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It's on regular newsfeeds now, but they're saying "clinging to life" after a heart attack. So best wishes to Mr Petty and hope he pulls through.

Playing our Space:1889 game last night.
 
We're in an underground complex filled with jungle and find a bollard-like thing with a grille on it. Unable to work out what it is we move on.
 
Then we find another one, identical to the last.
 
Me: We've got grilles - they're multiplying.
GM (catching on): And you're losing control

Playing our Space:1889 game last night.
 
We're in an underground complex filled with jungle and find a bollard-like thing with a grille on it. Unable to work out what it is we move on.
 
Then we find another one, identical to the last.
 
Me: We've got grilles - they're multiplying.
GM (catching on): And you're losing control

And let's not forget the time in the comics that Kingpin DID destroy Matt Murdock. One of Miller's best bits of writing.

And let's not forget the time in the comics that Kingpin DID destroy Matt Murdock. One of Miller's best bits of writing.

It's worth pointing out that costumes designed during the 4-colour process era had much more limited options than these days, and that improvements in colour processes and paper quality has meant that many of the older designs just look odd. The look of the Ultimate universe had as much to do with that as with other factors IMHO.
 
Scott McCloud touched on the issue in Understanding Comics in 1993 (pp188-192 or so); since then what applied mainly to premium titles has become general. No one prints actual 4-colour process comics on newsprint anymore unless they're deliberately being retro.

Understood. Presumably the increased quality in paper publishing is mirrored by the increased quality of your basic film image today. But I don't feel that means we must give up bright colors and make everything look MILSPEC-approved just because we can capture more detail through a modern film lens.
 

 
Cap's costume in Winter Soldier is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. It is needlessly dark and completely mundane in its design. Take away the silver star and stripes and he looks like any number of paramilitary mooks you've seen in espionage thrillers since the first Bourne movie came out. There's nothing about it that reads "superhero". Of course, I think that's the point for Marvel; they want their movies to decode as slightly unconventional action movies, not as full-on superhero movies. While perfectly valid, it is nonetheless quite disappointing (for me).

Damnation Ally McBeal

Appleseed would be pretty easily done using HERO, GURPS, Mekton Zeta, Cyberpunk 2020 or Heavy Gear. The main requirement would be to have suit/vehicle/powers building rules and an interesting tactical combat system.
 
That got me thinking that a Dominion Tank Police RPG might be fun. Looked it up and turns out someone did it in 1999, but I'd not heard of the company or the system they use. In any case, ditto for the above, although I'd likely prefer HERO for Dominion as the tone is much lighter and people tend to survive the fights, so HERO's tunable lethality would be handy.

I think the DCEU failed when the thread about it became about James Bond instead.
 
Just sayin'.

Rap Battle for The Planet of the Apes
Cornelius vs Caesar
 

Futurama The RPG
 
Welcome To The World Of Tomorrow!  I envision a template system like the original Star Wars RPG, with a large assortment of possible characters, such as Starship Captain. Starship Crew, Old Scientist, Young Scientist, Grad Student, Janitor, Bureaucrat, Space Soldier--and of course, Delivery Boy.  The catch is that instead of the players choosing a template, they roll on a table for one.  (Skills and talents can be customized according to the players' whims, however.)  For many of the characters, adventuring in space would be their weekend gig, as they try to seek a life beyond "Ya Gotta Do What Ya Gotta Do." 
 
Then there's all the other good stuff--spaceships, ray guns, rocket packs, hovercars, alien worlds, alien life forms, adventuring in four, five, and even two dimensions. (And Zoidberg.  Can't forget Zoidberg.)  And of course, the robots.  You could have a supplement for the game devoted to robots alone, as player characters, helpers, and adversaries.
 
Sounds like fun to me.

