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Re: Mixing Up Comic Book Ages Looks like the Philippines Batman doesn't show up until the 50s. The Philippines get Darna in 1947. She has the full Captain Marvel power set and eventually more. Not sure when Captain Barbell shows up (another one with the full Captain Marvel set), and Lastikman doesn't come until something like 1963, but Darna alone should be able to send the Japanese home. http://marsravelodarna.tripod.com/

Re: Mixing Up Comic Book Ages Repped. The American Empire would be limited compared to the Real World . The UK has some Superheroes during the war and many more after, and France has a bunch of Pulp Heroes running around through the War Years. Germany has some great Pulp Heroes that all get purged in 1943. Russia doesn't have much of not unless the mythic / folkloric heroes are hiding from Stalin. The Philipines get a bunch of Superheroes starting in 1949, so they might be able to kick out the Japanese (if oil supply problems hadn't already done so), and the Chinese Super Martial Artists might be able to counter the Japanese occupation eventually (the American Supers probably wouldn't intervene). Oil & food supply issues might force the Japanese to withdrawl to Korea all on their own.

Re: "Normals" gaining superpowers: how would they change in terms of mentality? Maybe if you can make other people invisible, and if you can do it layer by layer. Then you could help out in a hospital. For classic "You can't see me" invisibility, the only legal stuff I could see you doing would be hiding from people you didn't want to deal with, or working in law enforcement.

Re: Mixing Up Comic Book Ages Personally, I don't worry about arbitrary Comic Book Ages when I GM. It can be fun in a meta way; Alan Moore and Kurt Busiek both have a great time playing with / commenting on Comic Book Ages in their Superhero work. Still, meta commentary in a campaign kind of takes me out of it. I do pay attention to period, which ties into comic book ages but is not quite the same. So, for example, in my WWII game all of the NPC villains (and most of the PC heroes) were based on comic book and pulp characters of the time, then fleshed out to match my ideas of what was interesting, and what contributed to good story telling. I didn't throw in anything that didn't (imo) work given the period, but I also didn't let the limitations of period media get in the way of story telling. Jess Nevin's Pages were the starting point for many of my bad guys and plots.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I really liked "Thirst". A nice counterpoint to America's sparkly vampires. Otoh, a "Thirst" - "Vampire Cop Ricky" double feature would be a great evening.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings The Eyes! The Eyes! YEEARGHHH! *thump*

Re: Pink Anime Power-Suit Girl I'd use Cutie Honey. You can get pics from the live action or the Anime.

Re: "Raise Dead" / "Resurrection": for those of you that DO, how do you handle... Yup. Even in sci-fi, clone body + brain tape is a common way to bring back a dead character. "Sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from science." - Pratchett

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America Paul Bunyan had a rival he fought built on the same scale. The cowboy types could go up against fakelore similarly powered bad guys. There are Victorian villains and early sci fi bad guys from the period. And there's always the devil.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore The cupcake bacon sandwich! Pure Genius!!!

Re: Musings on Random Musings http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100821/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_nuclear Iran has started their nuclear reactor. Expect the nukes to go into production ASAP, if they don't already have a few. Only real question is if they're taking the saner path of "We have nukes, now the US can't invade us" or the bugnuts path of "We have nukes, now we can market them". I doubt they'll take the bugnuts path, but even a small chance is pretty worrying.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings It's strange how your sense of beauty changes. Good or bad feelings have obvious effects (someone you really love always seems more beautiful, sometimes significantly). But even something as simple as being in a room full of beautiful people vs a room full of not beautiful people makes a difference.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

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Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore The Doughnut Burger!

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Today is Doughnut Burger Day. The Darkness Begins.

Re: Else Earth Character Thread. Well done on Gilgamesh, looking forward to more.

Re: I am Spartacus Old thread, but I'll pipe in and say I watched the series on Netflix streaming. Not deep, lots of stuff to annoy history and martial arts geeks (I'm both), but in the end I liked it enough to watch it through to the last episode, and if they do a season two or mini series I'll tune in for that as well.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America Woo hoo! I'll send you the write up! (Seriously, he's a great and strangely playable character. )

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore That looks delicious! We're having Doughnut Burgers on Wednesday. All very high quality ingredients, the best I can find, put together into the form of the famous Doughnut Burger. Should be fun.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America Any chance for Zombie Herve Villechaize?

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America Alan Moore drew on old out of copyright comic book characters to create Tom Strong and the ABC line. As I understand it, so long as it's the original characters and not his revamps you use, it's not in violation of copy right law for you to do the same. You might want to ask Ken about it, as he probably had to worry about these issues just recently.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America I think Ken wrote up Wonderman for his Lovecraft Supers book.

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