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Re: Depression-era and WW-II settings from a Not-American perspective Is that a comic or an animated series?

Re: TV to rpg I doubt it is a slight, they was a TOS rpg from FASA and Last Unicorn Games covered the other series up to, but not including, Voyager. (I think)

Re: TV to rpg Wild, Wild West (cross genre western, weird, espionage, good fit for Hero) Adventures of Brisco County Jr. (Whatever you may think of it, it was gameable) Space: Above and Beyond (20 somethings war in space-much, much better than it sounds) UFO (the Gerry Anderson show about a covert Invasion) The Invaders (an American made show about a covert Invasion) Space 1999 ( a UN moonbase floating free through the cosmos and meeting mostly evil aliens, makes no sense what so ever and thus quite gameable) Seaquest DSV (Godawful show that didn't have to be, star trek below the waves.)

Re: Depression-era and WW-II settings from a Not-American perspective There were a few sourcebooks written for West End Game's Indiana Jones rpg that covered some interesting pre WW2 locations. The one I'd reccomend is "Indiana Jones and the Land of the Rising Sun." It had a good overview of 1930s Japan's politics, religion, police forces and the supernatural. The descriptions gave a great feeling for the Cold War-East Germany like paranoia of the pre war period. It is also written from the pov of a game master and covers details about what it is like for caucasian adventurers in a more racially homogenous asian state. There is a Call of Cthulhu supplement called "Pulp CThulhu" that is rumored to be on the verge of coming out from time to time. Chaosium had the last word of destination books set in the 1920s and much of it is still useful for the pre war/ pre american involvement period.

Re: The Emergence Of Superhumans The earlier the supers emerge the more likely they are to be running things on down the timeline. That is based of course on the idea that the genes carry powers and that they emerge in the offspring. If powers are passed on you will have a growing elite class and given enough time a master race emerges, not too many neanderthals around anymore after all. If it happens early enough, say during Africa's prehistory, you might actually see powers becoming the norm. In that setting, Africa will be the pre eminent power of the prehistoric world. Even if it happens later in time, supers are likely to out compete the rest of us, probably supplanting us as the dominant species given enough time and reproductive success. Of course if there are competing emergences they may kill each other off often enough that we could still dominate by strength of numbers.

Re: Can anyone give me the Character Names in the Strike Force book? This is off topic but for anyone who doesn't know, Aaron Allston had a heart attack earlier this year. He seems to be doing really well but like all too many of us he hasn't health insurance and the bills are mounting up. Here is a link if you want to keep up to date or wish to help. http://clubjade.net/?tag=aaron-allston

Re: Can anyone give me the Character Names in the Strike Force book? If I remember right, the adventure "School of Hard Knocks" put out by Steve Jackson Games for Gurps supers was set in Aaron's Strike Force universe. There were Hero (4th?) stats for it available from the author at one time. It included quite a few teen super chrs. Sorry but I'm no where near it or I'd look them up for you. QuestionMan ? It was also published, in much shorter form), in SJG's "the Space Gamer" magazine under the title "School Holiday" with 3rd ed stats but with fewer and different characters. They were: Villains Denier, as in one who denys, (possibly an alternate version of Scoff?) a demonically empowered man. Scanner, a mentalist Briareus, a four armed android henchman possibly bought from the Producer, a character from Strike Force Flare, a standard energy projector, (light based), also appears in "School of Hard Knocks" Sliver, a mercenary with bracer c=based offensive multipower it also had a high school student named Rick Tarrell, a just emerging mentalist.

Re: Golden Age resources: whatever you can think of. A Weird War Two miniature showcase w links to the manufacturers http://wk.frothersunite.com/sc/pulp/weirdwar2.htm More conventional WW2 lines http://wk.frothersunite.com/sc/pulp/ww2.htm Pulp lines- 3 pages worth http://wk.frothersunite.com/sc/pulp/Pulpsc.htm WW1 figure lines http://wk.frothersunite.com/sc/pulp/ww1.htm

Re: My new Illustration That is a fun pic. Are the characters specific to your kid's campaign?

Re: Heromachine and similar applications That was nice of you.

Re: Russian Champions Universe At one time Durak from Eurostar From Golden Age of Champions: Capt. Comintern The Bolshevik Boys The Battlesuit Potempkin (sp?) I think European Enemies had an East German and possibly other Warsaw Pact affiliate chr.s. They weren't in the offical CU but the scenario "Fourth for Bridge?" in Chaosium's Trouble for HAVOC had champs stats for General Winter,Sensor,Sympath and Megawatt.

