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Re: Curious about your view on the current state of CO. (Anybody still play regularly
They need to start fixing some of the bugs. They're so basic.... But the Chinese Model get's in the way there as well......
~Rex
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Re: Star Hero 6E?
It would be hard to top the 5th ed Star Hero cover.Indeed, one of the many reasons I hated the 6e cover so much. The 5th ed Star Hero cover captured it All for me. It's Iconic, like the Terracide cover.
~Rex
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Re: Star Hero 6E?
I hate the cover but the book is really useful.
~Rex
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Re: [New Product] Champions Complete
Alright, I got the money put aside for 6 copies now and interest between my end and the over seas guys may bump that to 12. When can we start shoveling money at it?
~Rex
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Re: The One, True Son of Krypton
Well, John Carter is a Son of Earth, which on Mars made him an alien with strength and agility far greater than any native. Some have suggested he might have been another inspiration in the gestalt that spawned Superman.I guess what I'm getting at is that, if it's legitimate to look at earlier incarnations of Superman as the basis for a character design, it's also worthwhile to look at characters who filled the same "niche" (as RexMundi calls it) in their own eras, who may have contributed to Superman's ultimate concept. Heck, Joe Shuster claimed that Superman was all the strong men of history he had ever heard of rolled into one, and you can see elements of many mythic archetypes in Supes's background, including Hercules, Samson, Siegfried, Beowulf, Gilgamesh... and all of them filled that same niche in their cultures.
I don't think you can really grasp who and what Superman is today, if you don't consider where he comes from.
Don't forget Moses.
~Rex
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Re: The One, True Son of Krypton
No one has been arguing that Superman must be one specific build. Nobody. We have said that no' date=' Doc Savage isn't Superman. You are arguing, I don't even know what you're arguing.[/quote']Not arguing at all. Post came up that laid out an explanation that wasn't in context to the way I look at the issue. I simply clarified my position. If folks choose to remain glued to their talking point, which has close to nothing in common with mine and still try and take a shot, more power to them.
Either way, when folks ask me to build Superman, the scale is a key factor for me. Which era, which medium, which genre? That sort of thing Determines the build, and so long as the relative scale of the rest of the continuity fits and scales correctly, then it's all good in my book.
If I find time I'll post a few builds along that line of thought. Got to get back to the Chromate pile though.
~Rex
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Re: The One, True Son of Krypton
I think this is the key point of the argument for some of us. You say Superman is a niche idea. I say it is a person with a distinct set of powers and abilities. To me at least, there is no possibility of agreement in these two positions. Your position is so far from mine that I had never even considered it before, nor heard it mentioned before the current discussion here.If someone wants to reuse the name Superman for their new character, more power to them. Just don't try to claim "this is the DC character from X story". If they want to say it is Superman, then I feel it must have all the powers and abilities of whatever version they are modeling. Points, playability, and game balance don't enter the equation at all. Don't leave off some of the powers and say that getting the important ones is all that matters - include them all. There is a difference between modeling a character, and making a character that has similarities to an existing one. Both are fine to do, just don't confuse which is being done.
Superman is just a niche though. A spot in the food chain, an Apex Predator. I look at Superman like any real Editor or World creator does in the comic industry. As part of the bigger picture that everything else is scaled against one way or another. Of course The folks that cling to the idea that Superman HAS to BE this or that one specific build, regardless of history or evolution, aren't looking at it it the same way I am. They're focused a lot smaller, their favorite tree as opposed to the forest. My Superman, following the way the industry looks at him, is the keystone in an arch. Not just a specific rock, and like that keystone, it has a job and meaning that goes beyond being a specific rock. That's been the successful view of an industry that's kept Superman, and others like him, around for closing in on a century. When you cage that idea down to the ultimate in specifics, you end up with something more like Savage Dragon, and far removed from the ideal that is Superman.
~Rex
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Re: NBC Revolution
Yeah I have to say, horribly Underwhelmed so far and one can throw in a good chunk of David Brin's The Postman in there as well.
~Rex....will give it a few more episodes.
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Re: Year One
Well 50 Light Years for Modern Krypton. Or the Other side of the Sun just before the Reboot and the very brief war with Earth, heh... I also liked the presentation of Krypton in the Novel Last Son of Krypton. Some good usable rubber game science in that one that blended a lot of comics stuff together and made it work...
