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@arkandel said in Good TV:

@runescryer Continuity in older shows (and I mean that as in... anything before probably the late 90s or early 2000s?) was always sketchy. Sometimes intentionally, other times because the writers just didn't care and everything was so episodic.

In my opinion the real catalyst was Buffy. A lot of shows that followed it were influenced by its "2 stand-alone, 1 meta" episode format.

Oh, absolutely. But even Original Trek did have continuity from episode to episode with long term ramifications. The escalation of conflict between the Federation and the Klingons being the prime example. Episodes that focused on the conflict had results that carried over into future episodes.

@Prototart I agree with you. But, I also have the opinion that because the power levels are so disparate, with DC being literally magnitudes of order greater than Marvel, it makes combining the two main universes and maintaining some kind of equity/balance a challenge.

Better to just do an OC universe from scratch and allow the occasional homage/expy character.

@Arkandel said in New Superhero Game Looking for Staff/Feedback:

For a comic book MU* PvP shouldn't be lethal anyway. That's kinda how it works in comics.

Ship'em off to prison so they can escape or tie them in your deathtrap that doesn't work and move on.

For the most part, I 100% agree with you. However, you do have exceptions in the form of characters like The Punisher, Red Hood, even Green Arrow sometimes. My solution is to have 3 hero 'classifications': Superhero, Vigilante, & Anti-Hero

Superheroes are, well, pretty self explanatory

Vigilantes are the Batman & Daredevil type characters. There may be some superhuman ability, but mostly they fight crime by punching people in the face and fight more 'street level' concerns like organized crime, drugs, and political corruption

Anti-Heroes are the characters that believe lethal force is justified to make the city/world safer. Mostly, they're going to be sharing the same sphere as the Vigilantes

Player-run villains aren't going to be killable, unless consent is given. NPC Henchmen and mooks can be killed by the truckloads by Anti-Heroes. Of course, they have to deal with the consequences of their actions...

@pyrephox said in Good TV:

@runescryer said in Good TV:

Getting back on topic...

Leverage: Redemption.

Almost the entire band is back together, and it's a thing of beauty. Then cast chemistry still sings, even with 2 new additions. The writing, pacing, humor, banter, and twists are all spot on.

8 episodes released so far, and it's great.

It's SO damn good. The two new characters fit in very well, and I love everything about it.

Not gonna lie, the first couple minutes were hard to watch if you're a fan. Bring tissues. But yeah, everything was slick and great to watch them in action again. I especially loved that everyone pretty much got the happy ending between the series that they deserved. Elliot got a food truck empire, Hardison and Parker were happy together and teaching new teams of Leverage International, Nate and Sophie had their quiet retirement together...

I also liked how they had some call backs to missions from the original series (real or imagined). In know that there's more of this first season on the way, but what I'm really hoping for is a return of Mark Sheppard (aka Jim Sterling, Nate & Sophie's nemesis) in a cameo.

@Arkandel Yeah, that's going to take a fairly strong 'Storyteller' hand on the part of Staff to maintain the theme. Like 'mysterious' robberies, vandalisms, and physical attacks on the enlightened PC's and their property. Also, social ostracism by NPC's.

However, then you run into the problem of attracting players that want to run a 'KKK' faction to do all that stuff....

@Lithium Believe it or not, I am reading and evaluating all the feedback that this thread is generating. As we're still planning this out and setting things up, nothing is totally written in stone yet until we open the doors. It could very well be that certain Advantages will be pulled when everything is said and done. While I've staffed before, I've never been the one calling the shots and ultimately responsible for a game before, so I've going through all this and constantly evaluating pros and cons of the various discussion points regarding the rules.

Okay, first story. Short and sweet. Well, not exactly sweet...

I worked at a Borders bookstore in the local mall, back in the mid-90's. The store had a Kid's Section, mostly the pre-Kindergarten and Dr. Seuss sort of books. One day, the manager on duty asks me to go clean up the Kid's Section. Nothing unusual about that since the area was frequented by soccer moms bringing in their toddlers for a break from mall cruising.

I get there and start re-shelving books. And then, I see it. A white plastic fabric package, neatly folded, lying on the floor...

Someone had changed their baby's diaper, in the Kid's Section, and just left it on the floor.

