Scott Ruggels

Mark is in the process of moving out of California. I will not say where he is going, but I know. Check on him after the new Year, is all I can say.

Don't like it. Too much accounting.

Twitter is the worst thing to happen to the comic book industry, ever. Writers and editors are writing for their peers on Twitter, many of who are their editors, They are not writing for the customers, and do not waste an opportunity to denigrate them. They want the accolades of their peers, and to avoid "Cancellation" but the ever more powerful "whisper Network", that can end a persons career for saying the wrong thing, or remaining silent. I used to work in the comics industry. Friends who are still peripherally involved are getting out, because it's become partican and political, and they jut wanted to draw funny books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiD8nGD0Q6w

Oh. Definitely. But I think part was intentional. A “deconstruction “ of heroes is trendy and the current management culture sees heroic ideals as corny, or worse, therefore they have to have major flaws, and expedient morals, because perfect ideals are “unrealistic “ or not relevant to today. IMO comic books imploded due to very poor business decisions, that lead to narrow margins and unattractive product. COVID just rapidly accelerated the process. Tent pole films may go the same way. Heroic excellence now is seen as an unfair and exclusive standard.

I’d have to agree. With the expected demise of the pamphlet floppy by June of 2021, the superhero genre is breathing its last. As for the crowd funded comics, I don’t disagree either. But U buy mostly for the art, and I like some grim dark, probably more than you, but other than certain artists, I don’t buy a lot.

One more day ruined Spider-Man for a lot of my friends. They stopped buying Marvel, and now, like me buy only. Crowd funded comics.

I Nominate Ann Nocenti for her run on Daredevil. Following Frank Miller was a tough act to follow, but she picked up the pieces of Matt Murdock's life, and pushed things forward. Very good writer. Would also like to nominate Ethan Van Scyver for his run on Green Lantern, and batman in the early 2000's.

Iwo Takamoto's character designs are always easy to spot. Hanna Barbera from 1967 to 1985, he designed most of the HB Characters. Before then it was my man, Alex Toth, but they did work together. Toth did a lot of work later on the Super Friends.

One of the unex downsides to Roll20.net, was how slow it is on weekends. In the ( continuing) age of COVID, the traffic on the site causes lag and network issues. Because of the problem of players in our game spanning from California to Kuwait, the network issues in Roll20 have forced our GM to migrate our Mongoose 2 Nd Ed. Traveller game to Fantasy Grounds. Compared to Roll20, the good parts, is the maps are crisp and clear at small sizes, and there are no network issues. The downsides are the interface is antiquated and a bit hack-y, the character sheet isn’t as well done as the Roll20 one, or as flexible, it Always sorts lists alphabetically, and there is no useful way to share documents in app that allow others to edit, and all functions are GM permissions only. It has no line of sight or fog of war settings, and players have no access to their character sheets if the y the GM is off line. Some of this is learning curve on my part, so we shall see. Unfortunately, Bewnnall hit burn out, and gas paused development on the TTS Hero Mod at this time, so no Hero to play yet.

How popular? Anything Aaron Allston wrote fornHeronneeds to stay in print. As for Top Secret, we all had copies, but only played it once.

Okay, I couldn't resist playing around some more. Here's Starfire, from the New Teen Titans as they looked like in the 80's, roughly. Enjoy! https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D11999056/

Disney is practically out of money. The whole Fox aquisition was ego driven , and they spent far too much money. Then the parks, cruises and Hotels closed due to COVID.

The Inkunzi PAW, (formerly the Neopup. When you really need to take out a superhero, really soon.

And now you have gone past where our party ended their adventure. I await more, eagerly.

So my friends have been showing me the Hero Forge site, and I confess it was a lot of fun to poke around. There are ways to make super heroes, if need be. it's a bit clunky , but the 2.0 interface makes if fairly customizable. In the advanced menu you can even get into more detailed poses. An example with maybe 15 -20 minutes of work https://www.heroforge.com/load_config%3D11887608/ https://gyazo.com/6dcb54a4990652c47cbec3689000228c

Gambling

Done two weeks ago. Dropped it in the ballot box at the county registrar drive thru. I much prefer voting in person, though, but this year I’d different. Miss that donut and a cup of coffee. So I went elsewhere today to get my donut in commemoration.

Well Hero uses either 1meter or 6 foot hexes depending on edition, do different scale hexes would be useful in a Hero context.

Critique wise, you made no mistakes. Good color choices, and very gameable. How many pixels across is it? As for their use, I find maps and minis necessary for any game that has a large tactical element.

Sander

I watched both videos. The build other than triggering my eye twitch at the gratuitous steam punk aesthetic, the build was fascinating. The use however was...lacking. The heating speed made it a less than poor defensive weapon, and the infrastructure either limited it to five minutes, or feathered it to a oxy-acetylene line and it’s pair of five foot tanks. Facing a wildly waving 1 meter or less torch would be terrifying, but it would allow a defender to run away. Os shoot the torch Wielder. If you are going to fight in a confined space,?you would do better with a sharpened old school E-Tool.

Those look really nice. We made our own originally(<— Artist here) But agents and NPCs we used the cardboard Heroes.

Article on the suit; https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-dragonlance-margaret-weis-lawsuit/?fbclid=IwAR3nyrkObJDMCQWHzffQusVMTEHKmt5K7CdSgrcTi4E4nmrI1iIxRE-nId8

Well now.., https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7245020-Weis.html?fbclid=IwAR2rejSRT02Vy9hjy_YqTQQZszDnUQqEgKYpswTo2z_jsjThLisEzeB4lj8 it seems that Margaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman are suing Wizards of The Coast for Breach if Contract, and Tortious interference I guess Dragonlance will Not be one of the realms WoTC will be revisiting.