BoloOfEarth

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
 

 
LOL. I can hear him now. "Kiww da pwanet... kiww da pwanet..."

I once saw a comedian who used to be a lawyer.  Or as he put it, "Well, I'm still a lawyer, I just used to have clients."
 
He talked about his first client, for a murder case.  He said:
 
"The prosecutor said, 'There's no evidence in your client's favor.  I'm not going to offer a plea deal.  I'm going to try him and get him the death penalty.'  So I had to go back to my client and say, 'There really is no evidence in your favor and the prosecutor won't make a deal.  He wants to give you the death penalty. (shrugs)  I think you should take it.'"

"So during the trial, I had to resort to arguments like, 'Mr. Eyewitness, you say you saw my client stab the deceased in the chest.  Did you actually see the knife pierce the skin?  No?  Well, then, you only saw my client stab him in the shirt.'  'Dr. Smith, you're the medical examiner in this case.  Let me ask you a hypothetical question.  If, despite my client stabbing the victim, his heart had continued beating, then would he still be alive today?  Yes?  Well, then, it wasn't my client's stabbing that killed the victim, but his heart's refusal...'"
 
"My closing argument was, 'It has been said that it is better to let a hundred guilty men go free than to convict one innocent person.  (pause)  My client is guilty.  Let him go.'"

I once saw a comedian who used to be a lawyer.  Or as he put it, "Well, I'm still a lawyer, I just used to have clients."
 
He talked about his first client, for a murder case.  He said:
 
"The prosecutor said, 'There's no evidence in your client's favor.  I'm not going to offer a plea deal.  I'm going to try him and get him the death penalty.'  So I had to go back to my client and say, 'There really is no evidence in your favor and the prosecutor won't make a deal.  He wants to give you the death penalty. (shrugs)  I think you should take it.'"

"So during the trial, I had to resort to arguments like, 'Mr. Eyewitness, you say you saw my client stab the deceased in the chest.  Did you actually see the knife pierce the skin?  No?  Well, then, you only saw my client stab him in the shirt.'  'Dr. Smith, you're the medical examiner in this case.  Let me ask you a hypothetical question.  If, despite my client stabbing the victim, his heart had continued beating, then would he still be alive today?  Yes?  Well, then, it wasn't my client's stabbing that killed the victim, but his heart's refusal...'"
 
"My closing argument was, 'It has been said that it is better to let a hundred guilty men go free than to convict one innocent person.  (pause)  My client is guilty.  Let him go.'"

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/youve-persuaded-us-already

How many remember "The moral majority is neither."

What you're basically talking about is Hugh Neilson's infamous Margarita Man.  

Holy Forking Shirtballs...
A Canadian citizen was killed on Canadian soil by (At least allegedly) agents of the India Government
 
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-canadian-authorities-have-intelligence-that-india-was-behind-slaying/
 
 

What you're basically talking about is Hugh Neilson's infamous Margarita Man.  

Ultimately, it is the GM who decides how to run the villains.  If you can't figure out a scenario that's not annoying to the players, maybe pick a different adversary?

Actually based on their writeup they have a tendency to annoy lots of villains, VIPER being one of the biggest ones who they have screwed with multiple times, Popgun being a previous member who now does not feel he does not need to use lethal force, some of them are hunted by Raven, and I have seen on some online stuff where they have gotten into it with Black Harlequin a few times. There also is Dark Clown which is a group like Clown but from a black dimension and are twisted and evil. 
 
As for power, most of them can handle themselves in combat and they do have a few that like combat, such as Tag who likes HTH combat with a 12d6 punch that is occasionally AP. 
 
All in all, I think a lot of the complaints about CLOWN may be from bad GMing, not CLOWN themselves.

"Are you going to Finnish your Danish?"
 
"Norway, it's too Swede."

Release the Quacken! 

See, I'd have had him dump the Coke on the PC first, then the McDonald's shake.  And say, "Coke always gives me the shakes."  Might as well throw a bad pun in there when you can.

See, I'd have had him dump the Coke on the PC first, then the McDonald's shake.  And say, "Coke always gives me the shakes."  Might as well throw a bad pun in there when you can.

If the Earth was flat…don’t you think cats would have pushed everything off it by now? 

I honestly read that as the Pinocchio coup, and imagined an army of wooden puppets led by a cricket.