BobGreenwade

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.

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.)

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Two legendary directors, each a master of the art.

 

Two names similar enough to be confused.

 

Two such contrary styles, two artistic visions so utterly incompatible, that a collaboration is obviously impossible - and yet.....

 

 

 

 

Fritz Lang and Friz Freleng present

 

 

 

M Fudd

A dangerous killer has come to the forest, a man who ruthlessly slays harmless cute furry animals while whistling "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Until Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and their woodland friends turn the tables, and the hunter becomes the hunted. Tricked, trapped, and captured, M. Ur Fudd faces a kangaroo court (with real kangaroos) who demand to know if he can give any reason they should not pass the harshest judgment upon him. Featuring Peter Lorre as the voice of Fudd justifying himself: "But it's hunting season! It's okay to kill animals when it's hunting season!"

 

The Cabinet of Bugs Bunny

Porky Pig becomes convinced that a mesmerizing rabbit and his sleepwalking duck are responsible for a string of mysterious murders. Is Dr. Bugs Bunny an evil mastermind or a harmless charlatan? Porky Pig is determined to find out even if he must submerge his own identity in that of the target of his growing obsession - "I Must Become Bugs Bunny! What's up, Doc?"

 

Marstropolis

In the future, the Martian Invasion has long since succeeded and Marvin the Martian rules his own city in which the Earthling slaves live only to toil away in factories, servicing the incomprehensible Martian machines....for now. Unknown to the Earthlings, an Evil Scientist plots to replace them with robots containing rabbit brains, and has targetted Bugs Bunny as his first brain donor despite Bugs' protest that "I need what little I've got!" But Marvin Jr. is falling in love with a mysterious, beautiful Earthling female rabbit named Maria from whom he learns for the first time of the hardships and suffering of the Earthlings, stirring him to compassion. Can Marvin Jr. convince his father that the people of Earth deserve to live, let alone are entitled to dignity and to share in the fruits of their own labor? Will Marvin and the Evil Scientist carry through with the plan to destroy the Earthlings with an earth splattering "glub glub" and Water, Water, Every Hare? And is the mysterious Maria what she appears to be? Or merely a beautiful wind up doll designed by the Evil Scientist to decieve the Earthlings? Or is it really Bugs Bunny in drag?

 

 

 

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Distributed by Palindromedary Enterprises. Coming soon to a theater near you.

Re: Idea to art by Storn. Year 8

That was my vehicle suggestion. Further details would be left to you and Storn.

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).

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.

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.

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).

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.)

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

You thought these 2 things could not get any worse. But what if we combined them?

 

The remake of Battlefield: Earth directed by Uwe Boll

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?

Re: Space the final frontier

Maybe you mean the Delta Quadrant (the quadrant where USS Voyager ended up)? Alpha and Beta Quadrants are where the Federation' date=' Klingons and Romulans are located; and Gamma Quadrant is where the Dominion is.[/quote']I'd generally thought that Federation et al were just in the Alpha Quadrant.

Also, I strongly suspect that Aspergers / Autism is one of many somethings that UFP medical science had countered. For humans, anyhow - maybe there are sentient alien races out there where this is, more or less, their normal state?

Perhaps they concluded that there was nothing to "cure" except for a cultural tendency to pathologize normal Human variations.

Thank you. This is correct.

It can be done' date=' but the genetic resequencing required is illegal except for severe birth defects. But determined parents can find black market doctors who will do the treatment. The results sometimes backfire badly. Which is part of why it is illegal (the rest being the Federation doesn't want another Khan).

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.

Re: Gorilla Grond - from typo's are mighty heroes made (6E)

Supperman. The REAL Iron Chef

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.

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.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Mechanon's Playhouse

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.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Depends upon whether Will Ferrel has anything to do with it. Nothing against the guy' date=' but every movie he's been in might as well have been titled:[i'] "Will Ferrel Chews up the Scenery at the Expense of the Story".[/i]

He now claims the movie Land of the Lost was a parody. Sort of like his career.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Actually someone could do Land of the Lost in Space, and it probably wouldn't be too terrible....

Re: 300 anti-hydrogen atoms contained for 16 minutes

What's a breeder reactor except an unfocused particle colider?

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.

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.

Re: 300 anti-hydrogen atoms contained for 16 minutes

However... I am also ADHD and dyslexic so I can say with all confidence... Nanny nanny boo boo' date=' stick your head in doo doo. *wink*[/quote']In this case, your dyslexia trumps my Asperger's.

Re: ADVANCED PLAYER'S GUIDE II -- What Do *You* Want To See?

Optional Standard Effect: allow 1/2d6 to have a 2 point standard effect so that you can build standard effect for any number: at present' date=' for example, you can not have a '5 point standard effect' unless you buy a 6 point one and say only 5 points count, which tastes bad.[/quote']I thought that already was the rule. At any rate, that's how I've been working it.

 

Double-checking on 6ER 133, I see that I was in error. And what you say should be the standard rule IMO.

Re: 300 anti-hydrogen atoms contained for 16 minutes

Bobgreenwade

 

Btw... I am on an iPad, and if you have ever used an I-device for typing anything in any length, you will know that the darn thing has its own sens of grammar... Thank you so very much for being a grammar nazi and detracting from the conversation... Let us assume that it was my mistake, you know what I mean...

 

However, you have my apology for my egregious breach of syntax and grammar and will attempt to avoid doing that in the future.