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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Torm" data-source="post: 1705446" data-attributes="member: 12706">A few passing thoughts:1. Zartan's ability to hide in the shadows should be reflected, even if it is just highly trained mundane skill.2. You need "real names" for Cobra Commander, Dr. Mindbender, etc. Dr. Mindbender, for example, would be way too obvious even to most idiots as to what he's up to.3. Possibly, instead of Cobra-la being entirely a hallucination, maybe its another layer to the whole thing: Maybe Cobra-la as a name IS a joke, the common use English name used by a reptilian race for a hidden base they are operating from to try to take over the world. In their own language, which is almost unpronouncable by humans, it translates simply as "the base". They've been subtly influencing Cobra Commander since some point, maybe since almost the very beginning, maybe only since he started babbling on about The Coil. He's not the only pan they've got in the fire, though, they have a separate group they've been influencing that is oh so subtly named after their base - called simply "the base" in the predominant language of that group. Or in other words, they are called Al-Qaida in Arabic. The reptiles numbers are small, so they're relying on building groups of humans to do their work for them. Possibly, they are entirely alien. Maybe, they really HAVE been around since prehistory, evolved from some sort of dinosaur or something, and have been trying this slow manipulation over and over - Khan, Hitler, etc. (Possibly, if THAT is the case, it ties in somehow to what Mindbender is up to with Serpentor?) Possibly, a combination of the two - they evolved here, but left right before the mass extinctions of the dinosaurs, and they are only recently back, and trying to retake their world from the stupid monkeypeople.I suggest this one because it allows for some of the characters from Cobra-la to come into actual play if people want, it allows a possible explanation for some of the sci-fi tech that gets thrown around, and it provides another faction (or two, if you choose to use the Al-Qaida aspect of it) for players to be involved with. It ALSO, and here comes my hidden agenda, allows campaigns to be run with your system for "V" as well, possibly even cross-over campaigns.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />4. Speaking of factions, don't forget to do something with Red Oktober. I always loved it when those guys showed up.</blockquote>

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