Remjin

Re: New Supers Miniature Line There's also lance and laser, which is... umm... okay... lanceandlaser.com for those interested. Everyone has their tastes. Not too bad though. Better than some others. =)

Re: New Supers Miniature Line Who else makes superhero figs? Aren't there some for silver age sentinels? I believe those are better sculpts.

Re: New Supers Miniature Line Superfigs... good concept, bad execution... they can't even get anyone good to paint them. The sculpting is just bad, poor proportions and bad design overall. Occasionally there are good ones, though. The blackhat ones didn't look too stellar, but they were more consistent in their sculpting. If you want to check out my one superfig, http://home.comcast.net/~remjin is the address. Not my best work, by any means, but at least better than the company website's photo

Re: The things I learned playing a ninja!

Re: Steve's Chat Tonight (Thursday, June 15) Now a mink flambé, that would be worth talking about!

Re: Steve's Chat Tonight (Thursday, June 15) Badgers? We don' need no stinkin' badgers!

Re: The things I learned playing a ninja! ...only ninja posers wear pajamas and a scarf on their head. Its a dead giveaway. A silk teddy and high heels makes for a positive distraction when you are a female ninja, it acts almost like invisibility for a male ninja because people tend to look away as fast as possible, sometimes breaking their own necks to avoid this sight, and the resulting vomiting from those not instantly killed distracts them so that you may do your job. Everyone just prefers not to see you. Hiding in the meat section at the grocery store really really sticks to your clothes. When security is high, everybody thinks vents and air ducts... but this never works, because EVERYONE thinks vents and air ducts. Hardly anyone thinks of balloon animals as lethal. The biggest no-no in scaling buildings is doing it nude, no matter how much of a bonus you get for being unhindered. Especially those glass buildings, where one becomes a squeegee.

Re: Storn Art from idea to full picture Year 3 Possibly, but the ideas are always interesting in any case. =)

Re: Storn Art from idea to full picture Year 3

Re: Need help with a name.

Re: Storn Art from idea to full picture Year 3 Yeah, but how do you draw that? Usually this type of concept ends up being the same as a silhouette with images pasted into it. Sort of neat, but kind of boring for this context.

Re: Storn Art from idea to full picture Year 3 ... how about a modern style knight, gathering actual light to wield in his cause? An aggressive semi-kneeling position with a sword held out in front of him, vertically, a blade of blazing light (using soft effects, not hard, giving the impression of a bright holy light in the shape of a blade, kind of like sunlight through clouds when it comes down in shafts of light). Probably his... left hand in front, with right leg forward. Left leg way back as if ending a lunge, right hand behind him and up, palm skyward, gathering dawn's light into his palm. How's that for powered armor? - Remjin "Life is the dream from which you wake..."

Re: Storn Art from idea to full picture Year 3 Well, lessee... I like the lady inside the ice hulk idea. Reminds me a little bit of the force fields and such from Dune, the original movie. Could be a very cool look, depending on how it was portrayed. To contribute, I saw that ice character ideas were requested... to me, all too often are cold/ice characters blasters or hephalumps of some sort. Why not a more finesse or even martial ice character? Instead of showering things with snowballs and freeze rays, how about obsidian-style ice knives for throwing and a spear of ice as his main weapons? How about taking it to a chinese origin, perhaps conjoin a drunken boxing idea to it. I see thick, coarse black hair hung long and ragged, vaguely wrapped in a frosty thong with a frosty red rose. Entirely black eyes, filled with remorse. A light blue pleated suit pant with a touch of purple (perhaps as a shade color), a sash of eloquent white silk. Armani shoes, pointed and shined, black as tar, to go with the shirt of the same color, top button undone. A white silk tie, lose but tied. Spear in hand, the prodigal son returned, to find no father, just the weak solace of a drink... steaming from its canister, marked NO2. =) Drunken ice spear, coldest killer of them all. Perhaps a bit melodramatic, but that's my mood tonight. If the light blue/purplish shade/white highlights with the black & white simples don't strike the right color idea perhaps it could be changed to a series of dawn/dusk reflections off of ice type items which always seems to work for glass/metal pictures. I'm not an artist. Get inspiration for the spear or spear-wielder from the starting fight in Hero (with Jet Li). =) Or, we could follow current trends in general for either brick or otherwise. I mean, what's hot right now? What's old is new, as muscle cars and 70's style seems to be coming back with new modern highlights. Why not do the same with our new hero and follow in that idea? How about a Bruce Lee kind of face and expression to go with a Steve McQueen (ala Bullitt) sort of dress. Give the character a Vin Diesel kind of build/profile and make him cool with a pair of oversized sunglasses and a sneer, bald in a cool way, with a brick-like demeanor for smashing but looking cool while doing it. I'm picturing a dark brown/black leather coat with a small fur fringe collar, a little small for the overstuffed upper body. Black tank shirt with red crushed velvet style highlights. Oversized buckle on a thick leather belt, dark colored jeans with the brighter fringe stitches in yellow/orange and boots/shoes of a workman's type. Hands in those driving gloves that only look good in comic books. Pose him using one car as an impromptu shield while he grabs a fistful of another. Dunno, I'll wait and see what else comes up. =) i have more ideas.

