Matt the Bruins

Re: After DEMON wins... Much obliged, Lord Laiden. From what I've read so far, some of the Kings of Edom seem to be like Lovecraft's Great Old Ones (for example Vulshoth is reminiscent of Cthulhu), while others are vaster and more abstract things (like Deizzhorath, which seems like a Yog Sothoth analog). Since the write-up for Vulshoth mentions it restoring its full power via rituals that would kill a billion inhabitants from whatever world it arises on, I wouldn't imagine much would be left of the earth if all five Kings worshipped by DEMON were awakened.

Re: After DEMON wins... Are Quemetiel and the Ravens of Dispersion detailed in DEMON, The Mystic World, or some other book?

Re: Southern Belle I was liking the character right up until I read Mary Poppins had the Right Idea, at which point the feeling blossomed into True Love.

Re: History of The Multiverse Rather than the Armor, I'd give her Missile Deflection at the Any Ranged Attack, Adjacent Hex level for her bracelets.

Re: Purple Powers Purple beams always make me think of Darkseid's Omega Effect from his appearances in Legion of Super Heroes. So disintegration/power-draining/time travel/mess you up BAD energy?

Re: Susano's Guide to Adapting Fictional Characters to HERO One of my pet peeves with character adaptations is something touched on by the Jedi discussion above: the use of Variable Power Pools to represent anyone who has a number of feats or stunts with fairly straightforward powers and enhanced characteristics. In my mind, that sort of versatility should be reserved for cosmic-type characters, skilled sorcerers, and genius inventors with the ability to jury-rig amazing technology without the need for extensive development and construction time in a lab (Brainiac 5 as opposed to Will Magnus).

Re: Self-destruct attacks How's this for overkill? Goodbye, Cruel World!: subatomic charge reversal field: 3d6 Major Transform: positive matter to antimatter, One Charge, never recovers (-4), No Range (-1/2) 45 active points, 8 real points, big honkin' crater. Well, unless you're floating in hard vacuum at the time it's activated, in which case it won't have any apparent effect until you come into contact with normal matter.

Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) Heh, reminds me of my dream last year about making out with Halle Berry in the pit at a NASCAR race. When telling friends about it I laughed about some redneck waking up very disturbed by what he and Ben Browder were doing in the dream I should have gotten.

Re: Time travel in the Marvel Universe Given how Earth-X and Universe-X had big "EVERYTHING YOU THOUGHT YOU KNEW IS WRONG!!!" reveals about every other page just for the hell of it, I'm strongly disinclined to regard anything presented there as even possibly factual.

Re: Completely Undetectable I could accept that working on some people, but Xavier and Strange are where that methodology would break down. It would be like a bunch of minor mentalists being able to consistently get EGO+30 results on Menton and the Revered Elder.

Re: Odd Thought: Pulp meets Pulp Fantasy Oooh! Cast a Deadly Spell! I approve.

Re: Menton is up I'm going to laugh if his sister Mentalla ends up being drawn as a stereotypical swimsuit model/comics babe except with a bulgy veined hairless head. The helmet design on Dr. Destroyer is VERY reminiscent of the corrupted future version of Dr. Fate's helmet in Books of Magic. Like, possibly seek-permission-from-DC-Comics-and-Paul-Johnson-level reminiscent.

Re: What was Marvel's WORST decade? LEAVE PATSY ALONE!!!1!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares My Mother the Titanic

Re: Skrull vs. Avengers So, basically the Martian Manhunter, then? Doesn't the Squadron Supreme have a Skrull member with basically this power set?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I've been watching Torchwood recently, thanks to the generosity of a friend with BBCA on her cable system. Much better teamwork and more reasonable characters this year, though there's still an element or two that bugs. My Blade: The Series DVDs just arrived last night, so I predict much enjoyment watching vampire exploits in the near future.

Re: The Ultimates Bundle Onionskin vellum is the way to go, Steve.

Re: Superhero Universes, A to Z The only problem is that their parallel universe structure and higher-order abstract and cosmic entities aren't really all that compatible. Would Alan Moore's America's Best Comics titles have their own separate universe or be considered part of the big DC Hypertime tangle? It technically continued as a DC imprint for a while after Wildstorm was purchased until Moore had the Apocalypse occur .

Re: What happens whena ctuloid monster swallows an elder star? I'd recommend reading Brian Lumley's Spawn of the Winds if one wants to see some ideas for using Elder Signs in proactive ways. Of course, Lumley takes Derleth's bastardization of the Chthulhu Mythos and gets even more Conanesque adventure-gamey with it, so it's not for all tastes.

Re: What were the best Superhero comics of the 90's? Promethea. (Hey, it debuted in 1999!) Kingdom Come. Starman. The initial Warren Ellis run of The Authority.

Re: That's Easy?? Show me how _you_ did it. Part deux! Remember too that Samantha (and the other witches) generally couldn't undo magic cast by another witch, and had to persuade or coerce the original witch to break whatever spell s/he had Darrin under this week.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares That is not dead which can eternal lie, but there's no coming back from an Abbott & Costello picture for movie monsters.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Watership DownBound Train: Not only do the cute bunnies die, then they go to Hell!

Re: "I shoot the escape pod!!!" I was in a game session once where a 2-player effort derailed the big final battle in enjoyable fashion. After a convoluted evening of espionage and following clues all around Tokyo, the PC group confronted the main villain in his office and were about to get into the customary huge rumble with all the bodyguards and hired ninjas he had popping out of every entrance to the office. Rather than fighting against the goons as expected, the disgruntled Frenchman in our group gave the Big Bad's unibrow a .22 caliber grooming and killed him with one shot. Then our less combat-oriented professor bluntly informed all the lackeys that with their boss dead, no one would be paying them to fight us, and made a phenominally successful Persuasion roll. All the opposition just packed it in and left the scene.

Re: Legion of Super-Heroes Package Deals Feh. So one Daxamite kid reduced the entire Science Police prison planet to rubble. Tell me one of the kids from Malcolm in the Middle couldn't have done the same...