Capt JT Kohonez

Re: Curiousity about vampires and werewolves

That because humans don't have a sufficient coolness factor.

Not even Chuck Norris!!?

And what about Ninjas!!?

Re: Curiousity about vampires and werewolves

I always found it curious how humans are relegated to a purely cattle position in V:TM and W:TA as well as the Underworld movies.

Has anyone considered for a moment that humans are the ones who came with things like the A-Bomb, Biological and Chemical weapons and that in a universe where magic exists there just might be a small chance that Joe Kohonez and crew might be doing some damage of their own? But I guess that blows the whole mystique around the whole vampire/werewolf thing when you can kill or disable 'em by spraying a suspected area with garlic powder, holy water or silver nitrates from the air.

Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials

The Ballad of Jayne

from "Jaynestown"

 

Jayne.....

The man they call Jayne...

 

He robbed from the rich

And he gave to the poor

Stood up to the man

And he gave him what for

Our love for him now

Ain't hard to explain

The Hero of Canton

The man they call Jayne...

 

Our Jayne saw the mudders' backs breakin'

He saw the mudders' laments

And he saw the magistrate takin'

Every dollar and leavin' five cents

So he said "You can't do that to my people"

He said "Can't crush them under your heel"

Jayne strapped on his hat

And in 5 seconds flat

Stole everything Boss Higgins had to steal...

 

He robbed from the rich

And he gave to the poor

Stood up to the man

And he gave him what for

Our love for him now

Ain't hard to explain

The Hero of Canton

The man they call Jayne...

 

Now here is what separates heroes

From common folk like you and I

The man they call Jayne

He turned 'round his plane

And let that money hit the skies

He dropped it onto our houses

He dropped it into our yards

The man they called Jayne

He stole away our pain

And headed out for the stars...

 

He robbed from the rich

And he gave to the poor

Stood up to the man

And he gave him what for

Our love for him now

Ain't hard to explain

The Hero of Canton

The man they call Jayne..

Snif snif

Re: Space Adventure: The Five Essentials

I am so glad you ascended before I read that.

 

Barbarella has a certain camp value, in this case I would save it for the victory or consolidation party after the RPG contest, not as part of the prep. Ice Pirates had nothing but a couple of halfway amusing robots.

Come on man, everybody loved the Space Herpe!!!

Re: Packages

I think packages are a great way of simplyfying character generation.

I also think it'd be a great idea to create a Book of Packages in pdf format to which we all could contribute.

There’s a book called Dies The Fire by S.M. Stirling tells the story of people thrust into a post-apocalyptic setting where everything invented after the 17th century just stops working. Needless to say although the premise and setting are interesting it does have some holes in the plotline which I’m sure any good GM should be able to fill up. I was wondering if anyone knew about it and what they thought of the background for gaming.

Re: 20 Years ago Today

I was standing in the living room of my apartment in a 4 story walk up tenement in a rough part of Brooklyn watching the launch. When the shuttle exploded I felt a cold chill and nauseous from the horror.

Re: All Flesh Must Be Eaten

The one thing the Zombie genre doesn't ever take into account, which is why I think the campaigns are kept short run, is the human ability to adapt. I have Land of the Dead and the one of the annoying things that struck me was how they built a fence but never built a simple wall which would have offered better protection. I think in a Zombie-verse no one has an IQ higher than 8 and 99% have the Psych. Disad - Shortsighted on a roll of 15-.

Re: DUNGEON Adventures Magazine

"Hope that helps." ???!!

Wow, Thia thanks ALOT! for the input.

Your post although I'd considered some things in it already put it in crystal clarity. I've used "alignments" before in both HERO and the Fuzion system as Psych Disadvantages. It worked pretty well.

Again thank you so much.

I have a big pile of Dungeon Adventure Magazines that I'm considering using for my Fantasy Hero Campaign. Just wanted to know know if any of you had done that. One of the things I want to run is the Cauldron campaign arc with some changes that would have the adventures make a little more sense of course.

Any suggestions would be extremely helpful.

Re: Star Hero Campaigns

That's

E V I L !!!!

:eg: :eg:

Just for giggles when you're bored on a rainy day.

 

Re: Star Hero Campaigns

Question:

If the Nemesis Collar can render the wearer unconscious.

Why do you need to have an explosive that can blow their heads off??

Here's a thread about my campaign.

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=34853

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Or at least how to get a PDF of it including lots of stuff about it. People seem to really like it! (Thanks to all of theose of you who have sent me kind words)

Re: Chronicles of Gor

Your post Sir makes my arguement for me.

