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

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

Re: Gencon 2010 Hong Kong Superheroes Character Thread - 6thEd Asian Superheroes

Re: Gencon 2010 Hong Kong Superheroes Character Thread - 6thEd Asian Superheroes Last year's team included Ultraman. There's a chance I'll find a place for Super Inframan; I do have the movie. Not yet, though.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Re: Gencon 2010 Hong Kong Superheroes Character Thread - 6thEd Asian Superheroes It's Darna!

Much more to come.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? One of my favorite Wold-Newtonisms is the idea that Who Goes There was actually a "secret" Doc Savage adventure. Completely changes the short story when you read it that way. Carpenter's film is one of my all time favorites.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore There's no point in battered deep fat fried bacon if you don't dip it in maple syrup.

Re: For Kazei 5: Hard-to-control esper powers Both as a GM and as a fan of the genre, I'd probably treat this differently. If you can use it at full power with no problems, I'd have to ask how often you'd want to use less than full power, and why. At that point, we'd figure out how to write it up. A RSR with -1 per 5 under full power, by itself, sounds like a -0 for me. That said, if failing the skill roll caused a side effect, I might allow full value for the SE.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore I dunno. Too many of these are stunt foods, stuff you eat only to show you don't give a damn. I used to eat biscuits with sausage gravy, sides of home fries (sometimes with more sausage gravy), hotcakes w/ syrup, bacon, sausage patties (with more syrup), and toast slathered with butter & heavy with jam. Plus coffee with cream and plenty of sugar. That was true gluttony, sincere indulgence without thought of consequence or any need to posture. Real sin has a certain integrity.

Re: Pretty Hate Machines I'm buying.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I've run games like that. It's fun, and sort of fits with things like the Ultraman-Masked Rider team ups and Japanese Super Squad type shows. That said, almost always in the Japanese shows that only Heroes who can grow to Giant size can go one-on-one with Giant Monsters using inherent powers. Heroes who can't grow need weapons and vehicles. The Science Patrol from Ultraman had weapons that would injure Giant Monsters.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The Superpowered Mutants are Superheroes; they've been recruited by the Earth Defense Forces to form Task Force M, and lead the response to Giant Monster attacks. The mutants fit well into the Godzilla mythos. Eiji Tsuburaya, the SFX man behind the 1954 Godzilla, did a series of horror films about human mutants. Tsuburaya also created the Ultraman series. Final Wars is a great nod to Tsuburaya's body of work. We get to see super strength, speed, toughness, energy blasts, telepathy, mind control, mental defense, force wall, and healing. Other powers would make sense based on the stuff that shows up in Tsuburaya's original work.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched Godzilla: Final Wars again as I got my GenCon game ready. For gamers of any kind, that is an Awesome movie. Super powered mutants and incredibly skilled humans versus shape shifting aliens and giant monsters, with three giant monsters siding with the humans. It's practically my dream campaign.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Here, a real food: I bet they're pretty good, too.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Beef twinkies sound funny, but sausages wrapped in batter and served on a stick are real food. Beef hotdogs in cake would be a slight improvement.

Re: Super Zeroes The Entendre! Riding his mighty Balony Pony into battle, The Entendre thrusts at Evil with his many meat themed weapons (The Spam Dagger, The Beef Truncheon, etc). He even has the power to duplicate himself in combat, becoming The Double Entendre! For unknown reasons, everything anyone says within line of sight of The Entendre seems to have more than one possible meaning.

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Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I was kind of disapointed by the film, but I agree that the boy's back story is classic White Kung Fu Master stuff. The whole movie just felt a little timid to me, too clean and safe. Enemies who weren't menacing by Hong Kong standards, action sequences that didn't really push what the actors or stuntmen could do, and Jackie Chan in his Hollywood family friendly mode. It just lacked the spark I've seen in real HK productions that cover the same general ground. I'm not saying it was a bad movie; there was plenty to like. It just didn't make me want to see it again.

Re: Super Zeroes The Human Pastry - Can duplicate the powers of any baked good. Become as hot as a fresh baked apple pie, as soft as a fluffy bun, as cream filled as an eclair, etc. Plus, he's fully edible! Unfortunately, he has no particular ability to regenerate, and if he were to actually spray someone with his delicious, gooey interior he'd be seriously injured. Think a less powerful version of Anpan Man.

Re: '70s TV Supers I remember seeing this back in the day.

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Re: Super Zeroes Mister ****tastic. He refuses to discuss his power, ever. Or display it. However, the one time it was used severely emotionally traumatized the supercriminal he targetted. Mister ****tastic himself needed several months of therapy afterwards; the criminal still refuses to speak.

Re: Super Zeroes (From Douglas Adams) The Rain God. Clouds love him. They want to follow him, and care for him, and rain on him. Makes his living as a long haul trucker, is unaware of his powers, and is annoyed that no matter where he goes it is always raining.