Barsoom for me, although generic Burroughsian planetary romance would be fine as long as there wuz fencing involved (in Pellucidar - not so much)
 
By extension a system that actually makes sword fighting feel like it works in swashbuckling fiction. I've yet to see it done to my satisfaction, though I was toying with a heavily modified version of the Pendragon rules. It would definitely be some kind of opposed contest with a high chance of a draw-per-round between skilled fencers and a back and forth of advantage, instead of I-attack-you-attack. HERO definitely doesn't work so well as Chaosium or GURPS in that regard. In some ways it could work a bit like a Tennis tie-breaker - maybe each fencer needs a certain number of advantage points based on the other guy's skill, so a Master can dispatch a novice with a simple win, while the novice might need to get to Advantage level 4. Have to think on that. 
 
The obscure gem Lace & Steel came fairly close but needed a card game to do it with which made things tricky for the GM who needed to bend the rules unseen to make things happen. Hidden dice rolls allow this easily (you just lie), but when you actually have to lay cards down it's a lot harder, and if the player has a truly hopeless hand and the GM's is all strong attack cards, you may not be able to do much more than kill 'em. (Nonetheless, I'll always recommend Lace & Steel - a pretty unique background, quite well fleshed out and chock full of Donna Barr artwork. Non-human species based mostly on Classical myth instead of Tolkien, too, which is always refreshing. Including her beloved half-horses.)

Only if they ban Green Apple Quicksteps.  Jesus god I hated that card.
 
 
My RPG would be an interdimensional mythic fantasy that drew from all myths--Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse, Celtic, Gothic, Russian, Indian, Native American, Central American, Polynesian, Chinese, Japanese, African, etc., and merged them into an Elric- or Planescape-like multiverse. 
 
Or Shadowrun too, everyone likes Shadowrun (despite the mechanics).

Barsoom for me, although generic Burroughsian planetary romance would be fine as long as there wuz fencing involved (in Pellucidar - not so much)
 
By extension a system that actually makes sword fighting feel like it works in swashbuckling fiction. I've yet to see it done to my satisfaction, though I was toying with a heavily modified version of the Pendragon rules. It would definitely be some kind of opposed contest with a high chance of a draw-per-round between skilled fencers and a back and forth of advantage, instead of I-attack-you-attack. HERO definitely doesn't work so well as Chaosium or GURPS in that regard. In some ways it could work a bit like a Tennis tie-breaker - maybe each fencer needs a certain number of advantage points based on the other guy's skill, so a Master can dispatch a novice with a simple win, while the novice might need to get to Advantage level 4. Have to think on that. 
 
The obscure gem Lace & Steel came fairly close but needed a card game to do it with which made things tricky for the GM who needed to bend the rules unseen to make things happen. Hidden dice rolls allow this easily (you just lie), but when you actually have to lay cards down it's a lot harder, and if the player has a truly hopeless hand and the GM's is all strong attack cards, you may not be able to do much more than kill 'em. (Nonetheless, I'll always recommend Lace & Steel - a pretty unique background, quite well fleshed out and chock full of Donna Barr artwork. Non-human species based mostly on Classical myth instead of Tolkien, too, which is always refreshing. Including her beloved half-horses.)

A game that accurately, simply, and entertainingly simulates sports and martial arts well.

Needs an acronym
 
General Utility Nexus - National Emergency Response

Needs an acronym
 
General Utility Nexus - National Emergency Response

The reason why Ripley was looking at the rooftop pool was that someone was
 
Coming out of a cage
that was made of some twine
why didn't he drown 
because he wasn't tall ?
It looked like he was a fish
How could he be so remiss !
It was only The Fish, it was only The Fish
 
Now he's starting to creep
imitating a crab
while shielded by smoke
carrying off his swag
He's off to rob the roof's lead
and his balance is slick
He starts to feel dread
as he sees other guests
His plan's in a mess
losing his flow
 
He just can't look, it's as bad as tea
smells just like petrol
Larceny, hurling loot into the sea
Swimming through masses of dead fireflies
Working up new alibis
But it's just the price he pays
Destiny calls out to he
Propose a new disguise
as Norman Whiteside
 
The Fish aka Norman Whiteside managed to infiltrate the party via the pool (Don't ask). He wanted to make a splash in the newspapers and figured this would be the way to do it. He had not counted on the others turning up. But why not team up ?
Which is when another figure suddenly appeared and announced themselves as......

Oops late pig entry thought I'd submitted last night.
 
