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BobGreenwade

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  1. Re: Mathematics based mental attacks? If he does advanced math in his head, he could have some kind of throwing weapon(s) with something like +8 Combat Skill Levels used for Bouncing his attack. He sees and calculates angles, energy transfer, and other factors so quickly and precisely that he can ricochet off virtually anything. Also, there was an episode of (I think) Fringe where a super-brilliant guy with a deadly vendetta had a unique way of killing his targets: he'd make some tiny adjustment to the environment that would set off a chain of events soon leading to his targets' death. I'm not sure how to model this in Hero (probably some combination of Precognition and Mind Control), but it's worth thinking about.
  2. Re: 12 oldest continuously inhabited cities Actually I find this quite an interesting list. I'd been trying to figure out something for a certain ancient macguffin in the second Realm Hunter story arc, and this has me narrowing it down to Argos, Luoyang, or Varanasi. (In case anyone wants to make a recommendation: the macguffin in question is an item of great cosmic power, with connections to a person's spirit. Luoyang is the least likely of the three, not because of Lawnmower Boy's commentary but because I may decide to do something else with it in a possible third arc.)
  3. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Must spread rep....
  4. Re: Idea to art by Storn. Year 8 That was my vehicle suggestion. Further details would be left to you and Storn.
  5. Re: Urban Fantasy Hero Book of Power: the Blood Qur'an Definitely potential fodder for a Warehouse 13 episode (or a game based on the concept).
  6. Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Though suffering from a slight unnamed mental illness for most of her life, Lin Walking Bear lived a peaceful, normal life for many years. Her father was a policeman in the Sisseton, in the Lake Traverse Indian Reservation, and her mother was a political refugee from Tibet. She learned her father's skill at firearms, and her mother's ways of kung fu, and passionately came to know and love her heritage on both sides. Then, when Lin was seventeen, horror struck her home: criminals whom her father had jailed for relatively small crimes took their revenge by gunning down her parents in front of their home. She was on her way home from school at the time, and found their bodies lying out front. This impassioned her. Now, under the moniker Metal Dragon, she seeks to put down all criminals with the steel of her sword, the lead of her bullets, and occasionally other metals (including bullets laced with silver or depleted uranium, or arsenic placed in food and drink). She even found a way to pay for her college education and become a metallurgist -- and there's hardly a metal on the periodic table that she hasn't found a way to utilize as some sort of weapon. The criminals who killed her parents had been petty criminals -- there had been no clue that they were about to commit murder. Now her attitude is that all habitual criminals are potential murderers, and seeks to destroy them for the good of society. She now makes her home in Grand Forks, where she works as an assistant professor at the University of North Dakota while staying close to her surviving family in Sisseton.
  7. Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! For some reason I want the Draconians to represent the Eastern five elements, and be named Fire Dragon, Water Dragon, Earth Dragon, Metal Dragon, and Wood Dragon, or variations thereof. I have an idea for Metal Dragon; I'll hold off on it, though, until I see whether others want to follow that pattern.
  8. Re: Idea to art by Storn. Year 8 What about vehicles? Just for giggles, I've been contemplating what it would look like to turn a 1968 Volkswagen Beetle into a monster truck (with wheels bigger than the chassis).
  9. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares We could also have: The Man in the Iron Mask (For best effect I recommend clicking or hovering over the links in order from last to first.)
  10. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares And starring Casper Van Diem.
  11. A couple of weeks ago, I finally got enough quiet time to watch Cat-Women of the Moon, a "so-bad-it's-good" 1953 sci-fi movie that has fell into the public domain in 1981. While watching it, I kind of wonder... with some (obvious) cosmetic changes, could the title characters be a decent basis for a Nekojin-type alien species? Their abilities seem to include reading surface and subsurface thoughts, mental domination of the same gender, and teleportation. So what do you think?
  12. Re: Space the final frontier Thank you. This is correct. A couple of Dr. Bashir's engineered friends (the ones who were brilliant institutionalized) would be examples of how intellectual brilliance and social difficulties can go hand-in-hand. Those individuals were sufficiently impaired that, even in the all-inclusive Federation, institutional help was needed. OTOH, while someone like Thomas Jefferson could never become President today, I could see it happening in the Federation.
