MisterVimes

Re: Essentials I feel I'm going to have to resort to the pdf. I am notorious for expended financial resources on "must haves" but I'm having trouble locating one at any price.

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? Rumor has it that Warren Murphy was taking over the reigns again. I never made it past 100 so I started over when I got my kindle and got the whole bundle. I'm closing in on 50 again. I'm pretty sure I have little interest in the stuff that was done without Murphy -- but I may give them a chance.

Re: A new Enemies book: What would you want to see? Personal Note: Big fan of Vigil and of what FFG has done with 40k

Re: A new Enemies book: What would you want to see? A cross-genre book with sections on villains for the Gold/Silver/Bronze/Iron ages.

Re: Darren's Golden Age Sneak Preview #3: Ghost Cabbie!

Re: 4th String Villians Yeah! You're my (75pt) Hero!

Re: Darren's Golden Age Sneak Preview #3: Ghost Cabbie! Related question: I am doing a GAC Campaign posing as a Pulp game (Shh. Don't tell) and I was wondering where you were setting your base points and complications for starting characters.

Re: Darren's Golden Age Sneak Preview #3: Ghost Cabbie! I love it (and apparently I missed Sneak Preview #2). I'd give the cabbie a boost in Conversation and Navigation beyond average, but, other than that, it's inspired.

Re: 4th String Villians Yeah! I have both of those sitting on my coffee table but I haven't cracked them open yet. Sounds like an elegant solution.

Re: Gunslingers, Shootists, etc... I'd request Nat Love, Tom Horn, Wild Bill Hickok, Charlie Utter (Hickok's dandified shootist compadre), and Cherokee Bill (Cranford Goldsby)

Re: Gunslingers, Shootists, etc... Or the fastest knife Red from "Magnificent Seven"

Re: Gunslingers, Shootists, etc... Let's not forget the fastest draw in Television Westerns Kid Curry http://youtu.be/bbGnac2al58

When I was digging through my library the other day I found a notebook with a terrible picture I scteched as the cover. The title was "SuperPunk." As I am wont to do, I got distracted from my task at hand and reviewed what I had written for -- wait for it --3rd Edition Hero. Back in the beautiful by-gone days before Steampunk, Dieselpunk, Dungeonpunk and all the Punkpunk, there was cyberpunk. Somewhere in there Robert Charette penned Shadowrun, which fused the genres of cyberpunk and fantasy. So, what about Superpunk? I took Cyber Hero and Dark Champions and took away the costumes and made "metahumans" just another avenue to getting the edge on the mean streets of the not-to-distant future. I regurgitated ideas that Howard Chaykin's "American Flagg" had left in my brain and created my poster child: a mohawked young man with a spit-curl that was rocketed to earth as an infant and raised in secret by a pair of wage slaves in in the lower end of the industrial metroplex. Kal rose to power with his superhuman abilities and lived by the motto "Who's truth? What's Justice, and Where is America?" Thoughts?

Re: What "Pulp" have you read lately ? Between every book I read I knock back a "Destroyer" novel. I like to keep my brain in the Remo-Space.

Re: 4th String Villians Yeah! I think the Mercy Killers are followers and either Aid (simpler) or a power boost that only functions when they are present.

Re: Essentials I got more mail today: Advanced Player's Guide II Champions Universe 6Ed Pulp Hero 5Ed Masterminds and Madmen

Re: STORMlords Update I gotta say, I read these updates with a mixture of love and jealousy. I wish I'd thought of it.

Re: Essentials

Re: The cranky thread I usually have good luck with their software. Sorry you had so much trouble.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

Re: Social Club of Outstanding Adventurers (or some less absurd)

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I can only assume that Spielberg has lost his mind in the same manner that George Lucas has. I look back on Spielberg's career and the early movies reflect a genius that I don't see in his later films. From around 1990 onward he gets uneven, there is great work in there, but he seems more hit and miss, like he is phoning it in. For a Director that I loved for his fanciful work, he seems to have become a director that does better with historical pieces instead. Purely a subjective view.

Re: Social Club of Outstanding Adventurers (or some less absurd) Nice. Especially the Gentleman Thief ala Raffles.

Re: Social Club of Outstanding Adventurers (or some less absurd) What a great idea. I love that movie.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I am ashamed to say that I still haven't watched that series. I'm fascinated by Adams and I love to watch Giamotti act. Dickinson is a person I used to use to juxtapose the Tories and the revolutionaries to my students. Here's a guy that "chose the wrong side" but did all the right things when it came to standing by his convictions. And history remembers him (if he is mentioned at all) as the guy who voted against independence.