Lord Mhoram

Re: I made the GM cry....

Re: I made the GM cry.... Now I understand where you come from. I don't agree. What happened fit the tone of the game. And the GM and players were fine with that. As for the Mentalist himself- we never found him, and never laid eyes on him. He was our Dr Doom, Lex Luthor - evil behind the scenes mastermind who's schemes we stopped.

Re: I made the GM cry.... Game is 7 years on, and going strong. As I se it, the solution fit the campaign tone, and the GM was okay with it - that is all that matters. We did some rehab (all the money we captured during the op went to the people who got mindwiped - both for counseling, and as sort of a "weirgild" for the lost memory paid by us for the bad guy in absentee ). The drug itself was causing up-powering of supers and when they got it they went berserk (or normals got is and went low level super and same reaction)- and we had just hours until city distribution - so we had to stop it right away of the city would have gone up in flames.

Re: I made the GM cry....

Re: I made the GM cry....

Re: I made the GM cry.... It was clear that the mind wipe also erased the control. Mostly the bad guy didn't want anyone to see the lackey's memories of him. It was clear from the people that had the mindwipe by accident that there were no afteraffects - so having the decision we did was a heroic one. The game is very 4 color (innocents are no longer mind controlled, or doing bad things - a win. Followup from heroes to help - a win.) And re-intigration was handled by the team, and their extended help (money, connections etc.)

Re: The Last Action (Super) Hero For Cat - Written recently by Johns/Busiek with Art from George Perez. For the movie- probably somebody Asian, because she is a martial artist (likely one the geek hate things) Michelle Yoah or Zhang Ziyi - because honestly the martial arts is more important than look for her movie.

Re: The Last Action (Super) Hero I read this to the wife (Black Cat's GM) and she said "save this" - this plot looks like it was designed for my character, and now she wants to run it for me.

Re: The Last Action (Super) Hero Black Cat would heal the child first (Healing, Transform, whatever was needed) - then after she recovered would go after the villains. If the youngster was interested, she'd train the girl in martial arts and ch'i* while she did so. She'd also find the villain causing the problem and stop them. 'Cat having retired as a senior member of the world's equivalent of the JLA/AVengers retired to become an agent for an inter-dimensional agency. - this is exactly the sort of thing that her normal missions are on. If it took years, she'd do it. * part of her schtick is that anyone can learn to do what she does, so she trains people all the time.

Re: I made the GM cry.... Fantastic.

Re: I made the GM cry.... Wow. I noticed I got a rep for a post that was 7 years old and wondered what? Never had a thread resurrected from so long ago before.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? What I like about it is that it turns most martial arts movies (especially American ones) on their ear. Martial arts are for defense - this is stated time after time in movies. Then the hero goes and kicks butt and has a victorious ending. In this one the main character held off on revenge.. lost the match, and won a huge personal victory.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? For pure technical ability and choreography the opening of the fight between Phillip Rhee and Simon Rhee in Best of the Best - which is still my favorite martial arts movie of all time.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? watching (well rewatching) some old favorites - my WWII trifecta - Kelley's Heroes, Dirty Dozen and Great Escape (and there are 2 actors that are in both Kelley's and Dirty Dozen, and one common to Dirty Dozen and Escape.... no one in Kelleys in is Great Escape sadly....)

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Jonah Hex. Inception (finally)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? "Caught Somewhere in Time" - Iron Maiden