Re: The things I learned playing a gunbunny

Re: Need help with a name. Devil Masks are so passe'... Try something different, if he has that much of a guilty conscience, mayhap an affectation with less caricature appeal. Devil faces are just behind skulls for generic. Hmm... all my ideas are sounding hokey to me, though... surgical mask, scarf to cover his face, perhaps a more stylized set of horns, perhaps wrought from a golden ring on his head. Then you could work the halo and the devil imagery together in a sense and have an incongruent mix of symbols that are easily recognizable. When I say ring, I mean more like a circlet for his skull rather than an actual floating thing, like a minimalist crown. Afterall, Lucifer was an Angel once, too. *shrug* Just some ideas.

Re: Looking for Unremarkable heroes! Sonnet was same as Poet... =) I think you mislabeled. Interesting as an overall concept. I'll have to check this out...

Re: Need help with a name. So far, from what I've seen, I liked "The Fix" best as it has that double-connotation you were looking for... involving his habit and what he's about. Its simple, it works, its not overwrought with testosterone and flash image gimicks. If not that, a play off it like FixIt, TrueFix, etc. If you want to follow in that general path, then perhaps sum it up as "Irony." Not so sure its such a good name though. Perhaps Transcendence, though that sounds very uppity. I better stop before I sound any more hokey.

Re: The things I learned playing a gunbunny Hmmm... things I learned as a gunbunny.... Handguns are only useful because they're easy to carry, easy to conceal, and fun to play with. Lasers on said pistols are mostly a communications device... communicating the likely demise or any specific body part to your current acquaintance. Shotguns that are cut-down enough become handguns. These are usually over/under or side-by-side. Low on repetition, but its hard to miss at point blank with an area effect. Otherwise, shotguns are both intimidating and loud. Real shotguns have a pump action, automatics are for gunbunnies with soft shoulders and high-volume tear ducts. There is no ammunition besides buckshot and slugs. Everything else classifies as firecrackers, pyrotechnics, and "not readily available" which might bring one to "conserve ammunition" - a sacriligious phrase if I ever heard one. Rifles are for more professional work. We use rifles when things get serious. Up until now, we've just been playing around. High caliber and high volume in precisely placed amounts. Think Heat, not Rambo, and make the enemy clutch their teddy bears and cry for their mommas. Snipers are boring and are not true gunbunnies. See first part of rifles, negate high volume displacements. True professionals are boring because they are far too efficient. Efficiency is anti-thesis to the gun-bunny who must always take the hardest way... its in the rulebook. Gunbunnies should not use swords. Using a sword means you put down a gun, which is bad. If you must use a sword, let it be something besides a katana... katanas are done, katanas are way overdone. However, it must be acknowledged that katanas (and most asian swords) are very cool. If you must use a blade, try something different, like a roman cestus, or a swiss army knife. Think how mean you have to be to kill people with a corkscrew and then a mini-scissor! ********************************************* Gun-bunny movie references: Equilibrium, Army of Darkness, Heat, Hard Boiled, The Killer, Mission: Impossible 2. Should get you started anyway!

