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Re: Planets of SF Author Hats Stasheff World- Psionics and native material bring legendary creatures to life. Drake World- Home to mercenaries that try to win at all costs, and ships that sail the borders of the universe to reach FTL, and intelligences at war for the future. CES

Re: The Addams Family my son likes it. it's too surreal for me. I like things to make sense when I look at them. CES

Re: Superhumans pulling an Authority I think that it has been shown that Reed Richards and Tony Stark keep a lot of their most advanced stuff to themselves. I think at one point when the Fantastic Four had left the planet, the government tried to seize most of his inventions left behind for its own use. That seems to be in genre. Most super inventors keep their stuff out of the hands of others. Now imagine the Engineer sitting down and offering designs for cleaner cars, or what not. How much would that change the world? CES

Re: Superhumans pulling an Authority Super Intelligent Superhumans have been talked about in other threads. If all they had was their brains, and a support group with the right powers, there is very little they couldn't do. Taking over a country and holding it against all comers is pretty stupid when you can wipe out cancer in a month of testing with a nanobot, or implanted healing factor. You could hold up pharmecuitcal companies for billions just trying to sell it fast enough. Green industries becomes more practical with machinery that takes the trash and converts it to something else at half the current cost, even a quarter. The big problem with any Authority world is what Oddhat, Megaplayboy, and others have said is the planet is an unrealistic dystopia ruled by corruption and even the heroes of the piece are more like Freedy Krueger than what is normally considered a real person. CES

Re: Doctrine for beginning vampire slayers? Several of the Dresden Files deal with vampires as the villain. There are other authors with the vampire as the dark romantic figure but I haven't read them so I can't reccomend them. CES

Re: Terrible Movie or Awesome Back Story The fighting masters from Kung Fu Hustle that was mentioned by Vulcan in the MArtial Arts Comedy thread in other genres. The hero knocks a giant handprint through a building. That's right out of a comic book. CES

Re: Need suggestions I'll have the adventure posted on the Dragonia thread eventually. Right now all the countries have gotten together to build a motorized boat to sail to the edge of the world. It might take months of game time to get there. CES

Re: Need suggestions As a roving sea monster that attacked their ferry to Queen Lamia's Grasslands where they were supposed to pick up the boat. Donnie and his team of Npcs did okay but they only made it pause. It plowed into the ferry and ripped the back end off so Donnie is thinking about trying to save the ferry before it sinks. CES

Re: The Minority Heroes help people because that's what they do. They don't expect thanks. Building your campaign on an unrealistic premise about human behavior will only cause it to fail. CES

Re: Need suggestions That's good. Maybe I can use it. I don't know how. Life is extended immeasurably thanks to instant reincarnation. On the other hand, the turtle did get some action tonight. CES

Re: The New Circle Decoy- They came for Ken Carter in the middle of the night. He was worth two million dead to them. Of course they would have done the job for a lower amount. All they had to do was get inside and pull the trigger. That part was child's play. The alarm code had been provided. One of the pair had a lockpick gun. The probes entered the keyhole. A trigger pulled opened the lock. A step inside and a tapping cut the alarm off before it could sound. They entered the main foyer, small flashlights under the barrels of their pistols marking their progress. The target was in his office at the back of the house. They knew this because that was the only room in the whole house that had been lit up. A brief conversation led to the decision to enter. Blinds were drawn over the windows. They would have to enter to make sure anyway, so they might as well do it from inside. They paced the hall. Their information told them they had a few hours before the family came home. It should only take minutes to walk to the office and shoot the target and leave. How hard could that be? The flashlight beams led them to the back of the house. They paused at the office door. A silent conversation and the one on the left kicked the door in. Ken Carter turned at the sound, hands raised as if to fend off a blow. They shot twice. No one would hear the gunfire, but they only wanted two fatal wounds to keep blood to a minimum. They picked up their spent cartridges. Time to leave without a trace. They headed for the front of the house to reset the alarm and lock the door behind them. Their two million would come after the reading of the will. A walk down the driveway, a climb over the shallow wall, and a street crossing got them to their car. They got in and drove off. They would need to wait before they could get their money. And if the client didn't come through, there would be another death. One more murder wouldn't make much of a difference as far as the court was concerned. And you could only be executed once. The passenger pressed buttons on a dummy cell phone. He waited for the other line to pick up. "It's done. Throw the phone away." He ended the phone call, then broke the phone apart. The driver stopped by a public trash can in a shopping strip for him to throw it away. That would be one less piece of evidence for the prosecution. The next thing to do was get rid of the gun barrels. Once they did that, the state could not prove they had the pieces, and could match the bullets from Carter to them. The most they could be charged with is owning a gun when they weren't supposed to have one. Everything was going according to plan. All they had to do was sit tight. Once the police were done with their investigation, the spoils would be divided. "How much did Mrs. Carter pay you?" The voice came from the back seat of the car. "Don't turn around. I would have to shoot you then." "I don't know what you're talking about." The passenger thought about trying to reach his pistol and shooting through the seats at their unwanted guest. "Carter knew you guys were after him when you missed the first time. He didn't know what exactly was going on. So he hired me. Everyone in America just saw you try to kill Carter. We rigged cameras up in his office and set the trap. I followed you out of the house, and have a camera going right now." The man in the back seat nudged the passenger's head with the barrel of his own pistol. "The only thing that matters now is do you cop a plea, or go down for attempted and conspiracy to commit. Your choice." The men tossed their weapons in the back seat. "Thank you." Blue lights lit up the white face mask with a blue target on it. "I think that's your ride."

