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Re: Magic systems based on science? Here's a thought: The super-tech is not in the people, but in the systems. For example, the weather control system has, as its main user interface component, a "mind reading technology." Now this system is programmed to prevent abuse, so it only recognizes certain people as being authorized to access it, and a specific set of commands (i.e. ceremony, or ritual) to add users to its authorization list. This allows the "Weather Wizards Cabal" to control who gets to toss lightning around, even if someone else learns (or thinks they have learned) the command words. This same technology could be commonly used in other "magical" systems, as well.

Re: Space the final frontier There was a pair of novels a long time ago (before TNG), titled "The Price of the Phoenix" and "The Fate of the Phoenix" that deal with just that possibility, iirc. or, as was done at least once in the series (to an object, not a person), defocus the transporter beam an spread them across the system without ever re-materializing. Much more humane than allowing them to suffocate in space.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares October Sky High Cthulhu on a Hot Tin Roof

Re: Half Life 2 for Hero

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares His Girl Friday the 13th Warrior Freaky Friday the 13th (a.k.a. Freddy vs. Jason 2) Hilarity ensues when Freddy and Jason switch bodies.

Re: NASA Unveils New Spaceship Plans

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing Tragedy struck the Oprah Winfrey show today as a free giveaway turned into a bloodbath seen by millions. Let's watch this clip: "Everybody look under your seats -- you all get a free Thing! ... ... No, wait ... Don't ... I ... Oh MY GO--" What? You didn't think all those dudes could get away with carrying Things without someone trying to kill them, did you?

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing Thing-carrying Dudes, and those that want to kill them -- on the next Jerry Springer. On the next Oprah: "Everybody look under your seats -- you all get a free Thing!"

Re: Announcing Kazei 5, Second Edition If you don't mind me answering your question with a question: what effect does the virus have on those who are already espers? Since the virus apparently escaped into the wild, it is going to happen. Depending on the answer, it might make sense that the leader of the zombie horde would be a pre-virus-esper turned into mega-esper-uber-zombie. Maybe the virus turned this esper into the hub of the zombie hive mind, which allows the zombies to act as one, yet turns them into your standard mindless shambler if somehow shielded from the "collective." This would allow you to take your favorite existing esper character, up the power level and give them a massive mind link. This would also make the final confrontation an epic battle through hundreds of zombies to get to the leader, and once you take that one out, the remaining zombies just wander off, or start gnawing on each other.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Shouldn't that be "let he who is without pun cast the first stoner"?

Re: "real" Magic resources I have always liked the following interpretation of the Voynich: xkcd, but it could lead to recursion if used in-game.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Six Million Dollar Marathon Man The Six Million Dollar Little Big Man

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares From the makers of C.S.I. and C.S.I. Miami ... Prints of Persia

Re: Naming the first superhero It may also depend on the time that the first supers appear. The "zeitgeist" of the 30s or 40s would yield a different name than, say, the 70s or 80s. The former would mean simpler, more "pulp"-ish names, while the latter would be more colorful. In my background, the first acknowledged super hero in the modern era appeared in 1938, and was called simply, "the Brawler." His only power was near-invulnerability, so he waded into the badguys with fists a-flyin' -- thus the name.

Re: Combat Record Sheet The HERO System Resource Kit for 5th Ed. has that as well, iirc. And, since DOJ has not yet made one for 6th Ed, it is still available.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Hmm. DragonHeart Z? Rollerball Z?

Re: "Space" music recommendation! The music from the game Homeworld is great for this.

Re: A Real life "Plain Jane"? It is called "The Crowd," and (after searching through my Bradbury books) I found it in the collection called The October Country. It was also performed on the "Ray Bradbury Theater" series on HBO (a long time ago).

Re: A Real life "Plain Jane"? Reminds me of a Ray Bradbury story, in which the main character notices that whenever there is a fatal accident certain faces always show up in the crowd of onlookers.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Dude Looks Like a Lady in Red

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Cookiefield?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares He's Your Ghost Dog, Charlie Brown I Know What You Did Last Summer, Charlie Brown

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Scarecrow and Mr. T

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing If I take the thing from the dude what has been until I killed him carrying the thing, will I not then become the dude with the thing, and thus subject to being killed by others, to facilitate their taking of the thing? Why do I want the thing again? PS. Okay, I am very late to this party, and it is apparently too late for me to notice that the thread is 19 pages long, and probably already contains this gag at least once. Sorry.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Leave it to Bolivar