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Re: Destroyers Rewrite?? Ah, thank you.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares "C-Chutes and Ladders" (Sort of)

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... Each round fired from their Autofire emergency backup weapon is a MIRV nuclear weapon.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... They have Doctor Destroyer, Mechanon, Takofanes, and Menton as Contacts... ...because they aren't powerful enough to make good Followers or DNPCs.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Haunter of the Dark by H.P. Lovecraft from The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft (Volume 5) read by Wayne June

Re: Destroyers Rewrite?? Hi — apologies for coming in late, but I don't get in here very often these days. Anyway... I've found the answer on the villain in samurai armor. It was from a piece of art that got used in more than one book. The character art appears on page 56 of Champions Universe 4E, and on page 170 of Ninja Hero 4E. As Black Ops and Ninja-Bear mentioned, that is the villain 'Hi', member of 'Yooso'. Champions Universe 4E had a number of original and updated character write-ups, including: Ymir The Champions (Seeker, Quantum, Defender, Obsidion, Jaguar, and Solitaire) American Eagle Black Phantom Jotan Victrix Deathstroke (Requiem [Deathsinger/Death Singer], Chiller [Frost], Stinger, Shockwave [Arrowhead], Death Commando, and Scatterbrain) Malachite Doctor Draconis (also from Adventure 3 - Deathstroke) Sniper (Does anyone know if this is an update of Marksman?) Mind Titan Aftermath, Inc. (organization, includes the supers Grunt, Sponge, and Earth-Mover; several normals and a small headquarters are also noted) A handful of law-enforcement personnel are listed The Unique Battalion (Baron Mass, Misstress Strombriar, The Bronze Bandit, and Sister Shadow) these folks are from Anarchy World A bit of info-overload, I know...sorry about that.

Re: Deathstroke module from 1983 Those map sections aren't missing so much as they were intentionally left out. (I suspect in part to help keep the page count down, and in part to encourage each GM to add their own campaign-specific maps & material to the blank sections of the map.)

Re: Still looking for original character sheets I'm still digging, but at least I've turned up one of the original character sheets. (The trick is finding blank ones.)

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) From what I recall, you're right. We only had one copy in the local shop all those years ago. I've not had contact with the person who bought it in a decade or two though, so I don't recall much about it. Added: Infinite Loop HERO — "In this latest RPG innovation, the players build & play characters who are players building and playing characters, who are in turn building and playing characters, who are also..."

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) [Obscure 1980s RPG Reference Warning] Alma Mater HERO

Re: Kamarathin II Whoops, sorry about that — missed that line in the intro. "Nevermind."

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Shame On You by Marilyn Chambers from the film Insatiable (If it weren't for the sound effects, there might actually be a song in there.) and then, The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades by Timbuk 3 from Greetings from Timbuck 3

Re: Kamarathin II Hmmm... well, if 'inmates' have to raise their own food, you could use something along those lines. If folks are just dropped onto the world and left to fend for themselves, you could have all kinds of different 'countries' and such that result.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In the same D&D 3E campaign as the previous story... A stanger (who is a demon in human shape, summoned to assassinate my bard) arrives at the party's front door. This is a good way into the campaign, so there was a valid track record for the sorcerer's question: Sorcerer: "Yes? What is it?" Stranger: "I'd like to speak with Vydric Blackthorne, please." [Pause] Socerer: "Are you here to hire him or kill him?" [Another pause] Stranger: "I beg your pardon?" Sorcerer: "Everyone who has ever come here and asked to see him has wanted to do one of the two. So, which is it?" Stranger: "Well, if you must know...I've been snet to kill him, but I would prefer to discuss that with him in person, thank you." Sorcerer: "All right, wait here, please." (Ahh...that was a fun campaign!)

Re: Kamarathin II I like the concept. I can't really think of much to contribute at the moment, though. It has been a long time since I've seen anything like that in a game. (The old Worlds of Wonder set of games is the closest thing I can think of, and that was over 20 years ago.)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Pleasure and Pain by The Divinyls from Essential

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What does each Presidential election prove? A: That's why I'm carrying a crocodile, a box of donuts, and a street index.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... In the not-too-distant past, 3E D&D, 3.5 hadn't hit yet... My bard and the party's sorcerer are attempting to teleport to a certain known magic circle, that we've visited once. The teleport spell goes a bit awry, and we materialize within an unfinished magic circle being drawn by a wizard's young apprentice. The wizard looks startled, the apprentice looks frightened, my sorcerer friend looks a little nervous as he starts casting Teleport again; my bard takes quick stock of the situation, looks the apprentice right in the eye and says: "Give it up kid, this isn't the life for you." As we're fading away we can faintly hear the wizard demanding of his apprentice, "What did you do!?" Some of the best moments are absolute improvs...

Re: Skills Conversion: Pre-Fifth to Fifth Edition Okay, I can get them to come up now, thank you.

Re: Skills Conversion: Pre-Fifth to Fifth Edition Hmmm... I'm having trouble pulling-up the linked items.

Re: Where is Lady Bug and the Great Supervillain Contest (old supplement) That's okay. I've got my superhero games listed on a couple of my blog entries, so if anything there can be of use in helping to answer future questions, just let me know. There are probably a number of us who're working through older books making personal updates, though I'll admit I've done extremely few for 5th edition. (I got a little lazy during 4th ed.'s tenure, Classic Enemies helped a lot.)

Re: Where is Lady Bug and the Great Supervillain Contest (old supplement) Ladybug first appeared on page 16 of Enemies (Revised) (1982). As folks have mentioned, she was updated for 4th ed. in Classic Enemies. JmOz has been working on updates for a lot of the older books, though from some of the last posts I'd read, he doesn't own a copy of The Great Super Villain Contest, which makes that one a wee bit tricky. I've volunteered to provide info from one of my copies of that adventure, but I've not heard anything either way on that yet.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... This one's a re-read, but as it has been reprinted at least once since the films... Bored of the Rings (A Parody of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings") by the Harvard Lampoon My copy of a slim little Signet paperback that I'd thought was a more recent printing, but the publication info in the book notes it as a 1st printing and carries a © date of 1969; 160 pages (ISBN #0-451-15902-0). This is a book I consider well worth one's time—and it doesn't require much. Here we are, 39 years after it first smote the bookshelves, and it is still a fun read. The story covers the quest to destroy the Ring of Power (of course), but in a very silly version of Middle Earth—Lower Middle Earth, to be specific. One of the "reviews" that are quoted on the first page says it all: From what information I can find, this should still be in print, which is doing extremely well for a parody.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Doctorin' The TARDIS (12") by The Timelords from Doctorin' The TARDIS (CD release)

Re: Expedition to the Barrier Peaks Hero Yep, that's the one. It was the third in the S-series of modules. Those were later reprinted as a single set, compiling all four in the series.