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Re: Inner-Earth Update I'd go with Imperial Roman-Fascists myself. Mussolini would have loooved to find a bunch of real Romans. Add dinosaurs and Nazi treachery, and the scenarios write themselves.

Re: WWYCD?: Such Bad Sports... Assault would love it. He's a big sports fan. He would particularly enjoy kicking Touchdown's a**. 'Cos Assault plays Rugby League, and thinks American football is a game for wusses.

I just noticed something neat: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/13/AR2005121301709.html

Re: Reviewing Teen Champions (& Ravenswood Academy) Definitely black.

Re: Ravenswood Uniforms Why? Do you think it needs the Queer Eye treatment?

Re: Your greatest Chmapions moment I can only respond to this in smilies.

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Re: Opinion: EuroStar The thing is that Fiacho likes them being the big guns too, and would take steps to restore them to number one. And the Gravitar would take steps to make her team more powerful... And then Fiacho... I really don't want to think about the teams that could result from a powers race between the two groups. That would be scary.

Re: Wondering about ideas on conscription.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy For some reason my character doesn't seem to be spontaneously leaping from the back of the envelope onto my computer. That tells me that I'm probably not going to be able to commit to the campaign. Which is a shame, because it looks like a good game, and a superb group of players. At least I've downloaded the demo version of HD now.

Re: Wondering about ideas on conscription. Either way, we are basically arguing over terminology, yes. There were certainly quite a lot of "just plain folks" who fought, often with considerable skill and success. We could mention the Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, various Scandinavians (who you would know more about than me), and even people from some of the swampier bits of Germany. We could probably add various Basques and people from Eastern Europe too. There were plenty of people dragged along who didn't want to fight, too, of course. I've only considered examples from Europe here.

Re: Wondering about ideas on conscription. You seem to be confusing "peasant" with "serf". Many peasants were freemen. Swiss armies were largely composed of free peasants. Even their mercenary bands were initially largely recruited from peasants, who only became career professionals over time. And, incidentally, the pike wasn't originally the main Swiss weapon. They originally preferred polearms - which don't require the same amount of training and organisation. While we are at it: English longbowmen were mostly peasants too, although some became professional soldiers, either in mercenary companies or in landowners' retinues.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy Yoiks! I dither a bit while writing up my character and find a zillion others have been submitted. Sigh.

Re: Who is the most noble or 'good' hero in the CU? Seeker.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy My character is currently "in the throes of creation". In other words, I'm trying to string words into sentences. I probably won't get him finished until tomorrow, since I have some critically important TV to watch tonight. The general thrust of his origin is easy enough: His name is John Allan. His mum is a Marine Biologist, who formerly worked at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, doing work related to the Great Barrier Reef. While diving on the reef, John accidentally came into contact with some chemicals that had been illegally dumped. Oops. I'm leaving his father's identity a bit sketchy, because I'm considering having him turn up in a plot seed. But there are also questions of the time of his parents' divorce, why it happened and so on. In other words, there's still a bit of tuning to do.

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Re: Captain Canada! Brilliant. I particularly loved this bit: Travelling to Western Canada he meets Captain Freedom, who belongs to the tribe of the Great Spirit and who instructs him in the virtues of free enterprise and personal freedom. What were they thinking?

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Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy I meant "Elemental" in the mystical sense - as in "Elemental spirit". But I have been considering other possibilities too, because I'm not a big fan of mystic stuff either. The only option I'm not considering is Mutant. Bleah. Thanks for the other Disad. I have been struggling. I presume there are lots of suggestions for Disads in Teen Champions. This is where not having it is a worry. Still, once I get a bit more of his background and personality together, it should be easy enough to get some suggestions. Incidentally, are these characters day students or boarders? In other words, would his family be around on a regular basis? This would have an impact on his "supporting cast".

Re: Opinion: EuroStar This would work well with Shamrock. I would handle it like this: The IRA struggle ended, but Shamrock didn't receive an amnesty. As a result, he has to find himself a new identity. Unlike Scorpia, he's basically a freedom fighter, rather than a psychopath, so Eurostar would turn out not to be an option. So, he would fake himself up a new civilian identity, establish himself as a hero, and build up a network of legitimate contacts for himself. Hopefully, if his real identity came out, his achievements as a hero would get him out of trouble. And he was always lucky, so he has a good chance of getting away with it. --- I've always liked Shamrock. He is my favourite "villain you would go to the pub with". His actual origin write-up in Enemies I (I don't own Classic Enemies) is a bit dodgy, but I like the basic idea of the character. "Controversial freedom fighters" are always a laugh. --- Edit: can you have two Irish characters? Why not? If Fiacho was to keep recruiting, he would soon "realisitically" run into the situation where there were multiple candidates from a single country. He's nuts enough to insist on only one from each, but he might also be enough of a realist to not put arbitrary rules ahead of increasing his strength. So from Fiacho's view there's not necessarily a problem. The real question is, of course, what the GM wants. If he or she wants to limit the team to one member from each country, well that's fine. In fact, it's possible to have things both ways. What if Shamrock doesn't join as a full member, but is hired as extra muscle for a few missions? That would still allow for the "these guys are nuts! I'm outta here!" plotline, while allowing a different selection of permanent members. In fact, if Eurostar was to take up the practice of using extra muscle in certain circumstances - in non-critical roles, and after scrutiny from Mentalla! - a GM would be justified in using almost any character they felt like in a "Eurostar" adventure. --- And I still really like Shamrock, and I intend to build a variant of the character for use as a PC.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy OK, some results of contemplation... Comments (from anyone) welcome. I'm considering a male character with water powers. Basically, built straight out of USPD, with Water Form, one or two other powers (possibly in a multipower??), plus some relevant Life Support. He should be able to breathe water! Because I'm not from the US, and could possibly miss some of the more subtle cultural references, I'll make him someone who grew up in Australia, and moved to the US recently-ish with his mother, after her divorce. That way he will have an excuse for being at Ravenswood. I don't have Teen Champions yet, so I will need to be provided with any relevant stuff during the design process. I'll be getting it as soon as I can. Do you have any preferences about origins? I'm considering a magical/elemental background, although I find them a bit of a pain to write. I see the character growing more in a martial artist type direction rather than an energy projector one, so he probably won't be much of a fighter to begin with. He might have a Flash attack though - there's a nice one in USPD. And yes, I have been thinking about the Superfriends a lot recently...

Re: "Mostly Harmless" powers That would be: Air Wave Doctor Mid-Nite Black Canary I spotted some of the others too, but hopefully this is enough to show that these are all "real" superheroes.

Re: New Teen Champions: Ravenswood Academy "Provisional expression of interest". (Hmm... OK, maybe Shamrock won't be my next PC after all... ) I'll contemplate it some more tonight.