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BlueCloud has a collection of boxcars that rival the one Conrail has. He keeps them in his back yeard a.k.a. the State of Texas which he renamed The Field of Boxcars. What an awfully silly idea!

Hi guys, got DC: TAS quite a while ago. The artwork wasn't as furchtbar as I thought - some was quite okay. The content was to my liking. Really do like it. One problem in play could be the genre typical but highly arificial "only attack the villain after all his minions are down or he has attacked you first" and the power level of te villain himself. Most have a hard hance to stand up to even one hero. I like my viallains a little tougher than that. But all in all a solid product that I would recommend.

L. Marcus is Jabba the Hut's godfather. He gave him the sweets for birthday and Christmas that turned athletic Jabba into the fat walrus that we know and abhor in the film.

Who rented the ape-house in the Bronx Zoo to unsuspecting illegal aliens at cut-throat rates. I did! But BC abducted the aliens from Rigel 9 and smuggled them to Earth. I only wished he would not anal-probe them. Yeah, "paypay's a bitch" but I have to cope with these traumatised tenants! So stop it already!

BlueCloud2k2 was once a wrestler. It was a night job because kindergarten teachers don't make enough to make ends meet. His name was Dr. Titan Terror. His wrestling name was Happy Chuck.

BC got into a bar fight with Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, Steven Segal and the Karate Kid of the question who invented Pong. Of course they walked all over him - Chuck Norris twice! What was he thinking???

The Federal Republic of Canceria rebukes the demand that it needs a national anthem. On the National Holiday (1st of April) all Canceristas are instead required by law to push the flush, exactly at 1.13 pm. This is officially referred to as "The Ode to Stool" and shall reminded every citizens what a shitty place Canceria really is. Yes, Canceristas have a very low self esteem and are quite depressive but still proud of their country. And even if not the huge wall around the border, ditches full of snakes and crocodiles and anti-plane rocket systems keep them inside. Hey, it is a shitty place after all!

While Ivana the Terrible Sexy is BC's nome de gay during the Christopher Street Parade.

I have it but I wasn't impressed. I found the example scenario in the book very lacking: "Stuff happens at the bank - Luchadores to the rescue! Fight, end of chapter, no clues. - Different stuff happens - Luchadores to the rescue! Fight, end of chapter, no clues." - Repeat to the end of the adventure. Okay, that might be excatly like it is in the source material, but the source material has visuals and combat moves to keep me entertained (I guess - never watched one of the movies), but as an adventure it is not even a stone-age-script for a scenario. Even my old dungeons were a thinking man's nightmare puzzle and more pro-active. At least the player could oepn doors, kill monsters, find traps, open more doors. This adventure is more like ONE ROOM and in different intervals monsters storm through secret doord and fight against the players. And it is impossible for the players to find the secret doors or follow though them. They sit, the wait, they lucha. Nah, I am utterly unimpressed by the setting and the scenario. As s sourcebook Lucha Libre Hero is well done. But it has no worth as a setting for a campaign (or even a one-shot) for me.

Western Hero was a sourcebook/ genrebook for HERO 4th edition. It provides Deadwood as a setting (around 1876) and does it very decently - especially the description of the town itself was very well done IMO (only the map of Deadwood could be a little bit better, but does the job). There are some short adventures and one longer once featuring a train-robbery with GREAT MAPS !!! of the train and plays out nicely. My group enjoyed it. In the back you have an assortment of critters, some of them unfortunately a little faulty on the stats (the scorpion has DEX 25 and no Shrinking - so it is basically the size of a pony ...), but the generic stats for Outlaw, Brave, Soldier, Lawman etc are very good and the character write-ups of Jesse James, Buffalo Bill, Calamity Jane, Will Bill etc. even better. All in all very nicely done. And even if you just play the scenarios in the book and sandbox in Deadwood you have a nice little campaign. Was well worth my time!

And who is responsible for the fact that each and every health insurance turned BC down so that he still ha sto pay off his debts for the hospitals stays and all the surgery? And that he did not get a new hand, not even a hook but only a nail through a piece of wood and no glass-eye but just an eye-patch made of an old diaper? Yep, the name staers with a "D" and ends with "eath Tribble"!

It's not a Claymore, it's a Zweihänder, you Highland hick! BlueCloud2k2 was kicked out of the army of William Wallace because he repeatedly mistook and misnamed the weaponry he brought to the battle. And he came without a kilt and tried to form a "Hang Loose with a Full Moon"-Berserker Band with the battle name "The Big Blue Balls" (it's cold in the Highlands without a kilt). The only ones who showed up for that with "claymores" (a club with nails and a hammer) were BC and a guy who called himself "Bruce MacDick". Ha, ha - very funny. Mr. Wallace sure found the idea ... lacking.

Death Tribble is only miffed because Cancer took the one that was actually DT's bust. But writing on the back "To the moon or bust!" was bad form.

And I answered: "That's BlueCloud in his Sunday's best, Mr. Tolkien. And I think he even bathed and combed his hair." (Mr. Tolkien used to speak to himself aloud when extremely astonished.)

Better then the polar bear snuggling contest that Death Tribble imposes on the guests at his parties. At least get the beast de-loused and don't feed it raw fish with onions before the thing! UUUGH!

BlueCloud lives in a bad Irish bog. The real estate agent really screwed him royally!

