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Originally posted by Sketchpad

It has? Is he going to be the villain in STAST?

Well, the new VIPER book talks about Timothy Blank, one of VIPER's top geneticists, and his plans to take over VIPER. In 4e Blank was King Cobra.

Originally posted by Ndreare

That would definitly be possible for characrters like that. Can you imagine Apokolypse or Thanos giving some big speech and wolverine just slapping him like he was a ***.

Or the X-Men story in which Loki delivered a dramatic and menacing soliloquy and Kitty Pryde walked up to him and replied "Sez you, ferret face!"

Originally posted by Rechan

Who? o.o

http://rogerwilco.gamespy.com/

(You'll have to click past the ad on the first page).

It's free online voice chat software.

Originally posted by Rechan

That is EVIL.

 

Seeing as I game online, I can't do that. BUT, the best voice I can come up with for Foxbat would be a knock off of Adam West, just supervillainy.

Have you tried Roger Wilco?

Re: Re: Champions in 3-D Plus

Originally posted by FenrisUlf

[*]Gender Bender Wolrd- The PCs find a world where people have the opposite genders from the ones they know, "Yo, Thunderer, your counterparter here is like a total babe!" "Don't be sick, and don't even think about it."

 

Heh, this sounds like it has good potential for some truly evil GM tricks...

Especially if the GM has seen that episode of Sliders where Quinn meets a woman working on dimension travel for her government, becomes attracted to her, sleeps with her...and then discovers that she's that reality's version of himself.

Originally posted by Dust Raven

So how can I get around this, or use it, for the purposes of making a player character?

Give the computer Duplication to create the autonomous mobile body and (as Pattern Ghost mentioned) give the Duplicate Regeneration from death to be indestructible.

Re: Having Trouble Coming Up With Adventures

Originally posted by Count Zero

Can you make any suggestions or direct me to any good net resources.

I don't know what resources you have access too, but adaption of other RPGs with a similar scope works well.

For example, since I have almost every item published for Call of Cthulhu, I replace the Great Old Ones with super-villains or the aliens whose invasion created superhumans in the first place.

"Masks of Nyarlathotep"

The PCs discover a plot by an international group of criminals to open a massive hyperspace portal that will allow an alien invasion fleet to materialize on Earth, bypassing any defenses. The trail begins in Manhattan, leads to London, Cairo, Kenya, and Australia, and finally ends in China.

"Shadows of Yog-Sothoth"

The PCs investigate a newly formed organization of some sort and discover that its leaders are attempting to recover fragments of a powerful weapon (or other device) thought destroyed. The race for the device travels through Boston, Hollywood, Scotland, Easter Island, and the depths of the Pacific Ocean (where the core of the device lies).

Originally posted by BoloOfEarth

Oh, and who says you have to *buy* bases, equipment, and vehicles? Hit a VIPER weapons shipment, steal the latest UNTIL stealth surveillance jet prototype, research 30+ year-old VIPER or supervillain bases "shut down" by the heroes (saves tons on excavation costs, though upgrading is a pain).

 

Another idea, along the weapons line: A scientist type could supply both sides of a gang war (or real war) with weapons and equipment.

There's also the Justin Hammer method, from Marvel Comics.

"I will supply you with all of the advanced technology that you need. In return you will give me 10% of the take from all future crimes until the devices are paid for. You will also work for me whenever I need you and these services will result in a appropriate reduction in your debt to me."

And the supplier has enough villains in his debt to serve as a collection agency if anyone tries to stiff him.

Originally posted by D-Man

Or:

 

SE: High Pressure

SE: Radiation

SE: Extreme Heat

 

El Cheapo Strikes Again

 

The description of Life Support in Hero 5 specifically says that LS: Extreme Heat won't protect you from being dunked in molten lava, so I doubt it would protect you from the Sun either.

Originally posted by Storn

As for Robin-Batman continuity... there is precious little. Something that does bug me. I love the "I already have a father" and the Wayne Enterprises rooftop arena. But the answers first suppose who IS Robin... Tim or Dick. The creators have stated that they won't tell us (cop out, IMO). I would prefer Tim, because the Titans feels so new, so recombination of elements from the Wolfman/Perez Titans that I grew up with. But if it is Dick, and I would say that the last two eps were more Dick than Tim, then a falling out between Bruce and Dick has to happen at some point. Adolescense seems the perfect place to do it. Dick goes off on his own, and hooks up with the Titans. Problem solved.

There was an episode of Static Shock that guest-starred Batman.

Static: Where's Robin?

Batman: He's with the Titans.

Static:Who?

Batman: You'll meet them someday.

