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I admit I was a little doubtful about the concept of Marvel's reviving the New Universe, but dang the first issue read well. With Warren Ellis at the helm, it feels like it's going to be something pretty cool. Here's a flash icon for the new series.

Re: Dr. Fang lives!

I am considering using Dr. Fang and his two daughters in modern times, since their slowed aging would leave them still in prime condition even after seventy or so years. What do you suppose the not-so-good doctor and his daughters would be like after such a long time? Would there be a place for them in modern times?

Re: Cylon Resurrection Would you say Cylons have Eidetic Memory? I don't think I've ever seen one forget anything in the series. Sleeper agents would probably also have a Mental-based Multiform, maybe with No Conscious Control? Come to think of it, can you put Trigger on Multiform?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Repped!

Re: Dark Champions the Anime Series Maybe he's watching an unsubbed episode 23? *WOOT! My 700th post!*

Re: He's right over... Where'd He Go! True. You can pull anything from the villain just killed actually being a clone or mind-controlled dupe to preventing the good guys from laying the final smackdown blow due to a sudden fire or explosion.

Re: Cylon Resurrection An intriguing build. The female models seem to be constructed with a COM boost too.

Re: Corruption of power This is how I see young Peter Parker before he was bitten by that spider. He was bullied by other guys and ignored by the girls. He felt powerless. He pretty much was powerless. Suddenly, he is given this great gift of power. He yields to the temptation they offer and uses those powers to make money and try to better his life. He pays the price for that choice, but a great hero is born in the process. The greatest heroes are those who can resist this corruptive influence, to not yield to baser instincts. That doesn't mean the risk of corruption doesn't exist, that the temptation doesn't exist, but they rise above it somehow. However, many of the greatest villains are those who were once heroes and fell.

Re: Steampunk meets Paranoia: The Sordid Lives of Proles in New Victorian London I'd suggest getting Pulp Hero, since the sort of enemies could have a strong Pulp feel to them. What you're describing is a sort of "Urban Fantasy" with Steampunk tech instead of modern tech. Here's my take on how you could do it. Decades ago, Professor Moriarty crafted his great work, a monumental difference engine and implanted his own mind within it, designing it to be self-repairing with clockwork drones. However, the process drove the machine mad and killed the not-so-good professor. Using biotechnology Moriarty stole from the infamous Doctor Moreau and improved upon, it used its clockworks to create biotanks that would enable it to craft living beings to serve its will. These are how the goblins came to be, and allows the difference engine to replace them quickly.

Re: (best ever)...reasons for becoming a supervillain! Money, power and women... ... and the satisfaction of giving a good monologue when the mood strikes. It's very liberating.

Re: (worst ever)...reasons to be a supervillain I'm into hot chicks with an evil twist to them, and they won't notice me unless I'm a villain too.

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Re: Fantasy Reproduction For naming, I would suggest coming up with ones that are heavy on consonants and gutteral sounds, like Bargg or Krazt. They would also likely be a single syllable or at most two.

Re: Dark Champions the Anime Series Things are definitely working up to major bad-ass action.

Re: Dark Champions the Anime Series Episode 21 was released today. Downloading now.

It is said that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Have you ever looked at this notion in a Champions campaign? Many superpowered sorts gained their powers suddenly, without any time to mentally prepare to deal with it, yet they emerge as heroes. Why is this so? What drives a person who gains powers to act with such selflessness? Have they ever been tempted to use their powers to make their own lives better or indulge a desire? For example, consider a mentalist with powers of telepathy, mind control, etc. If he sees a beautiful woman on the street, is there a temptation to use those powers on her? Even just using telepathy would give a boost to an attempt at seduction, let alone something more crude like mind control or emotion control. Is the corruption of power a theme you've explored in a campaign, either as a player or GM? How did it work out?

Re: World without Menton How could you prove mental modifications were done? Telepathy only, or could you get away with a Mental Group Sense for Detecting Mental Transformations or Mind Control?

How would you define in Hero mechanics the ability of a Cylon to be killed and then to be downloaded into a new body and come back to life undamaged? I'm thinking Duplication is the way to go, but I wonder if there are other options that would work? Regeneration? Summon?

Re: Fantasy Reproduction Actually, that would make sense with the setup given. Another option could be that a magic-user tossed in would act as a "wild card" effect, expanding the variety of beings coming out. Maybe that's how you get this world's version of Uruk-Hai, or just something smarter and nastier than the average orc or troll. Or maybe that was how undead came to be on this world.

Re: Infectious diseases I've been thinking about this, and I'm not seeing how the attack happens. Patient Zero has the disease and starts getting affected by its Extra-Dimensional Attack Transfers from the Disease Dimension, building up its power to create a Summon and Teleport to the next victim. Does the disease "character" wield its attack as some kind of Damage Shield against Patient Zero? An Extra-Dimensional Attack Damage Shield is kind of a scary idea. What might work as an alternative way to do this would be to take Summon and add on to it the Advantage Usable As Attack and target the next victim with it, limiting the Summon by the disease vector method (airborne, fluid contact, etc). Patient Zero causes the next victim to be attacked, then the two of them can infect more people, and so on and so on. Wow! An Extra-Dimensional Summon with Usable As Attack added on to it. That's cool.

Re: Infectious diseases I suddenly had this image of a sentient infectious organism, like a virus colonizer or somesuch. That would be something straight out of a horror film. Building it as a character? Hmmm...

I was working on creating some diseases for a post-holocaust campaign idea I'm working on, but I'm not sure how to model the infectious portion of a disease. I've seen write-ups where a person is Drained or the like from the effects of a disease, but I don't recall seeing anything on modeling the gaining of the dubious ability to pass on the infection to someone else. The Sticky Advantage wouldn't be quite right for this, so I'm thinking there must be a Linked Transform involved here, from healthy person into an infected person that can then pass on the disease themselves, creating more people who can then pass it along as well as the Patient Zero can. The interesting thing is that a person could be transformed into a carrier of an illness without suffereing the effects of the Drains and whatnot. An Invisible Transform in this case? Thoughts? Examples?

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