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Best/worst one of those is the video for Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood's "Something Bad"

Hero is sorely lacking an introduction to the that anyone can pick up and learn to play, without any previous knowledge.  One thing that the medieval fantasy juggernaut did right in its early days, was to include that in the start of the players' book.  A self-guided introduction and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style presentation of rules and concepts in bite size pieces.

I have the start of one I've been working on.  The new player finds a meteorite in the forst during their nature walk, allowing them to choose and test their powers before facing off against real danger.

For the Players' section/chapter: basic character building.

Start with your (disads)complications.  Many superheroes are known more for this than anything else.  Define who you are, what you believe in.  These are the adventure hooks your GM uses to get you involved in the adventure, to make it personal to you.  What is your name, your personality, your costume, your reason for being a hero?

I have a bucket method I've suggested for brand new players to build characters from.  Ten buckets of points to give you a rough start to your build.  Give each bucket a number of points, and a label of what you want to build from it. 

Super strength, super speed, some other superior characteristic...bucket. 

One bucket for the "extra" characteristics to round out the rest of your stats.

A bucket for your offensive capabilities.  Another for your defenses.  Want to be really powerful at one or the other?  More points in the bucket.

Don't forget a bucket for movement.  Can't forget one for skills.

Is there something that your character is known for? Their niche, their calling card, their signature ability?  There's a bucket for that.

Save a bucket for the "candy", the little cool things you might want but overlook or leave out if you overfill the previous buckets.

Now you've got buckets of points, and an idea what to spend them on.  Crack open the book, and see what those points will buy/build you!

8 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

2) print the adventures separately as individual products, maybe $4.99 each, and increase expense and trouble.  But its also sales of adventures separately as individual products even if someone doesn't pick up Champions Rises.

I'm with this one too.  Considering they turned individual D&D modules into books larger than the core books, selling an eight adventure chain book for $40 seems like a winner.

4 hours ago, Cancer said:

And a lot more if you are driving through those parts of the Southwest where there's lots of area surrounded by military areas, bombing ranges, and so on.

You are not kidding.  My father actually had that happen.  Shortly after the sign, a fully outfitted Apache helicopter came over the horizon...

5 hours ago, Starlord said:

You're killing me.  You lost half the joke.

4 hours ago, Cygnia said:

LEGO already makes spaceships.

1 hour ago, Starlord said:

 

I'll do you one better...why is the red bag?!?!

Blood, obviously.  They didn't fit in the bag in one piece.

Previous GM had one who might qualify.  Vapor was Invisible, Desolid, SPD 12, and had a 4d6 KA Affects Solid World.

It was a Crowning Moment of Awesome for my PC when she Stunned, Knocked Out,  and *Killed* that SOB in one hit.  (Vapor skimped on defenses...)

13 hours ago, Ockham's Spoon said:

A cop is driving around in his police cruiser one afternoon, when he sees a car up ahead that's going significantly slower than the rest of the traffic. Other drivers are swerving around them, honking their horns, and swearing.

Realizing that this was a terrible hazard for everyone involved, he gets behind the slow driver, and flips on his lights.

The driver immediately pulls over, and the cop walks up to the window, and discovers that the driver is a little white-haired old woman. He looks further into the car and sees three more small elderly female passengers.

He asks the usual, “Do you know why I pulled you over?”

“No, sir. I don't.”

“Mam, you were only going 25 miles an hour.”

“But I thought that was the speed limit!” , she points to a large black and white road sign not far away.

The officer just chuckles a bit, shakes his head, and says, “Mam…that's not a speed limit sign, you are on ROUTE 25.” They both have a good laugh. He takes one last look around the car before he leaves, and notices the other old ladies are all wide eyed and terrified. “Mam, are they okay?”

“Oh, they'll be fine. We just got off of route 125!”

Last time I heard that joke, the little old ladies were all nuns.

Never more true than when they were embedded with viruses:

Beware of geeks bearing .gifs.

2 hours ago, Starlord said:

6.  Whole numbers between 3 and 5

F.  Consistency

1 hour ago, death tribble said:

That is 

Nigel Crenshaw

of

2, The Malt House

39 Marlborough Lane,

Darnall

Sheffield

S9 5BD

I thought British birds were all female? 

14 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Mmmm...   vanilla mousse.

Conversion equipment costs one tenth of the 'mech's total tonnage (same as internal structure).

Oh, sorry.  Was reading Battletech stuff...

On 8/6/2023 at 3:13 PM, Lord Liaden said:

The problem is, what do you call people from the United States? Staters? Unies? USAs (pronounced "oosas")? "Yankees" has derogatory implications. There really isn't a decent-sounding alternative to "Americans."

On another forum USAians was typed, but I'm not sure how it could be pronounced.   Spanish has the word Estadiounidense, but it is both difficult to say and hear.

16 hours ago, BoloOfEarth said:

In the first, the researcher referred to the long-ago people as the "Nacirema."  It took me a while to realize that he was talking about modern US society. 

Hey, Nacirema!  *dances*

You should really retitle this "Help me create THE APOCALYPSE!"  😉

On 8/4/2023 at 10:27 PM, Pariah said:

I never finish anything. I have a black belt in Partial Arts. 

On 8/4/2023 at 10:50 PM, Bazza said:

That would be a white belt. Get it right.  tkdguy would agree. 

No, white is beginner, black is master.  He's probably in the blue or green range somewhere in the middle.

On 8/1/2023 at 12:33 AM, Lord Liaden said:

 

I saw Aliens. Would that dropship really inspire your confidence?

So did I.  Setting aside that they never got to use it properly, it looks like a BAMF.  

10 minutes ago, Pariah said:

Especially coming from Bones, I thought it was the He's Dead Gym. 

1 hour ago, Lord Liaden said:

I'd be really nervous if I saw the rebuilt model on my flight's tarmac.

I'd be happy if the dropship was there with it.

LEGO is a wonderful source of everything.

As for my toys:  Four images of Jada Toys' Nano Metalfigs.  Diecast solid metal figs from multiple lines: GI Joe, TMNT, DC, Marvel (pictured), Minecraft, Harry Potter, Walking Dead, WWE, Nightmare Before Christmas, Transformers, and possibly others I don't recall.  About 5 CM high & wide, slightly too large to use as minis.  But it doesn't stop me from trying, and there's a aftermarket of cusomized figs.

And in the US, they retail for about $1 a fig, though they're sold in 18 or 20 packs now.

We're Starfleet officers.  Wierd is part of the job description.

I believe Tom's comment to be based upon only one person in that situation.

The Firl with the Dragonborn Tattoo