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I thought they only made one Highlander movie.  I'm pretty sure of it, actually.
 
This sounds like it would be a pretty fun game.  I think anybody who loves 80s action movies would get a kick out of it.  Still, I can't see this ending any way other than "Find John Matrix and convince him to do one last mission".

Maybe I’m a bad guy, but I just got the GURPS sourcebook for what I wanted and then ran that genre using Champion rules.

Maybe I’m a bad guy, but I just got the GURPS sourcebook for what I wanted and then ran that genre using Champion rules.

I’ve mentioned this before in other posts but as a GM I’ve found that the best way to immediately engage a new player is to ask them  “What’s your favorite superhero?” and then have them play that.   Either that exact character or a close version of it, whichever your campaign prefers. The new player immediately has a good grasp on how the powers work and how the character behaves.
  It speeds up the process of explaining for how the entire system works and gets everyone involved quickly. They may only play that Spider-Man expy a few times before wanting to try coming up with an idea of their own. Or they may be more like me who played my original Greatest American Hero clone off and on for my entire gaming career. (Among many other characters)
 

They did. It was called Danger: International.

National Novel Writing month is starting up Next month. Does anyone think I should go for a 'sequel' here?

Holy Avenger
 
The forces of evil are real--DEMON, The Crowns Of Krim, Takofanes--and they must be opposed, they must be destroyed.  That is the mission of Sister Beatrice, who has been trained by the Vatican from the age of twelve not only in the arts of combat, but to channel her faith to increase her strength and endurance.  Her weapons are designed by Harmon Industries with the advice and assistance of the Trismegistus Council; they may appear to be high-tech, but they possess spiritual power as well as physical power--just the thing for dealing with entities that cannot be affected by earthly weapons no matter how powerful.  In addition, Sister Beatrice possesses a tremendous strength of will--she once resisted an attempt by Menton to dominate her telepathically, and made him pay a dear price for the attack. 

A man found himself standing at the pearly gates before St. Peter. He gave his name, his address, and a few details of his life. Saint Peter then said, "I have located your information, and it looks like we have you listed for provisional acceptance into Heaven. It doesn't look like you've committed any particularly serious sins, however you haven't really done anything to distinguish yourself for the side of Right, either. If you could tell us about something you've done that was particularly courageous or heroic, it would really make the issue a lot easier to resolve."
 
"Well," the man said, "I was walking home from the pub when I looked down a dark alley and saw a young girl on the ground, surrounded by five or six tough-looking bikers. They had her trapped, and I could tell their intentions weren't honorable. I don't know why, but it made me really angry. I knew I had to do something.
 
"So I turned and walked right down that alley, right towards the biggest, toughest-looking one. He turned around when he saw me coming, and before he could do anything, I kicked him right in the family jewels, if you take my meaning. He dropped like a rag doll, and the others started to close in on me. Well, I picked up a piece of metal pipe and brought it down right on the next guy's head. He dropped, too.
 
"By then they'd hesitated for a minute. So I shouted at them. I said, 'All right, you scum, that's enough! I've never seen a more disgusting collection of human filth in all my life! You're all animals! You leave this poor girl alone, you freaks! Now get lost, before I give the rest of you a serious lesson in pain!' "
 
"Wow," St. Peter said, "that's quite remarkable. That would certainly qualify you for entry into Heaven. When did this happen?"
 
The man replied sheepishly, "About two minutes ago."

Q: How do you milk a sheep?
 
A: Offer a slightly upgraded version of the same phone and charge $700 for it.

Playing our Space:1889 game last night.
 
We're in an underground complex filled with jungle and find a bollard-like thing with a grille on it. Unable to work out what it is we move on.
 
Then we find another one, identical to the last.
 
Me: We've got grilles - they're multiplying.
GM (catching on): And you're losing control

I always thought that the sport Triad from classic Battlestar Galactica looked interesting. It was two teams of three players each and seemed to be a mix of basketball, and lacrosse.

Long-ago AD&D campaign, we had a high-level female monk in the party.  Big Hulking Brute guarding/blocking the way we need to go, refusing to let us by.
 
Monk: "So what you're saying is, none may pass?"
 
Guard: "That's right.  None may pass."
 
Monk:  "That's okay, then.  I'm a nun."  and quickly stepped around him.  His face had the expression of someone who just KNEW he was going to get into trouble, but he couldn't quite figure out why...

Last week's Star Wars game featured the Battle of Endor and destruction of the second Death Star.
 
Except in this game, instead of the Ewoks being annoying midgets in teddy bear costumes, the GM turned them into terrifying CGI killbeasts who see the world as divided into into "Food" and "Things We Can Use To Kill Food." And the former category very emphatically does NOT include exceptions for sentient species. We manage to convince them not to eat us in exchange for helping them kill "The Food That Comes In White Shells" aka Stormtroopers.
 
GM: "The Ewoks start singing a battle song..."
PCs (all singing) "Yub yub, Ewok yub yub..."
GM: "Actually their battle songs sound more like recipes." (singing in a low dirge voice) "Add 2 cups butter, parsley and simmer until tender."
PCs:
 
 
Another change in this game is that Luke died blowing up the 1st Death Star, so Leia (as an NPC) became a Jedi instead; while the PCs take out the shield generator planetside, she's the one who goes up to the Death Star to watch Vader and the Emperor kill each other. Afterwards, back on Endor she readies Dad's corpse for the big Viking funeral send-off.
 
