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  1. T-Minus Fourteen Hours and One Minute (Or So) To Gametime

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    Re: T-Minus Fourteen Hours and One Minute (Or So) To Gametime

     

    Y'know, I think it was Mas Oyama who said that he could take one group of students and run drills all day, and have the other group meditate on actual combat and the practice of karate all day, and that the second group would be superior.

     

    I assume you've been thinking about Champs quite a bit, considering -- so put the past problem with the unrelated group behind you and go in with no expectations. Or, as my dad said, "Quit playing the last hole and play this one."

     

    Of course, I'm running tomorrow and I've got stage fright, and these are people I've RUN before.

  2. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

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    Re: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

     

    I didn't even get an impression that she had any interest in kid O'Connel until the script started bashing you over the head with it.

     

    Wooden as a fence post. When she is happy to give up her immortality, it doesn't seem to have ANYTHING to do with the fact that she'll be "free" to date the kid. Kind of a nebulous relationship to give up eternity for, IMHO.

     

    Her lack of ability was distracting.

  3. Rocketship Empires

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    Starting a Rocketship Empires 1936 one-shot tomorrow, to see if my players like the concept. It's outer-space pulp, based on a roughly WWII technological facade over Martian biotechnology.

     

    So, naturally, our characters will start out in a bar. However, they're pre-cooked and already know each other, being crew on a tramp "freighter" which is more like a light gunship. More to come.

  4. Superhumans pulling an Authority

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    Re: Superhumans pulling an Authority

     

    I became interested in this thread just because so many contributors to it eventually got banned.

     

    As to the original idea, it makes a better story than a game, IMHO. His characters would, as was pointed out, wind up setting more policy than kicking a$$. Why not just play Diplomacy or something similar?

     

    I prefer a$$-kicking games. More cathartic.

  5. What's the Simplest Way To Do This?

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    Re: What's the Simplest Way To Do This?

     

    Hmm . . . 'link' was a bad word, especially since I was envisioning a disadvantage. The first MP would be the "control". You build the MPs with the same amount of slots. Each of the "slaved" MPs would be bought with the disadvantage, "Can only use the same number slot as control". Disadvantage level to taste, I'd give it a -1/2, but I could see it as high as a -1 considering the way it could lock out 2/3rds or more of the powers at a time. I like the concept, may try it for a shapeshifter.

  7. Between a Brick and a Hard Place: Martial throw

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    Re: Between a Brick and a Hard Place: Martial throw

     

    Wow, that's a lot of g-stress starting and finishing. Looot of g-stress.

     

    If we break the phase down into sections, half would be move, a little less than half would be attack, and then a small slice of time for k/b. I think a throw of 40" would be about half a phase, and flight would be a full phase, so there's your ability to catch up. Knockback would technically be much faster accelleration and decelleration, but not as much raw top speed, or they'd go much farther.

     

    Or, whatever's more fun.

  9. Skrull vs. Avengers

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    Re: Skrull vs. Avengers

     

    What I've long wanted to see is a storyline featuring the last of the Skrullian Eternals. The Skrulls were supposed to have had "normal" and "Eternal" strains due to Celestial experimentation, until the shapeshifting "Deviant" branch of the race achieved dominance.

     

    I imagine the last and strongest Skrull Eternal having fought and hunted the Deviant Skrulls alone for eons, until they finally captured him (or her). The Skrulls imprisoned and tortured the SE in revenge for many millennia, which is why we've never seen or heard of him. But something happens which finally frees him. Maddened from his long torment he goes on a rampage, seeking to exterminate the Skrulls even if it means destroying the universe along with them. As humans have had the greatest success thwarting the Skrull Empire, his quest eventually leads him to Earth...

     

    Wow. Why aren't YOU writing the Avengers?

  10. Skrull vs. Avengers

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    Re: Skrull vs. Avengers

     

    Why did they leave off wolverine? Wasn't he a member of every superteam that ever existed?

     

    There's gotta be an equation that correlates over-exposure and diminishing returns. He was my favorite character in the early eighties. Now, I just kinda groan inwardly when I see him, and I see him EVERYWHERE. :thumbdown:

  17. league of extraordinary PULP HEROs

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    Re: league of extraordinary PULP HEROs

     

    After his mother died, victim of a mugging/shooting in the streets of Rome, Dr. Giovanni Rossali turned his back on a huge criminal empire built on his powers of hypnosis and blackmail, and turned his attention towards avenging his mother. An outcast from Rome's underworld, he preyed on street criminals, interrogating them in alleys under hypnosis, and then dispatching them with fists or pistols.

     

    Once he tracked down his mother's killer, he realized he could never return to crime, and now he sets his sights on crime, wherever his wandering uncovers it. And many are the criminals whose last vision is the tall man, with the black clothes and trenchcoat, and the hellish, mesmerizing eyes . . .

  20. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

    in Pulp Hero

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    Re: The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor

     

    They got Maria Bello (Payback, History of Violence) to play Fraser's wife.

    I also though Yeoh should have gotten more screen time, since she was probably the best actress in the piece.

    The mention that mummies were found in South America after the brother leaves for there to escape mummies . . . so no bet, it's a sure thing.

    Not that big a fan of Oded Fahr, not when you compare him to Jet Li. :)

  21. The Practice Effect

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: The Practice Effect

     

    Yes, but only the L'Toff could make the improvements permanent.

     

    How about this: you can only double the amount of points 'built into' the weapon at the beginning. The last point has to be from a character's own reserve of XP to be permanent. Or should it cost more?

  22. If you act, as you think . . .

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: If you act, as you think . . .

     

    I don't quite know what you mean by synchronicity. I've looked it up and all I can find is about the relation of, on the surface, unrelated things.

     

    If so your talking about a precognition that doesn't let you see the future per se but allows you to read "unrelated" background happenings and guide you to what you want to do, or happen. I'm not even sure it would be a limitation on the power since it functions the same even though the data comes through odd. If it had an limitations on it at all it would be something like "doesn't function or functions poorly when events start interacting to fast to track" or "fuzzy around chaotic swirls in the synch stream." So the sniper would see the leaf, know it's his cue to shoot, but after the shot is fired too much chaos is happening to get a good reading for the next few minutes.

     

    I could be wrong about what I think you mean though. If so let me know and I'll see if I can generate a better answer.

     

     

    Exactly. Being able to see or sense underlying patterns in seemingly coincident forces or events. He sees the leaf, and fires because the straight fall of the leaf indicates the straight shot, even without a causal connection.

     

    Not synergy, btw, but thanks. :)

  23. Cool Guns for your Games

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: Cool Guns for your Games

     

    Ugh. California. Makes no sense. I do like having the extra rounds... even if I never use 'em. Better than reloading.

     

    Worse yet -- trying to get an actual tenth round in the magazine is not worth it -- so I only put in eight. Stupid California.

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