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Re: A new Enemies book: What would you want to see? You're right. He counts. I thought he was in another book.

Re: A new Enemies book: What would you want to see? I'll grant you Vesper, but SARGON likes his destruction a little too large in scale to be my idea of a vandal. Breaking some windows, tagging, defacing art, these things are vandalization to me. Destroying buildings is more demolition. YMMV.

Re: A new Enemies book: What would you want to see? IMO, most of the villain books have had a shortage of foes at the power level of starting characters. So a number of villains at about 400 points would be nice. Also, a wide variety of villain motivations is good. Personally, I was disappointed that Villains, Vandals and Vermin did not have any actual vandals, or for that matter any literal vermin.

Re: Ultra-Tech Punishments? Removing of immortality combined with exile. Long term sedation so that when you are released you are old but you have no or little memory of your sentence.

Re: Let's Discuss: The Modern Wandering Adventurer Where do you see your adventurer wandering? Both war correspondents and soldier of fortune travel and have adventures all over the world. The war correspondent is of course so on the grid that they are part of it. The soldier of fortune is on the grid except when they choose to be off of it. He would probably want to have a bank account in the Cayman Islands or some other slightly dodgy location. Multiple passports and a network of contacts are also useful perks. Helpful skills might include KS:Customs Laws and Enforcement, PS: Soldier of Fortune, PS: Smuggler, and an assortment of area knowledges and languages. If you are thinking about someone who travels from town to town in the US, you might want to consider the unglamorous skill PS: dishwasher along with Spanish so that you can speak to your coworkers . Restaurants always need dishwasher and many are willing to pay under the table at the end of shift. Your character will make sub-minimum wage this way, but it is off the grid.

Re: Who would play your hero(ine) in a movie? When the movie Precious came out, I thought, "Finally an actress to play Maja. Cool!" [ATTACH=CONFIG]42050[/ATTACH] Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? I don't get the station but plan on checking it out on DVD. However, my wife does not share my appreciation of crime fiction so it will have to wait for week in which she has something going on at her church.

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? Recently listened to the audio book of The Hot Kid by Elmore Leonard. It was a lot of fun and would qualify as a pulp crime story.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS -- New Character Preview So you now have people paying you to take their cool character concepts from them. Quite a business model that you have found there. I may you call you Steve "Tom Sawyer" Long from now on.

Re: From Superfriends to Watchmen: The Extremes of Superheroes I'm Bronze Age with my heroes all the way. I started reading comics during the Bronze Age and it is what I like. That being said, I do consider Rorschach and Nite Owl to be heroes. Many real life heroes lives outside of their shining moments have been complete train wrecks. IMHO the fact that the guy who ran into the burning building to rescue children might be 5 months behind paying child support for his own children doesn't change that fact he ran into the burning building for someone else's kids.

Re: Immigration into the USA - legal, or making illegal legal If you have super powers in a world where they are fairly uncommon and are willing to work for the US government, an exception will be made for you. Indeed, I can easily imagine a new class of visas being made for supers and possibly even a new path to citizenship.

Re: Power Time! The big useful one that I see here is the +10 INT. With this I would take money out of my retirement fund and go back to school. I'm sure that I would get a lot more out of it than I did the first time. Being four times as strong would be nice, but strength generally isn't as important as it was in times past. Being able to fly 11 mph noncombat, while cool, really isn't very useful. Probably in order to avoid being locked in a lab somewhere to be studied, I would throw something on my back that looks like a jetpack whenever I had the urge to fly. The other stuff would be good if I wanted to be a vigilante, bouncer or a commando. As pointed out by an earlier poster there are legal problems with being a vigilante, so that one is out. With my new genius level intelligence I think that I could do more good as a doctor or scientist than a bouncer or commando. Though if Osama bin Laden were still alive it would be tempting to try to hunt him down.

Re: The Question This is a good write-up, and if your GM plans on having your characters spending a lot of time fighting 2 Speed, 3 OCV/DCV mooks he can function like a superhero. On the other hand, if your GM is planning on using 50 or more point mooks and letting them have their equipment for free, your character will need to pick his fights carefully. However, even in the later case this character could still function as a Jason Bourne type.

Re: Bronze Age Champions Personally, I view the Bronze Age as less a matter or trophs than a difference in story telling. Heroes of the Bronze age remained heroic but they were much more flawed heroes than those of earlier comics. The Bronze Age as much less episodic and more serial than the Silver and Gold Ages. While superhero adventures remain fantastic, the lives of secret identities become much more realistic. Suddenly heroes have to worry about things like finding money to pay the rent, friends and relatives with poor health or substance abuse problems, and the death of loved ones and subsequent grieving. Gwen Stacy didn't just die, she died and Peter Parker then grieved for her in a fairly realistic fashion.