Re: We're Gonna Need Guns Don't ask me if this is pertinent, or even if it makes sense... but the whole gun subject is always fun. Here are some of my thoughts.. just person thoughts and preferences, I guess... not sure how it would pertain to the game. =) Maybe I'm just amongst the minority... but I've never had that fascination for overly huge super uber caliber weapons that can shoot out to 1000+ yards. I also don't find them that much fun in a game. Its always interesting to read and talk about, but I just don't have a jones to own one. I haven't shot much with scopes, really hardly at all, except for a few rounds through a Ruger 10/22. I learned iron sights, mostly standard notch and post stuff, no target sights, just plain jane basics. For a rifle give me a nice, reasonable round like the .308/7.62x39mm for a rifle, or even the venerable .30-06. Heck, make it in .270 or 7mm, I'm not that picky. Make it semi-automatic, forget all the magnums and fifteen rails added to every side of the weapon to attach a million peripherals. Give it a good set of iron sights, preferably of the ghost/peep type for me, with a nice low profile rail for quick-detach rings. Make the whole thing tough, the kind of rifle I can drop in the mud, use as a camp tool to pound in stakes, and still hit nice tight groups at reasonable ranges. Give it a good sized magazine, nothing crazy, and keep it semi-automatic... maybe with a burst mode. Light is dandy, but I'd rather have the weight if it'll make it stronger. Make a carbine version. Skip the folding stocks, but keep the pistol grip or pistol grip stock. I don't want a thumb hole, I want a big freakin' space to tuck my hand in. I don't want the butt to break if I actually have to butt-stroke someone. If I'm gonna sling something under the rifle, I'd really rather have a shotgun. Just seems more useful. The Springfield M1A seems like a nice fit.. except I can't afford it right now. =) What would be even better sometimes? A pistol caliber carbine... not many of those around anymore, but oh so useful. Something short, handy, with a large magazine of like 30 rounds. Best thing about this type of weapon is the lack of recoil compared to a full-caliber rifle. Even if you never really use it, probably the most fun to take to the range, and you can shoot it at any range.. because it just uses pistol ammunition. For me, make it a .45 ACP. Somebody make the tommy gun of the modern age, please? And make one in semi-automatic, so I can own it faster. I'll do the paperwork for the spray-and-laugh version later. Give me the fully automatic option, some ghost rings, an intergal flashlight with one of those fancy xenon lights from SureFire with the ridiculous lumens (250?? *drool*). I want a portable spotlight on my freakin' gun. Its fun. It encourages not pointing the dangerous end at ur face... (sad, scarey story at the range.. along with the girl who felt she needed to cover me with her muzzle while talking to her father... falling off a stool onto concrete = not fun) Again, a shotgun round or two under it would be fun, but probably unlikely. Call me a dork. I love shotguns, nothing better in close quarters as far as I'm concerned. I love shotguns for two reasons... big, fat ammunition makes me happy; and a high power factor at close ranges is my most likely scenario. Only time I'd have a long gun in general would be in my house or out hunting. I haven't hunted since I was out with my dad back in highschool. Not sure how that's pertinent. Anyway, back to the shotgun thing.. Its familiar, it has tradition, it has "cool factor" for games. Its loud, its grossly destructive, it takes the guesswork out of shot placement. Make mine a semi-auto, with an intergal light, with ghost sights (I know, I just love those sights... so easy to use.) Give it a short barrel to the tune of 18" and a full tube. A sidesaddle is always good, a solid stock, and let's keep it black. OD green may be popular, but it makes a shotgun look funny to me. Quality wood and blueing is nice, and very beautiful... and expensive. I'll stick to the standard, maybe pop for something harder. Starting with a Remington 1100 would be good. 2 3/4" shells are enough, Hevi-Shot No. 4 Buck would be best, and some nice rifled HP slugs just in case. If not a semi, pump shotguns are hard to beat for reliability... an 870 would be perfect, set up the same as the 1100. With pistols I have two loves... both of which I own. A S&W 629 V-comp is a beautiful revolver, and revolvers feel so good in my hands. Of course, it helps that its a tack-driver. There's also a beauty to revolvers in general, I think, compared to the semi-automatics out there. Yet, there is something to be said about semi-automatics. My current personal favorite? A wide-body Springfield 1911A1 Loaded. It feels good in the hand, is more accurate than I can currently shoot, and has 14+1 rounds of .45 ACP if I should need them. Good times and good guns. Now as for the game request, obviously it can't make it into Dark Champions since its just come out... but really, what would I like to see? I don't know. There's so much out there already, I'm not really interested in lists so much as the rules to make whatever catches someone's fancy. I apologize for the long, rambling, completely random and lost patterns of my post... I just felt like posting. =)

