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Just had a flash of memory zip through the gray matter: the part

of MacLeod's background when he was under the influence of a

Dark Quickening, shortly after having had to kill Koltec when the

latter had become evil from absorbing the Quickenings of too

many evil Immortals throughout his life.

I knew there had to be a reason for the "Otherwise Useless Trivia"

section of my brain to exist...

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Oh, yeah, Badger3k, I remember Sword Of Justice all right.

It always struck me as kind of funny -- I mean, the hero was virtually

telling the cops who was helping them out (using the 3 of Spades

as his calling card, with the 3 representing the number of years

he spent in prison for a crime he didn't commit), but the cops

(one of whom was the hero's best friend) never once tumbled

to who he was. His signature line would definitely have a place

in a Dark Champions campaign:

"The Spade is the Sword of Justice.

Its rapier marks the end."

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Just don't forget to give them all the same Hunted: the evil Master

Chef Kandagawa and his sinister allies, the Ohta Faction.

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When I posted those suggestions to you, tkdguy, there was one

character that was part of Duncan's background who complete-

ly slipped my mind: the Tracy Scoggins character (the witch who

saved Duncan from a future enemy back when he was a teen-

ager; her name was Cassandra, IIRC). She was also part of Methos's

background as well (back when he was one of the Four Horse-

men).

Hopefully, I haven't forgotten anything else about the character

that might be of help to you.

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Actually, tkdguy, you're not the only one who remembers the

character of Exo-Man. I had made a small mention of the char-

acter in a previous thread last year.

But while we're on the subject of battlesuit trooper-type TV

superheroes, how about the title character from the show

Future Force?

And let's not forget the Art Hindle character from the TV-movie

Power Man (the movie's original title as listed in TV Guide

at the time; the network changed the title prior to its airing

on TV, but I can't remember what they changed it to).

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About the only thing that I can think of that you could do with

your writeup would be to include Duncan's reunion with Darius and the circumstances which brought it about (Darius's

message to Duncan asking for his aid against an Immortal named

Grayson, Darius's former second-in-command during the period

before he renounced his life of warfare). You might also want to

include Duncan's marriage to future Immortal Kate, and his being

reunited with her during the incident involving Kell.

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Originally posted by Aroooo

I saw the preview when I saw Return of the King last weekend. Showed it to my wife last night (she's a Pulp fan too) and it looks great. I just hope it does well. Pulp period pieces tend to not do well because most folks don't understand the genre, and most movie critics want to know why the subject matter was not updated for modern times.

 

Sorry... enough rambling from me.

 

Aroooo

Most movie critics these days have their heads so far up their

Fourth Point of Contact that they wouldn't recognize a period

piece (decent or not), much less understand the fact that

they're not supposed to be updated for modern times.

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Originally posted by QUARK

Dear Krusher,

 

Jobs being outsourced to cheaper labor markets overseas is an unfortunate sign of the times. The key to your organization's survival is to play even dirtier and more dastardly. Anonymously drop a dime on PRIMUS, UNTIL, and/or some superhero teams about these foreign villains and things should start looking up for you. In the meantime, consider talking to one of Uncle Lou's old cohorents for help with contract negotiation. Just dial: 1-666-MEPHISTOPHELES

 

Bad Probability,

Talk about outsourcing to a foreign market... that phone number's

got way too many digits for an American phone number.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: From the ARGENT public relations Dept

Originally posted by Twilight

Indeedy, and just you ask a few folks around middle Europe [particularly the Germanic areas] about Knecht Ruppret or Black Peter sometime. The Claus' have friends you just don't wanna mess with, and that's before you consider the fact that he's also a Catholic Saint. Methinks ARGENT bit off a WEE bit more then they could chew here.

Just got through doing some 'Net crawling to find out just who

it was that Twilight was talking about in his post, and after

getting the lowdown on Knecht Ruppert/Black Peter, all I can

say is this: with a "friend" like this, the Claus-man certainly

has no need for any enemies, supervillains or not.

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Another source of ideas for an Alien Invasion campaign, if you

can find it or know someone who has it, is the Adventurer's

Club article "Death From The Skies!", which appeared in

Issue #11 of that publication. It's got some good ideas on how

to run an Invasion campaign, particularly one which starts out

as a covert invasion before eventually becoming an overt invas-

ion.

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One possibility would be to build it as an Automaton, with the

limitation that it is only able to act independently as long as

the person who is attempting to control it is using brute-force

methods, instead of through force of will.

Another would be to design it as a Hand-To-Hand Attack with

the Usable At Range advantage, with the Focus limitation as

well.

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Re: Re: Re: From the ARGENT public relations Dept

Originally posted by Twilight

Yes they did and the big guy is planning revenge for the loss of Prancer and Vixen's family, let me tell you! You don't piss off da Claus and go to bed happy!

You got that right! The guys here in the Academy's Signals Intell-

igence class were just talking about some signals they'd picked

up from the North Pole -- something about getting some heavy-

duty firepower for something called the T-800, whatever that is...

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Re: From the ARGENT public relations Dept

Originally posted by Hermit

For Sale

North Pole operation

Recently, a rival for our own high tech production program had to be eliminated, he and his little pointy earred friends. ARGENT is now in possession of a fully servicable factory that is a bit too...eccentric for our tastes.

