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Re: 'Smells like Teen Spirit'? Let me see I've got it. You want to combine Dark Champions: bad **** happens, blood flows, nothing's black&white with Teen Champions: Oh the angst! Oh I'm not popular! Oh my parents suck! with TAS: life's a cartoon, everything's black&white, all problems are solved in half an hour (with a preachy moral at the end) All that, in one setting?!? Sorry, my mind won't tie itself into knots like that.

Re: Dyson Sphere (shell) - Dysonica Anyone? Nope. Get your favorite spreadsheet program out and do the following. In cell A1 put "1000" (without the quotes) In cell A2 put "=A1+100" (without the quotes) In cell B1 and B2 put "100" (without the quotes) in cell C1 put "=((4/3)*PI()*A1^3)-((4/3)*PI()*(A1-B1)^3)" (without the quotes) Do a "copy down" from C1 to C2 In cell D1 put "=C1/(A1^2)" (without the quotes) Do a "copy down" from D1 to D2 Do a "copy down" from (A2 thru D2), to oh say row 200. Look at the results in column D. See how they keep going up? That's the relative surface gravity. I didn't do this in any particular units, but the math is right. If you want to put it in kilometers, metric tons, Earth gravities, and all that, you can figure out the "fudge factor". I can't be hedgehogged. Important thing is that the surface gravity does keep going up.

Re: A Fun and Creepy Thought I'd think the Earth's magnetic field (with "help" from the Sun's magnetic field) would bend it around the whole Earth. Wait: no, not the gamma rays. But the charged particles made when the gamma rays hit atoms in the upper atmosphere would be bent. And the interaction of gamma rays and atoms all through the atmosphere would heat up the air to the boiling point of water and beyond. At least, that's my guesstimate.

Re: Moreau Techniques Very rubbery. An animal genetically tailored to fit a non-terrestrial environment will not look anything like any terrestrial animal. So your "furry" loving players won't have any of their dubious "fun." All to the good, IMO.

Re: WWYCD if their reflection suddenly winked at them? Me? I'd turn to the player with the "illusion master" character and give her the ol' icy stare, then do ditto to the GM. My character? See if the reflection does anything else. If not (and even if so, prolly), go to HQ and tell folks the "illusion master" was up to something. When asked what, describe in detail what happened.

Re: Superhero idea: The Cycler Repped for you.

Re: Transformer's Spark

Re: Supervillain Monologues I remember one quote the GM gave the Recurring Villain™. "Like a flame-war thread on Usenet, I never die!" Dam near killed us all laughing.

Re: Costumes in a Real World Game If lowered inhibitions was all of it, there'd be very, VERY few superheroes. Lots of supervillains, tho. I think some supers would deliberately dress away from the "standard supers" look, in protest or because they don't want to be expected to act like typical supers. You'd see a lot of supers in biz suits, sweats, jeans&t, etc.

Re: Traveller for Hero... Oh huzzah, huzzah, huzzah! Now to go d/l it some time when my connection is not limping so badly.

Re: Making colonization attractive? "To boldly go..." Not just pretty words. One of the (some say the) greatest driving forces of humanity is the hunger to go, to look, to find out. Without it, we are IMHO nothing more than bio-robots, clumping our way through the day between birth and death, futile and ridiculous.

Re: Opinons --- Value Of Limitation On A Disad Buy Multiform, and put your myopic Secret ID in one form, your 20/20 Heroic self in the other. gd&r

Re: Real-world artifact suitable for gaming I'm not sure I got you. You're saying to transmit info in a cipher no-one can break, "add" together two-three different texts. Then nobody who doesn't have all the texts can figure out what the message is. But if the person you're trying to send the secrret message to doesn't have all the texts, then HE can't figure out the message. And if he does have them, there's no need to send him a message he already has. Or did you mean something else?

Re: Need some Scandinavian Villains ! Hey, you asked for Scandinavian villains!

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) TV Hero: Like Springsteen said: 83 channels and nothing on.

Re: Need some Scandinavian Villains ! Vidkun Quisling. What??

Re: Show me the Water Powers UNTIL Superpowers Database pages 243 through 249. UNTIL Superpowers Database II pages 121 and 122. You can go "idea mining" in The Fantasy Hero Grimoire pages 101 through 107. Has the player thought about including ice powers?

Re: END Expenditure after the Fact

Re: Tall Ships, Tall Sails TUV, p.61 has a Triteme, p.62 has a Viking Longship, p.63 has a Galleon. VSb, p.108 has a Brig/Brigantine, p.109 has a Caravel, p.110 has a Carrack, p.111 has a Clipper Ship, p.112 has a Cog and a Curragh, p.113 has a Felucca and a fluyt (misspelled flute) which continues to p.114, p.115-116 has a Frigate, p.116-117 has a Junk, p.116 has a Ketch, p.117 has a Pinnace, p.118 has a Sailing Yacht. I don't see anything in FH, TurAge, ValAge Yeah, not all are gonna fit, but I thought I'd give the whole list.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) What's the Health Clud? Synabarr HERO. 'Nuff said.

Re: Ships of the Dark Ages and Medieval Period Helping w/the necromancy - - - Types of ships to look for: Cog Galleass Dhow Lymphad Carrack Fluyt Galleon Last two are late period: you say you know "'pirate' ships" so you probably know them.

Re: What to do with your stuff...

Re: Daily Art Findings I agree. Totally awesome! Man, I've got to go through this thread in detail!

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) 2 conversions: Twerps Hero Macho Women With Guns Hero

Re: New campaign, new member here... She knows how to (or only thinks she does) create metahumans. So she wants the restrictions off so she can offer to turn people into metas--for a price, of course. Or she can turn them into metas who will obey her. That means of course she's as evil as the people she fights. Kinda a surprise for the PC's. :eg: