Tjack

   You’re right, Conan was a pirate and a thief. He bedded women against their will, because during the night they would come to know what a real man he was and fall in love with him.  And later “He became a King by his own hand.” In case you didn’t know that means he lead an army, killed the previous ruler and put the still warm crown on his own head. 
    By the standards of the fictional Hyborian age that means he was an honorable man.  Hell, by the standards of the late ‘20’s early ‘30’s when Robert E. Howard created him the heroes of the age were what we now call “Robber Barons, and explorers cutting swaths through Africa and South America to bring civilization to the natives whether they wanted it or not.

  Cowboys were ignorant violent itinerant laborers who slaughtered the buffaloes and weren’t exactly nice to the Native-Americans they met along the way.

    Role playing games aren’t about what actually happened.  For that you have to watch the History Channel.  Disney’s animated movies are full of horrors when you look too closely at them. Beauty & the Beast was a story told to little French girls about how to charm an abusive violent husband and the less said about the real Pocahontas the better.

   This is fantasy time, “Don’t dream it, be it.” Relax, and take the advice of that sage thinker Austin Powers “You shouldn’t try to think about this stuff too much, and just have fun.”  Pax.

37 minutes ago, HeroGM said:

 

 

 

 

  That seems like a lot of points for what is essentially a character quirk, especially for a starting character.   If it were me I might put on the limitation “GM control” indicating that there was some secret something hiding in my closet I didn’t know about at first. 
   That gives you a few more points to work with and a possible plot hook for the GM so that he doesn’t give you any grief about having it.

3 hours ago, HeroGM said:

APG2 - Extradimensional Space as an option.

  How any points would that run assuming that it starts empty?

2 hours ago, Steve said:

It’s like a type of timeshare, I suppose.

How much would you pay to be a boxer for an hour? You’d feel the thrills and pains of the fight for that time, then the recovery would be felt by the body’s owner.

   That was a movie as well. “Strange Days”, Ralph Fiennes was an addict of and dealer in wired memories. The plot thickens when one of his memory chips includes a murder.

     “There is nothing new under the sun.”    A phrase originated during the Roman Empire.

I believe there was a movie based on that concept. Some prisoner brought to an jungle island where a gamer controlled his actions so he could fight others like him.

  One of the next few movies is supposed to be Young Avengers.  Have a scene in a dance club or concert and she could do a cameo as the performer. That way she could have a song in the soundtrack.  Publicly for the movie, a music video for her, it makes a twisted amount of sense.

1 hour ago, death tribble said:

There are vampire stories in Europe and America but not below the Sahara. You know why ? They bless the rains down in Africa.....

Thank you Cesaro 

   “....And Toto too.”

   I knew not to trust this stuff, that’s why I do things like buying books, even when my niece keeps after me to use Kindle and online sources for reading new novels. And I still have all my cassette tapes and CD’s to listen to and I know what radio stations play the music I like. 
   I dont even like trusting in the electricity staying on....even though without it my oxygen machine stops working.  Then it gets a little like the old comedy bit about Noah,  “How long can you tread water?...Bah-ha-ha-ha-ha.”

  (I have oxygen tanks for emergencies.)

1 hour ago, Cygnia said:

Because for the past day, it's been dropping every 5 minutes.

 

So, no HERO forums regularly.

No streaming services on the TV

No access to my games on Steam

No music from Alexa.

 

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH~!!!!

 

AT&T techie will come over tomorrow afternoon.  In theory.

2 hours ago, Logan.1179 said:

 

     I would love to know what kind of “a whip and a chair” situation was required to get these two guys in the same shot without one of them taking a swing at the other.

    At least you gave them a payoff.
    I was in an episode once where the players were Supers searching a castle that was the fortress of a person calling himself Drake.   We weren’t sure if he was a Vampire lord or maybe a dragon  (Dracula literally means “Son of the Dragon and Firedrake being another word for dragon) or if he was “just” a powerful sorcerer.  We also didn’t know who’s side he was on, so the paranoia was in full bloom. We spent an entire SIX HOUR SESSION searching his library/study and found nothing out of the ordinary.  Which of course lead the more crazed players to search even further. 
    After the night was done, and we were packing up to go home somebody finally beseeched the GM to let them know what they missed.......he said “There was nothing there.”

We almost murdered him.  Instead of saying “You search as many hours of game time as you want but find nothing,  what do you do next?”  He amused himself by watching us chase our tails for an entire night.  This was not Games Mastering.  This was pulling the legs off of one side of an insect so you can watch it crawl in circles.

44 minutes ago, Duke Bushido said:

Yep.

 

I played it exclusively as a solitaire game.  I wanted to pick up III when it came out, but by then the only game store within two hours of me had folded. 

 

I enjoyed the solitaire game, and generally when I was done with a game-- suddenly I had new systems that converted ridiculously easily to Traveller, so it was all a win-win. 

 

 

 

 

That right there.

 

I won't say I don't make mistakes, but I throw out so much stuff-- _just in case_ I need something to reach back to later, something to either tie it all together or something for the players to revisit for whatever reason-- I throw out so much "could be extraneous" stuff that for the most part, if I were to make the man / woman mistake, my players would automatically assume it was some sort of clue or intentional distraction or whatever.

 

I'm not a good GM; I just play one at the table.   

 

 

 

(where you here when I told the board about the werefish incident a decade or so ago?)
 

      Tell me the story about the werefish Unca’ Duke!

On 2/21/2022 at 9:19 PM, Fry Daddy said:

My funniest one --- Players fought a team of villains who had a female mentalist as a member. Later, I forgot about that and rolled the team out again with the same mentalist as a male. The group said "wait a minute -- last time that was a woman!" I disagreed and told them they were mistaken, which they completely proved me wrong with their notes. After that, anytime I threw a mentalist at them, it came up --- are you SURE this is a man/woman?

