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Re: Over The Edge Hero excuse me???? I can't think of many H.P.Lovecraft stories that even had women in them, let alone women that got molested. There was Lavinia Whately, admittedly, but that was entirely consentual.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... It's possible she's still alive - her body and the troops were all teleported out 30 seconds later, after the scene become one of blind-fighting, snipers with heavy weapons, auto-firing tanks, and 3 attached like a lamprey to Vitus's waist crying Master! Master! as he tried to crawl off and recover his weapons

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... It was interesting to note that even in my wife's absence, her Smut Field (Change Environment, Area Of Effect, EGO Check or every sentence becomes inadvertent Innuendo) was still in effect. Amongst what was really a very low-key afternoon episode, Miss Chaos found a stall selling modified GI Joe action figure made out to look like the members of our team, The Edge, and bought a set. Trawler immediately got to work recreating recent events in Edge history - such as setting his figure in green Jello - so he could post photos to the groups MySpace page. Miss Chaos : slightly irritated by this toy abuse "How much effort are you going to go to, to torture your own figurine? Avatar : I want to set mine on fire! It's more realistic that way! Miss Chaos merely checked whether hers was wearing underwear. It was, which was inaccurate - she wears jeans under her uniform. Elsewhere, Zero was meeting an engineered dolphin. A dolphin with a diamond rostrum, super-speed, global sensory powers, and some telepathy. Zero OOC: *sings* A Super-cavitating-mega-hearing-psychic-dolphin The dolphin had some information for us but needed some medical attention for skin injuries sustained whilst finding that information The day's summary thus becomes GM : It's OK to play with dolls Miss Chaos : And I played with myself Zero : And I waxed the dolphin The dolphin line, alarmingly, carried over into the evening game, featuring the Skeleton Crew, which includes Vitus, a seven foot tall scarred and angry anthropomorphic hyena, and his consort, 3, a superhumanly desirable courtesan, dancer, seductress etc. Storm Lord : "Lets take 3 down to Cancun to dance the Can-Can" *cue chorus of the tune from players* Felicity OOC , portraying emergency services : "How did 400 19-year-old males all stop breathing at once?" Vitus OOC, who wears nothing under his robe : "I'll show you" *recreates 3's dance, himself, to renewed player chorus* Team members, NPCs : assorted wails of horror and a player's anguished "Oh God, now I'm picturing Vitus and the dolphin Fortunately, Istvatha V'han turned up to prevent any further mental trauma. The Empress of a Billion Worlds' impressively well-trained D-Soldiers promptly had us running for cover, split up, and on the back foot. 3's attempt to distract the soldiers with her seduction attack don't work, mostly because they're well-trained, alien, and 3 isn't an attractive shade of green. Vitus : Maybe it's not their mating season The Storm Lord : I'ld like to see that - Duck season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Mating season! Yeah, alright. The effect works fine on the rest of the team members and students tho GM : Anyone else on 3? Me : Most of us, I should think *sighs* completely innocent game-jargon, and the entire table cracks up and my wife - 3's player - blushes bright red. Vitus, the apparent target of the attack, was subdued by the combined firepower of two entire squads and a couple of tanks. He should be flattered. The Spectre runs around the corner, comes face to face with the squads and mobile artillery, whimpers a bit, and attempts to interject. D-Sergeant, in broken and badly accented English : Not to interfere! The Anomaly must be contained! Vitus, unconscious and OOC : That's the first time I've ever been called an Anomaly. 'Unspeakable threat to all that's right in the Universe', sure, but Anomaly? First Time. The Spectre : You might well have an anomaly to contain, but I can't let you take him! He's my friend! .... I can't believe I just said that. He attempts to negotiate with V'han, mostly to stall for time, and hoping that the rest of the team will show up in the next few minutes. He then, in an attempt to distract her, and allow Vitus a chance to regain conciousness and escape, tries another ploy. And in front of her loyal troopers and in full view of the mothership in low orbit, guns the beloved Empress of a huge interdimensional empire down in a spray of green blood and vital organs. With a revolver. His response to what will almost certainly spark Interdimensional War III, or at least some retaliatory strikes that will take out most of the North American continent, as he stands over the twitching, bloody body of his victim. The Spectre : Whoops Can the situation get any worse? Sure it can. 3 : Is this the bitch that tried to take my Master? *stomps on her head* and a moment after that, Void teleports in, snatches up V'han as a hostage and demands : Surrender now or I'll snap the bitch's neck! *sighs* And it was all so unnecessary! If the Empress and her soldiers had just approached politely, with their claim that Vitus a demonstrable threat to the ongoing existence of the universe and those adjacent, and that he needs to be studied and contained, he probably would have agreed with them! After all, he's already told his own colleagues that with any more provocation he's going to overwrite this universe with one of known dimensional instability. (Worse, this seems to be already happening, even without his active participation. ) Instead, the first thing they do is strafe his apartment with tank fire and try to abduct him. Even more unfortunate, all the players (if not the PCs) are aware that Istvatha V'han is going after the wrong guy...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... hermaphrodite, surely?

Re: From Tiny Campaign Acorns, Something...Something...Happens

Re: From Tiny Campaign Acorns, Something...Something...Happens interesting... I can't think of any of my characters that would be happy with the More Power/Less Identity trade off. And at least one of them, if he did go over the line to get more power to achieve his aims, would promptly sprout spiky armour/cape combo, a Big Magical Whacking Stick, and probably a tower of skulls, too. And Evil. Lots and Lots of Evil.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat I'm Tuvalu Lass! And yes, I can breath underwater, how did you know?

Re: Wwycd Oops!

