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McCoy

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  1. Re: Ares Saves the World! Cheta: Huh? All other characters: Well played, Aries, well played. Dolphin and Iron Will would quickly point out he said "explosions" and "weapons," this would not affect power plants or research reactors.
  2. Re: Fort Knox Has Been Robbed Dolphin: Guys, it's pretty metal. What's the problem? Was it being used as collateral on the national debt? I thought that was backed only by the "full faith and credit" stuff like the currency. If it's an emergency I can bring you a couple shipwreck's worth, but it's going to be mostly in the form of 500 year old coins, numismatic value going to be several times the weight of the gold.
  3. Re: Magically Returning Sword - Should this be a Focus or Not
  4. Re: Incarnation Awareness Seems to me to be the way to go. You've got half a dozen or so NPC's who can sometimes do you favors.
  5. Re: Incarnation Awareness Contacts.
  6. Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy! Was it subartic tundra at the time, and did they live there year round or migrate?
  7. Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy! "Shopping Link Added by SkimWords" WTF?
  8. Re: How do you feel about House Rules? Yeah, you want to avoid being stunned, you buy more CON, not more STUN. Did not mean to imply (nor do I believe I did) that I had seen that in the rules. It was used by the GM at my very first game, understood instantly, and clarified in my mind something that had not been clear to me from reading the rules.
  9. Re: How do you feel about House Rules? Have they changed it that much? IIRC (books are currently packed away) how much STUN your character had determined if they were Knocked Out or not, but not if they were stunned. They could be stunned but not KO'ed, KO'ed but not stunned, both, or (the usual condition) neither.
  10. Re: How do you feel about House Rules? Don't know, do know I heard it in the first Champions game I played (2nd ed, believe it was 1982). It made a lot more sense to me than when I read over the rules several times and stunned had nothing to do with STUN. Now I call stunned "dazed," and for many years in FTF games referred to a character having their bell rung.
  11. Re: How do you feel about House Rules? From context I assumed Rules As Written.
  12. Re: How do you feel about House Rules? I have an "unpublished" house rule: an attempt to save a wounded person's life, even by a character with no paramedic or similar skill, is always successful. PC's should not die from an above average damage roll, and attempts to save wounded hostages or bystanders should be rewarded with success. So when someone announces their character is attempting to apply direct pressure to the spurting artery and picks up the dice, I'm thinking "Please don't roll an 18! Please don't roll an 18!"
  13. Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See? Thanks for the updates.
  14. Re: For whom the (dinner) bell tolls... Dolphin doesn't need to eat, but when he does its vegan. Iron Will a hypoallergenic concentrated liquid nutritional supplement. Cheeta is a jock, and a speedster. His favorite food is seconds. Snow Leopard considers all vegetables a garnish. Millennium prefers organic food, but is not strict about it.
  15. Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy! I've been working on and off on a NPC that I want to be ambiguous. Could be a Sasquatch, could be a Neanderthal. Neanderthals were probably vegetarians, jury's out on Sasquatch (some people insist they are herbivorous, but some stories include things like stealing salmon from nets).
  16. Re: The Red Queen Effect and Superhumans As the quote at the begining of the movie says, a willingness to share the planet is not a defining characteristic of humanity. In Real Life there is one and only one living species in genus Homo. On Earth 616 there are six species of genus Homo, or more likely six subspecies of H. sapiens as I believe they have all proven cross-fertile with H. sapiens sapiens; Atlantians, Deviants, Eternals, Inhumans, and Mutants. So on Earth 616 super powers have been part of the environment as long as anatomically modern humans. But obviously the other subspecies have not bred as quickly as H. sapiens sapiens. For example, every Inhuman alive lives in a single city. For various reasons, I believe the non-mainstream humans number in the millions, and that all of them together never had more than 10% the ecological footprint of H. sapiens sapiens. There is also the question of if mutants are a separate subspecies, or if in mutants the X-factor has been expressed, while in mainstream humans it remains latent. Look at Moondragon. She has telepathy, telekinesis, and levitation without being a mutant. The line between mutant and mainstream human seems to vary with the sensitivity of the mutant-detector in use. In addition to all that, both in rel life and presumably on Earth 616 H. sapiens sapiens seems to be causing an extinction event on the magnitude of those more usually associated with a comet impacting the planet. Some species are keeping up (roaches, the common cold), others are becoming extinct (sabertooth tigers, smallpox).
  17. Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy! Just make the distinctive features easily concealed. As long as he's wearing shoes and human clothes, he can pass as a harry, bearded mountain man. It's when his shirt gets torn off and he takes off his shoes that he becomes obviously a Sasquatch. Is the character vegetarian by any chance?
  18. Re: Always knows a name Sounds like it would be fun to role play. GM: OK, you're trying to sneak into the castle through the kitchens. Roll to open the gate on the tradsmen's entrance. (Player playing the Rogue rolls dice.) GM: Good enough. The gate is well maintained, and quietly opens onto a small courtyard. You see and smell a garbage pit, you see no guards. Team Leader: They would not have left this unguarded. It's a trap. Taking a closer look at the garbage pit. (rolls dice) GM: Something in the garbage pit moved. Something big. TL: What is that thing? Character Who Always Knows A Name: An Otyugh. TL: What's an otyugh? CWAKAN: That thing. TL: How do we kill it quietly? CWAKAN: Haven't the foggiest. Rogue: What say we back out quietly, I'll re-lock the gate, and tomorrow we go to the Temple of Knowledge and consult their otyugh expert? CWAKAN: That would be Norton. Rogue: Or we could feed him to the otyugh.
  19. Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See? Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian both at the top of the list, along with Canaanite and Persian. Plenty of sources on Egyptian. For some reason, I was never able to make it through Gilgamesh. Then I got it on audiobook, and the light came on. It was not written to be read, it was written to be heard! I've listened to it over and over, with tantalizing glimpses of the mythos. Also running across tantalizing hints of the polytheism that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam displaced. Few popular references on this subject, and I haven't been passionate enough to track down the titles and arrange an inter-library loan.
  20. Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See? I still want this in some format, especially the Middle Eastern chapters. This is still near the top of my "When I hit the Powerball" list!
  21. Re: More space news! [ATTACH=CONFIG]45081[/ATTACH]
  22. Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters?
  23. Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters?
  24. Re: In The Cards [ATTACH=CONFIG]44996[/ATTACH]
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