GhostDancer

It is the 60th anniversary of Brasilia becoming Brazil's capital. April 21st 1960

Today is the anniversary of Columbine.

It is the 10th anniversary of the explosion on the Deepwater Horizon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion

BOAC Flight 712 returned to Heathrow after losing an engine in flight. The plane successfully landed but a fire broke out leading to 5 deaths. 122 people survived with 38 of those injured.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOAC_Flight_712

Here's wishing the happiest of birthdays to the always entertaining Jackie Chan, born this date in 1954. The Hong Kong actor and martial artist is like a fun action comic book come to life. I love the guy. - Tony Isabella 
 

1948, The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations.

I see a big cat with a curled tongue. I'm guessing that what you're seeing is a broken lynx. 

https://www.everyculture.com/
 
Still one of the best and most useful sites ive ever found

You might find something you like here: http://godfinder.org/index.html?qn=Z

Spider-Man
 
Val Char Cost
20 STR 10
18 DEX 24
20 CON 20
12 BODY 4
18 INT 8
11 EGO 2
20 PRE 10
18 COM 4
8 PD 4
6 ED 2
4 SPD 12
8 REC 0
40 END 0
32 STUN 0
Total Characteristics Cost: 100 Points
 
Cost Skills
3 Acrobatics 13-
3 Breakfall 13-
3 Bugging 13-
25 Danger Sense [Out of Combat] [Immediate Vicinity] 13-
5 Eidetic Memory
2 Navigation [Ground] 13-
3 Shadowing 13-
3 Stealth 13-
3 Streetwise 13-
Total Skills Cost: 50 Points
 
Cost Powers
24 Armor +8 rPD +8 rED
10 Clinging 50 STR
50 Multipower (50 Points)
5 u) Entangle 4d6 DEF 4, [32c] (+1/4)
2 u) Leaping +10", 8x NCM
3 u) Missile Deflection [All Ranged Attacks] +5
3 u) STR +30
1 u) Stretching 4", Always Direct (-1/4), No Noncombat (-1/4)
2 u) Swinging 10", 8x NCM
Total Powers Cost: 100 Points
 
Total Cost: 250 Points
 
150+ Disadvanatages
10 DNPC: Mary Jane Watson (Normal) 8-
15 DNPC: May Parker (Incompetent) 8-
10 Hunted: Green Goblin (As Powerful) 8-
20 Normal Characteristics Maxima
20 PsyL: Code Of The Hero (Very Common/Strong)
15 PsyL: In Love With Mary Jane Watson (Common/Strong)
10 SocL: Secret Identity [Peter Parker] (Occasionally/Major)
Total Disadvantages Cost: 250 Points
 
 

When Steve put up a Kickstarter for this project years ago, the big stumbling block was raising enough for him to devote time to writing it instead of earning a living doing something else. By working on it in his spare time all these years, he has to have dramatically cut the margin needed to get it ready for publication.

Hi Steve, 
I know you have Chinese mythology listed, but I urge you to consider the mythological beings (gods, creatures, etc.) and folklore of Taiwan. Taiwan folklore is different than that of the mainland since it incorporates native islanders (aboriginal) myths which are unique, and a fascinating mythology in itself. Here's one site that has maintained a repository of Taiwanese folktales and traditions.
 
Thanks in advance for considering Taiwanese mythology.

I have had a lot of trouble building Spider-Man, especially without using any Focus. 
 
His Bugging is the Spider Trackers.
 
His Eidetic Memory is his Camera.
 
His Stretching is Spider-Man using his web slingers to grab and object.

Sons of the Dragon was definitely a separate site, but maybe not what Ninja-Bear was looking for.

Amazon Prime has a bunch of Shaw brothers movies. Last weekend I watched Shaolin Prince, invincible Shaolin and Dirty Ho.

And the White Lotus Clan!

Just watched the Bells of Death! It was a Shaw Brothers production but it felt more like a Samurai movie than a classic Kung Fu movie. It was still good.

1959 - pretty fly for a white guy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/"Weird_Al"_Yankovic

1964: 73 million people tuned into The Ed Sullivan show to see The Beatles make their American TV debut. 

Lesser-known cartoon characters: Michigan J. Snake.  He sings well, but tap dance is right out.

Today January 27th 2020 is the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp at Auschwitz
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_of_Auschwitz_concentration_camp
Six American diplomats left Iran on this day 27th January 1980 having been sheltered by Canadians in Tehran. The film Argo is loosely based on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Caper

Most peachwood swords are made for practice. This one, however, was made from wood from a peach tree that grew at Mount Longhu in the shadow of the Hanging Coffins, cut by a Doashi of the Seventh Ordination. He carved the Seven Stars into its blade, and danced their power. This weapon damages most targets, including astral, ethereal, phantasmal and the like. When magical characters are written on the blade with grease, the damage vs. intangible targets is changed to Killing (HKA). These magical characters must be renewed from time to time, as they wear off.
15 30 point Multipower, 0 END, vs. Desolid, OAF
u1 3d6 HA
u1 1d6 HKA
Of course, a Heroic Level version would include STR Min and possibly Real Weapon Limitations. From The Girl with Ghost Eyes, by M. H. Boroson, more fun than any novel I've read for years.

75 years ago today, German forces launched Unternehmen Wacht am Rhein, a major attack against Allied forces in the Ardennes Forest, which came to be known as the Battle of the Bulge in the English-speaking countries.  The Allies had broken out from their beachhead in Normandy at the end of July 1944 after the D-Day invasion, and had a successful of the southern coast of France in August, resulting in a catastrophic collapse of the German armies in France and the Allies forced to a halt on the approaches to the Rhine due to logistical exhaustion.  It was a forced pause while all the armies resupplied, and the front in the Ardennes was held by a very thinly spread force, US VIII Corps. 
 
The Germans achieved perhaps total surprise, and their Fifth Panzer Army, Sixth Panzer Army, and Seventh Army all but shattered VIII Corps as they drove west, with the ostensible goal of retaking Antwerp and cutting off Montgomery's 21st Army Group and driving it into the Channel.  The weather cooperated with the German plan, with overcast conditions suppressing the overwhelming Allied air power for the first week while the tanks raced for Allied supply dumps through the same terrain they had traversed in June 1940 when they had shattered the French Army and driven the British forces to evacuation at Dunkirk. 
 
101st Airborne Division, Combat Command B of 10th Armored Division, 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion, 969th Artillery Battalion, and other elements of VIII Corps, were surrounded in the major road junction at Bastogne, where the Germans demanded surrender, with Gen. Anthony McAuliffe famously giving the one-word reply, "NUTS".  The weather broke on the 24th, allowing Allied air power to come to bear against the German forces and drop supplies into still-surrounded Bastogne; the German advance was halted and began to retreat.  (The first time I saw this image it bore the caption "Manna from heaven: Christmas 1944".)  Patton's 3rd Army drove into the salient from the south, relieving Bastogne on the 26th, and pressure was applied from all directions as the Allied materiel superiority was brought to bear. 
 
The pre-attack front was restored on 25 January 1945.  US 1st Army would capture the Allies' first bridge across the Rhine on 7 March (and put six divisions across it in ten days), Soviet forces would surround and take Berlin in April and very early May, and the Germans would surrender on 11 May.