death tribble

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
This is so true it hurts...

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Wrestling is not fake.
Wrestling is staged.
Political conventions are fake.
 
JG

Re: Superhero Images
 
Gemin Ankh
 
I don't think I need to offer more description than the pic. lol

Captain Coca-Cola
 
Here's an old favorite of mine.
 
As for technique, I edited a Freedom Force character skin, put it on a mesh, and took a screenshot of it in the Freedom Force character viewer utility, then cleaned that up in PhotoShop.

I'm attaching the character sheet, too.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q: What does Nostradomus say about the High schoolshootings?
 
A: A Feeble Weeble

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q. Why has Governor Schwartzenegger declared a state of emergency and called for the National Guard to storm Hollywood?
 
A. Ohh... err... umm... okay, now might not be the best time to tell you this, but, uhhh... I was just kidding.

Re: Superhero Images
 
Here we go -
 
Psilord, created and illustrated by Acroyear, coloured by Ian Sokoliwski
 
hope you all like it (especially Acroyear)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I spend 4 days just 4 days off the boards and come back to 16 pages of Random Musings on Random Musings, a few pages of Longest Thread and lots of art work from Acroyear.
Plus the tail end of WM vs Skaramine now settled thankfully and the great avatar controversy.
 
People relax. The Tribble, your Tribble is back.
 
Now for something completely uncontroversial. We nuke Madison Square gardens tomorrow ?
 
Questions ?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
I'm worried about Thrakazog. He looks a little green around the gills.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q. Why do gypsies walk funny ?
 
A. Worldmaker in the garden with the barbecue set

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Things I Learned Playing Champions...
 
 
Strength is your friend. Get some.
 
The best defense is resistant.
 
Adjustment powers suck.
 
When all else fails, throw a haymaker!
 
There is nothing worse than a properly GM'd Hunted... Except a properly GM'd DNPC.
 
Explosive powers in the hands of a tactical idiot is your worst nightmare.
 
Being rich is easy. Just spend five points. The same can be said for being a genius or being drop dead gorgeous.
 
If you're in a heroic level game, and no one has any armor, buy a shotgun. If you're in a Dark Champions game, buy a shotgun, but load it with solid shot. In fact, if you're in any game, buy a shotgun... Shotguns rule!
 
They need rules for shotguns in Fantasy Hero.
 
Attack multipowers rock! They're almost as cool as shotguns!
 
People who use the word "level" when they are talking about their champions Character should be taken out and beaten... Unless they are talking about which ones are going to OCV and which ones are going to DCV.
 
You can never have too many skills!
 
GURPS Supers is a joke... A bad joke.
 
Fuzion is the work of Satan.
 
Never ask the GM, "Do I have to roll for this?" because you should already know the answer. The answer is "yes".
 
You might as well take a DNPC when making your character, because he's going to end up with one anyway. Ditto for Hunteds.
 
The best Champions supplements always had Seeker on the cover. Except "Demons Rule"... But then, Seeker is unconscious on that cover...
 
Before you take a "Mystery Hunted", be sure you know what the GM is likely to do with it.
 
A cleverly worded Mental Illusion can leave your teammates with nothing to do... While a cleverly worded Berserk can leave your teammates too much to do.
 
Time travel is a lot easier to deal with in fiction than in a game. Ditto for precognition.
 
Some things are not easily translatable into game terms (frictionless surfaces, localized gravity increases, hitting someone in the face with a cream pie, and blowing up the planet being cases in point).
 
Simpler is better. If you really don't need to put four advantages and seven limitations on one power, then don't.
 
Often, the ideal course of action won't look like it.
 
The welfare of the player is much more important than the welfare of the character.
 
Never take a PC as a rival. They shortly become Hunteds.
 
Never give alien technology to the government. Never refuse to give alien technology to the government.
 
Never trust a smiling GM... Or a bunch of happy players, for that matter.
 
Area effect combined with random target side effect is just funny enough to justify the reduced damage to the character, mainly because if the character with area effect and random target side effect misses his roll badly enough, the other player characters will usually decide to make up for the missing damage.
 
A large area effect with a poor targeting roll is almost as much fun as a side effect.
 
Quoting "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is funny at the beginning of the game, but less so three hours into it.
 
This one is so important its going to be written in all caps: ALWAYS PULL YOUR PUNCH WHEN ATTACKING A NORMAL! Even a 5d6 attack can kill.
 
