BobGreenwade

Re: Character Class Mottos

Necromancer: People are just dying to work for me!

Swordsman: I study anatomy in my spare time. Care to volunteer yours?*

Priest: Jesus saves sinners and redeems them for valuable prizes.**

Priest: I'm ready to scare the hell out of you.

Barbarian: Aks me a question and I'll ax your skull.

Animal Master: No, in fact, I didn't come here alone.

Oracle: I knew you'd read this.

Bowman: Not the head. Not the heart. I'm aiming even lower than that.

*Yes, there's a double meaning there.

**Seen in real life. On a Lutheran minister. He made it himself.

Re: Turakian Age meets Terran Empire

I actually had started to do up something if this nature, called Space Wizards. (The project is now abandoned for a variety of reasons.)

Re: Science: Particles seen moving at FTL speeds (CERN) (non-climate change thread)

Either way' date=' if they are going FTL all the way or if they are going lots faster than lght for a short jump then STL the rest of the way, current theory says they can't do that. Looks like we get to learn something new![/quote']

 

Current theory says neutrinos can't tunnel?

Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre

I can't tell you how bad it was. Cheryl Ladd and Kris Kristoferson were the stars.

I've seen it, twice. It somehow manages to be both brilliant and horrendous at the same time.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

If those are novels... and with a bit of photoshopping to make Bear there' date=' bare... I mean, shaven... I might be able to get Mark to give his okay on letting me sell 2nd use rights. Let me know when it is closer to the time.[/quote']

 

Oh, it'd be years. I'd want to have Worlds in the setting to represent each of the genres shown, and as of the end of the second story arc (work is under way, but I may have to start over) only about half of them are.

 

And there's no reason Bear couldn't grow a beard in the next few years....

 

Do you mean the cover? $800.00 and that is a bit low. It took me quite a few hours. many' date=' many, many hours. Really, for the amount of time, it should have been around $1100.[/quote']

 

Out of my Price range' date=' but cool.[/quote']

 

A bit out of mine, too. Plus, Adam Schmidt (misteradam on these boards) has done a wonderful job and the covers so far, and I'm hoping to stick with him for the immediate future (assuming I continue to publish them).

 

I was mainly remarking on the eeriness of the experience.

Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre

Every time a classic movie reference is missed Uwi Boll writes another screenplay.

Oh... you were referencing one of the earlier scenes from It's a Wonderful Life. (The George Bailey I thought of when I first read that was from Cleopatra 2525, using the alias Creegan.)

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

Here be the paintin' itself:

What's really wild about this one is that it would be quite at home with one of my future Realm Hunter books. In fact, the central figure even looks a little like my hero, Bear Waters, including the scar through the right eye (Bear is clean shaven and a tad darker, but otherwise that's just about right).

Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre

Was his name George Bailey?

This was a Champions scenario; his name was Grav Master (secret identity: Weldon Dudat).

Where would he have put it?..

He hadn't thought that part through. (Nor a lot of other stuff.)

Re: Bizarre Crimes for Any Genre

Actually I had a villain once, an inventor with gravity-based gadgets, who was trying to steal the moon so he could give it to his girlfriend.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Unforgettable Me

Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See?

Once I saw on the front page that this book had a WDYWTS thread up, I came in to see what I could suggest. As it happens, the original plan covers most of what I'd want to see, and further discussion covers nearly all the rest.

If the Native American section includes Lakota legends, and Berber mythology is touched on somewhere (the final chapter most likely, though it could be the Greek section), I'll be happy.

A discussion (however brief) on how the existence of different pantheons in the same world can be reconciled so that all are true would be welcome. It's a complex and difficult topic, to be sure, and could take an entire book to cover in depth, but a page or so covering the high points would help the world-builders out here.

Remember, too, that a sourcebook of this type can be as much good use to novelists, screenwriters, and other fiction writers just as it is for gamers. The latter are the main target group, of course, but the former should get some love too.

Re: Sound of one hand clapping

I used to be able to clap with just one hand. But that was Zen; this is Tao.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Based upon a concept by SKJAM!

 

 

Big Red

Re: Alphas: Champions or DC:TAS?

It has Dark Champions elements, as RexMundi pointed out, but I'd still call it Champions -- what I like to refer to as "Plainclothes Champions" (in roughly the same vein as The 4400 or Heroes).

Re: A repository of mythical creatures

I think so too. It's sparse on details, but there's enough on each page to help determine whether to use a creature or not. Details can then be dug up elsewhere. (I found a really cool-looking West African vampire that is definitely going into the second Realm Hunter storyline.)

For anyone wanting to include some exotic mythical creature, MythBeasts is the place to look.

Re: Aliens in Dark Champions

Let's not forget the other "alien living in secret on Earth" TV show from back in the '80s' date=' [i']Something Is Out There[/i].

Re: Aliens in Dark Champions

Even the overt presence of aliens can be more DC than SH. Though I have yet to see Alien Nation (either the movie or the TV series -- though I hope to some time), it strikes me as more cop show than sci-fi.

But The X-Files is a good example for keeping ET things covert. You can probably get a few decent ideas from Men in Black and/or Special Unit 2; those had stronger sci-fi elements, but could be "dialed back" to a more cops-and-crooks tone that just happens to include aliens.

Re: What is MIGHTY?

Some suggestions from me:

Young-blooded (refers more directly to the vigor of youth than "Young" or "Youthful")

Yawning (because he can do this stuff in his sleep)

Ypsilantian ("Why Ypsilantian?" "To create confusion." "It worked!")

Yonder (I have no idea why; just throwing it out there)

Yelling (if he has a powerful voice, or uses shouts to pump up adrenaline)

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

This looks like a good group theme for a vigilante character I actually created a few years ago: Post Mortem.

Mortimer Post works as an assistant for the Medical Examiner's office. In the line of his work, he sees nearly every corpse that goes through that institution, from old people who died alone to victims of brutal murders. The latter are the ones that disturb him the most -- especially when the murderers get declared Not Guilty for lack of evidence, or because of some legal technicality.

So he's decided to take matters into his own hands. When he's convinced that a killer has gone free and the police cannot touch him, or when one serves a sentence that he thinks is too light, he takes on the identity of Post Mortem and -- either alone or, more recently, with help from his teammates -- kidnaps the killer. He then slowly, deliberately, and painfully dismantles the killer's body over a period of the next month, taking away fingers, toes, teeth, and other parts in intervals of a few hours, always with his target alive and conscious at the time. These parts are sent by mail to the target's family, friends, and (especially in the case of organized crime figures) associates, until finally whatever's left when he has to finally kill the target gets dumped near a police station.

This, he figures, is one thing that will strike true fear into the hearts of murderers and gangsters.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Very nice work, Jack. Repped.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Now I can't get the image of Animal singing "Tomorrow' date=' Tomorrow" out of my head![/quote']Of course, like his turn in the "Muppet Bohemian Rhapsody," the word "Tomorrow" is the extent of his lyric.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team!

Sadly, I must spread more Rep before giving more to Enforcer84.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Little Orphan Animal

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

 

Doc Terror