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Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Killing of Sister George and the Jungle. Sister Acts of the Apostles II: Back in the Temple. Boratatouille* Mad Max Headroom Herbie goes to Monte Carlito's Way Saving Private Ryan's Daughter The Railway Children of the Corn -- * incidentally I love the fact that the posters & trailer for Ratatouille have the easy-reader pronounciation guide under the title. 'Rat-a-too-ee", can we say lowest common denominator (di-nom-in-ate-er)?

Re: A Gentlemen’s Duel Easy I manage it every day. Of course I do work for an English Duke who keeps seabirds who bear a staggering resemblance to him.

Re: Superhero Images Alric, I've just seen some of your pics on the Daz forum. Excellent stuff- are you planning to post any more of it here?

Re: Superhero Images The Daz website, whence came the 3d rendering software that I use, has a "Who Wants to Render a Superhero" thread on their forums here. You may need to register (free) to access the forum but there is some good stuff on there.

Re: WWII Era Superheroes and Villains British comics tended to give their heroes unusual names that gave the impression of being thought up by the hero and his mates down the pub rather than by a marketing team. My favourite was from a wartime comic about a baker who was drafted into the air force and led dangerous raids into enemy territory: Battler Bunn (He Bombs the Hun).

Re: Brainstorming a mystical superhero mansion, version 2.0 I love that idea.

Re: Superhero Images Beautiful space-Ape - Repped!

Re: Heroes and their compassion That was a good Hercules story - it was indeed Jarvis that put Herc on the right track after seeing all the pics of Thor that the kid had in his sketchbook (that the local bullies had just torn up). Some good comedy in there prior to the good deed at the end too, I seem to remember a panel when Thor throws a tantrum and hits Herc squarely and ineffectually 'bonk' on the head with Mjolnir (in Hercules recollection of course!) and Hercules comments drily that "Being hit on the head with a weapon as ridiculous as the Uru Hammer made me lose my much vaunted calm" (or words to that effect).

Re: Brainstorming superhero team liaisons I've noticed an amazing attention to detail concerning the uniforms that female characters wear all the time in a lot of Mark's posts. Could this be taken as a psych lim (on their parts, of course) or is it a preference of Marks? I'm not complaining, hell all the female NPCs in my campaigns wear stockings and garter belts*, it's just that no one but them ever finds out about it... (* Joking!)

Re: Jokes Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The barman says "How about a double whisky to start you off Rene?" Rene says "I think not" and promptly vanishes.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Ncicsi

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Nice one Hermit, never a dull moment when urea.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Fun with Moby Dick and Jane.

Re: Brainstorming the TARDIS in a superhero team base Eager young American teen called Bobby Wilde who comes from either a parallel Earth or a planet very similar to Earth but without superheroes. He is however an avid fan of superhero comics & will be over the moon that "Stan" has brought him to a world where his superhero fantasies seem to be real. However his naive if exuberant love of Golden Age comics does not prepare him for the dangers inherent in a more 'realistic' superhero world (since this is in the DC forums) and Stan and his crew may find themselves having to chase after Bobby who thinks it will be great fun (and in-genre!) to try to sneak after the supervillains by himself to 'report back later' EDIT: Since I see Bobby as being more into the Golden Age heroes he may well be from a 1960s background - maybe make him Cathy's younger brother or something? Just thinking that Stan probably shouldn't be abducting minors into a cross time/space adventure unless they have some form of family support?

Re: WWYCD? Faerie Tale theatre Jack-a-Dandy is part faerie on his father's side anyway so he'd fit right in. He'd be particularly ticked off about being back in "that infernal madhouse" but then he's ticked off about something most of the time anyway. Faerie would probably try to shape him into the role of sinister dark prince, and his extra points would go toward an aura of menace affecting all fay beings (since they would sense his bloodline). So long as he didn't run into any of his relatives (the ones that he hasn't yet killed) he'd be okay.

Re: Where have all the Superheroes gone? Forgive me for reusing an anecdote I've already mentioned on the boards, but it's appropriate and touches on what an earlier poster mentioned. Some variety of door to door evangelist came to our door & was met by Mrs V. Their approach was of the "Ooh isn't the world a dreadful place now, AIDS, war, earthquake, immorality, yea and surely these are the end times, etcetera." Mrs V having taken her degree in history let them give examples of the woes of the world they were lamenting and then listed a handful of far worse cases from the past few thousand years of history. She doesn't in fact need evangelising, but has picked up from me a hatred of sloppy thinking even in those whose overall aim she agrees with.

Re: A TARDIS in the Batcave I'm sensing a certain importance being attached to whether or not the flight attendant is wearing gloves or not. Is that a big thing for time lords? Incidentally, nice to see Alistanathcalebiviteth again! I was so proud of myself when I learned to pronounce that!

