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  1. Formatting question for the upgraded V&V to HERO/Champions Conversion Page

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    Re: Formatting question for the upgraded V&V to HERO/Champions Conversion Page

     

    I have another promo...

     

    I just have to share this one, cuz the image of a hero getting caught off guard, and then getting their @$$ handed to them by this character, well, it makes me giggle.

     

    http://home.comcast.net/~proditor/vandv/test/AuntiePhil.HTML

     

    :D

     

    And thanks guys, I forgot how much fun this was. :thumbup:

  2. Formatting question for the upgraded V&V to HERO/Champions Conversion Page

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    Yeah, I finally remembered I had this sucker. ;)

     

    I'm trying to get through all of the published characters, but since I know have permission to use the art, I figured why not? I'm going to be using light art throughout the page, but I figure character art on the HDC files is a must, right?

     

    Anyway, I have a mockup of the new sheets, and I wanted to see what people thought.

     

    EDIT: For ease and familiarity, I'm using the HERO 3 column sheets.

     

    I'm also thinking of including an "update" in terms of their history. Like why is Proditor Cappela now a good guy, and what got him there, but not the origin bits. Thoughts also appreciated on that.

     

    Take a look, let me know what you all think.

     

    http://home.comcast.net/~proditor/vandv/test/Proditortest.HTML

  3. World of HEROCraft?

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    Re: World of HEROCraft?

     

    In a dangerous mix of MMORPG and RP (Please don't throw rotten vegetables at me) I was wondering, if anyone were to use the game's setting, races, etc for their RP setting and HERO for their rules, does anyone have ideas for racial packages etc and how best to emulate it?

     

    If this has already been discussed on a previous thread, I apologize, my search skills failed me

     

    I dunno, but for all the gripes I've had with WoW, it's rarely ever been because of the fluff. I'd love to see someone's take on a Tauren, cuz Cow people rock. :thumbup:

  4. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

     

    Gotham Knight The animated 6 episode DVD that takes place between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

     

    Overall impressions.

     

    Art: Varied from Cool to wretchingly awful.

    Acting: Unfortunately much the same. Conroy sounds like he needed to make a house payment on some of the sequences.

    Story: See my entry on Art above.

     

    Details:

     

    Have I got a story to tell you: The art looks like George Plimpton. Seriously. It doesn't fit, but the story is pretty good and the voice acting is solid enough. unfortunately, this REALLY suffers when compared to "Legends of the Dark Knight" from the old Batman Animated series. They both feature similar arcs that explore what Batman might look like to a bunch of kids, but the execution on this DVD feels like a pale imitation.

     

    Crossfire and Field Test: The stories are shallow, though Crossfire is absolutely the stronger of the two. Still, that doesn't make either of these particularly good. The art style is pure anime, and it is so completely inappropriate, and jarring, that I was almost ready to turn off the DVD right here. It's a good thing I didn't though...

     

    In Darkness Dwells: We have a resurgence here with a tighter, better scripted story. The acting is better as well, and yay, better, or should I say, more appropos art. It's almost Aeon Flux style, and it kinda works. It looks a whole lot better than the bad Gatchaman and Speed Racer styles from Crossfire and Field Test. This made me decide to keep watching.

     

    Working through Pain: And we're back to Anime art that makes Bruce look like a 12 year old boy with a pituitary problem. The story is okay, but it's a radical departure from everything else on the DVD, and it feels like hammering a square peg in a round whole.

     

    Deadshot: Yes, THAT Deadshot. Best art on the whole DVD, it's the more realistic style of Anime art, similar to Blood: The last vampire. Excellent all throughout, it's also got the look closest to the actual movies.

     

     

    Overall, I think that the DVD is too experimental in the art, acting, and story, with no real return on that experimentation. Two good/strong stories do not make up for four that kinda suck. I'd hesitantly give it 3 out of 5 stars, but really, I'd recommend it more for the completist.

  5. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    D&D Game, group is a Paladin-Monk of Haden the Sun God, Cleric of Haden, Sorceror cursed to only create fire spells, and a Wreck-butt Fighter. I will shamefully admit to playing the Pala-Monk. ;)

     

    We stumble upon a corpse while investigating some murders for the Duke.

