John Desmarais

Re: Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny And you all missed out by not being at MarsCon this year to witness (or participate) in E-man's Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny game this year. Fun was had, and the good guys won. I suspect an official after action report to will be posted soon.

Re: Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers Here's a start: http://www.herostuff.net/spoo/BuckRogersEquipment.html

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore And just 'cause this wasn't enough - I give you the glory that is candied bacon: http://www.cookeatfret.com/dessert/2008/03/31/candied-bacon-coffee-ice-cream/

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Upscale grocery store chain in the north-east.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Wegmans! Mmmmmm..... Cheese Bread..... (We don't gots no Wegmans down here )

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting What kind of mundane equipment are you looking for? The equipment price list in the FH book is huge? While I occasionally look for things that aren't on it - I can usually use it to extrapolate prices based on similar items. As for how I handle it - very much like that other fantasy game that relies so heavily on 20 sided dice. Character start life with a small amount of money that they can use to purchase initial equipment (magical equipment as initial toys). From that point on they must rely on what they can earn through play for buying better/more stuff. So far as the cost of magical equipment, just make up a formula that gives you costs that seem appropriate for your setting (and adjust accordingly). "10 x Real Cost" might be ok, but it sounds a little cheap to me (unless enchanted weapons are either common or not that much more useful than normal ones), so for me "100 x Real Cost" might be more appropriate.

Re: Vampire Template

Re: "Neat" Pictures Part of my brain just tried to escape.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Pumpkin Party...

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Everything is better wrapped in bacon. http://www.divinecaroline.com/article/33616/57599-everything-better-wrapped-bacon

Mafia wants author dead by Christmas http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49D6D220081014?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69

Ok, who's gonna write up this thing? Source: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2008/10/church_tank.html

Re: War Eagles If it's just prior to WWII, shouldn't that be "...a publicly-humiliated Army Air Corps test pilot..."?

Re: ...and now he's a werepaladin... How disappointing. I read the subject and was hoping for someone who turned into a paladin once a month.

How many Pulp plots can you work this into? http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1442474520080815

Re: Fantasy Hero Resources page

Re: VOTE OFF for TEXAS I'm gonna have to go with Plasma Ranger here - if only because his costume doesn't make my eyes bleed.

Re: VOTE OFF for TEXAS Hmmm... The woman of color appears to be color-blind.

Re: Bad Movies.org reviews The Champions of Justice My brain hurts!

Re: Heroes from All Fifty States

Re: Heroes from All Fifty States North Carolina - the Tarheel Illinois - Supercollider Missouri - Gateway Girl (sort of - I like the name, but think she should be a teleporter)

Re: Which mechanic for magic works best I created many and used even more, but now that I'm old and tired I favor simplicity. The last Fantasy Hero campaign I ran I used the system straight out of the Turakian Age book - buy each spell individually but a 1/3 the "real" cost. It worked well enough and was very simple.

Re: Pulp Hero PDF adventures

Re: 20s or 30s? I typically go for the 30s as I like being able to draw heavily from the pre-WWII activities going in Europe and Asia during this time.

Re: Affecting desol help... The Pulp wonky-tech idea: Spirits are a manifestation of the electromagnetic energies that once inhabited a body. Determine the frequency that will act as a damping field to nullify that electric power and use a big Tesla coil to generate said frequency. One British inventor, H. Grindell-Matthews, actually demonstrated his "mystery ray" apparatus in 1924 to a Popular Science Monthly writer in London (See: Pop. Sci. Monthly, Aug. 1924, P. 33). When his beam was directed toward the magneto system of a gasoline engine, it stopped the system. Afterwards, it ignited gun powder, lit an electric lamp bulb from a distance and killed a mouse in seconds! Grindell-Matthews said the secret was involved with the "carrier beam" he used to conduct a high-voltage, low-frequency electrical current. During 1936, Guglielmo Marconi experimented with extremely low frequency (ELF) waves and displayed their exceptional ability to penetrate metallic shielding. These waves could affect electrical devices, overload circuits and cause machines like generators, electric motors and automobiles to stall. Diesel engines, which do not rely on electrical ignition, were not affected. Mysteriously, Marconi's research on the subject was never found after the war. Use a big Tesla coil to