Re: A TARDIS in the Batcave You can never have too many Time Lords in a campaign in my opinion. Of course, I being a sneaky bugger, wouldn't make it so obvious up front.

Re: Another real life character for the Pulp Era.

Re: Help With Avoiding Cliches... The chemicals found in the possession of a rambling nutcase who was found wandering naked and steaming in the middle of a thunderstorm. He's still a babbling loon in a research facility somewhere. He was clutching a gristly organic pod in which several pustulent cysts gleamed and throbbed and was of unquestioningly alien origin. The liquid in the cysts was analysed and found to be an incredibly powerful genetic mutagen and early tests showed that the substance was likely to have an enhancing effect on human subjects. Given that the substance was in such short supply and impossible to replicate these dodgy boffins decided to covertly administer it to live subjects rather than 'waste' it on endless safety trials on petri dishes and guinea pigs (there are already too many superpowered guinea pigs rampaging around blasting each other with radioactive dung). No doubt through the course of the campaign the PCs can find out about this and maybe even get to meet the babbling loon incarcerated in the research facility. The complications then start to stack when they meet/are assigned/randomly encounter a new NPC aide of some kind. Who, it transpires, resembles the babbling loon (though this is not immediately evident as the loon is considerably older and more babbling). Genetically identical. Is he a plant from the aliens come to find out what's happened to the stolen mutagen? Nope, he's the babbling loon's earlier self who is completely ignorant of the reasons for his future self's actions and motivations. The mutagen was stolen at great personal risk, in the practically post-apocalyptic future, from the future PCs who have continued mutating and evolving, and also been slowly degenerating morally into self centred, power hungry demigods who rule over the world with an iron fist etc etc. The babbling loon, having been close to them in the early days of their humanity, managed to steal some of their secretions and flee into the past to warn the earlier world what was in store for them, using the goop to (he hoped) formulate some sort of weapon against the superhuman tyrants. Sadly the time travel mechanism fried his brain as he came through... How's that for cliched!

Re: Help With Avoiding Cliches... The chemicals are modern developments of a Nazi supersoldier program that had only partial success during the second world war. The Nazi scientist behind the program was offered immunity from prosecution for his dreadful crimes against humanity by corrupt elements within the US government (OSS?) and brought to the states to continue his research. Secret funding and even more secret trials of the formula continued for the next few decades before being closed down upon the death of the originating mad genius. The player characters were all deliberately exposed - without their knowledge or consent - to the latest batch of the formula following the reopening of the project by (sinister cabal within US secret community). The plan was to field test the formula & monitor the results covertly. Ideally the subjects will prove tractable to future overtures to their patriotism. Oh and the other prototypes created by the same cabal may well be out there too. Perhaps the control-implants are working to make them obedient soldiers of the sinister cabal... those same implants that may await the player characters should they prove reluctant to do their patriotic duty. Additional complication: The original experimental notes fell into Soviet hands at the end of World War II and while the program was never continued in the Soviet Union (no funds, no guiding genius) those original notes were recently sold off by the Russian Mafia to a notable terrorist group who may well have a suitable brilliant scientist who can have continued the work.

Re: The President has a cronic medical condition

Re: What is a name? "Turned out there were more of them - no, make that more of US - than anyone ever guessed. That mixed up genome, that crazy little cats cradle of DNA that seperated mankind from mutant wasn't so rare as we thought. Turned out it wasn't an on/off proposition. Turned out it was just a matter of scale - everyone had it, just some had it big and bold, and the vast vast majority had it so small it never showed. Until Soma. Soma changed the world. He was a mutant himself, came out of the east and left a trail of chaos behind him. India first, then through Afghanistan, into Europe and westward. And everywhere he went, everyone he touched, was changed. That was his power. His only power. His presence tangled up that cats-cradle in everyone around him. Tangled them up, empowered them. New mutants, thousands of them. New gods. A whole world of them. I preferred my old life, easy dull and simple, but I never had a choice. Soma changed me. And he kept on walking." -- Next suggestion: Ex Libris EDIT: SORRY! Just re-read the original post - I guess we should be sticking with Ellipsis till someone moves us on. I'll go back to the drawing board!

Re: The President has a cronic medical condition

Re: Fighting Techniques of the Middle Ages: anyone read this? Sorry Lord Ghee, I didn't mean to be a tease - but I didn't take any pics while I was there. If you want more info though, this is a link to the official site and you can click on the "interpretations" section of each gallery to get more info about what displays are put on there. There may be pics around the site, but to be honest I've just found the website myself & am still exploring.