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  1. Race Rename

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    Re: Race Rename

     

    Why change the names at all?

     

    It's a Fantasy HERO game, right? Players will expect names they know. Believe it, your players will be glad to use names they know. They won't like having to memorize a bunch of made up names that are there just to be different. :)

     

    Just say old legends were repeated, and the old names handed down thru the generations. Apply handwavium to taste. :)

    he's writing a book, first line, first post.

  2. Medieval Farming Villages

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    Re: Medieval Farming Villages

     

    also, remember that sheep and cattle can be farmed on the same pasture easily, as the sheep and cattle eat different parts of the grass, cattle IIRC will eat the higher parts, while sheep can ground graze. So, you can pretty much say that if properly used a pasture can support sheep and cows in a ratio of about 5:1. (depending on farming practice. It could easily be more, if you teach your cattle to eat bark and tree leaves. Something which is often done in certain parts of NZ.)

  5. [Campaign Adventure] Uberworld - Serendipity Showcase I: The Crossroads of Polynesia

    in Champions

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    Re: [Campaign Adventure] Uberworld - Serendipity Showcase I: The Crossroads of Polynesia

     

    this does actually look quite cool.

    I like the idea of having relatively short and low maintenance games, and the game world seems neat. I think the name "Uber-gne" is a little clunky however it is well within the genre, and I respect anyone who doesn't want to be sucked into the cliche`s of the genre.

     

    (bump)

  7. Golden Age speedster advice needed

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    Re: Golden Age speedster advice needed

     

    Damn. I was leaning towards Spitfire.

     

    The origin I have is the "chemical accident" speedster standby. It occured in her father's lab when a Nazi Trade Mark, TSR agent attempted to steal Professor Avery's super soldier research. The professor was shot dead and Miss Avery was thrown into a rack of chemicals. There may have been lightning. I don't know, I wasn't there. Hearing the scuffle, Mickey Davis, Miss Avery's boy friend (who, to be honest, was thought of by the professor as being "too common" for his daughter) burst in and attempted to disarm the Nazi rat. Mickey slipped and was staring efficient German death down (or, to be more accurate, UP) the barrel when Miss Avory sped by at impossible speed and took the gun. After Mick had knocked out the Nazi, he turned to the astonished Miss Avery and exclaimed: "Cor, sweetheart! You're ....." Something. I got nothing.

     

    Where is that cool ryming slang when I need it?

    i love how TSR trade marked nazi.

  8. Golden Age speedster advice needed

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    Re: Golden Age speedster advice needed

     

    Mongoose, Spitfire and the Blitz (in reference to the German's battle tactic of the same name) are obvious choices here. Something like Captain America's origin, or being the unwilling subject of German scientists' testing makes sense as an origin since you already have the mystical angle covered.

     

    As far as GA speedster tricks go, I can't think of any right now. Certainly taking away guns, wrapping up soldiers with handy bits of rope and extra HA from super-speedy fists would apply. Honestly though, if it's a female in the GA, she probably shouldn't be a combat monster.

     

    By the way, I love the magical gauntlet idea. Very genre.

    Also consider naming the speedster after urine or some other bodily function.

    If it worked for the whizzer....

  10. Amerca's Best Comics, Tom Strong, Promethea, Etc

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    Re: Amerca's Best Comics, Tom Strong, Promethea, Etc

     

    I liked Top 10' date=' and SMAX. If there was a problem with it, it was that the world didn't quite feel like it hung together. It's strange, I have no problem suspending my disbelief with flying girls in spandex and ancient mystic forces, but the theme of sending all the exceptional people and Superhumans to a distant city to get rid of them just never worked for me. I may be too literal a thinker.[/quote']

    I love the ABC line. Well, I loved it. There are still some pretty good Non Alan Moore stuff being made for it, like Rick Veitch's stand alone Grey Shirt Graphic Novel, and Tom Strongs Terrific Tales. However, they really "hat"ed up the New Top 10, it's barely readable now.

