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Re: 3 Names required - Help!

(Blowback is a)drug culture reference' date=' hardly Silver Age ...

Actually, it's the term used for unexpected consequences of covert operations (i.e. funding the mujahadeen in Afghanistan and supporting Saddam Hussein in Iraq had some serious blowback.)

The term is more Iron age than Silver, though (Except in a Silver Age SHIELD Comic, perhaps...)

Re: 3 Names required - Help!

1. What sort of Love? Chivalric, Filial, or Erotic?

2. Blowback

3. The Mohican

Re: Cities of the Future

Here are the factors that will influence the design of the city in 300 years, assuming steady progress in technology

• Decentralization of manufacturing. In 2305, the means to produce anything from food and drugs to shelter and transportation should be available to each individual and cost little more than the energy, raw materials, and royalties on the manufacturing instructions. This means that the traditional purpose of cities, the production and transportation of finished goods, will no longer dictate their placement. Raw materials will ship themselves on demand from wherever they are, assembling the transportation needed to ship them on the spot, and recycling that transportation at their destination.
   
  
• Decentralization of society. The current trend to find one's social peers on the internet will continue, and when the Virtual Sensory Experience becomes indistinguishable from reality, the social experience online will become preferable to that offline, as people begin to identify more with their idealized avatar than their imperfect flesh bodies. Populations will decline as more and more people are able to completely separate their emotional and physical needs from the actual procreative act, and every birth becomes a highly planned event.
   
  
• A move from the information economy to the imagination economy. With manufacturing a matter of sending instructions to a fabricator, and social groups no longer bound by geography, the economy will reward most those who can imagine new products and new virtual realities.
  

Given these criteria, the automobile will become obsolete, and the city of the future will be a network of very powerful servers. The physical cities will become decentralized housing units designed more to use as low a footprint as possible than to provide social interaction or concentrations of employees...

Re: Multi-form suggestions?

Hematite-Magnetic Powers

Jade-stronger than steel

Obsidian-absorbs light

Quartz-radio powers/energy reflection

Turquoise- Healing

Re: Calling All Evil GMs

Is this healing power limited to humans? Did it affect pets? Rats? germs?

Perhaps someone dying of an acutely contagious disease was healed during the event. He is now immune to the disease, but has become a carrier, and is "patient zero" for an epidemic. Evilest case scenario, the patient is a jetsetter, and is spreading this disease thoughout the world...

Re: WWYCD: The Guliver Syndrome

Bouncer would see his opportunity immediately, and try to sign as many of them as possible to become the Vince MacMahon of a his own GWF, the Giant Wrestling Federation. He would stage matches in arenas with prop buildings and vehicles for contestants to throw at one another...

Re: WWYCD: Category 6 Storm

Golden Eagle would consult with meteorologists on his suit radio to confirm that his idea was "just so crazy it might work." He would then dive to the bottom of Lake Michigan and build a device to circulate the water at the bottom to the top (Change Enviroment 5 hex radius, 5 Temp Levels, Megascale 10km hexes, 60 points). Hopefully this would lower the air temperature enough to siphon off most of the heat energy from both hurricanes.

Re: WWYCD: The Friendly Neighbourhood CERT

Golden Eagle ,as Dexter Morache, lives in a building that hires its own security. If he moved to the suburbs, he would tell CERT that his travels make it difficult for him to commit to a schedule, but that he would be willing to donate money and DEXCorp safety devices to the cause. As the owner of Good Guys, Inc, he would be willing to have a superhero visit the group to give a talk on neighborhood safety and sign autographs...

Toreador would get involved as a civilian, keping his sword, cape and toreador's outfit in the secret compartment of his guitar case, in case he encountered something beyond the normal criminal threat.

Bouncer would say "no thanks, I'm busy" in his civillian ID, but shadow the group in his Hero ID. If the group got in over it's head, he would bounce in to save the day...

