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Re: Quark! I have some tapes of the old series. I too pray for a DVD release.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Trencher did something that would shock the most hardenend members of the NGD Forums, something so shocking the very computers that host this site would explode if I were to reveal what he did. He was young. He needed the money.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Bazza owns nine gold tablets written in an unknown language that contain the secret to why women go to the bathroom in groups.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Oddhat's courtship of Mrs. Oddhat was the inspiration for many of Shakespeare's romantic comedies.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Bazza used to be the sixth Beatle.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Dr. Anomaly's medical specialty is gynecology.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Mrs. Oddhat was the one holding the camera for the infamous "bunny with balloon" video. She set our NGD President up and created this scandal singlehandedly.

Re: Working Stiffs -- Champions Style! We need Steve to do RPG writer.

Re: Complicate the Person Above L. Marcus was the original inspiration for Neil Gaiman's Sandman comic book, not the other way around as it is popularly assumed.

Re: Retcon the CU If it had been up to me to design the CU, or up to me to design the 6th edition CU, I would end up breaking it up into two lines: Psitech Universe: This is the timeline of Alien Wars, Terran Empire, etc. In this timeline there are psychic powers, discovered by western civilization in the 20th century (all those pulp stories about people going off and learning powers) but not at all strong or reliable until future centuries. Champions Universe: This is pretty much the superhero segment of the CU, except for the Metahuman Registration Act and the IHA and maybe Genocide. I would toss in a dystopian collapse/meltdown of the CU Earth to handle all those post-apocalypse comics, but eventually the CU Earth rebuilds and ends up back in space in time for Galactic Champions. Mutant Universe: This is probably one thick campaign setting book and probably that's about it. It sets up a 'pure' mutant campaign where all those with innate superpowers are mutants or at best experimental cyborgs and you have experimental robots and powered armor suits around as well. Alternate timeline from the CU, though crossovers are not impossible. As I have stated elsewhere, the X-Men never fit into the Marvel Universe very well. They're more of an SF style concept or extreme Iron Age concept pushed into a Silver/Bronze universe. The Mutant Universe would be more SF-ish in tone, fewer costumes, more uniforms, more realistic consequences, etc.

Re: Complicate the Person Above L. Marcus used to be known as "Lulu" Marcus, one of the most famous and successful drag queens performing off Broadway.

Re: Robotics in the Marvel Universe But wasn't he... oh never mind... (yes, I get the joke)

Re: Super City

Re: Complicate the Person Above Death Tribble sold his own grandmother into slavery as a household pet. Here's a picture of her before she went on the auction block.

Re: Complicate the Person Above KGN knows the positions that were too shocking to be put into the Kama Sutra. Heck, she invented them.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Cancer was the one who put the bomp in the bomp-ba-bomp-ba-bomp.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Cancer once had a threesome with Virgo and Sagitarius

Re: Complicate the Person Above KGN is actually an anime character who broke through the fourth wall in an impossible to repeat freak accident, and obeys the laws of anime physics instead of real world physics.

Re: Complicate the Person Above Mrs. Oddhat's maiden name, when spoken, will invoke the elder gods and bring the universe as we know it to an end.

Re: Robert E Howard or J.R.R. Tolkien? Lord of the Rings was epic. As for epic science fiction... Lensman is one of the seminal works there, and for that matter, a lot more influential than a lot of people give it credit for. Stranger in a Strange Land is another book which had a lot of influence, and for that matter if any SF book can be considered to be the counterpart to LotR in terms of influence on counterculture, that's it.

Re: Complicate the Person Above kawaii gin neko used to work as an assassin who specialized in killing people with excessive cuteness.

Re: 50's comic-book heroes In retrospect, even if Seduction of the Innocent hadn't been published, I doubt that the superhero comics would be significantly different than they are now. Even without the CCA, I suspect in the somewhat repressed fifties the superhero comics (which were considered kid's stuff) would be cleaned up and shed their pulp roots. There would have just been a more gradual transition between the golden and silver ages.

Re: Robert E Howard or J.R.R. Tolkien? I'm going to vote for rat pie, as my favorite fantasy world is the Discworld.

Re: Robert E Howard or J.R.R. Tolkien? There are elements of Howard, Tolkien and Vance in first edition D&D, and maybe a little bit of Lieber as well. My own feeling is that in a world without Tolkien, the development of the fantasy market would probably have taken a bit longer to go, and there would be fewer Tolkien-clones out there, more low fantasy than high fantasy, but it would have gotten there eventually. There is quite a bit of fantasy that was pre-Tolkien or wasn't inspired by him. I tend to think that the dependence of fantasy on Lord of the Rings is a bit exaggerated.

Re: WWYCD: Foxbat The Mighty! I'd love someone to actually develop in modern 5th edition stats the old Foxbat centipedemobile (which had to be seen to be believed).