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I actually enjoy mine, once a month or so I’ll get a robo call that says I have a problem with my car insurance and if I press one I’ll be connected with an agent.....so since I’m pretty much house bound and bored silly I’ll press one and wait to be connected. When the friendly helpful sounding agent comes on I’ll say, “YOU LYING PIECE OF S#17!!! . I DON’T OWN A CAR, SO I DON’T HAVE ANY FU(%ING CAR INSURANCE!! I KNOW TIMES ARE TOUGH, BUT GET A REAL JOB!!! DOES YOUR MOTHER KNOW YOU STEAL FROM DUMB PEOPLE FOR A LIVING!!!!” Then I hang up. It’s good for my blood pressure, kind of like aerobics. You’ld think they’d take me off the list.

OK, you just never said what kind of character you were using. A psionic could do that, a brick...not so much.

I despair at the thought that the men & women we send to represent us have no idea what laws they’re creating. I believe it, it just makes me unhappy. At any rate, your character has gone back in time. So what ‘cha gonna do now, Charlie Brown? Kill founding members, track down the string-pullers providing the money, manufacture or discover a scandal to wreck the organization? How and what are you going to do to pull this off?

That sounds nice....but I have no idea who or what this group is. Are you forming it, stopping it, buying them a cookie or what?

From your description it sounds a lot like Spy Smasher’s Gyrosub. He was a Fawcett comics character from the 1940’s. You can look him up on the DC Database site. As it stands it seems your going for a Quinjet that can also move underwater. Do you have some in game reason for this thing existing? A gift from the team’s benefactor, confiscated from some wacky scientist, or is it an alien craft the team acquires somehow during play? Also if it’s a work in progress some features may not be installed till “next week”. The reason I ask is that defining the origin of the item can affect the final cost in points. If this is something that the players are in the process of discovering how to use, then all the points need not be provided up front. If they don’t know that it can go underwater or into space or has force shields then you don’t have to pay for those abilities right away. I know I’m not helping out much with the number crunching but I’ve found that having a precise story driven concept can affect the numbers greatly.

Christmas.

I want to find the guy who thought this was a good idea and make him watch as I set his car on fire. P.S. It has to have been a guy, women aren’t this brand of stupid.

Archer beat me to the punch, now I have to think of something else. Seriously, you may want to restrict the choices to non real-world events. Otherwise this will just become a list of real world disasters. You don’t want this thread devolving into arguments about which is worse, airplane crash A vs. terrorist event B.

Sorry, I can’t use it. I have an X-Box III

If you’re planning to watch the Gor movie, just skip the middleman and watch Porn. Same storyline with better acting. But seriously folks.... I saw the list but what exactly is or are “Giants in the Earth”? I don’t think I’ve ever heard the term before. I know of the phrase “He bestrode the Earth like a giant” but I don’t know if that’s the same thing.

I’m not familiar with the Viper Transport. How big a vehicle are we talking about? And what may be more important what role do you as GM see for this thing. 1) Just a way to get from place A to place B? 2) A mobile headquarters with team logos, flashing lights and a laser turret? 3) Something nondescript you can use for surveillance and tailing of suspects? If you can point to an example like the Batmobile, the A-Team van, a Quinjet from the Avengers movies, the tour bus from Buckaroo Banzai (World Watch One, I’m such a geek) something to give us an idea what your going for we can give you much better advice.

That’s why I said “many of the Batgirls”, and “possibly Oracle“. And while I know about the whole spy thing and calling the character “Rick Grayson” I personally refuse to acknowledge them. Or in the words of Graham Chapman, “This is too silly, move along now.” A Monty Python quote is always in order. And can we get back to the original thread please.

Who’s going for realistic? I’m talking about Secret ID’s and Batman. I even referenced the comic mini-series Identity Crisis. I was just free associating some ideas based on a previous post about how many characters in DC knew the Bat’s identity and how that chain could be followed.

Once you’ve got the Batman/Bruce Wayne thing worked out you also have all the Robins, many of the Batgirls, possibly Oracle, taking out the Birds of Prey, Nightwing and thru him all of the Titans who don’t already have public ID’s. Bats is the lynchpin. A smart and ruthless villain with one piece of information using Bat villains as muscle could conceivably wipe out a major cross section of effective opponents and cripple the heroes tactical thinking capabilities with out ever tangling with Batman himself. Identity Crisis part II...

Meal

On behalf of those of us who will be breaking our backs shoveling mountains of snow, freezing our tailbones off waiting for a bus or train, or playing live action bumper cars on icy streets in just a very few weeks.... DIE SUN-BELT BOY!!!!!!

This concept goes back Even further than that. I remember as a kid watching the old Batman TV show, Egghead figured out the whole “Batman has to be a rich guy” thing. He even had it down to three suspects based on height, build, and athleticism. He narrowed it down because one was left-handed and the second had a pronounced French accent leaving Bruce Wayne as his choice.

For the dum-dums like me that means “sing like a bag of cats on fire“? Or a Justin Bieber concert?

May St. Florian bless and keep you.

Wussy.

How much of this is about disliking change of ANY kind as opposed to an actual problem with the new format? Meanwhile, thank you Simon for your hard work maintaining this joint in the first place.❤️❤️

It’s different, but not necessarily bad.

Who are the two guys in the back row supposed to be? Everyone else is easily identified.

John Norman thought he WAS Tarl Cabot so it works either way. (BDSM nut-job of the first order)

That would of course be the “potential trouble” that I was referring to. Although it may be the name is only copyrighted as pertains to use in a comic book. Not for use in a wiki for a role playing game.