Re: "Neat" Pictures That is my reaction to anyone calling for a decrease in population by drastic means. "You first" I took a test about carbon footprints that was on a eco friendly board - My score was 3 1/2 earths - i.e. if everyone lived like me it would take 3 1/2 planets to support the whole population. My first comment was "Time to start looking at colonization then" That went over really well.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Last week I read 1632 by Eric Flint. One of the best books I've read in years - it's going on my "Shelf of renown" with the Donaldson, Tolkien, Harry Potter, F Paul Wilson and Jim Butcher. It's a little over 10 years old, and I was only prepherially aware of it. The wife and I went used book hunting and I picked it up. Read it in one day, and bought the next 5 books. The story is this - a West Virginia town (about 7 miles in diameter) gets transported to Germany smack in the middle of the 30 years war. It's about them trying to survive, and trying to make life better for those around them. The characters are interesting and the tone is great. The author wanted to have regular people in this situation, and does a good job. With an entire town (including the local power plant and high school) coming along they have a strong base to operate from. The characters are very down to earth American - and that really shows through the book - it's a West Virginia Mining town, and very down to earth characters. Being a sucker for both transworld fantasy and alternate history I was hooked. The other really interesting thing about this setting is that he initially intended for it to be a stand alone novel, but it got a lot of response on the Baen boards. So he decided to do a sequel (co written with David Weber) - and while that was going on the community on the boards were analyzing things, and doing fan fiction. Some of it really good - so he published a short story collection - half from established authors (David Weber and Mercedes Lackey among them) and the other half being the stuff that came up on the boards. Then he started publishing an e-magazine of the stuff on the boards (fiction, and some analytical bits). And the stories that came up there (and from published authors) began influencing the novels. He created the world, and co writes most of the novels, and created the bible for anyone who wants to write in that universe - and now he says he is much a co-ordinator as author. The setup has so many possible characters this really works. And as he said in an authors note - alternate histories run the risk of the author getting hung up on a specific thing that as time goes on pulls the quality down, but real history is messy - so by having a community to use, it alleviates that risk. Overall the story was really good, characterization was amazing, the hook concept was fantastic, and I really enjoyed the tone.

Re: Looking for conversion material I looked over some Exalted books - the Charms there are interesting. Likely pick some of that up when I get paid.

Re: Looking for conversion material Yeah I know about the site. I find the spell layout somewhat hard to read, so I don't look there that much.

Re: Looking for conversion material I have that one. Thanks for the recomend it works. I have a bunch of talents converted from D&D feats and Rolemaster Background options and talents. A good bunch of stuff in that book (and 4E powers) work well that way. Historically Bo9S is interesting as it was the testing ground for Encounter and Daily powers that became the basis for 4E.

Re: Looking for conversion material Thanks. I can't believe I didn't think of the Arduin Grimoire. And Pathfinder is a good idea, I have a bunch from 3rd D&D, so I didn't even think of what might have developed over there. As for getting stuff that is already converted, I'm not actually looking to keep the spells as they work in the original systems, more using them as inspiration for the same effect using my magic system. So even the FH Grimoire spells I am rewriting to fit my world. The mechanics are not difficult for me. I'm mostly looking for ideas of spells that make me go "Ohhh coool idea"

Also Posted in General Roleplaying I love to build and tinker with Hero. Most of us do I suspect. I'm also a collector I like lots of stuff from other games, that I read, or buy for fun or conversion. I have a fantasy game I've been running off and on (and putting together off an on) for 4 to 5 years. I will likely be adding stuff for decades to come. It's a pleasant pastime for me to sit down and build spells and talents and such for the game. I do have a very specific set of magic systems for the world, so I pretty much build all the spells (The players are fine with that). I have about 100 pages of spells built (no art, average but not large font.). A lot of said spells are conversions from other systems - Rolemaster, D&D 1st - 3rd edition spells, D&D 4E Rituals, the FH Grimoires of course, Gurps Magic, Mythus. What I am looking for is advise on what books in other systems that have a good laundry list of spells or abilities for PCs that I can convert. I don't have a good used game shop around here to be able to flip through to see what I need; so I need advice on which books are good as I have to get them online. I know there are tons of Charms in the various Exalted books, and I would suspect Runequest would have a bunch, but I don't know which books specifically to get. What other resources are there?

Re: The Last Daredevil asks for your help Blackcat would go and help in transition, and train in tactics and combat the new recruits. Ballistic after doing some checking would help some financially Meeb would go for the fun of it, and to go over the falls. Repeatedly. For the tourists. Terminal Velocity might go, but is busy with his own team. however he is a speedster, so being on two teams isn't all that unusual. Sift would like to help out, when things calm down. She just accidentally activated the artifact that will allow the kings of Edom to escape, so she is busy straightening that out.

Re: Jokes How do you know it's a drummer knocking on your door? The Beat Speeds up.