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Re: The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC Fair enough. Who would have been better? Jaida Pinkett?

Re: Cryptic Concept Art for Nighthawk Because they're evil, obviously. They hate the awesomeness that is Tron-Defender. (Tronfender?)

Re: Cryptic Concept Art for Nighthawk Me: Hi everyone. I'm Andrew. Everyone: Hi Andrew! Me: I have a confession. I...I actually like Defender's redesign.

Re: Second Best Game System ? "Right again?" Have they ever gotten it right? Apologies to all the FASERIP fans, but I hated that game. I've never read the other 3, so I could be wrong.

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? Ha! I haven't read a Destroyer in years. Far as I'm concerned, the series' Golden Age was mid 70s to early 80s. Do they still publish them? The last I heard they were doing a reboot or something.

Re: Second Best Game System ? I tried to read the post you quoted and my brain would not allow it. Is this supposed to be simpler/better than Hero? This seems massively anal and boring. Don't think I'll be making mine Marvel.

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? Just finished A Princess of Mars. I wanted to read it before the John Carter movie came out. I've also read a few H.P. Lovecraft stories: "Dagon", "The Statement of Randolph Carter", and the "Herbert West: Reanimator" stories. EDIT: Forgot The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Playback, and Lady in the Lake.

Re: 3rd edition Supplements Digital Hero wasn't created until after DOJ bought Hero in 2001 or 2002 (Don't remember the exact date). Prior to that, the official Hero Games magazine was Adventurer's Club, which is also not available in PDF. BTW can you imagine making Wings of the Valkyrie available? You'll probably see Steve write a 500+ page C.LO.W.N. sourcebook before you'll ever see that adventure as a PDF.

Re: 6th edition WARNING: I don't know how long you've been away, but you should know that the Champions book doesn't contain the actual rules. Everything you need to play is in Hero System: Character Creation and Hero System: Combat and Adventuring. Once you have those two books, Champions might be useful, but it's not required.

Re: 11 Victoria's Secret models hit the catwalk as superheroines Amen brother. Amen. Check this out: There was an Unaired Pilot for a New Electra Woman and Dyna Girl. Say goodbye to your childhood. Getting back to the important things... I never said these models weren't attractive. I think they're very attractive. I just don't think they're sexy and I think it's because, usually, when you see models they're in static pictures, posed, in makeup, with great lighting. That's a lot harder to do on a runway. And as for the "real women" comment, what are they made of paper mache? Balsa wood? If they're flesh and blood with all the right parts, I consider them real women. I don't usually discriminate based on dress size (or height, weight, build, previous gender etc.). Let's face it, they're more real than Power Girl (she's a comic book character, in case you didn't know ).

Re: Notes on current Legion of Super-Heroes members I haven't read that story, but I know the one you're talking about. I really want to see that one. What issue was it? I know it was sometime before the Earthwar arc. And I'm with you, Jo and Val are my two favorite Legionnaires, hands down. It's just a shame what DCs writers keep doing to them.

Re: Potential issues with a Matrix like campaign premise What did the resistance do before Neo showed up? They apparently freed enslaved minds, but what else? After Neo showed up they continued to free minds, but what else did they do? Also if Neo is a hacker why wasn't he constantly testing the limits of what he could do with the Matrix? I've always felt that Neo should have had weird powers we don't have convenient labels for. Instead, he was just a superspeedster/telekinetic. Remember: This guy is hacking "reality". These might seem like unavoidable shortcomings of the films, but if I can think of this, probably the players will ask about this stuff and a lot more.

Re: 11 Victoria's Secret models hit the catwalk as superheroines Is it weird that I don't find any of these women even slightly sexy? Beautiful yes. Sexy? Not so much.

Re: This is sort of morbid curiosity but...

