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Or she could prove herself "worthy" by discovering another path to the spirit plane. And I don't see any hard fast reason she cannot see T'Challa in the spirit world.

Here is the link for the old tracker. https://www.herogames.com/files/file/202-the-hit-list/

Where do you watch?

I don't have a solid answer, but there is a sharp divide between 1st through 5th edition and 6th edition. I don't think the polls as written here are really a reliable indicator because you get a lot of "I picked X because Y but I really would have preferred Z". I play more D&D 5th than anything right now, but it is my least favorite RPG. I didn't see any navigation tabs, drop-downs or well anything navigation so I don't really know what you are trying to do. But if it is intended to be something like the Forgotten Realms wiki, once you add something like their "Portals" to organize it a bit you may see some more participation. Maybe add some templates for things like NPC's, Vehicles, Equipment and so on so things are standardized. But as for edition, my question is why are you worrying about whether it is in 6th or another version? The flavor text/descriptive section doesn't care about edition. Just provide a template for each version and require the files to contain their version in the file name. Instead of "Mister Wicked" name they file "Mister Wicked [6ed]". Then encourage people to just submit stuff. If I am a 5thR player and I see that the Villain I want is written for 6th, it will encourage me to make a 5thR conversion and post that one. Just a thought.

I loved the old Scout campaigns. Before they actually published their setting. No problems with players buying and reading all about things and than acting like their PC doesn't know. True exploring the unknown.

Sorry about that, I was unclear. I didn't mean that the CW's teen melodramas have anywhere the ratings of other networks or that the DC TV shows were as good as the Marvel shows like Daredevil or Jessica Jones. What I mean is they don't need to. The CW needs teens to watch it. And they do. CW packs in enough teen angst melodrama fans across all its programming to easily meet its goals. Supergirl is a prime example. Pretty much a failure for its original network, but a success for CW. You don't have to be the biggest, you just need to have as much as you can handle

For the general population. But CWs shows, DC plus all the rest do extremely well for their target audiences. Everything they have is a Teen Melodrama/Soap. From that angle they are leading the TV pack.

And they were very poor characterizations. Like most of the DC movies they pass up the source material and zero in on the craptacular pseudo writing by desperate hacks. If they had used the source material from the versions that actually catapulted the characters to fame they might have propped up their "universe" long enough to generate positive results.

No disagreement here. But it may be they (Marvel) realized the necessary ingredients. People who actually like and enjoy the source material. Understanding that everything doesn't need to be grim dark gritty. An honest good hero is OK. Understanding that some things simply do not transition paper to the screen, but that doesn't mean you have to radically change the original concept. Superhero movies are allowed to be fun.

7 They had a good actor IMO. But the character as written was probably the worst implemented concept since TV went to color. Also my opinion....

Which is probably one of the big reasons comics are on their death spiral. No consistency, poor writing, shamelessly pandering to the "issue" of the minute and hugely over inflated costs.

Or maybe hire a production team that actually likes the genre and have them just make movies based on the original works with no attempt to "make it edgy".

Thanks for the info. I really have no idea about the various "reboots". I pretty much stopped reading comics when they started circling the rewrite/reboot/re-imagined toilet years ago. Heck, maybe they will decide to make Wonder Woman a full modern conversion and have her go full murder-hobo I'd like to see the quality we saw in the first movie carried on, but then, more I see the more I doubt it.

sigh...... if you do not understand the concepts then there really is no point in continuing the conversation. Yes. Exactly. Even though many people here cannot discus anything without turning it into absolutes. The occasional fudged roll is not different from adjusting an encounter on the fly. If the monsters are too easy you can bump up their stats or how many there are. If it is in the last scene and after several sessions it all comes down to the party all dying because I rolled a critical. Well, I'm going to fudge the roll and not use the critical. Of course I completely understand that many people do not have players that trust them to run a fun adventure. Or trust their players. I use hidden rolls as a norm. And once the players understand how the calculate their rolls I don't really monitor them. I just ask what they rolled. I am a GM who's job at the table is to weave a fun adventure for the players. No matter how much you prep, you cannot always get it right, so in game adjustments be they NPC's, monsters, encounters or die rolls are all on the table.

