Captain Obvious

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Electric Baloo 2: Electric Baloogaloo

Re: Eeep! Buck Rogers!!! Looking pretty good. And Buck doesn't look any more wussbag than most guys in the 20s. They didn't take androgyny as far as later generations, but it was the fashion of the day to a degree.

Re: For your amusement If i'm not mistaken, Armor Games did another game called Storm Winds or something like that, which was also quite steampunkish. You're defending a mountain fortress from an armada of ornithopters and flying ships. EDIT: And by the way, this game is badass!

Re: "Neat" Pictures It's an aeroflot, aka Wing-in-Ground-Effect vehicle. EDIT: Doh! Ekranoflot is what I was thinking. I'm not sure what the difference is between an ekranoflot and ekranoplan, but they're both pretty similar. You can search for "Caspian Sea Monster" and get lots of info on it.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I won't be putting any money on Joe...

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Heh...then it's aptly named, eh?

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I recently finished The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne. The wild, over the top movie of the same name with the same characters is only tangentially based on the book. There are no giant crabs, giant wasps, or diatrymas in the book. It's kind of vanilla. If you want to read about a bunch of guys cast ashore on a desert island with nothing at all and building it into a pretty decent living space, read away. If you want the crazy sci-fi stuff Verne has come to be known for, you won't get it from him...you need to see Ray Harryhausen's treatment of it.

Re: Make a Green Lantern Oath Must be the Green Giant Lantern Corps oath...

Re: Spear-based Martial Arts There's a spearfighting martial art in Tuala Morn.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Holy crap...for a second I was seeing Green Arrow's arm as Starfire's leg. I was thinking "You couldn't shave for a huge group picture?"

Re: A Robert E. Howard moment..... That wasn't slavery, either, IIRC. He was captured while on a raiding party. I guess, technically, they were taking him as a slave, but I don't think they had reached a point where they were trying to get any work out of him yet, so he was really more of a prisoner of war.

Re: Heroic v. superheroic genres and the use of powers 1/2d6 HKA is a martial arts maneuver. Calling it a power doesn't break it any more than calling it a skill.

Re: A Robert E. Howard moment..... Thinking of Howard and WWII, I keep coming back around to Sgt Rock.

Re: Order of the Stick Nasty, brutish, and short describes more than the physical characteristics of the typical goblinoid. Actually, though, most modern RPG sources agree that goblins breed like bunnies, because most modern RPGs have players slaying them by the dozen at medium power levels, and by the hundred at high power levels.

Re: The Reveal I've thought about this myself...a lot of good caper movies/shows look like it's all going to come tumbling down like a house of cards, and then it turns out to have been part of the plan all along. Your SW system looks pretty interesting, and could probably be transferred without too much hassle to Hero.

Re: Building an Urban Fantasy Setting Restoring life to the body isn't all that hard, but it's not the same as bringing that person back. It's a living husk of a person at that point, in a vegetative state. And you don't know what might come to inhabit the body. In reference to this rule, a living body with no soul attached is "unclaimed"...a demon that takes possession can't be driven out of it via normal exorcism methods.

Re: battle Wear vs. Town Wear Hmm...probably not many, considering how rarely the "enslaved peasant" comes up. The peasant tied to the land concept is downplayed or ignored in most fantasy games.

Re: Turakian and Valdorian Age in 6E? I've kind of gotten the feeling that the setting books haven't sold as well as hoped, and therefore that it may be a while before TA and VA are updated for 6E. I may be wrong, though.

Re: "Neat" Pictures Indeed...and why are they in plastic cups like so much backyard cookout beer?

Re: battle Wear vs. Town Wear This is worth saying again. I tend to prefer the lower magic settings, and even when I run D&D, I tend to do it with the idea that all the weirdness going on is the exception rather than the rule, and the PCs are just fated to be there when it happens. Hence, I prefer the idea that you don't tool around town in a heavy sweatbox. On the other hand, whenever I do decide to go with a high magic setting, the PCs are doing such outrageous feats of derring-do that they are known wherever they go as saviors of the kingdom. Hence, no one thinks anything wrong (and probably count themselves lucky) when they see them in their full armored, beweaponed glory. In either case, if the players thought they needed to set a guard on their stuff, basically sidelining one of themselves for the night, I would make sure that anything particularly interesting that session would happen in the inn rather than out in the town.

Re: Points and Parameters for a "Sunday Drivers"-like scenario I've pretty much come to the conclusion that if you're going to use Hero for a wargaming scenario like this, you need to pay full points for everything...no cost breaks for followers, vehicles, or multiples of the same power. All that stuff's fine for allowing a role-playing character to have some depth without spending all his points on it, but for something like this all that +5 for x2 can result in some pretty ridiculous numbers.

Re: Altered Life Death Cycle Effects It seems likely that they'd have a dedicated room in the house or an outbuilding for keeping the bodies. Or perhaps the funerary cult runs charity torporiums for the poor. Either way, the practice of burying the dead with food and tools for the afterlife would probably have an equivalent here. Twenty years in hibernation is bound to work up a serious appetite/thirst. Torporiums would likely be stocked with preserved foods and fresh water. Not much different from propping them up in the root cellar now that I think about it....

Re: Postapocalytpic Antarctica (Problems/Questions)? Bump... Looking forward to more info...this is a very interesting setting you're cooking up.

Re: A Robert E. Howard moment..... That's a classic set-up to have a large group of bad guys attack, and Conan et al end up fighting back-to-back after recognizing kindred spirits.

Re: Images and Invisibility I'm going with Rapier on this. It's very cool to do it once, but if he wants to keep doing it, buy the multipower. However, if you allow it anyway, Images is not Invisibility. At best, this particular Images power gives a -9 to a witness's Perception roll, whereas Invisibility means the character can't be seen at all unless the witness is close enough to see the fringe, and even that only tells you there's something there. A character that makes a good Perception roll against the Images can see that it's a human in plate armor, an elf in chain mail, and a robed female human with red hair carrying a staff, even from 100 yards away. If it was Invisibility, there would be no roll at all at that distance.