tkdguy

It’s no big deal. I just wondered. No use getting in trouble for it. Oh and is there a particular reason why you’re doing a four man party? Besides perhaps that is all that fits on the sheet? I know that it’s assume that that’s the idea party size but really more is better! KotB suggests a minimum of a 6 member party.
 

Every day is somebody's birthday, even the fast-approaching February 29th.  Whether you think it's significant or not, they certainly do. 
 
January 7th, 1610 was also the date Galileo first spotted four moons of Jupiter, as well as more stars than he'd ever thought the sky could hold.
 
 

January 7th 1979 The Vietnamese army captures Phnom Penh. January 7th is now commemorated as Victory Over Genocide day.
 
January 7th 1939 the last element to be discovered in nature rather be synthesised is identified as Francium
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francium
 
Nicholas Cage turns 60 today
 
EDIT: Would you believe that there is still about a third of the year that we have nothing for ?
January, September and June are the worst months for missing dates. November and December are missing 3 dates each. 

I can't seem to find the place where I downloaded the sheet. I suspect it was a single character sheet that was shrunk down to a quarter size in order to fit a party of 4 in a single sheet, possibly for solo play. I can find similar sheets in the Basic Fantasy forums. If it's not against the rules, I can post a blank sheet of the one I used, but remember that I am not the creator, and I will take it down if asked.

How about Doom Patrol? Since they’re seeking their Doom? Btw, murderhobos just like fingernail on a chalk board. 
 
Btw, where did you get that sheet from?

Despite the modern onus that term carries, the "hobo" part is actually a pretty legit description for many adventurers.  Where a tramp travels but only works under duress, and a bum neither travels nor works, a hobo is properly defined as a migratory worker, one who travels from job site to job site as needed.  Adventurers are usually wandering around on a quest with some form of remuneration, even if it's just looting the losers in fight, as military men did for millennia - as expected a benefit as US waitstaff getting a tip to supplement their wages.  That sure sounds like a temporary job that one might travel to and from (and for, even), so "hobo" is a title some might wear with pride - or at least acceptance.  Just don't call them tramps - or worse, bindlestiffs.  Everyone hates a bindlestiff.
 
Now, the "murder" bit is a little harder to stomach unless your quest is an actual assassination, but for some reason most PC groups don't get offered a lot of targeted wetwork even when just putting a crossbow bolt in the evil vizier who usurped the throne really would be the sensible thing to do.  Still, perhaps that's simply due to lack of advertising.  A party that's actively seeking work as vitality reduction experts willing to travel might well choose to call themselves "murderhobos" to make the point abundantly clear.
 
"Inc." is clearly an abbreviation, perhaps of a fitting distinction or boast.  Since the concept of corporate ownership doesn't appear in most fantasy settings, one presumes it's short for "incredible" or "incomparable" or even "incarnadine" if you want to be highbrow about it.
 
A fine name for a band of footloose professional killers indeed.   

According to the comments, this scene shows Cirque du Soleil acrobats practicing their routine instead of some extreme competition as the narrator claims. It looks almost like a scene from the Flash Gordon film.
 
 

Just for fun here's my ill-fated party.
 
 

 
I created a new party, but I haven't decided on a party name. The working title for the group is "Murderhobos Inc."

Just for fun here's my ill-fated party.
 
 

 
I created a new party, but I haven't decided on a party name. The working title for the group is "Murderhobos Inc."

Time to adapt Lovecraft's works to the modern age:
 
Zoom Call of Cthulhu

How about a muppet version of the 1968 Planet of the Apes film? Charlton Heston's role, Taylor, would be played by Bert from Sesame Street.

Torturing my students with math isn't really what my job is all about.
 
But it is an entertaining perk.

If they killed off the Joker, then the comics would have Joker knock-offs filling the space.  Batman is an archetype and his stories need opposing archetypes for him to work.  If not the Joker then some other character of a similar archetypes who might as well be called the Joker.
 
I don't like comic book continuity, it skews too many things as time goes on and the players neither age, grow or change.  If there was no continuity, then there would not be 1000's of Jokercrelated deaths over decades, just the potential victims in this story.
 
I like superhero stories, always have.  I don't mind them re-using villains in the same way I don't mind them using the same heroes, I know what I am expecting. The same as when the daleks or cybermen turn up in Dr Who.
 
In a superhero game, I only repeat a villain if the players demand it, otherwise I undermine their successes.
 
The problems with Joker and Batman stem mostly from continuity which demand they explain things and connect them to stories from before.  The need for grimdark nonsense drives some of it.
 
As for the neural health thing, there is an argument that anyone who commits a drive is mentally ill.  Folk use crazy and mentally ill epithets too easily (in comics AND real life).  I take the comic-book diagnosis of Joker's mental illness with the same scepticism as when he us declared medically dead, open to question.
 
To me, he represents an archetype of fear and chaos which manifests in a variety of ways.  I enjoy the stories that emerge from putting such an archetype into a place like Gotham and how it's archetype of justice and retribution engages with those results while sticking to a principled refusal to take a life.
 
Doc
 
 

I'm using uBlock Origin and AdblockPlus on Firefox, on Mac, and the only youtube ads I ever see are the ones that are actually part of the video.  Ymmv.

My sister and someone on Discord recommended UBlock Origins. It works well on YouTube, and you just refresh your cache when YouTube begins cracking down on you.
 
Apparently, YouTube has been able to disable UBlock as well. 👎

I'd be happy to run HERO again, assuming my players aren't expecting a superhero game. I'll do fantasy or scifi instead.

No, but adblocking services are also updating regularly.  It's going to be an arms race for a while to come.  There are a number of youtube creators who've noticed significant dips in views and are already lobbying to reverse the change, with the quite reasonable threat of leaving the platform if they don't - if their revenue from YT proper becomes a fraction of what they get from direct donations why stay?  Their paying audience will follow them wherever they go.  Between that and folks like myself who are simply boycotting it should be interesting to see where things go.  Youtube probably won't change, but you never know.

I found a way to get around it, at least for now. I didn't remove Adblock when I downloaded Ublock. My mistake was disallowing ads on both programs. I disabled Adblock on YouTube but kept Ublock active. It works for now. Of course, Youtube is working on updating itself, so it's probably not a permanent solution.
 
Technically, that applies to any sort of fiction.

It's not just Trump that needs to be beat now. It's the entire hysterical right wing segment of the population.

I'd be happy to run HERO again, assuming my players aren't expecting a superhero game. I'll do fantasy or scifi instead.