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Re: Santa Claus Yeah, he's a busy guy. Good thing he's a powerful magical being.

Re: Santa Claus In every game I've ever run, Santa is real. He is also a GM fiat. I've never bothered to write him up, it just didn't seem necessary. The toy factory is actually in another dimension, the portal to which is at the North Pole, and is only open once a year, for 24 hours. 12:00 am (GMT) Dec 25th to 12:00 am (GMT) Dec 26th. Of course, since the sleigh is outside the time stream while in motion, Santa can take as long as he needs to deliver all the toys. For him, the job actually takes a few weeks; but since he is outside of time for most of it, it's one night to us. Oh, and the toys actually stay at the factory until he reaches into his sack and pulls them out. The sack is a secondary, one-way access to his home dimension. You can take things out, but not put things in. Oh, and it's not just Christian houses he dilevers to. He also visits those who celebrate the secular version of Christmas.

Re: Darth Vader vs. The Hulk You know, now that I think about it, Jar Jar was actually very lucky. I mean, he basicly stumbles his way into nearly winning a big battle completely by accident.

Re: Which Champion are you Well, there seems to be a lot of us Defenders here.

Re: How do mutants work out? I've always widened the focus and decreased the scope. Meaning that, I always make the prejudice against all super-humans, not just those who happened to be born with their powers, while greatly decreasing the number of people involved in these hate-groups. I've never understood the situation in Marvel comics, where it seems like almost every "normal" human is a member of a radical anti-mutant group, but has no problem with any other type of supers.

Re: Darth Vader vs. The Hulk Why is everyone assuming Jar Jar is unlucky? Especially for his companions? As I recall, Binks was clumsy himself, he didn't make others clumsy.

Re: Pulparize It! Brisco County, Jr. is already pulp.

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Re: Champions Action Figures...? I don't see IP being a problem. Just disqualify any character that is obviously based on a specific property of another publisher. And if the worry is over the player losing the rights to his original character, well that's why I said submit characters for voting. If you want to retain the rights to your original character, don't submit it for action-figure consideration.

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Re: Biggest Brains in DC Well, speaking of Sivanna, how can we forget the Marvels, all with the wisdom of Solomon? And for that matter, Wonder Woman has the wisdom of Athena. But do they count, since wisdom and intelligence are often two different things?

Re: Darth Vader vs. The Hulk Of course, we all seem to be assuming a straight-up toe-to-toe fight here. And I don't know about verybody else, but I was thinking of the classic "Hulk Smash!" personality. But give Vader time and intell on his opponent, and I see him much more likely to end up manipulating the Hulk than fighting him.

Re: Biggest Brains in DC Well, Brainiac, Darkseid, and Dessaad are out because they are not "men in the world." One's an AI, the other two are gods, and all are aliens. So, let's see... LexLuthor springs to mind, as does the Riddler. Batman, without a doubt. The Calculator. T.O. Morrow and Prof. Ivo, especially when they work together. Will Magnus is at least a genius in robotics. John Henry Irons (Steel) built a fully-functional suit of power armor in his basement. Kitty Faulkner of S.T.A.R. Labs. Rip Hunter, the world's first crononaut, built all his own equipment. Wow, the DCU is full of mega-geniuses! Oh, and Bart Allen has to be pretty knowledgable after reading and memorizing the entire San Francisco public library.

I had an idea earlier today. Why not produce a line of Champions Actions figures to go along with the MMO? The firstv wave would, of course, be the Champions themselves and Doctor D. But starting with wave 2 (I'm thinking Viper and a few more heroes), produce figures based on players' characters. Give people a time in which to submit their characters for consideration. Then have the entire CO community vote on which one(s) get made, and whoever submits the winning character(s) gets a free copy of the figure. So, what do we think? Could something like this be made to work?

Re: Darth Vader vs. The Hulk Having not seen the write-ups, I'm going just by what I've seen of them in their respective primary media (movies for Vader, comics for Hulk). Vader would be totally unprepared for Hulk's strength and toughness. He has nothing in his experience to even remotely compare it to. A lightsaber could not take off Hulk's head in one shot, as Luke's was stopped by Vader's armor in Empire. Hulk has stood up against much stronger TK than Vader is capable of. As the battle goes on, Hulk will get madder, stronger, and meaner as Vader gets more damaged and worn down. By the time the end comes, Hulk may end up slamming a Star Destroyer on his head, but I just don't see Vader being able to win against an opponent so far outside his experience and power-level.

