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[Piratecat]

Okay, here's where we're standing. If everyone comes, we have too many people. Anyone want to volunteer to run a fourth game to split up the people currently under Godlike? If so, we'll be perfect.

Any volunteers, Oh Great Ones?

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GAMES AND WHO'S IN THEM

Feng Shui, run by Dr Midnight

- Piratecat
- KidCthulhu
- Chronosome
- Gospog
- Fluffaderm
- Larry Fitz
- Mearls


Godlike, run by Umbran

- Wee Jas
- Tiberius
- Dareoon Dalandrove
- Sagrabah
- Silvermoon


d20 Modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, run by Wulf Ratbane

- Morrow (Allan Quartermain)
- Conaill (Captain Nemo)
- Davelozzi (The Invisible Man)
- Kip the Bold (Dr. Jekyll)
- Silvermoon's Wife (Miss Mina Murray)
- Joe Crow

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[Silver Moon]

League characters

My first choice, which should be fairly obvious one at that, would be James T. West. Circa 1896 he'd be on... oh, his third retirement or so. (But like Michael Jordan, you can't keep a good man out of his game.)

On the other hand I am leaning strongly in a totally different direction: Edgar Cayce, a talented psychic born in my own hometown of Hopkinsville, KY, where I grew up. Unlike the others, however, he's a real person, not a fictional character, so... not sure.

I probably won't make a decision until I stat out all of the other characters and see what talents are lacking. I don't want West and Quartermain stepping all over each other, for example.

But if you have a preference, Joe, let me know.

M.

West would be great, but there would be duplication with Quartermain. Here's another idea for an American character - next year's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen motion picture, staring Sean Connery as Quartermain, includes as one of its main characters a Detective Thomas "Tom" Sawyer.

 

[Forrester]

Piratecat -- yeah, I'm really only interested in Feng Shui at this point, though if there's a slot in The League I'd be up for it, just so I can torment Mr. Morrow . ARE there any slots in Feng Shui for a Jack Burton-like character? I think they're all filled up.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Re: League characters

West would be great, but there would be duplication with Quartermain.

I think there is room to avoid duplication of d20 abilities, however. The League's Quartermain is getting on in years and is more charisma than action, so there is room for both to shine.

Here's another idea for an American character - next year's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen motion picture, staring Sean Connery as Quartermain, includes as one of its main characters a Detective Thomas "Tom" Sawyer.

Can I get a big bleh for that idea?

BLEH!

M.

 

[Blood Jester]

Hey PC!

Since you guys are getting flooded, I'm not going to add to the crowding.

But if you guys get a lot of cancellations (yeah, right!) Godlike has intrigued me for a while, so... Put me in the queue for substitutes if you do this on the Saturday date.

 

[Silver Moon]

Re: Re: League characters

Can I get a big bleh for that idea?

BLEH!

M.

I said it was an idea - not necessarily a good one. Another main character they are adding to the movie, that I don't remember from the comic, is Dorian Grey.

 

[MavrickWeirdo]

Re: Re: 'Murkin Fast hero it is.

I am torn at the moment.

My first choice, which should be fairly obvious one at that, would be James T. West. Circa 1896 he'd be on... oh, his third retirement or so.

M.

Just a sugestion (since I'm not in the game) but what about Artemus Gordon?

A master of disguise would open up different possibilities

 

[mearls]

Okay, here's where we're standing. If everyone comes, we have too many people. Anyone want to volunteer to run a fourth game to split up the people currently under Godlike? If so, we'll be perfect.

Any volunteers, Oh Great Ones?

Hmmm... I could run a Warhammer FRP or maybe a Lhankmar d20 game. Or perhaps I could run Dying Earth. So many games, so little time.

Otherwise, is there room in the Feng Shui group for an absent minded, cranky old bastard kung fu master? Or maybe a zombie? Are we playing more HK movie style or is the game going to deal with the full-blown Secret War stuff?

 

[Dr Midnight]

Otherwise, is there room in the Feng Shui group for an absent minded, cranky old bastard kung fu master? Or maybe a zombie? Are we playing more HK movie style or is the game going to deal with the full-blown Secret War stuff?

Glad you asked... I should have come out with this earlier. Well, there's room for anything, really, but I believe Pcat has a cranky old bastard kung fu master to play. There's nothing saying there would be trouble with two, but keep in mind I think we're going to have two elderly folks along with the group- PC's and KC's. PC hasn't confirmed his character with me, but I think it's a safe bet.

You can't not play! No escape for you, my precious.

As for the feel of the game, I pretty much ignore all that secret war/buro/sorcery/transformed animal/cyborg stuff. My games tend to play like big budget HK gun/kung fu/general explosions movies. Barely together plot that loosely strings together a cluster of dynamite action scenes and massive property damage. Probably more silliness and comedy than I ever intend at the BEGINNING of the movie.

So- Everyman hero, Old Master, Killer, Ninja, Martial Artist, ... anything that you'd see in a Chan/Li/Yuen/Hung/Yen/Chow flick. All that stuff's good. I leave sorcery alone, so movies like ZU and SPOOKY ENCOUNTERS wouldn't really apply.

Think DRUNKEN MASTER 2, HARD BOILED, IRON MONKEY, FACE/OFF... A good description is Jackie Chan's POLICE STORY and THE BLUES BROTHERS had a baby, and the baby had a $120 million pyrotechnics budget.

 

[Piratecat]

Hee hee... and a helicopter.