You're not really a superhero if you can't move considerably faster than agents.
 
Unluck is never worth it.
 
A GM rolling his dice gets a player's attention faster than screaming in his ear.
 
Never ask a GM why your Hunted hasn't shown up lately.
 
Play up your disadvantages yourself, rather than waiting for the GM to bring them up. They are usually based on frequency of occurrence, and this keeps him from being able to do something really nasty with them.
 
This is so important it gets to be in all caps: NEVER, EVER TAKE A SUSCEPTIBILITY TO WATER!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
That reminds me of the bad one my hunters education instructor told...
 
Joe and Bob are out in the woods hunting. Due to a stupid/tragic/name your choice accident, Joe Shoots Bob. Joe does what he can, then takes Bob to the Hospital. He asks the Doctore "Is he going to make it?"
The Doctor replies
"He would have been ok if you hadn't skinned and gutted him."
 

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q. Who is the partner of John Apple Steed ?
 
A. I think that Zepplin is following you

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
Here is a picture of me and my cat.
 

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 
Here are two more commissions.
 
First up is Fantastic Man from CTodd.
 
2nd is Spectral Ferp from DBoddie.
 
One note: I got a commission by check from a W. Reger. The commission was for a Bronze Dragon named Armaud. I got the pencils done, will do the color tomorrow.... but I don't have an e-mail to send the final product. W! Drop me an e-mail please.

Re: Superhero Images
 
Let's see, here is one of a character called 'Dreamweaver'.
 
Just so you folks know, all the pictures of mine were drawn by me (usually on 2-ply Bristol or 110-lb sketch paper with 2H and HB pencils), then either inked by me by hand or in Photoshop, then painted up in Photoshop.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
My eyes ! My Eyes !
 
I want my eyes back !
 
Zornwil !
 
This is your fault !
 
Talk about not following a Mightybec link.
 
Manflesh bad.
(Does the Tribble shiver)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
Posted out of a bit of spite when they started asking whether a black fictional character would be considered a "Bush Republican" over on MackBolan.com.
 
And since I'm writing about the character of Calvin James (one of my favorite members of the team) as this conversation came up, and being a fellow Chicagoan, I felt the need to speak for him.
 
MESSAGE: (#844) Since You Spoke My Name In Vain

AUTHOR: Calvin James
DATE: Friday, 6 August 2004, at 4:05 p.m.
 
Reply To: (#812) Re: Would Hawk make a great SM member?
Author: Awww...who ....
Date: Wednesday, 4 August 2004, at 7:48 a.m.
 
That's the wonderful thing about not officially being part of the government.
I'm exempt from the laws that state that no standing member of the armed
forces can speak out against the President of the United States, nor his
administration.
 
Which is good.
 
George W. Bush stole enough black men's rights to speak their opinion in the
first place when his goon squads in Florida bullied African American males
away from polling places under threat of arrest. Usually, my pals Striker, and
the rest of my boys down on the Farm are in a position to fight against
governmental coups, destroying the conspirators with extreme prejudice.
 
We just never saw it coming that our nation would be overthrown under the
guise of an honest election where the candidate with the majority of the
popular vote lost, and the US Military's absentee votes were discarded like
used toilet paper.
 
Would Hawk, a colloquial "black bad ass" ever come to work for Stony Man? I'd
sure hope so. Too many white boys hanging around for my tastes. Nah, just
joking. British, Polish, Irish, Jewish, Hispanic, Canadian, Japanese... we're
a melting pot, though I'd give my right arm to have my mentor back, and having
Karl and Keio back wouldn't break my heart.
 
But there's no way that we're going to find a new member of the team who
believes in the crusade that the Sensitive Operations Group is on. We weren't
chosen because we're ex-SEALs, ex-SAS, ex-Negroes, whatever. We're chosen
because we believe that by working just outside the law, we can do our best to
stop the men who consider the legal process a sham and a joke. We were here
long before the leadership of our nation was hijacked, and the
Constitutionally given right of every man, regardless of color, religion, or
nationality was strangled by an insidious foe who has done more to recruit
teeming masses of pissed-off sociopaths to the ranks of Al-Quaeda and a
hundred other terrorist organizations.
 
