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Re: I'm the reason the servers are down. Dude, stop rolling those Bad Luck dice... or use your xp to buy off that Disad man!

Re: List Your CO Heroes! I'll be online for the rest of the evening, my account name is @red_eagle123.

Re: List Your CO Heroes! So far I've got these two: Red Eagle (archer) Iron Eagle (Power Armor) I'm toying with the idea of making a Martial Artist and possibly a telekinetic.

Re: Going to be running a Teen Champions game... I just recently started a Teen Champions game myself. It re-uses the Ravenswood name from the Teen Champions book, but I modified it to be a University setting, with the PC's being Freshmen at the tender age of 18-19. I have a wiki page up with lots of basic information, since this is openly accessible to the players there's no behind the scenes info. I hope for one or more of the players to start providing recaps or something like that, but as we've only had one game so far that hasn't happened yet. http://torii.wikidot.com/champions But I do have a whole lot of behind the scenes ideas in my head, as well as other background information and plot ideas.

Re: Order of the Stick And a new one is posted: http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0629.html Poor V. And you gotta love those gender-less elven translations.

Re: Scott Heine - Protectors Allow me to assist by posting Huntsman

Re: Help me fill in the plot holes Well, hmmm. My first thought is to caution about capturing the heroes. From my experience, and from what I've read from other GM's, players HATE feeling helpless, and nothing creates that feeling more than being forced into a situation. Now, having said that... here are a couple ideas. It sounds like you'll be using a lot of the same PC's. Considering Blackstaff's the main baddie, and a lot of his motivation is revenge, might he want to start playing some mind games. Perhaps lay a couple clues misleading the PC's. Levin wasn't really killed, he faked his death. It was another hero that killed him. It was the Skunk who returned to kill Levin, etc etc. Lots of red herrings, but all with some tie together (all leading back to Blackstaff). Of course since you want to keep it a secret he's the bad guy, that might not be what you want.

Re: How to start a War I like the Technocracy, fairly neutral term (far as I can tell at least). I also like the idea of it being an alliance of alien races. As for the name for the 'judge', I guess I'd be looking for a title either assigned by the humans, or a title he/she/it would refer to itself (or most likely, an easy to remember name that the humans can pronounce)... I dunno, I guess I'm just looking for something that seems appropriate. Arbiter does sound better than Judge... As for your earlier questions, Borg is definitely out, as is the Collective... far too laden with connotations. My goal is definitely not to paint either side as the obvious bad guys. However each side is obviously considering their opposite side evil, and will do their level best to color the truth to sway the opinions of the PC's.

Re: How to start a War Well, with 30 views and no comments, let me ask the general population for some help. Any suggestions for what to name a cosmic being who passes judgment on planets? How about for a highly advanced alien race that loves to interfere? Ideally I'd want both names to be somewhat neutral sounding. Most of my players are big sci-fi nerds (more TV and movie than comic book however), so any names ripped from those sources are likely to be spotted. My goal is to slowly start presenting the truth in pieces, and the alien race to initially be presented as altruistic and beneficial. So names like 'Borg' would color that perception obviously. So.... Help?

Re: How to start a War So how are the PC's involved? Well... the PC’s are the next group of representatives for the Judge. They have an even mix of technology and magic among their group, they've been in contact with lots of the movers and shakers on both sides of the conflict, or are otherwise directly impacted by either magic or technology. Also, little do the forces of magic or technology realize, but the PC’s were directly responsible for the forces of magic winning their fight against the alien race those many years ago. One of their members was amnesiac, and turned out to be the god who stepped forward to rally the other realms together and fend off the forces of technology.

This is the background for the storyline going on in my game right now. I'm still fleshing out some of the details (Such as the name of the alien race, etc).

