Fazhoul

Re: How Do You Build Sneezing Powder?

I don't want to completely incapacitate the target, just inhibit hie ability to speak. I'm actually trying to create a subtle power that will only inhibit the target's ability to speak effectively. I've always thought that any spells that have the Incantations limitation need to have the Incantation spoken correctly for the spell to work. No mispronunciations, no sneezes, etc. The target could still run away or use items that weren't too complex. An Entangle would do the same but I don't want to disable the target's entire body.

Re: How Do You Build Sneezing Powder?

what effect do you want from sneezing? just to be blind to the smell/taste group? or dehibilitating sneezing fits? or causing them to sneeze so hard their chest hurts?

What I'm looking for is to stop a spellcaster from speaking the incantation to cast his spell. So it's just speech that I want to affect. I think that the Flash vs. Speech is the best option that's been suggested so far. I don't like the Flash vs. Sight & Hearing coupled with Change Environment. It's a lot of trouble and still doesn't really do what I want the power to do.

My group is currently playing a low-magic fantasy game and I came up with the idea of using a sneezing powder (one of the characters is sort of an alchemist) that we could throw at a spellcaster to disrupt the Incantation portion of the spell if we are targeted. The only way that I've been able come up with is a Darkness vs sound with the special effect being that the target is sneezing. I would make it sticky so that the spellcaster can't simply walk out of the area of effect. Does anyone else have any better ideas? Thanks in advance for the help.

Fazhoul

Re: What was you most powerful Attack vs. Supervillian???

The PC tried to get away from the plane because he knew that the explosives were due to go off. But the Nazis held him where he was so the PC was standing next to one of the planes since they started to explode. The character had a 25/25 force field that he immediately threw up. I decided that all of the mines exploded but we would deal with damage one at a time and I also was kind enough to rule that his force field stayed up during all of the explosions even though he was technically unconscious. He wound up at -5 Body and -276 Stun and the knockback buried him in the side of a cliff. I know I hand waved a lot of things but it was a fun game and it still comes up over 15 years later.

Re: Pulparize It!

There was another movie (one of those made-for-TV jobs) some years ago that had

its own slant on the "modern-day Sherlock Holmes" theme, which had Larry Hagman

as a motorcycle cop who loved the Holmes stories, and who was lying on the ground

reading one when his motorcycle fell over and hit him on the head -- pretty much

erasing his memory of who he was and leaving him believing that he was Sherlock

Holmes.

 

 

Major Tom 2009

I remember this movie. It was "The Return of the World's Greatest Detective". IIRC it seemed almost like a pilot for a series.

Re: Boardwalk Empire

I thought that the first episode was very good and it definitely made me want to see more.

Re: Hero System Good Idea/Bad Idea...

GOOD IDEA: Running a Fantasy Hero game based on the Arabian Nights.

BAD IDEA: Running a Fantasy Hero game based on the Arabian Nights and being unfamiliar with the source material, i.e., hadn't even seen Disney's Aladdin yet.

Re: Pulp Figurines

Thanks' date=' Fazhoul. I can use some of those. Do they have Victorian-era characters as well?[/quote']

 

Not at pulpfigures.com but some of the Cthulhu minis are perfect for the Victorian Era.

Re: Pulp Figurines

What I could use are miniatures of unarmed civilians. You don't see too many of those.

Rattrap has a pack called "Citizens of New Commerce" (New Commerce is the name of their campaign city). They also have a set called "Waterfront Characters".

Pulpfigures.com has figs of ordinary people, especially under the "Gangland Justice" section of their catalog.

Re: Pulp Figurines

Rattrap has a pack called "Citizens of New Commerce" (New Commerce is the name of their campaign city). They also have "Waterfront Characters" and Pulpfigures.com has figs of ordinary people, especially under the "Gangland Justice" section of their catalog.

Re: Pulp Figurines

Rattrap Productions has a pulp-themed tabletop miniatures game called .45 Adventures. They have some nice looking figs available on their website.

Here are some pictures of painted minis that they have on their website.

Field Marshal Kluge

Major Steele

I also bought a bunch of HeroClix minis a while ago that can be used (or modified to be used) in a pulp game. Among them were Gotham City Police figs (they had the 20's-30's style of uniforms), Blackhawk figs, Kobra Cultist figs and some others that I can't recall right now.

Re: 1930 Art Deco Henderson

I'm not really into motorcycles but that is an incredibly beautiful piece of machinery. Just gorgeous.

Re: retro-future t-shirts

Is it wrong to want all of those?

Re: Nazi Flying Saucers

Same here. Can't wait to see Iron Sky! Genius.

As far as I'm aware Iron Sky is just going to be the short film we saw on the internet. I thought that it was a teaser for an upcoming game or movie too but, as I was reading through the history and news sections, I found entries referring to it as just an example of what they could do. They were trying to get their work out there and seen.

