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Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!) I was having one of those dreams where somehow I was assisting with some secret government project at a sprawling base/city. It had something to do with superpowers. One recruit had been having some unspecified emotional trouble and I was sent to speak with her about it. When I got to her dorm room, she was hiding in a closet, and someone else was trying to talk her into coming out. I started negotiating with her, but then her mom walked into the room and told her to give up this superpowers nonsense and come back home to live with her parents. I was about to say something when my cellphone rang and woke me up (wrong number).

Re: "Neat" Pictures She married him for his brains. They were delicious.

Re: Fantasy Race Bloat? That's the sort I prefer, though the comedy my characters promote is almost always being a parody of whatever archetype I percieve the character to be. As far as nonhuman races, I've only come up with one that was imagined from any detail, and that was intended to be a 1/2 mass, human strength, thin-atmosphere-adapted (their sea level is like 10,000 feet, or ~3000m) that had some canine characteristics (Cold nose, dentition, floppy ears, flews, vestigial tail, superb hearing and sense of smell, and so on). The Kaltanii (Changed later to Keltans, since nobody seemed to get that Keltanii was plural). Sometimes it's fun to play the guy who can see in the dark or track people by scent or has some other thing he can do better than most humans. Sometimes I try to play as close as possible to the archetype of the "normal human" who, not being specialized, is better than many nonhumans in any endeavor which does not play to their strengths. I like my players to have those options unless the setting simply can't bend that far without breakling, but we usually rotated GM duties between a few of us and thus had plenty of chances to play things where these options weren't off the menu.

Re: Fantasy Race Bloat? Every time I see the above thread title, it takes a second for my brain to parse the "l" and so I always start to wonder "What's a fantasy race boa... Oh, right!" [/derail]

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

Re: "Neat" Pictures Time traveler! *Points and squeels like a pig*

Re: Evil No, the first rule of the fanatic is: "It doesn't have to make sense. It "transcends" rational thinking."

Re: World with superheroes - Only one power set? I read the notes in the back of the books. When the WC virus infects you, it Alters your brain first to create this TK ability. The TK ability then tries to rewrite the host body's DNA, the result of which may or may not include any overt TK abilities. Of course, the human mind is a complex thing, and the virus tends to primarily tap into people's phobias, often (90% of the time) killing them outright. In the remaining ten percent, the ego and superego get into the act, mitigating some of the more lethal effects, but only in about 10 percent of those are there no signs of deformity or lessening of function. Of those lucky few, perhaps 10% or fewer exhibit abilities of sufficient magnitude to be considered more than just an unusual talent, a superpowered form of cracking one's knuckles or wiggling one's ears. The O.P. made me mindful of a British program about three agents of some international police force who all had been trained by monks in the far east to maximize their human potential, making them stronger, faster, etc. than any human ought to be. Of course, they kept it a secret even from their employers. ETA: Fittingly, it was called The Champions, or at least it was when I saw it here.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America I've shot black powder revolvers. That remark by Bat Masterson elicited from me an involuntary "you said it, brother!"

Re: Evil Evil is recognizing the harm dome to others in an effort to obtain one's desires, and being okay with (or entertained by) that. "So long as it's not me it's happening to it isn't important".

Re: And Now for Something Slightly Different: Mis-Spelled and Reimagined Supers Technically they're berries, OSIBT*. The Blue Beatles When a rock-n-roll band from liverpool is hit by cosmic rays during a concert, they gain superpowers! *Or So I've Been Told.

Re: Jokes Does this means Vegans can only eat things from Las Vegas?

Re: Silver Age Champions playtest begins! I as well, now that I've stumbled upon it. Did you do anything like this for Golden Age Champions (and if so, what search-terms will get me there?)

Re: And Now for Something Slightly Different: Mis-Spelled and Reimagined Supers The Incredible Hug The Hulk re-imagined as a character in a children's book.

Re: And Now for Something Slightly Different: Mis-Spelled and Reimagined Supers The Flush The less said...! Stuporman This mighty visitor from another world can bend steel with his bare hands, and change the course of mighty rivers, but needs help tying his shoelaces.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I have Googled both and am now suitably appalled.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos There's an Indian market within a mile of where I live. I may have to find out if any of these are available with English subtitles?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Would someone explain this one to me? [/Out-of-touch Old Guy]

Re: And Now for Something Slightly Different: Mis-Spelled and Reimagined Supers The Amazing Spidermonkey While touring the Museum of Mostly-Natural History and Petting Zoo on a high-school field trip, Parker Peters is bitten my a radioactive spider monkey, giving him incredible agility, proportional strength, and the ability to fling poo with amazing accuracy, although he is reluctant to use this latter power as there just isn't enough Purell in the world to make that seem like a good idea. Batt-Man Wayne Bruce was picked-on and beaten up regularly in school, which only ended when he was a junior in high school when he finally shot up from 5'3" to 6'3". It wasn't until he was a Senior that he realized that perhaps he was now in a position to do something about bullying. During College he studied Martial Arts, Philosophy, and human behavior so as to be better able to deal with bullies, hopefully by talking sense to them in a way that they understood. Suffering injury he first time he tried to intervene in a violent situation, Wayne realized he needed some form of armor. As Wayne isn't a multimillionaire (what we used to say when "billionaire" was only a theoretical concept), he obtained help from various sources in the low-powered supers community, and obtained a padded suit filled with a high-tech temperature-stabilizing fiber with superb energy-damping qualities.

Re: And now, for your daily dose of cute... [ATTACH=CONFIG]44790[/ATTACH]

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Today was a Mom-day, and that's what we watched. Last night I watched a rerun of the BBC series Top Gear (because I'm getting impatient for the new series, and I've begun to realize what a pale shadow of it's BBC counterpart the American version has become.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos Bonus vid:

Re: And Now for Something Slightly Different: Mis-Spelled and Reimagined Supers Sorry. I must've gotten side-tracked and now I have no idea what else she can do.

Re: Jokes I'm not older than dirt, but I remember when it was still under warranty! ETA: I got all 15 except Howdy-Doody. I heard about him but never saw pictures or film until the '70s when everyone was suffering from recession-induced nostalgia about the '50s.

Re: "Neat" Pictures When I was in the service I worked on a data collection/analysis/redistribution device that used these to store its programs on. Before it could be used every day the tapes had to be loaded in several stations, each the size of a refrigerator, which were, when purchased, highly advanced. Before I worked on it the setup was all giant tape drives and racks of specially-designed "computer circuity", controlled by an old room-sized computer. By the time I started working on it, the room-sized computer part had been replaced with an early general-purpose minicomputer (the size of a washing machine), and numerous operators no longer controlled it through dumb terminals, but through Sun Microsystems workstations (with perhaps 640 kbytes of ram) that each could have run the whole operation independently, but a software rewrite would cost more than the scrap cost of the eliminated equipment, so the core of the system remained an early multi-cabinet computer from the '60s.