Re: Terminator, with a twist! Voltage: Calls in his team. Together, they take out the robots in the present and disarm the commandos. Then they find out what the story is, gather every superhero they can find, and all travel into the future to end the machine menace once and for all. Then Voltage would figure out what he did to cause it, and make sure he doesn't do it "again."

Re: Synonyms for Superheroes

Re: Synonyms for Superheroes There was also Rising Stars which had all the world's superhumans coming from the town of Peterson, Ill. They were often called the Peterson Specials.

Re: Synonyms for Superheroes Of course, in Marvel's Ultimate Universe they are called Persons of Mass Destruction.

Re: Pulping the Renaissance In fact, there were many pulp sci-fi stories set in the far (and no-longer-so-far) future.

Re: Superman Begins and Darker Superhero Stories My preferred style for supers games is a combination of DCAU and Astro City. I like heroes who are heroic, who win the day not because they are more poweful than the villains, but because they are in the right. And at the same time, these heroes are also real people with their own flaws, weaknesses, and yes even doubts. But when the time comes to step up, they put those doubts aside and do what needs to be done. That having been said--- Depak Chopra (or however he spells it) is an idiot. What people in Hollywood need to realize is that Superman cannot be written the same way as Batman because Superman is not Batman. Superman is the icon. The guy everybody looks up to. Hollywood thinks we don't want to strain our necks. Maybe the reason Superman Returns didn't do better at the box office wasn't because the main character wasn't dark and gritty enough. Maybe it was because too much about him was out of character. Maybe some audience members were turned off by making him an illigitimate father. Maybe we just got tired of seeing him lift things. Maybe he was too doubtful about his place in the world, and his role as humanity's protector from threats we can't handle yet. Superman's greatest power has always been his unfailing sense of right and wrong. In every situation, he always knows what the right thing to do is, and he always does it to the very best of his considerable ability. That assuredness is what has been missing from his character lately. You want to make a better Superman movie? Give him a villain he can actually fight, and a reason to fight that villain. Make him struggle, make him sweat, but never, ever, make him doubt. The audience should be unsure of the outcome, but never the Man of Steel. And, yes, Superman is better than us. He is what we aspire to be. Not just physically, but spiritually. He isn't Hancock. He isn't Batman. He is Superman, and that is all you should need to make great movies.

Re: Non Powered Superhero Campaign No, no, not really. More like they used the costumes/themes for the same reasons the heroes did. And many of them (and many of the heroes) had cutting-edge gadgetry at their disposal. Just nothing too far advanced of what we have in RL, and nothing that breaks fundamental laws of physics. Actually, there was one villain that pretended to have powers he didn't. Actually, it was a whole family of them. A criminal dynasty who's members down through the ages all pretended to be the original head of the family, thus creating the illusion that he was immortal.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Kimono belt= Obi Pale= Wan

Re: Non Powered Superhero Campaign I ran a short-lived campaign in college along these lines. PCs were superheroes without powers (along the lines of Batman, etc.). There were no superhumans in the campaign, but there were people who tried to make you think they were superhuman. There were also the usual assortment of crooks, police, media, and politicians to deal with. And, of course, some of the criminals had to get in on the costume-action. As for reasons to wear a costume, three spring to mind: protection, disguise, intimidation.

Re: Is a Jedi reasonable in a Marvel Avengers campaign? I once thought of doing a superhero character named Jedi. Star Wars fan since childhood, develops psionic abilities when his inherent mutation manifests. Because of his psyche, these abilities tend to mimic Force-powers from the movies, novels, comics, video games, etc. Attends a school for mutants (like Xavier's), where one of his classmates is a techno-path who builds him a working lightsaber (but more versatile than the ones from the movies; has a stun setting for normal damage, a kill setting for killing damage, a cutting setting for penetrating AP damage, and a disruption setting for NND damage). Because of the nature of his powers, he decides to use Jedi as his superhero name. Costume is Jedi robes in different color schemes with a matching half-mask (think Zoro-style). The robes provide some RPD and RED, but not much. Tends to rely on dodges and lightsaber deflection for defense. When in costume (and occasionally when not), likes to say things like "May the Force be with you" and "I have a bad feeling about this."