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Re: Another wacky crossover went through my mind.

Re: Another wacky crossover went through my mind. That's just sick. I know it gets lonely in those vast Hyborian wastes but... oh, you mean fighting. Sorry.

Re: Signs your Champions GM is now (fill in the blank) Let's see: 1. Every adventure will contain somewhere within it a section of backstory that explains the plot of every adventure in the campaign so far. Amazingly this will seem to fit with the current flow of the adventure and help keep the players on track. 2. The first gaming session will take about three hours as the player characters come together to thwart a bank robbery by Ogre. The second session, also about three hours, has the characters confront a small group of villains at a diamond heist. The third session, about four hours long, will be similar. At this point realising the players like the campaign things change. The fourth session lasts for sixteen hours straight. The fifth is thirty six hours without a break and the sixth is about the same as that. While there are still only one or two actual encounters during each session the GM insists on roleplaying through the characters' lives as they go shopping (or is that shipping?), make breakfast, darn holes in their costume ("Darn these holes!" Ron ejaculated angrily. "Stop that at once," Hermione snapped, "it's hard enough threading this needle without it being all sticky.") and so on. 3. About halfway through the campaign you realise with a certain amount of concerned awe that the key facts you need to succeed were almost certainly mentioned in passing by an NPC in the opening moments of the first encounter of the first episode. 4. You can figure out who the goodies and baddies are, and what their backstories are by having a basic knowledge of Latin or English etymology or a general familiarity with world mythology and then asking their name. Hint: Any NPC called Judas Malevolentia is probably to be avoided. If their name is even remotely connected to any type of animal look for feeding bowls in their room. 5. Don't get too attached to your DNPCs. 6. Overweight people are NOT to be trusted. 7. Keep an eye on Stronghold. The revolving door policy is back in force. 8. Your GM has a copy of Anagram Genius. Get yours now. 9. Racism is a bad thing. 10. Racism is a bad thing. 11. Racism is a bad thing. 12. YES WE GOT THAT ONE THANK YOU! 13. The NPCs are NOT going to save you. It's up to you. Deal with it. 14. You may gripe about the GM's foibles, but you'll have a damned good time doing it. 15. You get even more flak from Evangelical groups about your gaming than you did when you bought a copy of TSR's infamous AL93 Module ("Dreadful Dungeon of Thelemic Crowleyism" in 1989) and then read it aloud in Church. Backwards. To the tune of "Stairway to Heaven"

Re: The United States is a constitutional monarchy That's M.E. alright, Quincy is my second favourite television M.E. after Dr Donald "Ducky" Mallard the immortal Amberite autopsy legend from NCIS.

Re: Toying with new character concepts I must admit the idea of slime-girl piqued my imagination...

Re: The United States is a constitutional monarchy But he was a great Medical Examiner.

Re: Ten Spider-Man Appearances That Will Never Hit Hollywood Ganesh man Ganesh Man Does whatever a Ganesh can Eats a bun, with his nose Forgets nothing, we suppose Look out Here comes the Ganesh Man Is he strong? Listen punk He's got a prehensile trunk! Can he squirt Water through it Check it out, nothing to it! In the heat or chill When there's trees to move Like a walking hill His strength he'll prove Ganesh Man Ganesh Man One-Tusked Hindu Ganesh Man On their shoulders Lifted High Hernias He'll supply No sir, he isn't just a fable And he sleeps in a stable Pachyderm Ganesh man!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Great opening scene: And then later on when Maria is introduced to the Von Trapps. And let's not forget that heartwarming scene during the thunderstorm as the children rush into Maria's bedroom.

Re: Future Knowledge

Re: Stephen Hawking working on Supers/SciFi campaign... Just as likely to work on a unified theory of character creation that results in having a single characteristic, the name of which defines the character's level in it and also removes the need for random die rolls to see whether it works or not in any given circumstance. And he'd still make it fun.

Re: The United States is a constitutional monarchy Yep From Sticky-Wiki

Re: Stephen Hawking working on Supers/SciFi campaign... Yep

Re: Stephen Hawking working on Supers/SciFi campaign... Oh my word. Incidentally I'm currently reading "Brief History of Time" and have been pleasantly surprised to find out what a witty writer Prof H is - hence my browsing his own site for more stuff. (I know the site you linked to isn't actually his, but thought this would be an appropriate point to raise this)

Re: Stephen Hawking working on Supers/SciFi campaign... Nice addition! Has anyone got Prof Hawking's email address, we need to get him to write this...

Re: Stephen Hawking working on Supers/SciFi campaign... And as a handy plot device have the ability to do magic as an exclusive trait of the non-augmented humans (due to the dna bonding irregularity every 23rd angstrom which is corrected in the augmented humans, but ironically allows magical activity) as a nice leveller. Eugenic supermen versus physically/mentally inferior homo sapiens (or Pan Sapiens Edulis to be precise) with magical wildcard abilities. Hell, this could be a goer!

Re: The United States is a constitutional monarchy

Re: Stephen Hawking working on Supers/SciFi campaign...

Well, probably not really. But I did enjoy this particular lecture of his http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/lindex.html (then click on Life in the Universe) Extract follows: Look forward to the sourcebook coming out.

Re: Future Knowledge Oh yes indeed - but since that player and I are both rabid fans of the Flashman series, I can hit him with more twists/turns/surprises by not doing that! I love the Flashman books, not least because of the meticulous research that goes into them - it's one of the reasons I chose the 1840s/1850s for my Ars Magica stuff, having learned a lot about the period as a result of the books.

Re: Future Knowledge Firstly of course the players have no guarantee that things will proceed as "real history" dictates - as has been stated above. Secondly if the characters keep talking about future events IN CHARACTER they will soon get a reputation as weirdoes. Whether their predictions turn out right or wrong they will get noted. Heck, have a master villain spot their accurate predictions and have them kidnapped so that the MV can extract their pineal glands and drink the adrenochromic fluid within it so that he/she can share their precognition. Thirdly I'm lucky I don't have players who are such bad roleplayers! I don't count the comments you mentioned above that were made in fun etc, but if any group tried to use non-character knowledge of future events for a real advantage my opinion of them would go way down. One player of mine is a cavalry captain in a mid 19th Century Ars Magica campaign I'm running. The player has rather glumly mentioned how long it will be till he gets shipped off to the Crimea and the Charge of the Light Brigade... but the character hasn't. And if that's where his orders send him that's where he'll go without "out-of-character" excuses. Mind you, the flip side of that is that he trusts me that it will be interesting to play through if he does get sent there... (btw he won't! The politics of the Order of Hermes will keep him tangled up enough in England, to the extent that he'd probably prefer a few Russian cannons)

Re: Harry Dresden Telesmata, I am informed.

Re: Disturbing Character premises...

Re: Steampunk keyboard Interesting thread title, but why are there no posts here??

Re: Superhuman women and normal women Why skin tight costumes? Artists learn to draw human bodies nude to learn anatomy. Add a few lines & insignia to a nude body, get it coloured & hey presto: easy costume. Having to draw fabric, folds, lots of accessories etc is more complex. I really believe the "skin tight costume" trope came about through the need for speedy production of artwork for the industry.

Re: Best ever reason NOT to be a sidekick(hero support) Getting on the NAMBLA mailing list.