Re: Dumbest thing... Pssst. Civil War was mentioned back in the 6th post.... Anyhow, my contributions: Superman was never Superboy post-crisis. Spelled disaster for the Legion of Super-Heroes. Wonder Woman never appeared in Man's World till AFTER Donna Troy had long been active. Squirrel Girl beat up Doctor Doom. Squirrel Girl beat up Thanos. It's being used for humor fodder now by Dan Slott in the Great Lakes Initiative (formerly Avengers, formerly Xmen, formerly...) but at the time it was serious work. Hawkeye dies because he's too stupid to take off his quiver and ditch it before his explosive arrow blows up. Even though he tells people it's going to blow up. So he straps on a kree jetpack and flies up to the Kree ship to blow it up....

Re: Getting the heroes together (the first time) You could modify one of the earlier suggestions.... say, they're all invited to a wedding in their civilian ID's, due to various connections. For some reason a super-villain attacks the wedding and the PC's are the only ones able to respond....

Re: Where have all the Milwaukee heros gone? Well, in MY reality Milwaukee booted their first super-group out after massive damage to the old manufactoring sector south and west of the downtown area. Of course, the second supergroup to wind up protecting Milwaukee was led by Foxbat, and are a bunch of reject, former villains who are trying to do the right thing.

Re: List of Forum Members - Super Teams & Members The Protectors of Springfield (NJ): The Active Members: Founding Members Chan Li - Martial Artist able to gain aspects of a Dragon Celteen - Descendent of ancient celtic heroine Rosmerta, controller of four, now five elements Fiona McGregor - Brilliant Scientist able to transform into a super powered Cheerleader... that's dumber than a box of rocks Other Members Esranal - Former demon possessed human who just got promoted to Angel status Star Ronin - Brilliant japanese inventor who wears a suit of power armor he invented Rainbow - An environmentalist Geomancer Vindicator - Former Silver Avenger who gained more super powers including growth and increased strength Rubber - Scottish born, India temple raised Stretching man, who has lost his memory as to why he's here Former Members: Founding Members Minotaur - Genetically Altered superstrong Man-Bull, currently leader of Zodiac as Taurus Shockwave - Young hero comprised of sentient electricity, Whereabouts unknown. Last seen as unwilling energy shield around Villain working for IHA Other Former Members Glitter - Dock Worker infected with intelligent nanites, given silvery skin, finger claws and computer interface abilities. Whereabouts unknown. Possibly last seen as morphic armor around villain working for IHA Ladyhawk - Genetically engineered bird woman with sonic cry. Was Promoted to Guardian Angel status after unknown period of time in Hell. Esranal replaced her as Guardian Angel when she was promoted to Avenging Angel Red Bear - Time tossed Viking with superstrength, magic armor and magic sword. Left the team to assume his destiny of uniting and leading the ancient gods in battle.

Re: Help with player knowledge vs. character knowledge

Re: Help with player knowledge vs. character knowledge Being familiar with comic books, and with Gorgon myself, I decided to ask a gamer not familiar with the super-hero comic book genre. Here is the transcript of our conversation: Me: Okay, Player Character is a former villain turned good guy, and has a skill called Knowledge (Superhuman World), thus he has a good idea of other super humans and their abilities in the world (In character). PC (and friends) get called to Chicago that has just been hit by a massive earthquake. They spend some time cleaning up, etc. They get a call from the Chicago PD. As they approach they see a strange new character surrounded by SWAT and the Police, guns drawn. Friend: ok Me: The person surrounded is clearly a superhuman, but unknown to the PC (First appearance). The big feature is hooved feet, and as the game fades to black the GM states: "As you approach you see the stranger raise his right leg up..." Now the caveat: The PC wants to tackle the NPC, suspecting him to be the source of the earthquakes. Based on the info I gave you (and that he has a reasonable familiarity with other superhumans), would you say that's a logical conclusion to make? Friend: If he's ever heard of humans that could stamp the ground... then perhaps... if he's a smart PC as opposed to a dumb PC Friend: like.. ok 1) chicago just doesn't have massive earthquakes... therefore it follows that 2) somethign unnatural caused them 3) if there are super human beings that can stamp the ground and cause earthquakes... then it's possible they might consider this to be such a person... Given that in the past certain Bricks (Hulk, Thing) have been known to create shockwaves in the past by stomping their foot, it stands to reason that a person provocatively raising his foot in the middle of a situation where earthquakes have just recently hit an area they NEVER strike... I'd say it's within Character Knowledge to NOT let Gorgon lower his foot back to the ground.

