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That was indeed true... in the 1980s. Unfortunately, the settings of both of the major comic book companies are so convoluted now that most people probably don't have that kind of overview nowadays. That's one reason why both Marvel and DC have big cleanup events underway, and why they cycle...

Not in any useful way, because if you remove either of the agents, the fight turns out the same - they're pretty much baggage. Superhero RPGs are a bad place to make somebody feel like baggage, IMHO. Comic books get away with the power disparity because the author can stage manage things to make...

Wrong math. Hasbro (and by extension WOTC) will be looking at whether it brings in more dollars, not necessarily more players. If they decide that aiming for more players is impractical for whatever reason, then they'll happily soak what players they do have for as much as they can.

While I have no opinion on the veracity of the OP's rumour, integrating D&D with M:tG doesn't seem cosmically stupid to me. Quite the opposite - I was frankly amazed it didn't happen with 3.0. Lots of RPGs have associated CCGs, after all, I'm sure WOTC could put together a package that'd appeal...

Hero's a generic game now, so tossing 'em FRED isn't really all that bright. Given Champions and/or the UNTIL Superpowers Database and a new player willing to work from a classic template rather than do something wonky, it takes about half an hour to forty-five minutes in my experience. M&M 1E...

Every DM I know who's at least halfway decent aspires to be as lazy as possible. Bringing an entire world alive is a pretty significant task, and somebody who doesn't take every shortcut they can find inevitably either quits within the first half dozen sessions, or ends up with a dull cookie...

That'd be an in-joke/cross reference. Arkham Asylum is (or possibly was, it may have been destroyed at some point) where Gotham City sends their criminally insane.

There's a pseudonatural template - actually, several of them - in some of the WOTC splatbooks that's designed to turn a normal D&D monster or character into a Cthulhoid-style entity. If memory serves, there was a scary-powerful version in the Epic Level Handbook (with a minimum CR adjustment of...

Don't know of a single thread off-hand, but Monte Cook's message boards have a whole forum dedicated to Iron Heroes: http://p222.ezboard.com/fokayyourturnfrm36

I believe right now, the big three on the market are Hero (with the Champions line), Mutants and Masterminds, and Silver Age Sentinels (available in d20 and Tri-Stat flavours). There's others on the market, but I think those are the three that dominate the general superhero arena, other games...

It handles gunfights well, the classes don't feel at all out of place, and it's got a nice balance of cinematic feel with historical accuracy. For me personally, the fact that it's built on d20 Modern is also a big plus, YMMV. I'll also chime in with a honourable mention for Spellslinger, which...

Duplication isn't really the goal in any RPG (at least, not any of the ones I've seen), some brand of modelling is more what they aim for. Based on your stated preferences, I'm not sure you'll like the NWoD rules as much, because they're aimed specifically at streamlining play and moving a lot...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

Top Secret/SI, an espionage RPG produced by TSR in (IIRC) the late 80s and early 90s, featured a shadow war between two multinational super-secret spy organizations, Orion and WEB. Orion were the good guys, recruiting agents from all sorts of espionage organizations; WEB were the bad guys...

Well, that's because it never clearly registers any statement as a lie. Somebody who really wanted to screw up the examination might pretend to be unable to give an answer to a question when that answer is actually the truth.

I played through the series before reading the books (only the first one was published by the time we finished IIRC, yes I'm old). I liked 'em quite a bit, right up until the end - the finale was a little silly, as I recall. I was less impressed with them on reading them later, our DM way back...

I think those were originally RPGA modules, later published by TSR as part of Egg of the Phoenix, weren't they? IIRC, the series suffers a bit from goofy names syndrome, but it was otherwise a good source of stuff to steal.

Isn't Zone of Truth negated by a save? The SRD says: ... which appears to me to imply that if you make the save, you avoid the effects and so can say whatever you like (which makes sense, it's only level 2, after all). For the judicial system to rely on this kind of spell, they'd have to have...

L1 and N1 are the two classics from that list that best fit your criteria, IMHO. C1 could probably be morphed into something that fits, too (particularly if you and/or your group likes Indiana Jones).

I started before B2 made it into the basic set, so I didn't read it until several years later, and never actually started a campaign with it. So it doesn't hold the same nostalgia for me as many other gamers, and as a result I gave it a 6. The old-school adventures I used (and occasionally...