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DMG for AD&D still gets a read and a chuckle. Perfect he was not but an inspiration for years he was. Although the whole celebrating his death as opposed to his birth... seems odd?

And thank god for Dark Sword Miniatures with their various Elmore inspired miniatures!

As opposed to all the crossover music that happens all the time? Great shirt, far better poster.

The beatings will continue until morale improves. On a more serious note, leave any responses outside of tell him to seek psychiatric help on the wayside. If he is truly screwed in the head in the methodology you describe, as opposed to enjoying the pathos of it all, he's messed up in the skull...

Part of that though, may be WoTC own OGL come to bite them back in the ass via The Game Mecahnics books where such sacrifices were not standard but other sacrifices, the taking of a specific PrC with slightly reduced ability gains in core class, were slightly lessened, among others.

Hell, it probably meshes with the myths better as many heroes find or are given there weapons. "Hey Persus, outside of being half god, here are some awesome magic items."

When you get ready to run a game, what are you favorite characters? Do you prefer those with long character backstory? Those that seek out details of the campaign background? Those that a re willing to go where the campaign dictates as long as they don't they're getting screwed? I like a...

Thank god for Doritos!

This is why mage duels are painful

Toke and pass man. Toke and pass.

And yet despite not having any innate abilities, his scope of focus enables him to move among the super human so then the net result is... yup, Batman is essentially a super human despite not having any 'super powers' that any other human could use. The nature of the setting makes that possible...

Ah, but now we come to conflict! Conflict, potential loss, ennui, despair, character motivation! These things happen to almost all characters including fully standard super hero ones and can be character defining moments like when fans phoned in to kill Robin. How many times did we see that...

Need more information. Is everyone friends? Are these strangers that game together? Is the person trying to kill the other players always the same player and always trying to kill the same player?

See, I was going the other route that Batman himself is the Wizard because he has so much of his own tech; things that wouldn't exist in the real world. Like the new Batmobile that Grayson was using in the new Batman and Robin when that title launched. This doesn't get into making artificial...

And Batman has taken Deathstroke down as well druing the tail end of Infinite Crisis. Much like the Shiva fight, plot protection comes through. Deathstroke beating Batman in his own book isn't that remarkable. Now when Bane beat Batman and broke his back through a massive series of events...

If you used to enjoy comics, I've found the digital subscription Marvel offers allows a pretty vast backlog of comics (8,000 +) so I'm usually a few months or more behind but it's pretty cool.

In Champions, you'll find only a handful of super heroes take the limitation. For example Seeker in 4th ed. Normal human but he doesn't take the penalty. Most of the people who DO take the penalty work around it with power armor. Which irnoically enough the rules tell you to pretty much shut...

Ah, but even that's not really true anymore. He's had hand to hand training from Steve (Captain America), which usually only comes into play when he's armorless and these days, between Extremeis Virus, which lasted up til Secret Invasion, and his new Repulsor technology... human probably isn't...

And there's the geist of it. Claiming to be a 'normal human' when you can routinely do everything that the 'super humans' do is silly to me. "Well, Batman is only human, but with access to this technology that doesnt' exist, he can stand with the best of 'em!" In a game, the mechanics would...

And now we get each other's bit. To me, because he routinely uses super technology, including a time or two Green Lantern's ring, has had superpowers numerous times, high tech armor, etc... he's a super hero that goes well beyond 'only human.' To me, without plot protection or massive game...