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Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships What I meant was, what technology/Star date? I always preferred the early years (and even The Early Years module) before SFB became a modern surface warfare game masquerading as an SF game. Pre General War? During the General War? Post? As an aside, I recall one campaign where the Hydran declared that all fighter pilots were required to be aspirants to the Royal Throne. "We git rid of several thousand every campaign."

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships OK gang. Lots of food for thought here. I'll think on the responses and post proper replies in the next day or two. A n'B et al: What era? I can't see Hydrans being all that dangerous with fighters armed with P IIIs and no warp boosters.

Re: Star Fleet Battles Starships

Not necessarily a Constitution Class cruiser, but how would HEROdom design starships that could move, maneuver, and trade shots at FTL?

Re: Bard villain/mastermind: how? To expand on my earlier post: A bard is more than a spell caster with the incantation and extra time limitations. As useful as that ability is, the bard is a loremaster, a herald, sometimes an official emissary, and more often an unofficial one. The bard's more useful power is his ability to say just the right thing to accomplish his goal. Be it to amuse ("please put money in the hat"), exhort ("We few, we JOLLY few!") or to sway a wavering noble ("You need to decide where your loyalties lie!"), a bard is an excellent persuader. That he could get fed up with courtly intrigue and decide to make like Samson in the Temple isn't out of reach at all.

Re: Your "2012" Pet Gaming Projects RU converting it to Hero? Do you plan on using any other of the ancient CofC scenarios on the side?

Re: Bard villain/mastermind: how? A bard deals in secrets, hypocrisy, lies, as his unit of currency. It wouldn't be hard to conclude that anyone claiming to have a moral compass was only lying to himself. Also, just as a halfling could be head of the local thieves' guild, there is nothing preventing a bard from becoming a spy master, to the head of the secret police, to the power behind the throne, if not the occupant thereof.

Re: Superbabes to Champions... character sheets needed. Something I've always been curious about. Why the hate for AmeriComics? The only thing they did different from the larger lines is pass on the "Group Chick" concept. ("We'll clone one of the guys, giver her boobs and a tight outfit, done!" See She Hulk, Powergirl, Wasp...)

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! OK, I have to ask. To me it was the most boring waste of celluloid on TV. It might have been better in the theatre, and with proper chemical stimulation, but it was nothing but a pretty light show, to me. What was worse? I liked Stardoe, but not to the Howard Wolowitz extreme. But, It's really not fair to compare the two shows. They were so different that it is like comparing The Andy Griffith Show to Deliverance. I had nightmares for years after that. Barney Fife was terrifying!

Re: Gunslinger I've been kicking around an Annie Oakley style trick shot artist, now I have an epithet, if not a name for her. "The Coed of the West." TY

Re: A Riddle: Battery Lad!! (Aid to END) (First suggested in Southern Knights)

Re: 3rd edition Supplements Just a thought, but do pre 5e books have much financial value? If not, why not do what WOTC did with the TSR era modules and just put the PDFs up on the web page as promos?

Re: Superbabes to Champions... character sheets needed. OK, gimme a few days.

Re: Superbabes to Champions... character sheets needed. I have stats for Valkyra, Black Commando, and Alazarin Crimson. Still need those?

Re: Adult Entertainment

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I disagree with you, therefore, by internet rules you are WRONG!!!! "Retool" or "Radiation Accident" might be better. What I mean is that 1) The events up through GS allow most of the accumulated dangling and tired sub plots to be retired. 2) Harry has, in DnD terms, "shaken hands with a spectre." He's been knocked back from "cosmic" to "street" level experience wise. Basically, Dresdenverse has jelled, and Harry is now, again, a Wizard PI; but to give just one example his relationship with his Fairy Godmother has been defined. OK, back on our regular topic: I liked Andromeda, all except for the very last season. Even I thought that one stunk.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Re Dresden: Keep in mind that the Dresden stories are really superhero stories without the cape, and they flow better. In Fool Moon there was a classic confrontation: The Loup Garou was rampaging through the police station (I mean "Through" as in Wall? CLAWWW!, Another wall? Clawwww!) when Harry knocked him into the next building. Classic Brick vs Energy Projector. Also, don't read the book currently on the shelves until you've read the last one, at least. The book before the current one ends on a cliffhanger, and the one on sale now is a massive RESET. Not a bad reset, but it really changes things. Also, the books are told from Harry's POV. Check out some of the short stories to see how ignorant Harry is about what is really going on. On topic, another Not!geek moment. I truly disliked Dune. I commented on that to a fellow SF reader who was aghast: "Didn't you like the whole galaxy the books describe?" "Sure. It would have been great if they had found a better writer to tell the story."

Re: Calling all lawyers--Supers and unique legal issues

Re: Calling all lawyers--Supers and unique legal issues This raises a rather amusing question. Not being too familiar with published supervllains, let us presume that The Animator "brought over" Spiderman. Spidey is wanted by the police in Marvel New York (unless things have changed drastically since I stopped following Drivelverse), so he is technically a supervillain. Spidey hasn't committed any crimes in Champions Universe, and thus doesn't fall under the forced reversion policy. But he refuses to change his costume. Now, his crime (or tort) is copyright infringement. Is he now a villain in CU, and subject to reversal?

Re: Why I prefer HERO System over Pathfinder/OGL/D&D for fantasy Heromaster (rather than game master) Starter Kit?

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! I preferred Mythos over Magic. Magic was too simple for me - set out a bunch of combat cards, count the points, see who wins, done. Mythos had a more story telling aspect to it, where the players got points for playing Adventure cards. The game was over when someone lost their last SAN. The preferred way to count SAN was to have a cup of marbles...when someone lost all their marbles... Here is a link to my favorite Fan Mythos cards: Where are You?

Re: Robocop vs Terminator It also depends a lot on how much tactical intelligence is available to the Terminator. How much data does the Terminator have on Robocop? If it knows about, and can use, that "special command" for example, then it's game over.

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Homage to ST:TOS, particularly The Alternative Factor. Two mad scientists (or the same one, if you like), in alternate universes, wage war on each other. Both universes decay as a result. Also, Return to Tomorrow: Leonard Nimoy's character takes over the body of one of the regulars, and shows a marked reluctance to "move on."

Re: Destroy Your Geek Cred!! Oddly enough, Pern is the only series of hers I could enjoy. Ah! I also rooted for the cylons! Please, please kill this bunch of idiots off, please? (That said, I still like the show, just not the characters). I never saw B5, it wasn't available here, but I also think DS9 is the best of that franchise (the grating smug superiorty of the Feds ran up against a collection of other cultures who didn't worship the Federation ideals, and weren't particularly impressed with them). My Not!Geek secret? I hated Star Wars ep 5. The entire waste of celluloid was nothing but an intro to the somewhat better but not worth waiting for ep 6. Even ep 1 (watchable only for Jar Jar Binks:nonp:) was a better watch than 5. As far as Tolkien goes, I think it depends a lot on the reader's inner ear. Like Tolkien, Shakespeare bores me to tears. I've slogged through some of the plays, and sat through others (I fell asleep in Romeo and Juliet), but I have no trouble at all seeing the epic Tolkien describes. How about a not!nerd cred? I was following the Gor series when it came out. Glad that somebody had finally staked Campbell's corpse and put it to rest, but LORD could Norman distroy a sex scene.