Lunatic Fringer

Hello!  Been lurking for a while now because I really haven't been playing Hero System games for several years.  I'm a 4th Edition diehard, but my circle of friends willing to deal with this system's crunch has shrunk to the point where nobody who's left wants to do it anymore.    I've been keeping busy during the pandemic by writing and releasing my own superhero rules system and a city setting supplement for it - specifically for those who have problems with the math these days (which is a lot, actually).
1) My handle comes from one of my favorite songs by Red Rider.
2) The very first TTRPG I played was the red box set of D&D, though I quickly graduated to AD&D.  (I'd been playing wargames for a few years before that.)
3) The first I ever GM'd has slipped my memory, but it's likely that it was AD&D.
4) Currently, I'm running my own game, the XD12 Superhero System, on the Babies with Knives Discord Channel on Thursday afternoons from 1500 to 1700 Central Time (US).  I'm also playing in an ICONS: Assembled Edition game with pretty much the same people that are in my group for XD12 on Friday afternoons in the same timeframe.

Any facility that is labeled impenetrable, escape-proof and/or completely secure, isn't.  EVER.
 
The last place the authorities would look for the supervillain's lair is the first place you should check.
 
Never make promises to supervillains because they'll ALWAYS come back to collect.
 
Don't Panic!  Supervillain deathtraps rarely live up to their advance billing...
 
LF

A side conversation I had with one of my group during a recent conversation.   FAIR WARNING - Those of you with extreme positions on ecological matters may just want to skip this post altogether.
 
Friend:  You shouldn't just throw that (plastic) shopping bag in the trash, you know.
 
Me:  Oh?  And what should I do with it?  (We were at another friend's house at the time.)
 
Friend:  You should hang onto it and use it for a trash bag later.
 
Me:  Use it for a trash bag?
 
Friend:  Yeah, re-purpose it!
 
Me:  Okay, so say I use it for a trash bag.  Answer me this - where does it wind up?  IN. THE. TRASH.  That's not "re-purposing" - that's a delaying tactic!
 
LF

In an Indiana Jones-esque pulp hero game, this:
 
Peter (aristocrat and amateur historian): We're in a maze and you want to take on the Minotaur?!  Wasn't that thing kind of like a demigod?
 
Riley (great white hunter and adventurer):  Just imagine how good it's head would look on my trophy wall!
 
Peter: You're missing the point!  What happens if you can't kill it with mundane weapons?
 
Pongo (intelligent gorilla and... porter, actually):  There are many legends regarding the Minotaur, but there's only one that brings a Greek god into it...
 
(The Minotaur appears and Riley - with some help from the rest of the group - guns it down)
 
Riley:  Help me cut off its head, would ya?
 
Peter:  *sigh*  So I guess THIS one didn't come by way of divine intervention.
 
Pongo:  Doesn't mean the next one WON'T, though...
 
Peter:  Next one?

In an Indiana Jones-esque pulp hero game, this:
 
Peter (aristocrat and amateur historian): We're in a maze and you want to take on the Minotaur?!  Wasn't that thing kind of like a demigod?
 
Riley (great white hunter and adventurer):  Just imagine how good it's head would look on my trophy wall!
 
Peter: You're missing the point!  What happens if you can't kill it with mundane weapons?
 
Pongo (intelligent gorilla and... porter, actually):  There are many legends regarding the Minotaur, but there's only one that brings a Greek god into it...
 
(The Minotaur appears and Riley - with some help from the rest of the group - guns it down)
 
Riley:  Help me cut off its head, would ya?
 
Peter:  *sigh*  So I guess THIS one didn't come by way of divine intervention.
 
Pongo:  Doesn't mean the next one WON'T, though...
 
Peter:  Next one?

Against a supervillain, make sure you've worked out 'Plan B.'  Against a mastermind, you're better off just improvising.
 
NEVER humiliate a supervillain when he is defeated; he is already going to jail, so don't give him additional motivation to escape.
 
DON'T collect souvenirs for your Rogues' Gallery.  They are just plot fodder for the GM.
 
Most supervillains don't care what your Secret I.D. is; odds are you're nobody special without the mask anyway.
 
Always take a moment for the members of the media - you WILL need them on your side someday.

Any facility that is labeled impenetrable, escape-proof and/or completely secure, isn't.  EVER.
 
The last place the authorities would look for the supervillain's lair is the first place you should check.
 
Never make promises to supervillains because they'll ALWAYS come back to collect.
 
Don't Panic!  Supervillain deathtraps rarely live up to their advance billing...
 
LF

The only inevitable things are death, taxes, and retroactive continuity.