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So, anyone up for trying to write up the new Blue Beetle based on just his costume alone? http://www.newsarama.com/dcnew/Beetle/hamner.htm Since the scarab is going to be used for this guy, we have a little bit of his powers already defined

Re: Star Hero fictional settings we haven't seen Steve Jackson makes a lot of money on the GURPS sourcebooks, because he makes sure that there is a lot of information in the books that can be used for other systems. I personally know three people, besides myself, that use the sourcebooks and leave GURPS alone. If you have one of the conversion tables from GURPS to another system, it is easy to convert. I have the two GURPS books for Castle Falkenstein. One of those came with a conversion table from Gurps to Castle Falkenstein. I don't know if there is a conversion table for Champions/GURPS running around besides the Armory's RPG Data Con.

Re: Bubble gum crises to hero Great Dangaioh is actually the sequel to Star Giant Dangaioh. I've gotten used to the oddities of multiple universes with anime/manga. I had to with Dangaioh and Iczer-1. One of my favorite manga is the Dangaioh: DOLL manga. Then there is Slayers. As to the two BGC stories. I think part of the reason for some of the dislike is the new BGC didn't play up Priss' singing with her songs playing in the background. Music was a very big part of the original BGC. I have all of BGC 2040's cds and I enjoy the music on them, but there should have been more. As to Largo? IF a sequel to BGC comes about, who do you think they'll use? Recall what happened to Brian J. Mason. We have no idea if he died by the end of BGC 2040.

Re: Strike Force Strike Force? I wound up with two copies of the book. The first one was in a 1/2 price bin and I snatched it up. A Grab Bag of Hero books is how I got my second book. I was hoping for the Colorios Effect or The Blood and Dr. McQuark.

Re: "Mostly Harmless" powers Transform limited to raw materials(silk, lycra, poly, leather, cotton, wool, rayon) to clothing Area affect killing attack limited to ants, cockroaches, termites, fleas, ticks, etc. Maybe another that takes care of rats. Slow healing that is limited to machinery (The muffler on my car has rusted out, can you do anything? Give me about an hour.) Similar healing ability that goes for parchment, paper, and other readin materials. Probably linked with the ability to understand languages. The Historian If you have the book Superheroes-Theme Music Man might not be a ture hero, but he does have his uses

Re: Japanese Language/Name question Maryu As matter of fact, Gaav from Slayers is called Maryuo aka Demon Dragon King Ma Ryu O

Re: Chronicles of Gor I read a single book a long time ago. I think it was an early book. I went on to better books

Re: Fantasy Cliches Elves are always running away from the world. Unicorns are symbols of nobility and purity. The past is always better and has more powerful items than the present. The best smiths/craftsmen died long ago and the current ones do not measrue up. Elf, dwarf, troll, goblin, centaur, orc IOW the standard fantasy races

Re: Metallic Ages? I'm more of a DC fan than anything. Or, what's left of DC. This is my personal opinion Golden Age was about wonder. There is a modern comic called Go! Girl that has a Golden Age feel. The Golden Age Superman was more violent than the current guy. There was a pesron torturing prisoners. He picked up that torturer and hurled him like a javelin across the sky. The so called Camp Years(Which only lasted three years) of the Silver Age are what usually gets pointed out. However, there were stories that weren't campy by DC and Marvel. Doc Magnus going nuts in the pages of Metal Men was in the Silver Age. The death of Gwen Stacy heralded the rise of the Broze Age and the slow death of the CCA. It was in the Bronze Age that drug addiction was looked at and with that, the CCA started losing ground. Crisis on Infinite Earths has always been pointed as the end of DC's Bronze Age. With Marvel following on DC's heels. The Iron Age was one of intellectual deconstuctionism and less restrictive super-heroes. Watchmen, Dark Knight Returns, and others. Things were a little more violent. Nudity was allowed in some comics. The Hero Comics titles came out in this time. Flare is an Iron age title and character, not Lead Age or Bronze Age. The fight againt Malice in League of Champions could only happen in the Iron Age. The rise of Image Comics and flash over substace heralded the Lead Age. Foil covers. Multiple covers. Crossover mania. Rob Lefield. Heroes wallowing in angst and grittiness. Superman being a whiner. The Lead Age ended when Thundershock Pikachu went straight to the top of the charts and outsold X-Men for at least three months straight. We are now in the Manga Age.

Re: Star Hero fictional settings we haven't seen Since the GURPS sourcebook is long out of print: Lensman and with E.E. Doc Smith in mind: Skylark Moving into comedy space opera: Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The band known as The Heavy Skies. A while back there was a Bureau 13 computer game. You could take the cd and put it in a cd player and skip over the first track and listen to the music without playing the game. Nice songs. If you have the Mechwarrior 2 computer game, you could do the same thing and listen to the music directly.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? My collection of 45 and 33 RPM vinyl records on my old record player. I'm going to have to track down a record player that can handle the few 78 RPM records I have.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The music produced by Stephen Michael Sechi for Talislanta. http://talmusic.barsoom.cc/mft1arc.html http://talmusic.barsoom.cc/mft2arc.html http://www.talislanta.com/products/music3.htm I have all three on CD, so I have the full selection of music for Wizard Hunter. You have to give that man a lot of credit. He produced two full worlds for people to play in(Atlantis in Atlanteen Trilogy and Talislanta) and is a decent musician.