     

    Pala-Monk: "Espritu Sanctu, Dominae..nocturnum, Pox...vobiscum...um...don't let the door hit ya where Haden split ya." *Turns to look at the Cleric* "This is really more your thing."

     

    *Same Pala-Monk rolls a 6 to identify the holy symbol of a major, and well known, evil god* "I have no clue, must be some fringe cult."

     

    *Wash, rinse, repeat, on another Major evil god's symbol* "Where are you guys finding all these fringe cult groups?"

     

    Cleric: "You really need to get back in the library."

    Pala-Monk: "Well as a novitiate, I did get perfect scores in 'hitting things 101', so that might have something to do with it."

  7. UNTIL Superpowers Database -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Re: UNTIL Superpowers Database -- What Do *You* Want To See?

     

    yeah' date=' but I think the OP is referring to the DC Universe powers sourcebook, which came out either at the same time or slightly before the USPD, IIRC.[/quote']

     

    Sort of, he starts by questioning Steve's claim that he wasn't familiar with the UPB, then he moves on to the DC Universe book. He continues to muddy the water by knocking on the M&M product name, which leads back to the UPB.

     

    So unless he clarifies, we have no way to know which one is really a bee in his bonnet.

     

    Either way, if he is who he claims to be, well:

     

    1) I liked the UPB and the FF compendium, nice work.

    2) This is probably the one of the most unprofessional ways to have handled your grievance.

  8. UNTIL Superpowers Database -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Re: UNTIL Superpowers Database -- What Do *You* Want To See?

     

    If I was going to make vague and unspecified allegations of "copying [...] format", my first look at whose format was copied would be the original AD&D first edition Player's Handbook.

     

    If you're going to publish a book of powers, spells, whatever, there's only so many formats you can do it in. Including a shorthand block of the power's requirements, range, and so on, is pretty obvious, and I have serious doubts it's protected IP. Then again, I'm not a lawyer, but I have a feeling I know of one who posts around here.

     

    Edit: Having looked at the book in question, I'm not sure what he's saying was copied.

     

    Yeah, seeing as the UPB was a listing and description of powers linked to a set of random die-roll tables, by the OP's logic, Jeff Dee should be gearing up to sue the ever loving %^&* out of the creators of the UPB.

     

    Just sayin'.

  11. Why don't you play online?

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    Re: Why don't you play online?

     

    the comedy movie or the masked adventure genre

     

    Sorta both. Back in 4e, they wanted a 200 pt starting charcter. They wanted street level, with non-gagdget powers rare and mysterious.

     

    As I said, I wanted JLA which is pretty much antithetical to all of the above.

  13. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

     

    Two for one, as I've been reading a lot in the last week.

     

    Jhegaala by Stephen Brust

     

    It's good. I'm actually still sort of digesting it. There is a lot of the familiar Vlad banter mixed with the hair trigger desire for casual violence that makes Vlad a somehow beloved character. Loiosh is awesome as always. But this is a weird tale on a couple of levels. I'll spoiler so as not to ruin any of the other books for people.

    It's another of his out of sequence books, as Spellbreaker is still hanging around. It revolves around a trip Vlad takes to the East during the initial days of his exile from Dragaera City. House Jhereg factors in to the background, at first only a little, but in the end a lot more. The story reads well, and on a lot of levels it's like coming home. However thereturn of the familiar cast would be a welcome thing, as Vlad is just enhanced by Morrolon et. al.

     

     

    Still, a solid Vlad tale, and I give it a healthy 4 Jhereg out of 5.

     

     

    Next...

     

    Go-Go Girls of the Apocalypse by Victor Gischler

     

    Hmmm. It's an interesting read. It makes a lot of assumptions about the nature of man, and I'd love to say that they're wrong, but I think I'd be lying unfortunately. The book is over the top, at times funny, at times morbid. It's Post-apocalypse at it's best and worst. I definitely have to give Gischler credit for one very important thing though, and that's finding a way to make the hero sympathetic and identifible. It would be more difficult to get in to the mind of one of the other survivors, but Mortimer provides a very good "every day joe" view of this strange new world. The cameo by Ted Turner must be read to be believed.