PC1: (to Leia) "Do you want to keep Lord Vader's shuttle?"
Leia: "No, you guys can have it."
PC2: "But you should at least keep his helmet. As a memento"
Leia: "That helmet is a reminder of what my father turned into, a monster who killed millions. Why would I want to be reminded of that?"
PC1: "Oh, you may not want it now. But someday your kids might want something to connect them to the grandfather they never knew."
GM: "..."
PC2: "Something to brood and obsess over..."
GM: "STOP!"

Dear Mother of God.....did he actually translate that into Klingon!?!? Please somebody tell me that it's just gibberish. PLEASE!!!!

MacArthur Park. One of the break your heart live versions by Richard Harris.

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ahh, ahh, ahh, ahhh.
choS Sparkle
(loQ Pony)
DanoHmeH jIH laH, qatlh nuq Qu' SIv
(loQ Pony)
until SoH magic SoH Hoch HItlhej
rainbow Dash
tIn adventure
pinkie chab
fun tons
rarity
tIq 'IH
applejack
matlh 'ej HoS
fluttershy
wIHHa'wI' maywI' SoH!
choS Sparkle
feat ngeD
'ej 'oH magic Hoch naQmoH wanI'mey
loQ ponies Daghaj
youre DaSov'a' Hoch SoHvaD maqoch?

I liked it. It's got a strange mix of Seth's usual comedy style and him trying for a more straightforward serious series. It's a tough balancing act and I hope he can pull it off.
On a similar note myself, how is it gonna keep from getting sued? Especially with Brannon Braga on the production side, this show should be getting their "stop & desist" motion papers from Paramount as we speak. It's a lot closer to Star Trek than Discovery is going to be.

Nice rendition, a little different from Roberta Flack's version:
 

Perhaps my best pickup from Westercon -- a local audio drama group's production of perhaps the greatest radioplay ever written, and one of the few that survivies to this day -- Archibald Macliesh's The Fall of the City. It was originally written and produced in 1937, at the peak of power of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. It was originally produced for CBS by a workshop company that included Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith. The technique of a simulatyed news broadcast would later be used by Welles in his adaptation of War of the Worlds the next year.
 
The play (which I won't link to, because the version I bought isn't online) concerns a city that is being approached by a "Conqueror" and how the populace reacts to the prospect of a coming conquest. It's a divers and often contradictory set of responses. Messengers send terrifying reports. Appeals to non-violence are embraced and condemned. Appeals to religious fervor are counteracted with an appeal to take up arms -- which proves to be pointless. In the end the city embraces the Conqueror, and only the reporter sees that the populace has manufactured their own opressor.
 
As I mentioned, the play was originally produced in 1937. It was a perilous time, when there was a real chance that American democracy would fail in the face of dictatorship's appeal. Almost eighty years later, the theme is just as resonant as it was then -- if not more so.
 
You can buy the CD here. It is one of the best $10 I've spent all year.

I'm getting into Archer the animated series on the FOX cable channel.
How can you describe it? Archer is to spy movies what South Park is to childrens shows.
As an example of the strange meta style humor, I offer that the CIA contact is named Slater. Not Slater something, not something Slater, just Slater. He is drawn to look just like Christian Slater, and of course is voice acted by Christian Slater. Nothing is ever made of the resemblance.

Gestermancer was born with an extra finger on his left hand. This made him able to master spells more ordinary fingered magicians could not. He uses his extra finger and magical talents to fight crime, both mystical and mundain in nature. Why does he do this? So once he mastered all the magic he can, he can Take Over The World.

They did. It was called Danger: International.

I'm posting a modified version of the reading list from my setting, since I've done some reading since it came out.
 
Stephen Baxter; the Xeelee sequence
David Brin; the Uplift novels
Wil McCarthy; The Collapsium (and sequels)
Alastair Reynolds; Revelation Space (series)
Ken MacLeod; the Fall Revolution novels, Newton's Wake
Paul McAuley; The Quiet War, and Gardens of the Sun
Charles Pelligrino & George Zebrowski; The Killing Star
John Scalzi; Old Man's War (and sequels)
Allen Steele; Coyote (and sequels)
Bruce Stirling; Schismatrix
Charles Stross; Singularity Sky, and Iron Sunrise
David Weber; the Honor Harrington novels
Walter Jon Williams; the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy
C.J. Cherryh; Chanur novels and Downbelow Station
Kim Stanley Robinson: Mars trilogy
Dani and Eytan Kollin; The Unincorporated Man series
Larry Niven; Known Space novels and stories
 
Non-fiction:
 
Martin Beech; Terraforming: The Creating of Habitable Worlds
Jack Cohen & Ian Stewart; Evolving the Alien
David Darling, PhD; The Extra-Terrestrial Encyclopedia
James Kaler; Extreme Stars
John S. Lewis; Worlds Without End
Eugene Mallove & Gregory Matloff; The Starflight Handbook
Gerard K. O'Neill; The High Frontier
Robert Young Pelton; The World's Most Dangerous Places
Marshall T. Savage; The Millennial Project
Peter Ward & Don Brownlee; Rare Earth*
Nicholas Johnson; Big Dead Place
Jerry Linenger; Off the Planet
 
Television:
Babylon 5
Firefly
Battlestar Galactica (reboot)
The Expanse
 
Movies:
I'm thinking... oh yeah, The Europa Report.
 
On the web:
http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/index.php
http://www.orionsarm.com/
http://www.nada.kth.se/~asa/Game/BigIdeas/index.html 
http://www.solstation.com/stars.htm
 
 
*Yes, I've heard all the BS about "creationism" in this book. And no, there quite simply isn't any. Don't start with me again because I'm not having it.