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Originally posted by Catacomb

Yeah...cool...I soooo remember that one. You know, every time I see the Thor vs. Superman thread I think 'Yeah it would be close, until Supes pissed off Thor and then...'. Everyone seems to forget that there are two levels of Thor.

1) The Thor who plays with kid gloves and gives all mortals a chance to actually live against him.

2) The Thor who gets pissed, and I'm not talking 'I say thee nay' pissed. I'm talking when Crusher Creel had almost killed one of the Warriors Three pissed. I'm talkin Thor taking it to Thanos pissed. I'm talking Thor dismantleing Ultron pissed. The kind of angry I remember seeing in him maybe 10 or 11 times in comic history. Against that guy Supes is toast.

 

Anyway sorry to bring that thread here, but you had my blood pumping with pimpy Thor quotes.

Heh. I think Catacomb is right. However, I doubt Supes would bring that out of him.

Hmm, though it does remind me of all the times Hercules would give Thor "The Gift".

http://www.hamrick.com/names

Shows distribution of Surnames in the states, kind of interesting

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names

Files with the 1990 US census. Not only do you get all the names, but a percentage value for each.

Originally posted by Gary Ciaramella

 

This is Golden Age of Champions

I think the Firebird one is a bit harder to get a hold of, but if you can get it, it's worth it.

The "official" version is still worth buying. Hey, get both.

Originally posted by JmOz

yes on both for games workshop (using and selling individualy) the only problem with them is that they are square not hexed

GW has round, square, and hex shaped.

Google 25mm Hex bases for a bunch of different ones, even

Though for $10.50 Jeff Valent Studios has a pack of 100 plain ones

Warhammer has the 25mm hex bases for some of their figures. I think they sell the bases seperately, but you'd have to look into that. (This data may have changed since the elf on my shelf was painted...)

Sergeant Sonic to NPC: "Well, sometimes people need to disappear."

Let's just say the particular NPC isn't very trusting of the Sarge anymore.

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And on the Toowoomba connection, my step-sister in law lives there. Other than that, I have no knowledge of the place...

Originally posted by Steve Long

Second, you can find the link to the cover in my April 18 news update. I was kind of surprised no one commented on it, since it's a damn cool piece of art.

Originally posted by Killer Shrike

On the subject of birthdays, and apropos of nothing, when looking to see how pathetically aged you all are, I noticed that tsejui and Geoff Speare were both born on December 31, 1969. I find that to be freakishly coincidental and highly unlikely. Therefore, I am going to assume that they are the same person.

You should note that a lot of people have that as their birthday. Something probably to do with the date field not wanting to deal with negative numbers is my guess. Though, the birthday is still noted correctly when it comes up.

Hmm. How about the characters conspiring to exchange the brain of a border collie with one of the NPCs in the game?

Wilson goes with the flow pretty well I have to say.

Originally posted by Jerry A!

WoTC stores are now only carrying WoTC and select D20 stuff. That's why non-WoTC stuff has been on clearance for the past few months.

That's why I was checking it out to see if there was anything still there on sale. Still some stuff, but nothing to make a trip for.

Grrr. Just checked out the WotC store in Portland. Barely anything in the Roleplaying section. All D20. blek.

Originally posted by Space Cadet

Wasn't there supposed to be an adventure sourcebook for C:TNM called

Champions Worldwide released sometime in the near future,or was that project dropped?

Hmm, I think anything about New Millenium can be considered not to be a going concern. I think you can find elements of New Millenium in the current products which is only natural, since some of the authors worked on both.

Eh, there's some interesting stuff out of the New Millenium stuff. However, it's less compatable than 3rd & 4th edition hero.

At 70%, buy all the DOJ stuff. Well worth it. If you don't think so, you could always ebay it at a slight markup.

hmm, I think there's a WC store in town....

Re: Re: Re: Domo Arigato Mr Roboto

Originally posted by Killer Shrike

ENYA is a kind and enlightened alien being, and I refuse to participate in your ignorant attempts to discredit her "beautiful haunting melodies". Now, I must return to Painting the Sky with Stars......

I was referring to Styx's "Come Sail Away". I wouldn't discredit Enya in such a fashion. that's for a different topic.

Re: Domo Arigato Mr Roboto

Originally posted by Killer Shrike

Will the heroes be able to withstand the terrible kitch which is Mr. Roboto?

Maybe they'll be forced to Sail Away?

Wildcards: The first six or seven are worth reading. I'm trying to remember exactly where I dropped the series, but yeah, ou should be able to find the original printings in used book stores.

Superheroes: Great book. The Cleaning superhero story was my favorite.

Re: Re: Re: My rules are a long time rules...

Originally posted by MarkusDark

I see it more as a testimonial to the Californian way of life - that we can judge someone as a person sans a piece of notorized paper.

Heh. Reminds me of the AADA Road Atlas entry for Santa Cruz: "Everyone has a say, including children and domesticated animals (their votes are read by animal empath)."

"I may be Overconfident, but I'm not that stupid!" - Hero with 20 points running away

Originally posted by Hermit

Maybe it's a villain turf thing. Destroyer got Detroit, Lansing shall fall to Foxbat!!

 

"Well, Fall isn't the right word. I put in some more Starbucks while raising the price of coffee beans... mwhwhahaha!"

This concept stolen from some cruel office tricks email:

I see Foxbat secretly substituting decaf in all the coffee shops in Lansing, gradually going from full caff to decaf. Then after a few weeks, shipping in the double-caffiene beans! think of the chaos! MWA HA HA HA HA HA!

(cough)

Advice on graphic file formats.

Keep an original in a non-lossy format. I tend to keep mine in .png format since it has most of the advatages and none of the disadvantages.

JPG uses lossy compression. I post web images and the like using it since it's universally accepted by browsers, though PNG is commonly enough accepted. However, I do all my work in PNG before hand. Everytime you open and save a JPG file. you'll lose some information.

Originally posted by AnotherSkip

At the core though people are going to cross name things all the time.

 

For Example for Years my "superheroic Alternate Id"ie. AnotherSkip with powers In V&V IS "the Rook" I have been playing that character for decades.

 

So much so that the {Character}Rook posting kinda irrates me.

Heh, that's why whenever I see the Champions I go "ack!" See, my first PC was called Nighthawk and that was back in 1982.

When I first saw this thread, I was going "What's the big deal?", but then since it's an e-book, I now see the point. I would assume Steve would be the one to ask.

Originally posted by Hermit

Mmm perhaps I'll have the universe threatened by a villain named Fuzion. Seems appropriate somehow

And the fuzion agents would all have this logo:

Re: Egyptian Villians

Originally posted by RevHooligan

One of my PCs is an Indiana Jones meets Thor style multiform with an Egyptian theme. He left me his hunteds to do as "mystery villians", yet I can't get a handle on them. I was thinking of an ancient warrior clan type dealie thingamabob guy and maybe a hawkheaded living statue type guy and... well, I'm sucking bilge water on these. Any ideas?

Well, Set is the designated god of evil. Look up some info on him via the web. Evil priests and would probably work well. Perhaps your hero is imbued with the power of Horus? Horus and Set didn't like each other at all. Hope this late night ramble helps.

Originally posted by Susano

Uhm... Dare I even ask?