DusterBoy

Re: Villains who are Homages to Heroes

In "Things I Learned Playing Champions" on Surbrook's Stuff, it says that Brick is the CU equiv of the Thing.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

Ah, good to see "Catspaw" is still extant. I enjoyed reading it very much. I've come to despair of Sword and Sorcery, since it hasn't been updated in over two years now.

Didn't you illustrate another series of stories? About an archivist and his relationship with a female, rather upper-class city guard? I think they cropped up on the site's "Flashing Sword" e-zine, except that now back issues are impossible to get hold of.

Re: Minor question on Armored character

Considering I've seen people in full mediaeval plate armour doing jumping jacks and cartwheels, I don't think a DEX penalty for powered aemour is justified at all. And check out the videos of the SARCOS suit where the guy is practically dancing.

That plate armour was so cumbersome that a knight needed to be winched into his saddle is a myth invented by the Victorians.

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread

This is a great pic, and I don't mean to criticise, but Knockout appears to be kneeling on thin air. Or is he abseiling?

(The pic gets :thumbup:, BTW)

Re: War of the Worlds tripods

Surbrook's Stuff Character Archive has a write-up. See the "Book" section.

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread

I've just read through that link and two things are now horribly clear to me. Rob Liefield's artwork sucks, and he has no idea that it does.

Oh yes, a third thing: based on his continued success - no-one will ever tell him.

Those pix in the link were just horribly, horribly bad.

Poison - you're about a million times better than RL will ever be, so don't despair.

Re: The Great Movie Serials: any favorites?

I caught one the '30's Flash Gordon serials. It was on very early in the morning about 10 years ago, which means I got to work, got set up and snuck into an empty room to watch it. I really enjoyed it, despite how dated and cliched it looks now.

I also managed to catch some episodes of "King of the Rocketmen" and the original Buster Crabbe "Buck Rogers". All good stuff.

Re: Character write-ups on RPG.net

Who the heck is ForbrushMan?

Re: Why do the Champions waste so much time being "good citizens?"

There's a scene in "New Avengers" where the team lands in a run-down neighbourhood, scaring two kids playing truant. Cap asks them "Shouldn't you be in school" and off they run.

Long story short: the Avengers are just standing around, being visible and naturally a news crew turns up. Luke Cage says that he that he made it condition of his enlistment that when they weren't fighting the latest threat, instead of just waiting around "and playing X-Box" the Avengers would pull on their cozzies and turn up somewhere and throw a scare into the local crims. His intent was also to embarass people who let a crack house operate right next to a school. He actually threatens to tear the crack house down with his bare hands if nothing is done.

It's a little more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea.

I would think that time spent being a good citizen is never time wasted.

Besides, when was not being able to do it all an excuse for not doing anything?

Re: The Voynich Manuscript

I bet the Revd Lionel Fanthorpe would be interested in this. He loves investigating mysteries of this sort.

Re: Which Champion are you

I did it for laughs and got Grond - then did it more seriously and got Defender.

Re: Working Antikythera Model

Thank G*d for guys like this, huh? This is a very cool thing.

Susano, I'd rep you if I could, but "must spread rep around . . ." yadda, yadda, yadda.

Re: Cristmas & Cthulhu

Oh, Markdoc, your D20 GM has been to the HP Lovecraft Historical Society site too, huh? Those guys rock.

I like the Scrooginator, it's very . . . inventive.

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread

These pics are the BIDNESS! :thumbup:

PS: Poison, you are one lucky man to be having a wife that hawt

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

The last sci-fi book I finished was David Weber's "Path of the Fury". It's about a former Imperial Drop Commando who is almost killed by the pirates who destroy her home and murder her family and friends and then makes a deal with Megarea, the last remaining Fury from Greek myth to get her revenge. Everyone thinks she's gone crazy as she works her way up the pirates' chain of command, because no-one believes Megarea exists outside Alicia's mind. Fortunately, Alicia has friends in the Navy who start running their own investigation and start coming up with their own answers, but Alicia's mind is unravelling from the Fury's influence and it becomes a race to stop her before she kills innocents in her desire to complete her revenge.

I thought it was a brilliant story and give it 9 out of 10.

Re: Early Soviet Flying Wing Projects

The Moskalyov DSB-LK looks like it should be in SSGT Baloo's "Supertranportation" thread. That's an awesome-looking aircraft.

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing

The Thing is here? Which one? The ever-lovin' blue-eyed one? Or the John Carpenter one?

If John Carpenter's Thing was here, how would we know?

BLOOD TEST TIME!

Re: Vampire Template

Vampires weren't afraid of the sunlight until Murnau had Count Orlok disintegrate at sunrise at the end of the original "Nosferatu". Dracula himself was active during the daytime with no ill effect. Polish and Russian vampires were active from midday to midnight without fearing the dawn and the sun.

Just, y'know, my 2 cents.

(Although with this recession thing going on, that's probably worth less than it was)

Re: Single Green Superhero seeks.... (personels for your characters)

Titan

 

SWGRAM (Single White Genetically Reconfigured by Aliens Male) seeks companion of the opposite sex (Species not a deal-breaker) for fun times clubbing at "Capes" and stomping the forces of evil in NYC. I'm 6'6", 375 lbs, with long Blond Hair, Lots of muscles, and Movie star good looks. Potential companion must be into helmets, and anyone who thinks the name "bucket-head" is a term of endearment, need not apply. Fliers a plus.

 

Physical durability should be considered a requirement; I have no desire to see if Larry Niven is right.

Larry Niven is right about what, dare I ask?

Re: (WWYCD) Superhero Assaination...

Stop the assassin. Heroes don't murder - ever.

Dubya as a martyr to the neo-cons?

If they knew the President was bent (ie: crooked) then they'd find the evidence and post it to every media outlet they could.

Re: Solar HERO: Mercury---ready for mapping?

"That's no moon, that's a space station."

 

"But it's too big to be a space station. Look at the size of it!"

 

"I have a very strange feeling about this,"

 

Damn, someone referenced Star Wars before I could! The first thing I thought of when I saw that pic was the Death Star.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Got him for yeh, Bubba.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Presenting: Intricatus!

If The Tick was purple and had wings, he'd look like this.

Re: Super Transportation

except that you will require more than twice the fuel that the shuttle does and

we have experience with unpowered reentry

nobody has tried a powered decent from orbit yet

Yeah, I kinda forgot that part. Yeesh.

:facepalm:

Did anybody else notice that in "Superman Return" the experimental space shuttle they used was essentially the Delta Clipper mated to a specially modified 747, which is the basic system (shuttle piggybacking on aircraft) NASA originally wanted to use, before NIxon and the military got involved. I believe that the USAF (amongst others) was, or still is, testing a similar system called Black Horse.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.

Anthropomorphised cat-puma were-folk, with lippy (lipstick) yet.

Go Storn!