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Also possibly the 'fault' of the license-holder. The Tolkien estate is famously hard to deal with. In the past Marvel has wanted exorbitant amounts of cash for the license, and has never liked the idea of having character generation rules in the game, forcing you to play already-statted Marvel...

At long last. If Metagaming hadn't wanted an insane amount of cash for the rights, we might now be playing TFT 5.0.

No, but it is available from scientific supply warehouses or biotech firms. In bulk. Plus, Peter is vastly smarter than anyone working at those facilities, too :)

Batman has a few trusted people that do know who he is to handle that sort of thing, usually Lucius Fox. When your purchasing head is in on the thing, it's simplicity itself to re-route packages, hide contents, etc etc - plus, pretty much every computer system is going to have been compromised...

Higher :) The Marvel Universe at least address some of the issues by having a whole crew of people that deal with the aftermath of superhero battles -- Damage Control (you see them a little bit in the newest Spider-Man movie), and law firms (like Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg & Holliway, the firm...

In earlier comics, the Amazons also had a super-science tech base, which they also used to create things like the Purple Healing Ray and the telepathic radio. The plane doesn't really require controls - WW controls it via the same telepathic radio tech built into her tiara. Since it's never...

Both Aquaman and Aqualad (either Garth or Jackson) are hybrids, and differ from other atlanteans. Usually, it's absorbing o2 through the skin, depending on the writer. As hybrids, they both get a load of physiological abilities most Atlanteans don't have.

High school chemistry labs, Plus, you know, you can just order that stuff and have it delivered.

The 'talks to fish' thing is something only from satirical sites on the internet and possibly the old cartoons - the correct thing is that he can telepathically communicate with any marine creature.

There's a lot of reasons they occur. They started after a particular egregious round of police brutality against gays in the 70's. In the States, in many states, just being gay or engaging in gay activities was illegal, as in they could and did throw you in jail for it. Even where it was not...

The point is not to change your game. The point is so that an LGBT player or GM can say 'I can see myself in this game - I exist in Eberron/Greyhawk/etc' and perhaps for the first time feel included in the larger community.

I guess that it would be because you continue to insist that some mythical agenda is at work here to promote such things instead of 'American culture has begun to change on this matter and will likely continue to change; now that level of change has once again reached the point that people are...

And I think you don't get the point that it's impossible to do that. Every communication you make with another person carries a freight of ideas. All mediums do the same thing. It is impossible for you NOT to make some sort of statements when you run a game; either through overt inclusion or...

There is no INappropriate medium. This is the point of being inclusive, to show that such things are to be treated as totally normative, so they could pop up anywhere. The point is actually not to highlight the difference but to make the difference so normalized that it ceases to be a difference...

I have a copy of the original and loved it. I got into Champions because of the articles Allston wrote in The Space Gamer, particularly where he introduced Strike Force and discussed how the players actually split into two groups over the concept of killing villains. The original world he...

In the Comics, it's expected that supercriminals are constrained in special prisons, usually ones specially built for them to contain their powers and abilities. This hasn't had time to appear in any of the shows, so... what else are you going to do with someone who can turn into poisonous gas...

I had no idea that there had been a Delta Green kickstarter. Bummer.

One of the huge main problems in having any sort of discussion about Star Wars is that the prime source material is internally inconsistent, because Lucas.

Given all the other weirdness in the thing, he may have confused Kickstarter with Indiegogo, where you get to keep pledged money even if the project does not fund.

The feds have had a policy of ignoring or paying off most of the extreme-right-wing (and occassional left-wing) groups in that general region to keep from igniting another Waco or Ruby Ridge, though, so it could simply be that after their last dance, Bundy senses a possible pay-day out of all...