 

They got a lot of mileage out of that one.

     I’m agreeing with the others on this one.   If my players caught me out on something like that I’d just smile mysteriously and say something like “Yeah....Interesting, huh.  I’d decide later if it was twins or a shape/gender switcher or a disguise of some sort.   Never let the players see you sweat.   Everything is always part of your Games Master Plan.

2 hours ago, tkdguy said:

Bonnie Langford is an actress, singer, and dancer. But Doctor WHO fans probably remember her for this.

 

WARNING: DO NOT WEAR HEADPHONES WHEN WATCHING THIS VIDEO!

 

 

    Headphones hell, that didn’t do a whole lot of good to my poor I-pad speakers either! 😁

  But at least now we have a good reference for the term “Ranged Killing Attack: Sonic”.

46 minutes ago, Ternaugh said:

 

It's already on my Plex server. How can you go wrong with Parker and Stone, especially when they are paired with one of the writers of Avenue Q?

    I didn’t mean the directions specifically to you, but for anybody who might not get that pretty obscure Broadway reference.

3 minutes ago, Ternaugh said:

 

My experience is only if it's food that I've ordered for delivery, or if I have to sign for a package. Otherwise, it's usually just dropped on the doorstep.

 

I'll get a sales person once in a great while (there's a no soliciting sign at each entrance to the community, and I'm on a hidden cul-de-sac), and usually they are trying to sell me solar panels. Political volunteers used to be fairly frequent during election time, but I've changed my registration to Independent, so I don't get folks until the general election (I generally like talking to them, though I'm not sure the feeling's mutual). And even more rarely, I'll get religious folks. The last pair were a couple of younger gentlemen in white shirts with ties, and little name badges that started with "Elder". We had a wonderful discussion about the difference between religious and spiritual, moral decisions when no one's watching, and whether God really cared which fan club someone belonged to. 

     The next time those nice young men in the white shirts with the badge that says “Elder” show up and ask you if they can talk to you about their faith just say  “No, ‘cause you didn’t sing like those guys from the musical.”  and close the door.

      (If you didn’t get the reference search YouTube for “Book of Mormon Hello”.

2 hours ago, Bazza said:

We are getting Tjack and family front row seats to the film & Broadway musical, right? 

   Start figuring how many you think it’ll take to strap me down into that chair.......then multiply by three......at least.

3 minutes ago, Pariah said:

 

Boop a shark doot-doo-doo doot-doo-doo

Boop a shark doot-doo-doo doot-doo-doo

Boop a shark doot-doo-doo doot-doo-doo

Boop a shark

      NEVER DO THAT AGAIN!!!!!!!!  
    I’ve got Grandnieces & nephews and while I love them dearly they keep getting that FARKOKTA song stuck in my head.   They sing it, their parents sing to them, they play videos of it, their toys play it over and over.  I play them good music, babies love the Beatles. I show them clips from Yellow Submarine on YouTube and they smile and laugh. But no.....their parents keep them on THAT SONG!  
    I’ll kill if I have to.....don’t you dare me.

7 minutes ago, Cygnia said:

This came up as I was writing my post!  
         You wanna piece of me!!!!    I’ve got enough crazy to go around ‘ya know!

1 hour ago, Logan.1179 said:

There is a Waldo. You didn't find him? 

 No, but I saw a sailboat.

1 hour ago, Cancer said:

What that pic needs in order to be complete is 148 Skrulls all disguised as Waldo.

    Don’t you know....they’re ALL Skrulls.   “We’re everywhere.”

2 hours ago, Cancer said:

" ... something about love and motherhood this time, since the song already had a truck...."  -- Harry Chapin

 🎼”And as the brakes went down without a sound he said CHRIST! “  “It was funny how he had named the only man who could save him now.”🎶

🎼Forty thousand pounds.....of mashed bananas!🎶

3 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

With the advent of self-driving cars, it's only a matter of time until we have a country song about how a guy's truck left him. 

    First he cheated on his American truck for the foreign model  that drove away on him.🤠

7 hours ago, Logan.1179 said:

The new shed is here! And we didn't have to wait without power for hours as predicted. That makes me happy. 

 

I'm not going to look at the news for a while, let it last.

 

    I’m happy for you.  It looks like you finally got your shed together.😇

1 hour ago, archer said:

If you play Nicki Minaj songs backwards you can hear satanic messages...

 

even worse, if you play them forwards you can hear Nicki Minaj.

If you play them backwards they also sound better

                ***********

Q;  What happens if you play a Country song backwards?    A; Your IQ jumps 20 points and you get your wife, dog and truck back.

    (I actually like old style Country.  Cash, Jennings, Nelson, etc.)

   There’s a lot of different flavors of “Fantasy” from LotR to Game of Thrones to Excalibur.  Three Movie/TV series (I’m setting aside the books for now.) that show High amounts of magic to low, and varied amounts of reality.

    The same as there is in the Justice Inc. genre.  Maltese Falcon, Raiders of the Lost Ark and White Heat.  Which one is correct?  A lot of the fun of role-playing is in not having to pay attention to annoying realities for a while.

Give yourself a break. If someone’s mixing genres in somebody else’s game then that’s between them and their GM.  I agree with you on some of your points, but this debate can easily drift into “Why won’t those damn kids pull up their pants, turn down that noise they call music and stay off my lawn!” territory.  Be at peace.

12 minutes ago, Bazza said:

Well, the mental asylum inmates are loose. 

   When exactly did you think we weren’t?