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Re: WWYCD: King Arthur's back Jack A Dandy would sigh, turn over in bed, nudge Lancelot and say "You're in trouble Frenchman, your ex is back in town. In fact both of them. Try to keep it in your scabbard this time or we'll have Morgan and her mob of harridans knocking on my door for a shoulder to bleed on. Again."

Re: WWYCD: Welcome Divinity? Jack-A-Dandy: Don't be ridiculous, all the smart gods secretly worship me anyway.

Re: Top Signs that you need to rethink your GMing. ...if the most mild mannered, calm and polite person you have ever met suddenly stands up in the middle of a gaming session, hurls his dice to the table and accuses the GM at high volume of being the worst GM in the world. It happened. Thankfully not to me though I was present at the time. He was right too. The GM was running one of those dreadful AD&D Forgotten Realms modules where the players were basically there to follow the characters from the books around and applaud. We'd just arrived in a city in search of some useless magical crap and had deduced from a series of doggerel clues that the UMC item was hidden in a particular old tower. So we announced our intention to go search there. One of the Novel-NPCs said we shouldn't. The others all agreed. It was a bit odd. So we went somewhere else instead. That night the same NPC suddenly had a brilliant insight, got us up in the middle of the night AND TOOK US TO THAT TOWER where we managed to find the UMC. I mean, come on! The module was crap but how hard would it have been for him to improvise the NPC saying "Yes let's go now" when we suggested it and then running the exact same encounters?

Re: Defenders of Ireland The stereotype thing is just one of those comic book tropes I suppose. In an American book with lots of cast members the writers can be as inventive as they like, but for a one-off visit to Britain you can bet most "Npcs" will be Britain-Themed supers. I'm sure that in my last Champions campaign, if the Brit heroes had ever visited the States they'd have met characters with the names Eagle, Uncle, Liberty etc in their names. It's a nice shorthand I guess.

Re: WWYCD voluntary super registration Jack-A-Dandy would register using fake details, preferably those belonging to a distant member of the President's family. When he was called on it (as he inevitably would be) he'd laugh the bureaucratic fools to scorn and carry on drinking Moet.

Re: Wold Newton Scenario: Fonzie and Batman Was that the call girl service with the "professional lady" with the overbite so large that all her clients called her the shark? I remember when Fonzarelli first... Never mind.

Re: Dr Who True enough - the Anti Sex League in 1984 etc etc. Still, push something underground hard enough and it pops up in the most unexpected ways. I wonder if The Master chose his title because... ...no... ...perhaps better leave that one alone.

Re: What are you playing now? Perennial GM I'm afraid. Currently running an Amber variant (though I have junked the Zelazny setting except in the broadest concepts, and the official rules...) and an Ars Magica 19th Century campaign. Occasionally reply to WWYCD posts here using the example of my beloved Jack-a-Dandy, a rakish half-faerie ne'er do well.

Re: Dr Who Fantastic resource - repped! Still baffled by the whole "Time Lords don't get horny" meme that is so common among fans. Even on that site the phrase "Though they are physicaly (sic) capable of sex most have almost no sex drive" has the crucial last six words in white lettering which denotes it as being either the website author's speculation or that of other fans. Bizarre.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Ghost Riders in the Sky, Johnny Cash

Re: Native American Supers: Post Your's Here Heh heh heh One of my favourite sarcastic rejoinders, glad that I'm not alone in spotting this bit of jargon...

Re: WWYCD: Harem Comedy from Hell Jack-A-Dandy will need plastic surgery to get the grin off his face.

Re: Dr Who shush... that argument strikes at the very heart of fanwankery!

Re: WWYCD: Halloween From Hell 2007 Jack-a-Dandy will not be on the streets tonight. There is always the chance that the Wild Hunt will be passing and the end result of that would either be a) He would end up being the quarry (some Faerie Queens hold dreadful grudges and their minions would do anything to curry favour with them) He would end up being swept along with them and become part of the hunt, thus embroiling himself once more in faerie politics which is like trying to play naked-Twister with Percy the Pirahna-Man and his sister Claudia Crocodile: Briefly entertaining but fraught with peril.

Re: Dr Who Regardless, it all gets a bit messy. Just found this footnote: You could start all sorts of heretical Doctor Who schisms by arguing over what is and isn't canon. My own personal instinct is to argue "Why the hell couldn't Susan just be the Doctor's grand-daughter? Why go to enormous lengths to avoid Time Lords having sex!" but I am prepared to understand that some people disagree*. Hey ho. I enjoy the stories and the setting I can always blink when the bits I disagree with are raised. -- * NO MATTER HOW WRONG MINDED THEY ARE! FOOOOOLLLS! etc

Re: Dr Who I think that - to much fan consternation - the very latest episodes of the new series junked the "Loom" idea by showing pre-teen Timelords being bundled off to the academy for an initiatory ordeal. No real big deal in any case - I'm just amused that such a complex procedure was devised to prevent any possible hint that Gallifreyans may spend time reversing the polarity of the tantric chi flow.

