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  1. Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Yup. The NFL is full of guys who look fat and are paid to run up and down a field. Baseball has a few as well. They wouldn't be fast marathon runners, but you could condition one to get through it.
  2. Re: Batman! Collect them all for 350 Points! I agree with all but the No Sensible bit. I can imagine a campaign where I might allow it, if I were intentionally looking for a build challenge and had good control over the builds of all characters (so as to prevent anyone from ending up feeling useless). Even then, I probably would go another way, as having the player flipping through sheets all the time would drive me nuts.
  3. Re: Batman! Collect them all for 350 Points! I kind of like MultiBatMan as an exercise, even though I'd be unlikely to allow him to be played in one of my campaigns. I've always said that characters need at least two write ups; one for their solo adventures and one for group books. Really they need one for every writer, and for every title they show up in. Even that may not be enough for the ones with absurdly wildly varying power levels.
  4. Re: Batman! Collect them all for 350 Points! I just use tranq darts on players as soon as they come through the door. Then, after they pass out, I dope them up and condition them to believe they've just had the Best Game Ever. All those endless arguments over rules and builds are avoided. It's bliss.
  5. Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore That doesn't look good or even bad; just kind of messy and awkward.
  6. Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality? "In public" is key, there. One of the things I liked about some of the very early Superman radio shows was that they were mostly the Adventures of Clark Kent, Crusading Reporter! The powers were there to be used sneakily, or in costume. It fell apart later when he started chatting to people as both Superman and Kent. Real criminals sometimes follow their careers for years or decades (or a lifetime) without needing Superpowers.
  7. Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Yup, good cast. I was hoping for another Hot Fuzz or Shawn of the Dead, which it wasn't, but as a romantic comedy I liked it a lot. (Anyone who could ever call Simon Pegg fat has no idea what the heck Fat means)
  8. Re: The Atlantis city-ship from Stargate:Atlantis -> vehicle or base? I kind of lost interest in the Stargateverse after Season Seven of SG:SG1, which is a shame, as I think Ben Browder & Claudia Black are great fun to watch. Tried watching Atlantis for three seasons, but it never held me as well as SG1. As to the story telling, there was some very good (the in-story build up of Earth's technological base; very EE Doc Smith) and some mediocre (the minimal character development, though at least there was a bit). I disliked the power inflation of the enemy. It was one step shy of "Guards from the next town" syndrome, with the Goa'uld trumped by the Replicators trumped by the Ori. The Wraith - Asuran Replicator thing was similar, but not quite as jaring, maybe because I wasn't as invested in the series.
  9. Re: Campaign tools need editorial review by interested parties. Thanks. Much of the timeline is the work of the Wold Newton community, Jess Nevins, David Powers, Al Schroeder, and many others. There are (or were) citations for most novel ideas in the timeline that are the ip of the Wold Newton gang. I re-worked a lot of the material, and liked the idea that most invisible characters are in some way connected back to Griffin.
  10. Re: Musings on Random Musings "The other side was also selfish and evil" isn't an excuse you'd take from your kid. Amazing how often we'll accept it from ourselves.
  11. Re: Revisit: Doc savage vs Batman. I changed my mind.
  12. Re: A Thread for Random Musings There is no answer for contempt in a personal relationship other than breaking off contact. Well, no legal answer.
  13. Re: Revisit: Doc savage vs Batman. I changed my mind. Thematically, Bruce inherited a lot from Doc, as did Clark Kent. The obsessive self improvement (though that has usually just been back story for Bruce), the gadgets, much of the code, the wealth used to pursue crime fighting, the charity work (done out of costume in Bruce's case, and again more in the background). I'd probably write the story with the Bruce loses Round One, wins Round Two, realizes he has been tricked into fighting Doc and teams up with him in Round Three format. It follows the tropes well enough, even if it short changes Doc a bit.
  14. Re: Looking for playability criticisms Ah, hadn't thought about that. Still might be worth folding into his MP, though. I regret that as well, and you're always welcome.
  15. Re: Looking for playability criticisms Nice Swamp Thing tribute. As a GM, I'd want him to be a bit physically tougher. He's a big target at full size, and will be getting hit a lot. As his defences stand now, he is pretty safe against normals with guns, which I'm sure was part of your design consideration. But even with the damage negation, he's at serious risk against another Super built on similar points. If you want him to engage in battle against other Supers at full size, I'd consider either upping his defenses or giving him extra DCV when grown. Also, I don't personally think you need "Shape Shift: Muck"; it's not going to have a practical effect beyond anyone else's costume or skin texture, so no need to pay points for it.
  16. Re: A Thread for Random Musings Most people who want to "discuss" philosophy with me are trying to sell me on their politics, or trying to justify their mental illness. I don't care that you have an iron philosophical justification for not paying your taxes or hating those you hate. I don't think you really care about the right or wrong of what you're saying either; if you did, you'd actually think about it, rather than just repeat whatever you heard last from your latest boycrush or favorite pundit.
  17. Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality? A telepath exposing political lies would make no progress at all. Real world politicians get caught smoking crack with prostitutes and still get re-elected. We vote based on identity; on which group we think we belong to. We don't give a damn what our leaders actually think or do, at least not when our only other choice is someone not in our group.
  18. Re: Campaign tools need editorial review by interested parties. Jane was born Jane Porter; she's American. Who her father was is up to you, as I don't recall it ever being a big issue in the novels. In Wold Newton tradition, you might want to pick a significant literary character with the sirname "Porter"; I often looked for someone with amazing powers if I wanted to justify them in the grandchildren.
  19. Re: The Atlantis city-ship from Stargate:Atlantis -> vehicle or base? It's the old Silver Age Superheroes problem. You don't want Batman's only job to be kicking the kryptonite away. So, Superman gets dumber in crossover stories, and Batman gets tougher.
  20. Re: Musings on Random Musings You killed Tim! You bastards!
  21. Re: Stacking Dodge Exactly. Can't rep you again yet.
  22. Re: Stacking Dodge His dodge bonus goes away at the start of his next phase. As soon as he aborts his next phase, the first dodge bonus goes away and the new dodge bonus takes over. If he wants to buy levels with dodge to reflect dodging "harder", that's legal. A very kind GM might bend the rules and let him Push his DCV, as a GM's call.
  23. Re: The Atlantis city-ship from Stargate:Atlantis -> vehicle or base? The 6thEd rules say that a base can have movement. So did the 5th. As to the "point", a write up is there to help you as GM or Player to play the game. If a write up as a vehicle makes more sense to you and helps you more, write it that way; if a write up as a base makes more sense to you and helps you more, write it that way. It's Hero; lots of options, choose those that work best for your campaign.
  24. Re: The Atlantis city-ship from Stargate:Atlantis -> vehicle or base?
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