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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat He's posting on the NGD boards; what more proof do you need?

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Re: A campaign for my kids With a wife/mother, that's pretty much casting to type.

Re: Superhero Images I volunteer to help with the muscle toning.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "If you give me a passing grade, I'll fill up your car's gas tank. Twice." Okay, so you'll have to take out a student loan to pull it off, but it'd be worth it.

Re: His partner helps carry him, though... He was cool. If only he wasn't saddled with that good-for-nothing Angel Summoner...

Re: Storn Art from idea to Full Picture Year 5

Re: A campaign for my kids Oh, and as they become familiar with the rules (and get older), you could always move them into high school, transitioning into Teen Champions.

Re: A campaign for my kids Caveat: I do not own either PS238 or Teen Champions, nor have I seen either one yet. If my understanding is wrong, I apologize in advance. However, I understand that PS238 uses a simplified version of the character rules, kinda like Sidekick (but not exactly the same). Since your kids (if not your wife) are starting out new to the system, that might be an easier intro to the Hero System. Also, I think the setting might be a better fit for the kids. You could even maybe slightly adjust things to make PS238 a middle school / junior high rather than an elementary school. Unless you home-school, that could make it a familiar setting to the 12 year old, and a "promotion" to the 10 year-old, adding to the appeal. Just my $0.02, YMMV.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat I can't give the details on a public board, but it involves her magic lasso, a nun's habit, and six tubes of Crazy Glue. NT: One of the "Eight Wonders of the Champions Universe."

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What would prefer instead of that CD collection of William Shatner's and Yoko Ono's Greatest Hits? A: He joined the Narcoleptic Bomb Disposal Squad.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: I don't wanna nitpick, Tom, but is this really your plan: spend your whole life locked inside a mall? A: Code monkey not say it out loud, code monkey not crazy, just proud.

Re: THE BOOK OF THE DESTROYER: What Do *You* Want To See?

Re: GM's guide to XP That looks fine as-is. I only threw the "darkside" one in as an example, and agree that it's better to hash that kind of thing out in-play.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What's this paper? It reads, "I, Victor Von Doom, being of superior mind and body..." A: Triple sudden-death overtime.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... The heroes of S-Squad are still exploring a portion of an alien spaceship (converted from the old D&D module Expedition to the Barrier Peaks) searching for lost soldiers on the run from Subterrans. After throwing a vegepygmie into a lift shaft, only to discover the shaft had no power, and thus the antigravity field isn't working. Squeeze: I swear, to my dying day, I thought vegepygmies could fly. While exploring the ship, college student and Lexington, Kentucky's lone superhero Cobalt Kid asks various heroes of S-Squad, individually, how they got their powers. To each of them, he tells a different tale of how he got his powers (lab accident; he's an alien; kidnapped by VIPER). Sentinel overhears this. Sentinel: So, which is it? Did your chem lab get hit by lightning? Or are you Clark Kent? Or what? Cobalt Kid (very embarrased): Do you have any idea how lame "I woke up one day with powers" sounds? The heroes are exploring the atmospheric ballast level, a huge area 60 feet tall and several hundred feet in diameter. Synergy, flying 50 feet up, sees four shambling mounds below him. Synergy: Are they doing anything? GM: They're doing this (looks up and shakes fist angrily) Synergy: Why aren't they attacking me? GM: Maybe because they don't have any ranged attacks... They find the reactor powering the habitat module, and some of them don radiation suits in some nearby lockers, but the suits don't fit well. Styx: They're like a cheap hotel. No ballroom. Serendipity: Do we *need* to wear radiation suits? Synergy: Depends. Do you ever want to have any kids? The soldiers wait outside while the heroes enter the reactor area. Inside, a modified and reprogrammed police robot is attacking anybody trying to enter the control room. Sentinel blasts the robot with her "hard radiation" attack, but misses. GM: Suddenly, you hear alarms, and armored blast panels begin dropping over the doors and the control room window. Over the language translator, you hear, "Warning... Radiation leak in reactor control room... Initiating standard containment protocols." Squeeze: I grab Serendipity, Sentinel, and the Cobalt Kid and get them all into the room before the door comes down. Serendipity: What about the soldiers outside? Squeeze: Relax. I don't think anything can get out of here to get them. GM: The robot hits Synergy with an energy beam. He stops moving and drops from the sky. Squeeze (OOC): Can I see the energy effect? If it's an entangle, I could attack it to get him free. GM: No, it's a paralysis beam. It's not affected by physical attacks. Squeeze (OOC): How about if we call it names? Sentinel is finally able to hit the robot with some hard radiation and scramble its circuits. GM: (describing the effects of her attack) ... and the head begins spinning around. Squeeze: Cool! (turns to Styx) Grab its head and make its body spin!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Man, I had the greatest date last night! We were making out as soon as we got in the car, and by the time I got her to the hotel, we practically ripped off each others' clothes. If the boss ever finds out I'm doing it with his daughter... um, dude, why do you look so freaked? (pause) He's standing behind me, isn't he?" NT: Most surprising new Olympic sport

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Re: "Agents of ILM" campaign idea: Help me flesh it out? Some ideas to help: 3-D movies, especially horror movies, as a plot by evil forces to reinforce fictional infringement on reality (making the fictional seem more real). A 3-D zombie movie could cause zombies to literally step out of the screen and into the theater. Increased use of CGI in movies is an attempt by ILM to use computers to remotely recapture fictional characters. In fact, the Hulk was all CGI for this very reason. However, internet fanfic and fan-made videos on YouTube interfere with this recapture plan with some characters. The Harry Potter universe (a magical population actively hidden from the real world) as an attempt to "brush" fictional characters under the carpet so-to-speak until ILM can recapture them.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: How would you describe Pamela Anderson? A: Monkeys and beatles and barenaked ladies.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Okay, guys, it will take me a while to get used to your characters' new names. Anyway, let's recap: Conductor and Boxcar are sneaking past the long line of locked, unbreakable doors while Caboose is aiming at the only open door at the end of the hall. Meanwhile, where are Engineer and Ticket Agent?" "We're down by the station, early in the morning..." NT: A "railroad adventure" you really wouldn't mind being on.

Re: GM's guide to XP Good stuff, and repped. The only things I can see to add/change are: 1) If you have players that are doing things you don't like or that interfere with the other players' enjoyment, you might want to include some "no-no's" that might lose the character XP. Things like: Stomping on Someone Else's Schtick Taking Things To The Darkside This Is Four-Color, Dammit! 2) Maybe include specific rewards for specific "above and beyond" actions. Fr'instance, when I start a new Champions game, I award 5 XP for a detailed background (and thus have gotten 5-10 pages of character info from some players). If they get a base and/or vehicle along the way, I'll give 5 XP to whomever would write one up (characteristics, powers, etc.) with a 10 XP reward to anyone willing to create a hexmap of their base. Edit: a side note, this most recent campaign I asked each player to provide a list of 3-5 people in their lives, but NOT as DNPCs, to help flesh out their lives. So the college student working his way through as a teaching assistant provided: the professor he's working for, a computer-lab buddy, a friend's girlfriend who keeps setting him up with female friends, and a girl he's never met but keeps seeing around campus (though not in any of his classes). Worked wonderfully, and I plan to do this for any future games.

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Re: Internet themed gadgets If it's a really tongue-in-cheek campaign, you could: Invoke Godwin's Law: Cosmetic transformation, only to change target's clothing into Nazi uniform.