BoloOfEarth

That horse looks Photoshopped in.

Hope it clears out quickly and you're feeling better soon. Take care.

I find it interesting that nearly a third of the states can't spell "porn".

Yeah, they briefly became Kentucky Fried Children.

Well, you should stop doing that before you go blind.

I'm rather insulted that Justin Bieber is considered an Average Human.

True, but we gamers do tend to gloss over the real-world financial / maintenance / other aspects of various supervillain lairs, particularly large underground bases, so why penalize the heroes? If a former shopping mall is used in secret - the place is boarded up and seemingly deserted - I can't see why one can't be used for a superhero base. No reason the "boarded-over" windows and skylights can't be reinforced to make the base secure enough.

a) Yes, because I save the notes in a Word document (named something like Adv20220524 AdvTitle.docx). I don't often tell the players the title of the adventure. b) Almost always. At the campaign start, I give the players extra XP for: 5 for background / origin story 5 for character picture or semi-detailed description 5 for non-DNPC NPCs to help flesh out the world. For the villains, I also give 15 additional XP (which keeps things balanced), based on the full writeup (Background / Origin, as well as Personality, Powers / Tactics, Quote, and Appearance) as well as character picture. It's only fair. c) Almost never. At some point, each gets a few paragraphs of text, as well as a picture. d) Not props, per se, but my battlemaps are famous (infamous?) among our group for the little details I draw on them. When my game got delayed a week, one of my players commented, "Great, that means he's going to add potted plants to the map." For one VIPER Base (where the Nest Leader was obsessed with robots), I drew in various TV and movie robots (overhead views) scattered about and the players tried to guess which was which. As to props, I've made cardboard cutouts of pallets (blank and full of boxes or barrels) as well as forklifts for the ever-popular villain warehouse lairs. I think it makes the map seem more realistic. Semi-prop like, I type up a news sheet for each game and email a PDF of it to the players prior to the game. (For a past campaign, it was the Hero.Net Herald. For the current game, it's the Meta Gazette.) It is created and marketed to superheroes and is rumored to either be run by or employs a psychic who includes news items that would be of interest to the recipient. (So a hero in LA might get different articles than a hero in San Francisco, including articles that aren't necessarily local to that hero but might involve him that adventure.) In-game, a physical copy of the news simply appears near the hero when he's not looking, which some paranoid players found a bit disconcerting. For a 1920s-based game (Fellowship of the White Star) I almost always have telegrams that I hand out to the players to bring them into the next adventure. e) There are often details, either about individual villains or the adventure plot, that the players are almost surely never going to know. However, I put them in there to either amuse myself or to provide context or background in case the players dig deep enough. For example, I decided a character with Duplication named all of his 32 duplicates after the Lectroids from the Eighth Dimension from Buckaroo Banzai (John Wharfin, John Smallberries, etc.). I got the list from a screenshot as one of the Cavaliers hacked into Yoyodyne's computer system. I don't know how, but after meeting just two of the duplicates (each with relatively normal names like John Edwards and John Lee) one of the players managed to guess the Buckaroo Banzai connection.

Donald J Trump. Or am I repeating Pariah's answer?

Herb Alpert, Herbert Hoover, the Spice Girls...

Actual, tasty food.

It was all due to a copier jam at the library next to the Hero Games offices. We're still trying to figure it out. NT: Unforeseen consequences of suddenly having flying cars available to the general public.

Well, officer, I'm in a 12-step program...

Just making sure they didn't tell you that those four payments are $30,000 apiece.

As a gamemaster, I often have to help players spend accumulated XP. I frequently find myself saying "You have 2 XP left - do you want to save them, or spend them on a ceramic dalmatian?"

Looks very good! Maybe a "distinguishing / unique feature" (birthmark / tattoo / scar / accent / personal habit)? Going through my stuff, I found the following PDF. I don't know who originally created it - wish I did so I could give proper credit. MemorableMooks.pdf

Is Dr. Strange's Mom in the movie? I didn't see her in any of the trailers.

Saw Wicked in Toronto. Great show. Prior to COVID, my wife and I had a tradition of seeing the Capitol Steps perform on July 4th each year. It was always a great show. It's too bad they ended up disbanding after a year of being unable to perform due to COVID restrictions.

Just read the news. Truth is stranger than fiction. They break out in a rendition of "Stop! In the Name of Love!" Who knew Samuel Alito was such an accomplished tenor?

Green-skinned Orion babes.

I thought you were making a joke about her being invisible, but then I saw her in there.

Welcome to the Golden Corral!

How about this version, LL? I'm with you on the endless reimaginings of The Batman, but I would totally watch this one!

I have a friend who, when someone says something "tastes like s**t" says, "I'm sorry, I don't share your culinary expertise."

Excuse me. This is the internet. We don't do that!