The Nazi UFO show on Discovery turned out to be pretty boring. Apparently the Nazi's are tied, in some small way to every UFO sighting in the last 70 years.

Re: Nazi Flying Saucers

I checked my vcr this morning and there was nothing about nazi ufo projects instead there was a program on capitol punishment. I rechecked the TV guide for Ventura county and it said "Investigation X" 9:00 to 10:00,

 

Did it air anywhere?

I recorded it last night and I'm watching it right now. I'm in Cincinnati BTW.

Re: Nazi Flying Saucers

When I saw the title of the thread I thought that you were talking about the Iron Sky website. If you haven't seen it before check it out. You'll be glad you did.

Re: Pilot Restores Pitcairn Autogiro

Hey Fazhoul, how did you get the video window?

 

Rep around

I honestly don't know. I copied the address from the navigation bar on the YouTube page and then pasted it as a link into the page as a hyperlink and when I posted the message I had a video window. Sorry I don't have more of an answer.

Re: Pilot Restores Pitcairn Autogiro

I found a YouTube video of it in action too.

There was a story in my local newspaper today about a guy who bought and restored a 1932 Pitcairn PA-18 autogiro. The story, along with color photos, can be found at His magnificent flying machine. I think I'd give my left nut to ride in one of these things.

Re: Doc Savage books.

ok, so I don't know how relevant this may be but I'm selling 75 doc savage books (6 of them hard copy, all others paperback) their in pretty good condition, so how much do you think i could sell them for at most? any ideas?

 

thanks in advance for any help from you all.

What I always do is go on ebay, abebooks.com or half.com and see what other people are asking for the same or similar products. That being said, could you send me a list of what you're selling? I still have a few holes in my collection that I'd like to fill in. You can reach me at fazhoul@yahoo.com.

Re: War Eagles

If it's just prior to WWII' date=' shouldn't that be "...[i']a publicly-humiliated Army Air Corps test pilot..."?[/i]

I never cease to be amazed at the things we gamers/geeks nitpick about. The book is about a guy who crash lands on an Arctic island and finds a lost race of Vikings who ride giant eagles. He then teams up with them to fight the Nazis who are attacking America with a new electromagnetic super-weapon. But you're worried about whether it's more properly called the "Army Air Corps" than the "Air Force"?

I do things like this all the time too.

Re: Doc Savage books.

I bought a CD called “181 Kenneth Robeson (Doc Savage) Stories (Ebook Cd)” from the seller E-Books Download on E-bay. It has all 181 books in original format. Most are the original two column format from the magazines, though a few are in single column. While I would prefer to have them as hardcopy, but $5.33 for all 181 can’t be passed up.

 

I thought someone might be interested.

So, are these home made CDs? Because Conde-Nast is usually extremely strict about who they sell the rights for the books to. Several years back there was a seller on eBay selling Doc Savage posters that were "Reproductions of the original Doc Savage paperbacks. Some of them even have wear marks to simulate that vintage feel!" He claimed to have found a bunch of promotional posters in a relative's attic. What it was is that he was scanning the covers of Doc Savage paperbacks and then printing them off on 11"x17" photo paper and laminating them. Someone finally figured out what he was doing and, rather than reporting him to eBay, reported him to Conde-Nast. He stopped selling his illegal stuff on eBay shortly thereafter. I knew about the stuff he was selling because I picked up a lot of Doc Savage paperbacks off of eBay years ago. I learned what happened to him by following the alt.pulp and alt.fan.doc-savage newsgroups. Ah, the long ago days when Usenet was king.

Re: War Eagles

is the main characters name Billy Mitchell?

No, it is not the "father of the U.S. Air Force". The lead character is Lt. J.P. Brandt. Well, it's Lt. until he's kicked out of the service.

Re: War Eagles

is this book available?

I went back and added the link for it at Amazon. I meant to do that to begin with.

A friend of mine just loaned me this book called "War Eagles". It's by Carl Macek who worked on the Robotech TV series and based on a story by Merian C. Cooper who created King Kong. Here's the blurb from the back cover:

Just prior to WWII, a publicly-humiliated Air Force test pilot, court-martialed for a stunt that endangered President Roosevelt, takes the only job he can get: flying an experimental plane from the South to North poles. When his plane is attacked and crashes on an uncharted island above the Arctic Circle, the pilot discovers a strange land inhabited by a lost tribe of Norsemen who ride giant eagles and, in a surprising turn of events, becomes America's only hope against a devastating attack by the Nazis and their powerful new electromagnetic weapon.

So we have a disgraced pilot, an experimental plane, a lost island of Vikings who ride giant eagles and Nazis with a super-weapon. Oh, and my friend told me that there are dinosaurs in the book. I haven't even read the thing yet and it just might be my favorite book of all time.