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Re: Civil War Yes but never before has the proposed plan been so blatantly oppressive that nobody's character could concievably cooperate with it.

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Re: WWYCD: Welcome Divinity? Yeah but Misery wants to save human from extinction 50 years in the future and she's a street-level character.

Re: Panspermia, anyone?

Re: Civil War You forgot to mention that from now on all heroes will have to sing 80s power ballads while in combat.

Re: WWYCD: Registration Payback The Wizard of Oz Incorporated modifies an MRI machine to zap the nanobots and turns a nice profit. He is unmoved by the political issues. He has no secret identity and doesn't consider this turnabout since politicians don't have a secret identity either.

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week Why is she blonde anyway?

Re: Panspermia, anyone? The trick is getting them into the nuclei in the first place.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? The size of the universe in toto doesn't matter, since there wouldn't be time for life to get here from anywhere except the very closest stars. And of course you'd need an actual method for the life to travel not merely though the atmosphere, but into the heart of that asteroid from where-ever it did originate.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Not especially since we're talking terraforming efforts that would have to occur hundreds of millions of years ago to cover Earth, although later traffic might account for it. But then my galaxy of humanoids is set 50,000 years in the future. We are the precursors.

Re: Panspermia, anyone? Gaming-wise there is an appeal to panspermia. It justifies having a galaxy full of life and even having the life being more or less interedible. It works better though if you have a means of moving the life at FTL speeds by some hypothetical precursor species though.

Re: WWYCD: Dumb, Da-Dumb, Dumb, Dumb... Riptide would make a geographical map of the incidents and figure out what at the center of the circle of maximum activity. Then watch it at a cautious distance. If that doesn't turn anything up, he'll go the long and slow right by questioning the subjects and seeing if they met someone new and ideally mysterious in the past week or so.

Re: WWYCD: King Arthur's back Or not. I don't have any characters who would instantly leap to the conclusion that some unsigned prophecy is automatically true. Could just be a folkstory. And since none of my characters live in Britain, if he's near them then obviously the crisis if it is coming isn't yet upon them.

Re: WWYCD: King Arthur's back About what? This would be a lot more interesting a question if he was trying to take his rightful place as High King of Britain.

Re: WWYCD: Once bitten . . . Riptide in fear of losing his self-control in combat and draining some poor super-villain dry, would retire from active superheroics and cash in on his celebrity by becoming the drummer in a major rock and roll band while secretly buying blood for himself. I know that because that's what he did when he was infected with vampirism.

Re: The Fortress of Solitude

Re: Reconciling Manga & Batman There's an example of such a "mundane martial artist" in Naruto, Rock Lee. He took all the points the other guys invested in their multipowers or elementals or whatever and put them in SPD. He holds his own.

Re: WWYCD: Welcome Divinity? Riptide: Yeah, sounds good, but before I get into it, just what are you expecting from me afterward? What the rules? Hellfire: Wait, you want to increase my capacity for destruction? Are you insane or just testing me? TN Lung: Power is a distraction from the quest for enlightenment. Misery: Yes.

Re: WWYCD: The Coverup Still, now we know why Speedy turned to drugs. After Green Arrow used his atomic warhead arrow...

Re: WWYCD: The Coverup As long as the mentor's still dead, there's no reason to do anything. I'm a superhero, not a newspaper reporter.

Re: The Incredibles and Registration You may have misinterpreted the question, which was about starting a new game, not converting an old one.

Re: The Incredibles and Registration In theory they should have. All the characters Syndrome killed were in the "NSA files" that were in the bonus CD.

Re: The Incredibles and Registration I suspect it implies that they've already caught the super-criminals and the government had an effective way of dealing with them that took them out of circulation for a very long time if not permanently. Also of course considering how the NSA operates, it seems quite likely that they would occasionally haul a willing superhuman out of retirement to secretly deal with a straggler. Syndrome's massacre of the secret superheroes may have created a power vacuum.

Re: The Incredibles and Registration Except there wasn't much supercrime to start with. There were a grand total of 4 costumed criminals (the only superpowered one of whom actually became a superhero after being caught) revealed to us versus dozens of superheroes. And honestly, I think conventional police forces could have handled Bomb Voyage (aka Bomb Perignon). The biggest effect running into superheroes probably had on him was they helped keep him alive far longer than he would have if he'd just run into cops with guns.

Every time the subject of government registration the answer of course is that (almost) nobody with a secret identity would register, since after all the point of a secret identity is to be secret. A lot of people have their characters with public ID refuse to comply as well out of a belief that this is a violation of civil liberties or likely to be a wicked plot. I've got a different question. Suppose a GM decides what he wants to run is "The Incredibles, TNG". In the The Incredibles, characters all start out with secret identities known to the government, something that probably dates back to their equivalent of World War II. If your secret ID gets blown, then the government gives you and your family a new one complete with lining up a new civilian job for you. The I'm particularly asking the players who would balk at such a change to their established universe. Would you play in such a game?