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Re: Who is the best Super in comics? Gotta give props to the original. As Alexander Luthor said in Infinite Crisis: "It all comes from Superman."

Re: What was Marvel's WORST decade? Another vote for This One.

Re: Plot Seeds from Unreal Life Well I have had several dreams that would make good game scenarios: A superhero who is slowly loosing his powers A trio of characters who randomly switch bodies A father and Son super-team on the run from all their enemies. And one which I think would make a most interesting game setting. It's quoted below...

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Re: Your favorite Hero Codes of Honor What is this from? I know I've heard this before, but I can't for the life of me remember where.

Re: Supernatural Hero Oh. Well, I thought you meant for the PCs, whom I assumed would be hunters.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) "You bring me my Cheez Whiz, boy?":rofl:

Re: Your favorite Hero Codes of Honor From Elliot S. Maggin's Superman books: "There's a Right and a Wrong in the universe, and the difference isn't that hard to tell."

Re: Supernatural Hero Well, you can probably get the charms from almost any of the Hunters Underground.

Re: Champions games you've run In no particular order: Legacy: A 4th Ed. Champions world, with home-brewed elements, where every PC was a second or more generation super. I thought I'd end up with a Teen Titans sort of group, but what I actually got was the grand-daughter of a WWII super, a 3rd-generation super-spy, the son of an otherdimensional villain, and the son of a heroine/villain pairing. Standout moment in the campaign was when Tundra (the brick with minor cold powers) was fighting Ogre in a subway tunnel, and managed to haymaker him up out of the tunnel just before a train would have hit them both. Also the game that saw the invention of a manuever called the Curveball Special, which involved Tundra throwing Taurus (the teleporting martial-artist minotaur) at the villain, and having Taurus teleport at the last second to strike from behind. New Mellenium: Set in the Champions: New Mellenium setting (please don't hate me). PCs were a group of friends gatherred to celebrate the new year when the wave of energy released by The Propritor's death (can't think of what it was called now) hit them, giving everyone in the group super powers. I guess the highlight of that game would be one of the PCs sacrificing himself to stop a nigh-omnipotent being from taking over the world. This was also the campaign where I had to tell most of the players that they could refuse another potential PC entry into the group if they felt their characters wouldn't work with him. The Washington Campaign: Set in a home-brewed world. Pretty standard superhero world with the PCs based in Washington, DC. Had kind of a weird group, including a man's mind trapped in a female robotic body with a female personality program that would occasionally take control, a pretty powerful psionic with slight autism (can't remember how to spell the syndrome), a man who's only ability was to turn himself into a swarm of spiders, and a Faerie. Oh, and the dimensionally-displaced inventor who replaced Spiders. More later.

Re: Supernatural Hero Actually, I saw a more recent episode where this was explained. Sam and Dean were hold up in a jail building with a group of others. They handed out necklaces with charms on them that would prevent the wearer from being possessed. When one of the others pointed out that the brothers weren't wearing the charms, they opened their shirts to show that they had them tattooed on their chests.

Re: MORPHING UAV to cool Now they just need to give it a ground-mobile, or "walking," configuration .

Re: Best Basic 60 Point Power: Followers! Just thought of something interesting/scary. You know who in the real world has 15pts. of Wealth and at least 60 pts. in Followers (all of them normals, though)? Oprah Winfrey.

Re: Western Champions How "Champions" are you planning to go? Will there be actual superhumans with "powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men?" If so, you might want to check out DC's Justice Riders. It's an Elseworlds tale of the JLA as Wild West marshals.

Re: Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow You know, I always thought of it not so much as "Pulp," but more like "Republic Serial." And yes, I do realize there is a large amount of cross-over between the two.

Re: Challenge: "Riddle Me This!" How about... 1) The Girl Scouts 2) Compact Florescent Lightbulbs 3) Donald Trump Time period: 2012 Let's make it Fortean.

Re: Metagaming Question On Universe Building With me, it really depends on what kind of game I'm running. In what I think of as a standard superhero game, I just figure out what the goals of various NPCs are and how they go about achieving those goals. Then I decide what they're doing this week to further their ambitions, and how the PCs might find out about it. Then I present the unfolding events to the players. If they catch on to the hints I'm dropping, great. If not, then I'll throw in some other random occurances to keep them occupied. If the villains are left unopposed until their master plan is almost complete, then the PCs usually have a big problem on their hands. I'll tell you, though; as a GM, some of the easiest games I've ever run were the ones where the PCs were the villains. Then all I had to decide beforehand was what hero's "comic" they were showing up in. They filled in the rest.

Re: Why are so many people upset that Cryptic is only using the Champions IP? As has been said in the Game Informer article, and a few times in this discussion, anyone can buy any power. The only diffrence your archetype (and please note, it is archetype, not character class. You know, things like Brick, Blaster, Speedster, etc.) makes is the cost. Some archetypes pay more points (hmm... seems like it'll be a combination of points and levels, since the article did mention a level-cap at 50) for certain powers than other ones. So yes, you can have a flying brick with eyebeams. You'll just pay more for them than the energy blaster would, just as he has to pay more for super-strength and armor skin than your brick does. Sorry if I'm a little ranty here, but I haven't slept all night. Oh, and how does one go about getting into a Beta test? I would love to be able to do that.

Re: What happens in Vegas... Voltage: Wouldn't worry about it. After all, this was an unexpected occurance, a crime we just happened to hear about while it was in progress. He would, however, talk to Cap Zap later (like probably the next morning), and tell him if he wants to keep working with the group, he needs to make sure they can get hold of him in a real emergency.

Re: Greatest Superhero Team of all Time!!! :You must spread Rep, etc,etc.:

Re: The futures of the past. You may like it better, but I want my aircar, personal jetpack, and pollution-free city-utopia. And think about it: this is what people used to think the world would be like 50 years or so later. What do most people today think the world will be like in 50 years? As I said, the future used to be a lot cooler.

Re: Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow I liked the movie very much. If I ever get to run the pulp campaign rattling around in the back of my head, I will definitely steal some stuff for it. Of course, just about everything steal-worthy was used previously somewhere else. Plus I just love the villain's name. Totenkoff (sp?)

Re: Superhero Universes, A to Z I was wrong, it was Milestone. My bad. And wouldn't the DCAU be part of the DC Multiverse?

Re: Superhero Universes, A to Z Before Archie Comics took that name (and when they first started publishing superheroes), it was MLJ. Much as Marvel Comics started off as Timely Comics. Dakota was the DC imprint that gave us Static, among others. Let's see, what else can I think of...? Oh! There is Paragon City from City of Heroess. And, at the risk of getting stoned on these boards, The Palladium Megaverse (home to the badly misnamed Heroes Unlimited).

Re: I've always wondered: How many pts. to take down Galactus? It's been colected in the graphic novel Trial of Galactus. I highly recommend it.