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Re: Space Junk in Earth Orbit

Re: Another: StarWars in my Sandbox Well it's a bit like SAN points isn't it? The early game shapes people's perspective on how things work. That's why you keep seeing people trying to wedge a SAN point system into every squid campaign, even in something like GURPS which actually has a better mechanic for driving people insane with fear. Personally I'd just go with Luck to represent being strong in the Force in Hero.

Re: Loved at home hated by the world. Incorrect. Not only is mass murder a death penalty offense in the United States, the United States will and has extradited people to countries that don't use jury trials.

Re: The Devil's Advocate? Hellfire would start praying (silently) when court reconvenes. Riptide would make lawyer jokes. (Of course he's evil! He's a lawyer!) The Wizard of Oz Incorporated would go back to work once he finished testifying Poet would ask his friends for a rundown on him.

Re: Loved at home hated by the world. International law says no such thing, not in our world or in a comic book world like that of Marvel and DC where supervillains routinely get immunity by virtue of ruling an acknowledged nation. If your two countries have an extradition treaty then the victimised country files an extradition request and the country of refuge then rules over whether it has just cause. for the request. Failing that there is no obligation under international law that you return to the country accusing you. If either country is a member of the International Criminal Court, then it is possible that they'll define your actions as a war crime and file charges against you, but then you'd appear before the ICC, not the offended nation's jurisprudence. And of course it doesn't matter. You made the choice when you decided to flee the jurisdiction where you commited the actions in question rather than staying to face the music.

Re: Essentials Universe (Amalgam) Wot, no mutants?

Re: HELP! - Medical Centre Floorplan Needed What, you mean like this? http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/TMCServices/ConferenceCenter/ConfCenterFloorPlan.htm Or this? http://www.healthcaredesignmagazine.com/Media/DocumentLibrary/15-HCD7-P1.pdf

Re: The Death Note and How To Stop It Yes. That's why Light had his buddy inscribe a fake rule saying that if you burn it you die.

Re: Did the CCA create the Silver Age?

Re: Did the CCA create the Silver Age? Unless there's a lot of overlap between the lots no great mystery there.

Re: Pulparize It! Saw is a modern day descendant of the snuff-fiction which Poe parodised in A Predicament and delivered more or less straight in The Pit and the Pendulum, and which probably inspired sadistic serial killer H.H. Holmes. Of course in the 30s they probably would have gone with the ever popular oriental mastermind.

Re: Did the CCA create the Silver Age? Obviously that the CCA existed in this time flavoured the Silver Age. But the revival of super heroes starting with the introduction of the new Flash would have happened without it so there still would have been one. It just would have been a different Silver Age, one in which you could call a zombie a zombie and a superhero could find his best friend struggling with the evils of marijuana.

Re: The Essential Bad Silver Age Well in the case of the Wizard, he'd already done that. Trying to kill the Fantastic Four was his hobby in retirement, not a way of getting rich. And Doctor Polaris was rich as well. His motives had nothing to do with accumulating money and everything to do with having driven himself insane through over exposure of his brain to magnetic fields.

Re: WWYCD: The Switch. I ask the obvious question. What happened to the original?

Re: A 'realistic' supers world? Of course then over the next few years, they'd realise that "change" is not a synonym for "improve".

Re: A 'realistic' supers world? Evil no, but I'm pretty sure there are teenagers out there who would regard "Doctor Doom" as an awesome nickname.

Re: The Death Note and How To Stop It Stuff like that is what (Gurps) Serendipity is for. I think I cosmiced it for some reason but I don't have the rulebooks handy.

Re: The Death Note and How To Stop It I have a villain, Art Attacks, who can paint pictures depicting people in peril and that peril always happens to them. Of course he's in GURPS where there's actually an easy way to make that happen. In Hero I'd just make it a plot device.

Re: Super Powers in Hudson City

Re: Who is the best Super in comics?

Responding to a break-in at a museum your character arrives to see a strangely dessicated individual stealing from an Egyptian exhibit. There's a museum guard cradling a dislocated arm and his gun lies on the floor. How do you handle it?

Re: Soviet Superheroes

Re: So, How do you take over organised crime in Huson City? Start by looking for a vacancy. Batman is a mixed curse. Sure, he's liable to take you down, but that means you can always look for an open territory where the last guys to attract his attention used to be. Then you can look for the weak mobster to move in on. Offer to help him. He's weak and presumably losing ground unless things are quiet. If they are quiet, shoot someone important without letting anyone know there's a new player in town until later. That'll fix that. Offer, in return for a slice of his action to take down his threatening neighbour. That way, you've got both his territory and his neighbour's territory. Moving into the neighbour's territory you have two approaches. Massacres are appealing, but probably attract too much attention at this early point in the game. Instead you should rough up his street operators, show them that you are bigger and badder. At this point you want a show of force, but not an all-out war. Push them to the brink of war, then arrange a meeting between the three of you in which you negotiate new boundaries and make marketing and franchising deals that leave you on top. If you've got more firepower this gives you the upper hand, but firepower between gangs as between nations is better used as a threat than as an actuality. Cops, feds, vigilantes and bigger fish will all be attracted by the smell of blood. When a vigilante does show up however, it's important to take him or her down, particularly if they have the kind of gunslinger rep that will intimidate your colleagues because if you kill them, or even take them out of action for a while their rep becomes your rep. Eventually someone will decide enough is enough. A bigger fish will take notice of you, or a smaller one will refuse to see reason. Assuming that you aren't prepared to settle for less than the whole city, whack their top man and see if you can't deal with their successor. If they're cohesive and out to avenge their boss, it's massacre time.

Re: A 'realistic' supers world? I'm rather fond of having China distintigrate back into the pre-war situation, with superpowered warlords and gang bosses dominating the scene.

Re: WWYCD: miscarriage of justice Be honest now. How often do you even check on what happens to the villains you apprehend?