Lord Liaden

*chooses the horse*

Chinese and Japanese ghosts often seem solid. Until they don't. See Chinese Ghost Story or Kwaidan (both excellent movies!)
 
Dean Shomshak

VERY, VERY different charges.  Cohen was convicted of bank fraud and tax fraud...federal charges.  Tax fraud includes 5 years.  It's a class B felony.  And bank fraud, which is a class C...so, lower.  Trump was convicted of falsifying business records, which is a class E.

Yeah, that sounds like Dennis Mallonee's writing.

We're seeing the normalization of elected officials calling for investigation/impeachment/prosecution of other officials who have only done their lawful jobs, purely because they don't like the result. This has happened repeatedly at the state and federal level in recent years. The calls are coming only from the Republicans so far, and are another symptom of their authoritarian elitist mindset. It's a revenge and intimidation tactic characteristic of "banana republics," with all that implies.

Speaking of Teleios... Probably the biggest project of my setting's top criminal biologiest, Helix, is The Hot Zone -- a series of caverns in Africa that he filled with synthetic life-forms. As yet, the PCs know only of the first cavern, a death trap full of organisms ranging from Lightning Trees to Plague Puffballs, protecting Helix's chief lab. Mayvbe someday they'll find the rest of the network where Helix tests possible replacement species for humanity.
 
Dean Shomshak

When the villain organization RAVEN first appeared in Aaron Alston's classic Super Agents supplement, their primary M.O. was the "Secret Plan Base." This was a facility, usually set up in some isolated location, devoted to pursuing development of a single concept for a super-weapon or similar radical breakthrough with which to blackmail the world into accepting their rule. RAVEN had multiple Secret Plan Bases running at any given time.

Pariah -> <- Starlord 

When I wrote up the Malachite Islands for the Haymaker!  APA-zine (back in the 4th edition days), I put a RAVEN base there.  Even gave them a super-powered operative (Interphase, with microwave powers) who resided there.  IIRC, I had some sharing of science and technology between Malachite and RAVEN.

For my organization of scientist supremacists who sought global domination, I borrowed the name of a group briefly mentioned in an old Champions supplement, the International Scientific Elite, or ISE, which I pronounced "eyes." Because they're the ones who see most clearly, you see. 🤓

You'd be surprised how much Texas already dictates curricula, and not just for Texas.

Hey, if the CU is your setting, not only could Teleios produce clones (his biggest profit-maker), he could make the virus as well. To quote Ryan George: "It's gonna be super easy. Barely an inconvenience." Why he would do it could be a campaign-defining answer.

If you mean what I think you mean, we do, and more.
 
 
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State conviction, he cannot.

Black ants and red ants all taste the same...

Nikki Haley writes ‘finish them’ on IDF artillery shells during Israel visit
 
The image below will resonate across the Middle East for years to come.
 
 
P.S. I read ex-military asserting that the markings on the shells next to the ones Haley signed identify them as white phosphorus.

They made a movie about this. .. 
 
 

First,  
 
I'll hold on this until it's on the website store. I want you to get all my money. And buying a book about fighting an evil organization from Amazon just feels too ironic.
 
I'm not sure about the cover though. I think I get what you're going for -- other groups like VIPER  and DEMON are more obvious threats, while the IHA appear innocuous but are actually a looming danger. But IMHO putting those groups on the cover will confuse many buyers. And the ordinary-looking guy overlooking the scene makes me think he's the Game Master. Now I know many players would feel the GM is the biggest supervillain in the game, but on a cover he just doesn't seem menacing.

I have a supervillain group in my campaign, named SCIENCE! (which stands for Society for Comprehensive Investigation and Exploration of Natural Causes and Effects).  Their primary goal is to uncover the universe's secrets, without regard to insignificant things like laws and ethics.  So their nuclear science expert, DeCay, might want to see the variety of effects caused by exposing groups of people to various levels of radiation.  Their psychiatrist / mentalist, Psyche, could conduct thought experiments like the Trolley Problem in real life, to see how people react.  Or heck, combine those and set up a nuclear reactor meltdown to see how the reactor crew / staff reacts to the impending meltdown, along with how the neighboring populace fares with the eventual release of radiation.  Though half the members have Codes Against Killing, so they would work to make sure the effects of such "experiments" aren't fully lethal.

I have over 20 watches. A couple are mechanical, but the majority of them are solar, and several of them synchronize with the atomic clock radio signal from Fort Collins, Colorado (and others around the world). They all are much more convenient than pulling out my Pixel 8 Pro just to check the time.

There's been an interesting trend in North American entertainment media over this millennium.  During the latter half of the Twentieth Century film was considered a prestige medium, where the best available talent produced significant, meaningful stories of high quality. Television was viewed as lower-tier, entertainment for the masses, not expected to be up to the same standard as film. But two developments led to a shift in that perception: the fragmentation of the television audience as choice in channels proliferated, so none of them drew the huge audiences of the past; and movie studios' pursuit of the "blockbuster" film that would draw massive attendance and revenue. Television increasingly pursued niche markets, and in that cause would dare to experiment; while movies sought to broaden their appeal, by catering to the most people and trying to offend the least. Thus television became a refuge for innovative work, thereby appealing to some of the best talent in the entertainment field. Conversely film morphed into the mass-market medium, often pursuing the lowest common denominator in the name of maximizing box office.
 
Of course there have been occasional exceptions, television programs that became exceptionally broadly popular, and movies telling compelling stories that benefited from the effect of a big-screen format. And as Christopher notes above, studio marketing departments who think they've worked out the magic formula for success keep screwing up the product.

There's been an interesting trend in North American entertainment media over this millennium.  During the latter half of the Twentieth Century film was considered a prestige medium, where the best available talent produced significant, meaningful stories of high quality. Television was viewed as lower-tier, entertainment for the masses, not expected to be up to the same standard as film. But two developments led to a shift in that perception: the fragmentation of the television audience as choice in channels proliferated, so none of them drew the huge audiences of the past; and movie studios' pursuit of the "blockbuster" film that would draw massive attendance and revenue. Television increasingly pursued niche markets, and in that cause would dare to experiment; while movies sought to broaden their appeal, by catering to the most people and trying to offend the least. Thus television became a refuge for innovative work, thereby appealing to some of the best talent in the entertainment field. Conversely film morphed into the mass-market medium, often pursuing the lowest common denominator in the name of maximizing box office.
 
Of course there have been occasional exceptions, television programs that became exceptionally broadly popular, and movies telling compelling stories that benefited from the effect of a big-screen format. And as Christopher notes above, studio marketing departments who think they've worked out the magic formula for success keep screwing up the product.