Captain Obvious

Re: Valdorian Age as Lost World setting Epic of Aerth is worth having for many reasons. The hollow Earth part is just one of them. But incidentally, Gygax swiped that concept of continents and oceans in the inner world correlating to oceans and continents on the outer world from Burroughs's Pellucidar.

Re: Valdorian Age as Lost World setting

Re: Valdorian Age as Lost World setting Hmm...Never thought of it that way, but it seems like it could work. And now I'm picturing Valdorian Age sprinkled with giant apes, dinosaurs, and prehistoric mammals...

Re: Anubis? Probably getting information from the dead wouldn't be outside Anubis's ethics. Conjuring them up and making them fight for you sounds kind of opposite of what the guardian of the dead should be doing, but "hey, where does this guy like to hide out?" shouldn't be too much. The dead are supposed to be able to see the future, most of them lived in the past, and there's not a whole lot to keep them out of an area if they wanted to find out something in the present, so they can provide quite a bit of info...

Re: Under the Agony Star: a sword and planet campaign Well, if this ever goes beyond the thought experiment stage (where all too many of my projects stagnate), be sure to post about it. None of the S&P ideas I've ever done have gotten as fleshed out as this already is, sadly enough...

Re: Counters to problems? (Such as AoE spam and magic overuse) You're right on that. Atlantean Age and Tuala Morn have pretty spiffy fighters (Super-skills built as Powers), and Valdorian Age magic has a lot of drawbacks (as well as somewhat spiffy fighters). If you're trying to run a fairly vanilla fantasy game where the fighters use straight up Skills and Talents without Powers, then a Multipower is going to give the mages a pretty big advantage, unless it's got a pile of Limitations on it.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Hmm...I'm not sure why this would be cooler than a still from the movie, but somehow, it is.

Re: Counters to problems? (Such as AoE spam and magic overuse) I beg to differ. Tuala Morn doesn't call it that, but its Draichta magic system is essentially a quick-and-dirty Multipower. The Perk you buy is essentially a control cost, and then you pay 1 point per spell, which is about what most spells would run as a slot. If you costed out the actual spells of any given character as a Multipower, I'd be willing to bet that the point cost wouldn't be far off from the system as written. The Arcanoi Segalos of the Atlantean Age are Multipowers. In the Valdorian Age, having a Multipower is one of the things that sets a true sorcerer apart from a hedge mage. I don't have the Turakian Age, so I can't speak for that, but that's at least three of the four major fantasy settings produced by Hero Games...

Re: Under the Agony Star: a sword and planet campaign The good thing about a sword and planet setting is that you can just add stuff willy-nilly. You don't have to put the whole thing together all at once, just put together some interesting stuff to get started. When it starts getting a little old, there's an invasion of some new enemy, or the PCs have some reason to go to some strange new area where some weird race/culture rules, or some strange new terrain, or what have you. So if you don't like the mutants now, you can save them for later...they live somewhere else. It's totally in genre, because most of the S&P authors wrote like that.

Re: "Neat" Pictures I can't be the only Treasure Hunter here....

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing Heh...that reminds me...I saw a cooler full of Monsters and Red Bulls labeled as "Engery Drinks" at the store the other day. If that's the thing Stevezilla just ate, looks like he'll have an "engery" real soon himself... Which really makes you feel bad for the Dude with the Thing, when the Thing tries to kill him too...

Re: Patriotic Reimaginings of Popular Comics Characters ( Art) That American Goblin is hilarious...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

http://www.cracked.com/article_19139_9-acts-vigilantism-straight-out-comic-book.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=fanpage&utm_campaign=new+article&wa_ibsrc=fanpage Anyone want to write them up?

Re: . . . I heard this song about two minutes before I read this.

Re: Another interesting new power generation tech: Artificial Photosynthesis

Re: Order of the Stick That's what I was thinking.

Re: Alignment makes perfect sense

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Heh...one of my friends posted on Facebook that for April Fools' Day, she made meatloaf muffins and "frosted" them with mashed potatoes dyed pink...even using a frosting bag for the proper look. She said her daughter cried when she realized they weren't actually having cupcakes for dinner...lol... (The daughter had the better of it, though...she spread glitter all around the house to trick daddy into thinking there was a fairy in the house...)

Re: Peep Wars... minatures As a bonus, the miniatures come prepainted and mounted together in units.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Admit it. Her plan is way more evil than any you've come up with.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Re: Paladin's Horse This was one of the issues that eventually drove me away from D&D. They had some rules mitigating it in later editions, IIRC, but I've never actually used them.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Assuming a bloop/human hybrid is viable, does that make things any better?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares That would be bad enough, but it's the generation after that, when everyone is now blood related (the only females are a mom and her two daughters) that gets really bad...