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How about a contest for everybody who isn’t already a Champions contributor on the site.  Submit a nice generic Champions adventure for anywhere from 4-8 players of beginning levels. The senior members will vote on the three best that will be put in the free download section. 
   The winners get bragging rights as they will be an official writer for Champions  New GM’s have some games to start their campaigns on, thus bringing in more players who might hopefully spend some cash on material down the line.
     So in the end all this might put some money in pockets and keep the game alive at the same time.

If a diner wishes a beverage with ice cream & milk will there be a whole lot of shaking going on?

🎼That’s the sound of the men workin’ on the...Chain Do-og!🎶

My new wall art. Bought it from the artist, David Mack, money going to Ukraine aid.
 

I'm opening a chain of Elvis themed steak restaurants.

It will be for people who love meat tender.

It is really going to depend on how much society has recovered.  Right after the apocalypse it is going to be barter systems with no real currency.   Things that will be valuable will be those necessary for survival. Only after the basic necessitates for survival are plentiful will other things become valuable. Once society has recovered to the point where basic survival is not an issue means of protection and comfort become what everyone is looking to obtain. For a real monetary system to develop you need a stable society.  

Mutants and Masterminds has a lot of supporting material and a huge company behind it pushing it into stores, conventions, etc.  Champions has to rely on being a really good game and that's not enough to really get it out there.  The lack of real support material doesn't help (a world setting etc doesn't actually help very much when you sit down at the table, you need real stuff to run and play with).
 
I know that adventures don't sell quite as well as other books, but the perspective has to be more than just "does this make money right now."  A game has no future without content to play, and that small amount of earning from adventures gives your game a future, building players and market share in the long term.

30 years ago today Billy Ray Cyrus released "Achy Breaky Heart." 
 
Many scholars mark this as the starting point of the decline of Western Civilization.

I never said it couldn’t be done, it’s just a trope of fantasy movies that’s always bugged me.  😜

I never said it couldn’t be done, it’s just a trope of fantasy movies that’s always bugged me.  😜

That’s just Block-Ranged Attack with the acceptable Item and SFX.

"Oh, I'm a monster. Perhaps you should speak to me more softly, then. Monsters are dangerous and just now kings are dying like flies."

Well, sure, but when you were a child they hadn't invented the wheel yet.

https://i.imgur.com/HUBaCzl.mp4

"Forgive me, Dr. Jacobs. Are you an M.D.?"
 
"A Ph.D."
 
"A Ph.D."
 
"Yes, sir."
 
"In psychology?"
 
"No, sir."
 
"Theology?"
 
"No."
 
"Social work?"
 
"I have a Ph.D. in English Literature."
 
"I’m asking because on your show people call in for advice – and you go by the name Dr. Jacobs on your show – and I didn’t know if maybe your listeners were confused by that and assumed you had advanced training in psychology, theology or health care."
 
"I don’t believe they are confused, no, sir."
 
"i like your show. I like how you call homosexuality an 'abomination'."
 
"I don’t say homosexuality is an abomination, Mr. President. The Bible does."
 
"Yes it does. Leviticus."
 
"18:22."
 
"Chapter and verse. I wanted to ask you a couple of questions while I had you here. I wanted to sell my youngest daughter into slavery, as sanctioned in Exodus 21:7. She’s a Georgetown Sophomore, speaks fluent Italian, always cleared the table when it was her turn. What would a good price for her be?
 
"While thinking about that, can I ask another? My chief of staff, Leo McGary, insists on working on the Sabbath. Exodus 35:2 clearly says he should be put to death. Am I morally obligated to kill him myself? Or is it okay to call the police?
 
"Here’s one that’s really important, because we’ve got a lot of sports fans in this town. Touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean. Leviticus 11:7. If they promise to wear gloves, can the Washington Redskins still play football? Can Notre Dame? Can West Point?
 
"Does the whole town really have to be together to stone my brother John for planting different crops side by side? Can I burn my mother in a small family gathering for wearing garments made from two different threads? Think about those questions, would you?
 
"One last thing. While you may be mistaking this for your monthly meeting of the Ignorant Tight-Ass Club, in this building when the president stands, nobody sits."

"It's not the greatest country in the world, professor, that's my answer."
 
