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Re: Golden Age Superheroes as Pulp Heroes Ala Truth: Red, White and Black?

Re: Matriarchial Societies One common fanon interpretation of Vulcan was that it was a matriarchy based on the old bats who seemed to run the ceremonies even though that conflicted with T'Pau's warning to T'Pring about the possible consequences of challenging the betrothal. Personally I thought that it was actually a gerontocracy, and women simply have higher average life expectancies on Vulcan.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? I just watched Advent Children despite never having played Final Fantasy. Pretty pictures.

Re: Which is faster, Gravity or Light? If that were true then it would be possible to talk to the past and have it answer back.

Re: Which is faster, Gravity or Light? So far as we know, shifts in gravity propagate at the speed of light.

Re: Matriarchial Societies No. Yes, a lot of women want to hold their baby in their arms. That doesn't translate into an abstract general desire to have everyone else reproduce more or even to have a really large family for themselves. Women have been leaders in the cause to develop and legitimise birth control because it acutely relates to their self interest.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I'm listening to this dance club version of Sarah Maclachlan's Sweet Surrender. Frankly, I find it annoying.

Re: New Game: Remnants of Hope Is "Spider" an element?

Re: Matriarchial Societies

Re: How common are guns If the GM let's you take it at that frequency that's what it should mean. Of course the GM would be within his rights to say "No, you would be facing the proximity of iron more often than Rarely so you can't take it at Rare". Obviously GM and player need to get on the same page.

Re: New Game: Remnants of Hope She looks human, yes. I tried to do something different with an arachnid character, so no webbing but instead she shrinks. She's optimised to be a spy. Of course she powers up easily enough just by giving her a little training and a lot of food.

Re: Amalgam Universe Campaign How do you pronounce OMMTBH?

Re: Matriarchial Societies Are they scarier when they are a world of hot telepathic men?

Re: Democratic Republics in Fantasy Worlds? No, they really aren't. You have to know how to drill to make polearms effective. Otherwise a few men on horseback can tear right through you.

Re: WWYCD: Grrrl Power- emphasis on Grrr Sounds like a richly deserved fate.

Re: New Game: Remnants of Hope Well here's a rough draft of Recluse Recluse 25 STR 15 30 DEX 60 18 CON 16 30 BODY 40 18 INT 8 20 EGO 20 10 PRE 0 10 COM 0 5 PD 0 4 ED 0 6 SPD 20 9 REC 0 36 END 0 54 STUN 2 Characteristics Cost: 181 20 "Spider sensitivity to the slightest tremor" Ranged, Discriminatory, Targeting Touch 10 "Yes, I can stick to things" +0 STR Clinging 20 +10 Enhanced PER,"Touch",Detect 33 "The size of a large spider" 5 LVLS Shrinking(64mm,3.2g,+10 DCV,+15 KB),x2 Increased End Cost(-1/2) 10 10 "Yes, I can stick you together" Healing 1 10 "Wolfspider leaping" +10" Superleap 3 45 "Yes I can stick you to things" 3D6 Entangle,entangle not damaged 4 3 Acrobatics 15- 3 Breakfall 15- 3 Contortionist 15- 3 Survival 11- 3 Paramedic 13- 6 AK: Home City 15- 3 Shadowing 11- 3 Stealth 15- 3 Streetwise 11- 3 Concealment 13- 15 5 Levels: Stealth, Shadowing, Concealment 3 Security Systems 13- 5 Defense Maneuver Powers Cost: 204 Total Cost: 385 Base Points: 350 15 Psych Lim,"Shy",very common,moderate 15 Psych Lim,"In Love",common,strong 5 Hunted,"Local Official",less powerful,non-combat influence, limited area,harsh,appear 8- Disadvantages Total: 35 Experience Spent: 0 Total Points: 385 Her parents were killed when she was very young and she grew up alone doing nothing but honing her incredibly tuned ability to avoid everyone. She only made an exception for a local official who began his rise to tyrannical middle management with the denunciation of her parents. She stole from him on a regular basis. Then one day she saw someone special and powerful, someone who was trying to help people, and she fell in love with all the demented fervour of an adolescent. She started stalking him. Maybe he'd need help? And if she helped, maybe he'd be impressed?

Re: WWYCD: Grrrl Power- emphasis on Grrr Hellfire: Almost immediately gets into a brawl with a team-mate and ends up getting locked up. Poet: Probably ignores it. While Sonnet is technically female she's a ghost and powerless without his cooperation. If it does work on her, then his powers go on the fritz anyway, and the effect probably doesn't work on ghosts anyway. He's concerned with the living only when they kill. The Wizard of Oz Incorporated: Retreats into his lab, locks the door against his girlfriend and her bear, builds a gizmo to detect the broadcast and triangulates to find the source. Riptide: Agrees he isn't fit to run the team and asks his female team-mate how she's going to go about tracking down the mental influence that is influencing men to make them more annoying and incompetent.

Re: Pirates : An amusing question. Guys with long term plans are exactly the kind of guys who would build a trapped hidey-hole for the loot they are saving up to hire their mercenary army or whatever. Of course that applies less to an individual big haul than a series of lesser, and less conveniently portable hauls.

Re: How common are guns This is one of those cases where the level you get the vulnerability at determines how often people will throw their guns.

Re: Matriarchial Societies I know the Navajo were matrilocal, but what were their divorce customs like and how were decisions of public policy made?

Re: Matriarchial Societies What I always wanted to do was a Golden Age world war II storyline where Hitler adds an extraterrestrial ally, an evil dominatrix type dictator from the world of Amazons who is not actually going to be all that much use to the Axis because she's fighting an alliance of the nicer Amazons already. But the heroes go there, meet the local superheroines, just so I can have them say:

Re: Silver Age and tragedy Not at all. A staple of Silver Age Superman was the old "Hey I can travel in time so why don't I undo my parents deaths" story. He revisited those tragedies in his life more than once and never with a happy ending. Spider-Man's loss of Uncle Ben, Doctor Strange's stint as an alchoholic street person, Steve Trevor's death in 1968...the Silver Age wasn't all sunshine and lollipops. The difference of course is that the Silver Age person isn't going to use their tragedy as an excuse to leave a trail of bodies of deceased walk-ons.

Re: Democratic Republics in Fantasy Worlds? There are two basic problems with creating a genuinely democratic republic in a low-tech fantasy environment. The first is a lack of a publishing industry, meaning that the bulk of a large population will be uninformed and very probably illiterate. This can be gotten around by having your community be so small that people don't need books and newspapers to learn what's going one but in such a community there's not much need for representative. You can probably stick with a townhall democracy unless the population are simply too apathetic to concern themselves with public affairs. Most historical representave republics were in fact oligarchies, often with strong plutocratic elements. The second and probably worse problem is that, in the absence of generally distributed effective weapons any idiot can be dangerous with, even against a pro, and the absence of the requirement for an elaborate working logistical structure to keep the professionals supplied with things like ammo and fuel, there is a much greater power imbalance between the warrior class and the noncombatants. The introduction of magic only worsens this problem. Whether it's the superhuman warriors and magicians of Exalted and D&D, or even just the Hero and GURPs characters wearing OAFs and gadgets that boost their DR, a small force of professionals can sweep away a positive horde of normal poor men. Egalitarianism only works when people really can meet on more or less equal terms. That being said, I do have an idea of a nation reigned over by a sub-society of magicians who, being fully occupied in their magical studies most of the time, let their subjects elect representatives who actually run the place.

Re: Life Force Control? Stormswift, Scirocco, Velocity, Raptor Tailwind?

Re: OIHID and/or Focus