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IMHO, Mr. Wells is probably the most important folk singer of his generation.

Frank Caprio has died. https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Culture/judge-frank-caprio-beloved-viral-court-videos-dies/story?id=124827543

I was a high-flying philosophy student in my undergrad days. Studied a little bit of most systems. My big takeaway was that most philosophers I studied got something right, but nobody had an airtight answer for everything. So my own personal philosophical viewpoint kind of echoes Jeet Kune...

Seems so, because: This isn’t something I’ve seen up close & personal. The players “probably” not playing their PC’s established personality without mechanical reinforcement, that is.

To me, that’s kind of the “role-play” aspect of the superheoic genre, not really the mechanics. So the GM has to present the players with options to do heroic things beyond punching Prof. Terribad in the face. But then the players have to make the decisions to perform those heroic acts beyond...

While disappointing, sometimes NOT getting a house is really the best option. Sounds like you may have avoided a money pit.

I just had this vision of an away team with one Ensign Leroy Jenkins…

Can confirm. I was part of a GURPS: VtM playtest, and ran a Brujah whose build involved maxing out his physical stats (Potence; Celerity) and his generation (he had been taken by an ancient vampire). But his Embrace also drove him insane- he thought he was a superhero because of his physical...

As a PoC who started gaming in ‘77, I can relate to the inclusivity issue quite well, even though I’m a little too brown to passé blanc. And I’ll say this: even though I was never a homophobe, I did ape their behaviors and language- peer pressure is a bitch. It wasn’t until my sophomore year...

Support your friends & eat a lot of potatoes!

What the Puck?

My one summer’s time in a BASIC programming class (using Trash 80s) lets me chuckle at this.

Simply throwing big points into SPEED would be a pretty good way to model certain speedsters. You know, the ones who might be able to run as fast as a race car, but not much beyond that. They’ll be pretty good at taking down mundane opponents, and confounding other supers would still be part...

That’s just Batty!

I always looked at HERO NPC write-ups as “one person’s” version of a character, to be mined for ideas; rarely used as-is. Because- let’s be honest- in a system like HERO, you can model individual powers in dozens of ways. The main limiting factors are your imagination and the GM’s points cap.

FWIW, I thought I’d share a picture of the guitar I mentioned. It’s a Reverend Flatroc 15th Anniversary Limited Edition. The original that caught my eye was metal flake sapphire blue. Besides the special metal flake finishes, the 15th Anniversary LEs were equipped with Bigsby tremolos, which...

If memory serves, the Magneto writeup may have been before the VPP was added to the game, so yes, inefficient compared to how a skilled player would model him in the later editions.

I’m basing my assessment partially off of actual write ups of published DC, Marvel, and other companies’ superheroes in gaming magazines. I remember Teen Titans, the X-Men and Justice Machine all getting the treatment. Villains like Dr. Doom & Magneto were over 1000point builds. I’m...