Re: I have it! I have it! YAY! Gonna go stop by the shop tommorow then on my way to ALL YOU CAN SUSHI!!!

Re: I made the GM cry.... Hehe, that story with Telly is great... and probably a real good illustration of how we, as gamers, take so many things for granted on "how it should be done." This is why there are so many articles out there about playing outside of knowing the game mechanics, and why a fresh perspective is always fun! It reminds me of a guy who ran a D&D campaign for a rather attention deficit crew of I was with for a while (I swear, there was a new game every month, at least, and no one game ever seemed to last). He told us nothing much about the setting (Iron Kingdoms, when it was just a character primer book), gave no character restrictions, and told us he was running a module. Great. I bought the book, loved the idea of playing an Ogrun (basically a half-ogre) worshipping The Devourer Worm (a force of chaos) that had broken from his clan in search of his own path to being a warlord. I wrote a brief history and characterization, put together a character sheet, and handed it to the GM who looked it over and approved it. I even made him recheck it because of who I worshipped, my alignment, and my motivations. "Its fine," he says. So as the plot rolls along, we're asked, along with my Trollkin buddy (pseudo-troll) of mercenary intent, a gobber (goblin) rogue of dubious morality and love of nudity, and various other more standard characters... to assist a holy priest of Morrow (directly opposing my god) to solve a mystery involving grave robbery with no compensation except for a place to stay during the festival. I'm gonna interrupt here by apologizing for this story being off-genre, and long for a first post. So I blame no one for being annoyed by this, but this story does have a point related to this conversation. Also, I need to point out that me and my buddy (playing the Trollkin) are amongst the minority in believing that the character is more important than the typical video game rpg mentality.. the other guy (which made three of us, amongst about 18-25 total people in this little 'club') wasn't playing because he didn't like this GM (we had never met him). (sorry about the excessive parenthetical asides =) So, most of the party, including a neutral evil warrior type, agrees to this mission. I find it odd, and really against what my character would do, but in the spirit of trying to get along, I demand to get paid if we get anywhere with it. A promise is all that's necessary. Can't get it, in fact, the GM starts getting angry that we're not going along and can't understand why we're being such @#%&s. I calmly explain why it doesn't make any sense for a mercenary and a questing warlord-wannabe to just up and do good deeds, especially with non-good alignments and a clearly stated purpose "please refer to my character write-up. Did you even read it?" I end up going along with it anyway... just because. Me and the merc make up a reason that'll fit into the story somehow... but its lame. L8er, in a dungeon, we come across rat jerky. (yes, its actually in the module... ) Me and the Troll (both from decidedly unrefined cultures) eat it. He's furious. He's disgusted. So am I, but not about the jerky. L8er that week I get a call telling me we've both been kicked out of the game... and that we're supposed to be kicked out of the group because he doesn't like us. Sounds like I'm in the majority in having played with dip$@#%s like this. Mind you, in Champions, I've never had a bad experience... but then again, I've only played with guys I already knew were fun to play with... Wish I had a group like that now...