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Re: CHAR: Big Barda Y'know, I'd blotted those issues from my memory. Oh, and it seems that my copy of H.D. thinks that if the Limitation is on the whole multipower (in this case OAF), then it should also apply to the slot. Which is how I thought it should be too.

Re: Superhero Images I call sloppy seconds. Thirds?

Re: The Lucky Charm Gang?! Red balloons - a rogue German pop musician.

Re: CHAR: Big Barda Two questions... #1) What the heck did I miss in Byrne's 'New Gods' book, or wherever? #2) Why, when I load up your Barda file does Hero Designer halve the cost of the individual Power slots from what you have? But it is a very nice and thorough write-up.

Re: Q & A: DC Geography Lessons Upstate New York is, as I understand it, anything in New York State that isn't New York City or Long Island. Kind of like Downstate Illinois, which is anything that isn't Chicagoland. South Beloit (on the Illinois-Wisconsin border) is considered to be Downstate.

Re: Altered Reality (making yourself) Before I ever started playing, my future first role-playing group tried the Everyone-Assess-And-Average method to build themselves (in AD&D.) It resulted in a lot of hard feelings. Most of them had only known one another for a few months, and everyone was a little harsh in their assessments of everyone else. A few years later, a later group I was in, we were trying to build ourselves in Chill. We never actually played. We ended up with cartoon versions of ourselves. In the areas where we had the aptitude, we were too good. In the areas where we were bad, we were pathetic. Most of us were honest, but we had no scale, so things got exaggerated. Plus there was one player who insisted he'd need at least half again as many points to build himself as the rest of us had. He was shocked when I beat him arm wrestling left handed. He could consistently beat me right handed, but I could consistently defeat him left. (I am right handed.) But I at least proved that no, he really wasn't so much stronger than everyone else.

Re: Altered Reality (making yourself) Have I told you those horror stories?

Re: Abandoned Russian Embassy in Bangkok I'm just watching the game. Controlling it. I'd let you watch, I would invite you, but the queens we use would not excite you.

Re: Abandoned Russian Embassy in Bangkok Plus, you spend one night there, and the world's your oyster.

Re: Magic Items Galore - Need a Team Name "The Dungeon Crawlers." Seriously. They sound like they get together every other Wednesday in the back room of their local gaming store.

Re: Q & A: DC Geography Lessons You live in Tennessee. That'll be tough. I mean your state was named after a cartoon Penguin. (Or is that the other way around.) I mean, your region doesn't get enough respect from songs like 'the Chatanooga Choo-Choo"?

Re: Q & A: DC Geography Lessons I don't know about the southeast, but places like Midway City (a stand-in for Chicago) and Central City means that they at least tried to get Midwestern cities in place.

Re: Super Metals A rhinolith is a kind of dried material that comes out of one's nose. "Rhinolithium" may sound like a super metal, but it's snot.

Re: Seacouver, Washington Nope. It was founded by someone looking for a vacuum cleaner ... Seek Hoover.

Re: UNTIL Uniforms - Now I know why they BUG me so much. Bah. If a chick's gonna imitate a particular costume of Dina Myer's from that movie, it should be the one from the shower scene.

Re: Q & A: DC Geography Lessons Why the heck did someone put Red Bee's home "Superior City" in the Pacific Northwest? With a name like "Superior City" it should be on the largest of the Great Lakes - probably it was an analogue to Duluth, MN.

Re: Super Metals Appearances to the contrary, there's no negative in my original statement.

Re: Super Metals Rhinolithium - It'snot what you think it is.

Re: UNTIL Uniforms - Now I know why they BUG me so much. And Dina Myer had her own Weapons of Mass Distraction which help make this film watchable... like a bad 1950s sci-fi film with bare boobs.

Re: Telling YOU about the RCU! In the late 1960's, Anton Breié and Elisabeth Gilbert were married, despite his nocturnal activities as l'Ours Noir, Montreal's resident costumed vigilante. In the early 1970's they had their first child, a daughter, Sylvie. Being tomboyish and a member of the LOC-Bloc (not to mention Anton's unspoken disappointment in not having a son) Sylvie ended up being trained as a costumed crime-fighter by her father, often with her "godbrother" Garrett Grant. Once in her teens, she became la Chatte Noire; l'Ours Noir's young aide. Tragically, Anton was past his prime, and Sylvie watched the one time her father was too slow. She entered her mourning period and rebel phase at about the same time. She went to Paris, obstensibly to finish school, but in fact ended up in the rather wild crowd of the Paris Fashion World. She became a model. Once over eighteen, she started getting interested in crime-fighting again. She revived her la Chatte Noire identity. She eventually ended up in Williamsburg, New Jersey, in the Crusaders, in a relationship with the Cyclist. She went through many of the groups ups and doubts, hanging around with Cyclist, Stuntman and the Westerner. She was fortunate to have been on a shoot the day Havok decimated the Crusaders. She and Stuntman became close after he revived from his coma, sharing their grief over their friends' deaths. They joined the Champions of Justice, though at first they found it overwhelming. There was a bad accident and Sylvie was nearly killed, save for Dragon's intervention. However, between his then novice magical skills and her earlier exposure to one of Madame Y's experimental retro viruses, there was an unforseen effect. The virus was from a lycanthropic cougar and Sylvie became a werecat. She dropped the "Noire" from her name; her relationship with Stuntman ended; and she left the COJ to join the recently restarted Crusaders. She eventually left Denver for her native Montreal, and after a brief experiment with her own team during the Algolian Invasion, rejoined the Champions of Justice. There she found the situation much better than it had been before. Finally accepting that the professional organisation was never going fill the emotional void from losing so many loved ones, she out her all into the team, and was accepted as never before. Eventually, she was finally asked to fill a position on the Executive Board. However, after about six weeks, she learned of her mother's failing health. Having achieved a long sought professional goal, she decided to finally make her family a priority. She once again became an inactive Champion, and has dedicated her time to taking care of her mother.

