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Re: Scenario up for review

Mildly off topic Ghost Archer but here is a Fast Attack, active duty, named for a President.

I just needed to pedantic today.

Great responce though.

Re: A pulp picture...the USS Manhattan

As you might know the US Navy had two Airship Aircraft Carriers, the USS Akron and the USS Macon. They successfull launched and retreived Curtis Sparrowhawk Biplanes . Both the Akron and the Macon crashed soon after commission.

Edited to correct a misspelling

Re: Class in Fantasy

Slightly off topic / Or very on topic. I found a lecture from a professor at the University of Kansas that is very intresting. That person compares the rise of the Feudal system to the rise of the American Mafia, Implying that feudalism is a protection racket caused by the breakdown of centeral government. Here is the link to the website.

Re: O.m.a.c.

Wonder Woman Blinded herself to fight a gorgon (Medusa to be exact).

And the for shadowing in the Green Lantern #4 with Spectre makes me think Ted Kord will be the next host. And the resent apperance of the Superman of Earth 1 in a story arc of Superman/Batman and the statement of Hecord Hammond at in GL:Rebirth #6 makes me think we are going to see a return of a pre-Crisis JLA/JSA in Infinate Crisis.

As far as OMAC - Apperantly Superman leveled an OMAC unit designed for him.

Re: Deathstroke

And they said the ring wasn't willpower based a few years ago, and that it was genetically keyed to Kyle. Unless they've changed it, of course...

Kyle's ring is both keyed genetically and will power based. And now may have the vulnerability to yellow as well. (by reabsorbing parallax into the central battery in the Hal Jorden resurrection)

Re: Lookin' for Darkseid in all the wrong places

Cyborg-Superman (Hank Crenshaw <Spelling>) the evil energy being that takes the form of a Cyborgnitic Kal-El survived a partal power blast , not Victor Stone the superhero called Cyborg. And that was only because Darksied wanted to have a card up his sleave in dealing with Superman. (A second full power blast contained him in a seed form for later use.)

Then you have Highfather's rarely used Alpha Bullets...

Re: Getting rid of the {tech}

I have an article I found. This should be of interest for those of you who want to use this technique in there games.

Also search Google for Fuzzy Cognative Maps for further information on these directed diagrams

Re: Getting rid of the {tech}

Great essay find. This has lot o' uses

I can see uses in situation where you have complex concepts you want to keep consitant in your game in any genre.

Re: Design Help Needed - How to BUild The LOSV's NEMESIS KID?

I believe she did it with a wish, but I am not sure now. Kantuu had great cosmic power, itty bitty brain space.

CES

Duo Damsel and Bouncing Boy opened the djinn's prison bottle unwittingly. The Guardian's forced the djinn to repay there freedom by granting three 'wishes'. Kantuu was going to destroy her but she duplacated and ordered him to recreate his prison and then stated (because the nature of Kantuu's powers) that if one of herselves died the other would wish Kantuu out of existance. He chose re-imprisonment over suicide.

I really needed a life in the 80's

Re: Traveller Psionics (long)

After some scandals in the Psionic Institutes, public opinion changed from favor to prejudice against them. A period known as the Psionics Suppressions ensued. During the Psionics Suppressions, the institutes’ charters were revoked, and talented individuals were persecuted. In some cases, the individuals fled to assume new identities on other worlds; in others, whole families emigrated to the Zhodani Consulate or elsewhere beyond the frontiers of the Imperium.

A minor nit to pick, If my memory serves me correctly, the Imperium secretly kept two Institutes off the list of those being revoked. Those Psionic Insitutes are the Insitute at Core and Spinward March Institute. The reason that the Spinward March Institute was kept operational was to study the powers and society of the Zhodanti.

The Core Institute, who knows

Also the Psionic Suppression was an attempt at psychohistroy manipulation on a grand scale that actually went beyond what the Imperium intended. It actually hurt the Imperium more then it helped it.

(This is from memory and can be wrong but It is like I had the matieral before me except I can not remember which books it came from.)

Oh and Overall I enjoy seeing Traveller Hero come allong

Re: Feedback wanted on this background idea

Here is a paranoid take on China's economic asperations from the real world.http://www.321energy.com/editorials/winston/winston020905.html

The article claims the US is being manuvered to a fall by China. I think it fits well with the over all theme of the thread and can give some food for thought.

I believe that China would quickly be on top after a total economic collapse.

In the United States, I Would see the Internet remaining up in rural areas because of wind farms and other alternet electrical generation but Interstate shipping in the US crawling to halt as the cost of petro products shoot through the roof. Major cities would have issues with food and power. Millitia groups would try to take over some of the least populated states, only to be suprised by the strong resistance by some of the population (Native Americans and the Harty folk who always lived out there would not like these outsiders telling them what to do.)

