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I would stand with you but the thing that gets forgotten at this time of year is that Easter candy is for CHILDREN! 
Cute little buggers with no sense of taste. They actually like junk candy.  Decent quality chocolate would be wasted on them.  Besides, mostly they take one or two bites of something, squish in their fist, drop it onto the carpet for the dog to try and eat and move on to the next brightly wrapped piece of inedible drek.
    Anyone thinking about wasting hand-dipped caramels on a three year old deserves the frustration they feel.
 Put them to bed after their sugar comas and then break out the good stuff. 

I’ve said here often that my #1 rule of GM’ing is “Everybody loves hitting Nazi’s”. 
  My idea in all this was;  Is using a group like Red Doom in bad taste for taking real tragedy as fuel for for something foolish.
   If one of the major comic companies in the days right after 9-11 created a hero empowered by the souls lost and never recovered under the Twin Towers, they would have been crucified by the fans and the media alike.

From the story:
Now, let's be fair;  the candy iconography is pagan, not Christian.  It's spring, it's fertility and growth and new life.  But the writer's otherwise spot on.
 
Calling Easter's offerings "candy" is a GROSS mischaracterization.  It's gunky, gooey, and uniformly AWFUL junk.  It's worse than most Valentine's candy...which can be just fine, thank you, but the average supermarket boxed assortment is just plain BAD.  ALL the major candy holidays have that...chocolate Santas at Christmas are the same as the chocolate bunnies at Easter, waxy, godawful aftertaste...BLEAH!!!
 
But the others all have redeeming aspects.  Plenty of decent, if everyday, stuff for Halloween;  high end chocs come out at Christmas and Valentine's.  Easter has nothing above abysmal.  
 
I'm talking myself to commit an act of defiance...a bag of Sprouts' dark chocolate coated almonds...sweetened with stevia.  (Almost no sugar issue at all.  Calories, OTOH....)  Fighting back against bad Easter pseudo-candy!!  Who's with me????  

I hear you, I’m so old my social security number is 12.

I hear you, I’m so old my social security number is 12.

Superman debuted in the 1930’s.  The Fantastic Four in the ‘60’s.  Origins get updated all the time     WHO CARES! ! !  This is not about write-ups.
      The original question I was trying to raise is....  
    Considering the current world situation, is using a team of Soviet “Bad Guys” to give players a way of working out any frustrations about what’s happening in the news in bad taste?

The Red Doom characters got something of a makeover in the 4E book, Classic Organizations, laying out circumstances which reshuffled the membership, putting all the more genuinely heroic characters into a private team called the New Guard, while the more ruthless ones formed a villain team actually called Red Doom. That could form a template on one way to bring these supers forward to post-Soviet collapse; however, their origins and cultural references are very dated by this point, so even by this tactic, using them for the present day would be problematic.
 
Now, I've long thought that in a world of superhumans, the Putin regime would definitely try to recruit or create supers to serve it. I believe that would offer an opening to use some of the RD characters as the basis for a new team, but probably with some name changes and tweaks to their backgrounds; or maybe with new original characters.
 
In the current official Champions Universe time line there were two government superhero teams for the Soviet Union, following the distinction made for the two teams in Red Doom: the People's Legion, which like the RD team, the Comintern, were mostly traditional superheroes who happened to be loyal to "the other side;" and Red Winter, a black ops team like RD's Supreme Soviets. In the present day almost none of the People's Legion are still active or have received write-ups, but Red Winter are still intact, having gone mercenary after the breakup of the Soviet Union. All of the team are physically enhanced, either through genetic engineering, technological augmentation, or magic, so age needn't be a pressing concern for them. They're fully detailed in Champions Villains Volume Two: Villain Teams.
 
Red Winter's members have differing goals. Some of them were loyal Communists and would like to restore the Soviet Union, and are unhappy with the current Russian kleptocracy. Others are more amoral and ruthless, just in it for the money and thrills. But all of them enjoyed the comforts and perks of state support, and might be lured back to serve Russia with offers of a renewed privileged status.
 
Another powerful Soviet hero, Spektr (Champions Villains Volume Three: Solo Villains) experienced a comic-book-style accident which hurled him forward decades in time to the contemporary era, when he is a total fish out of water. He searches for a cause he can believe in and fight for, as he once fought for Communism. Not only is he one more character one might use as-is, that scenario could be applied more generally to the supers from the original Red Doom book, allowing you to keep them pretty much as written, even with some of their anachronistic elements.

Every time I see this, about halfway thru I’m screaming “YOU FOOL!!” along with everybody else.🥸

ALL HAIL THE BIG BLUE BOOK!!!   ONE BOOK TO RULE THEM ALL, AND IN THE DARKNESS BIND THEM!!!

Reject Modernity, and embrace 4th Edition!

I may not be white, but I'm Still Caucasian.  .  .

Just saw the Legend of the Lone Ranger for the first time. And that is bad. So bad that the lead actor never made another film and neither did the director. Jason Robards who was established was exempt from anything happening. Christopher Lloyd was a bit restrained as the bad guy but really did nothing wrong. Michael Horse who played Tonto went on to do better work notably in Twin Peaks and the X-Files.
The film suffers from trying to do too much with the origin story and takes too long with it. The ending also feels a bit rushed. It does not help that the actor played the Lone Ranger was dubbed.
But what really hurt was banning Clayton Moore who played The Lone Ranger from doing signings or appearing in costume as the character. This generated really bad negative publicity and did the film in. 

I enjoy this game a lot, but that’s never gonna happen.  DC is owned by a MAJOR corporation, and the kind of cash that would be involved to buy the rights for an RPG would probably be a half a million at least.  All this goes for Marvel as well.
  Why do you ask though? If you want a game set in the DC universe, just do it. There are a lot of sites and threads that have write-ups for DC’s characters and DC has an official website that will give you all the backround information you could ever use on your PC’s, NPC’s and locations. And any particular questions you have can get answered in places like this.
  As long as you’re not making and selling a game for profit all this come under the “Fair Use” exemption of copyright law.

I'm reminded of the class the church forced us to attend before we got married.  A nice young man and his wife, around thirty years of age, came to talk to us engaged couples about the benefits of "natural family planning" (i.e., the rhythm method) instead of sinful contraception, which was why they only had six kids.  It was so hard not to laugh.

Why did Adele cross the road? 
 
To say “hello” from the other side.