Re: Power ideas for a concept character: Manatee

Blubber: Life Support, extreme cold

Mistaken for Mermaid: +20 PRE, only vs drunken sailors...

Re: need another name

"Brick (bum-bum buh buh) House": Built like an Amazon!

Re: Star Hero fictional settings we haven't seen

I've never seen a game set in Asimov's Foundation Series. I don't even know how you would run such a game.

Re: WWYCD: The Mirror, Mirror Trap

Golden Eagle would activate his "GREMLIN ray", designed to shut down technological gadgets. If he gets the drop on him, he will reconfigure his suit to take charge of his opponents armor (Mind Control, only to people in battlesuits)...

Re: Robotics in the Marvel Universe

How does Ultron plan to do this mind-meld? He needs to capture one more individual: The Super Adaptoid. Ultron can simply put the geniuses in the same room with the "Sinister Cyborg" and Adaptoid will adapt their powers, i.e. their great intellect. Ultron can then download the data from SA, and go on his rampage...

Re: Every good four color supers games needs:

A League of Villany, made of the PC's Hunteds, who assemble for no good reason other than to "Destroy those do-gooders, once and for all!"

Villains of the opposite gender, who flirt with the hero, and could be heroes if th PC could only "tame" them...

Did anyone mention Doomsday Devices?

Re: Re-envisioning

That 70's House: a PBS Special in which two families would move into a 1970's style house, and have to wear authentic hairstyles and synthetic fiber clothes. No modern conveniences will be allowed into the house, and the children will have listen to 8-track tapes, and score the low-quality skunk weed that was available back then. The adults will have to ignore their children to "find themselves" and struggle with the cultural norms of the day, EST, Key Parties, and Gas Lines. In the last episode, all the male children are drafted, sent to Vietnam, and shot dead.

Re: Re-envisioning

The Apprentice: Every team member questions "the Donald" every time he hypes one of his projects.

DT: "The Trump Taj Mahal is one of the most successful casinos in the world."

Team Member: "Actually Sir, my research suggests that it hasn't made a profit in three quarters and that many stockholders want to remove you from the board..."

The Facts of Life: Same premise, but it airs on Cinemax, only at night.

Re: Who knows physics?

I believe the product you are looking for are quantum dots

My limited understanding of these is that they absorb one type of light, and emit another wavelength. Furthermore, the wavelengths can be tuned to various applications. The most immediate and mundane application recently developed is to coat a lightbulb with them, and replace the filament with a blue LED. The new bulb lasts 50 times longer and uses 1% of the energy...

I don't know physics, but I read wired.com...

Re: WWYCD: The Vampire Who Doesn't Want to be a Vampire Anymore

Golden Eagle doesn't believe in the occult, although he will believe she is a "vampire" if he is provided with direct evidence. Reluctantly, he will call in "arcane" experts to consult on a cure, fully expecting them to fail. If there is evidence of her crimes, he would suggest that hand herself over to the Vault, and he would vouch for her abilities and observed weaknesses, so that they could lock her in a sunless, vapor-roof room, while she looked for a cure. Assuming she came to him in his capacity as a lawyer, he would find scientists who would vouch for her abilities, and ask a psychiatrist to determine if her belief that she was a vampire was a psychosis induced by the nature of her powers, or if she has a physical addiction to human blood...

Bouncer will try to bounce her through an outside wall, if it is daytime. At night, he will try to wrestle her to the ground, relying on his bounce field to keep her from biting him.

Revenant, being undead himself, notes that she has no soul to rend (His Modus Operandi involves a death stare that removes an evildoer's soul , turning the body to dust.) As he has no blood for her to drain, the fight would probably end in a stand still. He can follow anywhere she goes in his ghostly form, and trade blow for blow without taking much damage at all...

Re: Wwycd: Doom!!!!

Off-topic: I'm curious as to why so many folks seem to want to run screaming from this adventure?

 

Arch-enemy opens a gate that releases an evil more terrible than himself...and it is so terrible that he has to swallow his pride and ask YOU for help.

