Lord Liaden

Then again, the prices elsewhere in the country...

OK I have started to convert old adventures printed in previous magazines etc.  They just need a bit of updating to modern tech and culture, a bit of converting to 6th edition, some bits of added info, and illustrations.  They don't take long to do, the art will be the slow part, but the conversions are pretty simple.  I plan on releasing these as "Champions Classics" for cheap if it all works out.  We get a few dozen of these things out on the internet and no GM has an excuse for not having anything to run!

That's still a several thousand dollar a day *view*, if nothing else.
 
 
Jubal Harshaw:  You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets frustrated. After he pees in it himself, he likes the flavor much better, so he buys it.
 
Now, I'll grant what you're describing is somewhat different, but mostly in degree.  

How many names has Monica Rambeau had?  She was Captain Marvel at first, but according to Marvel's page she has had these names:
 
Monica Marvel
Sun Goddess
Lady of Light
Spectrum
Daystar
Photon
Pulsar
 
I don't think she even has a code name in the MCU, because they hate all that stuff

Only one of them looks like he's still playing the role.

It always bugs me when sci-fi uses the name "humans" to designate homo sapiens, whereas aliens always seem to have either a distinctive species name, or the name of their home planet. SF author Ted White made the point that every sapient race calls itself a name that would translate to English as "human."
 
When I do sci-fi with multiple ET sapient species I always refer to us as "Terrans," and our planet as "Terra" rather than "Earth." It doesn't make sense to prioritize the English words when the majority of the planet uses other names. Terra is a root word in multiple prominent languages and has widespread international recognition and scientific applicability.

I think of Marvel's Captain Marvel as a name looking for a character. Since Mar-Vell none of its multiple holders have gained much popularity or shown real staying power in the identity. The cynic in me believes Marvel just wants to keep publishing any CM to keep the rights to the name from reverting back to DC.
 
OTOH Carol Danvers is a character looking for a name. I can't think of any superhero who has gone through more identities. It's like Marvel thinks they should do something with her, but can't make up their minds. I haven't followed comics much this millennium, so until her MCU movie was announced I didn't even know she was going by Captain Marvel.

-Isaac was very good but the story was uneven.
 
-Andor is a very well-written and well-acted political/spy drama that happens to have laser pistols and spacecraft.

Who is like a comic book. It has some good runners and writers and actors, and it has some bad ones. The BBC hired Russ Davies to come back to run things with his own production company, and he got money from Disney to do things.
 
I haven't seen any of Chibnall's/Whittaker's episodes but I did hear the ratings for the show fell out, and then it took them three years to get the replacement in place with Tennant as a stop gap.
 
Funny enough I was watching a thing on Who lore such as it is (Cygnia is right about continuity issues which are like how DC's are now, but I put down to the Doctor changing things on adventures which changes the timeline.) and Moffat said that the original Doctor had died and everything after Hellbent was with a replacement Doctor.
 
And that's before you get into the Doctor being split into two with Fourteen and Donna having a happy ending, and Fifteen taking over the show.
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Patrick Troughton faced a daunting task, having to replace William Hartnell not just in the lead role, but as same character, only radically different. It was an unprecedented concept for television, and if he and the writers hadn't stuck the landing, Doctor Who would have ended then and there. Fortunately for all Whovians contemporary and not yet born, they did.

There is an attempt during the final season of the series to explain where the Vulcans took a wrong turn, and to bring them back toward what we're all familiar with.
 
I liked the premise that the series started with: Humanity stepping out from under the aegis of "big brother" Vulcan, getting out into the galaxy on our own. Making mistakes, and learning from them. Building the contacts that would eventually gel into the UFP. If the series had explored that from the start instead of focusing on that lame "temporal cold war," IMHO it would have been better received. Enterprise did seem to start finding its groove in its last season, just in time to be cancelled.

