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Re: Alternate Sexualities in Champions and Supers settings

Re: Surfer girl character name Cloudcurl Venture Boss Air Bomber Skyrip Tita Ann Bowman

Re: Online Champions games... anyone seen/played them? I've been in a couple play-by-post games that fizzled, and one fairly long-running one that I'm having a blast with. However we approach it more like collaborative writing and don't really use the rulebook much. And even then our GM waves her hands a lot. We haven't used Maptools yet, but I'd like to try it.

Re: The October Eight: Artwork Sweet. I just love the way you color these. There's something about the combination of your precise lines, and comparatively looser color, that is very vibrant.

Re: The Collapse Of Dark Realm

Re: Has anyone ever done the Tomorrow People in Hero rules? I loved that show when I was a kid! It's all a little vague now though. I remember that they originally could teleport without assistance, but the belts (later watches) gave them a range boost and allowed Tim to help with navigation - but later it seemed they couldn't teleport at all without gadgets. There were also some kind of crystals that boosted their telepathic range, but I think that idea was abandoned early on. Some of them were adept at mental illusions. Didn't they have some kind of stun guns?

Re: The October Eight: Artwork Awesome. Love the shading.

Re: The October Eight competition OK, I'm throwing in my guy Edison Palmer, aka Avatar. He's an urban fantasy-inspired character in a Dark Champions game. Palmer is a reformed con man (or is he?) gifted with some psychic abilities and a talent for magic. Imagine a cross between John Constantine and Tom Ripley (with a little Raven and Stanton Carlisle for good measure.) I'll allow him to introduce himself.... Appearance: Palmer is tall, broad shouldered and in decent shape. He has short, dark blond/light brown hair and blue eyes. He's attractive, though his strong facial features are more striking than handsome. I picture him as Aaron Eckhart or Mark Valley. He usually wears a suit, but it would be cool to see him in a bona fide costume. full history and profile character sheet (needs some tweaking) my own attempt at a portrait Thanks for considering me, Doctor D.

Re: The October Eight competition Wow, this is very generous of you. I peeked at your Deviant Art account and your stuff is way cool. Gotta pick a character to submit...

Re: Reimagining the Superhero

Re: Flash Forward To Nightmare Avatar thinks it must be Opposite Day if it's "maniacal" to laugh at a speech like that. Besides, he's one of the good guys. He would never do anything wrong or turn evil.

Re: Reimagining the Superhero One that's well written? Something that doesn't cycle through the same four plots over and over and over, and that has characters that behave like human beings? Forgive my cranky old man routine, but every time I look in on the output of DC and Marvel I'm amazed at how bad it is. I'm afraid to reread the comic books I liked when I was a kid. I expect it'll turn out that they were crap too. On a more positive note, I can think of some books that successfully "reimagined" the superhero. Grant Morrison's runs on Animal Man and Doom Patrol were kind of brilliant. (How weird is it that he now writes the latest reality reboot for DC?) Planetary was great. What I've seen of Powers and Ex Machina were promising. Ex Machina is particularly interesting - it's about a guy who uses his fame as a superhero to launch a career in politics. It's sort of like a downscaled West Wing, except that there's some weird stuff going on in the background. The Boys has potential. The first few Wild Cards books were good. I'd love to hear more recommendations. For me, the urban fantasy genre has picked up where superheroes left off. I get fantastical tales in a contemporary setting, but better plots and more compelling characters. Sure, I have plenty of nostalgia for the X-Men and Teen Titans and so on...but I'm much more likely to pick up the latest Dresden Files novel, or rewatch an episode of Buffy, than seek out a comic book nowadays. But superheroes clearly still have a hold on my imagination, or I wouldn't be here. I'm even in a superhero game. But the fun of it for me is in exploring my character's psychology and trying to artfully chronicle his moral decay, not beating up Captain Destructo. I would love to play in a Planetary-style game. Or something more in the horror/occult department, or Warehouse 13 with superpowers.

Re: The Avengers Legacy

Re: Hero Exchange Program I love the wacky Justice League International. I would send all my characters there, no matter how poor the fit. Though Monsoon would actually fit in. He could replace Booster Gold as the fame whore, or Dr. Light as the newbie, or Rocket Red as the funny foreigner, or Fire and Ice as the international hero nobody ever heard of before. After a week with Booster Gold, I'm sure his teammates will appreciate Monsoon a lot more. Avatar is a better candidate for Thunderbolts or Shadowpact. Maybe he could be placed with that crappy Justice League covert missions group.

Re: Silly question: To sell out to the other side.