You ought to give people a chance to solve your riddles, Riddler! THE BATMAN (moping)

Blue Cloud is the inventor of Death Country and Metal Western. Both make cows stampede. P.S.: Still waiting for that bratwurst.

Dunno. I hope Vondy is gonna tell. But somebody mentioned Vibora Bay. First off: The drawings are godawful, crossing to plainly bad and peaking at so-so for amateurs. But the whole settinh has a very nice Urban Fantasy or Supermage campaign feel to it. I never gamed in VB, but I consider the setting to be a clear winner (and the illustrations worth a lynching). Stark City for ICONS is a nice setting (even comes with downloadable city brochures for newly arrived citizens!) if you are titred of another New York City knockoff and are desparately searching for a Chicago knockoff. And if Hudson City is the best (and I think - improved) knockoff of Gotham City (which emulates a dark NYC), but you always wanted that big city-small town feel of a down-on-its-luck rustbelt-city, try Bedlam City for M&M/ Savage Worlds. While Hudson City has more badguys than you can fire your uzi at, Bedlam City has a mob that you get to know on first name basis and no more than a handful of gangs. One of the endearing things of Hudson City is that you have criminals and crimes for every taste and of any variety: Monday the Mob. Tuesday some Outlaw bikers. Wednesday karate at the gym. Thursday breaking up the amphetamine hustle at said gym. Friday night is Serial Killer Night. Saturday is Tong-Triad War Extravaganza and Sunday is finally Dark Executioner's day with the kids in the park (including a kidnapping attempt by Blood-Red Cannibal). Bad about that is that the impact of the PCs is limited: You can cut the weed of crime, but it always grows back. Of course that gives you more to do next week. Bedlam City is limited in its crimes and syndicates. No tongs. No triads. Two Mob families. Some 1% bikers. About 6 sets of streetgangs. Some four-colorish badguys. But make no mistake: When I read the descriptions a lot of them make Hudson City criminals want to go back to Crime School to finally get that diploma in Advanced Callousness & Total Badassery. Some are really merciless, bloodthirsty bastards - even for a dark champions campaign. Good: You can really make a difference. If you kill 8 mobsters and Don Dominik, the Luginato crime family is in total disarray and possibly done for for good or a long while (years). Bad: "I wanna fight the Tongs!" - "No, Nunchuck Chap, we are not travelling to Hudson City AGAIN! We don't have 'em here. Punish what's wandering in the streets, whydon'tcha?!" = Less variety.

I have never done that. Germany does not lend itself to superhero campaigns - it is an American genre and like Western does not easily translate into other countries in my oppinion. So, almost all of my superhero campaigns were set in New York City - mainly because it was Marvel's playground and I always dreamed of going there for a holidays as a teenager (now I have been there four times and I am not as much a fan anymore - Why I went there four times? I have relatives in the vicinity). Anyways, New York City basically does for me what fictional cities do for the others here who use them: I am quite knowledgable (for a foreigner who has been there a few days and who has read tourist guides etc. on the city) about the city, it is believable for my players because it is a real city BUT there is also a lot of blank space when and if I need it - because I don't have to erase stuff from my mind, I just ignore the real world and put it where I need it! And my players don't mind because they don't know any better. I have a better knowledge of Pittsburgh but then I DO KNOW what is where and where is what and that would limit my creativity. The only other city I have used so far as a supers setting was Hudson City - the best Gotham City that was ever invented! I even like it better than Batman's funpark. Great on crime! Freedom City isn't bad either. For some reason I never fell in love with Millenium City - maybe because it has no harbor at the sea. And for some reason I tend towards the Eastern seaboard, so San Angelo is to Californian for me. Actually, coming to think of it, I have never set any kind of campaign in Germany - supers, crime-fighting, Cthulhu horror. Nothing. But there is a certain tradition in German fiction in that: The strange, the adventurous, the criminal, the exciting always happened abroad - first in England, then in the States. Some detective stories were set in Germany, but monster-hunters are British, agents are FBI or CIA and SF-heroes have names like Perry Rhodan and not Peter Röder. - In Germany oder rules and where Ordnung herrscht you can't have anything exciting. I am a product of my culture ... even in gaming.

I used to have a green-eyed rurry monster living under my bed. Guess who scared the poor fellow first almost to death and then away! - Right: Wasn't BC. He is the one who scared the monster away that scared my monster away! And he is now living under my bed! Man, I really don't mind your barbecueing although it would be nice if you shared a bratwurst now and then. BUT CAN'T YOU TURN DOWN THE MUSIC?!? SOME OF US HERE IN THIS BEDROOM HAVE TO GET UP EARLY IN THE MORNING! And I hate Country ...

That looks like a nifty weapon to me!

Cancer hunts suspicious strangers for sport - with his squadron of mutated radioactive flying gorillas!

Death Tribble's real name is Stanislaus Gandalf Rainbow Tribble Spock Moonbeam Speszkowsky. This is what you get when you let Solidarnosc hippie trekkie Lord of the Ring fans across the Iron Curtain to procreate! And so it was seldomly done - after Tribble's birth never again!

Need a witness? - Cancer is your man. Or woman. Or tree. Or mineral. Actually he is so desperate for cash he'll take any job and like it. I even saw him once auditioning as Sylvester Stallone's body-double. They wanted to have his droopy eye-look back and he wanted to get the job. As second eye-lid in reserve. Some may call it pathetic, but I call it canceratic! A man/woman/tree/mineral/droopy eye - a mission!