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I don't do it for the prizes, I do it for the glory!*
 
 
 
 
 
* and to continue procrastinating on other things I SHOULD be doing

They forgot to mention that they were having Supergirl come over from Earth-?? so she could fly out to space and use her Super Breath to blow all the nastiness away.
 
Oh, and the EMP issue was taken care of by a metahuman with the power to coat everything in tinfoil.

Really, I'm hoping for a cameo by Morgan Freeman in a white suit as the Speed Force saying "What did we JUST talk about?" the instant he turns around.

Time travel doesn't work? The BBC would likely disagree, possibly while reclining on all the money they've made off Dr. Who and it's related merchandise.

I'm not especially new, but I haven't hit the actual game-related sections of the forums a lot lately due to not really actively playing anything. So, here I go:
 
How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? It's an old AIM handle I used to keep up with my -- wait for it -- Amber Diceless group. It comes from Roger Zelazny's Amber series. I'd give the detailed explanation of what a Pattern Ghost is, but it's a bit complicated. I'll attempt a short version:
 
Amber is one pole of Reality, the other being the Courts of Chaos. Between them lie infinite parallel universes known as Shadows. Denizens of Amber and Chaos are "real" people (at least to their point of view) and possess abilities and powers greater than most Shadow people. Each pole has a mystical construct/intelligence that can confer a certain level of control over Shadow to those who traverse them. In Amber, that construct is the Pattern, which is essentially a pattern etched into the ground. When an Amberite walks the Pattern, they are tested mentally and physically. If they don't die, their blood becomes imprinted with an image of the Pattern, and they gain the ability to travel in and manipulate Shadow.
 
This imprint is a two way street. The Pattern retains an imprint of the walker and can use that imprint to make a living copy of that person, a Pattern Ghost. A Pattern Ghost must draw power from the Pattern or drink Pattern-imprinted blood or die. Since the Pattern only uses the ghosts as tools, those that want to live and be independent need to find a source of Pattern-imprinted blood.
 
It all makes a lot more sense in the context of the novels.
What was the first tabletop RPG you played? Red Box Dungeons and Dragons, what the OSR grognards are now calling B/X D&D. That was 1981. Moved on to AD&D rather quickly because that's what most of the other kids were playing at the time.
What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? Some 1st Edition AD&D, though I usually prefer to play rather than GM.
What are you currently playing/GMing? Nothing at the moment. I keep toying with the idea of running a FASERIP or B/X D&D PBEM or PBP campaign, using old modules, but never get around to it.
 
When did you start to play Hero? I played a lot of Marvel FASERIP from '88 to '91 when I was in the Army in Berlin. The group used to play Champions, and had the very book there's a picture of in durzanmalakim's post above. We played a bit with it then, but I didn't start playing Hero until much later, playing PBEM with 4th Edition in the middle '90's.

Superhero shows on TV... I'll watch them. I don't analyze or critique them. I just enjoy that they're on.
 
It's that or have to watch all the other craptasticness that's on the air.

Personally I'll take Arrow & Flash over Agents of SHIELD - at least the Arrowverse is seldom boring. But I have to agree with you re Caity/Katie.

Heh, I'd say it's not a bad thing. But if you've rebooted 12 times and it's still not working, you might have a deeper problem...

Player 1 has summoned two demon meat shields, nicknamed Shock & Awe. They both just got hit hard, and one is now dead/dispelled.
 
Player 1: “Shock and Awe are down!”
Player 2: “You still have Shock; you just lost Awe.”
Player 3: “Awwww…”

So comic universes are the only things where "have you tried turning it off and on again" is a bad idea?

"When you possess the power cosmic, you don't need a catchphrase." - actual Silver Surfer quote

I wondered the same thing when they first brought in Rip Hunter. I'd suspected he may have been there to deal with Barry. Maybe Barry's method is so different as to be undetectable. The Speed Force could insulate Barry from the temporal hoo-ha radiation the Time Lords use to track time ships.

"I wanted to be a hero" sounds to me a lot like "I wanted to be perceived as a hero". "Wally`s life was more important than my powers" sounds a lot more like a hero.
 
 

Spoken like a gamer. After all, the emotional impact of actually having the opportunity to completely reverse a horrific childhood event that reverberated throughout one`s entire life, only to realize that taking that opportunity would have unacceptable consequences, so the possibility must be abandoned, would not prevent one from clearly thinking through an array of other possibilities in a minute or two. Especially when we`ve seen no evidence Barry`s speed extends to mental processing speed.

It was a 90s superhero TV show - you have to remember to grade on a curve.
 
I can't say I'll miss him; it's obvious the writers had no idea what to do with the character. I just feel like that card's been overplayed. A lot. Reminds me of a line from The Importance Of Being Earnest: "To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."

Lack of personal injury lawsuits is necessary to the genre. You can't have every person Flash whips out of a building at several hundred miles an hour suing him for whiplash (otherwise you end up with the plot from the Incredibles).
 
(Which is always a series I wanted to see on TV ... something dealing with the 'hidden' years of superheroes before Syndrome started offing them - like Bob did they still secretly continue to thwart crime?) )

This week's episode was pretty good I thought, tho it would've been nice to see the "Metapocalypse" spread over more than one episode. At least we got to see Cheerful Optimistic Barry again for a few minutes. And hey! John Wesley Shipp finally got to share a scene with his former co-star Amanda Pays! But...
 

Gee, you mean the TV and movie versions of characters are different than the comics version?
 
The show runners don't ignore the comics. They constantly drop references and Easter eggs. They also purposely deviate from the comics to keep the story fresh, even for long time comics fans.
 
The speed force doesn't have to be sentient or come from Barry or  . . . whatever. It could all have been a dream or hallucination. (In the context of the show, I actually like this explanation the best.) But that doesn't mean that the show runners weren't referencing Barry's close relationship with the speed force.

"When you possess the power cosmic, you don't need another catchphrase." - modified, more accurate Silver Surfer quote
 

That's rich, coming from a guy who utters the phrase "Power Cosmic" every third sentence.

We're setting up for the Big Campaign Finale. One PC has a 20-something daughter with superpowers, who is following in Daddy's footsteps. (She's a DNPC, but also bought as a Follower.) Daughter wants to join the PCs on the Final Assault. The player is debating whether to bring her along or not; the player thinks it would be fun and they could use the additional firepower, but in-character the PC would be reluctant to expose his daughter to what is practically a suicide mission. Daughter really doesn't want to be left behind, and is wheedling Daddy to let her come.
 
Another player OOC: "As the father of two daughters, can we just skip ahead to the part where she gets her way? Trust me on this one."

According to this article, she has changed her mind.
 
http://www.tvfanatic.com/2016/05/supergirl-renewed-for-second-season-moving-to-the-cw/

http://www.comicbookresources.com/article/cbss-supergirl-renewed-season-2

No. She knew Laurel would be killed. She didn't know she would be leaving. After all, Sara has been killed, what? Three times now and still going?