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  1. Crude Combined Marvel/DC timeline to use as backstory to a Supers campaign

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    Apparently, the graphic novel Batman:Son of the Demon wavers in and out of continuity. In that one, Batman & Talia have a son, though she tricks him into thinking she miscarried and places the child up for adoption. apparently Denny O'Neil says that Zero Hour bumped it out of continuity. The kid is known variously as Ibn al Xu'ffasch, Damien Wayne & in one elseworld as Tarrant Wayne.

     

    This summer, Grant Morrison did a story arc using that graphic novel as the basis. Voila! Back in continuity it goes.

     

    This means only one thing, Superboy Prime's Retcon Punch strikes again.

  5. My view of the CU

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    You do realize this is gonna really freak the collective people of America out, right? I hate to say it but the most important thing about whatever suit-wearing monkey you just swore into office as POTUS is that he's sweating bullets that he's next on the kerblammo list unless they find out why Washington DC went boom. People aren't gonna be worried that his daughter trains lions or where his wife works, they're going to start screaming at him to make it all better. Large-scale death really rattles the average American. He/She tends to start yelling and thowing blame at people. Expect every supertype to be blamed for causing/not stopping the explosion.

     

    In the CU-variant you've got here, people are going to start screaming about how it's the work of Destroyer and point to Millenium City. Then others start yelling that it was the work of VIPER/Argent/terrorist group de jour/random monocolored pajama/hat group/what have you. Is anyone taking credit for this mess? How many costumed nuts are now gunning for that person?

     

    Where's he going to be POTUSing at, now, BTW? Wherever it is, expect people to flee in droves.

  15. Quiz/Brainstorm: What's your Special Ability?

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    Re: Quiz/Brainstorm: What's your Special Ability?

     

    Woah...

     

    I can tell exactly what any given walrus is feeling, at any given time, anywhere on the planet. Um, I have Walrus Awareness, huh?

     

    Alternately,

    Your Superhero Name is The Golden Torpedo

    Your Superpower is Cybernetics

    Your Weakness is Tummy Rubs

    Your Weapon is Your Poison Gel

    Your Mode of Transportation is Segway

     

    Um, I'm gonna stick to punching jaywalkers & litterbugs til I save up for that Radiation Accident.

  16. Secret IDs: In or Out?

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    Well, I've had Secret IDs, Public IDs & characters who just didn't sweat it one way or another. It tends to be a genre thing for me.

     

    There's a real tang of Iron Age to simply handwaving that the govt knows Spider-Man is Peter Parker as recent writers established. It kind of bugs me that SHIELD can be presented as alternately all-knowing and unable to find it's ass with both hands and a roadmap. He used to never get unmasked and in the last few years it's all too common. Bah. Doesn't fit right for him. No Secret ID pulls him away from his common-man appeal in my opinion.

     

    Some characters, this kind of thing works for, like Captain America. He used to has a proper Secret ID, but it was known by the govt, SHIELD & half a hundred superheroes. Oh, & the Red Skull. That the govt knew who he was facilitated the plot of many a Cap storyline. Works fine.

     

    Thor & Iron Man both have had varying degrees of secret in their IDs. Nick Fury has apparently known for the longest time about both of them. No biggie. They're high-power movers in the superhero community. Spidey would have to really bust his hump to be a national menace. These guys could flatten a major metropolis if they wanted. Still, most people never knew about Thor being Dr. Don Blake or Jake Olsen. He worked with SHIELD to give his Sigurd Jarlson ID a paper trail. Iron Man was always connected to Stark but Tony pulled enough tricks to keep people from being sure if he was the man inside or not. Worked for them, considering what type of stories they were in.

     

    Then there's Doc Strange. Known as the Sorcerer Supreme, he's seldom interacted with the public enough for this to matter. No disad either way.

     

    Hulk, totally Public ID. Now, stop setting him off with your paparazzi antics and your feeble Army toys. It's like ignoring the Do Not Feed The Bears sign. However, this bear can shred tanks and has a toothache making him all cranky anyway.

     

    I'd like to keep it where appropriate. It's a more entertaining story to me when the feds don't knock on your door and go all "Pfft, we've always known who you were, Generic Hero X. Now put on some pants. We want you to do a job for us." It's one thing for the crusty superspy head of the special organization to personally know, but when faceless mooks get to know who Spidey, Daredevil or Cap is, that's just stupid sounding.

  19. The sneaky liaison

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    Hmm, well, I'd lose the cat burglar/Black Cat stuff. Why not make her one of the rarer major successes of the Psi-Division. She could have limited telepathic powers, some precognition and a strong dose of psychometry, leading to her tending to use more formal late 19th-early 20th century language and having a fondness for it's fashions, literature and music.

     

    If she's to wear gloves outside of her SHIELD uniform, she could wear them to cut down on psychic impressions

     

    After all, these personal affectations she uses would certainly have been remarked on in her service record and it may have been the deciding factor in posting her as a liason to a superteam or as a prominent expert dispatched by SHIELD to consult on paranormal phenomena. After all, the spandex set isn't normally as judgemental of the eccentricities of others.

     

    As to the hunted by rival agency thing, go with HYDRA or AIM. Both are likely to want a trained ESPer for any number of reasons.

  21. Random powers?

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    Sheesh. Next we'll learn that he used to be a cowboy/test pilot/astronaut/pirate.

     

    Well, he was a fur-trapper. He also uses a transdimensional accounting firm.

    Oh, and he hung out with Ernest Hemmingway.

     

    ...no, really...

     

    He also saved the last of the Romanov family from an evil cabal of ninjas and nazis during WWII with the aid of Captain America.

     

    One wonders if he panned for gold or ran a speakeasy during Prohibition too.

  23. Thoughts on Solara

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    Although Solara is a magical girl, the raw power she can channel exceeds Witchcraft's. Her versatility, however, at this point, may be a bit less than Witchcraft's.

     

    Um, yeah. Wow.:rolleyes:

     

    Witchcraft's raw power is like 9DC. I was kind of assuming that Solara was shooting 11-12d EBs & such.

  25. New Champions vs. The Big Blue Book

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    Careful, mixing Fuzion & Hero is like dividing by zero. There's a good chance for burning off your eyebrows and the scent of burnt mylar is horrible and lingering. :)

     

    Anyway, it shouldn't be too tricky to convert 4th to 5th. You can always grandfather in a few bonus points here and there to cover changing power costs. As long as the relative damage classes remain consistent, it should work out fine. As to write-ups for Marvel & such, just watch out pitting 700pt Sam Bell write-ups vs 250 Matt Ignash ones and it'll be OK, I'd think.

     

    As to giving them 350 rather than 300 pts, if they've got their characters already figured out, encourage them to spend those points to round out abilities, skills & talents rather than bulking up the DCs & Defenses. This lets people toss in that language skill they had to drop or buy the police chief as a contact/favor combo after they saved his life back in '98 or whatever.

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