Re: Pop Culture Hero? How about the girl from The New Karate Kid(Karate Kid IV) movie? Lucy Lane from the Supergirl movie Janine Melnitz. She's used to dealing with crazy scietists who bust ghost(Ghostbusters movie)

Re: One-Shot. One Hero. Looney Tunes? For a moment I though you were talking about Douglas Q. Sangnoir aka Looney Toons. Which gives a good idea of a single idea. Have a hero thrust into a world and figure a way back.

Re: Classic Silver Aged Style Team Rosters A guy who can swim: Aquaman/Sub-Mariner. I don't know if Namor was ever a member of the Avengers though. Space Cop-Green Lantern. Quasar maybe?

Re: Fantasy Hero / Star Hero .... SpellJammer? The ways the helms worked were tacked on. I wonder if Lorainne Williams was still at the helm with her no playtesting allowed for D&D spiel. The way they worked in the computer game was that it was the spell-caster's level and the type that determined how fast you went. However, the helm did no magic draining of anyone. Your mage could cast spells until he was out and then just stuff him back in the chair and you still had your same speed. If you don't want to mess with that, then steal the levetationals from Talislanta 's windships

Re: Can any comic fans fill me in on current Marvel continuity?

Re: Theme Super Hero Teams I have seen a grouping of six elements. Fire-Water-Earth-Wind-Wood-Metal If you want to be preverse, you could pull what the TV series Monster Squad or the cartoon Drac Pak did. Take the classical Hollywood monsters and make them heroes. Month based themes. April has water control(April showers). May has control over plants(May flowers). August-heat powers. March can create storms(In like a lamb out like a lion) June gets some insect powers(June bugs) and so on.

Re: Power Rangers

Re: Power Rangers 2 Anime episodes and 9 manga tankoubons for Shinesman(I should know. I have all nine/Still learning kanji. I have Katakana and Hiragna down) Let me guess, the color you had to look up was sepia. Just toss the Shinesman into a Champions universe and watch the fun.

Re: O.m.a.c. Not only that, but to shove an Iron Age sensibility into the Silver Age.(Anything the heroes do is the wrong way to handle the villians) If the Women in Refrigerators website was still updated, Identity Crisis would have placed there for that entire debacle. As to Brother Eye, Batman has all these contigency plans for the heroes, but nothing for the villians. What is he going to do against the Shark, Sinestro, Evil Star, Mordru, and others? The villians get away with anything(including murder) with nothing more than a slap on the wrist. The heroes are despised, no matter how often they save the city/world I thought the Iron Age was over. Maybe it is. It is now the Iron Pyrite Age. At first glance it looks to be a Golden Age, but in reality it is just as bad as the Iron Age(At least for DC and Marvel)

Re: Power Rangers Some of the Super Sentai shows are very distinct. Jetman for example had the team be able to fly under their own power DaiRanger and KakuRanger gave the rangers induvidual powers. The anime Shinesman is a send-up of the various battle teams. The Zen Team from Allies works for some of the Sentai shows, but not all. You'd have to do some modifications to do certain shows, and that is not counting the vehicles As to English versions of battle team shows: Monster Squad-Wax figures of Dracula, Frankenstien's Monster, and the Wolfman come to life and become heroes to make up for the past actions of the beings they are based off of. Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverley Hills-The less said about this show, the better. Thunderbirds-Thunderbirds are Go! The Tracey family with the various Thunderbirds(1-rocket-plane, 2-cargo plane, 3-space rocket, 4-sub, 5-space station)

Re: "TaleSpin" as a pulp setting Kahn does have some morals. He did reimbuse Baloo for his cargo after one of his mines was revealed to have been abusing its workers. His words. "Madame. I"m only interested in two things. Money and power. Unhealthy and scruffy looking workers offer me neither." He does understand that healthy and happy workers are beneficial to him.

Re: Which Edition of Champions/Hero System Worked Best for Your Champions Campaign? Fuzion has its moments. Bubblegum Crisis for example, also VOTOMS and Usagi Yojimbo RPG. Add in the Atomik Fuzion PDF's and you have an incredibly viable system.(I managed to get them all, before they lost their free status) As to myself: Anyone who can get away with running an Avalon Hill Powers & Perils campaign for a year can get away with enjoying or disliking any system. Moving on, the longest I've played in a Champions RPG is tied between 4th ed(BBB) and 3rd.