Re: This is sort of morbid curiosity but... I thought the theme of this thread was "Friends Don't Let Friends Play M&M" ? Yeah, I know Rex said it, but that might be for the best. Frankly, looked over 3e, don't know if I ever want to play it. It uses an effects based system similar to HERO and I don't know if I want to play D20 HERO. (Is that a meme? Could we turn that into a meme? I like a good meme.) Right now I'm busy trying to digest the massiveness that is Hero 6e (don't need the BR thanks. I've been following HERO since Champs 2e). Liking what I see so far. HAPs have the potential to way cooler than M&Ms Hero Points. Also loving the toolkitting chapters. Not switching anytime soon. Thanks. Good Night.

Re: Questions about the Champions 6E core rules book I think I might have bought the last copy of 6E2 from Noble Knight. Just checked the status of other copies. I ordered it on the 17th and they sold out on the same day. (It arrived on the 24th. Thanks for asking. )

Re: This is sort of morbid curiosity but... In M&M 3e (DC Adventures, whatever), strength is now tied to both lifting and damage. The game now uses the old AP chart from Mayfair's DC Heroes game. Although, for some reason the character builds for a lot of the main DCU bricks (Superman, Wonder Woman, and a few others) have two strength listings. For example, Superman has a main Str of 19 (95 in HERO) and extra strength with the limitation that he can only use it for lifting (equivalent to about 20 Str). I think the reason they had two different versions of strength in 2e is because of its ties to D20. Now that M&M and D20 have parted company (sort of) they don't have to restrict themselves to purely D20 stats. They've actually renamed the stats and added a few.

Re: This is sort of morbid curiosity but... 3.0

Re: Who are the greatest (?) super villains? Kid Marvelman, the only truly great Iron Age villain. Mojo Jojo, for over the top cartoon villainy. Cobra Commander. Just because. Prometheus, before James Robinson turned him into a depraved villain-Sue. Professor Zoom for having the coolest supervillain costume of all time. Auric Goldfinger purely for this exchange: Bond: Do you expect me to talk, Goldfinger? Auric: No Mr. Bond. I expect you to die. Dr. Evil, for being even better than Goldfinger. Finally, General Zod (movie version). If Superman is supposed to be some kind of angel, Zod is Lucifer.

Re: Do you use Dr Destroyer in your campaign and if so, which version & how? Not quite what I had in mind. I think (it's been 10+ years after all) what I planned was for Destroyer to secretly control government and business behind the scenes with life proceeding as normal. Or at least as normal as you can get in a superhero universe. How he was going to accomplish this, and why his ego wouldn't get in the way, never got past the idea stage. I think I might check out Book of the Destroyer at some point. When I have the time and money.

Re: Do you use Dr Destroyer in your campaign and if so, which version & how? I don't have BotD. What happened?

Re: Do you use Dr Destroyer in your campaign and if so, which version & how? Never got around to the campaign I was planning, but I did leave myself a note in my Classic Enemies book. The note said, "What if Doctor Destroyer took over the world and nobody knew it?" Make of that what you will.

Re: A galaxy of humans Elizabeth Moon's Serrano Legacy and Vatta's War novels were humans only. The latter series had people with minor genemods and cranial implants. Familias Regnant Universe Vatta's War

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? This. Recently, I had a chance to watch Dark Knight again and this exact thought occurred to me. Remember, in the movie dozens of cops are killed, along with several very prominent citizens. Never mind Batman killing. Why doesn't some random cop put a bullet in the Joker's brain? Not trying to bash all - or even most - cops, but not all of them are Batman-level moral paragons. Besides, even if the hypothetical cop was caught, would anyone in their right mind want to convict this guy? Look at Bin Laden. He was (allegedly) unarmed when he was killed and very few people have a problem with that. Imagine Bin Laden times ten and you've got the Joker and a lot of other supervillains (in terms of individual death tolls, not collectively).

Re: The Essential *Good* Silver Age In no particular order: Fantastic Four (around issue #50) Green Lantern Spider-Man Doom Patrol Adventure Comics: Starring The Legion of Superheroes (the Jim Shooter issues) Justice League of America Journey Into Mystery: Starring Thor Strange Adventures: Starring Doctor Strange and Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Captain America (I forget the name of the comic he shared with Iron Man) Remember: Your Mileage Will Vary.