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  2. What is Your Favorite Item?

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Dust of Dragon's Teeth

    This is a dust that acts like the mythological dragon's teeth. Sprinkle a pinch on the ground, and a moment later up pops an armed and armored warrior.

     

    I don't know where the GM got this idea, but he was off on his math. After an encounter, the PC's found a pouch with a pound of this stuff. One PC (Tucker, I think) grabbed this up and held on to it for a while. Eventually, the group faced a big bad, a monstrous creature that was nearly immune to their attacks. Tucker made a great roll to throw this pouch into the creatures mouth, then the player brought up Google on his laptop and showed the GM that there are 16 pinches to a teaspoon and 96 teaspoons to a pound. 1,536 warriors suddenly spawned in the creature's gullet.

  4. league of extraordinary PULP HEROs

    in Pulp Hero

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    SORA-HIME

    "Sky-Princess"

     

    A miko (Shinto shrine maiden) living in Tokyo, Michiko Yamori first encountered Captain Lance Pallant and the crew of the Airracuda when the good Captain was embroiled in the midst of the infamous "Case of the One Hundred Hungry Ghosts." In the course of the case (which involved a plot to raise the dead and use them to rob from the living) Michiko not only helped the brave Captain (and his crew) solve the case, but proved her worth as an unarmed fighter (through the use of her jujutsu skills), used her knowledge of the supernatural to help deduce what was happening, and put her miko skills to the test in personally defeating several gaki (hungry ghosts). Impressed with her bravery, spunk, and skill (not to mention her obvious physical charms), Captain Pallant asked her to join him as one of the crew. Michiko, who found her recent adventure far more to her liking than her former tranquil temple life, readily accepted.

     

    Together, the crew of the Airracuda ranged the length and breadth of the Far East, engaging in a life of high-adventure aboard their custom outfitted Sikorsky S-38 flying boat. In between cargo and passenger runs, they battled bandits and pirates, foiled criminal masterminds, fought with Triad and Yakuza gangsters, and occasionally encountered supernatural menaces of all sorts. Along the way, Michiko not only learned to fly the Airracuda herself, but became quite the skilled pilot, eventually acquiring the nickname Sora-hime ("sky princess").

     

    Alas, the story of Captain Pallant, Sora-hime his love, and the rest of the Airracuda crew doesn't end on a happy note. The plane vanished over China in late 1938, the presumed victims of an Imperial Japanese air patrol. No wreckage has ever been found, and it is thought the passage of time has done more than enough to destroy any evidence of the plane. However, there are some, usually those skilled in the mystic arts, who claim the plane actually flew to the lost city of Shangri-la, where its passengers still dwell today.

     

    sora_hime.jpg

     

    Her character sheet:

    http://surbrook.devermore.net/original/pulp/sorahime.html

     

    The rest of the crew are (still) under construction.

     

    Great character, though from her picture I imagine she went through a lot of double sided tape keeping the top of her robe positioned just so. Did she get a bonus to PRE vs. humans of the appropriate sexuality?

  6. dark champions with pulp hero ancestors

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: dark champions with pulp hero ancestors

     

    I heard of a guy who told his players he wanted to run an experiment and handed each player a 150 pt. pulp character, and a 250 pt. dynastic vigilante character that was a (grand)child or niece/nephew of the first. He ran three sessions with the pulp characters in 1936, then ran three sessions with the vigilantes in 1976. He then had the players make up dynastic 350 pt. supers in 2016. It seems like a lot of time and work to me, but it provided a lot of history and background for the characters and lots of hooks for the GM.

