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  2. A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen

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    McCloud for 70s too. Problem is' date=' we need some "arcane knowledge" and I am not sure who to put. Otherwise we have a bunch of gunslinging detectives.[/quote']Hey, it was the 70s. Everyone was a detective. Just like everyone had a special vehicle in the 80s.

  3. A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen

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    I noticed that we are talking about characters from movies and television more than anything else. Moore was using characters from popular fiction. Is that because TV and film have totally surpassed novels as the most popular form of entertainment?
    It's cause we don't read any books except sci-fi and fantasy.

  5. He's a WHIMP !!! (My Gripe)

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    You'll have a hard time fitting that one a 350 point character while also having room for high characteristics' date=' speed powers, sense powers, and what skills he had even back then.[/quote']I don't think he had any enhanced senses when he first started out - just strength, toughness, high-speed running and leaping.

  7. He's a WHIMP !!! (My Gripe)

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    Even in a "350" campaign' date=' GMs need to use their imaginations and see these characters without associated point totals, and certainly need to think about allowing experienced players to step farther afield point-wise than normally I think GMs are comfortable with. a 650-point character in a 350-point campaign does not necessarily spell doom for party balance, just like a cosmic VPP with an 80-point pool doesn't necessarily turn a character into ambulatory Limburgher. Even in the best-statted-out system ever, you have to look past the points.[/quote']I totally agree. So why not take the next step and dispense with point totals altogether?

  10. Killing Charachters/Villians in your games. Do you do it?

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    A few months later' date=' after he was defeated, he was taken to a secret government lab in the Nevada desert where his death sentence would be carried out. As he died, the nuclear energy in his cells was released to catastrophic effect. Though fallout was minimal, the explosion could be seen from orbit.[/quote']That's a new one. Don't kill people...

     

    Because they might explode.

  12. Campaign idea: Kirby's Fourth World homage

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    In a way Jack Kirby's Fourth World is going 'back to basics' by being closer to mythology than most superhero stories.

     

    Features:

    1) Complete fantasy worlds - Apokolips and New Genesis - rather like Asgard or Olympus.

    2) No real world science. The power sources are allegedly technology, super science and weird energy sources rather than magic, but they are completely unrealistic. Its kind of fantasy technology.

    3) Strong story elements. The babies swapped at birth to uphold the truce is absolute classic. Likewise I think you want to focus on family relationships and possibly steal plots from mythology - the death/resurrection of Osiris for example.

  17. A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen

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    I wouldn't allow traditional superheroes in a modern LXG cause they're not modern. Almost all of em date from the late 30s/40s or the 60s. The last decent superhero of note was Wolverine. Tom Swift would be right out for that same reason. He was created in 1910 or something, wasn't he?

     

    For me the modern LXG would include:

    Buffy - A No. 1

    Harry Potter (don't care for the character but ya just can't ignore him)

    Neo from the Matrix - except he's a bit problematic, requiring our world to be a VR simulation

    A spy - Alias or 24

    Someone genetically modified like Dark Angel or the movie Spider-man (now I'm breaking my own no superheroes rule)

    If not Neo then some other kung fu dude - maybe Beatrix Kiddo AKA The Bride AKA Black Mamba

  18. A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen

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    It seems the first few posts were discussing a real LXG' date=' not a [i']modern[/i] one. A modern one would be characters from the eighties and nineties who were fictional.
    No. They were discussing a modern real LXG, based upon a Victorian/Edwardian real LXG. Admittedly it wasn't very interesting so we've had to hijack that thread.

  20. US civil awards?

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    This is kind of a side-note, but mightn't there be a system set up specifically for superheroes, just as there are military-specific awards?

     

    Ie, injury in a superfight = purple cape, saving a city or municipality = silver insignia, saving the universe = golden tights.

    If it had its own special awards, like a profession, I think that would entail superheroing organised on a level you don't really see in the comic books.

     

    I mean they'd have salaries and bosses and working hours. And union representation. And then organised crime would get involved.

  22. He's a WHIMP !!! (My Gripe)

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    Batman's player is obviously a very bad rules rapist. Skills monger, base, vehicles - *very* points inefficient in the HERO system.

     

    Superman's player OTOH kicks ass. All those -1/4 limitations that seldom come into play: Doesn't work versus magic, doesn't work while exposed to kryptonite, doesn't work under Krypton-level gravity, doesn't work under the light of a red sun. I bet he's got a Kryptonian elemental control too, which is practicaly cheating.

  23. US civil awards?

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    The PCs in my game recently saved some New York dignitaries - councilmen, community leaders, local businessmen and the like - from death at the hands of a group of super-terrorists called The Family. I'm figuring the mayor will recommend them for some some sort of civil award. So what would that be in the US? Also could anyone provide a list of awards superheroes are likely to receive, for future reference?

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