If I sound enraged, it's because I am. I've seen the work of decades in
opposition to terrorism washed away in a single, hair-brained, half-assed
invasion which did nothing to contain the stockpiles of chemical weapons in
Iraq.
 
Under the previous administrations, the United States Navy and Air Force had
Iraq sewn up tighter than a drum, turning their air force into a group of
multi-ton paperweights, or modern art smashed into the desert sand. But when
this administration beat its chest and assembled its forces on the border,
suddenly the roads were cleared for trucks to escape from Iraq, possibly
containing all manner of weapons of mass destruction. Was anything stopped?
No.
 
And who has to go hunting for all that shit, based on rumors and half digested
kernals of incompetently gathered information amassed by the world's largest
bureaucracy? Well, that's classified information, and if I said anything more,
I'd have to kill you all. And trust me, this brother is NOT about silencing
anyone's freedom of information. I spilled too much damn blood for that ideal,
those seven letter that are more than just an F-word, but a concept that I've
lost too many damn friends for, especially a man who was like a father to me.
 
So, if you're asking if there's any negroes who are George W. Bush Republican
drones, slaves to a man who would not consider our vote worthwhile enough to
count, even under the consideration that the United States Military generally
votes conservative?
 
Here's a hint. Come November, I'm voting for a real warrior who served in the
United States Navy and spilled his blood in the same brown waters that I did.
 
Make of that what you will.
 
Phoenix Five, over and out!

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
When Antediluvians Attack (LONG!)
 
TREMERE: "Awright, Haqim! I have HAD it with you! You're gonna die!"
 
HAQIM: "Says you. Phbbbt!"
 
TREMERE: "Oh, yeah? Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames! I blow up Asia!"
 
HAQIM: "Celerity 10. I dodge. I'm now standing in the middle of the ocean."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Neptune's Might. I boil the oceans."
 
HAQIM: "Obfuscate 10. What ocean?"
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Movement of the Mind. I hit the remaining ocean with the moon."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag in! Obtenebration 9. What moon?"
 
TREMERE: "Auspex 10. *That* moon."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag out!"
 
HAQIM: "Oh crap. Umm... Quietus 10."
 
TREMERE: "Here comes the big ball of rock, baby!"
 
[HAQIM is squished]
 
BRUJAH: "Didn't Haqim just activate Quietus 10?"
 
NOSFERATU: "And it was a surprisingly quiet squishing. Stupid discipline."
 
TREMERE: "Lasombra..."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag, um, Tzimisce!"
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. Try that moon trick now, spellboy."
 
TREMERE: "Tag Ventrue!"
 
VENTRUE: "Dominate 10. Who's your daddy?"
 
TZIMISCE: "You're my daddy."
 
LASOMBRA: "Tag in! Potence 10. Feel the pain!"
 
VENTRUE: "Fortitude 10! What pain?"
 
LASOMBRA: "Obtenebration 10! I hope you like small, dark places."
 
VENTRUE: "####."
 
[VENTRUE vanishes]
 
LASOMBRA: "I have ALWAYS wanted to do that."
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. Lasombra, you're now a small ball of cheese."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "WHY?"
 
TZIMISCE: "Ventrue still calls the shots. Read Dominate 10."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "Damn, he's right."
 
TZIMISCE: "Animalism 10. Horde of cheese-eating mice."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: "Obtenebration 10. I am a shadow of a small ball of
cheese."
 
TZIMISCE: "Tag Tremere!"
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. Shadow of fondue, you mean."
 
SMALL BALL OF CHEESE: *fwoosh*
 
NOSFERATU: "Animalism 10. They're MY horde of mice."
 
TZIMISCE: "Animalism 10. Mine."
 
NOSFERATU: "Mine!"
 
TZIMISCE: "Gimme!"
 
BRUJAH: "Celerity 10 AND Potence 10. I crush Tzimisce and Nosferatu while they're still arguing about the mice."
 
NOSFERATU: "Urk." [dies]
 
TZIMISCE: "Urk." [reforms] "Love that Vicissitude 10."
 
BRUJAH: "Oh, dearie."
 
TZIMISCE: "Now the mice are MINE!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 appears from nowhere]
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "All of you shall die for consorting with our enemies! Or, in some cases, actually being our enemies."
 
ENNOIA: "Who the heck are *you*?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Oh, sorry. I'm early."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 vanishes]
 
TZIMISCE: "Not even the first Masked Avenger, whoever he was, can stop me!"
 
