not to busy with playing the latest Suicide Squad game you might think of using them in the game but I think you will have to admit you think about using them against your own players not playing against them yourself.
  4. All the pro Palestinian friends and family I know are completely quiet on facebook and social media. In old media there are still holdouts calling Hamas "warriors" and trying to focus on Palestinian civilian casualties. But the long term of this might be that Palestine and its peoples cause loose legitimacy. I think the reason for this is Hamas use of social media where they display corpses and parade naked civilian women through the city while the crowd is jeering. Social media removes the veil and shows the truth, especially to the young. Maybe social media will be what kills Hamas in the long term.
  5. Harbinger of Justice was made to fight superhero level threats. He would be clunky to insert into scenarios but as a solo dude and as a background character he works well. As for the vigilantism angle and the problem that can cause I am old school late 80's attitude. Vigilantes that kill are villains but just like any good villain you can understand where they are coming from. Batman never kills the Joker so he would not kill the Punisher either. He throw him in jail though.
  6. Good luck and keep us posted!
  7. Underworld enemies are the best Herogames book hands down.
  8. Look up "Skullbird" from the Spelljammer rpg, thats why the eagels could not take the ring to Mordor.
  9. This time its not the entertainment that will be replaced its the people making it. You can say that the ceo of a company wont tell an advanced AI to create a movie and it will be good enough for the masses (who like rap, reality tv and the transformers movies). But I think it will and he wont need any artists to do it. There is no reason at all to belive that companies will keep paying artists and writers if they dont have to. At most they might keep one or two as a sort of show-artists to parade them around as "proof" they still use artists. The only solution is that the public refines their taste and start making sure their entertainment is made by humans.
  10. Sprinfield superhero, white and light blue superhero costume, black hair, blue fire eyes, 90's style, strong, heroic, heroic pose, vibrant colours, city background, photo realistic, action shot, full body So as you can see this one came out in photo style. I dont like the way the building gives way for the light right under the arm, making it look like its part of the arm but other than that it would have fooled me.
  11. Albanian patriotic superhero, red and black costume, black eagle on chest, 90's style, strong, heroic, heroic pose, vibrant colours, city background, photo realistic, action shot, full body for the first guy and the two others are Albanian patriotic superhero, 90's style, strong, heroic, heroic pose, vibrant colours, city background, photo realistic, action shot, full body Those two are the first I tried to make.
  12. Yes I can see batman and superman influence there even though I tried to use different colours and concepts.
  13. Also Midjourney. Its good for some fun even though its not art.
  14. It did. Ok let me show you some other A.I art of villians and monster I made. There is a couple there I would think were real art. And I repeat my players loved the AI art I made of their characters. Even though I showed them as a joke. Like one of them I described as carrying a shiny silver shield and standing in front of a barn. And then the AI showed the character standing infront of a gigantic shining shield leaned on top of a barn. The player thought it was awesome and did not care about the odd fact there was a giant shiny shield back there for some reason. Most people dont analyze things.
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