Watchman Mk. IV

4 hours ago, dsatow said:

15 points of wealth

 

Supervillain wants to take over the world.  Heroes encounter his staff.

 

Hero:"What is he paying you?"

Staff:"You can't pay enough to make us betray him."

Hero:"How about 5 million each plus benefits?"

Staff: "Anything you say boss."

 

And guaranteed one of them for whom money isn't the prime motivator will scurry off to inform his boss.

I'll watch The Dark Knight for Heath Ledger's iconic performance, but the other two are meh to me (although Anne Hathaway in latex is a draw).

OK, I'll give it another day and then decide.  Plenty of entries for this one.

10 hours ago, Sociotard said:

I haven't done it yet, but that is a show that needs line by line fact checking and looking for alternative points if view for the facts.

 

I know they have been caught getting things wrong in the past

They obviously overstate some things for comedic effect (the Tot Court skit in the above show, for example), but I haven't encountered any of the basic facts that they've gotten wrong.  Got any cites for that?

1 hour ago, Pizza Man said:

is the name taken?

Bluejay appears at  least as early as the BBB (basically a winged-powered-armor wearer, p. 20 of the campaign book section) and also as a NPC in Champions Online.  I'm not sure about anything older than that; those books have gone the way of all things.

Cowboy #4:  Fee 'The Kid' Herod

Anybody catching my theme yet?

8 hours ago, massey said:

I always disagreed with the Sanity mechanic in CoC.  Lovecraft's stories didn't work that way.  You became "insane" because you realized that the world you were seeing was an illusion.  Other people thought you were nuts, but really it's just that they didn't know how the world really worked.  All that stuff should have been handled by roleplaying, not a game mechanic.

 

[/end rant]

I have similar reservations.  Also, there's the fact of inevitable character obsolescence that turned me off to it.

The answer is both simple and obvious: just say No (or go back to the drawing board).

I'd slap those down in about a second and a half.  No game-breakers allowed.

Next...  (Cowboy) John Henry "Doc" Holliday

Sorry about the delay...here's some art from a guy I'm pretty impressed with, Eryck Webb:

"I don't have a drinking problem.  I drink, I get drunk, I fall down.  No problem."

Cowboy:  The Sundance Kid.  (The one who can shoot.)

Hmm...Barbary Coast time.  San Francisco, 1855.

Cowboy (or Eldritch Abomination, depending on who you are):  Marshal Jim Duncan, aka The Stranger, aka High Plains Drifter.

22 hours ago, Iuz the Evil said:

Huh. Not sure what game you watched. Mayfield didn't lose that game, the Oklahoma defense did. 

He sure as hell didn't win it.

2 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

The parts of the world with less gun violence than America also have less gun passion, glorification, and obsession than in America. What I find encouraging about the current groundswell over gun control is not specifics about restrictions or legislation, but that it represents a potentially changing attitude toward the place of guns in American society. Gun violence won't diminish until there's broad consensus that certain behaviors and irresponsibility that have been tolerated by society, no longer will be. Regulation can help with that, but it needs to be backed up with collective willingness to make regulation stick.

Approval of regulation always spikes when there are gun-related attacks.  The difference here is that, instead of people just forgetting it, the kids are pushing it.  They're the future, and they're not going to forget about it.  This one came home to them in a much more personal way.

Move By is the preferred option anyway, for the better OCV modifier and reduced return damage.

A note on Exit Stage Left: there are a number of versions on it that I prefer to the original studio songs.  I don't know whether it was down to Rush's producers on the early albums or just a stylistic thing with Geddy, but some of them seemed a bit primitive.  By the time Rush had had some years to perform them on the road, they'd tightened them up a bit.  Closer to the Heart and The Trees/Xanadu come immediately to mind there.  (Of course, it helped that the entire audience was doing background vocals on Closer to the Heart.)  Also, YYZ had that ridiculously awesome Peart solo.  He is rock's first (and only) true percussionist.  Buddy Rich and John Bonham got nothing on him.  It's even more impressive when you consider all the physical issues he went through when on tour, which I didn't fully understand until the documentary that recently came out about their last tour.

