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Re: The Network: Campaign Setting Idea I would find it interesting, but I would love to play the "normal guy in the wrong place" rebel. Some small arms, no high tech weapons or body armor. No high end training. It would be interesting to see what info/sabatage you could do. Maybe 25+25 characters with limited equipment. Aliens??? What are they like biologically (I have many hours of graduate level biochemistry)??? How do they think? What do they want?

Re: Purely Positive Thread I love 5ER! I love Hero! I play in a Champions game, a FH game, and GM a Champions game. I tried the Fantasy game and I liked using Hero for fantasy. Hope to GM pulp soon. I love Hero for it can simulate anything.

Our great Steve Long, I have a question: Is this correct, a character can do multiple move-thrus if the targets are in a straight line?

Re: Questions and Suggestions for my next campaign. Ethiopia, Fascists (both kinds, Italian and German). Need I say more.

Re: GM Resources/Support Materials Steve Jackson Games Modern Cardboard Characters and the plastic stands they sell. GREAT, includes police, firemen, and civilians for the by-standards you might need. BattleMat by Chessex. Dungeon Stamps by Green Dragon Studio (http://www.greendragonstudio.com) stamps for the battlemats. They allow you to make a map quickly that looks nice. Use unsented babywipes to clean the map. HeroClix. Cheap ones, you can find them in huge buckets at some game stores. At 20 cents to one dollar a piece they are cheap.

Re: City of Heroes to HERO conversion? COH is doing a pencil and paper RPG game, I have signed up for it at GenCon. I will be interested in how they do it, and of course I will post my impressions after GenCon.

Re: Superhero Football This would be a good idea for two superhero groups do "play" a game for charity. Of course the GM could: a) have the game become more a grudge match and less friendly as it goes on supervillains show up to fight or maybe want to "play" against them c) supervillians show up to steal the charity money Great idea that I may have to use in my game.....

Re: Creative uses for Change Environment I love it, rep to you.

Re: 2 4th Ed. Qs: CP "loans?"; Multipowers & advantages? My GM in a Champions game "loaned" my character 2xp. I payed it off after the very next game day. It allowed me to add a robotic follower which helped in the big battle the GM had cooked up for us. I as a GM would allow a small loan of xp but they must be paid off at end of the next game day.

Re: What's the most outrageous plot your PCs have ever been subjected to CLOWN may not have been funny to youl, but this post was VERY funny to me, rep to you!

Re: Does Unluck Really Screw You? Several of characters have unluck and I have played characters with unluck. It is fun both cases. As a player I had three levels of unluck (bought down to 1 level and kept it there) for a powered armor character. It was a Marvel based game so we were fighting the Hulk and my unluck came up as I was flying. The GM said the rocket boots just slowly failed and I was able to land safely... next to the very mad Hulk. My last words in the fight were "Hi Hulk..." before Hulk smashed him into next week. For my players unluck is annoying, but fun. Sometimes the unluck "helps" them. For example, one of my players had is unluck activate and cause him to fall during an attack (he of course missed his attack completely on his enemy). But the villians left him alone the next round and he got the drop on them.

Re: Real world Pulp characters A.Earhart. First women to fly across the Atlantic, flew all over the world, Purdue University professor, spokeswoman, and a generally interesting person.

Re: Children Do not forget Legal minor; no adult legal rights as a disad. "Yea, kid I don't care you are a superhero but you must be 16 to drive a car"

Re: Where is Professor X when you need him?

Re: Beyond Conquerers, Killers, and Crooks: Your favorite villains?

Re: Beyond Conquerers, Killers, and Crooks: Your favorite villains? Foxbat, has to be Foxbat. Loony, did I mention that he is a loon, a somewhat lovable loon (at least in my game), but still a loon.

Re: A pulp picture...the USS Manhattan Good job on photo and backround, okay to "steal"... oops, I mean use in a pulp game of mine? PS rep to you.

Re: Essence of the Golden Age A favorite idea of mine would be an all Allied power force, with Free French, South African, Austrialian, New Zealanders, British, American, Canadian supers vs. the Nazi bad guys (maybe with a Italian super also).

Re: Essence of the Golden Age Also remember to have your heroes taunt the bad guys. I would not have them use all of the racial/country slurs that were common in the 1940's, as some are quite insulting. But remember that in WW2, it was a total war, and many people in the West thought (correctly IMO) that the Allies could lose the war. Women's rights were not what they are today. Women in the US got the right to vote in 1920. Women were expected to defer to men, and were often not leaders.

Re: Looking for Firearm Resource The Thompson Submachine gun was in production during WWI and almost saw combat service. Thousands were in crates on the dock in NYC awaiting shipment on 11/11/1918 the day WWI ended. If the war had continued into 1919 it would have seen service.

Re: Guns vs. Armor GEWING: I find your last post very interesting, and giving what I have too have heard in rumors it makes sense. The US is increasing the firepower at the solider level dramatically. What this means is new "toys" for DC games. Peace thru firepower... my favorite is "if you want peace prepare for war"; still true over 2000 years after the phrase was coined.

Re: Advice needed: Which conversions are okay to post? Non-legal advice: Please mention the owner(s) of the copyrighted material. Please plug the material you are basing the conversion on.

Re: Media Darling I ran a game (not my current game) that a player took a contact (20pt) who was the Society Editor for the Chicago Tribune. She was a great contact. Knew everyone who is anyone in Chicago's high society. I played her a middle-aged Dame Edna-type, complete with a bad British accent. A very great contact to get invites to "the" events in the city, she was friends with the mayor and police commissioner. She has friends in other departments of the newspaper that could give the player info. A great plot hook, and a great way for the player to get info. A perfect fit for a Media Darling player as DNPC or contact.

Re: Who is your campaigns "Bad Guy they love to hate" Foxbat, it had to be Foxbat. My group loves to hate him. He is not a supervillian or superhero in my game, but a SUPERLOON; a very rich loon, but still a loon. He has many resources and influence to make my players lives miserable, but they still "love" him.

Re: Difference between Ultraviolet Perception and Nightvision? UV needs a source. In Vietnam rotting vegetation was the source of the UV for early night vision goggles. So in a completely dark room a character with UV perception would not see anything at all.