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Quote:Ah, sarcasm...Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow
I can see how much Hurdle, Swift and Stamina would have helped with that.
Of course Hurdle, Swift and Stamina have no effect on that.I wasn't actually referring to the Fitness pool with that example. I was commenting on the OPs feeling that there was a "creeping easiness". Whether it is because I am a better/ more experienced player or some other factor, I have also found that the game just feels much easier now. Not a major complaint, or anything. Just an observation. -
Quote:Awesome.Originally Posted by Smersh
Nope.
You can get yourself a legitimate PDF copy for $7.50, though:
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/produc...ilters=0_0_0_0
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I have a bit of a legal question and this seems to be the best spot to ask.
As I mentioned earlier, I am reading DC Adventures (which is a bit frustrating... I feel that there is a decent game in there, but the book is just poorly written) and also flipping through my old Marvel rpg again. Given that the White Wolf Storyteller system is one of my favourite systems, I am curious about Aberrant. Given that the game is no longer in print, is it legal to download a PDF of it? I would happily buy it if it were available, but since it is not being sold anymore, I am wondering about the legality of obtaining it online.
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Lol. Everyone seems to be against it, but I will agree. When they announced that they were going to drop everything in your lap at once, I was surprised and wondered why they hadn't decided to go the route that you're suggesting.
Now, I admit that I enjoy having more endurance at lower levels, but I understand what you mean by "creeping easiness". I went and answered the phone the other day, leaving a scrapper of mine in the middle of a group of enemies. I was probably gone for about 10 minutes and came back expecting him to be kissing the floor, but he was just fine. Once upon a time the same setup would have resulted in his death pretty quick, but now it's not really much of an issue.
I remember a couple of years ago, I was teamed with a friend and a new player. My friend and I took down a purple-con boss at level 4 or so (in the days of Purple= dangerous) while the new player kept saying "wow... you guys are amazing." We laughed and said that it was just experience with the game that let us do that. Now I think it's pretty routine. -
This has to be one of the greatest things I have ever seen.
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Quote:Yeah, have to agree here. I left Smallville somewhere around season 4 and only came back when I heard about the episodes last year with Dr Fate (in costume!!!) and Hawkman. I stuck with it, when I heard that this would be the year that he finally became Superman, but I have to say, they dropped the ball. This could have been a great season, but they didn't really seem to put a lot of effort into the over-arching story with Darkseid. we'd go a few episodes with nothing, then "oh, yeah... we should do something with The Darkness this week!"Originally Posted by Rylas
A new series?! Hell no! Let it die already!
Unless you mean the new series wouldn't be handle by the same people, wouldn't be so riddled with plot holes and character inconsistencies as this show, and wouldn't be geared towards teeny bop drama kids.
In which case, sure, let's see a new series.
I actually like Tom Welling and would enjoy seeing him take on the role of Superman. I like Michael Rosenbaum and consider him the best Lex I have seen. I also really like Erica Durance as Lois. I just wish they could transplant everyone into a good show. I'd watch that for sure.
I can't imagine, however, that they'd do a Metropolis/ Superman show. I am sure everyone is ready to move on and I am 99.99999999% sure that Michael Rosenbaum would, at best, do one or two episodes per season and I think even that is stretching it. -
I started-- like most people-- with D&D. I played with the basic set (which had a great setting, IMO, as well as one of the best books (the Rules Cyclopedia)), but added a fair number of house rules.
About 3 years after I stopped playing and assumed I wouldn't find another good group to game with, I got into Shadowrun. This actually introduced me to the guys who remain my closest friends, including the best man at my wedding and my son's godfather.
After playing Shadowrun for a while, we switched to Vampire: the Masquerade. I was storyteller by that point and I ran a 6 year-long chronicle that left me creatively exhausted for some time.
Eventually, I used the WoD rules to play in a fantasy setting that I had set much of my writing in, but that didn't last terribly long.
Now that I am on a superhero kick, I have picked up DC Adventures (which I find a bit confusing, not having any familiarity with Mutants and Masterminds... I agree with one review that called the book a "beautiful mess") and have also been re-reading my old Marvel Superheroes rpg. I am not playing anything right now, but am hoping to get the gang together for the occasional game night. I really miss it. -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Kiken
Aww man. The Brigadier was awesome. And so was Nicholas Courtney.