"A group of Soviet mentalist soldiers vs occult nazi necromancers" anime http://www.russiatoday.com/Art_and_Fun/2009-05-08/Soviet_superheroes_fight_for_Japanese_anime.html It seemed too strange not to mention.

Re: Pulp Lovecraft West End Games did an unofficial rpg based of the first film some years ago. http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/10/10980.phtml

Re: new hero website Ultimate quiver and utility belt sounds great and it gives your page a nice distinct element right from the start. When I look at a Champions pages I usually look for the following: 1.) Is there anything I might use in my own campaign? That usually prioritizes down to Villains, plots, NPCs and organizations. I know you have all that in spades but any distinctly different ones are always appreciated. 2.) The GM's hand on the campaign. Aaron Allston's Strikeforce is the great example of this, not just great source material but the story behind them, how they came about, what worked and what didn't, etc. 2.a.) The campaign history and evolution. To Serve and Protect and especially Strikeforce were almost like a campaign page before the internet made them possible. Both of them benefitted, I think anyway, from having actually been run over time in their home campaigns, the characters are more developed and just seem more vivid. Finding out the history of the characters adds a sense of richness and perspective that separates a campaign page from a online enemies book. Not that there is anything wrong with an online enemies book.

Re: Expanded Shazam power set question SUPER STRENGTH: Atlas, Greek personification of strength Vidar, Norse, among the strongest of the Aesir Dagda, Celtic ruler of the gods, able to break anything in his hands Magni, Norse god of strength Ajax, strongest of the greek warriors during the Trojan war, kind of stupid though SUPER-SPEED/FLIGHT: Hermod, Norse version of Mercury Hermes/ Mercury Aeolus, Greek god of the winds HEALING/REGENERATION: Osiris, Egyptian, returned from being murdered after being chopped , not by regen though The Phoenix Antaeus, invulnerable greek giant but only while in contact with the Earth Starkadr, Norse warrior who continues to fight no matter how grave a wound ne suffers, including decapitation ENERGY PROJECTION/CONTROL*: These tend to be spread out by type of special effect Ra, egyptian sun god Ptah, Egyptian creator of all the world - plenty of element specific gods though usually based on lightning or fire MATTER MANIPULATION/ TK: As with Energy it seems to be segregated by type of energy/special effect but maybe a god of magic might suffice, *Thoth, Egyptian god of magic *Oghma, Celtic god of knowledge, was able to manipulate all things by command

Re: new hero website Looking forward to the development of the page. I thought the "About JmOZ" page was very personable,

Re: The Great Movie Serials: any favorites? In a way it might have been less disturbing if they had been... As is there is a kind of Hello Kitty/Cthulhu cult kind of vibe, so I guess maybe it does kind of work.

Re: The Great Movie Serials: any favorites?

Re: The Great Movie Serials: any favorites? Captain Marvel Spysmasher King of the Rocket Men Flash Gordon et al ... and as a semi guilty pleasure, "The Return of Chandu."

Re: Adventures Into Darkness Arrives Jan. 12! Any chance for a hardcover or trade edition?

Re: Adventures Into Darkness Arrives Jan. 12! This has made my year. Thanks for the heads up.

Here is a link to a discovery of an odd set of standing stones under lake Michigan ( c. 10,000 years ago). It could make a nice Lovecraftian setting. http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2009/01/stonehenge-beneath-waters-of-lake.html

Re: Start of an Alien Invasion The switching stations, cell towers, internet backbone, satellite phones, local area network servers would go down from a strong enough emp. All atomic power plants built before the 70s will still be viable to generate but their steam emission should make them easy to pick off from orbit, the same applies to coal, fuel burning plants and just about any hydroelectric plant more advanced than a water wheel. Power may be a bigger problem in the short run but the atomic subs that were under way during the attack aught to be ok and their plants could run a powerful com at short notice before they slip back below the surface, kind of a maritime voice of the resistance. The aliens don't have to create the "pulse", it might be a period of solar activity or a huge gamma ray wave front from a not too distant supernova, if the radiation hadn't gotten here yet there would be no way for human civilization to detect it till it was happening. The aliens could just take advantage of it.

For those of you who use Clix for your champs minis- http://www.wizkidsgames.com/wk_article.asp?cid=41914 I'm gonna miss cheap mass produced super minis

Re: Nazi Flying Saucers I checked my vcr this morning and there was nothing about nazi ufo projects instead there was a program on capitol punishment. I rechecked the TV guide for Ventura county and it said "Investigation X" 9:00 to 10:00, Did it air anywhere?