  8. Evil Schemes for the Average Megalomaniac

    in Champions

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    Re: Evil Schemes for the Average Megalomaniac

     

     

    New super-power granting energy drink is put on the market. The powers are temporary and randomly generated with each use' date=' causing many accidents when people gain superstrength, heat vision, and flight. The drink is tecnically legal, but between the accidents and criminal use, the damage is too much for the heroes to handle. Bribed politicians are turning a blind eye and having such power is becoming addictive. "Supply shortages" cause riots giving the President of the company increasing power, influence, and wealth. The law is not on the PCs' side of the conflict, but they have to do something![/quote']

     

    this one sound sounds good

     

     

    I wouldn't make it every bottle of this energy drink, rather more like 1:100 or 1:1000. This way, the manufacturer can claim someone is tampering with their product, while still reaping the benefits of everyone trying to get one of the superpower inducing bottles. Then, the heroes can investigate whether it really is the company, or if someone really is tampering. And, either way, why give random people superpowers? Is it just to drive up demand and make the company money that hasn't been seen since Viagra, or is there something more sinister?

     

    Maybe the powers aren't so temporary. Or so benign.

     

    Maybe, after three or five or ten doses, the consumer...changes.

  9. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

    in Champions

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    "There is no Gnomish god of Forensic Proctology' date=' either."[/quote']

     

     

    Heh, that reminds me of the "100 things I'm not allowed to do while gaming." I can't find the original I read, but here's a link to something similar over on Giant in the Playground.

     

    Example:

    3. There is no Gnomish god of heavy artillery.

     

    or

     

    22. There is no such thing as a Gnomish Pygmy War Rhino.

  10. Evil Schemes for the Average Megalomaniac

    in Champions

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    Re: Evil Schemes for the Average Megalomaniac

     

    Does the Atomic Khan work alone? Or, like Dr. Destroyer, does he have a private army? If so, and if you don't mind a bit of a bait and switch, I'd try something like this:

     

    There is a crime wave in the city, with nightly thefts of large amounts of mundane items. Three tons of rhinestones from a costume jewelry factory, 1000 cubic yards of synthetic batting from a mattress manufacturer, 2000 gallons of dish soap, etc. The heroes are brought in when a witness at the latest theft reports that the thieves were soldiers of the Atomic Khan! Further investigation at other thefts will turn up corroborating evidence. You can throw in twists and turns, confounding your players with the random nature of the thefts, maybe throwing out hints of dire concoctions that can be made by combining rhinestones and dish soap, with a final confrontation with the Atomic Khan himself! After a hard fight, they take the Khan down -- only to find out he's a robot! A robot put in place who knows how long ago, but long enough for his programming to degrade.

     

    Ok, maybe not the best idea, but at least you wouldn't have to worry about not portraying the Atomic Khan as a genius...

  18. "Neat" Pictures

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    Re: "Neat" Pictures

     

    Doesn't' date=' still end up getting re-routed to a porn site.[/quote']

     

    Well, I couldn't find a clean link to the pic(like google cache or something), so I just deleted the post.

     

    EDIT:

    Ok, so after all this, I went ahead and hosted a copy of the pic. Finally, a clean copy:

     

    sanddragon

  20. I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

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    Re: I have a dream. (and MAN was it wierd!)

     

    I had a dream the other night that my 2 year old daughter and I were on the second or third level of a large mall, and somehow she kept slipping out of my grasp and _almost_ falling off the balcony. She kept climbing over the railing, or slipping between the bars, or almost falling into a random unmarked hole in the floor...

  21. Disadvantages that Kill!

    in Champions

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    Re: Disadvantages that Kill!

     

    Anyway the character had a morbid fear of badgers. He also had a demented follower, who happened to have a stuffed badger ...

     

    I like all of these posts, but this bit really caught my attention. Did the player come up with characters like this often?

     

    EDIT: I must spread some rep, blah, blah, blah...

  22. [Campaign] The Fearless Monster Hunters

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: [Campaign] The Fearless Monster Hunters

     

    After nearly a year and a half of running the Fearless Monster Hunters weekly, I've decided to put the game on temporary hiatus. Could be a few weeks, could be a few months before we get back to it. I've just gotten a little burned out; ideas are harder and harder to come by, and I don't feel like I've been on the top of my GM game lately. So rather than keep running until I'm completely wiped out, I've decided to put the game on pause (we seem to be at a pretty good stopping point) and let someone else run for a while. Recharge my GM batteries, as it were.

     

    Thanks to everyone for reading about our adventures! :)

     

    Thank you for sharing your adventures! :)

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