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Tom Cowan

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    Tom Cowan reacted to Cygnia in "Neat" Pictures   
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    Tom Cowan reacted to BoloOfEarth in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    A police officer used to park across the street from a local bar and would watch everybody leaving the bar.  Those that looked the least bit drunk, he would pull over as soon as they got out of the bar's parking lot.  
     
    After a few weeks of this, he was sitting in his normal place when he saw a man come staggering out of the bar.  The officer watched as the man made his way to a car and tried repeatedly to unlock the door before realizing he was at the wrong car.  Staggering to the correct car, he finally got the door unlocked but fell into the back seat.  Unable to start the engine from there, he eventually laid down and appeared to pass out.
     
    The police officer decided he was going to nail this guy, so he watched and waited as other bar patrons walked out, got into their cars, and drove off.  Finally, the man in the car sat up, climbed into the front seat, started the car, and pulled out of the parking lot.  Of course, the police officer hit the siren and lights, and pulled the man over.  
     
    The officer gave the driver a breathalyzer test, and it came out 0.0 - completely sober.  Dumbfounded, the officer said "I'll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station. This breathalyzer equipment must be broken".
     
    "I doubt it", said the man. "Tonight I'm the designated decoy."
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Quackhell in How Would You Run My Heroes In A Hurry Villains?   
    I don't have an active campaign so these are just some general musings.
     
    Miss Innocent would be introduced after mind controlling an associate of one of the heroes. This would play out with the heroes eventually seeing her as someone to be reformed and turned to the side of good.
     
    Winterblade would be a minor villain that is bested by the heroes while committing a robbery but would develop into a rival of one hero in particular, especially if they are a speedster. He would keep popping up to antagonize the hero and their team possibly joining forces with other villains for strength in numbers.
     
    Professor Hyde would be a major villain in the campaign with Blackhead acting as his henchmen. He is responsible for other creations that plague the heroes over time or an epidemic in the main city where his drugs turn the population into monsters. He would also inflict one or more of the heroes with his drugs after capturing them, leading to a quest for a cure.
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Cancer in The "Nice Happy" Thread   
    I've only been summed for jury duty once, and they seated no juries that day so I got off free.  I may be on the "scientist" blacklist (no one wants intelligent, rational jurors who are smarter than the lawyers).
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    Tom Cowan reacted to tkdguy in The cranky thread   
    My uncle in Toronto is in the hospital for pneumonia. It's pretty bad.
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Steve in Favourite Mediaeval Setting?   
    Maybe due to the chocolates?
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Rich McGee in Plucky Female Reporter   
    I have a fellow player in one of our games whose secret ID is a plucky female reporter (her heroic ID being a luck-manipulating street fighter vigilante type) but I can't think of any NPC versions.  A different campaign has a rookie police officer who's pretty much doing the whole "in over her head" thing Lois Lane tended towards back in the day, but she's not technically a reporter, of course.   
     
    There's a pair of recurring news crews in the campaign I run, which are a mix of male and female and spend as much time competing with each other (they're from different stations) as they do actually filming, but I don't think I'd call any of them plucky.  My players' collective opinion of the whole lot of them as potential romantic interests is Hell, No!  There's also a sleazy tabloid reporter gal who shows up now and then, but she's more of a menace to the PCs' public images than anything else.
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    Tom Cowan reacted to wcw43921 in Pulp Images   
    Fantasy RPG have the town tavern.  Sci-Fi RPGs have the bar at the spaceport.  Western RPGs have the saloon.
     
    For Pulp RPGs--it's the diner.






     
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    Tom Cowan reacted to tkdguy in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    If some supernatural force is helping Dump, it sure as hell ain't  coming from above.
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Is Resistant Flash (or Mental or Power) Defense redundant?   
    Yeah its going to be a really, really rare circumstance, but maybe some villain creates the flash gun that does killing damage to anyone without resistant flash defense.  As a GM I would probably bop with a nerf bat any player who tried to buy that sort of build, but its theoretically possible.
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Cancer in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    I see "goblin" is the new word for "4-year-old".
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Cancer in The cranky thread   
    Faster than expected. 
     
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Pariah in Funny Pics II: The Revenge   
    A couple of funnies from xkcd:
     

     

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    Tom Cowan reacted to Cancer in The cranky thread   
    Today the prognosis was made terminal.
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    Tom Cowan reacted to tkdguy in Extra! Extra! Read All About It!   
    Game Designer Jenell Jaquays Passes
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    Tom Cowan reacted to Cygnia in Political Discussion Thread (With Rules)   
    Don't you know?  It's only legal when the Republicans do it! </sarcasm>
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