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Re: Mars has water!

Re: Anime series as a campaign A slight understatement there

Re: Review: Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth Me too me too

Re: My Cool Color Hudson City Map I use HC for all my "Modern" city games too. It works great for Pulp games. By the way, Thrilling Places has a hidden China Town street "Street of the Emerald Bird" that is based in HC.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Criminal Minds. It was a great program its first season and I think it could still keep it up. But they are starting to move from the concept and associated character development, to character "over development by use of tired cliché" problems.

Re: Teen Champions Villians More of a "my fault" than anything on your part. I get carried away plunking at the keyboard and wind up not being clear While I know that some people have rabid uninformed kneejerk spasms at the mere mention of the word “anime” (along the same lines as if I would rip out my TV and destroy my DVD player because the movie “SAW” is “proof” that “all movies are garbage”, condemning an entire media because of a narrow selection of “samples”. But that is another rant ). If you can get them there are several decent anime that concern “teens” possessing “powers” while in school. Full Metal Panic and Shingu: Secret of the Stellar Wars are two that are great examples of this. Some of the episodes revolve around school activities, but most do not. I wouldn’t have picked Power Rangers as an example myself . But there are many anime that can be much better examples. Remember PR (the Americanized version) is a “live action” kids show aimed at the young and pre-teen ages. The same target audience as Puff the Magic Dragon years ago, if you can remember that far back . But is a valid example of one way to handle it.

Re: Mars has water! And why do they need to wear bathing suits? Huh? Huh? Nekked! That's the ticket

Re: Teen Champions Villians I will actually have to re-watch the scene. But I didn't even pay attention to Storm talking, the scene focus was the young mutants goofing off with their powers. The Ice flower and such, introducing the characters and their powers. Kind of like the scene were Wolverine goes to talk to the Professor and he has some students in the office. The entire scene was set up to show us Kitty Pride and her phasing power. The "teaching" was just academic "background noise" supporting the scene. Opinions are great, ain't they

Re: Teen Champions Villians You are missing what I meant, which means I was probably not clear. Imagine that School activities are not actual "school" as in learning and academic achievement. They are OTHER things done by students besides actual class, clubs and so on. They happen around and in between the real part of school. Of course at that age, I placed much more interest in "activities" than Mr. Renalds English class too. So I'll rephrase. "Most comics (New Mutants, etc), manga (Full Metal Panic, etc) , TV shows (V Mars, Smallville, X-Men, etc) or anime (Full Metal Panic, GateKeepers, etc) I have read/seen that involve "teens in school" really don't have much that revolves around "school" or classroom work. At the most, things may take place on the campus in clubs or non-academic activities, but if the actual classroom or instructor is used/mentioned it is mostly for a common location or a starting point, rather than the story centering around the school itself. Of course this in no means can characterizes ALL teen style games/books/shows, the wee bit I have seen/read." I have read/seen many "teen" adventures where the characters have a meeting between classes, use the school computer room or newspaper office, are watching the clock for class to end so they can get out and stop villain X, or trying to see if X really has powers without revealing themselves to the other student or faculty. Those all may use the campus as a background. But I have never heard of an adventure where the character must use their super math skills to get a "A". A campaign about a police detective squad will have the PC's playing detectives and working on actual "cases". Many adventures will take place at the precinct and actually involve "police" as a central component of the game. A teen champions game will take place on campus, but except for using the classroom as a backdrop for "between class" meetings, establishing urgency " when will the bell ring already" or using "extra curricular activities" as a backdrop, it has very little to do with actual school. In the end very very few “Teen” adventure involve the PC’s sitting in class for the session. It may start in the classroom, “You finish passing in the Tests and Mr. Teacher reminds you all about the assignment due next week, as the bell rings and you rush out of class to meet X.” But it will never consist of, “Susie cannot solve the algebra problem, can Bob (secretly MathWonder Boy) do it without anyone noticing his amazing powers?”. School and it activities are a backdrop and a way to channel the game and have a ready plausible way to intro NPC’s and sessions. School as “School” figures in very little. Even in the X-Man movies, the few times they showed the "New Mutants" in "class" was for flavor or to "prove" it was a school. Nothing "happened" in class that was important to the storyline. In Full Metal Panic (the anime and manga), much of the story happens around or in the school Kaname attends. She has been targeted for kidnapping and/or murder and Sagara has been inserted to the school to be her bodyguard. Initially she doesn't know this or him. All kinds of things happen from funny to serious, Sagara preventing assasinations to trying to guard her on her first date without her knowing. There is none of the catwoman or swimsuit power armor nonsense that many on this board assume all anime is. Just a good solid story that is works as a good template for handling a TC game in a school environment.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Tisk tisk You disappoint me, oh feathered one of the sharp pointy beak..... To miss the point they have to realize there even is a point

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Absolutely

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? :D

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Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I'll admit I liked the new Bond and the way the show went. I don't think it will last though. I am sure someone with just have to "improve" the next one.

Re: Which books do I need? Welcome, and ditto to what they said

Re: Japanese unmanned rescue robots Multipurpose

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Is it just me or has Dresden been getting better? Finding it's stride and all that?

Re: Teen Champions Villians Most comics (New Mutants, etc), manga (Full Metal Panic, etc) , TV shows (V Mars, Smallville, X-Men, etc) or anime (Full Metal Panic, GateKeepers, etc) I have read/seen that involve "teens in school" really don't have much that revolves around "school". At the most, things may take place on the campus, but that is mostly for a common location or a step off point, rather than the story centering around the school itself. Of course this in no means can characterizes ALL teen style games/books/shows, the wee bit I have seen/read.

Re: Mars has water! Since there is water, when do we find the buried ancient cities?? And when do we find the really tall four armed guys with swords???

Re: Teen Champions Villians Ditto. But my no comment is better

Re: stupid quick question I am shocked at you. Such a negative tone! You should be ashamed Mine didn't fall apart until I was walking from the car to the house.......

Re: Mars has water! There were several links via Google news and Yahoo news Friday.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... SPOOOOON!!!! Oh wait. My bad. Tick Tock, not the Tick...... Nevermind.....

Re: Stopping a Zeppelin following a Zeppelin? Starting in the late 60's and getting better resolution every year until you can count leaves today. But back in the beginning early radar at best "saw" spikes (a-scan) or blobs (PPI). Composition wouldn't have made that much of a difference when speaking of a Zep in the 30/40's. With PPI a operator "might" be able to pick out the zep among the louds if the Zep was in the open, since a cloud would show as a more "bloby" blob than the zeps "sharper" blob. But once the Zep went inside a cloud bank, the zeps blob would be hidden inside the clouds blob. An a-scan operator would probably just see a bunch of spikes. I have watched a modern (circa 1995, my younger days of adventure )active search radar in a bad North Atlantic storm not be able to pick a ship or a plane out from the clutter (clouds, rain, etc) and that was a modern "designed to do that" radar.

Re: Teen Champions Villians That brings up a major question. When you are thinking "Teen Champions", do you think "campy teen agers" do you think "serious young people" in a campy world. do you think "serious young people" in a serious world. do you think "serious young people" in a serious world with a small dose of camp. All of these are real possibilities but have entirly different 'builds". Teen Titans (TV) runs the fine line of serious heroes in a serious world with a healthy dash of camp. A campiagn based on it would have a very different tone than one based on 1985ish New Mutants.