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My usual suspects: Ben Bova’s Grand Tour Harry Turtledove’s Darkness saga Kurt R. A. Giambastiani’s Cloudfall Kathrine Rusch’s Retrieval Artist Julian May’s Pleistocene Exile saga David Brin’s Uplift saga Clive Barker’s Imajica Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere C. J. Cherryh’s Foreigner (Admittedly...

Mod Note: Looks like there’s no legal PDFs out there for this product, and there’s a policy against advocating piracy here. None I can find, anyway. Please don’t do that again. Thanks.

Michael Antunes has died. https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/music/articles/beloved-80s-rock-star-dies-213535749.html

Ator, the Fighting Eagle! Yor: Hunter from the Future! 🤪 More seriously, a Logan’s Run RPG (or sourcebook for an existing game) could be good.

Based on the SFX, that looks like a show that could air on The CW. Not a critique; an observation.

Were I GMing a PC like that, I’d allow it, with the caveat that the more regularly they started using it, the more inclined I’d be to make them have to buy that reduction off in part or entirely. IOW, following the spirit of the rule that a character who “loots” gear from an NPC eventually has...

I was one, since the first book.🤷🏾

I like a good martial arts campaign. You can really have a blast with them. I briefly ran one in HERO that was centered around a martial arts combat competition in which weapons were allowed; killing was permitted but not required. I had a DMPC who was based on the blind master archetype...

Specialized power armors aren’t usually flexible, though. Iron Man’s first stealth armor was less durable and had fewer, less powerful weapon systems. His first orbital-ready armor was similarly light on offense. As I recall, several of his (again, early) hulk-buster suits depended less on a...

The Hero’s Lack of a Journey

True, but that’s a GM call. And TBH, I’d probably model specialized power armors without Multipowers. I was thinking in terms of a straight-up VPP, requiring use of a base & with a time limitation. IOW, kind of like a variation on a gadgeteer archetype, but the VPP has to have certain...

Here’s to relief & modern pharmacology!

I can’t see that.🤷🏾‍♂️

I singled out Wakanda specifically because they’re the source of the vibranium used in the alloy of Cap’s shield. As I recall, that’s ONLY available from Wakanda, so Confederate Cap’s shield probably wouldn’t have any.

Sorta. It’s possible to model stuff like that in HERO as discrete, alternative power suits that require access to a base and time to do the swap. I’d probably do that via Multiform for an Iron Man PC with specialized armors. For PCs with lower powers, a VPP or Multipower might be more...

Generally speaking, HERO handles high fantasy more easily than GURPS. GURPS handles gritty Swords & Sorcery more easily than HERO. So if you want fireball casting mages & god-slaying warriors, choose HERO. If you want protagonists who even have to take fights with castle guards seriously...

Stuff like the kinky mycologist who asked another character how the mushrooms tasted before awkwardly revealing his inevitable demise would almost NEVER appear on an American murder mystery show. (Midsomer Murders, “Destroying Angel”, S4, E2)