     

     

    Imagine that society collapses, and humanity grimly clings to the knife's edge of survival. Slowly over time, we struggle back from the brink, and some of us band together to try and remake society fomr the ashes of our own hatred and anger. What form would it take? Why a Go-Go bar of course. And not just any Go-Go bar, but the one and only Joey Armageddon's Sassy-A-Go-Go. Because nothing unites humanity like a combination strip show, bar, trading post, right? Siddle up to the bar and plunk down your Armageddon dollars to buy some hooch, a gun, a slave, whatever. And if you're a Platinum card holder, well, what's left of the world is your oyster. Just ask our intrepid hero, Mortimer. Formerly an inusrance salesman who waited out the end of the world in a well stocked cabin, we join him 9 years after tha fall as he attempts to rejoin the human race. Joined by Bill, the shootist amd Shiela the stripper, they journey across the world with only their wits and a lot of guns to protect them.

     

     

    I quick read, I think it also earns some credit by staring fairly unflinchingly at some really unsavory aspects of humanity. It is also absolutely going to offend some people. If you suspect that you might be even a little thin skinned, you might want to give this one a pass entirely.

     

    I give it 3.5 Armageddon dollars out of 5.

  14. Jokes

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    Re: Jokes

     

    A soldier stationed in the South Pacific wrote to his wife in the States to please send him a harmonica to occupy his free time and keep his mind off of the local women. The wife complied and sent the best one she could find, along with several dozen lesson & music books. Rotated back home, he rushed to their home and thru the front door. "Oh darling" he gushed, "Come here... let me look at you... let me hold you! Let's have a fine dinner out, then make love all night. I've missed your lovin' so much!" The wife, keeping her distance, said, "All in good time lover. First, let's hear you play that harmonica."

  17. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

     

    Yup. And then she pointlessly brutalizes a prisoner. I do like complex characters and satire' date=' but "The good guys are no better" isn't really the message I want from my Super-tainment.[/quote']

     

    Then never, ever, ever, ever, ever read From the Notebooks of Dr. Brain by Minister Faust.

     

    Soon I will be Invincible has respect for it's genre and it's hangups. Doc Brain makes fun of them and makes you feel stupid for liking some of them.

     

    In fact, I disliked this book so much, I'm tempted to ruin the ending by giving away the BIG surprise, but nah, I'll spoiler it.

     

     

    After basically making mock of the entire genre and all associated with it, it then lets the bad guy win. It lets him completely and utterly destroy the good guy down to disgracing his name and legacy forever. Seriously, I wanted to find the author and punch him after finishing the book.

     

  18. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

     

    Doctor Horrible's Sing a Long Blog, Episodes 1 & 2.

     

    My review.

     

    Damn you Joss Whedon, Damn you to heck.

     

    I was content in my knowledge that you had become hackneyed, just replaying the same storyline and script time and time again. I was content to sneer down my nose at your occasionally witty prose and plots, secure that I knew you were out of juice, that the good times had ended.

     

    And then came Doctor Horrible's Sing a Long Blog.

     

    Which is #$%^ing Brilliant!

     

    It does remind me a little of "Soon I will be Invincible", mostly in that Captain Hammer and Corefire are both raging @$$oles, but it's different enough, and honestly, Neil Patrick Harris is so awesome he makes me teeth ache.

     

    If you haven't seen Doctor Horrible yet, and you purport to like the superhero genre, do yourself a favor and catch the first two episodes immediately.

  20. What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

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    Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

     

    Soon I will be Invincible

     

    The Good: On the plus side, it was an engrossing read. I liked the homages and the subtle or overt nods to the conventions of the genre. The supers were actually cool, and were characters I'd want to see in a comic book or play in a game, unlike some other super related literature I've read. The story was good, the plot was solid.

     

    The bad: The character voice wandered a little bit. Usually it was pretty clear who you were reading, but every now and then Fatale and Doctor Impossible start to sound a bit too much like each other. That may have been intentional on some level, but it can be a bit jarring to realize that the "voice" that sounded like Fatale, was actually the Doc talking to Baron Ether.

     

    There seem to be some timeline issues with the universe as well, but I'm really just picking nits at this point. The book is a fun read, and very well done. As one of the reviewers said "This would make a great comic book, and I intend that as the highest of praise."

     

    I agree, I'd like to see more of the world of Doctor Impossible and the Champions.

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