Teacup
 
A few years ago during the Teacup pig Fad Teresa Cupertino most ardent desired was for one. She bought one from a breeder only there was two problems there is no such thing as a teacup pig and the so called breeder was nothing of the kind he was a Animal liberationist desperate to get money so he could flee the country.
 
A month later Teresa had a very rapidly growing full size sow. Not just a sow but an angry one that bit her. After the bite things got strange it turns out buttercup the pig was an experimental subject in a program called High Intensity Growth Hormones optimizing Nutrition Texture Health & ethically husbanding organisms genetics
 
H. I. G. H. O. N. T. H. E. H. O. G. used growth hormones genetic engineering and in vitro nutritional supplements to produce the perfect pig for factory farming. Unfortunately for Teresa exposure to Buttercups tainted body fluids gave her a dose of the experimental serums used and Teresa found her self changed.
 
Teresas powers manifested as the ability to change size while she isn't able to shift a huge amount only about 50% shrinking down to under 3 feet tall or turning onto a almost 9 ft hulking brute. At 3 feet Teresa is faster and more agile but not very strong tthe little pig is her goto form for escaping a bad situation she will shrink down don a disguise and go we we we all the way home.
 
Her larger firm is a hulking ogre like being intimidating and destructive she is hard to hurt and can smash through barriers made of anything straw, sticks or brick.
 
Teacup does triple duty in her smaller form she acts as a scout using her size shift she can easily shift her appearance or get into small spaces.
 
Normal size she occasionally acts as honey trap.
 
And big piggy is the team brick.

Hi! Been a Champions nut for a very long time (1985, 3rd ed) but been quite inactive over the last decade and a half. Ran a lot of 3rd and 4th ed but skipped over Fuzion (ugh) and 5th ed. Champions Complete has recently fallen into my lap and the old juices are starting to flow again.

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?
  I picked up a nickname as "The Missing Link" at my first proper job. Link is "Rinku" in Japanese which I was always a fan of. Nothing to do with Zelda - but because of Link from Zelda I got into the habit of sticking the "m" for missing in front to make a handle. 

What was the first tabletop RPG you played?
  1st Edition Traveller, circa 1980.

What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?
  Ditto.

What are you currently playing/GMing?
  Playing 2nd Ed Space:1889 (Ubiquity version) with the old gang via Skype. Prepping to run Champions 6th after we finish that campaign.

 

Edit: Just added a profile picture. Never played Captain Third in a tabletop game, but he's appeared in City of Heroes, DCUO, Pirates of the Burning Sea and has a miniature (pictured). Probably I should have a picture of Robo-bushi or Dwarfstar who go back to my actual Champions playing days, but Cap started as a wargaming tournament in-joke and the first drawing of him was as a forum profile portrait, so hey.

+1 on the miniatures. Plastic multipart ones, please!

In the dream big catergory, super hero miniatures again! I want my Viper Ninjas please!

You mean its billed as Duck Champions! 

Hi! Been a Champions nut for a very long time (1985, 3rd ed) but been quite inactive over the last decade and a half. Ran a lot of 3rd and 4th ed but skipped over Fuzion (ugh) and 5th ed. Champions Complete has recently fallen into my lap and the old juices are starting to flow again.

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?
  I picked up a nickname as "The Missing Link" at my first proper job. Link is "Rinku" in Japanese which I was always a fan of. Nothing to do with Zelda - but because of Link from Zelda I got into the habit of sticking the "m" for missing in front to make a handle. 

What was the first tabletop RPG you played?
  1st Edition Traveller, circa 1980.

What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?
  Ditto.

What are you currently playing/GMing?
  Playing 2nd Ed Space:1889 (Ubiquity version) with the old gang via Skype. Prepping to run Champions 6th after we finish that campaign.

 

Edit: Just added a profile picture. Never played Captain Third in a tabletop game, but he's appeared in City of Heroes, DCUO, Pirates of the Burning Sea and has a miniature (pictured). Probably I should have a picture of Robo-bushi or Dwarfstar who go back to my actual Champions playing days, but Cap started as a wargaming tournament in-joke and the first drawing of him was as a forum profile portrait, so hey.