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Re: Grond vs. A Cow

Re: How To: The Bejing Cocktail from "Crank"

Re: THE ULTIMATE MENTALIST -- What Do *You* Want To See? Not only is this Damn Cool, it's also almost the exact same cost if you want to use the Standard Effect Rule.

Re: Casual Survey: Age of players and Hero's utility vs. other games 35 until October, started playing Hero back in '85 as Champions. It's probably my favourite crunchy generic game (I also like GURPS), but I also play a couple of light games (a fair bit of Fudge and some Risus) -- I go back and forth between them. With 5th and some of the options, I'd use Hero for almost anything, if I had the time and players who would put up with it. I've even recently gotten my 13 year old son and his friend into it (I think they like Fudge better, though).

Re: Sci-Fi Game or Porno Flick? I did that for a while (although I'd also factor in song titles). Only twice did I get an album I wouldn't listen to again, and most of the time they turned out pretty good. I think you'd get pretty hosed if you tried that with RPGs, though, unless you really like d20.

Re: Where's Amelia Earhart? For a fun fictional look at where she might have ended up, check out Max Allan Collins' book Flying Blind (a Nate Heller book, any of which are great modern day "pulp hero" style books, although a lot of them are on the late side for pulp).

Re: Billy Deighton Way cool! And nice to see some local colour. Fits right into the pulp genre, too. (Although part of the PDF says he was "a air hero", should probably be "an air hero".)

Re: Best Section Header *Ever* Animalia (and Graeme Base in general) rocks. We had it out from the library so many times that it was easier just to buy it, and I think we've read almost all his other books except the first one (although IIRC there's a picture of that one under "G" in Animalia.)

Re: Person of Steel, Significant Other of Tissue paper Link to the Niven story (from his website) is here

Re: Just testing interest:Would you would you be interested in this game?

Re: Sexuality and the Silver Age

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) Hmm, sounds like someone's been playing Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich.

Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question) Everyone interested in comic book law should read "The Law is A Ass", Bob Ingersoll's column. It starts here: http://www.worldfamouscomics.com/law/back19990629.shtml

Re: Say somthing clever... PLEASE! Did I make the cutoff?

Re: Say somthing clever... PLEASE! He did? What did he misspell?

Re: Young Nerd Outreach Program The way to do it is to have your own kids, then teach them to love RPGs. My oldest son already loves RPGs (he does like Clix and cards, too, and we got him Heroscape for Christmas), the two younger daughters have played a time or two, and when the last one is born in July she can run the baby PC.

Re: Haalkitaine Hackers in Shadow World Shadow World was way cool. I just wish it'd had as much FH stuff as it did Rolemaster, but even if it had none, it'd still be pretty usable. Hmmm...maybe that can be the next place for my players to go to...

Re: Character: Eric Shepard, bounty hunter Parker and Barrow? Bonnie and Clyde? Cool writeup.

Re: Online Starbase Maps? How about Points in Space? It's got tons of really really good maps, and you can even buy just the maps. (It's not free, though). It's here.

Re: Support for Low Level Supers style Dark Champions

Re: Looking for the product That rocks pretty hard! (Personally, I'd probably find it quicker just to do the math in my head or with a calculator than do two lookups on the giant table, but for people who want it, can't argue with that level of completeness and speed of assistance!)

Re: VPP: Unique Skill For Every Power? I've done a similar thing -- PCs still had a Magic Skill, but needed a 1 pt familiarity with any power. Seemed to work all right, I didn't really use it a lot though.

Re: Psychic Wars Steven Gould's novel Jumper is an example of a kid in the "real world" who learns to teleport. There's also Alan Dean Foster's Slipt, about an old guy with kind of a TK attack that wrecks things (his granddaughter (or maybe niece, I don't remember) has limited telepathy, too).

Re: Sunspot clone - OIHID - Instant Change Also, should he have a Force Field, or just PD and ED? I don't remember him being bulletproof.

Re: Henchmen Hero The reason is that they fell in a cauldron of strength potion as a baby.