Scott Ruggels

Well then you would have to define Bending. From my observation Bending requires complex (two handed plus posing) gestures, and an ego roll to pull off. Not reply requiring a skill roll or magic roll, as in the instances of instruction, it’s first explained and then a lot of critique of the stances and gestures. There might be PSLs to make it easier over time, and allow attempts at more difficult tasks with experience. A single or multiple limb paralysis-entangle would prevent Bending ( and allow poor Katara To rage impotently as Ty Lee skips past her to try and put the hurt on Aang.

Nice! Didn’t you pitch this campaign idea here maybe a couple years back or so?

Yes. Talk to Brennall about it and your specific issue.

You’ve been watching it too, on Netflix, eh? Such a satisfying series. In some cases it t looked like Ty Lee could remove any sort of movement from her target as they would fall to the deck and complain about it. (Sokka) However, usually she would remove the bending capabilities of the other characters. So I think there is a rarely used, but powerful speed drain. The recovery seemed to be around 10 minutes or a half hour for any of it. Probably closer to 10 minutes.

This is why I am moving to online, and TTS solutions. I have been with a fairly stable online group for the last four years. If and When I GM I will introduce them to HERO.

I’d agree.

awww. I kind of liked the electronic tone emanating from the trees around Grandma & Grandpa, when I was little.

Hey hey.

Excellent. That sounds like a truly satisfying campaign arc.

There was I think a comic character that had extendable limbs in an Armored suit, So they had super leap, stretching, plus some of the usual sensory powers.

https://spectator.us/andy-ngo-antifa-american-insurgency/

This is how a lot of my early Champions Characters were. Loved Powered armored suits.

Congratulations? That's pretty rare for me as well.

...and then he sicc'd Felix 9 (from the Hero system Book "Allies") on them. Ask me for more details. (I do have a 6e write up of him.)

Killer shrikes approach was about the same as mine back when I was running 4e FH. I knew my world fairly deeply and would hand out package deals (not Templates), and the players could pick and choose. I also handed out thick print outs of the world background for the players to read. I definitely do not have that sort of time any more, but I do have some examples of the old Package deals. Most of them were built to be "nested", so you would buy a base package and the next one represented a higher level of the same organization. Mix and match and it was all legal. (at the time).

Ohhh I think I understand... It used to be cross overs and events, were... "events". However, Rising cover prices, and declines in writing, (especially in Marvel since 2014) has forced them to put out "events" to artificially pump up sales of lesser selling titles in their line. This kind of forced the conductibility of the titles, in the hopes of generating more sales. The actual business of comic books is supposed to be showing a profit for their corporate masters. With declining numerical sales over time, the comic book companies relied on increasing the cover price, and gimmicks to goose sales. Marvel was/ is particularly bad about this. with an "event" every year. Then came the poor editorial decisions, and at this point, I could care less if Marvel Comics goes away at this point. So like you I am not really a fan any more.

There probably was/ is a difference between the UK and US fandoms. in the U.S. before the internet there was a very active Fanzine scene, and most of those devoted to superheroes were much like later newsgroups and forums that consisted of plot speculation and linking events from various titles. This also often spilled into the letter columns of the various comic books. GRRM was a frequent letter writer to Marvel in his youth. The zine's often would specialize on a certain title like The Legion of Superheroes. I was active in Gaming zines in the early 80's, but many of those zines went back to the 1960's with many of the original members. There was a lot of continuity tabulation and plot theories about it. This is how people spent their time in the month between issues of their favorite comics.

Superman for All Seasons was a graphic novel that made me re-asses Superman as a character. The DCAU Superman shows, which came later, gave Superman a limited set of powers, supreme strength, but he showed restraint and intelligence. Most of those were very well written, and show an understanding of the character. The “World of Cardboard “ speech shows the level of writing that elevated the character:

“Chews his popcorn, and wipes his fingers on his Duke T-Shirt”.

there are two audiences for comic-: The fans and the general public. The fans adore the world building and the tight continuity. It’s adds greatly to their enjoyment of the property. The general audiences enjoy a good story, and the comic editor want to turn the general audience into fans. Discussions of the continuity are often what builds the fan community. As a working creatives, right limitations often help to produce better stories. In general, a superhero story is a hard magic system so it needs consistency and continuity, or the story is bad, like a lot of 1950’s Superman stories. There are good writers and bad writers, and the comics never paid well so you either got bad writers, good writers who were fans, and good but lazy writers hoping to get a job in Hollywood. So I do not think tight continuity is responsible for the decline of writing quality, but often a property is just at the end of its life cycle, and it either ceases publication, or it is rebooted.

L. Douglas Garret used the fictional Costa Diego as his 1980’s Merc combat setting And the Communist insurgency was the FRLN which I think stood for something But I forget.

Wow. That’s a take I haven’t heard often. Nor do I agree with it. I find a Lone Superhero fairly implausible and not that interesting.

Oh man, yes that was good, and Aang found his Buddhist solution to his end game dilemma, and I was supremely satisfied. Uncle Iroh is a treasure. Currently it’s one of the top shows on Netflix. Korra will be next. The creators are currently doing The Dragon Prince also on Netflix and there are a lot of tone similarities.

Agreed. There were a lot of short crossover episodes in that 1966-68 time frame.

I do not read or trust CBR. I occasionally poke Bounding InTo Comics, but frankly I have no interest in mainstream comics any more, as I am looking mostly at Manga and Indiegogo titles these days. I could care less if the big two went away now. I used to work in comics in the early 90’s. I had fun, and comic-con was fun. Apparently not any more. These days the media is too soft because they want to maintain Access, rather than ask difficult questions. So no, I do not read CBR.