41 minutes ago, zslane said:

 

The way I see it, yes, for sure. It can be a dangerous state to be in, no question.

 

Lowering your EGO so as to allow a friendly mental power to affect you without your ally needing a really huge effect roll is nothing new to the game, at least in my experience. I didn't realize the notion was controversial; maybe something in 5e/6e made it controversial?

Pretty much the same here.  The lowering of defenses (DCV, EGO) to me is all-or-nothing: either don't resist so as to let a friendly's 'attack' get through (i.e., Aid) or go full defensive...but you pay the price by having the effect apply to every attack on you for that particular phase.  If it's a continuous power that needs to attack every phase, you're stuck with that lowered defense until you choose to go full defensive again.  As for SPD, you can simulate the same effect simply by delaying phases.

2 hours ago, Pariah said:

 

 

The vocalist/bassist is the same as on Aqua (John Payne). The drummer and the two guitarists were members of Asia with Payne and Geoff Downes in the early 2000s, before Downes broke up the group to reunite with the original lineup. They (drummer and guitarists) stuck with Payne in his spin-off bands, Asia featuring John Payne and GPS. The keyboardist (Erik Norlander, from Rocket Scientists and Lana Lane) replaced Downes in AfJP.  Payne and Norlander decided to discontinue the use of the name 'Asia' after John Wetton's death last year, so now they're calling themselves 'Dukes of the Orient'.

 

Yeah, keeping track of Asia's lineups is a little complicated. Given that the band is a direct descendant of Yes and King Crimson, this is hardly surprising.

No wonder.  I didn't follow them very closely; I always thought of them as Yes lite, and I'd never have likened them to King Crimson.

7 hours ago, Ternaugh said:

The albums that end up being played the most by me are Roll the Bones, Moving Pictures, Grace Under Pressure, 2112, Signals, A Farewell to Kings, and Hold Your Fire.

Substitute Fly By Night and Exit Stage Left for Hold Your Fire and you've got my go-to playlist.

4 hours ago, sentry0 said:

Alright...reading the UOO rules a bit more carefully I think this version is probably what I'll be going with:

 

Evacuate!:  Teleportation 24m, Usable Simultaneously (up to 32 people at once; +1 1/2), Grantor pays the END whenever the power is used, Grantor controls the power totally, Recipient must remain close to Grantor, Recipient must be within Limited Range of the Grantor for power to be granted (60 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about a fourth of its effectiveness (Must Cross Intervening Space; -1/4)

 

Providing I'm interrpreting the rules correctly this version should allow the following:

• Recipients must be willing
• A single attack roll is made for all recipients
• All recipients must be within 10m of the grantor
• The grantor can also (optionally) give the power to themselves and teleport themselves

Nice little rescue power for getting people out of the burning building and into Archie.

So I'm guessing that opponents would go too if they got within range in time.  (Just hope they're not half-in and half-out; then you're talking about a Stargate transporter.

Edited.

4 hours ago, Sociotard said:

 

That's what Republicans said when they were crushed in 2008. It wasn't necessary for them to stoop to any particular tactic; political tides in the USA shift all the time. That means we can keep to our highest standard, instead of crying out that "The other tribe is unethical, so we have to unethical harder!" Just be patient and do your best, and the tide will favor your tribe again.

 

Well, there is one area where "do what your opponent did" is valid: examine what concerns your opponent addressed better than you did. That's right, have the humility to say maybe Republicans didn't cheat, just played the game better. That's how Conor Lamb won his race.  He was very mild in his criticism of the President, he came out supporting gun rights, etc. He played to the constituency he was running to represent, having paid attention to how they'd voted in the past.

 

Going further, what Republican tactics are you hoping to emulate, exactly? Breaking Facebook terms of service to get targeted ad data? Inflammatory tweets?

The tactics I was referring to have to do with passing bills in Congress when only a majority is needed rather than a supermajority.  (Although I'd love to see the Senate refuse to even interview a SCOTUS appointee, even though that won't have a chance to happen for a while.)