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Re: Homage It's very genre-specific, but I was always fond of the Call of Cthulhu Sanity mechanic. This has been discussed before I believe. (I like that system in general.)

Re: Package deals Yes.

Re: Character: Danger Mouse I was up late last night watching The Young Ones episodes on youtube. I am half-tempted to rethink the group into a Dark Champions team and write them up. I think Neil will be a druid.

Re: L.A. Caveman Perhaps Tyson and Drescher are some sort of throwback?

Re: Character: Danger Mouse I am SOOO waiting for a writeup of Blackadder. That would so kicketh the ass.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Modern Lovers -- Hey There, Little Dinosaur

Re: Putting my finger on it Oh, those darn kids and their new-fangled editions! (Grumble, grumble.)

Re: Reduced Penetration I do it all the time for characters with claws or teeth, so they can mangle people but not bust through steel walls. Kind of a Real Weapon limitation for natural KAs.

Re: WWYCD?: Champions Universe Zombies Side WITH the zombies and rule my new Kingdom of the Undead!

Re: Character: Tarzan How about Animal Handler skills?

Re: Grond, underpowered pansy? What if Grond is in a desert? I want raw power with my Hulk clones, dammit!

Re: Grond, underpowered pansy? I am sure that many people here have whupped Grond's overrated butt in their games. Please tell me your Grond-whupping stories. The guy is turning into the epitome of overrated characters in my mind.

While I was in the States, I picked up a copy of the Ultimate Brick, and finally got a look at Grond's character sheet. Now the Big G is supposed to be the Hulk of the CU, as I understand things, well-nigh unstoppable, a thing of terror and so forth. But his stats seem pretty underwhelming for this role. True he would mop the floor with most 350-point Bricks, but it seems any reasonaly powerful fire-based character or mentalist would wipe him out. A paltry 2 DEF 2 BODY Mental Paralysis would take Grond out of the fight. Doesn't seem appropriate for someone touted as a Major Supervillian Threat. With his Susceptibility to Fire, a bunch of GIs with flamethrowers could take him out.

Re: Top 10 List of the Lamest Superheroes of All Times Pshaw! All girls have cooties! That's not a superpower, it's an Everygirl skill!

Re: Top 10 List of the Lamest Superheroes of All Times "E. Coli, attack!"

Re: The downsides of the Iron Age I wonder if the guys who did the alternate history where Kal-El lands in the Soviet Union had that in the back of their minds.

Re: The downsides of the Iron Age They can go undercover and work vice? "Hey Mr. Fantastic, wanna party?" "I don't usually do this kind of thing, but I'm having problems with Sue, and the stress of having Galactus on my ass all the time is driving me to drink. OK, I left the Fantasticar around the corner, will 50 be enough? I'll hate myself in the morning." "BUSTED!! The Fantastic Four's going down!" Now, that IS an Iron Age plot.

Re: The downsides of the Iron Age Wasn't Superman originally potrayed as a leftie? Fighting corrupt anti-labor bosses and stuff like that back in the 30s?

Re: Top 10 List of the Lamest Superheroes of All Times Come to think of it, the ability to command microscopic organisms would be pretty lethal.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Reread At the Mountains of Madness for what must be the 20th time.

Re: why the UNITED NATIONS? (for global super-agency) Didn't Karate Kid almost whup Superboy?

Re: CHAR: Captain America Enforcer, your writeups rock. have you thought about doing the Fantastic Four?

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Mieville has got to learn to keep his politics out of his books.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Oh, I just read Cell by Stephen King. Basically The Stand with cell phones.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...