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Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine There's a link in this thread to EasyCapture. It's a freeware screen capture program that's stolen my heart. Seriously, it reduces the steps I mentioned above to a keyboard shortcut and a mouse click & drag.

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Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Foxbat (minus the glider cape)

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine When I saw that crown, I had to give it a shot.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine I'm surprised no one's taken a shot at existing CU characters. Here's my take on Dr. Destroyer.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Yeah. The addiction is growing. Just in the past hour, I've done Black Adam, Mary Marvel, and my paladin PC from my weekly D&D game. I need to make myself go to bed.

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Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine A few more of mine: First, Troubadour's lady-love, Gorgon: And Spectrum, my oldest and longest-played Champions character:

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(I tried searching and didn't see anything that matched. Apologies if this has already been scooped.) Most of us are familiar with HeroMachine (if you're not, give it a look, it's pretty nifty). In the last day or so, I learned about a similar online toy that generates art in the style of the DC animated shows. EDIT: I've been asked to put in the new link that actually works. Here you go: http://fabricadeherois.blogspot.com/ Here's a sample, one of my long-running PCs, Troubadour: Enjoy! (EDIT: I did put the final product through Photoshop, but only to insert his proper chest insignia. Everything else is from the program.)

Re: The "real" Golden Age vs the "nostalgic" Golden Age My wife recently picked up a rather extensive and well-done history of Wonder Woman. At one point, during the discussion of the Golden Age, the author actually wondered how it was that all of her enemies back then always seemed to have a welder on hand. I don't remember this thread from the past, but I agree with the social contract notions. There's nothing worse than showing up for an allegedly "Golden Age" game with your swashbuckling mystery man, only to find out the GM is letting his girlfriend play a time-traveling soldier from the future, who's armed with an M-16 and jungle camo.

Re: Who's Who on the Champions Online forums? Troubadour here. I only joined because one of my recently-turned up original Champions group talked me into it.

Re: Time running out on Marvel comics on DVD I managed to grab the three I really wanted (Avengers, FF, and Captain America) this weekend. Hopefully, I'll be able to snag the Hulk, X-Men, and Iron Man in the coming weeks, but those are less urgent.

Re: Bay City/San Angelo: which is better? Call me a weirdo, because I'll take Bay City any day. San Angelo is a very thoroughly depicted city with superheroes. But it's a mediocre superhero setting. It's so grounded in realism and rationalizing the effects of supers that it ceases to be much fun. In short, it lacks the mad, beautiful ideas that make me love superhero comics. Bay City, once you get past the horrid 90s Image-clone artwork, is chock-full of the things that make superheroes zing. IMO, of course.

Re: Greatest Superhero Team of all Time!!! What, no meat thermometer? No Richard Dawson? I'm very disappointed.

Re: A katana. Yes. I am an idiot. Not if you've got a katana!

Check this out. It's a random fantasy plot element generator. I have yet to pull a result that didn't give me a useful idea. The Fantasy Oracle

Re: Champions Universe: The Unresolved Questions/Plots I totally understand that, but my wannabe writer wants to answer those questions, not have them answered for me. Especially that particular plotline. I plan on doing stuff with it.

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Re: Frog-Man (Honor Guard Version) He needs a sidekick named Toadie.

Re: Champions Universe: The Unresolved Questions/Plots I'll be glad to help with this. And my answer to Steve's question is "None of the above." I firmly believe a good setting leaves room for individual GM customization. I don't want official answers to any of those questions.

Re: Deep Medieval RPGing Well, the Dark Ages were largely a myth, FWIW. I put Harn largely in the early medieval period, with a brief digression into late Republican Rome, and with some early high medieval, particularly in terms of the power of the guilded classes. It's a hodge-podge to be certain, but for my money (and I spent far too many years studying medieval history), it captures the feel of the age better than most other games. It was quite possible to play a straight historical version of Chivalry & Sorcery, though the game is so crunchy as to make me use the Hero System for a pillow. While Pendragon focuses on the medieval romance as a default, it's quite easy to play down those aspects of a campaign. I've known people who've used Ars Magica without the magic. Because of the way the game is designed, with three tiers of player characters (Mages, Companions, and the communally-played Grogs) it's not that hard to strip out the mages and have a solid medieval experience. The Riddle of Steel has a default setting that's a bit more "medieval fantasy," but to be honest, the magic system is very problematic and quite easily omitted, leaving behind a solid system for exploring any medieval or renaissance setting you'd like, with an emphasis on realistic swordplay. Others mentioned A Game of Thrones, which is either a d20 or Tri-Stat adaptation of George R. R. Martin's series, "A Song of Ice and Fire." The d20 rules are the best gritty d20 adaptation I've ever played and the setting (especially in the early books) is very much a low or no magic high medieval setting.

Re: Dark Elves: Compelling? Erikson's Tiste Andii from the Malazan novels are, to my mind, one of the better takes on something dark and elf-like.

Re: Top Signs that you need to rethink your GMing. When your players start asking when you last read a superhero comic. (Personal bugaboo.)