EvilDrPuma

Re: Starting a SH campaign Good points. If you're going for a homebrew setting, it may ease some of the pain if you ask yourself at the outset what the two or three most important, world-changing technological changes are. This way, you can restrict yourself to a small set of basic issues (how rubbery is the science of these changes, and how many and how pervasive are their applications). FTL technologies are obvious examples, but the development of nanotech, biotech, energy production, and gravity manipulation are other areas with broad implications--the last two maybe influencing or influenced by FTL technology. Other technologies can be glossed (if you want man-portable laser weapons, maybe you can worry later about exactly how a small, highly-concentrated power source came about) or disallowed (you might decide that none of the core technological developments are likely to produce the power source for a man-portable laser, so slugthrowers or gauss firearms predominate). Other than that, your big concern is not letting the technological handwavium become the whole of the game--decide what the opportunities for player-character social roles, adventuring opportunities, rewards, and mysteries/plot twists might be as you develop the technology and setting. It's easy to let the tech take over, and the urge has to be managed carefully.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) Jane Austen HERO would probably flop big-time...unless it was done like the Jane Austen VR sim on Red Dwarf, in which case it would rock on toast.

Re: Anybody out there playing Doctor Who Hero? I'm not surprised, in light of the quality of the show. From what I know, comparing British Doctor Who fandom to American Star Trek fandom falls a little short in that Doctor Who always did have more of a mainstream following in its home country.

Re: Anybody out there playing Doctor Who Hero? Now that I've seen the "new first series" DVDs, I can wholeheartedly agree. Everything that was ever iconic about Doctor Who is in the new version, everything that is new is suitably justified, and the writing, acting and production values are both consistent and consistently good. The show deserves its success.

Re: Pimp my Pulp Ride If Bruce Wayne had been car-shopping back in Detective Comics #1, I think he might have gone for something like the '38 Phantom Corsair.

Re: Character: Lance Dulak, Private Eye Maybe a tad ironic for the Pulp era...but the concept can't be beat.

Re: Movie-crossover fanwonking "A View to Kill a Mockingbird:" James Bond. Atticus Finch. It's a natural buddy film. "Cool Running Scared:" "What you thinkin', mon? We're lugin' on the El!" "The Princess Bride of Frankenstein" "The Caine Mutiny on the Bounty:" Not cross-genre, exactly, but can you really have too many tyrannical captains set adrift in one movie? "The Unbearable Lightness of Being John Malkovitch" "The '10' Commandments:" Directed by Cecil B. DeMille and John Derek. "Full Metal Jack***: The Movie" "Altered States of the Union" "The Blues Brothers Karamazov" "The Citizen Kane Mutiny:" Can you really have too many tyrannical captains set adrift on sleds in one movie? "War of the Spice Worlds" "Bridges of Madison County on the River Kwai"

Re: UFOs? The real trigger for the modern UFO phenomenon--Kenneth Arnold's sighting that led to the coinage of the term "flying saucer"--happened in 1947. Still, this would fit so well with pulp sci-fi and air adventuring that there's no reason not to go for it.

Somebody might be interested in this page; mostly pictures, but there is a little gem: plans for the Type 2 U-Boat. http://www.paper-dragon.com/1939/vehicles.html

Re: Futurama Hero I'd give Lois "Hunted by Stewie 11- (Less Powerful, Limited Geographical Area, Easy to Find, Kill): -10," but also "DNPC: Stewie 14- (Normal, Frequently): -20." Lois still feeds Stewie and changes his diapers, blissfully unaware of his matricidal intentions.... Meanwhile, Stewie gets "Psych Lim: Homicidal Hatred of Lois (Very Common, Moderate): -15." Needless to say, it's only comedic circumstance that thwarts Stewie's anti-Oedipal desires.

Re: Champions Worldwide... Everywhere BUT The British Isles? Hermit...are you trying to start a war or something?

Re: Anybody out there playing Doctor Who Hero?

Re: Futurama Hero It may be worth thinking about whether all the characters should be built on the same point base...Fry (and Amy) being good reasons why. Absurd levels of Luck would be one way to approach cartoon characters. Another would be to adapt the "Cinematic Safety" ability from Pulp Hero: Resistant PD and ED Damage Reduction bought with a -1/2 limitation "only applies to damage from cinematic risks." A lot of cartoon physics could be modeled with that or other powers bought so that they only apply to cartoonish situations (or song-and-dance numbers). Most characters in Futurama (except the Professor?) would be well served by such an approach.

Re: Futurama Hero Useful or at least politically incorrect... This actually sounds like a bit of fun. I might doodle around some with this for the practice. (And, no, Doctor Zoidberg does not get a Perk: License to Practice Medicine.)

Re: Futurama Hero It's gonna cost a few points for the extradimensional space Bender seems to have in his torso...

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) I absolutely draw the line at Blaxploitation Hero.

Re: The things I learned playing a ninja! Ninja do not change light bulbs.