I have to confess, I've always had this niggling feeling that the new Doctor Seasons (as good as they are) aren't quite 100% really Doctor Who because they haven't had the Brig in.
I kept hoping he'd show up.
I didn't know he'd been on SJA. I'll have to go check that out.
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Quote:Yeah, this is what I am trying to do, but I can't find a villain willing to help me do the missions.Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
If DJ zero won't speak, try picking up the Handsome/Beautiful badge - which requires you do Ganymede's and Scratch's 2nd missions.
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I have one character with the Hellenic sandals on one of her alt costumes. She earned them a couple of years ago and now that I have a new character that would benefit from them, I forget how to unlock them.
As I recall, they come from DJ Zero's missions. He won't speak to my character yet, so I am trying to do Ganymede's missions to get myself introduced to him. I am just not sure if I am remembering this right. Do they come from him (DJ Zero), or someone else? Is there an alternate way to get them? -
Quote:Yeah. with bad lighting, the costume looks like it might be pretty crappy.Originally Posted by ObiWan
Goes to show how good lighting can make a picture.
With good lighting, we can tell it is crappy.
I don't understand what they're doing with the weird straight lines on the back of the boots. It it some sort of patch after it was damaged? Or are they trying to show that Peter is inept at sewing? Also-- the web-shooters on the outside give me flashbacks to Nicholas Hammond. -
Boots look horrible.
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Quote:That was the worst, though.... They had such build-up, then... nothing. It would be like sitting through Fellowship of the Ring and the Two Towers, then upon reaching Return of the King, having Frodo destroy the ring in the first 3 minutes and the rest of the movie exploring a new storyline. I hated how they did that.Originally Posted by Wayfarer
They changed show runners and the new guy wanted to retool everything so they blew off the storyline they were developing during the first season in favor of the new Ilsa Pucci storyline.
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Quote:I understand that, but there is a difference between being seen as gods and actually being gods. One is a mythical, supernatural being. The other is an advanced being going "lol, noobs".Originally Posted by The_Fallen_Angel
I agree....if in the times of vikings Odin and Thor etc set foot on Earth....would they not been seen as "gods" to those people???....even if they were alien...they would still be worshipped and placed in that place by man...as man evolves through the ages...well..they would be further engrained as gods...
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Quote:Well, given that they mention that Dr Strange will tap into the supernatural part of the Marvel Movie Universe, why not have some of that now?Originally Posted by james_joyce
I think it's a reasonable way to have a movie that takes place in the slightly more realistic universe that Marvel is creating out of their Avengers franchise, but I agree it is on shaky ground. I would have felt more comfortable being from an alternate plane or something, rather than just a straight up alien. At the very least, it raises my pet peeve question of why does he look exactly like a human, then? Maybe there'll be a bit more nuance to it in the movie.
Seriously, I have always loved Norse mythology (and mythology in general) and I wish they wouldn't take this approach, which seems to render it much less... epic, IMO. -
Quote:This.Originally Posted by Chazzmatazz
Well, it looks pretty, but that is a baseline assumption at this stage of things. As for the rest, to hell with Fox and their cavalier disregard for character and story canon. They get $0 from me.
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Pretty much agree with you. I think they wanted some female characters to draw more people in, but I didn't really care for either of them, personally. Ilsa in particular can die a slow death and I wouldn't care much.
And yeah, I kept waiting for Guerrero to shoot Ames. -
Quote:This right here turns me off a bit...
Originally Posted by Kevin Feige
The comic book wins, in most cases. Were going with the theory in the comics which is there, in your face, and sometimes it isnt, that these are being who live in another realm, who live on another planet, who had a way to travel to here and has traveled here in the past. Specifically, a thousand some odd years ago, in which the locals interpreted them as gods and started mimicking some of their clothing and some of their helmet and weapon designs. But they didnt have access to the building materials that Asgardians did so they made it out of wood and horns and fur. Thats not a whole lot of this movie, but thats a lot of the backstory that were coming from. Which is why Odins bed, there, for the Odin sleep, yes theres sort of a Viking-esque [feel]. The head of the bed there, the Viking-esque longboat ends. But they werent inspired by the Vikings, the Vikings were inspired by them.