Re: Dr Who unless the High Council want to trade your potential to an evil future version of yourself, or you're an evil renegade Time Lord they can find a use for, or you transform yourself into a transparent snake thing and steal someone's body, or just steal someone's body, or earn (in your own mind) regeneration perpetual, etc etc etc

Re: Wwycd Oops! Assuming that his teammates didn't realise the kind of advice Vitus was likely to offer, and stopped him, he would lead the young turk off to one side, and spin him a few home truths. "Look, boy. I lost teammates all the time. Mauled by panthers, possessed by archfiends, drained alive by the spectres of the dead. Hell, I never found out what happened to some of them! I think one got eaten by a god. Anyway, it's not like you're the only 'only survivor' ever - I'm been the sole one walking away at least, oh, four times now. It's not like it's caused ME any long-term mental harm. Maybe you feel a bit useless, trying to take down something down something outside your experience class, but there's nothing stopping you going after small fry, and getting a little revenge on the enemy in a general sense. Buy yourself a black suit and mask, and go fry a few drug dealers a night. It burns off your frustrations beautifully - I'll even give you a few tips on how to find them, and how to dispose of the remains." and if that doesn't stop him being a complete waste of skin, or I can't think of any other uses for him, then I wash my hands of the situation.

Re: Dr Who and the connection he had with Reinette in Girl In The Fireplace, and translating alien languages for his companions, and knowing when the TARDIS is nearby and sharing info with his previous selves and wiring his brain up to various computers even without the neural implants etc etc etc. His Grandaughter Susan was doing it first, but still.

Re: Interesting page for animal powers *agrees with Spidey* oh, so many painful inaccuracies! altho it does remind me that I haven't written up Odontomachus-man yet.

Re: WWYCD: The Nightmare on Hero Street well, if the fabric was from one of his mother's old dresses, Zero would probably go stark-staring bonkers right there. Vitus on the other hand, who react with considerable scepticism, whilst dodging the claws as best as he could. "Excuse me? Somebody with a bad rash and overgrown fingernails is my worst nightmare? You have been seriously misinformed, sir." And then deliberately run thru everything that IS his worst nightmare, pointing out that Kruger has just confirmed he's an illusionist anyway, and whilst Kruger goes 'Um" make him eat his own claws, the long way around.

Re: Dr Who mild telepathy too.

Re: FRPG Ideas from D&D that ain't necessarily so there are indeed similarities please don't be discouraged by the cover of Council of Blades, it has no relevance to the contents

Re: FRPG Ideas from D&D that ain't necessarily so

Re: FRPG Ideas from D&D that ain't necessarily so The ones by Paul Kidd are a hoot, and quite subversive. There's more than a few lines where the editors really should have been paying more attention *evil grin* plus, as a bonus, the Justicar Trilogy drove Bob Salvatore and other drow fans out of their minds, and had to be incorported into the setting history

Re: How many Dragon's teeth adorn YOUR shield? You know, I don't think any of my characters have ever met one... I know Vitus hasn't, since as far as he is aware dragons are purely religious myth on his world. That said, fun with genre conventions is always amusing. Take the party that were dispatched to deal with a white dragon. They kitted out appropriately - protection against cold spells and so on, etc... and learnt to their horror that it wasn't a White. It was an albino Red. But any intelligent dragon would take advantage of the local's instincts for self preservation. Turn up to swing the result of a major battle by dropping a few thermobaric breath weapons on one army, say, then demand a perpetual deed to a large swathe of prime real estate from the winner. Then rent it out (payment in the form of livestock acceptable) For one thing, altho deeds might not be as tactilely satisfying to sleep on, they're a hell of a lot easier to conceal. An intelligent dragon, as well as hiring mercenaries, spies, etc, and making itself indespensible in border protection, dealing with roving brigands, and enforcing toll collection, would probably be wise enough to retain a few lawyers, too.

Re: WWYCD: Out of Focus, in the know Yes, any connection between Vitus and Cthulhu is alarming - because amongst the the various plans he's drafted is his scheme to sacrifice a Great Old One, and use that energy to remake his lost home universe. Or just write over this one, whichever is quicker.

Re: STRONGHOLD -- What Do You Want To See? How does Stronghold cope with non-standard biologys and powers? In particular, an alien magic-worker? I wonder about this because Vitus, my own character, has a very good chance of ending up in Stronghold one of these days - no evil clones required. Would the staff risk putting him in Hot Sleep given his non-human biochemistry? It could well be fatal - and how could they test it? His abilities are quite easy restrained - just cuff his wrists behind his back and he's mostly helpless...And it's not as if he's going to TELL anybody how easily he can be disarmed. And if they take all his gear off him he won't be able to speak the language, and taking his translator off without destroying it would require minor surgery (it's a one-piece earring) On the other hand, if all powers are surpressed regardless of source, then Vitus would probably be be able to hold his own - he's a 7-foot-plus carnivore with long experience shoving long cylindrical objects - such as bronze staves, or in a pinch prison broomsticks - into places they're not supposed to go. How many inmates would an imprisoned 'hero' have to maim (in self defence, allegedly) before they put him in solitary?

Re: WWYCD: Out of Focus, in the know interesting... I wonder if they'd be visible to Vitus's magical senses. Zero's mental ones would apparently be more than sufficient. Either way, Vitus would be happy to test whether inserting 11d6 of Auraflow energy into the Attendants head-space would be terminally disruptive. He'ld probably prepare a few "True-Seeing" lenses in advance and hand them around, just in case his colleagues don't believe him.

Re: Just For Fun - Comedy Clip RE: "Superscience" LOL - i'm amused by the further physics arguments, in the comments.

Re: FRPG Ideas from D&D that ain't necessarily so *applauds your historical verisimilitude*