Static Shock was in modern continuity with Batman/Superman-style art, so that Robin was Tim.

Originally posted by Michael Hopcroft

I wish I knew who the voice actors in Teen Titans were. Robin and Slade in particularl are done exceptionally well.

Scott Menville .... Robin

Greg Cipes .... Beast Boy

Khary Payton .... Cyborg

Hynden Walch .... Starfire

Tara Strong .... Raven

Ron Perlman .... Slade

Tara Strong also did the voice of Batgirl, which seems appropriate. But she also does the voice of Bubbles on the Powerpuff Girls, which is just disturbing.

Originally posted by Brandi

I will say this much about the wild anime takes-- they really oughta tone them down for the less silly eps. They *really* seemed out of place in the Apprentice ep (as compared to, say, the Mad Mod or Aqualad one).

http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=031004

Originally posted by Tech

On a different note, where can I specifically pick up back issues of the Teen Titans comics? I'll order from anywhere in the U.S. (please don't say your 'local comic shop'.)

Mile High Comics usually works pretty well for me.

http://www.milehighcomics.com

Originally posted by Starlord

Obviously. I just wondered if an explanation was given as to how he moves. I was just curious. There are some things in the superhero world that are accepted as normal, and for some things there are wacky, yet interesting explanations given.

From Halfjack's Background/History:

"The cyberneticists...replaced Jack's right-side skeletal structure with carbon steel, using the same substance to reinforce his remaining bones to handle the load."

So his flesh-and-blood half is enhanced, but not enough to give it actual powers.

I guess I'll have to go check the new FLGS that opened in my area a few months ago. It's owned and operated by Eden Studios (Buffy the Vampire Slayer RPG, All Flesh Must Be Eaten, various d20) in their extra office space.

Apparently a game store operated by a game company tends to develop a very good relationship with their distributor.

And the guy running the store mentioned that he used to work with Steve. Didn't catch his name though.

Originally posted by Hugh Neilson

The X-Humed line has been done somewhere before...can't remember where, though.

Sensational She-Hulk #34-35. Black Talon attacked her with a team of zombie mutants, Changeling, Black Bishop (Hellfire Club), the Living Diamond/Jack O'Diamonds, and Scaleface (Morlocks).

Originally posted by Hugh Neilson

"Movement". Now we need to define a baseline and implement a host of advantages, limitations and adders for things like "on any surface", "maintain altitude", "gain altitude", "slow gravity", "only on/in/through certain mediums", "has (no) turn mode", "does not pass through intervening space" etc. etc. etc.

 

May as well change all damaging attacks to "Attack", again with a host of adders, advantages and limitations for all the various effects of attacks, all defenses to "defend", etc. We should end up with, what, 6 powers?

 

I prefer the current system, thanks. YOU name the power. "Flight" or "Teleportation" is just the building block you used to create the effect.

From the review of 4th Edition in Dragon # 162 (Oct 1990), describing the revision process:

"As politicians at budget summits like to say, everything was on the table. A Champions game player would blanch to see

some of the suggested changes: the Ego characteristic changed in name and cost, mental attacks hitting automatically, Damage Resistance and Mind Scan gone, and four, count ‘em, four successive sets of Growth rules. One radical suggested stripping the list of 60 + superpowers down to just four (Attack, Defend, Move, and Sense) and simulating all effects with advantages and limitations.

Yes, that latter suggestion died on delivery."

Originally posted by death tribble

Other Marvel dead include

 

Zuras of the Eternals;

Thunderbolt Ross (for the Hul fans)

Zuras came back in an Eternals 1-shot that had him reclaim the throne of Olympia and renew the Eternal isolationism. Icaris rebelled and left with several other Eternals who accidently ended up establishing themselves as a hero team on the West Coast. Nothing else has been done with it though.

General Ross was revived by the combination of the Leader's resurrection machine (the one that was used to revive Marlo) and "Soul Man", one of the Gamma Town mutates. He was active in Hulk before the current "on the road" stories began. Betty Ross is probably still dead though. After the Abomination poisoned her, General Ross put her corpse in a cryo-preservation chamber. That's where she was last seen.

Originally posted by Twilight

Two of his sons followed in his footsteps. One of them became Grimhunter and was killed by Kaine in that god awful Spider Clone era. The other one, Aloshya I belive his name is, basically became a mirror image of his dear old dad.

Except that he's a part-time hero instead of a villain. He has accepted that his father was insane and sees no reason to follow in his footsteps. He knows Spider-Man's secret identity and the two of them have actually become friends.