 

Unless you just despise DOOM the videogame for some reason, why is this so terrible a concept?

I think that this scenario is "out of character" for Dr. Destroyer, which would have any character I played looking for the double-cross or the deception. An outright declaration by Dr. D that we are his superior in any respect, or could accomplish anything that he could not, can't be trusted...

Re: An A-team for the 21st Century

A modern version of the A-team would kill' date=' and be very good at killing, because that's what Special Forces do. However, for the most part they will try to avoid doing so whenever possible -- aside from their disapproval of their activities, one of the reasons the refused the Medellin Cartel was because they didn't want to spend the rest of their lives as cold-blooded murderers. That is an important distinction to them -- they will [i']kill[/i], because they are soldiers and that's what a soldier has to do, but they will never murder.

Killing is not what soldiers do. Following orders is what soldiers do. Killing is merely a subset of following orders. Without a war, and without a chain of command, it's hard to imagine circumstances in which killing would not be murder.

I think the 21st century A-Team should be like the 20th century A-Team, knocking over bad guys with cabbage guns, and blowing up helicopters without harming the passengers...

Re: Wwycd: Doom!!!!

Golden Eagle: "'Red headed Step-child?' 'Am I in?' You are not Doctor Destroyer. I don't even believe you are Bachelor's Degree Destroyer. You've had your fun, Yo-Yo, but I am not falling for another of your Pop Culture inspired Robot-filled capers. Now take off that Destroyer costume before the real Destroyer kills you for your insolence..."

Bouncer "Um, I bounce into things. Really hard. That's about it. I think maybe you are confusing me with Buster.."

Toreador teleports away before Dr. Destroyer can finish his speech, and calls The Arcanes, Good Guys Incorporated, UNTIL, and The East Coast Adventurer's Society, telling them that Dr. D is in his "headquarters", a dingy dorm room at NYU...

Re: Pulp Western=Deadlands?

I've always wanted to run a western game at the level of Wild, Wild, West (The TV show) or The Adventures of Briscoe County Jr.. No divergent history, but lots of pulp science, mysticism, and two-gun action.

My favorite campaign ideas include:

1862-Carson City Nevada, around the time when the editor of the local paper was Samuel L. Clemens. Players would be siblings, each with a unique genre gimmick.

1874-P.T. Barnum's "Congress of Wonders". A travelling circus introducing wondrous men and women of extraordinary talents and abilities. Players would be circus folk to be called "Superheroes" in the USA.

Re: Building Tech for Original Setting

How would the sabot 'strip itself'?

 

Game mechanically how would this differ from conventional rounds within the DoS framework?

 

I like the idea and think someone could be working on this technology. I won't be stagnating the tech and don't have a problem with it slowly escalating. That is one of the reaasons I'm trying to detail where the tech is Today.

If you built the metal casing so that it fit around the plastic bullet like a cup, unattached to the plastic core, the mag shield would catch the cup, but the contents would continue on their merry way.

Re: What's in a Name?

Her name was unpronouncable on this planet, but the native word was the same. Grace. She would be dead soon, her mission unfinished. Worse, her child would grow up without knowing her true heritage. She had provided her child with everything this planet could offer: wealth, a title, a princely father. But all would be for nothing. The Arachnid Asassins would make it look like an accident, a sports car swerving off a treacherous road. But she had one last card to play. With her last breath, she released her Pr'k Tah. a wave of energy enveloped the sports car, engulfing the Bug-Eyed creatures in blue and silver Flames. With any luck, they were working alone, she thought. It would take thirty earth years for the Others to reach the planet. By that time her daughter's own Pr'k Tah will have matured. She would be untrained in its use, but even untrained, she will be a fair match for her enemies. her last conscious thought was of her daughter. Sweet Caroline, good bye...

Next Name: Dr. Fun

Re: Wallace & Gromit: Pulp Heroes?

Absolutely Pulp-Noir. The Wrong Trousers is an homage to the noir film...