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Originally Posted by Producer: Craig Kyle
Once you step inside the observatory, you basically tell Heimdall where you want to go. The sword Heimdall uses is not only used to defend Asgard, but its also the key to this device. We looked at Tony Stark and that movie, Iron Man had holograms and was stepping inside virtual worlds. Asgardians have kind of been there, done that when it comes to that kind of stuff. So for them to send you across the universe its as easy as turning a key. Its why its a system of gears and wheels. Its a machine. Their technology is only as sophisticated as it needs to be to do extraordinary things. Once youve said youre going to go, the outside of this building begins to spin around, while the inside is stable and the rainbow bridge pumps energy inside this place. Then this major steeple that fills up the top here begins to lower and it points in the direction of the destination of the world you choose to go to. You step out on the edge and BOOM! Youre fired across the universe. You get the rainbow bridge when you arrive or leave Asgard, but when you want to get from this side of the universe to ours, you need to step through this gun that will fly you across the universe.
Back when they did the Hulk TV movie, I always felt that they reason they made Thor into a viking king trying to earn his way into Valhalla was because the various TV censors didn't like the idea of the character actually being a deity, one who had been worshipped. I imagined that the various religious sorts would take offense to their children seeing a non-Christian deity on television. (Before you say I'm crazy, I'll point out that the Power Rangers movie had movie critics complaining and saying that they were uncomfortable with their children being exposed to shamanistic ideas, as if it would warp their young minds.)
I had wondered how the movie would handle that. Again, I didn't imagine that they would want to specifically call Thor an actual g o d. Well, it seems that they decided to go with "they're space aliens."
I imagine that Thor's mystic bond with Mjolnir-- which even the Celestials found worthy of respect-- will now be explained as Mjolnir being a very well-programmed piece of equipment. -
Was he visiting from Canada?
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The whole "let's analyse this thing in the alley for 6 hours" bothered me too. As I have said before, there are elements of this show that I rather like, but some of the writing is just rather poorly done.
Another thing that has been bothering me for some time:
Where the hell do Dana and Trip live? As far as I can figure out, they spend the week in an apartment in the city and the weekend in a house in the 'burbs, because Trip is often up on the roof with the cityscape in the background, has a fire escape and a downstairs neighbor. Yet Vince is watching them in their house...
And if they are still in the house (because much of the interior looks the same now and in the flashbacks), why is Trip shown as enrolling in a new school? The flashbacks would indicate that they have been in that house for some time. -
I still think that those who showed support by buying ayear in advance sould get it early.
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Quote:I dunno.Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
What I can't accept is how ill-conceived it was to tell the entire playerbase to do the same task force over and over again.
For people who have limited playtime and who can't play durig peak hours, it probably helps them get a chance at playing the TF in question.
I have been playing siince launch and have probably done only about 1/3 of the TFs. I had actually been hoping that the Incarnate system might let sufficiently poweffrul characters solo some of the older TFs because I have long felt that that was the only way I'd get to see them, given that I tend to be able to only play during the day, or for 1-2 missions per night. This means that I have to find a group willing to do TFs over the course of several nights, one or two missions at a time.
In 7 years, that hasn't happened too often. -
My guess is Mariko.
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Haven't read the whole thread, so sorry if someone already asked this, but will those of us who have already paid the year in advance receive the pack early?
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Well, as someone who has yet to be able to even try this TF, I'm gonna vote to keep it, so that if I ever do get to do it, I can see it. Sorry if it takes an extra 30 seconds from your play time.
Part of the reason I dislike TFs with anyone other than my regular gaming group is that I actually like to *read* the story and see what's going on. On those rare occasions that I get to do a TF, if I am with a PUG I feel pressure to skip everything to race through it as fast as possible just to keep up with everyone else.
Maybe you have done a TF 500 times and don't care about that stuff, but for me, it's part of the game that I enjoy.