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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 27, 2009 0:20:41 GMT -5
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving Day. The game is going to change gears as far as plotlines in the campaign, as I love character-driven stuff. The Gang Wars Trilogy mission is still the main unifying theme, of course, but there's mutants, shadowy government agencies, and an amnesiac alien who may or may not have spent centuries exploring the galaxy to discover that barbecue human is mmm mmm good. We're turning into a real campaign setting here, and I like it It does this gamer good. It wouldn't have been possible without all of you, so I want to express a hearty thanks to all. Happy Thanksgiving Day
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2009 2:45:48 GMT -5
And I give thanks to you. You are a great judge who really cares! Thank you!
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Post by shockwave on Nov 27, 2009 12:14:14 GMT -5
Looks like my Shield background may come back to bite me...
If I recall correctly, we are set about the right time for project wideawake now since we are pre-Secret Wars. We can move from dreadnoughts to Sentinels. I'm not quite sure what strategies this group would need to use against Sentinels.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 27, 2009 19:18:33 GMT -5
Later chapters of the published After Midnight module contain elements of the "Mutant Massacre" of the Morlocks by the Marauders and Mark IV Sentinels Yes, I know Secret Wars came before the Mutant Massacre, and it still will in this game campaign as well, but... at least we'll all get to see a glimpse of things to come
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Post by shockwave on Nov 27, 2009 22:52:20 GMT -5
I think we can all live with a little bit of timeline difference from the comic books. Most of us are getting old and can't remember things straight from back then anyway.
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Post by Flashdance on Nov 27, 2009 23:05:21 GMT -5
I think the game has been a blast - usually the characters I play are the serious or cautious types, so this has been a really nice change! Guess you can say that right now FD is throwing caution to the wind... and that wind is about to throw him right back ;-)
Thankful for good gamers to play with!
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 28, 2009 5:18:16 GMT -5
I think we can all live with a little bit of timeline difference from the comic books. Most of us are getting old and can't remember things straight from back then anyway. Well, it's going to happen a bit differently anyway because this world is also mixed with DC Comics characters and storylines and also all you new characters. As far as time lines, roughly 3.5 years worth of Marvel Comics = 1 year of game time, so, characters will have action packed lives
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Post by shockwave on Nov 28, 2009 11:06:21 GMT -5
That makes it even more likely I won't remember, since I never got into DC stuff.
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 28, 2009 19:46:54 GMT -5
That makes it even more likely I won't remember, since I never got into DC stuff. Marvel and DC have cribbed enough plotlines off of each other that the two universes' stories can be woven together coherently. In doing so, I'm more Marvel-centric (i.e. Galactus ate Krypton, Namor and Aquaman are rival Atlantean city-state rulers, SHIELD owns Checkmate! and Task Force X, Thor's Hammer would splatter magic vulnerable Superman like a grape, etc.) so, you'll still recognize plot lines, they're just going to happen differently. Most of that development is scenery... what your character might see watching the news on TV while on downtime during the Gang Wars Trilogy campaign. It's my goal for this to grow beyond the GWT setting eventually.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2009 21:22:50 GMT -5
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 29, 2009 6:04:36 GMT -5
It's gonna be the shizzle, even without Batman (round about now in the Smallville universe, young Bruce Wayne would be at Quantico becoming an FBI agent )
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Post by Flashdance on Nov 29, 2009 10:24:49 GMT -5
very much looking forward to it. Seems like Green Arrow is their current answer to Batman anyway. Would love at least a Bruce Wayne episode at some point though. He could kick much @$$ and never have to "don the cowl" so to speak
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Post by Spellbound on Nov 29, 2009 10:46:30 GMT -5
Just wondering, would it be immoral for Spellbound to do Select - Ultimate Skill (Business/Finance), play the stock market, and use the money to set up a trust fund to support the team?
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Post by Dead Sidekick on Nov 29, 2009 16:11:24 GMT -5
Just wondering, would it be immoral for Spellbound to do Select - Ultimate Skill (Business/Finance), play the stock market, and use the money to set up a trust fund to support the team? Becoming instantly wealthy is bound to draw attention from people in the stock market that would become relatively instantly poor. The truth would out that Spellbound is a mutant using her powers to manipulate the international economy for personal gain which would only add to the hysteria against mutants (who should be hunted down and killed along with their families and people who don't clap for joy when it's done ) I heard the hottest tip now is Lexcorp and Shaw Industries if the government contracts with them to build portable mutant detectors for law enforcement agencies, followed by home test kits so your friends, neighbors, and loved ones can detect the disease that causes mutations early enough to get the mutant to a death camp, er, place they can be cured. Immorality is a could do / should do question....
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2009 20:52:20 GMT -5
Yeah I agree even without bruce. But this anyway about the secret JSA. Batman, like Green Lantern, isnt in the show because Warner has a wierd copyright rule that prohibits a character in a TV show if a movie is being developed for it. They would have put Bats longtime in, but they just arent allowed . But ohwell, we have green arrow instead . But they did mention Gotham at least once, and Im sure he does exist, but is just in training, in tibet rah's al ghul . One episode with clark and bruce meeting would be enough for me to greenlight a 10th season. But we know thats never is going to happen unless Warner changes fundementally. But this TV movie is definetly a step in the right direction.
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