Doug McCrae

Re: Timelines I like doing the period flavour names - stuff like Phantomaster and Captain Atlantis in the Golden Age, Gorgoom son of Gorgg in the late 50s, the Adventure Five in the Silver Age, the Man-Creature in the Bronze Age, Darkfyre and Machine in the Iron Age.

Re: Code VS Killing Poll

Re: Code VS Killing Poll

Re: Timelines What do you mean? The history of your world? Like: 8 500 BC: Sinking of Atlantis 1776: First sighting of the Spirit of America 1938: First superhero, the Champion, appears in Toronto 1941: First superhero team formed - the Society of Vigilante Justice

Re: Code VS Killing Poll I have a slight preference in favour of some form of CvK but mainly it's whatever's appropriate to the setting. If it's Silver Age then you gotta have CvKs. Golden Age had some killer vigilantes. In the Iron Age killing is practically compulsory unless you're doing the retro-SA Iron Age, which I don't think anyone is.

Re: The Crazy8!

Re: The Crazy8! "PhantasE": A criminal drugs chemist who employs a hallucinatory gas. "Quill": A mutant whose body is covered in long spines which he can hurl at foes. "Doctor Au (pr. awe)": Uses hi-tech armour and weapons (particularly dazzling effects) seemingly made out of gold.

Re: The Crazy8! "Double Up": Psychic powers enable him to create multiple doppelgangers. "Freeze": Temporarily freezes time by means of a device he stole from an eccentric scientist. "Pipistrelle": Wears a bat costume with glider wings and uses a number of minor gadgets attached to a harness.

Re: Liberty or Freedom League? How about calling the Golden Age team The Nazi Smashers and the Silver Age team The Commie Smashers? There's continuity for you. None of this liberty/freedom bollocks. That's a modern spin on WW2. Back then they were fighting to win the war. It's interesting to note that Roy Thomas's freedom/liberty teams were created in the bicentennial year. The American Revolution was more about freedom. Freedom from having to pay taxes to the King of England.

Re: Liberty or Freedom League? I don't think either is appropriate. There's not a single SA team with those words in their name: Challengers of the Unknown Legion of Super-Heroes Justice League of America Fantastic Four Metal Men Avengers X-Men Doom Patrol Legion of Substitute Heroes Teen Titans Mighty Crusaders T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents Inferior Five Terrific Three Ultra-Men S.H.I.E.L.D. Guardians of the Galaxy Alliteration and acronyms are the mark of a SA team name. So yeah, Liberty League wouldn't be as bad. 'Liberty' and 'Freedom' are usually thought to be the mark of a Golden Age team but this isn't quite accurate either. What they are in fact are the marks of a Roy Thomas 70s retro Golden Age team. Neither has ever been used for a genuine WW2 era supergroup. They were first employed in 'The Liberty Legion' and 'Freedom's Five', both in 1976.

Re: The Usual Need A Name Sorta Thing The team members have excellent names, particularly Cameo and Rain. I was going to use the name Cameo myself, for a disguised shapeshifting assassin. Anyway, diversity and acceptance, huh? Jigsaw... the pieces are different. But they fit together. Rainbow Spectrum

Re: Need a name for a hero... You yourself have a fine name, Darth Continent

Re: Need a name for a hero... The Cleric

Re: Worm in your head?

Re: Non-standard mythologies

Re: Name My Character Those are really good names. I particularly like Pteradactyl-Man.

Re: Name My Character The Boston Devil Q, the Winged Serpent Mothman

Re: Worm in your head? These are my thoughts on the whole worm that crawls in your head and eats your brain concept: Eeeeeewwwwwwww!

Re: Please help name this Hero Captain Hero

Re: I need a Super Hero Name for TinkerBelle.... Keep it simple. She's a fairy so call her that. Fairy Fay (or Fae if want to be a ponce) Spriggan Sprite Pixie Nymph Changeling (has been used admittedly) Sidhe Titania Melusina Tinkerbell is a fine name IMO, and it could be her actual name - no reason why a daughter can't have the same handle as her mum.

Re: Teams that Want to Change the World That's an interesting idea. Never seen a team of supers promoting free market capitalism before. What what they actually do, though?

Re: Super-sentencing In the real world, execution. Even if they'd only got as far as property destruction in the current political climate they might be looked on as terrorists. In a Millarverse the same would happen to them as happens to the Authority after they were beaten by Seth - bizarre, imaginative torture, humiliation and headfuckage. Bound to be a bit of ass raping thrown in too.

Re: What do you like about the various ages of comics? Golden Age - The two-fisted action, creativity and everything-including-the-kitchen-sink approach DC's Silver Age - Modern mythology Marvel's Silver Age - The characters, particularly The Thing 70s Marvel - Dumb fads and a touch of darkness Iron Age - Retro/postmodernism

Re: What do you like about the various ages of comics? Innocence!? There was some pretty spicy stuff in the Golden Age. The Spirit's femme fatales, Torchy, bondage covers, jungle queens and BDSM amazons. I'd have said the Golden Age was an era of two-fisted gonzo adventure and lurid thrills. DC's Silver Age was more about wonder and innocence.

Re: What do you like about the various ages of comics? Everything. I'd be happy to run games in any or all of the periods. My favourites are probably the Golden Age, DC Silver Age, 70s Marvel and the Iron Age. Sometime I'd like to run a game set in the late Golden Age, post WW2, cause I don't think it's been done much, if ever. The 70s is another road less travelled, as is British comics, any era but probably the 80s (Captain Britain, Marvelman, Zenith). I was pondering a Kingdom Come inspired Iron Age game at one point too. The main superhero thing I'm working on for when my current modern day campaign finishes will be one set in the modern period but with a strong emphasis on investigating/interacting with the history of the previous decades. A bit like Planetary but not so dark.