Maelstrom

Re: Need help for the Pittsburgh Batcave I'd stay away from the mystical pocket dimensions and stay with the iconic underground cave. Maybe a series of formerly-collapsed mining tunnels? Or mined-out tunnels? If they'd already been collapsed, it's unlikely that mining companies would stray into them.

Re: The Wisdom of Solomon? I don't think Solomon would wander around in red tights and a Liberace-inspired cape. Wisdom is insight, though. How about: 4d6 Luck? For that bolt from the blue that inspires him to look the right way, the intuition that causes him to find the clue?

Re: Need an organization name You could always steal "Star Labs", of course, as Wilde pointed out. A lot of modern companies try to make up brands, for various reasons. FUTgen Laboratories EnvIRON 4R (you pick which R's) THINK Inc. More traditionally: Research Strategies, LTD. Intertech (one I use quite a bit)

Re: A Renaissance Man PS: Warrior with enough CLs and perhaps MA. PS: Writer with KS: Poetry and 5-pt Perk Poetic License optional PS: Statesman with Oratory and Persuasion.

Re: Fictional Cities I use San Francisco, which is a little of both.

Re: why the UNITED NATIONS? (for global super-agency)

Re: why the UNITED NATIONS? (for global super-agency)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Voices" by Disturbed, on iTunes

Re: Orion's Arm Worldbuilding Project Wow! There's a lot here! Too bad their own RPG site seems to have gone moribund. I love the clades, but some of the ships are a little too simple for me -- no versimilitude.

Re: Traveller Hero, a major announcement If Traveller HERO doesn't pan out, will you be reposting your PDF?

Re: Musings on Random Musings Patience . . . and hard work. Get out and mingle. "Excuse me, are you going to be walking to your car alone, later? I'll be sitting over here watching you all night." -- Dane Cook

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER I worry about the battery packs in hybrids having to be replaced. I hear it's expensive.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Eight Skilled Gentlemen. Amazing.

Re: How would you build this...? A transform with a heal would be the easiest -- the heal is overcoming the collar. Otherwise, just make it continuous and leave the collar as a special effect.

Re: Scenario ideas inspired by other media THAT sounds like fun. I haven't played DI in a long time.

Re: New Campaign Start Idea - Critiques Wanted I ran a game that started this way: "You have all busted out of jail. You were all in jail because you were guilty. Explain how and why." Of course, after the initial character work, the game started in media res outside the prison wall -- chase scene!

Re: Unusual Character Ideas "Stop or you'll be wearing white shoes after Labor Day, I so SWEAR IT!"

Re: Unusual Character Ideas "Stop or I'll turn your aqueous humor opaque black."

Re: Unusual Character Ideas My brother -- (dive for cover) -- came up with A-list. A major-league celebrity, his powers were entirely based on what he could do in the movies. Also, Ricochet -- a Dark Champions type gunslinger. Except that he's an extra-dimensional mage, and the guns aren't even a special effect -- they are completely meaningless -- take them away from him and you're as likely as not to find out that they're completely solid, or made from hollow chocolate, or similar. That and a leather-duster-of-many-things, and a 4-color attitude, and Dormammu's number on speed-dial . . . I neer get concepts like this. My oddest concept was in an AD&D game, and the GM rolled it randomly. Ready? Were-rat. Engineer. Pacifist. Coward. Bad personal habits and hygiene (almost goes without saying for a w-r). Brilliant. "Now, roll-play it, Mike." It was so fun I hung onto the character for over a decade.

Re: Character Post: Stopwatch This is a great Time controller. I had been contemplating some of the issues you deal with, but without your level of success.

Re: National Warrior Archetypes Yeah, but we're AMERICANS! We'll romanticize anything! Ask the Washington Redskins, the Atlanta Braves, the Chicago White Sox . . .

Re: Alpha Male Contest Ja! Hear me now and believe me later!

Re: Old version of Star Hero

Re: Alternate Earth 20: Paradise Island Lost

Re: Movies Yeah, really. A singing horse. That's just silly.