aylwin13

It seems today is a special day in history.
 

 

I've been on the HERO boards since Feb. 2003. I mostly hang out in the back row nowadays, but have been known to post every once in a while (sometimes it's even something that's actually constructive).
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? Aylwin Grimboud was a character in a long-running Fantasy HERO game. He started out as the son of a middle-class armorer, but became a knight/mage who eventually became the consort of the Queen. And the 13 is my lucky number.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you played?  I played in a pick-up game of AD&D 2E at the public library. Borrowed a 1st level dwarf from the GM, and was killed by an air elemental in the first encounter.
 
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?  Champions.
 
What are you currently playing/GMing?  I am currently between games. My HERO GM moved out of state, and with HERO Central gone those games are kaput.
 
When did you start to play Hero?  I picked up the 2nd Edition Champions Box set in the Spring 1982. HERO has been my game of choice pretty much ever since.

Please allow me to introduce myself, I am a man of wealth and taste.

Where was this clown twenty years ago?

Just stumbled across this. Thought it was cool, but look at the artist.
 

 
Keith "self-made man" Curtis hasn't been on here since 2009, good to see some of what he's been doing.
 

Would it be possible to change the subject now? 

I weighed myself last night and came in at 184 pounds. That means I've lost a total of 78 pounds.

Spoiled for epicness. And bigness.
 
 
 

All of the above?
 
 

An alternate kitty, as Shadowcat.  I confess she was always my favorite X-Man.
 

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you... the Mississippi Avengers.
 

 
Edit: A friend suggested "Gulf Coast Avengers" as a better name, and I agree - its more consistent with the existing Avengers names/

That costume must have taken eternity a very long time to create.

Is that as opposed to David Cooper?

I think others have said 75% of what I'd say anyway, so let me just echo and blather (nothing new, right?)
 
Jay Garrick's helmet, and RF's reaction to it made me grin so wide I almost hurt my mouth.
 
The confirmation Cisco got made me fist bump the sky and while I don't want them to rush it, I look forward to it.
 
Barry is one selfless son of a gun, and I love him for it. He maybe one of the most profoundly decent guys on television
(Though I really think they need to get Iron Heights ready for metahumans already because the pipeline was setting off my civil Liberty alarms long before Joe admitted it was bothering him)
 
Iris needs better writing, like, yesterday. I don't mean girl power kick assery either. I mean I see a good and loving woman there, but  she's been portrayed as profoundly self absorbed, and even a touch spoiled and its not doing her any favors. Part of it is they took too long to get her in the loop which made her look like an idiot and a buttinski in turn, but they need to show that Iris gives a little in her relationships because (And feel free to disagree) Mostly it seems like she takes and then gripes if she finds she's not getting what she sees as enough.
 
Caitlin doesn't know what a singularity is? Oh my god, I don't even feel bad spoiling that because its better left ignored for your brain canon. She's not a sci-fi nerd, no big, but she is a physicist, she should know this ###. OTHER than that, She's been a gem all season, and I can see why Ronnie fell for her hard.
 
 
Saw Eddie's part coming a mile away. I approve. Yes, there were other ways to handle it, if he had time to think about it, I'm not sure he did. They can't all be as genre savvy as Cisco.
 
Oh, and the Timeline is now a ####ing mess

I almost shed a tear when
 
 
 
 
Also loved when Jay's helmet clattered to the floor.

I won't drop spoilers, but that is possible the best season finale I have ever seen; and one of the best hours of superhero television ever filmed. It felt like it came straight out of the comics. Tied up many plotlines, and dropped stuff to be followed up on in future seasons.
 
For the time travel - cross dimensional and cliched time travel is part and parcel of comics. It just made it feel all the more like it was lifted straight from the comic pages.
 
How I feel having seen this - the joy, the emotions, the sheer "Wait what?" that is generated - that is what I wanted from Age of Ultron and didn't get. I don't care about DC Movies anymore, the TV is where it is at.
 
 
 

I must be a 20-something girl too, then. (Which would come as quite a surprise to me, my wife, and many others....)
 
Because I liked it. It wasn't what I expected, I admit. It looks very CW-ish (if that's a word), but still--Supergirl. She flies. She's bulletproof. She can stop a speeding semi  without budging. And I really like the "learning to be a superhero" aspect to this. Yes, you have Phenomenal Cosmic Power , but you have to learn how to use it. And when to use it.
 
I'll be watching it.

Bah.  I can't even remember my twenty-somethings.  It's been too long ago.

I dunno about that. That comic book costume looks no different to me than any high school cheerleader outfit in the country. Add to that the fact that this particular Supergirl is in her mid-20s--it wouldn't be child porn even if she flew around naked.
 
The whole muted color palette for superhero costumes thing has just got to go. It is tedious in its ubiquitousness, disappointing in its creative sterility, and dismissive of its genre roots.

How did they get on that little branch??