These things are what come to mind.

Edited For Clearity (I Hope)

Re: What to do with a winged ex-heroine?

So my question for the boards: Knowing what little you do about Ladyhawke and her circumstances' date=' how would you bring some closure to the character? Ideally I'd like it to bounce off the trip Minotaur wound up taking somehow, but not have her join him in forming Zodiac. I know there are some creative people out there, so... ideas?[/quote']

 

1) She became infused with the spirit of Niki, goddess of victory and now lives on Mount Olympus.

 

2) She became a messager of some great force of good or evil (the force gives her more duriblity etc)

 

3) She in tombed by magic in Eygpt and is set free by the present heros

 

That is all.

Re: I need a certain type of catastrophe

The Gray Goo solution.

Dr T.K. a reknown mathmatician and engineer at a large University secretly creates a self replecating nanomachines which destroys all refinded semiconductor materials. After much planing he releases these devices in multiple locations on earth. After only a few weeks the nanomachines destroy most of the semiconductors on earth and being that devices based on semiconductors are the only means to create the cure for them it leaves science without the means to stop the technology "infection" until another technology is found. These devices hide in the very bodies of the engineers and scientist that are trying to create semi conductors (as well as any one who has touched an infected elecronic device) making any attempt to rid the world of the devices nigh imposible.

Re: Did anyone ever write-up the DC Impact comic characters?

To be really technical the !mpact characters where licensed from Archie comics. They where Archies' 1960's superhero line. That is why no don't see DC trying to bring them in to the main universe. They where hoping to do a new universe that would bring in new readership.

Re: Advice needed: Multi->One Character.

Votron I can see being handled this way. But what if I wanted the Forever People and there ablity to become the Infinity Man? The effect is five humans becoming one being. (Of course in the comicbook it was a translocation with forever people going in to another reality and the Infinity Man replacing them.) Multiform tied to a duplicaion?

Re: Evolution of the races?

I was looking at this thread earlier and what came to mind was a Canis lupus familiaris or the dog. We (humans) created many breeds of dogs through selective breeding of traits from Canis lupus (the wolf) starting a along time ago (100,000 years?)

If an advance native or extraterrestrial group did both selective breeding and physiological manipulations in the distant past then all the classic races could all be Homo Sapien but have a much greater verity then found in humans today. There are hundred breeds of dogs with each breed showing about as much internal verity (in the breed) as the human species as a whole.

The breeds of Homo Sapien would be keep from cross breeding by usually deeply seeded and planted morays. And to throw a real wrench into it you should have the "orc" race be the ferel original speice.

Just some ramdon thougths on your request.

Re: Anyone know where I can get a good atlas?

Here is a online source of Maps The US Geological Survey Has all of US maps that are not road related. USGS Homepage And their online National MapThis should be enough to get you started (Oh here is the home site of the "National Map"). Also if you want a good Hard Copy atlas then Oxford Atlas of the World Should do but is very expensive.

Re: "You're not a REAL Hero!"

This disagreement on heroism reminds me of a story in a recent incarnation of DC's New Gods where a cops are helped by Orion and afterward is confronted by a detective deriding him a showboat "hero". Orion was offended and said to the effect "I am no hero, Those men over there are a hero." Then he grew to monstorous propotions and state "I am no hero. I am a god" and walked away.

Heros are defiined by sacrifice. And if powers exist then those who use then for the benefit of others instead self benefit are making a sacrafice.

Re: What Da Hook Gonna Be?

Here lies the Site That Shall Not Be Named For Nameing it shall bring it forth.

Re: Enterprise NC1701A vs. Imperial Star Destroyer

The Star Trek Universe has sheilds, deflector fields and structual reinforcement fields.

1. Sheilds - Absorb damage from incoming attacks and particle not defected
   
2. Deflector Fields - a energy beam that deflects particles as a velocity sheild (It produced from the dish/blue glowing area on the ships)
   
3. Structual Reinforcement - showen more in NG but mentioned in Enterprise and implyed in TOS, Used to hold the ship together (by making matter more solid)
   

Also note that in the SW, When the Millienum Falcon came into the rubble field it was mentioned by Han that it would require half the Fleet to reduce a planet to rubble IIRC.

Re: Movies

Depending how you define fantasy... I can not do Terry Gilliam's The Adventures of Baron Munchausen at all with the D&D rules. But in many ways that could be a supers adventure/campain.

"Berthold make yourself useful!"

Re: Origin suggestions needed ASAP

She's the granddaughter of an ancient wizard of Atlantis who sent her to the distant future to save her from the cataclysm that destroyed the great island state.