Plus his mother was a mutant and he has powers too. Essentially another wannabe-Wolverine, superhuman senses and accelerated healing, but the characterization definitely saves him from being just a Wolverine clone though.

Originally posted by Acroyear II

It was revealed that the Iron First killed in issue #75 was a clone (don't you hate when that happens?). The real one was trapped in (or visiting) some mystical city.

 

Acroyear II

Actually he was one of the evil plant men who periodically threatened K'un-L'un (the mystic city) transformed into a duplicate of Iron Fist. And the terminally ill super-human child who killed him was actually the Super-Skrull, magically brainwashed by Iron Fist's enemy, the wizard Master Khan.

Originally posted by death tribble

There is still oodles of dead to add to this list.

 

I thought that in Thunderbirds as well that Baron Zemo 2 was dead.

 

Loki. Killed by Thor in Thor 475.

 

Kangeroo is dead (Spiderman).

 

The original Hobgoblin (if it was Ned Leeds)

Thunderbolts.

Techno saved Zemo's mind electronically, much like he did to himself. It was then transferred into various bodies, ending up in the unscarred body of Zemo's Counter-Earth duplicate.

Thor 475 dealt with the High Evolutionary and the Godpack. You may be thinking of 432, when Thor destroyed Loki and Odin "dispersed" him as punishment, leading Erik Masterson to become Thor. Loki's body was destroyed and his spirit was imprisoned in Mephisto's realm, but he got better.

Kangaroo appeared (without explanation) as an inmate in a secret super-prison in a Wolverine story. He also appeared in Spider-Man's Tangled Web 16-17, set in the same prison. The Spot did die at the end of the stoty however.

Leeds wasn't the Hobgoblin. The Hobgoblin Lives limited series revealed that he was a brainwashed pawn of the real Hobgoblin, like Lefty Donovan when he was used to test the refined Goblin formula. The second Hobgoblin, Jason Macendale, formerly Jack-O-Lantern, is dead though. The original Hobgoblin blasted him to ashes in his prison cell.

Originally posted by JmOz

Toro is alive,

 

He made a number of appearences in the 90's

You may be thinking of the original android Human Torch, who came back from the dead and joined the West Coast Avengers.

But there was a mystery around Toro's death and there was a homeless man with flame powers in Power Pack at the same time that it was revealed that Katie Power's elementary school teacher was Toro's widow. But nothing ever came of it and at some point after the book's cancellation it was denied that he was Toro. Just backpedalling in my opinion.

Originally posted by Blue

Nighthawk - Died in Defenders #106. Member of the Defenders.

A limited series a couple years ago revealed that the "fatal explosion" only left him in a coma, from which he has recovered. He was in the most recent Defenders series.

Originally posted by lemming

The Ringer

Green Goblin (At least around '93 he was still dead. For that matter, so was Gwen)

The Ringer was brought back as a cyborg in Lethal Foes of Spider-Man. It's kind of funny. Mark Gruenwald predicted (half-joking) that Turner D. Century would be the first Scourge victim revived.

Green Goblin II and III are still dead. Norman's back.

Originally posted by Uncle Shecky

A lot of the old All Winners Squad and Invaders are pushing up the daisies: the original Union Jack, the Whizzer, the Patriot, probably Miss America, the Blazing Skull, Red Raven, etc.

 

Cap and the new Union Jack killed Baron Blood many years ago, but he could've come back.

 

Some of the New Mutants: Cypher. Maybe Karma (not sure she stayed dead).

 

Villains:

Terrax died back in FF 269 or so, but he might have been restored too. He'd be an extremely powerful zombie!

 

Count Nefaria maybe?

 

Edit: I forgot some good ones: Guardian and Sasquatch, from Alpha Flight.

Miss America died during childbirth on Wundagore Mountain. Bova tried to pass-off the infant Quicksilver & Scarlet Witch as her children to Whizzer.

Baron Blood was recreated by the Bane in the Marvel UK Knights of Pendragon title, and he's drifted here and there since then.

Karma was believed dead in the single digits of the original New Mutants comic, but she later turned up alive and possessed by the Shadow King (before he was called that).

Terrax came back in New Warriors Vol. 1, #1. A scientist was analyzing the residue of his energies left where he disintigrated and accidently concentrated them enough for him to create a new body from rock and soil.

Count Nefaria revived as a side effect of the ionic energy he absorbed from Power Man waaay-back-when. He blew up fighting the Avengers and Thunderbolts, but ionic beings do that a lot. They always come back.

Guardian came back, three...four times? He's currently alive and leading Alpha Flight again. Sasquatch also came back, unless you mean the Sasquatch who wasn't Walter Langkowski who died in the most recent Alpha Flight series.