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Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Finished rewatching the Fight Quest series. Liked Human Weapon more, but it's not on Netflix Streaming. FQ is a fun series if you're interested in a quick look at how a particular martial art works. Not a lot of depth, but entertaining.

Re: Alternatives to the internet?

Re: "Raise Dead" / "Resurrection": for those of you that DO, how do you handle... I have a pretty complex spirit world in my Fantasy campaign. Short version: After death, the spirit goes to the Void, where it walks the Black Road towards the First Gates. So long as the spirit is on the Black Road, or if it leaves the road to wander the Void (and the many worlds that fold into the void), it can be contacted and coaxed back to a body. If it's still on the Black Road, it can only be coaxed, not compelled; if it has left the Black Road, sufficiently powerful magic can pull it back against its will. Once a spirit steps through the First Gates, it can return should it so choose, but it can no longer be sensed, contacted or compelled in any way. The body the spirit is placed in need not be its original body. If it is returned to its original body, or any living body, that body must be repaired sufficiently to continue to live on its own (otherwise the spirit will just fall away again). A spirit may also be placed into another vessel, from living humans or animals (either co-existing with or displacing the spirit of the living body's rightful owner) to Golems and Homonculi.

Re: Alternatives to the internet?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings "Bigger than big, stonger than strong!"

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "Who's going to try to mug you? Your shoulders are four feet across."

Re: Support Your Local Collie (whiny) I agree that a silly one shot might help you. (I suffer from burnout myself; convention games help me). Usually I pick a book I've wanted to try, pick a movie in that genre to swipe the plot and structure, and go with it. So, if you have Lucha Hero say, you might grab the Luchadores from the back (update them to 6th or not), watch a Lucha movie from the bibliography, simplify it and write it up as an adventure, and give it a one shot. Maybe you'll want to run a campaign in your new setting, maybe you won't. It'll at least be one night of fun gaming. Of course, you could go really old school. Grab a villain team, have them knock over a bank, and let PCs pulled from the back of a book or from a website try to stop them.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America I pick up supplements from entirely different game systems (at GenCon, a bunch of Wild Talents stuff, including the Kerberous Club) so long as there's something I can use for something I'm GMing. So, yes, agreed.

Re: Ctrl+V OK, this is Officially Awesome. Repped.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America

Re: Musings on Random Musings Like this is the first time you thought about XXX sparkly teen vampire sex. At least in your mental image, they weren't having sparkly sex with the Deadites.

Re: Alternatives to the internet? Well, looking at older Sci Fi, I always liked Piers Anthony's Macroscope. Every alien race would broadcast their science, art, entertainment, etc out into the universe. When you could detect the broadcasts, you were ready to join as much of an interstellar civilization as existed (which wasn't much at the start of the series). Macroscope fits into the Macroscope - Faith of Tarot - Kirlian Quest timeline, iirc. Going really old school, Heinlein's first unpublished novel had people vid-phoning the library to make book requests, then getting the book printed out at home.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Saw The Expendables. It's pretty good. Not wonderful, not what it could have been, but pretty good. Not sorry I watched it.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I really wish I could rep you for the Batporn review, but the board isn't letting me. Still, well done.

Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality? Sure, and sometimes even some of the non-frivolous ones need to be broken. And most of us will break the law in the course of our lives, in small ways or large. It only gets tricky when we're asked to accept the label "criminal", because of the emotional weight of the term. But you were right; this is really a thread for talking about Super Powers and Normals first, everything else after. Sorry about the thread drift. I'd mostly use Invisibility to avoid people I didn't want to deal with.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Chili spaghetti rocks! It's a food for those who care.

Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality? In other words, that your moral judgement tells you which laws are important and which are not, and that the crimes you choose to commit aren't "really" crimes. Almost everyone thinks that, from the guy who goes 10 mph over the speed limit to the guy who kills someone who (the killer believes) had it coming. Reason is a wonderful thing; we can use it to justify anything we want to do.

Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality? Sure, you're trespassing. Petty crime. Almost all of us are criminals eventually. We just tell ourselves that our crimes aren't "really" that bad.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America A little bit, here and there. On my shelf are Kazei 5, the Asian Bestiaries 1 & 2, Ninja Hero, and the 6thEd Hero System Martial Arts (he was a contributer); then there's his website, which is not on my shelf but is on my favorites bar), plus masses of Digital Hero / Haymaker articles. So, yup, a bit.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America I was lucky enough to see some of the character write ups for this project. It looks incredible. Want a literal Man of Steel who stands unharmed in a furnace and rolls cannon balls from molten metal with his bare hands? All rules legal with no hand waving? Want a Paul Bunyan who can do pretty much all that Paul could do in the tall tales? Want a frickin pre-1900 American Super Mage? As a setting for adventures this is pretty awesome, but it also works very well if you're trying for a Super History (secret or otherwise) for your Supers setting. Adapt it somewhat, and you can have period appropriate Supers starting in the 1800s.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings There was a not-as-terrible-as-it-sounds 1960s era Batman porn parody out recently, and I remember a few other Batman and Spiderman themed porns. Even a couple of Supergirl porn films, and endless live action Japanese Superhero porns (some of them absurdly close to the source material, right down to using almost exactly the same sets, plots and costumes). The Sexvengers, when it comes out, might be pretty interesting.

Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality?

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. "You're cute with a mask on."