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You may want to look into collections of the now-cancelled all-ages line Marvel Adventures. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel_Adventures Most of these are not 'kiddified' in any way, just without the blood, violence and adult themes some other titles might have. You might want to look at the...

That would be a pretty hard sell, especially if you want to do a completely authentic western game. There's a reason that Deadlands is successful when Aces and Eights isn't so much: people want to be able to do Cool Stuff, usually involving some kind of magic or super-tech or something unusual...

Cautiously optimistic. I very much want a film about us opening up interstellar space to the human race, and making that first great adventurous voyage - I hope I get that. I have no problem with the 'food running out' subplot - necessity is the mother of invention, and it might take a global...

Absolutely loved it. It's a great movie with exactly the right balance between plot, character, and giant atomic monsters leveling cities.

Having it look like 'Generic Fantasy' might not be a bad idea, since D&D is the ultimate in generic fantasy; it practically defines the name. I think the best you're going to be able to hope for in a film or TV series is the cleric/wizard split and maybe an iconic monster or two (what, maybe 3-4...

Supernatural did that very plot a few weeks ago;

Sex Appeal + broody loner + cool powers. http://geekalitarian.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/gambit-and-the-female-gaze/ I'm sure he'll do a good turn with the character, but I wish they'd given Taylor Kitsch another shot at it.

Well at least the car looks like a car and the costume less like a suit of armor.

Yeah, there is a huge stage to have spin-offs. The Nova Corps, and Quasar for starters, which would solidly tie it back into the whole superhero thing. Not to mention the Avengers and Captain Mar-Vell. The Eternals would be a good series for a high-end cable series. The Annihilation Wave would...

Production values certainly look high, the cast looks great, so I have to wonder why we get once again a superhero show with no friggin' superheroes?! It's just inane. I wish someone would someday be able to do a Batman and Robin show as a high-end cable series, where you have the cash plus the...

When I was much younger, if you had a savings account you could reasonably expect an interest rate on the order of 10%-12%. Almost everyone I knew had a savings account as well as a checking account because you could put in a moderate amount and have a decent second income supplement every...

Loved the first episode. It's almost enough to make me get Showtime.

Many more people than you might think are at best 1-2 paychecks away from a homeless shelter. After the whole idea of a savings account collapsed, there seems to be little point in it.

That would be my take. I really enjoyed it up until that point. More and more, I wish that some movies were really high-end cable series. You need a season or half-season to really build up that Peter/Harry relationship before things finally go bad. Having Electro carry this movie in it's...

Yeah, that's the thing I was thinking of. I remember being very amused at 5E specifically because it had a way to build a rules-legal flashlight.

You're welcome. That said, it'll still be absurdly expensive to replicate even a relatively low-level D&D character because the D&D spell system is not a 'system' at all, and some spells with seemingly innocuous effects are hugely prohibitively expensive in HERO. A classic example used to be a...

You might want to look at this site: High Fantasy HERO, which features some different ways of converting 3E spells. Mage Hand (Total: 15 active Points, 4 Real Cost) Telekinesis (5 STR), Invisible Power Effects (Fully Invisible; +1) (15 Active Points); 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Turn (-1...

Of course they do. For my groups, at least: most of us don't own laptops. Laptops are clumsy and cumbersome at the table, and trying to power the darn things is a nightmare. One person I know owns a tablet but she doesn't have any gaming apps on it. So, almost all of us buy a copy of the main...

It would have been OK if this was 2001. The non-instanced questing and the fact that you cannot team up across factions were huge turn-offs. About the only thing I really liked was the character creation section, which is at least detailed enough to be interesting. Someone might be nostalgic...

The problem being that 'Xerox' is still a trademarked term and one they've fought long and hard to prevent becoming diluted and 'genericised' (aka, Zipper, Aspirin, Escalator). Being an engineer and thus used to very precise language, the poor guy is probably unwilling to say to a lawyer that...