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Re: Trying to figure out a good villain name Professional circus clowns in the 1920s didn't have stage names. After all they weren't the star performers so the ringmasters didn't introduce them to the audience and they didn't hang around long enough to get known as individual performers to the rubes. Clown stage names are mostly for ones who rent themselves out to parties or host TV shows or something. But since most supervillains do have stage names, how about Hellequin? http://130.88.203.109/languages/culturevulture/general/harlequin/

Re: Humans are "Special" Hunh. Music. Protoculture. Now there's an idea for a special power for humans.

Re: Humans are "Special" Well yeah. I was pointing out that humans looked pretty inferior compared to everyone else in Ben 10, after all.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I understand Sailor Moon is a Harsh Mistress.

Re: Sand Staff Hunh? Isn't HtH inherent in Hand Attack?

Re: Help me make Awesome Presence Oh I agree. It isn't more than minor. But it isn't cosmetic. It isn't just changing the way things look or seem.

Re: Help me make Awesome Presence

Re: What Age?

Re: What's in a Name OK First Wave: Out to 20 light years. Planets initially discovered by Starwisp probes are colonised by fusion rockets launched by Earth's nation. Names are from Earth mythology. Second Wave: Out to 40 light years by reactionless drive. Names reflect the ideologies and religions of the "colonists" who are sent out by the Pax as a means of getting rid of their opponents. Third Wave: Slow hyperdrive means that worlds that aren't habitable are now being colonised by corporations to act as trade links and mining colonies. They tend to end up being named disparagingly by the actual colonists. Fourth Wave: Fast Hyperdrive takes colonisation beyond the 40 light year sphere.

Re: WHY is combat so slow and what have you done about it?

Re: Superhero Legal Disclaimers Interrupting soliliquys is against the rules. Hence this legal disclaimer: For Love and Justice, the pretty sailor suited soldier Sailor Moon! In the name of the moon I will punish you!

Re: Designing Interstellar Cultures Oh sure we can...bearing in mind that we don't get an indepth look at yer Klingons and Romulans all that much. For example there was a TNG episode where one of the Klingon worlds was rebelling, but we never even met the rebels and found out just what their beef was. Later on I saw a world of pacifist Klingon-Romulan hybrids. Don't get much more different from the supposedly homogenous Klingon culture than that. But in part it's like looking a face of another race. You have to spend a lot of time looking at the faces of a visually distinct ethnic grouping before you stop thinking how different they look from your lot, and start thinking how they look different from each other. But apart from that, another consideration is that actual cultural differentiation requires communication barriers. Establish your colony on Mars but give them 24 hour access to all those Earth TV channels, and they will not be a terribly distinct society from the Earth society that founded them. They'll talk pretty much the same, and they'll imbibe the same attitudes about life and right and wrong.

Re: Superhero Legal Disclaimers Or you can save time by dressing in primary colours with a cape. If that doesn't say "I'm a metahuman" I don't know what will. In fact, that makes a pretty good justification for heroes to get into costume before swinging into action even when they have no secret identity. If the law requires them to identify themselves to perpetrators, police and bystanders, then wearing a distinctive suit of clothing that nobody sane would wear if they didn't have powers, that might be just the ticket. In which case the verbal disclaimer would only be necessary for people who happen to be in civvies. In which case the boilerplate might be something like "This is a citizen's arrest. I have metahuman powers and I will use them in my defense if you resist."

Re: Astrophysics question

Re: What's in a Name Yes and no. That's what they do with objects they don't find particularly interesting or that they aren't entirely sure actually exist. But they are still naming objects like Eris and Sedna because of their size and proximity, and should they discover life-bearing planets in space, they will certainly want to name them.

Re: WWYCD: The Life Pod Riptide: She's teh hawtness, isn't she? How is not defrosting her even an option? Wizard: Figure out just how long the stasis pod has before it runs out of power anyway. Hellfire: We're in the business of helping people, aren't we?

Re: Isis and Solara On the whole I find NPC opponents more useful than NPC heroes.

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Re: Grandiose Schemes Use the Gay Bomb, http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_159222541.html on a major population center.

Re: Points Equality The point of having a point budget is not to make all the characters equal. After all, you can give me an infinite number of points and I can still use them to create Xander if I feel so inclined. You can always create a less-powerful or effective character. The reason for a point budget is to define, more or less, an upper limit to how powerful and versatile the characters can be at the start of the game. It lends structure to the character design process.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I'm not sure I see the problem. Situations like that crop up all through history

Re: What would your character Dream: The Hero who has everything Hellfire would dream of being married to the Canadian Shield. However this would fall apart as she'd find herself inexplicably attracted to her real husband. The Wizard of Oz Incorporated would dream of being world-famous as the inventor who catapulted the whole world into a future of flying cars, robots and space colonisation. But then the robots rebel... Riptide would dream of a world in which his mother was still alive and he had never become a superhero, instead pursuing his pop music career.

Re: Humans are "Special"

Ever watch Ben 10? Notice how pathetic humans seem to be? Everyone else seems to have these superkeen powers. Are we just the lameoids of the universe or what? Suppose you were setting up the Galaxy Legion, a team which takes the most formidable individuals from each of a bunch of species like that. What would you set off as the human specialty, the thing we do that they can't?

Re: Democratic Republics in Fantasy Worlds? Not as long as we can simply refrain from refueling them.