Lord Liaden

Kong in the Skull Island movie was already over 100 feet tall, and by the standards of his species was a child. It was mentioned in the movie that he was still growing. And that movie was set nearly fifty years in the past. To match Kong to Godzilla for their first movie meeting in 1962, Kong's height was set at 45 meters, or 148 feet. So "Kaiju Kong," as zslane puts it, was already precedented.

I get the joke and I think it's clever; but unless her fantasy world runs on a completely different monetary standard than the real world ever did, she's now in a position to buy all the freakin' straw her cow could ever want.

Unfortunately those 5E sheets were removed from this website years ago. I'm guessing after 6E came out there was either anticipated reduced demand for 5E freebies, or the company wanted to exclusively promote the new edition. However, the great Internet Archive still has the earlier version of the website accessible via their Wayback Machine. Perhaps you'll find what you're looking for on this page from the archived website: https://web.archive.org/web/20070328180939/http://www.herogames.com:80/FreeStuff/csheets.htm

Honestly, I'd say this would be pretty easy, and not require you to do much different than for this type of character in the modern day. Archery has a history of millennia, and remains a popular recreational and competitive sport today. I don't expect it would disappear in another thousand years. You also suggested this was for a Star Wars-like universe, and if that's your inspiration, high-tech analogues to archaic weaponry is an existing motif Contemporary super-archers mostly use tech-gimmicked arrows, and that would be even more appropriate for a typical future-supers setting. The only other suggestion I might make is to up the tech level to make her weapon's SFX more sophisticated. Maybe her bow fires "energy arrows" in various configurations, rather than physical arrows. (Check out Hank the Ranger in the old Dungeons and Dragons cartoon for inspiration.) It might generate a defensive force shield, or be made of special materials so she can deflect attacks, perhaps even rotating to do so. It could morph into a hand-to-hand weapon, like a sword or a staff. Hawkeye's bow does this in Captain America: Civil War. (I used to play an archer character wielding twin electrified fencing epees, which would join hilt-to-hilt to form a bow.) If it rotates maybe the bow even provides lift like a helicopter rotor, as with the Inquisitors from the Star Wars Rebels animated series

Hey TC, "free speech" doesn't mean, "free of rational thought."

I'm thinking somebody flunked out of economics.

I can see how you'd view the axe that way from a plot perspective, but I reacted to it entirely differently. Kong is a king, and the last of his kind, thus the rightful heir to the axe fashioned by his ancestor for the previous battle of the titans. To me this felt like an Excalibur moment, an Anduril moment, a Mjolnir moment.

And pursuant to that last point, while the following is not directly relevant to AlgaeNymph's initial request, it does build on the Valdorian Age and the unified time line. As I've mentioned here, I often apprise and advise the Champions Online community about Champions Universe "lore." I collaborated with one player to develop a new PC for her inspired by VA. Here is her biography for the character: Viviane The Last Witch-Queen of Abyzinia Once, she ruled an empire. Viviane the Abyzinian was born to the commonfolk of that empire, her magical abilities untapped until the day she discovered a lost relic of an ancient age - a mystical gauntlet clutching a magically-preserved skull; both had belonged to the Turakian wizard-king Ansgar the Twice-Lived. The latent magic she possessed was enough to rouse the King of Khrisulia's spirit, and the ancient wizard's relic combined with his tutelage made Viviane the greatest sorceress Abyzinia had seen in generations. She ascended the throne, but though she ruled wisely and was beloved by the commonfolk of the Empire, the nobles took offense at her 'staining' the throne with her common blood. Besieged on all sides, she was forced to turn to the demonic powers she had sought to avoid to protect her reign - and in the end the sacrifice doomed her. Betrayed and defeated, she was dragged away into Hell. For millennia uncounted she was imprisoned in that dark realm, her power broken and her spirit with it; only Ansgar's company kept her from going completely mad and surrendering to the darkness and evil that surrounded her. Time disappeared. The world changed. Then, one day, Ansgar spoke to his companion with horror that not even Hell could bring. Something had stirred across the cosmos, a darkness thought long-sealed had awoken. Kal-Turak the Ravager of Men had been loosed once more, into an age unprepared to face his wickedness - but his awakening also served as a beacon for the other lich to follow. Though it took decades, he was able to guide Viviane back to the mortal realm... ..and beneath a bloody moon on Halloween of 2018, the Last Witch-Queen of Abyznia and her Turakian counselor collapsed through the realms into a world neither recognized....