I never said no one could express their opinion. I just felt based on these posts that those opinions were not thought through. As I stated I could be wrong about that. But what bothers me is that too many people seem to be obsessed the idea of "right thinking" nowadays. I've read one of John Norman's books and a friend of mine read them all. But here I find people taking one aspect of a writer's fantasy world and using it to build a cross to crucify him without considering the other aspects of that world. That's utter nonsense. By that analogy I could take Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan as being racist based on the idea of a white man being Lord of the Apes simply because no one from the surrounding black tribes was given the job.

As for me "coming from on high", that is your perception not mine.

*stares at his feet a moment' date=' pondering. Takes a [i']deep[/i] breath*

 

Capt. JT Kohonez: It's inflammatory rhetoric like this which incites me to riot. I'm going to try and write this as flame-free as possible, and offer my opinion without tripping on my own athame.

 

 

 

You're correct. It is. And most fantasy is based on another person's interpretation of reality, whether that reality is an idealized state or merely a reflection of their views at the time, or an expression of frustration, guilt, pain or loss. My own work is a reflection of how I see the world. I paint in lots and lots of grey, dark blues, and blood, blood red. My love is like a red red rose, that was formerly white, before I sprayed blood on a rose bush.

 

Hey, it's just fiction. But now it's fiction talking about despoiling flowers and possibly murder - I actually edited my original passage because it was too evocitive and clear an image, and I didn't want to rattle anyone's cages. Had I left the passage intact, I may very well have draw a warning flag and gotten an edit for it. That isn't to say I was wrong for saying it; it's to say that people can read it and be offended.

 

Your defense: It's fiction, therefore we are the thought police - is inherently flawed. No one is saying you can't read it. There were lots of people who suggested reading something else, but hey. We aren't talking about limitations on open minded thinking. We're talking about personal opinions on a work which seems, generally speaking, to not be well appreciated.

 

The Fool brings up two excellent points. First, just because it's billed as fiction doesn't mean some idiot isn't taking it seriously. Second, it's people like this that give people like him (BDSM in general) a bad name.

 

Next. Yes, some people are going to be of the opinion people like him should dissapear. But why take that so seriously? It's only an opinion. Your argument is double edged in all the wrong ways; you're defending the author's right to write and publish whatever he pleases, even though some find it outright disgusting, but then condeming people for holding opinions contrary to his, or to the extent that he shouldn't be around. Those people are expressing disgust and anger, and it's well within their rights to do so, as much as it is within the author's rights, or yours, to rail against it and defend his work.

 

Which, I might add, you are free to do. Defend away. People don't always like my work, they criticize my work, but I don't freak out about it. I stare at it, think about it (see my post on building a magic system - that's not only a lot of criticism, a lot of it is countering criticism, which is really confusing) and I take it in, think about it, digest it, and produce more work.

 

However. (You know you were all waiting for it). However.

 

 

 

This is the sort of absurdist statement that positively rattles my cage. You think I don't know what the deuce I'm talking about, hey. Totally cool. You disagree with Liaden, or The Fool, or Killer Shrike, hey, I'm down. Disagree away. But to take a few posters opinions - posters who clearly aren't fond of the source material - and then accuse not only of being thought police - i.e., telling other people what to do with the assumption that they have the authority to enforce it - but further raising the accusation that they're knee jerk reactions flamers who are spraying hate at an author with no thought for the work, what it means to them, or what it represents. Now that's ignorance at its finest.

 

Read the rest of the posts. By all means, form your own opinion of Gor. Defend it, if you like. More power to you. But don't come down from on high, insist that everyone is wrong because they disagree and then proceed to insult all of us, unilaterally, for having an opinion different from yours.

 

 

 

Re: Exodus 2025: A campaign idea looking for input!

That's Hollywood and television for you these days.

No talent and no imagination.

What sent me over the top was that wretched, written for a dim 13 year old, "5th Element" movie, with the scenes where Leeloo was going over the history files. Good dog, isn't there someone out there who can be a bit more creative than that? Sorry its off topic, but why oh why must science fiction movies be either written for 13 year olds, or slow moving, filled with abstract images, "artistic" and ultimately shallow ("Aliens" being a fine exception to this trend).

 

oh and its not "sci-fi" its "futuristic".

Re: Star Hero Campaigns

I guess because I think STAR HERO has more structure and support.

Don't get me wrong I like Fuzion I just prefer to use HERO.

What's wrong with Fuzion? I ran a fantastic Traveller conversion for over a year using the system. If I run Traveller again, it'll be with Fuzion.

 

Matt "With-apologies-to-Marc-Miller" Frisbee

Outside of the Terran Empire universe what original campaigns if any have you guys put together and how’d they run.