Patrick Troughton faced a daunting task, having to replace William Hartnell not just in the lead role, but as same character, only radically different. It was an unprecedented concept for television, and if he and the writers hadn't stuck the landing, Doctor Who would have ended then and there. Fortunately for all Whovians contemporary and not yet born, they did.

Patrick Troughton faced a daunting task, having to replace William Hartnell not just in the lead role, but as same character, only radically different. It was an unprecedented concept for television, and if he and the writers hadn't stuck the landing, Doctor Who would have ended then and there. Fortunately for all Whovians contemporary and not yet born, they did.

It doesn't matter that the BBC is responsible for it. The BBC has screwed up the Doctor, because they're now more interested in pushing "the message," in doing socio-political commentary as their main focus, than in telling fun and thought-provoking sci-fi adventures like the previous six decades of Doctor Who. The current Doctor is black and gay, which is a big part of the show now, because they think that's what sells. The previous incarnation of the character was a woman and lesbian, because they think that's what sells. The producers want to be different, but their idea of different disrespects the essence of the series responsible for its success.
 
It's a common logical disconnect that I see in a lot of contemporary entertainment. Producers want the built-in fan base that comes from an established property, but they also want to tell a different kind of story with different kinds of characters than what drew that fan base, which drives them away. Then they blame the fans for not recognizing how great what they're doing really is.

Patrick Troughton faced a daunting task, having to replace William Hartnell not just in the lead role, but as same character, only radically different. It was an unprecedented concept for television, and if he and the writers hadn't stuck the landing, Doctor Who would have ended then and there. Fortunately for all Whovians contemporary and not yet born, they did.

It doesn't matter that the BBC is responsible for it. The BBC has screwed up the Doctor, because they're now more interested in pushing "the message," in doing socio-political commentary as their main focus, than in telling fun and thought-provoking sci-fi adventures like the previous six decades of Doctor Who. The current Doctor is black and gay, which is a big part of the show now, because they think that's what sells. The previous incarnation of the character was a woman and lesbian, because they think that's what sells. The producers want to be different, but their idea of different disrespects the essence of the series responsible for its success.
 
It's a common logical disconnect that I see in a lot of contemporary entertainment. Producers want the built-in fan base that comes from an established property, but they also want to tell a different kind of story with different kinds of characters than what drew that fan base, which drives them away. Then they blame the fans for not recognizing how great what they're doing really is.

It doesn't matter that the BBC is responsible for it. The BBC has screwed up the Doctor, because they're now more interested in pushing "the message," in doing socio-political commentary as their main focus, than in telling fun and thought-provoking sci-fi adventures like the previous six decades of Doctor Who. The current Doctor is black and gay, which is a big part of the show now, because they think that's what sells. The previous incarnation of the character was a woman and lesbian, because they think that's what sells. The producers want to be different, but their idea of different disrespects the essence of the series responsible for its success.
 
It's a common logical disconnect that I see in a lot of contemporary entertainment. Producers want the built-in fan base that comes from an established property, but they also want to tell a different kind of story with different kinds of characters than what drew that fan base, which drives them away. Then they blame the fans for not recognizing how great what they're doing really is.

Yeah, this is not news. Disney already screwed it up in the latest specials they put out, and the new Doctor is driving off even more of the fans.

I'm not sure whether it would be okay to post this in the Jokes thread, so I decided to put it here.
 
I read somewhere that Franklin Roosevelt once said his favorite joke he had heard about himself was the one about the businessman who would always buy a newspaper at the train station each day.  He'd take one glance at the front page and then toss it aside before boarding the train into the city.
 
One day, the news vendor asked him, "Why do you buy the paper just to look at the front page, and then get rid of it?"
 
The businessman said, "I'm looking for an obituary."
 
"But the obituaries are somewhere in the middle of the second section of the paper," said the news vendor.
 
"Not the one I'm looking for," said the businessman.

"Dammit, Jim, I'm a polymath, but not a doctor!"

This has been building for quite some time. I hope it's a sign of an international trend of putting an end to political clown shows.