Hopefully it will be "detailed but not too detailed" One of the reasons I really liked HC was the map was like a modern street map. It showed the streets, alleys and blocks. The only buildings with specific marks locations are things like Precinct houses, government building and things like the Opera House, Schools and Universities. Everything else was referred to as being on a street buy not actually marked and the building were not drawn in. This gives you maximum flexibility without needing to "build" the entire map.

Even if you don't want the book itself. The City Map is worth keeping.

The Batman... ? The scenes with the Bat looked like they had potential. I hope the kid with the "I don't take showers" vibe isn't supposed to be Bruce. Except for Batman in costume, I wasn't really able to ID any of the characters except maybe Gorden. Black Adam. Looks like it may be interesting. Is it a period piece? They say 5000 years but all the shots are not now. Suicide Squad SS1 was crap SS2 was craptacular crap With the entire trailer being people praising boom boom it doesn't look good. Wonder Woman 1984. I really enjoyed the first movie and all the WW appearances in the other shows, no matter how those movies under performed. But I really hope that out of the MANY great WW story arcs they didn't pick yet again the "hero is branded the villain and hunted buy everybody" one again. Really high hopes that I bet will lead to major disappointment.

No. DM's, GM's and Players do not cheat. Sack of sh*t munchkins of all flavors cheat. Now a good DM/GM will always fudge the dice in favor of the players having a great adventure. There have been many great delves where the party celebrated barely scraping by to victory over the goblins by the narrow margin of a handful of body and stun. Notably because I "forgot" to count all the damage dice. It would not only be just wrong, but pretty crappy for a well executed plan and great session of role play to end in defeat because of a couple crappy die rolls. Sometimes a good GM has to fudge a bit.

Well doing something stupid as a player has never been a problem for me While I didn't start that way, I only require the dice to be rolled when it is suitably dramatic and failure would drive the plot. The PC is a Private Eye with Professional Skill: PI, Combat Driving and Shadowing. They are tailing a regular stock broker they suspect of the crime through rush hour traffic. Since the suspect is a regular citizen type, I wouldn't require the PC to make any skill rolls to successfully follow the target to their destination. If the suspect had been a seasoned law enforcement type I may have the PC make a shadowing roll if they leave the congested downtown streets for the suburbs or other low traffic area. But it would be pointless to make them roll to drive and such. Now if the same PC was attempting to follow a team of training agents or spies, then there will be a much greater chance of the tail being spotted. And this could lead to skill rolls or even Skill vs Skill contests. In the end, I believe you only need to make a roll when failure could actually mean something. I have always treated 3 and 18 as results that have special results. Not necessarily a critical or a fumble like some games, but a boost to the narrative.

I am as well, but that doesn't mean they will get Sherlock Holmes level results. RPG's are games and you can make any character you want that is allowed in that particular game. If the player wants to make a Sherlock Holmes type character I will help them make one. But if Bob makes Int 7 Igor the Barbarian from the ice plains for a PC and then suddenly wants to Sherlock the murder in Waterdeep. Well, I am all for letting him do what he wants. But Igor's sleuthing ability will most likely suck.

Well anime is a pretty wide field with all kinds of storylines and visual presentations. There are a lot of them that I really enjoyed, but for everyone I did there are four or five I couldn't stand. Most of the stuff yiu find readily available falls into what I call Pop Anime. Like Pop music, it consists of the anime currently popular in anime mainstream. Many of which i personally don't like. I really enjoyed Cowboy Bebop and now that you have reminded me I will watch it again. You said you couldn't put a finger on exactly why you liked it, so I won't ask. But if you like CB you may like Black Lagoon or MadLax. They are not sci-fi, more like 80s mercenary on an anime earth. But good character development and action. They are also not trendy pop anime.

V'ger

TOS for the win.

I was wondering that too.....

Mostly because all but one are incomplete. Hudson City is the only Hero published city that was completed. The others, of varying degrees of use, all choked by being incomplete. I really liked the idea behind Vibora Bay, but without a usable map it is hard for players to conceptualize. I enjoy a good and well made fictional city, good and well made are key points. For "modern" fictional cities, I have only seen one since I started gaming. Hudson City. It had all the needed items checked off, from sewers to electrical grid to police precincts and so on. And most importantly it is the only modern RPG city with a real usable map. I'll use real cities as mission destinations for the players, but prefer a fictional city as "headquarters". Can't give a logical reason for it. Just a preference that has become a firm rule for me.