ARIKEL: "Auspex 10. What *can* stop someone with Vicissitude 10? Oh, diablerie."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy something or other. I weaken Arikel a generation."
 
ARIKEL: "You just made that up!"
 
TREMERE: "Trust me, you'll like it."
 
BRUJAH: "Potence 10. I expend a barrage of fisticuffs upon Tzimisce."
 
TZIMISCE: "Vicissitude 10. I can ignore them."
 
ENNOIA: "Animalism 10. My mice."
 
TZIMISCE: "Mine!"
 
TREMERE: "Quick, Arikel! Diablerize Tzimisce while he's distracted!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Necromancy 10, Bone Path! The dead have risen- and they're voting Republican!"
 
TREMERE: "Don't you guys *ever* stop worrying about temporal power?"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Umm. No."
 
MALKAV: "Dementation 10! Everyone goes absolutely crazy!"
 
[there is a pause]
 
[the pause lengthens]
 
BRUJAH: "You feel any different, Ennoia?"
 
ENNOIA: "Nope. You?"
 
BRUJAH: "Nope. Tremere?"
 
TREMERE: "Nope."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Me neither."
 
BRUJAH: "Nobody asked you."
 
MALKAV: "Well, THAT was a non-starter."
 
TZIMISCE: "Well, I *gurgle*..."
 
ARIKEL (dropping diablerized corpse of Tzimisce): "*I* sure feel different!"
 
ENNOIA: "Well, that settles it. My mice."
 
ARIKEL: "I now have Animalism 10. Mine!"
 
MALKAV: "CATFIGHT!"
 
BRUJAH: "Mousefight, actually."
 
AUGUSTUS: "How droll."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Hands of Destruction. I kill the freakin' mice, already."
 
ARIKEL: "Waaahhh!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Zombie mice!"
 
ENNOIA: "Bastards."
 
[MASKED AVENGERS #1, #2, and #3 appear]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Prepare to meet final death at the hands of the Masked Avengers!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Especially you, Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "No, especially *you*, Augustus!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Augustus!"
 
ENNOIA: "Who *are* you guys, anyway?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "It's a secret. That's why we're wearing masks."
 
BRUJAH: "Speaking of which, why does your mask have three eyeholes?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "To be distinctive."
 
BRUJAH: "Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of wearing a mask?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "You always were a smartass."
 
BRUJAH: "Potence 10. I punch the first Masked Avenger."
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Ow." [dies]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "We other Masked Avengers are not so easily thwarted! We shall have our revenge! Especially on you, Augustus!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Tremere!"
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Augustus!"
 
AUGUSTUS: "Can we get rid of these guys?"
 
TREMERE: "Sure you take care of the guy with the three eyeholes in his mask, and I'll take the guy who says he's my archenemy."
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "I, with the three eyes, am your archenemy, Tremere."
 
TREMERE: "Whatever."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Potence 10. I crush the guy with the three eyes."
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Fortitude 10. I soak."
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. I obliterate Masked Avenger #2."
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "Fortitude 10. I soak."
 
BRUJAH: "Like the guest that won't leave, aren't they?"
 
AUGUSTUS: "I can handle this. Necromancy 10, Ash Path. I summon the spirits of those who have died tragically."
 
SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY: "We are here."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Explain your tragedies to the Masked Avengers."
 
[The SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY do so]
 
MASKED AVENGER #3: "Oh, the Angst! I cannot *bear* it!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #3 commits suicide]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "How fascinating. I wish to learn more."
 
AUGUSTUS: "Spirits of those who have died tragically, return to the Shadowlands."
 
[The SPIRITS OF THOSE WHO HAVE DIED TRAGICALLY do so]
 
MASKED AVENGER #2: "I must follow them to learn more."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #2 commits suicide]
 
ARIKEL: "Well, *that* took forever. But now it's done. Now what?"
 
TREMERE: "Auspex 10 and Thaumaturgy 10, Lure of Flames. I incinerate Set in that corner he's been hiding."
 
[sET turns to ashes]
 
AUGUSTUS: "Letting everyone else do the fighting and taking out the winners? I am shocked, SHOCKED."
 
BRUJAH: "Shocked that you didn't think of it first."
 
