Captain Obvious

Re: Why I prefer HERO System over Pathfinder/OGL/D&D for fantasy

Of course, Hero is easy enough to tweak up and down, too. A few guidelines on how to adjust the adventure to fit higher or lower power levels wouldn't take up much room.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

 

Star Wars crossed with Pigs in Space!

At Disney World, they have a whole line of Muppet/Star Wars action figures. Beaker's not a stormtrooper, though...he's C-3PO.

Re: Why I prefer HERO System over Pathfinder/OGL/D&D for fantasy

For the most part, there are easily usable FH equivalents to most D&D characters/monsters, but Hugh does have a point. Most of us have experience from years of converting to FH, whereas brand new gamers don't. For some of the most obvious things, 1:1 conversion works fine, but D&D has a lot of weird stuff sometimes....

Re: Under the Agony Star: a sword and planet campaign

I think Gutenberg has all of them. I think all Kindles can read the Mobi format.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Mall Robocop

I'd watch it.

Re: Jokes

Mary had a little lamb,

his fleece was white as snow,

and everywhere that Mary went,

she went in her wooly jumper.

My grandfather used to always tell us this version:

Mary had a little lamb,

She fed it castor oil,

And every time it jumped the fence,

It fertilized the soil.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Citheronia Regalis, I choose you!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Keeping Up with the Joneses

Doh!

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Scooped

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4_TkasXzjI

Ow! I just hurt myself laughing. Someone rep that man.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Any movie starring James Earl Jones' date=' Tommy Lee Jones, Grace Jones, Shirley Jones, Carolyn Jones, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones[/quote']

 

"Keeping Up With the Joneses"

Re: "Neat" Pictures

I'd dye my hair green and wear clown makeup...

Re: Cool Guns for your Games

Anything bigger than a .22, and even then, it's probably a good idea. I like to hear.

Re: World War Two Campaign

I am a retro-GA genre fiend.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

24 Incredibly Simple Ways To Make Your Food Taste Awesome

Aw, I was gonna rep. Awesome tasting food is awesome.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

[h=1]Caramel-Croissant Pudding [/h]

I'd give that a go.

I'll pass on the Baby Ruth jalapeno, though.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Why is Loki a pole vaulter?

Idunno...something about his crazy horns just kinda suggests it.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Damnation Decade? Is that like Damnation Alley?

It's a setting in a parallel universe during the 1970s. There's all kinds of bad stuff going on, based on 70s pop culture...Satanists, robots replacing world leaders, animals going berserk and mobbing towns, zombies, etc. It's a fun setting for people who remember the 70s.

Here's a review.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

Dracula 500

"When Dracula escapes, it's up to the good-old Nascar boys to put him back in the grave."

 

I envision it as some horribly bad attempt to cash in on the late '70s popularity of CB radios, truckers, and scoffing at the national 55 MPH (then) speed limit, which led to such cinematic classics as the Smokey and the Bandit or Cannonball Run movies, and many, many imitators.

Hahaha! I was just reading through Damnation Decade the other day...I am ready to play this scenario!

Re: What is at the Ends of the Earth?

The world cuts off sharply, with primeval chaos swirling over the edge. The cliffside dropping off into eternity is populated by humongous spiders and other monsters heavy with symbolism, with unknowable, eldritch things lurking further down. Everyone knows that.

Re: "Neat" Pictures

Hmm...Fire, Ravenclaw, Pegasus, Captain America, Rohirrim, Werewolf, Green, (hell, I don't know), (really don't know), Ranger

Re: Order of the Stick

Bwahahaha! I never would have seen that coming...

Re: World War Two Campaign

Most characters should be able to beat a squad of men but not an entire army. They both can't and shouldn't try to win the war alone, because a large part of the feel of Golden Age games is the camaraderie, Us vs. Them, Together We Can Do This!

Yes! Some of my favorite WWII Supers imagery involves the supers going into battle with regular joes right by their side. The Freedom League might turn the tide of the battle when one Allied platoon is up against two Axis platoons, but then later down the line, they'll be facing down a platoon of infantry and a Tiger, and there'll be some joes with a bazooka there to return the favor.

Re: World War Two Campaign

If the Atlanteans carried out a prior sabotage type attack, and were defeated by the heroes, then that would give good reason for both parking all the planes to keep them under watch and for discounting any possible followup attack.

Re: World War Two Campaign

Pearl Harbor was considered to be pretty well situated for defense. It's fairly closed off from the Pacific and it's shallow, so subs aren't a big problem, and torpedoes can't be dropped from a very high altitude or else they'll hit bottom and either blow up or get stuck. Which is exactly why the Japanese torpedo bombers came in at a low altitude.

Re: LET'S HACK: The Turakian Age

Going off-canon is where campaigns get to breathe IMO. Just like off-vocals and off-instrumentation allow music to innovate and off-model makes animation shine.

Pretty much. I'm reminded of a Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser novel that came out about ten years ago or so...I was excited that someone was going with a new take on Lieber's awesome characters and world, but then the guy stuck so close to what had already been published that the results absolutely stank. No new characters, no new places, just some kind of half-ass attempt at a pastiche that ended up coming across as obsequious flattery.

Branch out! Don't be confined. A game world is not a strait-jacket. LET'S HACK!