Michael Hopcroft

Re: Character: Inspector Allhoff (Identity Crisis tie-in) Sounds like a character that just about anyone with a shred of deceny would despise even as he admires his competence. Does he have any peronally redeeming factors at all? I can actually see him in svereal different types of camapigns. He'd be great as the nasty, arrogant brains behind a stong but dense super, for example. And a character construced along those line would make a very interesting crime lord in the tradition of Professor Moriarty, Roderick Thorne and the Kingpin.

I just finished reading Laura King's spectacularly good novel The Beekeeper's Apprentice, about a teenage girl in 1915 Sussex whose life is changed forever by a chance encounter with a semi-retired Sherlock Holmes. the heroine, Mary Russell, learns Holmes' trade and eventually becomes involved in a deadly revenge plot against the Great Detective. the novel includes a barely-coeverd but quite intriguing sujourn to 1918 Palestine, during which the two have several adventures that King decides not to desribe in detail. I was wondering how to write up Mary, and would like to know if there are any other readers of this quite long series who have ideas on the subject.

Re: Tsubasa Chronicle HERO Some other notes: 1. Mokona Midori also seems to be a sort of translator. Any dimensional traveler who si within a certain raidus of him can undertsand anything said to them by anyone. This extreemly useful since Syaoran, Kurogane and Fai all speak different langauages. (Although when they are all speaking their own tounges it is Syaoran who is portrayed as speaking Japanese, I doubt he actually is given that he has only been to modern Japan once for the span of about fifteen minutes.) 2. Sakura-hime seems to have some sort of unconscious power that prevents even evil people from wishing to harm her. or perhaps that is a function of her personality. If Sakura-hime were any sweeter she'd come with a warning to diabetics. (Incidentally the one was to piss her off is to call her "hime" or "hime-sama", as she utterly despises formal speech. of course, at this point in the sotry she might not even remmeber that she is a princess.)

Re: Anthropomorphic/Furry HERO Resources

Re: Shoujo HEROine

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Your GM puts on leather chaps and starts waxing enthusastic over World of Synnibar. NT: Signs that your girlfriend is really a ten-year-old using magical powers to pass as an adult.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat You think "Stardoe" is the most insulting word in the English language, and your regular conversation is sprinkled with words like "frack!" and "feldercarb!"

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "When I said Coke I meant Coke, not Coke!" NT: Signs your high school football coach is out of his mind.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "About that sexual harassment policy -- is there any way i can get a waiver on it?" NT: Signs that the host of your favorite talk radio show doesn't have a clue.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Where are the lungs again?"

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat After you were born, your obstetrician became a fullt-ime abortionist. NT: Signs that the head writer of your favorite TV show is out of his mind.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Yo' momma is soooo ugly that she turned Medusa to stone!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "I'm sorry, I was wondering what cup size you were. I guess i shouldn't ask that on the first date." "No problem. Just let me know what cup size you want and I'll go in for the surgery in the morning." NT: Signs your mother used to be a porn star

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Daling, what's that perfume? it's so spicy, so intoxicating, so... metallic...." "Thanks for noticing, dear. It's this new stuff I picked up called Eau de Mechanon. Like it?" "Like it? Makes me want to reach for my screwdriver." "Come here, big boy!" NT: Signs you have unwittingly married a full-conversion cyborg.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "To be irresistible to women, all you need is a little touch of Foxbat." WHAT?

Re: [Humour]SciFi TV Quotes More Doctor Who: Countess Scarlioni: I brought you here to find out why you stole my braclet. The Doctor: Well, that's my job, you see. I'm a thief. Romana here is my accomplcie, and that's Duggan. He's the detectvie who was kind enough to catch me. That's his job. Our lines of work dovetail nicely, don't you think? Countess: I was under the impression that Duggan was watching me. The Doctor; well, you are a very beautiful woman. Duggan here was probably gathering up the courage to ask you out to dinner. Countess Scarlioni: The more you try to convince me you're a fool, the more likely I am to believe otherwise. Jabe: This is the latest Alpha-class station, fully automated. Nothing can go wrong. The Doctor: Unsinkable, you mean? Jabe: You could say that. The nautical metaphor is appropriate. The Doctor: I was on a ship that was called "unsinkable" once. Ended up clinging to an iceberg. Wasn't half cold. Rose: You smell chips? The Doctor: Yes! Rose: All right, then, we'll get chips. You're buying. The Doctor: No money. Rose: Some date you are! All right, tightwad, chips are on me. We've only got five billion years before the shops close! Rose: Doctor, it's coming! The Doctor: The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan couldn't get through that door. Believe me, they've tried. Davros: We shall become all -- The Doctor: POWERFUL! CRUSH THE LESSER RACES! CONQUER THE GALAXY! UNIMAGINABLE POWER! UNLIMITED RICE PUDDING! ET CETERA! ET CETERA!

Re: Building a Time Lord Has anyone done stats for a new-style Dalek? the things may look ridiculous, but they are deadly as all hell. the Doctor believed that one Dalek was capable to depopulating a city the size of Salt Lake, despite any opposition the 2012 humans could throw at it.

Re: Martial Arts/Film Noir Campaign If you're willing to use guns, one of the obvious resources for a campaign like this is anime series such as Noir and Madlax, in which the characters are young, apparently helpless, but actually not only capable but incredibly so. This is also a great sort of campaign for the "assassin with a consscience" type of character, someone who has no compunctions about committing murder (even cold-blooded murder) but has standards concering who he or she kills. A hit man who only kills crime figures or those connected to them willingly (such as cops or poltiicans who are int he pocket of the mob) would be one such example. The "noble criminal" is another archetype that would work in this style of campaign -- someone who is a criminal or associates with criminals but whose own personal belifs or code of honor puts him in conflict with his peers. Walter Hill's controversial masterpiece The Warriors is a perfect example -- the gang at the center of the story may be ruthless and brutal, but they defend their own, take care of each other, and seem to have some sense of worth beyond their own petty interests. This especially true in environemnts that are so grim and poverty-ridden that breaking the law is the only way for a person to obtain a decent life for themselves 9such as the Coney island of The Warriors).

Re: Building a Time Lord

Re: Building a Time Lord I'd make a remark about Time Lords that relfects the new series, but that would be a spoiler. Although ti might not have much of a game effect, you might want to address the problem of inter-fertility as a campaign matter. In other words, is it possible for a Time Lord to have a child with someone of another race?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Hi, Dad." NT: Signs your country has accidentally elected Zaphod Beeblebrox to the highest office in the land.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat To clean up after private time with Trillian.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat How to Speak Pirate NT: Signs your eccentirc uncle is really a necromancer

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat 101 Things to Do with a Dead Mouse

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Ladies and Gentlemen, I thought I should let you know that there has been a change in plans. i just decided i want to defect, and we are now flying to Cuba." NT: Signs the principal at your high school is out of his mind.