Battlestaff

Because he likes that?

Of course, now I have to go and dig out my Foundation books and re-read them to see what all they have that can be adapted for a game. It's as good an excuse as any........... Luckily, I won't have to put up with any silly aliens.

IIRC, the foundation members used a language made up of words, sounds, and gestures, that was supposed to convey more information faster than just regular communication. You might want to look into making it a language on its own. As for "Statistical Prophecy," I agree with sociotard. Maybe with negative modifiers the smaller the group goes.

Or you could set up a situation where the players can't always freely choose where the starship goes. I'm working up a campaign right now where the characters start out as members of the TES. They have a ship and are subject to orders as to where they go. However, they will have a certain amount of leeway to follow up interesting new finds, research new information, etc.

I think you've got it well in hand. With the sector laid out, you don't have to worry about making any inconsistent or unusual mistakes. And you can make things up on the fly if your players decide to head in a direction you hadn't anticipated. Now you just need to detail the races and planets your players are going to meet the first 3-5 game sessions. With that, you can guage what they like and don't like for later development.

Ahh, Tom Lehrer. Has there ever been a more twisted singer/Harvard professor?

Didn't Judge Crater disappear about this time?

Actually, this is an interesting idea for a SH campaign. With the large number of civilizations dealt with, there would surely be a large number of religious philosophies out there, even if the philosophy is that there is no God or other higher power. I haven't run a SH campaign yet (I just got the books, and really like them), but I think I'm going to introduce a few, just so when religion is introduced, the players don't immediately jump up and figure out it's pivotal to the story.

Who would you get to host the show? You'd want someone stable enough to keep the show on track (disqualifying Foxbat), and powerful enough to enforce the rules.

My character would walk around with a bunch of body-armor, and the biggest freakin' gun he could find. Oh, and he'd be able to detect escape routes.

You could check with E-bay or Noble Knight Games. They are both good sources for out of stock items.

Battlestaff would immediately begin kicking alien ro-butt. When he realized that they just kept coming, he would move on to try and figure out how to stop them at their source. He would hook up with other heroes who knew the score with the motherships. Battlestaff would volunteer to infiltrate the ship, scout around, disrupt things, etc. He would get someone who could keep him alive while they traveled to the mothership. Once there, he would begin scouting the area, picking off small groups of aliens, damaging equipment, that kind of thing. The aliens would realize someone was there, and when he knew where the command center was, he would signal the heros waiting just out of sensor range to come and do what they do best: massive amounts of collateral damage.

Geez, I can't believe we've gotten two pages out of that first post.

Sorry, forgot sarcasm doesn't carry well in writing. What I think he meant to say was 'Klaatu Barata Nicto.'

Well, that's an interesting first post.....

As for damaging their environment, if they've always been energy beings they probably would have developed materials for building, etc., that wouldn't be harmed by their damage shields. So they would only need to suits while interacting with solid races. And depending on the SFX of the materials they use to build with, those materials might be harmful to solid races (i.e. if the beings and the materials are similarly charged, etc.)

I didn't realize it was a PDF format and had so many pages. When I first heard about it, I thought I would take a look at the free sample pages, see if it was something I was going to be interested in (kinda like flipping through a book before buying it). However, what I saw was an article that didn't give me much information in (to me) an extremely difficult to read format. I thought if that was how the book looked, I wasn't going to pay $5 for it. With what you're saying, I might look into it. I would recommend improving the free sample pages so people could see what they would actually be getting.

Can we get Courtney Cox on this one too?

In the game I run, mutants are seen much the same way that gays are seen: a social group that is emerging into the mainstream after being kept quiet for so long, and are pushing for their rights and for recognition by the law and society at large. However, I don't see the gay rights movement adding mutants to their organization. Mutants have several other problems that don't apply to gays (registration attempts, etc), that I see the gay movement as telling the mutants "that's your problem, you handle it," so the mutants are forced to form their own organizations.

Thanks for the memory jog Space Cadet!! It was Giant, not Goliath (I just remember the big G on his costume). And Flare and Icicle I believe were members. As for Sparkplug, I have absolutely no recall of him/her/it. Any help as to what Sparkplug was? Lady Arcane I don't think was an actual member in the comic, but was more of an ally. She wasn't a member when looking at the game supplements.

What about Team 3rd? You know, Marksman, Rose, Gargoyle, etc.? They'd have what, about 1,000 xp each by now?

Marksman, Rose, Gargoyle, Goliath (I believe), and Icestar (I believe).

You've got Shield to defend the team while they work. But I agree that sometimes the best defense is convincing anyone thinking of attacking you that such a course of action would be a very bad idea. What you would want would be someone very intimidating, but without using guns, knives, or other offensive weapons. How would it appear if an EMT team started shooting/stabbing/etc. people to rescue someone? My recommendation is to find someone with an incredible rep that's tired of working on his own, the sort of person anyone who had heard of him would know not to mess with him if they value their own health. It wouldn't really matter what his powers were, or how powerful they were, he would make anyone thinking of attacking think twice, which should give the team enough time to finish up and get away.

In an issue of Superman, I don't remember which one, it was shown that Superman vibrates his face in a very subtle way so that while he looks normal when people look at him, his features are softened a bit, and he's ever-so-slightly out of focus when people take pictures of him. As to other characters, there are reasons they make the costumes the way they do. Batman revealed that the reason he has a bright yellow spot in the middle of his black uniform is that that then becomes the spot that bad guys aim for when they try to shoot him, and he's reinforced that area to resist bullets. Ditto on that idea with the Punisher.

Battlestaff would keep track of the child until he is born, then make sure and keep track of the child as he/she grows. As a way to get in to a position to do this, he would offer to help the mother financially because there's no telling what problems might arise. He would then do his best to steer the child toward a life of good, but be realistic enough to keep an eye out for evil tendencies. If it appears he is going to 'turn evil,' he would remove the child quickly and quietly.