Even if my Aliens are Human looking I like there to be something different in the mix....
~Rex
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Re: The "parasite" or "symbiote" alien race
I tend to go the build a single character route and then the critter as all the sfx with complications and limitations based on such. In my old Stargate game, it even went so far as to having additional Stats to represent which was cruising at the moment, the Host or the Critter. Could do that with a really hacked up Duplication as well.....
~Rex
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Re: Year One
I know the Kryptonians were supposed to be "supermen"' date=' and capable of leaping great distances even in the 1938 comics, but I didn't think they got their powers until they were exposed to Yellow Sun Energy.[/quote']Originally they were. Krypton.....heavy g planet all that sort of thing. Then the rewrites, then the rewrites of the rewrites, then the reboots, etc etc etc ..... Probably why I like the Martians more then the Kryptonians......
~Rex
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Re: Magic and END cost?
Very true, but if you look at it from a non HERO gaming person, another Stat is more understandable to them then a Power Set up even if they do the same thing.
~Rex
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Re: The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC
There's always The Blue Marvel ....oh wait. Buried character.....
~Rex.....Marvel's best talent, working dark matches. Go figure.
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Re: Equipment & Weapons?
That to me sounds like something that could be added to an upper tier Kickstarter Donation thingie.....
~Rex... 12 gauge. .45 ACP. .308 Winchester. Don't need anything else in the world but if Need be, .458 Winchester or .460 Weatherby will annoy a Luska.
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Re: Year One
I'm thinking she was able to fly before Zor-El stuck her in her ship' date=' like the rest of the Kryptonians.[/quote']Byrne hit on that a few times if you look at his flashbacks to Krypton you see Kryptonians doing the stand up float fly everywhere. I tend to side with the Kryptonians and their spin off, could do more then human, before getting a yellow sun super charge. Maybe not as much, but at least something.
~Rex
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Re: Since CoH is gone...
Hit the shift key when the badguys are charging up.
~Rex....says it took him awhile to figure out blocking as well and is annoyed they took block practice out of the tutorial.....
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Re: Magic and END cost?
The magic set up in Narosia is interesting enough for me that I will most likely buy the book if it pops up at a FLGS around here.
~Rex
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Re: The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC
Good about Marvel: Jimmy Woo, Agents of Atlas
Bad About Marvel: Burying brilliant property in the name of running with the mainstream in the hands of Bendis and the like......
Good about DC: Firing Rob Liefeld....errr...allowing him to quit.
Bad About DC: Being retarded enough to hire Rob Liefeld in the first place.
~Rex ....Good about Valiant Comics: Delivering what the Fans want. Bad..... Nothing yet, but would like to be able to directly subscribe from them.
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Re: Magic and END cost?
All three here. Got to anyway since magic is so freakin complicated in my Fantasy setting. Really should thump the guy that wrote it up that way..... oh wait.... Anyway, all three for sure and doing so let's you bend some fairly interesting styles of magic around as well.
~Rex
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Re: NBC Revolution
I'm willing to give the show a shot to start mostly because of the Hot Chick running around with a LeoPro Arbalest. Also considering that it's a J.J. Abrahms show, all wigged out violations of science will be explained with Magic and it will loop back to some mumbo jumbo that was argle barrgled at us on Lost or one of his other shows.....
~Rex
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Re: Equipment & Weapons?
MHI likes to keep the armory Compatible for the most part Ammo wise.
~Rex... Is geared up to drop a weeks pay on the project. Now has 6 Overseas care package requests for the game as well because he already sent the novels over there a few months ago.
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Re: The One, True Son of Krypton
Very True. Seriously though you could in the setting of Doc's, drop the Doc Savage moniker, and call him Superman and he would be Legit as Superman. That was his Niche. That type of guy.
Enemies and Allies by Kevin Anderson gives a nice rendition of both Superman and Batman as set against the backdrop of the 50's that I thought would have made a great comic story much less the fun book that it was to read. There was no doubt that Superman WAS Superman. He fit the Niche of the Setting and conformed to the scale of the story as well.
~Rex
Do you consider Batman to be a Gadgeteer or something else?
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Re: Do you consider Batman to be a Gadgetee or something else?
A couple of the Novelizations and outright Novels have built on what The Batman IS and Does Archetype wise. He's a Thinking Martial Artist Detective that Uses Gadgets. In short, back in the old days he was what was known as an "Other" .....
~Rex