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Originally posted by lemming
One of the best death trap sessions was after I had accidently caught all the heroes. (I really had thought, they'd beat the villians...)
Anyway, since I was fresh out of ideas, I had the players think up the death traps for each other.
Aw, man, that's just plain evil... Bad lemming! Evil, twisted
lemming!
I'll have to remember to do that myself sometime ().
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You know what the creepy thing about your "The Gathering is
a lie" premise is, tkdguy?
The fact that, right now on the FanFiction.net website, there
is a Highlander story in which that very premise is a part
of the story (only it was a mortal with a twisted sense of humor
who started the whole "There can be only one" shebang).
Another plot element involved the bit about Immortals not
being able to have children. The author of this particular tale
put his (or her; I forget which) own spin on the issue, to the
point that, yes, it was indeed possible for Immortals to have
children.
What was really incredible was how the author incorporated
elements of the original Battlestar Galactica, Stargate SG-1,
and the Ryan Administration (from the most recent Tom Clancy
novels) into the story in a way that actually made a strange
sort of sense. AAMOF, the first thing that crossed my mind
was the thought "I can just see someone doing this as an RPG
campaign".
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Another possibile choice for the Bushido/Noble Warrior category
is the reptilian race of Dragoncrests (from the Living Steel RPG).
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by CarlSagan
I feel your pain. All I can say is that we all know the good help applications (and the helpful manuals) and we remember how we felt about those. Likewise, we all remember the bad help files and how those made us feel.
I know I will get a lot of flame for saying this, but probably the best overall product documentation is done by Microsoft. Hey, maybe Microsoft is run by aliens!
Getting back to the topic at hand, I like that idea that the aliens wanted Ralph to lose the manual to keep him humble. Who were some of the other supporting characters? Ralph had a girlfriend, too, didn't he? I was a teenager when the show was on, and all I can remember is that she was pretty hot.
Ralph did indeed have a girlfriend in the show (played by Connie
Selleca), who IIRC was a lawyer of some sort, and eventually became
Mrs. Greatest American Hero towards the end of the series.
As to the students, I believe that Michael Pare was the "bad boy"
of the class, and that one of the female students was originally
on "Welcome Back Kotter" (I think her nickname on WBK was
"Hotsie Totsie").
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by Bengal:
And of course, Sheep Man: The Man who can turn you into a sheep.
Well, if nothing else, we've gotten at least one villainous NPC for a
Western HERO campaign...
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You forgot the Dark Power Behind The Scenes category: the
really grim, eldritch horror-type of ETs -- the Shadows and
their servant race, the Drakh (from B5) and the Eddorians from
the Lensman series of novels.
Bushido category: the Kaldarans (from the Invasion Terra
campaign setting for the Mekton Zeta RPG).
Endless Swarm category: the Aggendi (an insectoid/reptilian
hybrid race; also from Mekton and Mekton Zeta).
Ancient Steward category: the Arisians (from the Lensman
series).
BTW, the reptilians from B5 that were mentioned in the Wanna-
Be category are the Drazi.
I'm not sure which category these guys would fit into, but how
about the Ethicals from the Riverworld novels?
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by Battlestaff
Thanks for the memory jog Space Cadet!! It was Giant, not Goliath (I just remember the big G on his costume). And Flare and Icicle I believe were members.
As for Sparkplug, I have absolutely no recall of him/her/it. Any help as to what Sparkplug was?
Lady Arcane I don't think was an actual member in the comic, but was more of an ally. She wasn't a member when looking at the game supplements.
Sparkplug was Flare's sister, and was an electrical energy-projector
with flight powers. IIRC, she was a result of the same experiment
that gave Flare and their brother(?) their abilities. I think that the
character called Poinsettia was also part of the same experiment,
but I'm not absolutely certain of this.
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by Battlestaff
Marksman, Rose, Gargoyle, Goliath (I believe), and Icestar (I believe).
Unless I'm mistaken, Battlestaff, the character you referred to
as Goliath was actually named Giant. IIRC, there were some
other members of that group as well (at least in the comic books
featuring those characters): Flare, Sparkplug, Lady Arcane and
Icicle (Icestar's sister, if memory serves me).
Space Cadet
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As far as Godzilla's height is concerned, it depends on which
version of Big G you're talking about. If you're talking about
the pre-timeline change version, then 30 stories (300 feet) is
just about right. If, on the other hand, you're talking about
the post-timeline change version then Big G's height would be
closer to 60 stories (600 feet) (as a result of Godzilla being
created years later than he was originally, and with a modern
nuclear weapon to boot).
Now as far as "Stupid Godzilla Tricks" are concerned, I can only
think of one really weird stunt that Big G pulled in one of the
pre-timeline change movies: somehow magnetizing himself and
using that power to pull MechaGodzilla towards him just prior
to popping open a 24-pack of Kaiju Whoopass on it.
Space Cadet
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My first Champions character back in the mid-80s was a brick/
energy projector called Starguard (this was before the Allies
supplement came out). He had super-strength, flight (FTL and
normal in-atmosphere movement both), and had the power to
generate/project the full spectrum of phenomena associated
with stars -- light, heat, gravity, radiation, etc. As originally
written, the character was slightly above the (then) limit of
250 points, but the GM liked the character concept so much
(a Green Lantern/Superman type of character) that he let me
run Starguard as was, provided I didn't have him use powers
that were outside of his stated abilities. In the 4 to 5 years
that the campaign ran, I don't think he ever regretted having
let me do that. He told me some time later that my character
being in the campaign had given him plot ideas he might not
have had otherwise.