Re: Teen Champions ideas "The Gallery: defenders of Schultztown" I really liked this artist's take on Peppermint Patty and Marcy. Most of the other girls are more sexy than I would have preferred but I guess that is to be expected from manga. I'm having some trouble with Charley Brown himself but I think the look could grow on me. In any event it is a good find.

Re: Gambling Skill Well, chess isn't a gambling game either most of the time. However, you can wager on it, and you can wager on Stratego and Pac-Man and people sometimes do. So, the gambling skill is appropriate. Professional skill would also work. Knowledge skills would be a complementary skill since they are more about knowing rather than doing. Otherwise, the winner would probably be decided by dueling characteristic roll (INT for Stratego, DEX for Pac-Man) but a player without the appropriate skill would be a strong disadvantage against an opponent with the skill. Perhaps a negative 3 to their characteristic roll versus the opponent's skill roll.

Re: Grab zero limbs It is exactly as you described it. The grabbing of a jacket followed by a presence attack. The character doesn't have to win a STR contest with the grabber to escape; they just have to free themselves from their own jacket.

Re: Who the Heck are These?!? Questions about some of the Old SuperHeroes I always assumed that it was 50 or 75 total. Agents were meant to be one or two punch canon fodder.

Re: Background help please

Re: Legendsmiths Considers: Genre Quick Starts you'd like to see I think you are being too general. If you are looking to bring new people into the hobby (and maybe make a few shekels), you should find a bandwagon and jump on it with both feet. Don't think large and general, Hero already does that. Think specific and marketable. Instead of Fantasy Hero, you should be offering Vampire Romance, Young Wizards or Clash for the Crown. Find something that people are already interested in and copy it as closely as you can get away without getting sued.

Re: Possible HERO System Supplement Kickstarters From Steve -- What Interests You? Mythic Hero and STORMLords. I'm less interested in updates of earlier books. Cyber Hero has a double strike in that Kazei 5 covers much of the same area.

Re: Welcoming Women Who Game Nope. I'm not hiding information. I have had plenty of awkward conversations with my daughter. I just do not want to sex to become even more pervasive in the media than it is already. It would amount to saturation advertising for a product that doesn't need much advertising. Also, more sex in the media would not lead to more information. It would lead to more disinformation. That is unless you consider your standard action movie a good place to learn about firearm safety. * My apologizes for having a NGD discussion outside of the NGD.

Re: Welcoming Women Who Game Not exactly sure what you are saying here, Christopher. Of course, she knows that the sex in films (the non-X-rated variety anyway) is not real, so if that is what you are referring to then mission accomplished. Are you saying that saying that I need to explain to her how sex as it is depicted in film is unrealistic? Boy that could be an awkward conversation. IMHO, for the most part sex lives up to its hype. Not information that I really wish to share with my daughter though. Please better clarify your position so I can respond to it with less conjecture.

Re: Welcoming Women Who Game As the father of a teenage daughter, I would like to reply this. My daughter enjoys violent action movies, but I have complete confidence that she is not going to go out and blow away a shopping mall. She knows that what she sees in action movies is fantasy stuff that you "should not try at home". Indeed research shows that all but the youngest kids are aware of this. You can show a six year old child an action and at the end ask them if it was real. The majority of six year old children will correctly identify it as pretend stuff. If you follow up the question with "how do you know it was pretend", the average six year old can cite specific things from the movie that were different from how they are in real life - such as the absence of blood and such. However, while I am not worried about my daughter blowing away a shopping mall, I am worried about her having sex. The difference, of course, being that I know that she will never go on a killing spree and I know that one day she will have sex (assuming she hasn't already). I just don't want that day to be too soon. From a biological stance, my little girl is a woman but from societal position she is still a child. She needs to get through school and hopefully find herself a career before she starts making babies. Since I am already fighting biology in keeping my daughter away from sex, I do not want to be fighting mass entertainment industry as well. Both sex and violence sell, but it is a lot cheaper to insert a sex scene into a piece of entertainment than a chase scene. So if we as a society become less "prudish" about sex, I am worried that we will soon be drowning in it (even more than we are now) simply for economic reasons. This will make the job of parents wishing to keep their kids focused on their studies even harder than it is already.

Re: World-building: When what works for the heroes works for everyone? I think we would see a lot more extreme sports because people would be generally more incline to survive mishaps. Also, things might become a little more democratic in that fewer people would be constrained by their personal appearance in what they could hope to become.