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If you're looking for an acronym for a super-base computer, you

could always try something like CORA (Computer, Oral Response

Activated), especially if it's been programmed with a feminine

personality.

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Originally posted by AlHazred

Doc Savage is nice, but very often he goes over the top; I tried to stat him out for my Golden Age/Pulp game, but he came in at way too many points to be a good "role model" for the players to base their characters on.

 

Slightly more equivalent to a starting PC's power level is The Avenger, also by "Kenneth Robeson". His team is much more useful and interesting, and he is not unbeatable.

 

In that regard, The Shadow (book version, not the radio Shadow) can be built on 250 points.

 

Others I haven't managed to read yet are The Spider and Operator 5. Have to haunt eBay until these guys show up...

Is The Avenger the one who gets whacked upside the head

after his wife and child disappear from the plane they were all

riding on, and winds up becoming an albino overnight?

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I don't have all of the necessary pieces to do this just yet, but

once I've got everything that I need, I plan on putting together

a modern-day Star Hero/Super-Agents campaign (something along

the lines of the Near Space Defense campaign setting shown in

the Super Agents sourcebook). The PCs would start out as your

basic, normal everyday folks -- at least, up until the point where

they're suddenly thrust smack-dab into the middle of a secret

war between Earth and the alien invaders who want to use our

world and its people for their own sinister purposes.

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Looking back on my list of GURPS books I use as reference material,

I noticed that I'd left out one particular book: GURPS Mecha.

Ooops!

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Thanks for the tip about The Sentry Box, Liaden. While I have

gotten some hard-to-find miniatures through mail order from

them in the past, I hadn't really thought about getting stuff

like Robot Warriors from them ( ). Since checking out

your post, however, I've gotten in touch with them and managed

to not only get copies ofRobot Warriors and Robot Gladiators

put on reserve for me, but copies of Horror Hero and

Western Hero as well.

Space Cadet

Re: Hmmmm....

Originally posted by Earthson

Hmmmm....

 

Another positive step towards heavily armed and armored bipedal denzines of war becoming a reality.

And let's not forget that little battlesuit project of DARPA's...

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I too have used the GURPS books for ideas to use with HERO,

but I don't use the setting-specific books as much as I do with

the '-Tech'-type books (Bio-Tech, High-Tech, Ultra-Tech 1 & 2,

Psionics (originally referred to as Psi-Tech)). In fact, the only

setting-specific GURPS books that I'm currently focussing on

right now are the GURPS: Traveller sourcebooks.

I use the following books for reference purposes:

Atomic Horror

Bestiary

Black Ops

Blood Types

Cops

Horror

Mars

Monsters

Ogre

Space

Special Ops

Technomancer

Undead

Warehouse 23

Y2K

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If I'm remembering this correctly, Rayoman was the one who had

the Package Deals for the various Star Frontiers races posted on

his thread back on the original boards.

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Originally posted by Mightybec

I remember in a Tranzor Z cartoon that he had a female robot counerpart that launched her boobs out as huge missiles!

 

Mightybec

That's the anime I was trying to think of, Tranzor Z! Thanks,

Mightybec.

BTW, the female robot's name was (IIRC) Aphrodite-A. Now that I

think about it, though, that business with the Bosom Of Mass

Destruction was probably why I quit watching the show...

In all fairness, though, the live-action giant robot/monster shows

from Japan were just as cheesy in that regard (anybody out there

remember Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot, or Ultraman[/i)

for that matter? Now there was some major Grade-A cheese).

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I don't know if this particular giant robot fits into the same

background as Raideen or any of the others that have been

mentioned thus far, but one of those that was part of the

"Shogun Warriors" toy line back in the late '70s was Mazinga

(I think it was called Mazinger over in Japan). It had a lot of

the same type of style elements in its design as the previously-

mentioned robots.

IIRC, the anime series that featured Mazinga/Mazinger ran for

a while here in Cincinnati on Channel 64 back when its call

letters were WIII (prior to the change to WSTR).

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Originally posted by AlHazred

And that campaign was called...?

I believe that it was also called "Shattered World"... but it's been

a while since I last scoped out the FUZION websites, so it's

possible i've got the name wrong.

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Originally posted by Mightybec

Dear QUARK,

 

While torturing various superhero sidekicks in my lab, I've discovered that the sound and tone of thier screams depend on where you poke them, and what you poke them with. After much trial and error, I've created an alblum of cover songs, sung by yours truly, and accompanied by the sidekick screams. "Stairway to Heaven" turned out great! Do you think that there is a market out there for my music?

 

Thank you,

Dr. Typhus

Yet another example of the sort of demented imagination that

gave us the "Singing Dogs" Christmas album...

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The only thing like this that I've seen that was remotely similar

to what's been described here was a campaign setting for the

FUZION game system, with the only difference being that it was

set on a near-future Earth.

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You don't have any problems with accepting a character write-up

based on a character (or monster) from a movie or TV show,

do you?

The reason I'm asking you this is that I finally got my own copy

of the 5thEd Hero System Bestiary, and I'm going to take a shot

at doing a write-up of "Seth", the main character from a movie

called "King Cobra".

I'd say that a 30- to 50-foot-long, man-eating gene-spliced African

King Cobra/Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake hybrid would

definitely qualify as a monster in anyone's book, wouldn't

you?

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You want to be positively scared out of your wits?

Then check out "The Warlock Project" website. This website

has size comparison charts for the various ships in B5, and the

one they have showing the Drakh Mothership in comparison

to the B5 Station, well...

Let me put it this way: anybody out there remember the scene

in the episode of ST: TOS when the (I)Fesarius(/I) first shows

up and pulls up in front of the (I)Enterprise(/I) -- and all

you can see past the (I)Enterprise(/I) IS the (I)Fesarius(/I)?

You get the picture.

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Ahhh... Finally, finally back at last on the boards... Before I go

any further though, there are a couple of "Thank Yous" that

need to be taken care of.

First of all, thanks to Natoman for keeping the Discussion Boards

going on his website for the length of time it took for the main

boards to be reestablished here. I don't know of many boards

like this where a member would provide space on his personal

website in order to keep things going.

Thanks are also due to Ben Seeman for fixing whatever was

keeping me from posting to the boards. I can't think of too

many things that are more frustrating than to be able to

read the topic threads, but not be able to actively take part

in them.

Now that that's been taken care of, there are a couple of threads

from the old boards that apparently haven't made it to the new

boards just yet.

The first of these missing threads is Dizzy Dan's "Please Review

My Space-Opera Villain". This was one of the more interesting

threads on the Star Hero boards, and it'd be great to see it

back on the board.

The other missing thread is the "Star Frontiers Hero" thread.

I can't remember who originally posted that particular thread,

but it was the other topic that I was keeping track of when

the boards were trashed.

What I'd like to do, therefore, is make the following request to

the authors of these particular topics: if, by any chance you

happen to be reading this thread, you could restart your

threads on the new board.

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What I'd like to see is an example of a "firestorm" power -- in

essence, a combination fire/wind attack that not only does

energy damage to its target(s), but knockback damage from

the wind as well.

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