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Re: Extraordinary Characteristic Rolls Power Skill is already in the rules, limited only by the GMs interpretation. This is just an example of allowing a Power Skill: Strength Tricks roll based on the STR stat. Your doomsday scenario already happened; it wasn't so bad.

Re: Extraordinary Characteristic Rolls I always saw it as Superman going so fast he was traveling backwards in time, something he did regularly in the Silver Age. And see the movie; Superman 1&2 are some of the best Superhero movies out there, especially for their time. They still hold up fairly well today.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Yes, there are always complications.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings There was a time, in living memory, when "Let's kill them and take all their stuff" was a perfectly reasonable foreign policy. It was the first principle of every "Great Power", though sometimes prettied up a bit. Now, many young UKers and Europeans seem to believe that most of their history never happened. I'd guess that the smug, posing pacifism of the UK and the EUers grew out of shame, guilt or denial, but it just doesn't seem all that deep. Sometimes I think we should kill them and take all their stuff.

Re: Extraordinary Characteristic Rolls Certainly explains Paul Bunyan and Hercules. (I sometimes allow PS: Strength Tricks to achieve epically goofy things, especially in a lighter hearted campaign)

Re: After DEMON wins...

Re: After DEMON wins... Haven't read the whole thread, but has anyone brought up the Neil Gaiman story in Shadows Over Bakerstreet? Great little piece, with the roles of Holmes and Moriarty reversed in a world in the process of succumbing to Lovecraftian horrors. Very good example of a setting where man and Edomite might (briefly) co-exist, before the final curtain.

Re: [Character] Zombie Herve Villechaize It's always about Marcia! Marcia Marcia Marcia!

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Been watching a lot of Human Weapon from the History Channel. The DVDs, when they come out, are a must buy. Fantastic show. Really drives home what being "fit" actually means, and the similarity of fighting styles everywhere.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Old School. Watched it while working out, so I never really paid too much attention. A few moderately funny moments, senseless plot, minor nudity, overall not that bad but not something I'd go out of my way to see either. Also recently watched Beer Fest while working out. Pretty much the same review.

Re: Character: Zombie Herve Villechaize Fixed some typos and added the real Herve's familiarity with hand guns. Thanks for the kind words. I was thinking I'd do The Hoff before The Stenogriff.

This came out of a very entertaining session of Young Titans 2007 at HeroCon. Please let me know what you think.

Re: Wold Newton Scenario: Fonzie and Batman Belinda Keaton, aka Dianne Chambers, who once worked in a bar where "Everybody knows your name".

Re: Musings on Random Musings So you're in the majority; sometimes that's a good place to be. I expect that the demographics for all sorts of things are skewed online, though getting less so.

Did Arthur Fonzarelli, minor psionic and occasional adventurer, and Bruce Wayne Jr., the fourth man to take up the mantle of the Bat, run a call girl service out of a morgue in 1982? Was a well known Boston socialite turned waitress one of their top courtesans? How could this be turned into a Champions scenario in your game world? Ideas?

Re: Musings on Random Musings 80%+ of the population in the USA claims to believe in G_d, the soul, and an afterlife. Astrology and various forms of spiritualism are multi-billion dollar industries, and the majority of American college students claim to believe in ghosts, miracles and psychic phenomena. A major political cottage industry has been built on attacking science and scientists. If non-scientific ideas are being ridiculed on the basis of being non-scientific, it's by a minority.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings "I have a cold yet I must GM" is not as catchy as "I have no mouth yet I must scream".

Re: Wild Card's Hero By Steve's current take on the rules, "Target thinks actions were his own idea" seems to be required. The only time I can remember the Envoy's victims realizing he'd been controlling them is with HUAC, and they may have known the basics of what he could do before he sat down.

Re: The Freak Show That bit is easy. Giants Tattooed Ladies and (more rarely) Men - Plenty of chances to mystic up this archetype Wolfmen Mermaids (and mermonkies) (no, really) Hermaphrodites - Plenty of chances to mystic up this type as well Midgets Co-joined Twins (all sorts, up to and including two headed men) Geeks (of the eats live animals and unspeakable substances variety) Wild Men / Wild Women Rubbermen / Contortionists Fat Ladies / Fat Men (though they'd have to be really fat to get noticed today) Two circus types that often traveled with Freak shows - Strongmen (often crossover with giants, but not always) Mind Readers / Mediums / Other sorts of magician Option - Fantasy Taxidermy. All sorts of freak show exhibits were manufactured by stitching dead animals together, from jackalopes to mermonkies. In your campaign, some of these could be real.

Re: Need to get the Creativity Flowing... The Ketogenic Five: Lipid Lucy! Doctor Amino! The Fibernaught! Omizugaru! (Water Girl) Mega Vitaman! Their arch enemies, the Legion of Gloom: Trans Fatomas! The Vegan Menace! Sugar Daddy! Cola Ken! White Fower!

Re: The Freak Show Oh, power levels: I wouldn't worry about this exactly; instead, I'd be concerned with SFX and power choices. If Unbreakable Steve buys 25 PD/25 ED armor defined as a Glowing Aura of Protection, he's going to look and act pretty superheroic. If he sinks the same points into 20 PD/20 ED Armor that always lets one Body through, plus regeneration w/ regrowth and resurrection, then defines the compound power as "I Can Not Die", horror elements will be much easier to bring into play.* *Which is why this has become a bit of a cliche itself in comics over the last twenty five years; it allows writers to have characters who are just as indestructible as Superman, but who bleed and splatter a lot more.

Re: The Freak Show On and off I run a light hearted splatterpunk game using Hero, based on the old Stellar Games Nightlife book; think WOD without the uber NPCS or metaplot and played for laughs. What you're trying to do sounds similar. I'd think about the history of the Freaks. How long have they been around, did they always have paranormal powers or is that recent, are there commonly occurring Freak types, are there any ancient conspiracies or immortals, etc. This type of game generally works best without costumes, and with personal struggles and stories lifted from horror movies and novels rather than crime fighting, though of course tastes differ. I never did much faction vs faction stuff; always seemed contrived and ultimately dull. An action-adventure story shouldn't involve policy meetings or cocktail parties, unless a fight is going to break out.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Cute, deeply sad, and a nice ending. Repped.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Ultimately, our internal dialog is only with ourselves. All that thought, the brain looking at the brain looking at the brain, and no one else to hear it. I wonder if that's why I spent so much time in prayer as a child and teen, and why I spend so much time writing now; to let that dialog out.