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  1. Name That Keep!

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    Greyhaven, Aleton (ale meaning elf or friend or both) some combination of Elf, frend, gate, way etc..

     

    Friendhaven for the town and Greygate for the keep.

     

    Speakton from Tolkiens "speak friend and enter here"

  4. King Kong adventure.

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    Perhaps Cannibalism is the 'only' ritual way to cleanse invaders who are defiling their area. the natives actually are repulsed by cannibalism but due to a mistranslation of information contained on the cup of life the natives have little choice.

     

    the guides to recover the cup are of course merely a distraction in order to split the party.

     

    Name: Dra-Ko

  9. FANTASY HERO -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Steve probably doesn't have the time for this but how about doing the same things for weapons you do for magic systems. After all This is HERO, there is no one MAGIC system to rule them all why do we have to have one WEAPON system to rule them all?

     

    Doing a similar thing for WEAPONS as SPELLS should make for an interesting read.

     

    He has basically done this (in 5th) but he hasn't charted them out for note to note comparisons

  10. "Neat" Pictures

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    Okay' date=' you can't just throw that out there without an explanation...[/quote']

     

    So in a 1st-2nd AD&D campaign it's high summer, we are crossing a plains and i'm playing an elven ranger 1st level. Group camps for the night and the mages need their sleep for their spells. So im on middle watch and the Gm has a giant badger passing though the camp. I miss the addendum 'giant' as the Gm and another player devolve into a session of "camping terror stories involving badgers = teh Evil" after about 10 minutes of that play resumes. I decide I dont want the thing passing through camp so I play archer boy, shoot it and get a crit pinning it's paw to the ground. it starts howling so I grab two flasks of oil figuring that Criticaled Arrow + 6d6 Fire damage would kill a regular badger. I Pour the Oil light it on fire and Whoomp! the Badger really Screams, jerks itself off the Arrow and runs through the dry, middle-of-high-summer plains at max speed setting fire everywhere it goes. Yeah, no way to fight that, so I wake the others and we get out of there to the best of our ability pronto. we survive the brushfire and three days later we run accross a town and they mention how much they would like to string up the guy responsible. Needless to say I decide to become a mage after that mess (and getting aged to incredibly old and no longer qualifying as a ranger) after 2nd level. And the really sick part is? Eeven though the GM admitted I killed it, I never got solo kill Xp for killing the damm Giant badger by myself.

  11. "Neat" Pictures

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    I now realize that I don't need an E-reader. "Kindle" can flake off' date=' I'm getting one of [i']these[/i] so I can take my whole 'dead tree-ware' library with me everywhere!

     

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    Herogames should sell these as "the only way to carry all the books written by Steve Long...."

  15. Big Honking Sword

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    I reacall that at the local renfair one of the smiths had a 700 times Foldedd katana that he could cleave through stumps and engine blocks.....

     

    he had to resharpen after every stunt like that but still he is reasonably a mortal....

  21. Top 10 Insupportable Premises in Comic Book Universes

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    For my campaign I am thinking that there is a Secret society of powerful individuals that want to keep tech on a leash. They know that they cannot and perhaps should not stop all progress they just don't want Tech to leap beyond our civilization to deal with or thatd shift the balance of power. They are not always successful or else there would not be any Mechanon type villians , note that his existence is a strong argument in favor of controlling technical revolutions. They may monitor any new tech based heroes and villians and take measures to limit the impact of the tech on the world. A TonyStark type making a powered suit is one thing, him mass procuding lesser versions for wide scale military use is quite another. This organization is wealthy enough to buy patents for tech and seal them in a vault if or when it is deemed ok to release into the world. Or buying out corporations/ bankrupting them. Influential enough to make supertech disapear from military warehouses and forgotten. They may even have some super powered agents to do missions and enforce their will. Probably the biggest hurdle would be to keep this organization on the right track meaning their has to be a powerful leader that is also benevolent and wants to use the tech only for good.

     

    I am thinking the leader is a time traveler from the future who is also long lived/immortal he knows that in the late 20th/early 21 century many new technologies were release upon the Earth without restraint and the Earth paid the price horribly. Despite his worry over tech destroying the world and even time itself he has made the trip to the past with the intent on changing the future, possibly creating paradoxes and certainly destroying his own alternate timeline. Perhaps his tampering with the timeline has created it's own problems such as an increase in the number of super powered people which may be as bad or worse than the technology rushed that doomed his own reality..only time will tell. He has since destroyed his own time machine to prevent the temptation to retroactively cange the timeline even further and possibly make matters worse.

     

    By the way, you mentioned a Team Norfolk ? Is this campaign played in Norfolk, VA perhaps?

     

    I am working on a campaign wherein all of superheros and supervillians are being given super tech as part of a plot by aliens to destroy they earth while still leaving it viable. all the heroes and villians are trying to find a way to survive (the aliens choose poor people close to financial ruin in order to have them likely to be willing to fuck over the planet and in supreme arrogance tell everyone involved (in groups of 30 peopel or so at a time) as a way to crank up the pressure of knowing that "if i dont tell soon somone else will and they will profit from it" thus the scientific geniuses CAN'T just release tech willy nilly because it could destroy the planet. And everyone wants to keep anyone from reverse engineering stuff or giving it to the government. If anyone want i can look up the short story it is based upon. Very Cool story found in a SCi Fi anthology....

  22. Top 10 Insupportable Premises in Comic Book Universes

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    I'll do the rest one at a time as they occur to me:

     

    6. Rampant exhibitionism. People with beyond-perfect physiques running around in skin-tight/sheer/body-hugging costumes, that in the case of female heroes are barely there. This isn't necessarily an insupportable premise, but that a bunch of people run around in these outfits and generally don't spend significant amounts of time staring at each other, and that non-supers also generally don't gawk for all that much time either, is a bit much. I would go into the whole supers-rarely-get-sexually-assaulted-after-being-KOed, but I do think there's a supportable premise for that, based on my point about the Iron Age above--nobody really wants to go there much, because retaliation would be...severe. But it is still just a tad insupportable to put people in costumes that would qualify them as exhibitionists in the real world, and have the public reaction be muted compared to what it might be in the real world if a taller, bustier Megan Fox walked down the street dressed like a patriotic hooker.

     

    Uh IIRC some reasonably attractive female singer was walking down the streets of Dallas... NAKED and she hasn't even been charged yet for public nudity and at most might face a charge of filming without a permit. in part because there hasn't been one complaint about her behavior. yes the whole thing was for a video but still man... if thath doesnt point to our society being more rational than many have supposed.....

  24. CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Ok So, Not necessarily for this book but something to keep kicking around maybe for later, How about Older Villians who have gone on and left some of their power sources behind. after 70 + years there could be all sorts of artifact goodies just waiting to be grafted onto hapless NPC's who have a longer history than their latest weilders... who might even be up to throwing some new spins onto the old gadgets....

  25. Urban Fantasy Setting: Here There Be Monsters

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    Re: Urban Fantasy Setting: Here There Be Monsters

     

    A few idears

    how about a beastmaster sort of character Since monsters may be preying upon the animal population (perhaps as a way to sustain them selves until they are forced to prey upon humans? Adding a variable to the cycling of a series of monstrous urges.)

     

     

    Another thing Wizard Comics noted a comic called Necessary monsters. sounds pretty relevant to the basics of the campaign....

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