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Could anyone post or link a picture of the cover for the 1st edition 1st printing of Champions?

Re: Foxbat is up

I when I read his origin' date=' I "heard" it in Bruce Campbell's voice. I'd never considered using The Bruce for Foxbat, but now it seems like a no-brainer.[/quote']

 

I can't help it but I heard the voice of Batmanuel from the TV series for the Tick.

Re: One shot Game Ideas

Zombies are always good for a one-shot game. The players should be normals going about their normal life and then all h*ll breaks loose.

I was thinking the same thing. As soon as they get out of the infested area or the space rays wear off you can end the story.

Re: Handling day and night on infinite plane?

Why are you worrying about physics or gods running about in circles?

Funny, I am a physics major. Physics is all I every worry about.

Re: Handling day and night on infinite plane?

Personally, I'd go with something less "absolute", less hard science. I mean, the reason why people invented mythes is that they had no other way to explain the world in wich they lived. They just saw the sun going down on every evening and imagined a story to explain it. Of course those stories were minimally coherent, but they didn't have to take in consideration every detail of physical "realism"...

 

To keep a good feel of mythology, (if that's really what you want), you should not embarass yourself with such hard facts. I'd say that the god's in the sky during day time, and everybody, everywhere can see it at the same time and that's all. At least, that's what I think...

 

I hope this can be usefull, anyway...

I have been mulling this over for couple years for my homebrew world and have came up with hundreds of "hows". What I am looking for is some excellent "whys". Like you said I am looking for a good feel of mythology.

The cloud and vibrating membrane are new ideas to me though.

Re: Handling day and night on infinite plane?

Luminous clouds.

 

Moisture absorbs the heat of the ground during the "night", forming water vapor which rises into the cooler sky above and collects as clouds. Some property in the water and/or air causes the clouds to emit their stored heat as both heat and light, warming the earth below again as well as nourishing green plants, etc. As the clouds cool down the light and heat fade, until they no longer have enough energy to remain vapor and condense into rain. Then the whole cycle starts up again.

That is very original.

I have been trying to think of a way to create the effect of day and night on an infinite plane?

I was thinking about doing the whole Apollo thing with a god riding the sun every morning but that would mean he would have to ride in circles and some portion of the plane would always be in darkness.

Then I thought about having the stars simultaneously wax and wane with intensity as the day goes on to create the illusion of day and night without the need for a sun. I like this idea the most so far, but I have not came up with a good idea of why they do this. Is it the cities of heaven turning on their torches? Or is it the spirits of ancestors breathing life into the plants? Or something else.

Does anyone have any ideas?