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Do you mean that instead of one PDF containing all 10 scenarios, breaking them into 10 separate PDF?

I'll have to make a point of stopping through soon'ish. Well, after Seattle is no longer in a red zone. For me, I am up at 0400 am everyday Mon-Fri for work, so Sunday night is a bit out. Especially all the way in Renton. I'd be open to a Fri or Sat game. Once things go back to normal I'll be interested. I did go to Century Link for Sounders games and WKG is not that far. Hopefully things will be normal by the 2021 season. For my Horror games, I don't necessarily make them all Mythos. Gamers tend to be familiar with the Mythos details thanks to CoC, just like most gamers can recite common stat blocks from D&D. I have been monitoring the Western based RPG's because I love the old western movies. Not necessarily the ones that try to be realistic, but the old Hollywood ones. Just enough realism to frame the story.

Hi, It has been a while, I thought you had disappeared into the black hole of the "job" You are now in the game store business? Outstanding Where is it at? What is the name and do you have an online presence as in webstore? Inquiring minds want to know I'd be open to a game again. I'd probably lean toward a series of one-shots, maybe? I was planning to attend this year at Dragonflight up until they cancelled. I have put my prepped material on pause until next con. It was really disappointing right when I was planning on running con games again.

I've used VIPER and DEMON mostly with others peppered in. But I use the pre-5th versions, with even those stripped down. The 5th ed gear and NPC's can be nice, but the history/politics departed from what I could use.

---snip---- Really good post.

One thing to clarify is exactly what you intend and mean by "Dark Champions". One definition, and what I go by is "Street level gritty vigilant style characters like the Punisher that are not actually super-powered but have high skills and abilities. Spies, vigilantes and assassins." A dark style superhero game is just Champions run darkly.

I have been watching a lot of K-Drama in the last few years. I really enjoyed IRIS (the series, Korean espionage drama, Netflix). Descendants Of The Sun is a good series as well (Medical/Security drama, Rakuten VIKI) as is K2 (crime syndicate body guard drama, Netflix).

The closest you will find in a Hero rulebook is the Crew Casualties section that begins on page 175 of the Ultimate Vehicle. The last version of the Ultimate Vehicle was for 5th Edition, but it still works for Hero. Not so much changed that you cannot use it.

For me this falls into the area of plot device.

They are talking about the movie Independence Day which is in no way connected with Star Trek.

None of the selections work. I like to have the powers be very rare and manifest within a decade of the game start. 1935? The first meta's occur around 1925. 2020? The first meta's occur around 2010.

Probably why the crap to good ratio leans so far to the crap side these days. I remember when we got a couple entertaining and enjoyable movies a month. Now we hope we get one or two "blockbusters" a year with the vast majority of the remaining attempts are pretty pathetic and forgotten within days of release. Anyway, more often than not these days the "directorial effort to push deeper meaning" only manages to produce a mess that no one watches. My guess is most of them have forgotten that they are supposed to be making entertainment.

Yep, and as astounding as it may be, the aliens in the 60's Japanese scifi movies spoke Japanese. Shocking I know

Some times a duck is just that, a duck. I sometimes think that is the big failure of this decade. The complete lack of understanding that sometime there are no hidden meanings.

Gaspers....movies made in 40's thru 60's in the US for US consumption with little or no real view toward being seen outside the US would present the US in the leading roles? Oh my how horrendous. I mean when you look at British film in the same era it is the British that always saves the world, Doctor Who included Though recently the Brits have been infected with the same "arrghhh I'm evil" syndrome that is being pushed. I watch South Korean films and TV and guess what? The same. In fact pretty much every nation on the planet that makes films or TV shows does the same. Today China is making the 50's/60's US look like amateurs in Yea Our Team'ism's. But that doesn't really mean anything. Either you like a show or not. There is a lot out there to see.

It is just fashionable to bash anything from the US these days. I just laugh at sheeple being sheeple these days, especially all of the defiant individuals that wander around like packs of clones still convinced that they are "different" and "unique". I watch a lot of foreign (to me, as in non-US, though I imagine the phrase will upset someone) film and TV. There is more than enough "we are great'isms" in most with the stuff out of China these days being almost rabidly "Yea Us!". But they (as in all of them, though I can't really get into Bollywood) all have some good programs. South Korea has a lot of good shows for me to work my way through. I really wish I could find a place to see IRIS2, the series not the movie. All in all I have taken to treating it as humorous as I watch all the bandwagons roll by overflowing with self proclaimed "individuals"

That would explain it. My overall consumption of movies is steadily ticking downward because I simply refuse to subscribe to more streams/channels/what have you. Bad for me watching movies but good for my bottom line...

That made my morning.....

No one has mentioned "Gullibility" or "Blind to the most obvious threats". Thinking of what I have seen of the CW series of course

It is the only way to be sure....

Perhaps, perhaps not. For 1968 on a shoe-string budget when the studio was adamant on each episode being popular action entertainment. Well, in my book they managed a pretty good run.

It was actually a pretty powerful statement for a 1960's scifi show and pretty memorable for people that grew up in that era. It wasn't "the one with the alien American/Chinese nuclear war". It was the cautionary tale one where an advance world had reduced itself via Nuclear/Biological/Chemical war into to a primitive agrarian society fighting an endless war with "nomad barbarians". A war where the participants no longer even remember the actual cause or even speak or read their original language. The idea of the total destruction of the world by way of Nuclear/Biological/Chemical warfare was a very very real threat in the 50's, 60's and 70's and an ever present cloud in the back of everyone's mind back then. Making an episode that highlighted what most everyday people worked hard to forget was a pretty edgy thing. Which is probably why it isn't on the "best episode" lists of the older fans who'd rather not be reminded and I guess isn't seen as much of anything by younger scifi fans that didn't experience that era's mindset. But that is a good thing, that lack of understanding. The world still has issues, but those issues are not as immediately apocalyptic as they were.

Where did you find it? I looked through the usual and didn't find it.

My four choices are: Balance of Terror The Doomsday Machine Assignment: Earth For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky I can't really say why, but when I pull out the Blu-rays, I seem to always watch these.