Ranxerox

Re: Does the CU have a Franklin Richards? Yes, and it might be a virgin birth and who doesn't like good old fashion hit them over the head with a hammer religious symbolism. Also, it allows her current instability to be explained pregnancy mood swings on a grand scale. However, using her absorption of Redshift as the point of conception shouldn't she have already had the child at the start of the Teen Champions timeline?

Re: Does the CU have a Franklin Richards? Well, a person doesn't have to be a great match for being a mommy to become one. Heck it seems to happen more often that way. Still your objection is duly noted.

Re: Lucha Libre artwork! Very nice stuff. No offense to LLH, but it looks like Brett is moving up in the world.

Re: Does the CU have a Franklin Richards? So IOW, she right about the right age to be the mother of a cosmic child.

Re: The Boys I don't know. I don't have the 6 ed rulebook yet, so I wasn't sure if it included Lightning Reflexes.

Re: The Boys From what little I have seen of The Boys, I would probably give most of them some Dirty Fighter martial arts moves. Also, they seem to be a faster than most of the other supes that share their universe. So, you might consider some extra DEX with the only to attack first limitation - you could title that power Likes to throw the first punch.

Re: Does the CU have a Franklin Richards? Hmmm, I did not know that about the CU. I like the cosmic kid idea, but this idea has stuff to recommend about it too. Thanks.

Re: Zombie Event advice need Who is your main villain and what is his general shtick? Is he magic based or science based? There are many ways for bring back dead characters. I am just trying to narrow down the possibilities a bit.

Re: Does the CU have a Franklin Richards? He or she would have to be young enough to be engrossed by the story of Peter Pan, and powerful enough to pull the characters of Pan and Hook from wherever they exit to his world with out being aware of doing so. I'm not sure how big of role he or she would play in any adventures. I wouldn't imagine a central role for the character, but very possibly a reoccurring one.

I need a cosmically powerful child for the origin of a character that I am working on (Peter Pan moved to the Champions Universe), and I wondered if the CU already had one of if I would have to make my own. Thanks in advance for all responses.

Re: The Doctor is Back ! Yeah, I've got my fingers crossed. The average viewer rating of it among non-US viewers is 8.4 out of 10, and that is pretty good. The reason I'm singling out non-US viewers is because the only place that the movie has shown is a film festival in Spain, so I'm thinking that the US voters haven't actually seen it.

Re: The Doctor is Back ! Sorry. I'm just not a Dracula fan, so the Van Helsing title didn't get a click. I'm just hoping that the film makers remember that Solomon Kane is a dour puritan and not a standard action hero. The movie trailer is very action centric, but you can't always judge a movie by its trailer.

Re: The Doctor is Back ! Actually, I'm kinda of glad that I did read the comments, because by doing so I found out that there is Solomon Kane movie coming out and it is far enough along to have it's own trailer.

Re: Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond/Prof. Stien) Opps, my bad. I saw the numbering scheme next to powers, and my head went straight to multipower. I totally missed that it was a VPP.

Re: Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond/Prof. Stien) What specific power does his dispel work against? What specifically can he transform things into?

Re: The Brick is now a dinosaur If Last Hero can do everything under 6th Ed that he could do under 5th, he has not been nerfed. Giving a boost to EBs and mentalist (I don't own 6E and don't know if this has occurred) is not the same as nerfing bricks. A character type is nerfed when at the end of the day they have less power than they use to have. Sorry, if EBs and mentalist got some nice presents and bricks and MAs missed out, but that is not the same as being nerfed.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Recently, I read the The Caryatidsby Bruce Sterling. Set in the mid-2060s it's outside of what I consider to be Bruce's sweet spot of 20 to 30 years into the future. I was worried a bit use of a three world power system with each power representing different world view. There is a long history of opposing sides in science fiction representing opposing ideas. Generally, in these scenarios the author "proves" his favorite idea is best by having its side come out victorious. Fortunately, Mr. Sterling does not give into this impulse and at the end of the book all the sides remain balanced. The title characters of The Caryatids are 4 "sisters" cloned from the DNA of there war-criminal mother, and all of the sisters loath each other. Going into the book, I found this notion too artsy by half. However, over the years Bruce Sterling has matured from I guy who is good at coming up with ubercool future gadgets into an accomplished storyteller, and for the the most part I think he managed to pull off the clone thing. On the whole I would give it 3 out 5 stars.

Re: Reimagining the Superhero Nothing gratuitous here. This link has plenty of good examples of alternate ideas concerning the whole superhero thing.

Re: Reimagining the Superhero

Re: Reimagining the Superhero

Re: Reimagining the Superhero Was this a "current day" setting or a fantasy past setting? Also, who if anyone was the good guys in this struggle, the oligarchs or the rebels?

Re: Reimagining the Superhero These both sound like very interesting, non-traditional superheros existing in a superhero settings, but that wasn't quite what I was looking for. I'm looking for interesting ways to change the whole setting, not just individual characters.

Re: Reimagining the Superhero You make a really good point about urbane fantasy, it kind of is superheroes but different. It has characters with power beyond that of normals living in a modern setting and usually battling foes as powerful as themselves. So it just like superheros but with different tropes. Do you know of any good urbane fantasy comic books? I've seen Anita Blake at the comic book store, but so far I have not picked it up. Of course, I'm kinda of cheating since you asked for recommendations and here I'm asking you what is good. So allow me to recommend Air and DMZ. Neither has superheros (though Blythe from Air has some interesting abilities) but they are both IMO good reads.

Re: Reimagining the Superhero Yes, there certainly are. I just mentioned it because I've noticed that an aversion to spandex is pretty common, and I wanted to know what other ways people were interested in breaking the classical superhero mold. These are all good examples of campaigns with supers that don't fellow norm. A comic based Oz Incorporated doesn't really grab me, though if I heard enough good things about it I might give it a try. Both The Misfits and Jannissaries sound interesting either to read about or play in.

The standard superhero in spandex who saves the world while working to hide his secret identity is what really sells in comic book stores, but I've noticed that many players shy away from spandex and other superhero tropes when building their characters. Certainly, even once you stipulate that a character will have super powers and spend their time saving the world you aren't limited the standard comic book superhero. You could have super spies, soldiers, police, entrepreneurs, performance artist, rescue workers, politicians and so who knows what else. So my question is what alternate visions of the superhero would you be interested in playing or plopping down three bucks at the comic book store to read about?