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Snapdragon

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    a lovely, engaging flower
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  1. Re: Why the dislike for Find Weakness? I've always looked at 'find weakness' in our games as kind of a martial artist's best friend vs. big nasty bricks and huge armored tanks. I can't think of a single character, however, that has been allowed to buy an energy blast with a find weakness, so possibly this is our GM's way of balancing the abuse possiblity out a little more.
  2. Re: NASA plans 'Armageddon' spacecraft to blast asteroid Let's hope this mission doesn't go the way of Genesis.
  3. Re: Byronic Hero In all seriousness, you could probably only have one tragically flawed hero per game....and that person would have to keep their tragic flaw to themselves. The reason Byronic heroes work well as bad guys in regular fantasy games is motivation. On the outside, all you see is the highwayman killing the king's guards one by one at night. On the inside, you find out that a group of six king's guards kidnapped, raped and then killed the Byronic hero's fiance one night, and now he's out for revenge.
  4. Re: Byronic Hero Just out of curiosity, but how much would this disad be worth: Tragic Flaw: has crazy wife locked up in the attic.
  5. Re: Cue theme music Doesn't everyone?
  6. Re: Cue theme music I play a very very nasty girl named Migraine in one game. She's constantly flirting with and teasing the team's Brick, Majestic. A while ago she started calling him "Rock Star" because in his professional life he's a geologist. So he's taken to coming into battle with the Nickleback song by that name. The first time it happened, she was so not impressed.
  7. Re: how do you like your fantasy games I could care less the power levels...just please give me a good, charismatic bad guy to go after in the end. Because wading through level after level of mindless orcs, kobalds and bugbears is lame, unless there's a confrontation with the big boss at the end. And if s/he's a Byronic Hero of sorts, that's good too.
  8. Re: Book or PDF My husband does that too. Sometimes cleaning the bathroom involves moving 5-10 Hero Games books before I can even start cleaning. Maybe Hero should consider publishing books with laminated pages so they are truly humidity proof and safe to take in the tub as well. =)
  9. Re: Music during sessions? Best Song Ever for a gaming session: The Gamers Song by Silent Lion. And having Barb and John smile directly at your group while singing this song: priceless.
  10. Re: Places to Fight Hmmm...of late? Inside another PC's skull. GM'd just watched "Fantastic Voyage" and one of the players couldn't make the game. The missing player's character got shot in the head and it was up to us to find the bullet. Luckily there was a handy dandy shrink ray available. Also, we had to fight off his immune system and some crazy fun nanites that had ridden in with the bullet. Fun fun fun.
  11. Re: 70's Fashion Horrors *purr* Snake Pliskin... =) I've heard that the police have a much easier time catching up to fleeing gangstas in saggy baggy pants, what with the constant pausing during flight to actually pull their pants up from around their knees...
  12. Re: 70's Fashion Horrors I think the fashions you wore in high school are the ones that seem most "normal" to you; I wasn't a teen in the 70's but rather the 80's. Yesterday my coworker and I were teasing a 19 year old volunteer about his baggy saggy pants and huge oversized polo shirt. We were reminiscing about the 80's, when boys wore tight jeans and tight tees and you could actually see their butts and biceps.
  13. Re: R-O-L-E or R-O-L-L Well sure, but on the web it's a least documentable. And oh so very far reaching.
  14. Re: R-O-L-E or R-O-L-L I'm working on an essay about this very thing; not the roll vs. role but the divisive snarkiness that seems rampant on the web amongst gamers. Considering the hobby as a whole is small and shrinking in a lot of respects, disparaging other people's role playing skills or game choice seems very counterproductive. (For instance, calling other's characters Mary Sues, or using terms like roll player, or saying "Oh that system sucks, the players must be idiots".) Then again, competitive fandom is illogical as well; instead of one person going, "I love this show, watch it with me," they say, "I love this show way more than you could ever ever ever, and if you're a fan, you're opinion is unworthy for my fandom is the only true fandom. My fan love is purer and you suck. And don't even think about writing fan fiction about my favorite character or I will tear you a new one, you Mary Sue." It makes me sad, it does.
  15. Re: Anyone actually playing anything? We've used the Star Hero books more as a supplement for our regular Supers game; bolding going into the black to combat alien threats to the earth. The GM threw out 6 possibilities for the winter campaign; I'm afraid Star Hero didn't get a single vote. Our Western Hero will be starting soon enough though.
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