"You're saying—"
 
"Yes."
 
"Let's talk about—"
 
"Fine. Sharon, the NEA is a loser. Yeah, it accounts for a penny out of our paychecks, but he gets to hit you with it anytime he wants. It doesn't cost money, it costs votes. It costs airtime and column inches. You know why people don't like liberals? Because they lose. If liberals are so f****** smart, how come they lose so G****** ALWAYS!
 
"And with a straight face, you're going to tell students that America's so starspangled awesome that we're the only ones in the world who have freedom? Canada has freedom. Japan has freedom. The UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Australia, Belgium has freedom. Two hundred seven sovereign states in the world, like 180 of them have freedom.
 
"And you—sorority girl—yeah—just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day, there are some things you should know, and one of them is that there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world. We're seventh in literacy, twenty-seventh in math, twenty-second in science, forty-ninth in life expectancy, 178th in infant mortality, third in median household income, number four in labor force, and number four in exports. We lead the world in only three categories: number of incarcerated citizens per capita, number of adults who believe angels are real, and defense spending, where we spend more than the next twenty-six countries combined, twenty-five of whom are allies. None of this is the fault of a 20-year-old college student, but you, nonetheless, are without a doubt, a member of the WORST-period-GENERATION-period-EVER-period, so when you ask what makes us the greatest country in the world, I don't know what the f*** you're talking about?! Yosemite?
 
"We sure used to be. We stood up for what was right! We fought for moral reasons, we passed laws, struck down laws for moral reasons. We waged wars on poverty, not poor people. We sacrificed, we cared about our neighbors, we put our money where our mouths were, and we never beat our chest. We built great big things, made ungodly technological advances, explored the universe, cured diseases, and cultivated the world's greatest artists and the world's greatest economy. We reached for the stars, and we acted like men. We aspired to intelligence; we didn't belittle it; it didn't make us feel inferior. We didn't identify ourselves by who we voted for in the last election, and we didn't scare so easy. And we were able to be all these things and do all these things because we were informed. By great men, men who were revered.
 
"The first step in solving any problem is recognizing there is one—America is not the greatest country in the world anymore.
 
"Enough?"

"And Jesus fed the gathering with the five loaves and the two fishes, apart from the vegan with the wheat allergy who had to bring his own stuff."

The funny thing is that that’s not too far from the way Stephen Fry actually speaks.
     I say this with all due respect for a man whose intellect make me look like a not too well potty-trained beagle.

I’m listening to the song again and I don’t see it as a list of potential powers, but as a look into the heart of someone driven to do things that he knows may be wrong but doing them is the only way he knows to keep what’s left of his sanity.
   This is the song of an anti-hero or vigilante type character like The Punisher, The Crow or even a Dr.Destroyer  This is a man (Or woman) who knows that he’s constantly walking a tightrope. Constantly keeping hold of his emotions lest they overwhelm him and destroy him.
    It’s only by feeling nothing and doing what he feels he must to put some kind of balance or justice back into the world even though the acts themselves may be abhorrent.
   This is someone that the Heroes must stop but may feel pity for at the same time.  This can make him a more difficult adversary than any set of powers could.

This was my favorite one of the Amalgam Comics books  Bruce Wayne: Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.
 
   For those who aren’t comic book geeks like me, DC & Marvel once got together and did a month of books where their universes collided and you got books like Super Soldier. Where Steve Rogers was given a Kryptonite based serum and given a shield made from the metal of an alien rocket.  Or Dark Claw, a mix of Batman & Wolverine.

Clearly someone got the wrong video feed with this headline

Wasn't Steve Rogers, it was Clark Kent (but Rogers by his background). And it wasn't a kryptonite based serum, it was alien genetic material from a baby which didn't survive its crash landing on Earth. But the shield was indeed carved from the alien metal of the child's ship, and it was the Superman "S".
 

 
That was my favorite Amalgam character, both because I thought his origin was really clever, and because it recognized that Superman and Captain America fill the same role in their respective universes, as the paragon of superheroics. (Black Claw OTOH was IMHO just a forced blend of popular "dark" characters with nothing else in common.)

What you mean to say is that you want to be less patronizing.....But that was a very good try, now go get a cookie and take your nap.😜