Trencher

Re: Rifts HERO? Maybe you could write up glitter boys first?

Re: Help Needed Completing a character I have not read the whole thread but you could mix the different elements to find more forms. Water plus earth is mud, fire plus earth is lava and so on.

Re: Thoughts on Dr Yin Wu I heard of the elusive Asian for several years now, when will it be out? Who will illustrate it?

Re: Iron Heroes' Token System Buy all the naked advateges the pc can use with the needs time limitation. Quick and simple.

Re: Rifts HERO? Hmm.. where is that?

Re: Rifts HERO? Okay, I understand now. Great skelbot write up!

Re: basic permanent stats

Re: basic permanent stats It is usual for GM's to go through an "anti-montyhaul and muchcin" phase. Off course this low char point totals will mean that the characters are not very exiting or original.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? It is true!

Re: basic permanent stats

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/chase+me/

Re: Rifts HERO? How does armour work in your bot write up Lensman?

Re: Hell's Gate Open (My New Game - Comments?) I got the impression that the campain would focus on helping the misunderstood oppressed vampires. Are they monsterous in behaviour or just in abilities? Don't mind me.

Re: Hell's Gate Open (My New Game - Comments?) It's name promises more than the campain concept holds. I thought that it was about a demon/monster invasion (subtle or unsubtle). If vampires are no longer a threat to humanity then what are the players suposed to do?

Re: Wwycd: They Blew It!! Really it was the comic where the U.S goverment used boy scouts to guard it and Spiderman teamed up with Punisher and...

Re: Wwycd: They Blew It!! It's a comic book perspective, remember that Spiderman story where the U.S goverment tried to replace the gold standard on a cocaine standard?

Re: Wanted! It must be either or. Either guns work and there are no costumes or guns don't work and there are. That is a charming left over from the time Superman was the only superhero. Nobody would belive that he would walk around normals and try to have a normal life.

Re: Wanted! I would hope so. But thing is, if Killer can shoot them why have not anybody done so before? Why did superheroes and villains develop in a world where guns work? Sure Killer is really good and can kill a lot, but a couple of guys with Uzis could do the same. It’s a joke. Actually no, I mentioned genre as back ground for the problem. No problem though. I agree that genre conventions or anything else does not need to be explained in stories. (If the stories are good that is) But on the same hand there has to be allowed to say that this is just dumb. As is the story (because of its lack of genre conventions, actual action and overall overuse of clichés) is just plain crud. It's all building up without delivering. I compare it with the Blade 3 movie.

Re: Wanted! But it should be plausible. That is great but we are talking about genres here. If you use the action hero element in a super villain story then you should make an effort to explain why the superhero genres elements don’t work any more. (The superhero element being that some villains and heroes like the Hulk for example can’t be shot) This was like watching a bad action flick just that all the thugs who were gunned down were dressed like captain dork. Think of it as Die hard movie but everybody was dressed like Robin from the old Batman Tv series. Oh and there is no real action you just see people pick up a gun but the fights are cut so badly that you only see who win not how they did it. Sometimes the bad guys have to win that is the only way to make things interesting. If we could walk in into every movie or open every book knowing that the heroes would win then that would be boring. I agree that the story was morally bankrupt but not because the heroes loses but because it’s so whiny and holier than thou. It is like listing to a kid who discovered that if he rips of the wings of flies when no ones is watching he is going to get away with it and that makes him think he is the smartest in the world. Also the whole “father has always watched over you son†bit was speculative and commercial. Oh man! That would have made the story even worse! atleast now he stayed in character. There is no way he would ever be able to repent. I just thought it as they did not have any armour at all.

Re: ?? I use my held action and say "Hello" to the woman and take a new hold action.

Re: Wanted! It is because the whole supervillian thing kinda falls apart when you can just get shot. And the Leaders plastic men are cool dammit!

Re: Wanted! More spoiler alert! --- Well thanks to all of you for the explanation, I don't really understand why _he_ is so proud or happy over the way the world and why is he angry at the ones who is brainwashed? Maybe it’s the fact that the villain controlled world is just as any other superhero world that threw me off the point. Also I understand that he can kill the gimmick guys, but where are the bulletproof guys. The problem is that they are all gimmick guys. Where is this worlds Juggernaut, Zzaak, Hulk or even the Leaders plastic men? Sure he is good at shooting but if he can shoot someone then a swat sniper could do the same. His power "the power to make anything into a weapon" is stupid, its a power we all have There is nothing in this room I am sitting in right now that I could not turn into a weapon and kill someone with! Okay maybe yesterday’s newspaper but that’s it! I thought his powers and adventure was an analogy for the abilities for all men and that the moral of the story was that "we don't live our life at fullest" or something like that. Since the "power" of one of the main villains is the utter lack of scruples I mean. I never thought of it from the “the world was really meant to be a better place” angle. Why does it matter? First off a superhero world would be dull second the world changes from better to worse and back again according to who wins, the world is not a static place where anything were “meant” to be. Maybe that is why I did not get it. If you ask me the book would have been better if it had been about that faceless dude instead at least he did something.

Re: Wanted! Continiued spoiler alert! ---- I did not really get the last part actually, what is he complaining to the readers about? That we don't go out and strangle people for their money? Why do he care?

Re: Musings on Random Musings