Right now I’m looking to port over a sci-fi campaign I ran using Fuzion (don’t hit me). It’s a campaign where the players are the crew of an old small tramp freighter rigged with breakthrough technology like a zero point energy generator and singularity cannon. They make a living doing various deeds and misdeeds while running from the Terran Union a totalitarian government which runs earth and a large swath of extra-solar worlds under the heel of a neo-communist socialist/nazi ideology where everyone is “equal†or else. But of course some are more equal than others.

Re: When sfx become an advantage

So would Autofire allow for multiple Ninjas???

Re: I Need Some Thugs

LMAO LOL LOL LOL!!!!!!

http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~amardock/Thugs.jpg

 

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/e/aew174/amy%20and%20gabby%20thugs.jpg

 

http://www.butler.edu/studentlife/deltagamma/Pictures/junior%20thugs.jpg

 

http://orange-jello.com/batgrrrl/justin_joey/thugs.jpg

 

I'm intimidated by all of these people.

Re: Chronicles of Gor

Maybe I'm misreading some of these posts but I think that we have to remember one very important thing about Gor.

IT'S A FANTASY WORLD!!!!

For crying out loud when I see people saying that writers like him should disappear I have to wonder what the hell his going on with gamers these days who've decided they're the Thought Police for the rest of us. Misogynist?? Why, because women on Gor are treated like slaves in that world. Again it’s a fantasy world, NOT REAL.

John Norman is not trying to make women into slaves!!!

Reminds me of when people were complaining that the Lord of The Rings movies were racist because they portrayed apparent Saracen types as the bad guys.

You know I used to think gamers put more thought into what they said then most.

I guess I was wrong.

Re: WWYCD? "Once more, with Justice"

I go insane because reality has shifted into a musical and begin systematically killing every living thing.

Re: Exodus 2025: A campaign idea looking for input!

"Personally, I am tired of the "benevolent superiors making us all sing "kumbaya""

I like that comment and I fully agree. I'm also tired of the "self-loathing all the evil in the universe is our fault" view taken in alot of "Sci-Fi" lately like the new Battlestar. Whatever happened to the happy medium where humanity can be scummy sure, but we can be great too. Look "Superior Aliens" we the human race had to to claw and fight our way to the top of the food chain over millions of years and yes we're very good at killing. So what?!

But now the "Superior Aliens" conveniently forget the competition is not over and decide to nip things in the bud by "pacifying" or exterminating humanity. Just a tad hypocritical don't you think??

Re: Sexual Orientation=Psych Lim?

I think it would also depend on what part of the world the character spends alot of his/her time. While being gay might night be a problem in say NYC or SF, being in Kabul under the Taliban would be a different story.

As an openly Gay man, I think social limitation or dinstinctive feature is the way to go on this.

 

But also in 21st century America it isn't worth a lot of points.

 

I probably would Max it out to 10 points for openly Gay, 15 for being in the closet. Like public ID and Secret ID.

Re: How about this sci-fi battle..

Jedi Predator anyone?????

Predator vs Reaver - No contest. Predators have the tech, the hunting prowess, the strength and the ferocity to simply wipe the walls with Reavers.

 

Predator vs Jedi - Jedi win this simply because of their ability to know what an opponent is able to do before they do it. This is what really allows them to block blaster bolts. Add to that increased Dex by using the Force and the Predator loses most all of its advantages.

 

Now what would be really scary (and absolutely no reason why it couldn't happen) would be a Force-using Predator.

 

The Star Wars Expanded Universe has shown us that most any alien race (save the Yuzahn-Vong) can potentially be Force-users. Why would the Predators be any different?

Re: Old School, Yesterday's Heroes

I like this, I really really like this.

Otis Broome smiled at his young granddaughter. Her eyes were bright blue, and taking everything in. The old man winked, and tipped his hat to her, “See Betty, this is where I used to work.†He gestured to the parking lot, “Fraid they paved it over, but once, there was a beautiful building on this spot… the ‘Guardhouse’ we called it.â€

 

The child looked at him with suspicion, though she also seemed embarrassed at questioning her grandfather, “Were you REALLY Doctor Justice?â€

 

“Why child, how rude, “ He tisked, “Since when has your grandfather ever sought to deceive you?â€

 

“Uhm..†Betty thought about it, then replied, “How about when you told me that if I kicked the next cabbage over, I wouldn’t get stuck with a baby brother.†She crossed her arms and looked at him, “That didn’t work.â€

 

“Touché’,†Otis admitted with a smile, “But I really was Dr. Justice.â€

 

There was an earth shattering boom, knocking both old man and girl to the ground. Otis turned his head to see two figures had crashed in the center of the street. Meteor, the flame covered stone like hero of Libra, was on top of Shatterburst, a notorious villain.