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched Hoodwinked with the boy. "What kind of candles are those?" "It's dino-men-tay. Must be Italian." CES

Re: The Minority It's an idea for a dystopia, but no way would the president be killed by one man. Secret Service would have a team ready for anything like that. In my opinion, it would be better to have the reverse happen. Instead of a clampdown, Most of the world has gone over to the Russians. We have essentially almost lost the cold war, with only Canada and England as allies (maybe Austrailia). The Russians are grinding everyone down. Teams of these DNA men are sent out to spark rebellions in other countries to keep the Russians from committing purges and the like. Additionally depending on the powers allowed, some of the DNA men would be able to build super tech with enhanced brain power. America could be the last bastion of scientific advance in the world. CES

Re: Need suggestions Thanks, guys. Maybe a joint mission through a mountain at sea could be good. I like the sea devils and serpents. Donnie would recognize the turtle but maybe I can use it somehow (He's beaten about half of the zelda games and Smash Bros melee). Good points about the environment hazards. Donnie has thrown this out for play ideas: Capsules that can be bought that hold monsters, spells, temporary skills. CES

Re: The Cosmic Reset Button: Destroying the World Weis and Hickman had the world shatter into pieces and be connected by a limited use gate. The populations were moved onto the different lands and set up new lives in vastly different environments. CES

Re: The Addams Family He's talking about bobobobobobo and his nose hairs of justice. CES

Re: Need suggestions While I still need more thoughts about underground, I now also need ideas for an extended sea voyage. Bring on pirates and sea monsters. We also decided that the flat Dragonia spins like a coin so there is an explanation for day and night. CES

Re: Superhumans pulling an Authority I think in Judge Dredd's case, judges are the law as well as the armed forces, public health, firefighters, building inspectors, and so on. I don't know if they started out as setting themselves up as that, but the huge cities they are based in sit in a nuclear wasteland. CES

Re: Doc Savage cover fakes THis is awesome, Jack. Thanks for posting the link CES

Re: Doctrine for beginning vampire slayers? The original Darren McGavin Night Stalker movie is all about hunting a vampire, who has also picked up some tricks. Other monsters can be found in the original television series. CES

Re: Notes from NSU Day Eleven Jacob Peterson stole a car. He drove out of the mountains, visited his former friend, got a new ride. Unfortunately he had to kick in a carjacker's face when he wanted the hummer. The new monster decided to hide out in Devlin's Scrapyard until nightfall. He drove over to the Lucifer Flatts HQ for SRJ. He ran into Eric Goran, the VP, who told him everything he needed to know. Jake was shot trying to escape. Security had him ready to be put on ice when he came to. He escaped, causing the storage facility to be destroyed to hide the evidence. Jake turned himself in to the Marshal's Office. Nathan and Ashlee battled Moto's Dragon. Ash knocked out one of its eyes. The building collapsed. Simon and Jui-Shen arrived in a cab. They went into the debris before the clean up crew. They found a rat with one eye that Nathan and Jui-Shen adopted. They went out and had dinner before Nathan and Jui-Shen went to their new apartment, Simon went home to his wife, and Ash went home to Jake. Kaison Malus showed up at five in the evening. His castle overtook downtown. Everyone in town arrived to battle the fragment of a god. Their combined forces kept him busy until Shana Goldstein closed his prison door. The castle vanished. No one realized he had already impregnated four women.

Re: Dragonia Flames freed Sir Donald after defeating the snow snake. They return to the temporary headquarters set up by the yeti rangers. They filed their report on the cabin and the antennae around it. The Chief Ranger asked Sir Donald to return to the cabin and mark all cabins like that he could find. Sir Donald's party once more took to the air. They found to their horror that snow snakes in the hundreds were flocking to that one cabin, called by some unknown signal. Donald urged Flames to circle around while he threw one gravity axe, then another, at the cabin. The roof eventually fell down. Before that happened, the trio were buried in ice by the snow snakes. Luckily, defensive force walls kept a hole open in the mountain of ice so they could move in after chopping themselves free from the ice that had already hit them. The cabin collapsed inward, smashing whatever equipment was inside. The snow snakes flew off. Don cut his group free. They flew back to headquarters to report what had happened. Yeti rangers move out in force to wipe the innocent looking shacks out of existence. Don went back to his base tower to recuperate from the struggle. The dragon knight from the embassy arrived. The yeti police were not happy with what Don and Ishiyama had done at the Sonic Cannon Tower, but he was reinstated in the Dragon Knights, and the king had new orders for him.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Hellboy: Darkness Falls by Mignola and Fegredo- Trade collection of the miniseries as Hellboy battles Koshei the Deathless in mythical Russia. Working on Bloodline, the lastest repairman jack book out. CES

Re: Walking With Strangers Right now I have a partial list of handles. Sooner or later, I will come up with an idea, then write a small bullet list, then start writing. Right now I am just writing this story in this series, so I don't know what I will think of when I do sit down to write one with your handle. And sometimes I can't make the initial idea work so I have to change it. CES

Re: Does anyone have a write up of Gloop/Gleep from the Herculoids? Lord Mhoram has meeb in his signature, and Meeb was a gloop sort of guy. CES