Re: Sonof Secret Origins! When did you start reading superhero comics? Back, when I was 3 or 4, before I could read, I was fascinated by my Dad's copies of Fieffer's The Great Comic Book Heroes and vol. 1 of the Steranko History of Comics. Eventually I learned to read. When I was 5, I had a hernia operation. Dad got me a copy of "Batman". I forget the issue number, although a year-and-half ago I finally found a replacement copy. It was the first '100 pgs for $0.50' issue of "Batman." The first comic book I bought, rather that having bought for me, I believe was "Justice League of America" #150. I had some of the earlier Englehart issues, but that was the first one I bought.

Re: Q & A: DC Geography Lessons Okay. Metropolis, and Gotham, in a literary sense, are both based on New York. DC has hemmed and hawed for years about their actual geographic location. In recent years, DC's been better about saying Gotham is in New Jersey (which jibes with things like the DC Atlas that Mayfair did.) I've seen some sources, including said Atlas, that put Metropolis in Delaware (typically, "just across" Chesapeake Bay from Gotham.) I've also seen sources that put Metropolis in New York State. However, since Metropolis is a coastal city, as is New York (and in DC Comics they both exist) this becomes a bigger geographic impossibility. Captain Marvel's home, in the old Fawcett comics, was just "the city". This city was later named Fawcett City, once the captain was a DC property. On Earth-S, I think it may have overlaid the same space as where Metropolis was on Earth-1. On the post-Crisis Earth, it was written like it was Milwaukee, but was placed, by the editors, in Indiana. Presumably where Gary is. The Charlton version of Hub City was essentially Chicago. Similarly, so was the Earth-1 Midway City. However, post-Crisis, Hub City was moved (I think to southern Illinois) and Midway to somewhere in Michigan. On Earth-2, it seemed that, to me, Gateway City, was an analogue to Saint Louis. Post Crisis, Gateway City is somewhere on the California coast. How near Coast City, I don't know, but it always was a California coastal city. Back in the day, Central City and Keystone City were Earth-1/Earth-2 counterparts. This was despite the fact that Central City was clearly a Midwestern (often placed in Ohio) city, and Keystone was obviously in Pennsylvania ('the Keystone State' - It seemed more like Philadelphia than Pittsburgh to me.) Now they are 'twin cities' on the Missouri/Nebraska border. I always thought Star City would be in Texas. I think DC has been saying northern California in recent years. New Venice was in Florida. Smallville, on Earth-1, was a few hours out from Metropolis (whatever that means.) Post-Crisis, it was clearly Kansas. On TV, both are true. Clearly, on TV, Metropolis isn't an east coast city. Ivy Town is either in Connecticut, Massachusetts or western New York state, depending on the writer. Calvin City (home of Calvin College) is presumably nearby. I believe they used to have that parallels across Earths thing going on. In some golden age stories, the U.S. capitol was "Capitol City" complete with a Washington Monument and capitol building. There was also a "Civic City." Where the heck Opal City is, I couldn't begin to guess. Or Fairfax, from the "Dial "H'" series in the late 70s./early 80s. Cloister, Vermont was always in Vermont. Whatever the town was where Hudson University was, the implication was it was upstate New York. St. Roche is clearly a parallel to, and presumably close to, New Orleans. In the "Supergirl" movie, Midvale was where Decatur Illinois is, according to a map. Otherwise, who knows. There's a reason why, in JLA/Avengers, it was deemed that the DC Earth was bigger.

Re: Richest Man in the World Disease Then your players need to grow up. Or one of them can pay 16 pts. for unlimited wealth (sacrificing something really important like 2 COM points). They'll both be unlimited, but the one's will intrisicly be the "larger inifinity" because he paid points for it. Then around the time you have someone paying 22 pts. of wealth (as the one-up-manship continues) someone will realise they're putting points into real life bragging rights. And maybe then they'll grow up.

Re: Telling YOU about the RCU! Oh. That one. I forgot Sav had posted it over here. I've recently replaced it on the site, but... So, la Chatte caught your eye?

Re: Metal Master Can he manipulate any metal as defined scientifically, or just the materials that the common person thinks of as metals? This is important because otherwise he can manipulate things like the calcium in peoples bones, the Sodium in the salt in the ocean, and all sorts of things. And why go to the problem of making lead into gold for quick cash. Turn pocket change into Ununpentium for someplace like Fermilab.