MrBunraku

Hey, just wanted to let everyone know that there's a copy of Strike Force available on eBay currently. There are about 4 days left in the auction.

Re: The Old Guard CpSpalding used to run a game at GenCon called "Forever Young" which was a bunch of second tier DC Golden Age heroes in the modern day. I got to play Captain Triumph and LOVED it! On another note, I've felt for a long time that the "old superhero" genre is the one that has yet to be fully explored, not just comically, but in a serious way. We've seen the plights of teen heroes and now married heroes, but the difficulties of being in your 70's and having super-powers has yet to be really addressed. This is no help to you at all, is it? Ah well.. Ed Stream of consciousness day....

Re: Who's Who on the Champions Online forums? I'm MrBunraku over there as well. No big competition for puppet-style themed names, it seems. Ed

Re: S.H.A.R.D. - Super Hero Acronym Resource Directory E.V.I.L. (Enterprising Villains in League) Made them up when I was about 8. Ed Man, I wish I could find those notebooks...

Re: Captain Ultra Dang, I wish I had a Magic 8 Ball... Ed

Re: Fantasy Cosmologies Thanks for all the opinions! My idea for the day/night thing was having the disk big enough, or the sun small enough, that the sun would only shine on part of it as it travelled around its "groove." Sorta like the effect you'd get if you shine a flashlight onto a record album. As the sun travels around it shines on the disk in one spot, so as it gets closer you'll have dawn, it will appear to move in the sky as the day progresses, then you'll have dusk as it rolls away, and finally night. (Assault) I had the same idea, and from the same source! That would work well, as I decided my sun god was also the protector of the dead. I had the notion that as he travelled across the sky he collected the spirits of the dead, then dropped them off in the underworld while he made his way back to the "east" or whatever point he starts from. I had also come up with the idea that the disk was ringed by huge arctic mountains. If you can get over or find a pass through them, you can "jump off" the disk and end up in my etheral/astral space. You can also get there by going deep enough underground. As far as seaons go, I had thought about making the sun move closer and further away as it moves around, so it might move in a spiral fashion (spiral up and down if I use the record needle motion, or spiral out and back if I use the up and over notion.) Thanks again for all the input! Not that I'll probably do anything with it soon, but it's always nice to hear other folks ideas. Ed

Re: Captain Ultra I always wondered if this wasn't a jab at DC's Martian Manhunter. Ed

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Re: Fantasy Cosmologies Speaking of flat earths and cosmologies and the like, I was going to poll the assembled masses to get opinions. For a while now, I've been wanting to design a campaign world that's a disk. Should I have: (a.) the sun travel along the middle of the disk (sorta like a needle in the middle of a record player), so the center of the disk is arctic, the middle zone is the "equator" and the outside is arctic, (b.) the sun travel up over the entire disk, so the arctic bands are at the top and bottom of the disk, and the tropical "equator" runs from one side of the disk to the other, (c.) have the sun stationed in the middle of the disk (like someone else mentioned above.) Just thought I'd ask. Ed (Who is dating himself with the whole "needle on the record" reference.)

Re: Soul Calibur My son's a big time Soul Calibur 3 fan. He has it for the PS2 and whips the snot outta me 8 times out of 10. If I make my paltry wins back to back, he gets his favorite (Mitsurugi) and cleans my clock. We especially enjoy the "random creation" feature, especially when we get a character wearing a pope hat! Ed

Re: Do you use miniatures? The BEST miniatures I've ever seen are CpSpalding's twist-tie JSA! They're too cool! Maybe he'll post a picture... Ed

Re: What's the story about the Haymaker! zine? I would definitely be interested, but it would depend on who had the time to coordinate it. It's definitely a big job.

Re: What's the story about the Haymaker! zine? Although I've never claimed to be a writer (well, at least not a writer for gaming stuff), writing for Haymaker was a LOT of fun. And Dave was great as editor/coordinator. Ed

Re: What were: the best Marvel titles of the 80's? The 80's was probably the only time in my comic reading life that I could've been considered a "Marvel Zombie." This was when I went thru my "X-Men" phase, even though the first X-Men comic I picked up was the debut of Dazzler. I also have to agree with Simonson's Thor, and several of the Avengers storys, especially the Korvac one. Epic's Alien Legion and Dreadstar were amazing! I was also a big fan of Micronauts (having lots of the toys), and really got into that title. I also became a big Defenders fan during the early 80's. I can't really say it was because of great stories or characters, but I did enjoy the heck out of them. There were also some great Captain America stories during the early 80's. Probably my favorite was Byrne's Fantastic Four. In fact, his work is what made me the huge FF fan I am today, and prompted me to search out back issues. Ed

Re: Dr Who Since I don't know as much about the Doctor as I'd like, did they ever say what happened to his granddaughter? She was only ever seen with the William Hartnell Doctor, right? And did they ever mention the Doctor's children? Ed