Re: Dr Who It's only fan reluctance to consider the Doctor as having a sexual side that has led to the debate! He called her grand-daughter, she called him grandfather. Fans: "Ooh, I wonder why he calls her that, perhaps it's an alien term meaning 'carrier of slippers' or something"- and all manner of wankery (including some which has passed into print & audio) has been evolved to explain it. However - nothing in the TV show has ever contradicted the plain reading of the title. In fact in "The Empty Child" episode recently: Dr Constantine: Before this war begain, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither. But I am still a doctor. The Doctor: Yeah, tell me about it (A british phrase meaning "I know how you feel")

Re: Jokes Up in the wilds of Yorkshire is an old rabbit farm. For many years they have had a single prize buck, Bill, who has sired thousands if not hundreds of thousands of rabbits on the many lady bunnies who dwell there. But Bill is getting a little past his prime, so they bring in a young new buck called Steve to help him out. "Good day my boy," says Bill when he's introduced to Steve, "Perhaps you would show me your technique." Steve nods, races over to the nearest doe, mounts, and leaps off within a couple of seconds. "No, no, no," says Bill, "You've got to show a little more respect and courtesy." "Okay I'll try," says Steve. The shift begins and the does line up munching grass and gossiping among themselves in the way that does will. Bill starts at one end, Steve at the other. Bill as usual is the perfect gentleman, greeting each doe courteously: "Good morning to you my dear, here we are again then, haha, do you mind? Splendid. Oh yes that's just the ticket indeed, very kind of you. Do have a good day..." and on to the next. Meanwhile Steve is racing away: "Thank you doe, Thank you doe, Thank you doe, Thank you doe, Thank you doe ... oops.. Sorry Bill, Thank you doe.."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Jack-a-Dandy (to assembly of law enforcement agents and rival supers): The question at the heart of the matter is this - who can truly be considered a hero? Is it this power hungry blackguard who happens to have the strength of ten men and is impervious to bullets, or is it the struggling normal man or woman facing hardship and heartache every day in a world that does not care and doing it cheerfully to provide for their family? I think the answer is obvious. (pause) It's the bullet-proof strongman. Obviously. Good lord if you expand the definition to fit everyone with problems, the word becomes meaningless. He may have a criminal record as long as your leg, but he's just what we need to sort these shapechangers out. Now unlock the cell and get him out here tout-suite!

Re: WWYCD: We hope you're feeling better now Jack-A-Dandy would assume he was somehow back in the clutches of the elves of Avalon and they were torturing him with false memories and illusory worlds as is their wont. He'll respond as he did last time by hitting them with so many mind games of their own that he may provoke one or more of them into becoming paranoid and letting their guard down. Conversely, once he realises that Dr Anna Kincaid is an anagram of "drank in an acid" (about 2.7 seconds) he will assume that his subconscious mind is warning him that someone has spiked his champagne with LSD and this whole thing is a paranoid fantasy. He will then determine to enjoy the experience and try to seduce Kincaid (about 3.8 seconds).

Re: What Are Your Hero's Most Embarrassing Moments? Really? Splendid! To be the focus of such scrutiny! Heaven.

Re: What Are Your Hero's Most Embarrassing Moments? Jack-A-Dandy once stepped out wearing a cravat that was at least two demi-tones away from a perfect match with the handkerchief in his breast pocket. The shame of it! To this day he suspects alien mind control rays. He didn't show his face in public for a week! Thank goodness nobody else noticed or he would have HAD to fake his own death and return under a different - and hence inferior - identity.

Re: Wwycd Oops! Jack-A-Dandy: Is the boy pretty? If so he'll find a new mentor who will teach him to be ruthless and heartless... And in terms of supporting the young fellow through his guilt: "Yes, you made mistakes. Perhaps you personally. And people you liked and loved were hurt or killed as a consequence. If you make mistakes like that again the same thing will happen. So don't. No, the universe isn't fair, but it can be a lot of fun if you stop moping around the place. You've already shed a thousand tears and not one of your friends has come back to life, and I can guarantee that you can shed ten times that and nothing more will happen. You'll dehydrate a little. Oh for God's sake, not storming out again? Well, while you're on your feet open up another bottle of Moet, there's a good fellow."

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... And then the base medic, Jerry Maguire, could run in shouting "Show me De Monet!"

Re: How do you keep track of your villainous organizations The niche thing is vital. If two organisations share a niche they are effectively competing for resources & opportunities and will end up in conflict. This isn't a bad thing & can produce interesting plots, but it's not going to be an ongoing situation - one side will win outright (and assimilate or destroy the other) or it will develop into a full scale war - again an interesting set of plots. In my last Champions campaign the major organisations were: 1) Typical Corporate power bloc whose aims were the covert control of the government and the destruction of opponents to this both domestic and internationally. 2) Classic Crime Organisation - out for the big score through theft, extortion, blackmail etc 3) Evil mystical group - usual "we are enlightening the world...now worship or die" There were smaller groups too - but not large enough to be competitors