     

    anywya, I think Promethea was really some of his best work period. I think it's first equal with Watchmen and definily better than From Hell.

     

    Also, who could not love the entire Sci Fi Cowboy Posse in book 3 of Tom Strong?

  13. Sick of Wolverine

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    Re: Sick of Wolverine

     

    My take is that I like Wolverine. He's a great character when used correctly for a few reasons:

     

    1. Mysterious past

    2. Attitude

    3. He's often the rebel of the team

    4. Empowerment- let's be honest, haven't we all wanted to be like Wolverine just once?

     

    The big problem is that he's been used too much by too many writers which has not only created boredom with the character but confusion with all of the multiple interpretations. There hasn't been an effort to keep the character consistent that I can see.

     

    Personally, the biggest problem I have right now is the terrible continuity of Logan. He killed tons of people when he was under Hydra control yet has been welcomed back with open arms. I'm sorry but "I was mind controlled" just doesn't cut it. I don't think anyone could ever trust him again or be comfortable around him. Heck, he's still in the mansion despite having killed Northstar- you can't tell me the student could see him and not run screaming in the other direction.

     

    Edit: I just thought of something. Henry Pym gets more grief even today for having hit the Wasp once after he was exposed to mind altering chemicals thatn Wolverine does for being a mind controlled assassin who killed hundreds. WTH?

    when a woman is abused or raped in a comic/movie/tv show, it gives the other characters the liscence to go and "save the day" without any grey areas. It's also a cheap and easy way to add a "dimension" to any female character... which is why some huge rediculous amount of comic heroines have been raped, beaten, had pregnancies caused from something akin to supernatural rape... It's retarded.

     

    Rape & spoucal abuse = bad btw.

  16. JEFFVERSE - Jeff T's name quest

    in Champions

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    Re: JEFFVERSE - Jeff T's name quest

     

    Umbragean

     

    SHROUD

     

    Super Human Response and Observation United Department

     

    MOGUL - Haven't figured out the letters yet.

    Masters Of Grand and Unbelievable Larceny.

    Masters Of Galactic and Universal Larceny

     

    Larceny was like the only thing I could think of.

  19. Extrasolar planets

    in Star Hero

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    Re: Extrasolar planets

     

    I dunno. They're late B stars. No one in their right mind would hitch a ride on a B star; they don't last long enough.

    Wait, why not? Wouldn't hitching a space convoy onto a B star actually be pretty awesome? Just use suspended animation for a "wee while"

  21. How to simulate the Wisdom of Minerva?

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    Re: How to simulate the Wisdom of Minerva?

     

    I'd also use it as an excuse to have mental defence a high ego and the abiliy to see through illusions. Define it as her having such a devine wisdom so as to make her utterly un flappable. No one can pull the wool over her eyes or force her to think silly, illogical and just plain wrong things.

  22. SciFi Colonists

    in Star Hero

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    Re: SciFi Colonists

     

    Well, historically speaking, Australia is the exception not the rule. Even the Pilgrims weren't kicked out of England, but emigrated voluntarily, and none of the other American colonies come close to that model. Nations (or groups) don't generally sink the kind of resources required to found distant colonies without some expectation of return: mostly natural resources or strategic advantage. And you don't trust something that important to criminals & dissidents.

     

     

    bigdamnhero

    "One clever and cunning individual has a good chance of getting away with a well-planned interpersonal crime. Bring one partner into the crime and the odds of getting away with it drop considerably. The more people involved in the crime, the harder it is to get away with it."

    No, heaps of people were "transported" to the American colonies, often having to work as a slave or indentured servant for many years before even being able to think of returning to the mother/father country.

     

    Many of the polynesian islands had transported folk as weel. It was not just Australia.

     

    You're right that people did travel to the new world undeer their own free will too, but this was usually because the situation in their own country had become unbareable to them. The pilgrims were considered religious crack pots, the irish were starving, the Dutch lived in Holland...

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