 

Shatterburst kicked Meteor off of him, sending the crime fighter several fit away and landing him near the two.

 

Meteor got up, and motioned at the villain, “Give it your best shot, @zzh*le!â€

 

Betty’s eyes bugged a bit at the language. That, however, was the least of Otis’ worries. “Wait,†He called out to Meteor, “My granddaughter and I are here…â€

 

“So move..†Meteor shrugged unconcerned, even as Shatterburst fired his jagged energy burst towards him. Meteor dodged easily, seemingly not caring that any innocents might get caught in what he was avoiding.

 

Otis moved as well in a leap that no Olympic Jumper could have made. In one motion he swooped Betty up in his arms and sprung to the side. The energy wash burned at his back, and destroyed his jacket, but while diminished, his powers remained, and he merely grunted once, essentially unharmed. Had Betty been in that same line, she would have been killed.

 

The two superhumans continued to duke it out, blasts and punches flying wildly and Otis found himself getting his granddaughter back to her mother the next street over.

“Martha, take Betty to safety, away from here… I have to go.â€

 

“Dad, you can’t…†his daughter began to protest.

 

God, she looks so much like her mother, but I don’t have time for this Otis drew on the same voice he used to use to cause minions to hit the floor “No argument, do it NOW!â€

 

She nodded, and took the crying child off. Even as Martha was putting Betty in the car to leave, Otis was already racing back to the fight. It felt weird to be doing this again. His heart seemed to be holding up okay. Not that it mattered if it didn’t. There were innocent lives at stake, and someone had to do damage control.

 

For the next ten minutes, Otis Broome cleared away innocents, saved people downed by falling debris, and yelled a great deal at the idiots who seemed to confuse the amount of property damage they caused with the size of one’s genitalia.

 

He was ignored.

 

Suddenly, Shatterburst grabbed at his throat. A thin red line formed all around his neck.

 

Then the villain’s head fell off, severed.

 

“Oh my god,†Otis muttered to himself.

 

“I had him, Razorwire,†Meteor scowled, “I didn’t need your help.â€

 

Razorwire, another member of the superteam Libra, smiled like a Cheshire as she slowly appeared holding her bloody monofilament name sake, “F*** you, don’t be such a baby just because this one counts as mine…â€

 

Some teenagers on a street corner cheered, “YEAH! Libra kicks #$$!â€

 

They’re worshipping them , Otis felt disgusted, Those boys honestly admire someone who just killed another human being without due process of law…

 

It boiled up in him, “You should be ashamed of yourselves.†He scowled at the two ‘heroes’, “This isn’t how it’s done. You don’t ignore innocents then brag about kills…â€

 

“Save the lecture, old man,†Meteor sneered, “Or you’ll be next.â€

“I think he’s cute, a bit senile, but cute,†Razorwire laughed, “Let’s go.â€

 

With that, the two left. A moment later, so did Otis. Pulling out his cell phone God, how I hate these things. he dialed a number he hadn’t called in a long time.

 

“Hello, Liz? It’s me, Otis. I’m fine, the heart is better I… Liz, please, let me talk. Libra just wrecked part of downtown, endangered innocents without a care, and killed a man without trial…they don’t care. We have to do something.â€

 

The sounds of protest buzzed over the other side of the phone.

 

“I know we’re retired, damn it, but we’ve got to do SOMETHING. We’ve got to show this city there are still real heroes, ones who value life, and justice and… Darn it Liz, you know I’m right. You still got Malcolm’s number? His armor maybe old, but I bet he can upgrade, that’s one thing you and I can’t say. Meeting me at the parking lot where are old base was… midnight tonight. Oh, and come in costume.â€

 

Another sound of protest issued from the cell.

 

“Yes, I know it will need to be altered. I don’t fit in mine either. Liz, we don’t have a choice. We maybe Yesterday’s Heroes, but we’re the only ones who can save today.â€

 

There was a sigh on the other side of the call, an acceptance, and finally a god bless.

 

“You too, Liz, you too,†And Otis Broome, the once and soon to be present Dr. Justice, eyed the vacant Parking lot for at least an hour remembering.

Re: Alternate Fantasy "Earth"

What are you the Autorealms Sales Rep??

AutoRealm's a pretty good utility, especially at the price.

 

You can make a decent map with just a little goofing around, and you can make absolutely beautiful maps once you get it all down. It's the next best thing to being Keith Curtis.