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Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Swing Out Sister

Re: The Lemurian Secret is out! Then there's the picture of the Mandragalore. Were the Lemurians compensating for something?

Re: Sky High The Movie In the commentary on Big Trouble In Little China, John Carpenter told Russell that one of the things he admired about him was that, unlike a lot of other actors, he wasn't afraid of looking foolish in a movie. I think that comes from doing all those early Disney movies(The Strongest Man in the World, The Computer Wore Wingtips, etc.). He probably realized that looking goofy( ) doesn't matter if the movie is supposed to be an all-round fun movie.

Re: The Algernon Files come to Hero!!!

Re: The Algernon Files come to Hero!!! I asked my FLGS about this yesterday and he said D20 isn't moving like it used to some of the main companies are having trouble. He said he could get it but it would have to be a special order.

Re: Belief in magic by normals. I agree. In a world where there are powerful mystics, some would probably be closely identified with particular denominations. Their powers might be their own personal "faith-based initiatives".

Re: My Star Wars Force Powers If you're using anything from New Jedi Order, later in the series Jacen Solo discovers Light Side Jedi can project a green force lightning that can only stun. Luke just reaches out and puts a little shock to the nervous system to knock out dangerous animals.

Re: Athlete HERO I remember seeing, years ago, a cartoon where about 6 college football players got magically transported to a fantasy world where they became knights (naturally,the team captain was named Arthur). It tried to incorporate football maneuvers into their fighting.

Re: The Batman Handbook The forward is pretty funny. The rest is more tongue-in-cheek. It tells how to aim and throw a batarang(with illustrations), rappelling, most useful martial arts, how to swing around a flagpoles, dusting for prints, and other useful skills. It also explains the more mundane aspects like netting to catch bat droppings and installing an industrial dehumidifier to protect electronics in the Batcave.

An excellent companion to How To Be A Superhero. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1594740240/qid=1116271766/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/103-8239538-6073443?v=glance&s=books

Re: Are there Amazons in the Champions Universe? There are if you wish really hard! (And create it yourself)

Re: Something we should all look into.. Pshaw! If Image Comics taught us anything, it that superheroines can never be too busty and characters can never have too many spikes, chains, scars, grotuesquely bulging muscles...what was my point again?

Re: Something we should all look into.. I'm at work, so I haven't downloaded anything yet but I registered and looked at the freebies. All I can say is I think this will help me decide if I ever want to get into Poser or not.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Frankenstein Bk 1: Prodigal Son by Dean Koontz. Victor Frankenstein discovered a rejuvenation treatment and is now trying to make Huxley's Brave New World a reality. He is opposed by The Monster. Dean Koontz is always a very engaging writer, but I think you can also get some ideas for fleshing out the personality of the Champions character Teleios. It's one thing to say he has no regard for life, but Koontz really explores that attitude and shows how it affects Frankenstein in his daily life, especially in regard to his vat-grown creations.

Re: Villainy Amok Woohoo! My FLGS called.

Re: Villainy Amok My FLGS has had problems getting things in on time because the owner lost a supplier. It seems that Have-It-To-You-One-Week-After-The-Printer-Ships was a sole propietor (I should have guessed from the excellent service). He died and his family closed it all down. Now my FLGS guy is working to get things back to speed, but I'm not holding any hope that the new supplier will match the previous one's speed.

Re: Superhero Pope: Ridiculous or Sublime? Warrior Nun Areala, which started out as an interesting (I'm not Catholic so you'll have to pardon me for not being sensitive about magic-priests. They did change the costume to be more modest after a New York order of martial artist nuns complained about it.) anime-like take on dark fantasy with the Catholic church as the main defense against demonic hordes.

Re: Superhero Pope: Ridiculous or Sublime? There's already a comic book with a superhero pope. Tacky.

Re: Golden Age Guardians of Liberty! Good job on Math the Magician. It makes me think of some advertising art from the '20s I've seen.

Re: Hero Designer... You know how video game combat usually goes faster than tabletop gaming because the rules are automated? It's kind of the same way with HD. You don't have to keep flipping pages in your books (unless you're looking for something really specific in the description) and you don't have to keep re-adding point totals because it does it for you.

From Knights of the Dinner Table #101, page 80. YOU KNOW THE d20 WELL HAS RUN DRY WHEN... 1. You keep hearing rumors that AEG and Eden Studios are fighting over the rights to do Desperate House Wives d20. 2. WotC lays off an employee and for the first time that individual DOESN'T turn around and start up a d20 publishing company of his own and compete. The d20 community is shaken to its core as to the implications. 3. d20: Blackpowder Era comes out and siphons sales from D20: Modern Era products. 3.5 d20 Modern is upgraded to d20 Modern 3.5: Postmodern. 4. News finally leaks that d20 wonder boy, Monte Cooke is just that — an 11 year old boy who lives with his parents and has a curfew. The secret is revealed when his parents GROUND him and take away his iMac after his mother finds a copy of the d20 Big Damn Book of Erotica in his room. She ignores his pleas of it being ''art†and ''research material". 5. In the wake of a veritable flood of d20 product, the movie license, DodgeBall: A Tale of Underdogs wins Best Game of 2005. 7. When ads start appearing that proclaim "The dlO System: It's the new d20". Investors in the d30 System immediately file suit. 8. When you begin hearing gamers yearn for the "Good ol' d20 4.6 days". 9. You decide to stop making your monthly payments on the Self Storage Unit you rented to hold all your d20 product. 10. It occurs to you as you are standing in line waiting to purchase Volume 24 of the D20 Big Damn Book of Elves that you never got around to reading volumes 19 thru 23. 11. d20 Designers finally realize that Hit-Points have no practical use in the game and eliminate them altogether. From now on Players are allowed to keep fighting until they feel carpal tunnel syndrome kick in or need to call time out for a snack run. Monsters however have to fall down when hit and not move for 6 rounds while they are properly looted. 12. Despite high hopes and a lot of hype, d20: The McKinley Years is released and suffers from poor sales. The book is later re-released under the title, "Anarchists and Battleships" but quickly pulled from shelves. 13. Thomas Marley, a lowly shipping boy at a third tier gaming company announces, "Every subject that could be possibly applied to the d20 system has already been taken." Two weeks later he has to retract the statement when just to prove him wrong, KenzerCo releases, "THRASHER: The d20 RPG of Combine Wars in Rural Indiana." 14. In order to attract a more diverse reading audience, d20 Quarterly announces they'll be running a Women of Gaming Swimsuit Issue later this year. 15. d20 joke lists like this begin to get old.

Re: PULP HERO -- What Do *You* Want To See? Just give me names, general stats, and a few illos, please.

Re: PULP HERO -- What Do *You* Want To See? Suggestions on how to deal with the unfortunate realities of race relations in the period. For example, WW's Adventure! pointed out that if you have a black man and a white woman as PCs and they are traveling cross-country together, they're going to get hassled. People assumed that The Avenger's mechanical engineer was just dumb muscle, but how do you get the guy some respect if you don't want to play him that way? Lots of Mcguffins. What do you call your valuable artifact when the Maltese Falcon name is already taken? What were common names for people, places, and things back then, meaning how do you take something from now and fix it in the pulp style?

What real people have you used as inspiration for characters in your game? To start the ball rolling, here’s a man I just read about this morning. You want to talk about unpowered powers? This guy was an unpowered precog with mind scan and psychic invisibility!.

Re: Ultimate Mystic Review