Duke Bushido

It's obviously a fluke.

This probably won't help you much, 
 
but I have run into the problem twice-- 
 
to be clear:  I am extremely anti-piracy to the point that I _don't_ have games I used to play but would still like to have simply because I can't acquire them legally-- or at least, haven't been able to as of yet.
 
At any rate, on the two occasions that I found out there were scans being distributed, I hit up eBay.  Eventually, I found a copy of the book in question (and obviously, again for the second one) and bought it.  I didn't _want_ the printed book, as I had no intention of playing the game again, but had fond memories of it and therefore would like to have a nice clean PDF to read again for the memories...
 
At any rate, you are legally allowed to own one digital back-up of anything you own in print.  While it's generally assumed that you will make your own, I can't help but think you've got better ground to stand on this way.
 
Oh-- I also did it once for More Guns (supplement to Guns Guns Guns).  The company still exists, but after repeated e-mails with questions on how to buy x (which showed being for sale on the website) went unanswered  (I don't give up easily; I tried for two months), I finally found a used paper copy and a "digital back-up" to go with it.
 
 

I've said it before and I'll undoubtedly say it again: I think it's preposterous that we spend nearly 2/3 of the year pretending we don't know what time it is.
 
Real time or Daylight Savings time--all year long. Pick one.

This time around, I'm reusing a costume from a previous year.
 
Beware the wrath of Mini-Me!
 

 

I am with you on comics.  I pretty much stopped reading them in the late 80's(?) when comic writers effectively abandoned the concept of heroes.  But Robert Downey pretty much nailed the Ironman I remember, but then the Ironman character was one of the reasons I stopped reading comics.  I could get druggies and drunks in really life and on TV everyday.  I read comics for fun superHERO stories and when that ended so did the comic. 

I don't believe so, Duke. IIRC, Scott had an entire different Bay City campaign that he ran many moons ago. I have the C:NM one.

Venom. 

Superman 4

I think most of the regulars here can back me up when I say that I am the first person to admit that I know absolutely nothing about comic books.  However, I have read some Iron Man way, _way_ back when, and I have to say that condescending abusive Tony Stark seemed pretty much spot-on for the character I remember.
 
I don't know how accurate this was, but the buddy that was handing me these things to read (I was confused; my only other comic experience was Captain Marvel from _years_ before that; Captain Marvel seemed like what I expected a superhero to be.  Tony Stark was a horse's ass) kept insisting that Iron Man was a redemption story: the superhero alter ego was to atone for who he was as a person, the evil he did, etc.
 
Again: I have no idea how accurate that was, but I do know that the Tony Stark I am familiar with was very much condescending abusive Tony Stark.
 
 
The rest of the comments-- I'll totally take your word for it.  I know who Spiderman _is_, obviously, but all I know about him comes from the three Toby McGuire movies and the three Nicholas Hammond movies in the seventies.
 
I didn't like the last Toby McGuire movie:  it should have been _at least_ two movies, preferably three, or-- even better-- drop the whole gooey alien costume thing entirely.  I know that character (whose name escapes me at the moment) is as popular as coats in Alaska, but it's like the Punisher:  it starts nowhere and just stays there.
 
 

Wow...I knew I could kill conversations...

I honestly don't know what you're getting at here.

Critique wise, you made no mistakes. Good color choices, and very gameable. How many pixels across is it? 
 
As for their use, I find maps and minis necessary for any game that has a large tactical element. 

Final bump, for those who were sitting on the fence! 
 
This is the last night to get the Adventurers Club / Haymaker excerpts combo on Bundle of Holding.  If you haven't made your mind up yet, you don't have much longer before it's made up for you. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1buh_qVmevgPAfxilb6Hlsj7rd7KtbgiyIRRTJF4Om58/edit?usp=sharing
 
File > Make a Copy

Roll20 sheets are specific to that platform. However, I also created a Google Docs sheet, and others elaborated on that or came up with their own versions. You can see some of those here:
 
 

My copy has a barcode - photo attached.  Possibly they decided to add it for the second printing?
 
I like your spreadsheet, Duke.  I haven't been able to spend much time going through it, but I took a quick peek.  I have something vaguely similar - no promises, but when I get a little time, I'll let you know if I have any info collected that I think will help your sheet.
 

"Lu wears Chao's hat"?

That right there.
 
So very much of that right there.  It's one of those "the special effects kind of make this happen, but it's just too minor to bother costing."
 

The problem with To Serve and Protect is if it were updated, I'd love to see Scott Heine do it and give more info on the Bay City setting he'd ran his games in. 

Since it's my home town, I used Pittsburgh's map as Coastal City's map.  The factory-lined channel to Coastal City Bay was the Ohio River to the downstream end of Brunot Island.  The island itself is, in real life, occupied by an electrical generating plant.

I couldn't tell you who first coined the term, but I believe that is one of a handful of plot-twisting devices that fall under the general title "dick move."
 

 

And let's not forget the 4e Trifecta of Cobble:  EDM, Desolidification, and Transformation Attack.
 
No matter what kind of unusual-- or downright weird!-- notion you had, someone had a way to do it with the Trifecta of Cobble.   
 
 
 
 
Just to pick a little fun out of this:
 
Would that indicate that the new volumes are not wordy enough, or that making them more and more wordy isn't actually helpful?
 

 
 
 
 
 
And there was a relative lack of social media.  Seriously:  don't for a minute think that all of humanity hasn't been subtly changed by that.  All we really had in the early days of 4e were magazines (if you were lucky enough to be near a store that carried them), conventions (if you were lucky enough to have money, time, and one close enough to you that wasn't hosted by a pedophile  DragonCon), and-- if you were really, _really_ lucky, all the hardware and infrastructure that gave you access to a chatroom or two.
 
The difference?   We couldn't reach out and say "hey!  What does this mean?"! on a whim.  We would study it, interpret it, and keep re-doing those things until we found something that worked _for our groups_ or we tossed it (which also tended to work).  It wasn't really until we had the ability to reach out and question publishers and authors directly that we ever felt we had a _need_ to do that.   Once upon a time, we made it work in a way that made us completely happy.  A few decades later, we have a compulsion to make sure we are doing it exactly like ten thousand people we will never meet.  And better still ( I learned this one the hard way with Red October, way back when): finding out something that you and your groups "made work in a very satisfactory way" and had been doing for several years was actually _not_ what the publisher / authors had in mind, and that what they had in mind was something that your group didn't like at all.
 
In light of all those things, I have to believe that we tend to put a lot of unnecessary pressure on ourselves to attain some point of rules perfection that just flatly doesn't exist.
 

 
Makes for tons of books to read, though!     
 
 

What the heck is a "mutate?" 
 
We all know just how stupid I find the comic book "oh no; it's a mutant!"  thing.  But when you start filling your backstory with legal cases to explain the standing of "non-humans such as mutants," you should keep in mind that all blue-eyed people are mutants. 
 
Which makes it that much harder for me to not see that whole shtick as stupid. 
 
Before I get that" but it's a stand-in for racism" thing:
 
A stand-in for racism is not one but less stupid.  If you want to preach from your pulpit, address the problem.  Talking around it just encourages more people to not talk _about_ it. 
 
Anyway, you subhuman blue-eyed types, keep up the good fight.  One day you'll be equal. 
 
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