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Re: WWYCD: The Return of Power Fist

Re: Infinite Crisis Frankly, DC needs more comedy/light-hearted titles. Stuff like Blue Devil, Blue Beetle, JLI, etc. "Consistency in vision or concept" is undesirable. It simply means that all titles have to follow the current fad. I would prefer to see DC publish a mixture of "mature", "horror", comedy and, well, standard Bronze Age titles, rather than have everything the same. Of course this means less consistency - but that's a small price to pay for having a choice as what you can read.

Re: WWYCD: Multilateral Menace?

Re: WWYCD: Multilateral Menace? To solve this mystery... I will require... a dog, a monkey, a robot... and a small boy... Now I have to design a character to match that quote.

Re: So...About Seeker... Of course. And I even know Seeker's real origin: 'Don Morgan was born deep in the Australian outback. Both of this parents were killed by pirates. Don was found by Mr. Edo, an old survivor of a Japanese Army Ninja Recon Team that was shipwrecked in Australia after their ship was attacked by pirates. Mr. Edo raised Don as his own, and passed his skills on to his "son". ... In the end, Mr. Edo sent Don to America to seek out and destroy pirates...'

Re: Champions Diceless Role-playing Here's a site about a systemless (diceless) superhero game: http://www.uq.net.au/~zzjohnsg/superfriends.htm It's rather tongue in cheek, of course, but could be played straight. There is also some Hero System content elsewhere on the site.

Re: Thoughts on Dr Yin Wu

Re: So...About Seeker... Not in my case. I haven't seen the WotD version. As an Australian, my original reaction to Seeker was "what the???" After a while I got over that, and began to appreciate the cheesiness. This was assisted, I suppose, by a bit of an implicit "stupid Americans don't know jack about anything anywhere in the world outside their own borders" attitude, which Seeker did nothing to dispel. So, eventually, the humour became a bigger factor than the idiocy. More to the point, of course, Seeker is actually useful in my game. After all, if you want an excuse for Australian characters being kicka** martial artists, all you really need is to say that they were trained by one of the World's Greatest Martial Artists. And obviously, that's exactly was Seeker is supposed to be. So, yeah. I actually want Seeker to exist in the current CU. He's useful. And funny.

Re: WWYCD: "I, For One, Welcome Our New Insect Overlords" Assault would consult with as many of the other aliens present on Earth at the time as possible, in order to find out what, if anything, they know about these guys. Of course, at least some of these other aliens are probably POWs from the previous invasion, so they may not be reliable sources. As always in these situations, he will consult with both his public and secret allies. The latter are those who he really trusts to guard his back in a pinch, even though several of them are commonly regarded as supervillains. I suppose I should explain this. This is something I've never fully written out before, but has been a long term aspect of the character. It's a digression from the topic of the thread, but hopefully amusing... During the early days of the Cold War, there was something of a polarisation amongst superbeings along political lines. This quite often blurred the line between "superheroes" and "supervillains". One of the results of this was a secret society generally referred to as "The Pledge". Essentially, the members of this group were committed to attempting to prevent nuclear war, or other forms of world conquest/destruction. In doing so, of course, they were at least potentially likely to come into opposition with their own governments. In short, while entirely benevolent in purpose, it was, in effect, a subversive group. Furthermore, within it was a hardcore Leftist group - the so-called "Metahuman Anti-Imperialist League" (MAIL). To put it simply, a bunch of Super-Reds. Other members of The Pledge included various flavours of super-powered "freedom fighter", including the notorious Irish supervillain Shamrock. On the more respectable side was a considerable number of well-respected superheroes, who tended to keep their connection to The Pledge very quiet. The Pledge, incidentally, also serves as a support network for mutants and other supers who have difficulties blending into "normal" society. Assault, of course, is a member of The Pledge, and they are the people who he turns to when large scale conflicts like alien invasions are threatening. I have another character on the drawing board, but I haven't nailed him down enough to know what he would do. In particular, I haven't got him adequately distinguished from Assault, since they both draw on some of the same inspirational material.

Re: Request for a write up: Deathstroke the Terminator

Re: Steering A New Player Towards The Superheroic

Re: A Question on Liaisons So, how many liaisons is that for how many heroes? At a certain point, you've created a government agency, not an independent superteam!

Re: Wwycd: They Blew It!! There are these things called secret identities. They are secret. And, of course, identities.

Re: 50's comic-book heroes Which Captain Atom is this one?

Re: 50's comic-book heroes I've always been struck by how brief the "superhero gap" actually was. Essentially, sales started dropping after WWII, bottomed out by the early 50s, and started to pick up again from 1956. That's about ten years. Of course, all of this stuff really only applies to the US industry.

Re: Real world vs. Game world When I first played my character Assault, he was a "Hero for Hire". His insurance payments eventually forced him out of business. Of course, massive property damage was one of his specialties. Generally I wouldn't worry about this kind of thing, but it was appropriate for the character in this case.

Re: WWYCD: Works As Advertised! Assault would suddenly become a much more effective crime fighter, now that he has his new arsenal of Hostess products...

Re: Got a question about Atlantis

Re: So...About Seeker... That's part of his charm. Besides, his origin rationalises it well enough. It's no dafter than the Shadow's origin, or the Batman Begins version of Batman. Would you be happier with an American Ninja?

Re: So...About Seeker... Actually, I'd have gone with the Rugby League option, but that's because I'm from Queensland, which is also a League playing state. Melbourne is good, though.

Re: So...About Seeker... Yes. Incidentally, the way he dresses doesn't disqualify him from being a ninja. Few ninjas walk around with signs saying "hi, I'm a ninja" stuck to their foreheads. It's actually quite possible that "standard" ninja costumes owe more to the conventions of Kabuki theatre than actual historical ninjas. And his origin, while cheesy, is plausible enough. I would let him put a shirt on, though. I definitely am of the opinion that the Gardner Fox theory is true, and that Seeker actually exists in a universe parallel to the official CU. But as we know from Champions 3-D, Seeker has been known to travel between dimensions...

Re: Who is the best Archaic/Anachronism/whatever in comics? Who was/is your favorite Cowboy in comics? Vigilante. Who was/is your favorite Ninja in comics? Manhunter (Goodwin/Simonson). Although it's a particularly bogus variety of "ninja", these stories are classic. Who was your favorite Knight in comics? Shining Knight. Who was your favorite Archer/Robin Hood type? Green Arrow. Got any other favorites? (Samuraii, Cavemen, etc) Caveman: Gnarrk. Honorary Mention: Jimmy Olsen.

Re: Sanctuary? I use Cuba as a superbeing sanctuary as well, although petty criminal types aren't welcome. Instead, it's a place where mutants and similar misfit supers can be safe, along with many former "freedom fighters" of various flavours. It's the place to go when aliens invade and you are looking for allies. And most of them are trustworthy.

Re: TV Teen Titans Writeups I wanna see the Mad Mod! Wahhh!!! No, really, I have a very dim memory of reading a story with the Mod in it way back when (the early 70s) I was reading the Australian reprints of DC 60s stuff. I've never had the joy of seeing the Mod since. All I can remember is a single frame, where the Mod talks the biggest load of gibberish in the history of the universe. For the record, I have quite a nice collection of 70s Teen Titans, inherited from a former flatmate of mine. I've read a lot of New Teen Titans too, but I kind of like the old cheese. Because.

Re: WWYCD: Foxbat The Mighty! Assault would follow his usual plan: protect innocents, talk, get his butt stomped. At least it would be a long fight.