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It's the 60s. The United States is at war in Vietnam, and every man between 18 and 25 is legally compelled to be registered for the draft. If your number comes up, you must report for a physical examination which does everything technologically possible to determine whether you have powers that could be unusually useful to the military. If you are already known to have such powers then you are always called in. There's a special draft category for guys like you, X-1. You can get a draft exemption by joining one of the superhero teams which are officially recognised by a local jurisdiction and on call by the presiding politician. That's the ONLY way you can get a draft exemption if you are classed as X-1. Some people evade the draft, using one method or another to fake normalcy in the examination, or simply don't come in. Young hero groups form all over the country, trying to establish their bona fides so that by the time their number comes up the local government will have decided they're needed.

Re: What happens in Vegas... Riptide: Not a member of my team? I don't care. I don't know why he's been foisted on me, but presumably it's because he has the exact right power to solve a problem. As long he's available to do the one thing he's here to do, I"m fine with him staying out of our way the rest of time. I'll use him and toss him.

Re: Unmaking Hanh? This situation is inherently self-contradictory. The perpetrator has already been retroactively removed from reality. I don't see any reason why retroactively removing myself from reality would make a difference if that didn't. But yeah, Riptide has a time machine in his garage so trying to go back in time and abort this even seems like a better option then just trusting the anomaly to go away if he plays human sacrifice. The Wizard of Oz Incorporated would use treknobabble to make it go away.

Re: I'm guessing Mercedes Lackey plays City of Heroes She's credited as co-auther on the Secret World, and Victoria Victrix, the character she's credited as creating is one of the CCCP characters although she isn't part of CCCP in Secret World. So I'm guessing that's her City of Heroes character.

Re: Superhero Universes, A to Z Yes but they didn't have much of a universe. On the other hand the Secret World is growing pretty big.

http://www.cccpgroup.us/info.php?ID=1 http://www.secretworldchronicle.com/ The CCCP is obviously a great place to shop for cold war super opponents and the chronicle has some interesting world building.

Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II Yeah, Iron Ace is a particular favourite of mine.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings If this is the 21st century, where is my flying car?

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Contract Lover: A Chinese movie that is the closest I've seen in a foreign film to an exact duplicate of an American-style romantic comedy. A man hires the heroine to be his obnoxious supposed girlfriend so that her misbehaviour will make them welcome his real girlfriend, but finds his supposedly traditionalist family to be weirdly open and forgiving. Her best friend a westerner who plays his part blatantly gay has the best scenes.

Re: A strange setting: Trekkian alien supers

Re: A strange setting: Trekkian alien supers

Re: How likely would your character kill? Of course I don't think that applies when the bad guy is the character's hunted. There's a reason why Hunted is a disadvantage. People keep bringing up the Joker in this regard, but you know, you just know, that if someone killed the Joker, it would turn out to be some brainwashed sap in the makeup.

Re: Organic I might mention that I was inspired by Naruto, where while most superpowers are acquired by training, some people have heritable powers that can be stolen by transplanting their body parts.

Re: Superhero Universes, A to Z Milestone's Universe should be Q, for the "Quantum Juice" that caused the Big Bang.

Re: Organic Do you remember She-Hulk's origin story? Or Patriot from the Young Avengers?

A powerful hero, one with innate superpowers, one you know and respect is on life support in a superteam's infirmary. As best as you can tell (and the equipment is way better than that of a real hospital), he's braindead. A powerful superhuman healer has given his best shot and confirmed that although most of the body has been fixed, the brain is beyond his help. You go through his civilian wallet for next-of-kin and note that he signed his organ donor card. His blood type is that of a "universal donor". Do you let them harvest?

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Re: Superhero Universes, A to Z

Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II Well it could float and it really was hard to melt the stuff, but the sheer mass of it would have made it nigh impossible to move.

Re: Golden Age Resources: Superweapons of WW II I don't have a link but I do know that the Germans did do some work on a suborbital antipodal bomber which would in theory drop a "dirty bomb" on North America.

Re: Superheroes and lethal force It suffers from the problem that he could not have been acquitted. Assuming he pled guilty they'd go straight to sentencing.

Re: How to make an ice planet plausible Compromise. The only land is on the polar continents, so it's all frozen, but the oxygen is produced by plantlife in the equatorial ocean that bands the world.

Re: how do you deal with guns and superheroes in your campaign

Re: Disturbing Character premises...

Re: how do you deal with guns and superheroes in your campaign