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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)

That cruelty is what she savors most!

Three places close to my heart. I don’t know what it is, but British murder shows just have wittier, more convoluted writing.

Jessica Fletcher was a serial killer. There, I said it.

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When I was in Austin in the early 1990s, our group had a rule where everyone was responsible for running a campaign (we had a rotation system) and everyone had to make a PC for each campaign. One guy was BIG into anime, and wanted to run some kind of campaign where we were all mech pilots. He...

Y’know, I ran my Champions 1900 campaign for 18+ months, and I never once considered having the heroes deal with some kind of natural disaster or mundane crisis. And I have to admit that something along those lines would be both heroic AND relatively easy to run on the fly- no foes to stat out...

You might want to watch this for ideas to mine: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0389828/ As for your NPC, I wouldn’t make the shield messed up at the beginning, but- in keeping with the CSA’s presumptive technological disadvantages- make its material much more mundane. Nothing from Wakanda, for...

Part of why our 3-person household hasn’t gone to streaming is that our viewing tastes only overlap a little, so to watch everything we do now would require nearly as much $$$ and would be much less convenient. To be clear, I’m the one who drives up the costs the most, and my parents would have...

In my oft-mentioned (by me) Champions 1900 game, the PCs were part of the interplanetary police force known as G.A.I.A. They had jurisdiction on Earth, Mars, Venus & the Moon. It was my best ever campaign, and it worked because I had 100% buy in from the players in terms of setting...

Give him a Bowie knife and a shield shaped like a Roman scutum so it will easily accommodate the stars & bars.

I’d also like to see a new incarnation of Mayfair’s Underground. It was pretty dark for a game set in the far future of…(checks notes)…2021.

There was a short lived RPG for the Terran Trade Authority books that I never saw in person. Loved the underlying IP, have no clue if the game was any good. There was a mix of space opera + weird sci-fi that was nicely sketched out, but with enough space left over for some good cooperative...

Irregular paperwork similar to that got Gibson guitars penalized with a $300k fine + surrender of $250k materials + $50k direct donations to a government agency charged with enforcing certain import regulations. You really don’t want to mess with import regs if you’re a legit business. It can...

Thanks for the correction!

I’ve seen some concerts with ASL translators, and some of them are almost as entertaining as the bands themselves.