There's a plant called the purple orchid which only grows in the Ylsythen Jungles on the northern continent of Pelosa. It's the base component of various recreational narcotics and hallucinogens, and its smoke was used by necromancers to induce a dream state during which their reserves of spell-powering vitality were renewed. Obviously the orchid is extinct in the modern world, but it could be a key ingredient in some type of healing or other potion, or used to induce visions revealing a vital piece of information. It's fair to decide it's a mistake, but I prefer to view it as an exploitable opportunity.

Pizza. The combined tastes of bread, cheese, and tomato sauce just turn my stomach. It doesn't help that pizza also looks disgusting and is messy to eat.

First thought: eliminate VIPER's serpent-god patron, Nama, by attacking him in this low-magic time when he's most vulnerable. This era is when Nama and his brother and sister first found the caves whose strange vapors granted them immortality. They could be killed while they're still normal serpents, before achieving enormous size and sapience. Kind of like the concept of murdering Hitler as a child. Mind you, The Valdorian Age specifies that the serpents aren't from Il-Ryveras, the part of the globe which VA describes. They'd be from elsewhere in the world surveyed in The Atlantean Age, but that book doesn't mention them. I have my own theory, though, which I think fits the available histories quite well. (Steve Long admitted that he forgot to include the three serpents when he wrote AA.) Another target could be the Towers of the First and Last Sunset, abandoned capital of the Drindrish and apparently a place of lingering supernatural horrors. They could contain some artifact of magic or book of lore that heroes from the future need to acquire; or perhaps there's a reason why those heroes want to learn the final fate of those descendants of the Elves. I'll give it more thought and get back to you. EDIT: Oh, I thought of another possibility: magical materials. As Il-Ryveras is part of the same global configuration containing the island of Atlantis and the Lemurian Archipelago, time-travelers could travel to those lands when they were on the surface, and before the Atlanteans and Lemurians inhabited them, to take all the orichalcum and/or ignaetium they want. Of course they might still have to deal with hostile natives and monsters, but that's better than confronting whole magic-packing armies.

The character's name was Omoc, played by Tobin Bell, who later achieved horror-movie fame as Jigsaw in the Saw movie franchise. Even more deserving of a punch in the face; or maybe straight-up evisceration. While on the subject of Stargate SG-1, I'd say no one in that series was more deserving of a face punch than NID Colonel Maybourne, that arrogant, conniving little weasel.

Shortest Godzilla was the first one, and a few successive ones, at 50 meters. This Godzilla is now defined at about 120 meters tall, or around 400 feet. That would fit the scale of the Nimitz-class American aircraft carrier we see in the trailer, which is slightly over 1,000 feet in length.. This is also the tallest Godzilla we've gotten in live-action movies. Tallest ever appears in the recent Japanese anime trilogy, at 300+ meters.

I'm guessing this picture refers to another. Could anyone point me to where I'd find it?

If you really want to look like a gangsta, priority one should probably be not making it impossible to run from the cops.

I don't think it's the "uncanny valley" effect that disturbs me. It's that we've built machines with such extraordinary capacities, and we spend our time making them simulate a dance party. It reinforces my impression that our technological advances are now being driven by an obsessive desire for cooler toys.

Is anyone else kinda creeped out by that?

Looks like Wile E. Coyote missed the latest air drop delivery from Acme.

Going back to the Champions Universe again for a moment, UNTIL nicknames its quartermaster division "Santa Claus," hence their equipment warehouses in New York are referred to as the North Pole.

The Democrats have a long history of tactically shooting themselves in the foot. I really hoped Schumer, at least, would have learned better by now. I'm confident Pelosi wouldn't have gambled like that.

I think it might be more accurate to call big G the antagonist in this movie, rather than the villain. The trailer makes a point of repeating that something seems to be provoking Godzilla to behave this way. The previous Legendary movies have established that this isn't normal behavior for Godzilla. I expect the essence of the human story line will be figuring out why G is doing this and resolving it. But there has to be something to motivate a "versus" scenario if you're going to make a "versus" movie. Besides, Godzilla rampaging through cities is an iconic element of his traditional history. He's been the villain in his movies at least as often as the hero. Many people were wondering how Kong could match Godz's superior natural weaponry, especially his atomic breath. It looks like Kong will inherit an "anti-Godzilla" weapon. Online speculation is that it was made by one of Kong's ancestors out of body parts from another of Godzilla's species. That would explain how it can block his radiation, even apparently absorb it and turn it against the G-man. That should make the fight far more even.

Not really. Their imaginations have plot holes you could drive a train through. And they're all Mary Sues. While Donald Trump is their deus ex machina.

George Lucas has become rather known for his filmic history, um, revisionism.

I dunno. Stick an orange wig on either Jabba the Hutt or Baron Harkonnen, I think both would work.