Lord Liaden

It's funny, during TOS the Romulans were depicted as tough and aggressive, but also disciplined and honorable. While Klingons were shown to be deceitful, sneaky, and manipulative. In the TNG era those racial/cultural roles were essentially reversed.

That coyote really is a genius. His schemes to have the roadrunner for dinner were wildly creative. In a just universe they should have worked a hundred times over.
 
But given that he could afford to buy all that Acme hardware, he could have saved himself a lot of grief if he just ordered takeout.

Or maybe they're not angry, it's just they're eyebrows are drawn that way

Enemies: The International File was flawed, in that it was clearly an attempt to create villains based outside of the United States, by someone without familiarity with the cultures of the countries they were from. As such it fell back on cliches and stereotypes, or contextually inappropriate associations. OTOH it was Hero Games' first deliberate project to broaden its Champions gaming resources beyond the Americentric focus of most of the genre source material. The company continued those efforts through Fourth and Fifth Edition, to a greater extent than almost any other RPG, and more than the mainstream comics companies.
 
It was also the start of "themed" Enemies collections, moving away from generalized villain compendia to ones whose characters shared common themes and/or motifs. Fourth Edition Champions was the height of that experiment, with Alien Enemies, High-Tech Enemies, Creatures of the Night: Horror Enemies, European Enemies 😖, Enemies Assemble for teams, Enemies for Hire for mercenaries... despite varying success in execution, each book aspired to fill a defined niche in the supervillain ecosystem.

" You cannot stop me! "
" You know where every bad guy who ever said that to us is? "
" At large? "

I found it!  The 6th edition conversion thread!  26 pages of character conversions, most of the art sadly has been internet scrubbed but the groups can be found in the downloads section and I have a bunch of the colored images on my pinterest page.

Christopher Walken & Chris Sarandon, Hamlet 1982

It's as if the SCOTUS is gun shy over making any controversial rulings, given the hornets' nests stirred up by their recent ones.
 
Which gives the impression of cowardice on top of corruption. Not a reassuring image.

Trump will never acknowledge, or even recognize, that he brought all of this on himself.
 
DT is top of the list of people I would make hold the Sword of Shannara, just for a minute.

Back a couple of decades ago, I had a neo-Confederate group try to start a second US Civil War.  At that time it seemed far-fetched.

In a heroes-for-hire mercenary campaign, I was able to talk my team into going off-mission to help a citizen WITHOUT a contract or even expecting payment.
 
When she expressed her gratitude afterwards, my hero affected his best Golden Age good guy manners and replied:
 
"You're welcome,  ma'am.  Just *not doing our job.*"

Michael "Susano" Surbrook did a quality "debugging" of European Enemies character sheets for Fifth Edition, including correcting math errors, revising character abilities that were inconsistent or made no sense, and providing notes explaining his process. You can view those here. As Michael points out, a few of those Enemies are decent concepts and designs, albeit most of them are "Eurotrash."
 
For my part, two supervillain books are tied in my esteem. Classic Enemies edited by the late great Scott Bennie gathered many previously published Champions baddies, updated them to Fourth Edition, and fleshed out their back stories, personalities and motivations to make them more interesting to roleplay. The book also established the "Bennie formula" for character write-ups as the template which all subsequent Champions books were based on. A reprint/elaboration of the classic Stronghold super-prison was a welcome bonus.
 
My other fave is 6E's Champions Villains Volume Three: Solo Villains. It's a very large and very diverse assemblage of nasties, with something for a supers campaign of just about any style and power level. The color artwork is also a pleasure to see, something noticeably missing from past Hero Games volumes dedicated to such a visually vivid genre and medium. My only significant complaint about it, is that it eliminates the "plot seeds" that accompanied all the character write-ups for Fifth Edition Champs. Those often gave me story ideas that would not have occurred to me otherwise.

That's easy: Plot.

BUT doing so would extend the timeline.  Trump's lawyers would get time to prepare a defense against the new charges.  In that sense, it's at least a partial win for Trump;  delay's his first line of counterattack.
 
And poor Donny.  
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/trump-464-million-dollar-bond/index.html
 
For *some* bizarre reason, bond underwriters are nervous about backing this one...can't imagine why.

You just made a sequitur.

I thought at first that Peter Jackson was that person. Then The Hobbit trilogy happened.

Another thing to consider. Sometimes the players suggest things during table talk that turn out to be much better than what the GM had planned, so don’t be shy about stealing their ideas if they’re good ones.
 
I’m wondering now if the Progenitors had a hand in crafting Faerie. It would be wild if they were somehow its architects and now reside deep within it conducting experiments there as a form of test bed before trying things in the universe. The Dragon chained in humanity’s collective subconscious could be a fallen Progenitor.

I'm sure the outlined plot can work, and probably work well. The only advice I'd offer, based on my experience and the other (and better) GMs in my group, is: Don't overplan. Develop the characters, locations, Bases, and other resources you think you'll need, but keep the actual storylines loose so the players can change them through the PCs' actions.
 
Possibly have DEMON, Nimue, or other Big Bad attempting some other villainous plot that the PCs can thwart, but the villains accidentally set something bigger in motion that leads to the Progenitor-related endgame. It's as much a surprising plot twist to the bad guys as to the heroes.
 
Players often miss the plot cues you dangle in front of them, especially when you think you've made them especially obvious. If the players won't proactively follow the leads you've given, or can't decide which villain to pursue first, prep a few villainous plans for the PCs to react to, and hope you can tie them in later.
 
Dean Shomshak

Congratulations!
 
I'm sure Aaron is smiling.

Congratulations!
 
I'm sure Aaron is smiling.

In his original Strike Force campaign book, Aaron Alston described how his scientist PCs noticed that their attempts to disseminate their discoveries to the general public were being thwarted. Patents were rejected, publications were edited, records of the data would just disappear, government would classify and bury their reports, and the like. Investigation turned up that other super-scientists were experiencing the same phenomena. The PCs eventually traced the source of the interference to an advanced alien calling itself the Governor, who had been running an experiment into the effects of artificially retarding a civilization's technological development.
 
With the Governor eliminated, Earth tech advances rapidly, and humanity begins to expand into space. Of course a great deal of other stuff occurred during that phase of Aaron's campaign, which the splendid Strike Force update book from 2015 edited by Michael Surbrook, explains in detail.