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If MLB ever considers putting a team in Mexico City, they had better get some super powerful humidors. Baseball was never intended to be played at 7000+ feet of elevation.

given the alarming frequency at which police arrive at the wrong address and shoot to kill, I would be hesitant to summon them to anywhere nearby.

If you zoom out enough, it'll end up looking a lot like the run of MHA/BNHA the anime series. 

Many campaigns will omit the origin story bits and training arcs and just launch into the portion of the storyline where every PC is a fully functional superhero. YMMV. In any case, the usual champions campaign is going to start with stopping a bank heist and introduce them to existing hero organizations, law enforcement, villains and NPCs.

After some intervening run ins with recurring villains, PCs will eventually start picking up clues about something really big brewing. Often some aspect of their origin story or power source is going to have some resonance or even catalyst like effect on this BAD THING which sort of puts them squarely in the spotlight in trying to shut down this potentially existential crisis.

The big finale is the final push to putting a stopper in the big bads trying to bring their master plan to fruition. How much filler your insert between the start and end is up to you and your table.

If your PCs have a united element of their origins or background that can be leveraged to craft the ultimate plan of DOOM, so much the better. If you have an extremely random assortment of PCs, it will take much more creativity in involving everyone equally so it doesn't seem like any one PC is the focus of the campaign.

Looks like MEAT's back on the menu, comerades!

Black Cards from the lyrics of a Steely Dan song. 

Your black cards can make you money so you hide them when you're able
In the land of milk and honey, you must put them on the table

Nice and innocuous. Maybe a little ominous.

Trout runs the count full before striking out on a nasty slider. And now they get to go to the Angels.

12 minutes ago, BoloOfEarth said:

I was going to post this in the Funny Pics thread, but worried someone would go all gun-rights on it, so I'm posting it here instead.  The patent for the most American mousetrap ever.

AMERICAN PROBLEMS CALL FOR AMERICAN SOLUTIONS

1 hour ago, Old Man said:

 

Don't forget the mass abduction of thousands of small children, the deliberate efforts to suppress or destroy Ukrainian language and culture, and the officially sanctioned rape campaigns.

I think many of those allegations about deSantis may end up being true, but for now, we'll have to stick to what he's said and done on the record.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/3/14/us-republican-desantis-calls-ukraine-war-a-territorial-dispute

Frankly, I don't think that territorial disputes include things like assassination attempts or making an armored and airborne assaults on your neighbor's capitol city, but what do I know?

Panzer Kunst

Just as a point of reference, the NBAs 3 point shooting contest gives competitors 70 seconds to shoot up to 25 balls from between 22 and 23.75 feet away from the basket and you also have to move about 70 feet to get to where all of the balls are placed. Most of the participants finish all of their shots within the time limit, so their SPD must be over 4.

5 hours ago, Opal said:

Which is weirdly realistic, in itself.

 

 

10 accurate rounds? more like 10 nominally directed rounds. It's not like you took the time to set and brace between each shot. Because then you'd have an even lower ROF.

3 hours ago, Dr. MID-Nite said:

Those kids look thrilled...

 

They live in Arkansas.

18 hours ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

 

A lot of that is covered with combined attacks, automatic weapons, and special combat maneuvers.  There's a big difference between leaning back in your chair with a controller and actually being out there doing it in person.

regardless the interface, giving a person a semiautomatic weapon and finding they have a ROF of 10 rounds per minute seems ludicrously low.

I don't honestly see the point in limiting SPD to such low numbers for the sake of 'realism'. If you tried to play a FPS and limit your reaction time to 6 or 4 second blocks, you would be pwned SO HARD.

Trained people doing things they are good at act and react so much faster than a 4 SPD would. Maybe even faster than a 6 SPD.

A loooongtime friend who I met playing Champions in the early 80s gifted me a figma from his collection which has since been claimed by Miku.

Robot Ninja Tobikage (Flying/Leaping Shadow) Doesn't get much more ninja than that.

Here's a video with a bunch of (mostly) japanese robots organized by size with names in english.

Yeah, but if your state limits gun ownership to those over the age of 18, good luck finding a dog that lives that long...

I don't want to imagine the police crackdown on Tennessee's anti drag show law finding out what happens at Anime Cons...

3 hours ago, Clonus said:

 

It would be kind of difficult for black people to say they "agree" with a white supremacist slogan even if the sentiment in unobjectionable when taken strictly at face value.  

What I take away from those statistics is that about 48% of the respondants had no idea of the origin of the phrase they were reacting to.

Today I Learned: California is the partner of Ukraine in the State Partnership Program.

This partnership started in 1993 and has included in the past unit(s) of that state's National guard deploying to the partner country. Obviously not right now though.

Unsurprisingly, Georgia's partner state is Georgia.

The other complaint against Barrier's implementation is that it is the replacement for Force Wall. You could never build a 60 active point Force wall that was as unreasonable as a bog standard Barrier.