Assuming I allow a player to place summon in a multipower, how would that work when the points are shifted to another slot? Would the summoned creature(s) still be around, or would the summon wear off because there's no longer any points applied to it? Also, how would you write a limitation such that you can never summon more than X number of creatures, but can use the power as many times as you want (IE: Player x can summon 2 Earth Golems. Player X uses summon and gets two Earth Golems to appear. Next Phase, Player X tries to summon 2 more Earth Golems but fails. Now assuming the Earth Golems are destroyed or otherwise go away, Player X is free to summon 2 more Earth Golems).

Re: Creating a prophecy And now for the final stanza. My primary point with this one is to basically tell the players that Muerte is going to track down and join forces with Belatu-Cadros and Tawiskaron (War & Famine), and indicate the possibility of a fourth member (Pestilence) joining. Since they haven't met Pestilence, I decided to try and shift the last line a bit. Swollen usually implies a negative connotation, but it's also a synonym for 'adding something onto'. It's my hope the PC's go looking for Pestilence hoping for a method to stop the other three... of course Pestilence will wind up joining the other three... I also went back and changed the wording a bit, got rid of one of the references to 'Garden', and put in another nickname for New Jersey instead. I put it in one of the older already completed stanzas, so I can add notes so it makes sense what the nickname is (Since even a native New Jersian hadn't heard of the name). Some final tweaking of capitalizations to emphasis things, and shifting things around and boom. All Done. With all that said, here is the final prophecy: During the War of the Hundred, when the lands of Gaul and Albion do burn, a Sceptre of Death shall sweep out of the west, inflicting upon mortals a Plague most Black that shall spare neither king nor commoner When the Bohemians rise against the Son, a new King the throne Ascends, Sceptre of Death in hand. A War of Thritig shall rage, the blame given to God. In the land of Hibernia, upon a new fruit the Celts do rely, till Death withers the roots of the earth, and hunger drives the Hibernians beyond the ends of the ocean The Sceptre delivered to the Crossroads of Revolution, given by the unwitting to the Scion of Rosmerta. Before the blood of war and the depths of hunger have been plumbed, Death shall steal Death from Life and Death itself shall become a weapon To defeat the defenders in the Garden, the Wielder of Death shall join with the Bloodletter and the Esurient. A force untold, swollen by Blight

Re: Need help with a Group name. Well, if I have an idea something I want to sound similar to, I use the handy dandy thesaurus and look up similar words (http://www.thesaurus.com works great). With that in mind, we get the following for 'Shield': Main Entry: shield Part of Speech: noun Definition: protection Synonyms: absorber, aegis, armament, armor, buckler, buffer, bulwark, bumper, cover, defense, escutcheon, guard, mail, rampart, safeguard, screen, security, shelter, ward As for names, I've used this tactic a couple times. Take a word, split it in two, then make 'real' names out of the two parts. For instance, Maelstrom. Mael (or Mal as it's sometimes mis-pronounced) and Strom. Malcom Stromwell.

Re: My CU based webcomic I like it, I can only imagine how long it took to set that up. What program did you use to do all those renderings?

Re: Creating a prophecy Exactly, I want to give the sense that this is a very old artifact. Even though looking back on the events the prophecy makes sense, at the time the prophecy WOULD have been created, it would sound all mysterious and spooky. So how best to capture that was a problem. Then a friend suggested having notes, pieces of translations through the years. I hope it works, we'll see when it's finished (That's phase 2, after completing the prophecy)

