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Re: Pulparize It!

Match lights fuse.

Fuse burns until there is an explosion.

Good morning, Mister Phelps. There is a (mad Scientist, agents of a hostile foreign government, agents of a hostile organization not affiliated with a government (GM Picks) whose ambitions and goals are detrimental to our why of life. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, stop (see above pick) before their plot comes to fruition. As always, should you or any of your I. M Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This discussion board message will self destruct in five seconds

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Re: Pulparize It!

I belive the implication was that the A-Team was too busy running from the MP's to delve too much into the mystery of who framed them. That's just my hypothesis on the matter however.

That makes sense. A GM deciding on using a setting either in the original eighties era or the pulp era, would want to keep what caused the team to be on the run in mind for either plot situations or just background.

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Actually I'm pretty sure a few episodes DID focus on them trying to prove thier innocence. As I recall they did actually rob the Bank of Hanoi but they did it under orders, presumably beliving that they were keeping the cash out of Communist hands. The problem was, that nobody could find the orders the team had allegedly been given or even the person that had given them. Thus they were arrested.

 

I don't recall who did the frame job, but I do know that they went back to Vietnam in a two parter in order to find the person in question, or somebody who could prove thier innocence or something.

Thanks for the info. Its trouble enough trying to remember the plots of current shows one follows let alone one from the eighties.

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The creative juices are flowing so here's another possibility.

The Equalizer

The Equalizer (Robert McCall) is a former agent of a shadowy, unnamed government agency, who is trying to make up for the unspoken sins of his past. His atonement comes in the form of an advertisement in the New York Yellow Pages that features the above quote. McCall uses his finely honed skills, and occasionally, the agents and resources from his old agency, to combat the injustices perpetrated against those who can't seek protection from the law.

In many ways the Equalizer is like the Shadow. Both are out to right wrongs and fight injustice. Both have agents they use in this fight. Of course, the shadow has the strange eastern arts. The Equalizer just has wits.

Not really a lot to have to change as I see it to set this up. Bootleggers instead of drug dealers, corrupt politicians are corrupt politicians, etc.

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Another additional thought for the A-Team.

Just what was the crime they supposedly commited? IIRC they were supposed to have robbed the Bank of Hanoi. But its been awhile and I could be wrong. It was always curious to me that they didn't try and find out who actually did the job.

This is something that a GM might want to consider when prepping for the start of play.

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Ft. Leavenworth.

 

Make them Marines... although I'm not sure you're going to get a period version of Mr. T.

Thanks for the suggestion of making them Marines. That would be my preference but I had left it unspecified so that the GM could choose themself.

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Here's one that hasn't come up The A-Team

Ten years ago, a crack military unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire...the A-Team.

I think that all you probably need to do is change out the weaponry to era appropriate. Tommy Guns, etc. and figure out where they gone to ground. Not likely to be L.A. but I think that’s a matter of choice.

Also the original team was of course special forces. These didn’t come around until after the Second World War. That doesn’t have to be a definite after all they could have been trained for some special mission that history has forgotten (or never happened).

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Yes, IIRC Nazi Germany definitely had fuel problems; I've read some analyses arguing that if Hitler had had the sense to invade the Near East instead of Russia, Germany could have won the war, or at least made it last a lot longer.

The need for oil was the reason that Hitler sent Army Group A towards the Caucasus Mountains and the oil fields that were there. Of course, this left the German 6th army unsupported in attempting to capture Stalingard but that's another story.

Re: Help: Need some resources / advice for my SH Campaign...

I'm poking around in databases for the pros...

 

Turns out Struve 2993 is a high proper motion system. That is, it has a large space motion perpendicular to our line of sight. That probably means it's old. Since it's old, and probably metal-poor (and I'm looking for info about that), it probably won't have planets to begin with. I'll see if I can find info on its binary orbit. That orbit is going to be widely separated, though; a visual binary at that distance has to have a large separation.

Burnham's Celestial Handbook lists Struve 2993 as a common proper motion pair of stars. This means that they are gravitationally bound but are not orbiting each other. They are in fact traveling in the same direction maintaining a constant separation. just some facts for what it is worth.