Sundog

Andy McNab is pretty well known down under too.

Firsts Snow White and the Dwarf One Day in May

May her heirs rule long and well.

Ray Harryhausen isn't already in? Bad show!

Slept in my Star Trek: Discovery T-shirt and woke up cancelled.

I like "Second Start" So, for a first member: Olympian Colin Ianopoulis was quite the athlete in his youth. He worked hard, sought to be the best at his chosen area of Track and Field events, and he made it to the Olympic games at 22. He competed in Javelin, Discus, Long-Jump, High Jump, Vault...and he placed a very respectable 4th or 5th in each field. It was the greatest moment of his life. But Colin had commitments. He had a wife, a child on the way, so he put aside his sporting life and went into law enforcement. He did well, being fit and strong, but also intelligent and discerning. Over the years, he gained the respect and trust of his fellows, and retired at 65 as a sergeant. Now, Colin was at a loss. He was still fit and powerful, but his wife had died, and his kids had their own lives. He decided to travel to Greece, to see his ancestral homeland. Colin visited the site of the ancient Olympics. Where he had a heart attack and died. As he lay on the ground, a voice came to him. It called itself the spirit of the Olympics, and said he had embodied that spirit all his life. If he was willing, the spirit would give him strength and power. to embody the spirit of competition and honourable sport. He said, will I also be able to protect the innocent and oppose the evil? The spirit said yes. So Colin embarked on his next career. He uses Javelins and Discus as throwing weapons, leaps tall structures or across long gaps, wrestles opponents and pins them for the police. He also promotes sports and fitness. The spirit is happy, though it doesn't understand why all these athletes war so much clothing in a competition. Colin is also happy, but he still has the body of a 67 year old man, and even with enhancements his health is slowly degrading. He intends to make the best of what time he has left.

I was thinking The Shadow.

I generally assume English, Chinese (a unified dialect), Hindi, Spanish and Russian, with various colonies having other languages as standard, but most of the population capable in one or more of the trade tongues.

Not sure it ever was for anything other than Champions Super Hero roleplay and Star Hero. I've always played a wide variety of systems.

I tend to vary it quite a bit. I never use the whole "Universal Translator" thing, but I can accept pre-programmed translation protocol devices. I also don't buy into the "one language for humanity" concept, so those devices get a lot of workout even in human space. In a number of cases I have older or more powerful races simply demand that if humans want to do business in their sphere's they need to "learn to speak a civilized tongue."

The Society Gal Miriam Petrovica's name comes from long ago, the halcyon days of the 1920s, when she had a habit of taking the society pages by storm every few years. She'd hang out with the rich and the beautiful, do some scandalously outlandish things, have an affair or two, and find "the right man" and get married. The right man was invariably rich, young and handsome...and dead inside two years. At which point Miriam would pop up again in Paris or New York or Berlin and do it all again. It was the Golden Age hero The Black Fedora who exposed her. Miriam was a monster. Rather literally - she was created by a group of medical students using the forbidden notes of Doctor Victor Frankenstein. Their copies of his notes were incomplete, and they improvised, so Miriam seems quite different from her fellow created beings - she is beautiful, scarless, and was able to fit into society fairly easily. But she also has an unending thirst for human spinal fluids, which she has learned to tap gradually and painlessly through skin contact, slowly killing her lovers or husbands. As long as she has a steady supply, she doesn't age. In addition, she naturally secretes powerful pheromones, making her near-irresistible to men or women. If she actually cares about someone, she will end the relationship before they are seriously harmed - but that is rare indeed. And she does like money... The Black Fedora tried to kill Miriam (he was that sort of mask), but her inhuman strength and toughness almost ended him. So he did the next best thing: He went to the papers. In days Miriam's face and story were all over the world, making her an outcast in the very circles she used to dominate. For decades, Miriam has been forced to hide in dreary suburbia, drifting from victim to victim. Several times she has tried to find out who The Black Fedora really was, to no avail. She finally gave up in the late 1950s when the surprisingly long lived vigilante disappeared from the public eye entirely. But her hate festered. But today, there's a new man who's taken up the old mantle. The new Black Fedora isn't a killer like his predecessor (and, though no one but he knows it, grandfather), but he's got the same "mystic affinity with the night" (chameleon-weave cloak), "ability to befuddle the senses" (narcotic gas pellets) and "powers of evasion" (good training in Aikido). Miriam really wants to kill him, slowly and painfully. But her first attempt was a botch - he was seemingly immune to her charms, and exposed her again! (The new Black Fedora is both gay and, due to a little accident with those gas pellets, anosmic - he has no sense of smell, making her pheromones useless against him.) The papers have hung that old "Society Gal" moniker on Miriam, but this time she's playing up to it - and playing for keeps.

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Slept in my Icehouse T-shirt and woke up across the border. Slept in my Cold Chisel T-shirt and woke up in Khe Sanh. Slept in my Redgum T-shirt and woke up 19!

Probably eventually go with finned or drag stabilized flechettes. Should be enough to get them sufficiently accurate for a few hundred meters.

I just love Ian's maniacal grin on the pic for that video!

Say you have a bad guy company, something like the old Union Carbide. And they are responsible for an event, like Bhopal. Now, have the Dissidents target the company. Kidnap executives and ransom them back to the company, especially in developing countries. Blow up machinery. Sabotage building sites and infrastructure. Best part? How conflicted the PCs will be about stopping them...

Get solar panels. Dropped our power bills from around 1000AUD to about 200AUD over summer.

0, as it happens.

Kirk. Sisko Pike Archer The rest? No time for them.

I do exist. Even if I'm not what I think I am, I still exist, and I'm still me.

I think you put that in the wrong thread, Drhoz.

Farewell to Johnathan E.

I've pretty much used the terms for guided vs. unguided weapons - a missile being a guided one, a torpedo being dead-fire. The other one I've seen, especially in fighter-based media, is missiles being fighter-vs-fighter weapons, while torpedoes are larger ordinance small craft use to attack capital ships.

I think 5th is a great system, and for me the first one I really loved (though I started with 3rd) was 4th. I'm still of two minds on 6th - it's a purer system with everything equalized as far as stats go, but I don't find it as fun to play.