  13. Re: Gorilla Grond - from typo's are mighty heroes made (6E) That's the best Superman "typo" I've seen yet. It looks like a realistic typo, and it still turns into a usable concept complete with an outstanding nickname.
  14. Re: Space the final frontier Personally I've long thought it would be cool to have a post-Voyager mission to the Beta Quadrant. That would give the Enterprise/TOS sense of wonder from exploration of new territory, latter-day relations among species, advanced tech, and the potential for stories involving the Borg, Q, and other cosmic-level threats. Plus, I thought to staff the crew with the most unlikely possible ideas: a Klingon doctor, a Vulcan counselor, a Chief Engineer with manifest Asperger's/autism, and perhaps even a ship's attorney.
  15. Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Kevin Osborne, alias Electrode, is ACME's resident weapons crafter. Given his own mind, he builds weapons that shoot some form of electric-based energy (plasma, ions, lightning, etc.), but he's adept at anything, including custom-built conventional firearms. He does this thanks to a brain implant (possibly the work of a colleague in ACME) that gives him and enhanced perception of energy storage and conversion. He's in this mostly for the money... though if the client is female or has close female associates another form of payment can be arranged.
  16. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Mechanon's Playhouse
  17. Re: What if the M.U. was consistent? I'm a fan of holding closely to Marvel's own continuity, but with one major changing point: events happened approximately when they were seen in comics in the real world. Reed and Sue Richards have retired from active duty in the Fantastic Four, becoming mentors; Franklin and Valeria have taken their place. Johnny Storm was recently killed in action, and Spider-Man invited to take his place (at least temporarily). The Thing, whose powers retarded his aging, is the last active founding member. Speaking of Spider-Man, Peter Parker retired from that title in the 1990s, giving it over to his son Ben. Peter is now the editor in chief of the Daily Bugle. Ben's spider-powers aren't as powerful as his father's, so he relies more on gadgetry and training. Like the Thing, the Hulk has a slower aging system; he started in his early forties, but even as Bruce Banner looks like a well-preserved sixty-year-old than the nonagenarian he actually is. Similarly, Doctor Strange's magic has kept him relatively youthful over the years. Professor X actually died in the Messiah Complex event. By then, Cyclops had already taken over the daily operations of the school, and while he closed it down for a while he's now re-opened it with help from the others. The X-Men roster is roughly what it is now; the original and second-wave members are mainly instructors and commanders, with the younger members handling most of the field work. After Tony Stark gave up on his alcohol abuse, he let James Rhodes take over as Iron Man full-time -- it wasn't just the booze that was slowing him down, but advancing age and advancing complications with his heart. As Rhodey starts showing his age, he's starting to look at retiring as well, and Tony's thinking of using what was learned in the "sentient armor" incident to make an android for Iron Man III. I'm sure by now you get the general idea.
  18. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Yeah' date=' the trailers (for [i']Land of the Lost[/i]) were enough to make me want to not see the movie. I could pontificate on what makes a good redux, but suffice it to say that the LotL IP is now shredded for an entire generation of potential fans.
  19. Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Actually someone could do Land of the Lost in Space, and it probably wouldn't be too terrible....
  20. Re: 300 anti-hydrogen atoms contained for 16 minutes Um... an unprecedented nuclear disaster waiting to happen?
  21. Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Smart Alec -- Actually, his middle name is Alec, but he loves the English expression. He's Polish, and was educated at MIT where he heard just too many "dumb Polack" jokes. (He takes no comfort in the knowledge that, in America at least, those jokes have since been transferred to blondes.) He now uses his technical genius to turn those jokes around in acts of massive sabotage. He started by blowing out just the right light bulbs on the largest marquee in Monaco to question how many it will take to change them.
  22. Re: Uh Oh. Whats the story here? Some look at a pumpkin and see it as food. Others look at a pumpkin and see it as a Jack-o'-lantern. I look at a pumpkin and see it as AMMUNITION.
  23. Re: 300 anti-hydrogen atoms contained for 16 minutes
  24. Re: 300 anti-hydrogen atoms contained for 16 minutes That it was the iPad's fault is completely legitimate. If you haven't already complained to them, you'd be completely justified to do so now. (It's a good reason for me to not buy one, or at least not use it for that purpose; YMMV.)
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