AUGUSTUS: "And I *deeply* deplore that."
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 appears]
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Prepare to meet final death at the hands of the Masked Avenger!"
 
BRUJAH: "You ever have the feeling of deja vu?"
 
MASKED AVENGER #1: "Constantly."
 
ENNOIA: "Enough of this. Protean 10. Welcome to the sun, boys!"
 
TREMERE: "Hah! Thaumaturgy 10, Invulnerable Weakness!"
 
[MASKED AVENGER #1 goes *fwoosh*]
 
[bRUJAH goes *fwoosh*]
 
[MALKAV goes *fwoosh*]
 
[ARIKEL goes *fwoosh*]
 
AUGUSTUS: "Hah! You've played perfectly into my master plan! No, wait."
 
[AUGUSTUS goes *fwoosh*]
 
TREMERE: "Thaumaturgy 10, Neptune's Might. I extinguish Ennoia."
 
[ENNOIA goes *fwoosh*]
 
TREMERE: "Woo hoo, I won!"
 
RAVNOS: "Forgot me."
 
TREMERE: "You? Where the heck have you been?"
 
RAVNOS: "Keeping a low profile."
 
TREMERE: "And you didn't burn up in the sun?"
 
RAVNOS: "Fortitude 10, baby. And I'll thank you not to kill off my mice."
 
TREMERE: "PREPARE TO DIE!"
 
RAVNOS: "Not so fast! Chimeristry 10!"
 
TREMERE: "Chimeristry 10? You mean..."
 
RAVNOS: "Yup. ''Reality.'' I'll turn us all into a roleplaying game."
 
TREMERE: "You wouldn't!"
 
RAVNOS: "I just did."
 
TREMERE: "NOOOOOOOO!!!"
 
[RAVNOS, TREMERE, and the corpses of the other antediluvians are replaced by a series of hardback and paperback game supplements]
 
THE END

I would just like to say that I like Magmarock's work. Particularly the 4 armed Afterburner.

Re: Answers & Questions
 

 
Q. Who were the principals in Enforcer84's first wet dream after seeing The Mask ?
 
A. Please Hammer, don't hurt them

Re: A Thread for Random Musings
 
(the caps are from the site I got this from) - Tonight i' listening to music more than I have been for a time. I'm really into Pretenders' "Talk of the Town", Maggie Estep "Hey Baby", Damned "I Feel Alright", Police "Message in a Bottle", and Missy E "Get Ur Freak On" - been thinking of these earlier tonight, glad to play them all.
 
SUCH A DRAG TO WANT SOMETHING SOMETIME
ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER I KNOW
WAS A TIME WANTED YOU FOR MINE
NOBODY KNEW
YOU ARRIVED LIKE A DAY
AND PASSED LIKE A CLOUD
I MADE A WISH, I SAID IT OUT LOUD
OUT LOUD IN A CROWD
EVERYBODY HEARD
'TWAS THE TALK OF THE TOWN
 
 
IT'S NOT MY PLACE TO KNOW WHAT YOU FEEL
I'D LIKE TO KNOW BUT WHY SHOULD I?
WHO WERE YOU THEN, WHO ARE YOU NOW?
COMMON LABOURER BY NIGHT, BY DAY HIGHBROW
BACK IN MY ROOM I WONDER, THEN I
SIT ON THE BED, LOOK AT THE SKY
UP IN THE SKY
CLOUDS REARRANGE
LIKE THE TALK OF THE TOWN
 
 
MAYBE TOMORROW, MAYBE SOMEDAY
MAYBE TOMORROW, MAYBE SOMEDAY
YOU'VE CHANGED YOUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD
YOU'VE CHANGED YOUR PLACE IN THIS WORLD
 
 
OH BUT IT'S HARD TO LIVE BY THE RULES
I NEVER COULD AND STILL NEVER DO
THE RULES AND SUCH NEVER BOTHERED YOU
YOU CALL THE SHOTS AND THEY FOLLOW
I WATCH YOU STILL FROM A DISTANCE THEN GO
BACK TO MY ROOM, YOU NEVER KNOW
I WANT YOU, I WANT YOU BUT NOW
WHO'S THE TALK OF THE TOWN?

Re: Answers & Questions
 

Q) Look I gave her syphylis didn't I?
 
A) Pablo Paprazzi

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER
 
A pic for everyone to enjoy. Even Mightybec!