Re: Creating a prophecy The last Stanza worked on for today was the one dealing with modern events. For thos that don't remember (or didn't read the earlier posts closely enough), the PC is a decendent of the Celtic goddess Rosmerta, and is an archealogist in her secret ID. She was handed the Sceptre of Death to try and identify by her boss, as it was recently dug up and nobody knew what it was. During a museum heist game (Where GRAB tried to steal it, Anubis showed up for it, and Occulon, Bulldozer and Blowtorch showed up, yes, I steal Game Ideas, no I won't be apologetic), the artifact disappeared. It was later found in the hands of the partially ressurected Professor Muerte (now calling himself El Muerte) who was using it as a weapon to try and kill Scorpia and Fuermacher. So, with that background, my friends and I went back to the drawing board. The PC's are based out of New Jersey, the Garden State. So, the first line starts there (In the Land of the Garden). Now to talk about how the PC got the artifact unknowingly (Given to the Scion of Rosmerta by the unwitting). Next to cover the events of how Muerte winds up with it (Muerte is spanish for death y'all, just in case you didn't know), and how he turns it into a weapon. Since Rosmerta is a goddess of Fertility, some could say a Goddess of Life, let's play on the Life/Death themes a bit.... Muerte (Death) stole the artifact (Sceptre of Death) from Rosmerta's Scion (Life), and turned the Sceptre (Death) into a weapon. With all that put together, we get: The Sceptre returns to the Garden, given by the unwitting to the Scion of Rosmerta. Before the blood of war and the depths of hunger have been plumbed, Death shall steal Death from Life and Death itself shall become a weapon A bit clunky, but who said that all prophecies have to be smooth? And again, it works as something that makes no sense prior to the event, but makes perfect sense after. Death stealing Death from Life could lead some to think someone gained immortality.... which of course is also somewhat true (Muerte's not dead, granted he's not alive yet but..)

Re: Creating a prophecy For the third Stanza, there was quite a bit more editing involved. I got rid of the Irish definition for 'Great Famine', since it seemed to stick out a bit too much. I also modified the reference to just what it was the Celts of Hibernia (IE: Irish) were growing, making it a bit more vague and yet more specific at the same time. Since a Potato is a root, and food grown is sometimes called Fruit of the Earth, what is more Fruit of the Earth than a potato? And I also modified the reference to the Celts leaving Ireland as a result of the famine. Since they went to multiple countries, I couldn't reference any of them directly. However the one thing the majority of them have in common (Canada, Australia, USA) is that they are far away across the ocean. So a quick re-write and we have: In the land of Hibernia, upon a new fruit the Celts do rely, till Death withers the roots of the Earth, and hunger drives the Hibernians beyond the ends of the ocean Now it matches the previous two stanzas a bit better, both in vagueness and in overall wordiness.

Re: Creating a prophecy Okay, so I went back and started looking at the rest of the prophecy, with the help of a friend and co-worker spurring me on with ideas for verbiage. For the first stanza, it was pointed out that the word 'War' was used too often, so we changed it to read 'When the lands of Albion and Gaul do burn', fires of war and all that. I also changed the reference from the generic name I'd thrown in (Death Bringer) to it's more proper title (thanks for the suggestion again wcw43921) of Sceptre of Death. For the second stanza, we changed the reference for the Bohemians to show that they were rebelling for religious reasons, primarily against a new King who was the son of an emperor forcing Catholicism down their throats. So now it reads that they rebel against The Son. It was suggested to make it 'The Son of God', but I wanted it more vague, and besides the later sentence clearly shows that religion was involved. Since we're now calling it a Sceptre, a new king should have a Sceptre when they take power right? Voila, new sentence about how the artifact is involved. That was, IMHO, the weakest part of the first version anyhow. Now to muddy the waters a bit, I found out Thirtig is old englishe for 'Thirty'. Well, let's use that. So now it reads as a War of Thirtig. Modify the last part a bit to place the blame on the Sceptre (which now seems redundant) and we have our second Stanza. When the Bohemians rise against the Son, a new King the throne Ascends, Sceptre of Death in hand. A war of Thritig shall rage, the Blame given to God. All in All, much better in my opinion. And gives me a lot more notes to scribble on the finished prophecy (to simulate people through the years trying to decipher the meaning).