 

We are therefore purusing outside bids for the property among criminal kind. It seems to be cloaked from grown up eyes (We had to use special gear) and very remote, so secrecy from authorities is almost assured.

 

Make your bid now, and we throw in 50 lbs of Venison with anti gravity properties...

Well, folks, if this country should suddenly experience a major

coal shortage inside of the next few years, at least we'll know

where it's going and who to blame for it...

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Originally posted by farik

Scoff Scoff

 

Daleks were a Dr Who Villain race they were a genetically engineered brain in a "high tech" armored body that resembled a really big overturned wastebasket with an RD-D2 like dome for a head. It had a single arm which resembled a plunger but it was really a disintegration ray.

Funny... I always thought that they looked a bit like oversized

salt-and-pepper shakers... oh, well

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Hermit made mention of high-tech instant change devices in an

earlier post to this topic, and I agree that a gadget like that

would be interesting to see in the Gadgets and Gear book. It'd be especially interesting to see large-scale versions

of such a gadget as well as the "Only affects person wearing it"

versions. The best examples of this kind of superhero hardware

can be found in animated shows such as Science Ninja Team

Gatchaman (a.k.a. Battle of the Planets and, somewhat

more recently, Eagle Riders; the wristbands that the good

guys wore that not only changed their street clothes into their

uniforms, but also transformed their normal-looking vehicles into more advanced versions -- the team leader's propeller-

driven plane became a jet at the instant of tranformation, for

example), and Sonic Soldier Borgman (the combination

wrist communicator/transformation devices worn by the Borg-

men that allowed them to change into their battle armor).

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One of the major suprises in this new BSG was the relative tough-

ness of the miniseries Galactica compared to the Galactica

of the original series. As far as I could tell, the new Galactica

didn't have anything like the deflector shields of Star Trek or

Star Wars, yet it survived a hit from a 50-kiloton nuke. Compare

that to the battlestars of the original pilot movie, which apparent-

ly didn't need much more than one explosives-laden fighter crash-

ing into the launch/recovery bays to turn it into battlestar flambe.

Another surprise was the low-tech approach to weaponry taken

by both the Colonials and the Cylons (missiles and outer-space

autocannon instead of lasers). I think the only high-tech weapon

of any kind that was seen in the miniseries was the EW system

used by the Cylons to shut down the battlestars and their

fighter protection befoe attacking.

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Although it's been out of print for years now, there is one other

game resource for modern weapons and their stats: Phoenix

Command. This game system was produced by Leading Edge

Games, and had sourcebooks for modern heavy weapons, Old

West firearms, and sci-fi weapons (mostly for the Living Steel

game setting).

Alternatively, you could try to find a copy of Millenium's End.

I'd imagine that, given the slant of that particular system, you'd

have no problems finding suitable hardware to convert over to

FREd.

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You might want to consider giving your J.R. Ewing-type fiend the

"Floating Hunted" disadvantage from Dark Champions. After all,

J.R. did have more than a few people after his hide in one

form or another (remember Kristen? BLAM! BLAM!).

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Originally posted by Galadorn

It's better then a perjurer, liar and adulter.

Just out of curiousity, to which President are you referring to --

or was this a blanket statement?

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I'm one of those who also likes the idea of Project: Sunburst

being a source of superhero origins. AAMOF, one of the ideas

I'm currently working on is for a superheroine called Lady

Cobalt, who would not only have her powers as a result of the

Project, but be a civilian as well. Also, because of the radiation-

based nature of her powers, she has to wear a special con-

tainment suit to keep from poisoning others with her radiation

(it's not a total-coverage suit like Radium's; her head is exposed,

but she does wear a polarized visor to disguise her face). I don't

have much beyond this at this time, unfortunately.

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At present, I only know of four game supplements that deal with

modern firearms: GURPS High-Tech, GURPS Modern Firepower,

Palladium's Compendium of Modern Weapons, and a similar

book published by R. Talsorian Games (I can't remember what

the title of it is, but I think that a d20 version was recently

released). There are also a couple of websites on the GURPS

WebRing dealing with modern weapons, especially weapons

that haven't been covered in already-existing material, but the

material within is unofficial.

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Now that is just too bloody diabolical for words...

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You mentioned the fanfiction.net website in your most recent

post as a source of B:tVS/Other Series crossovers, and I do say

that, yes, there are some decidedly interesting stories in

there, but there are some definitely strange crossovers in there

as well. There are several Buffy/Star Trek crossovers that I know

of in there, and at least one Buffy/Ronin Warriors story (now,

admittedly, I can't remember if this one is actually in the story

archives of fanfiction.net or is on some other website, but I

have seen it on the Web). There are also a number of Buffy/

Highlander stories as well.

With regards to some earlier questions about how Batman would

fare against a Buffyverse vampire, I have only this to say: Anyone

who has the sheer stones to issue the "fistfight challenge" to

Kalibak (or someone like him) vis-a-vis Neo in The Matrix,

and hold his own against him to boot, is not going to have any

trouble whatsoever when it comes time to crack open a keg

of whoop-a$$ on the latest batch of Sunnydale bloodsuckers.

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This thread, like Jaws

Just when you think it's safe

WHOOMP! There it is

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Originally posted by BarryB

Every game is won due to sickness on the part of the opposing team. Mental illness, to be precise.

Oh, yeah... especially if the opposing team's playbook is some-

how replaced with a copy of the Necronomicon.

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