I'm currently in the process of rewriting the character to fit
the current rules, and I've already given him a new name,
since there's already someone in the current version of the CU
called Starguard (even if it is a slightly different version of the
name).
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Originally posted by Chuckg
In 4e, yes.
In 5e, he seems to be more filling the role of "The God that Satan prays to." -- i.e., classic Kirby Pre-Crisis Darkseid.
Yeah, and he's probably got the T-shirt that says "I'm So Evil,
The Devil Worships ME!" just to rub it in.
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I'm not sure if this the right part of the boards for this topic,
but here goes anyway...
In looking over the various Perks in the Hero System, I suddenly
remembered an old Reader's Digest story that I'd come across
some years ago. It was about a woman who had undergone surgery
to have a nuclear battery-powered pacemaker hooked up to her
heart. Because she did a lot of cross-border travel between the
U.S. and Canada (job-related, I think), she had to get a special
permit to transport nuclear material across international bord-
ers.
So, what I'm asking you fellow Herophiles is this: what do you guys
think that a Perk like that would be worth in terms of character
points?
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Originally posted by Beetle
How can you forget his incredible stint as the host of Solid Gold?
Rex Smith did a stint on Solid Gold? When the frell did that
happen?
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Say, Nightmask, I noticed a few pages back that you had listed
"Streethawk" as the name of the main character in Street Hawk.
To be somewhat nit-picky, however, that was the code name
for the super-cycle itself; the name of the main character was
Jesse Mach (as far as I know, Rex Smith's only other TV role
aside from his soap-opera work).
Space Cadet
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I hadn't thought of writing up the Methuselah Crystal as an EC,
but considering it was almost 4 A.M. here when I posted my
reply, my mind was partly asleep, so it didn't occur to me.
That said, I can't find anything wrong with what you've posted
here, especially with regard to the FREd Highlander Hero
rules. In fact, I plan on getting a printout of these 5thEd rules
once I've got access to a decent printer (I already have two
different versions of "fan-brewed" Highlander rules, both
written for use with the GURPS system).
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by tkdguy
Update: I'm almost finished with the revision. I'm just trying to figure out how to write up Dark Quickening and the Methuselah crystal. Does anyone have suggestions?
From what I remember about the Methuselah Crystal from the
series, an Immortal in possession of the crystal would (accord-
ing to legend) be impervious to any form of killing attack
whatsoever, including decapitation -- but only while he
or she had actual physical possession of the crystal, and only
while the crystal remained in one piece.
With that in mind, I'd suggest writing it up as Power Defense
vs. Killing Attacks with the Focus limitation (just for the rec-
ord, that's the Breakable Focus limitation; the crystal wasn't
indestructible in spite of its power).
Now, as far as the Dark Quickening is concerned, that's going
to be a somewhat tougher nut to crack, but I'll give it a shot.
One way to handle it would be something similar to what was
suggested in the Horror World section of Champions in
3D: use a Transformation Attack to achieve the specific
effect that you're looking for (for Ci3D, it was to transform a normal, sane human into a raving mind-blasted
lunatic). In the context of a Highlander campaign, a Dark
Quickening could be done as follows: Transformation Attack
(only to turn a good Immortal into an evil Immortal).
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I don't know if it's appeared somewhere else on this thread, but
here's my submission to the Villains Name List:
Technomancer (a supergenius with access to extremely ad-
vanced technology).
BTW, Avatar, wasn't Windshear the name of a character in the
Alpha Flight comic?
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Never heard of Path of the Fury, but I do seem to recall
something similar being done in G.I. Joe (COBRA's
T.A.R.G.A.T. soldiers; Trans-Atmospheric Ground Attack Troop-
ers, IIRC).
Space Cadet
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Something similar has been described in the BattleTech novels,
where the 360-degree sensor feed is compressed into a smaller
viewing arc (160 degrees, IIRC) in the pilot's HUD.
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by Dr. Anomaly
Thanks, S.C.! I was only 12, so not in high school yet. As I recall, it was a TV-movie first, which got spun out into a TV series that sank pretty quickly. Yes/no?
That was pretty much the case, Doc. I have the impression,
though, that The Return of Captain Nemo was intended
to be a limited-run series (given that Captain Nemo's stated
goal in the series was to find Atlantis, which was accomplished
in the final episode, anything else coming after that would've
been excess baggage).
Space Cadet
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Originally posted by Dr. Anomaly
Okay, I don't think these have been mentioned yet, but it's a long thread, so please forgive me if I duplicate:
Manimal
The Infiltrator (that's the name of the man-fused-with-spaceprobe, man in question played by Scott Bakula)
Hard Time on Planet Earth
The Magician (with Bill Bixby)
There was a short-lived series about Captain Nemo being revived from suspended animation in the modern day...can't remember the name, darn it!
Doc, that short-lived series was The Return of Captain Nemo,
from 1978 (jeez, I was in my third year of high school when that
bit of soggy TV silliness was on).
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From what I've heard or seen whenever I've watched the show,
Rosanjin was more or less the Grand High Poobah of cuisine in
Japan at some point in the past. I'd have to watch the show a
great deal more to find out.
Oh yeah, let's not forget about the former Parlimentarian who
sits on the Tasting & Judging Panel from time to time, or the
photographer who was also one of the semi-regulars.
Space Cadet
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Let's see, what other TV characters can I think of here...
For starters, there's the father-and-son team from Blacke's Magic
(Hal Linden and Harry Morgan; a magician and retired con-artist,
respectively); Christopher George's character from The Immortal
(IIRC, the character's name was Ben Richards); David Rappaport's
character from The Wizard and, finally, the android police-
man HAVEN from Future Cop.
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The Narn Knights of the Round Table... now there's a scary
thought...
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