Nothing for me to do about it besides break out the cleaning gloves and trash bag from the employee restroom in the store and dispose of it. Also, closed off the Children's section and used about half a bottle of disinfectant on the carpet there.

More retail stories, coming...

@Wizz Cybernetics are already inherently expensive, A starting character can't afford very much in Cyberpunk, as opposed to Shadowrun.

And if you're worried about 'inherently gross', then, no offense, but Cyberpunk might not be the genre for you. We're talking about a literary genre where one of the major works, Hardwired, features a character who has an implanted Roto-Rooter in her throat with a targeting system. And she conducts an assassination of an 80+ year old man who had his consciousness transfered into the body of a 16 year old girl, by french kissing the target and unleashing the weapon, which tore all the way down 'her' throat, then buzzed around and pureed the major organs. That's not exactly 'light' subject matter.

@Auspice said in Heroes & Villains MUX:

I just thought I'd mention that the following chars just opened up and none were played much/at all:

Superman
Shadowcat
Black Canary

I know these three tend to be p. popular, so hey!
We also still have no Flash?! (Or GL but I mean srsly, no Flash? Gosh.) But overall, the game is steadily picking up, people are starting to run events, so it's a good time to step in.

Just to piggy-back on @Auspice's post, the current Available characters (created and played, but idled out) are:
Hal Jordan
Harley Quinn
Huntress
Poison Ivy
Robin (Tim Drake)
Scott Summers
Tommy Shepherd
Wildcat

That's not to mention the characters that haven't been created yet.

Come on down and check the game out.

Story Number two, in escalating retail dumbfarkery...

Used to work for a local Sears in their hardware department. Now, for those that don't know, Sears had the Craftsman tool line, with the hand tools (non-powered) having a lifetime guarantee. Craftsman hand tool breaks, bring it into a Sears store and exchange it for a new one. That's the way it was for 100 years, seriously.

Anyways, because people always try to game a system, there were 'recyclers', who would go around job sites, find broken tools that has been lost or discarded, bring them in to get replacements under the warranty, then sell the new tools at flea markets.

At first, this wasn't really a huge problem. The company just put it down as a cost of doing business. But, when I started at Sears, we had this local guy that would come in every few months with a pair of 5 gallon buckets filled with broken tools for exchange. Mostly sockets and ratchets. Whoever had to deal with him was stuck for at least an hour, sorting through the tools, sifting out was wasn't under warranty due to rust or obvious abuse, then getting the replacements and ringing the whole exchange up.

Well, about a year or so into my tenure, corporate had decided they'd had their fill of guys like this. So, there was a wording change in the warranty: we no longer had to give a new tool in exchange, but instead gave out refurbished tools. Now, this didn't cause as much outrage among the customer base as you might expect. Because we were now refurbishing ratchets from the 1950's with new mechanical part, which the collectors were very excited about. What it did do is piss off the recyclers. And boy, was our local guy mad when we told him.

Dude threw an absolute fit in the store, yelling and swearing at us. Not acting aggressive enough for security to get involved, but he was really close to the line. So. He dumped his bucket of tools on the counter. Went through them with me one by one, slamming each one down and snearing 'How about this one? Do I get a new tool?'

That was just an hour of pure retail schadenfreude.

New edition of the game coming soon from Ulisses Spiel, German RPG company that published 'The Dark Eye' (Germany's version of D&D, since TSR never acquired German rights), whose North American branch has the rights to the 40K license and is responsible for the TORG revival.

Kickstarter begins March 24th.

https://www.ulisses-us.com/i-spy-with-my-imperial-eye/

@arkandel Not to mention the vicious cycle of Supers MU's

Animaniacs, Season 2! Now on Hulu.

It's glorious....

Haven't gotten to the return of Dr. Scratchunsniff yet

Saddle up, pardner; the Kickstarter for a new edition of Deadlands just launched for release in November. The rules are updated to the current Adventurer Edition of Savage Worlds, and the timeline is advanced to 1884. The Servitors have failed and the Reckoners are back to square one in their demonic plans to return to Earth. The Civil War has finally ended, or at least the shootin' has ended, and a Cold War between the USA and CSA has ramped up. Even the Rail Wars have been settled with a phyrric victory by Dr. Hellstrome.

So, it's a return to small town, more isolated tales of terror. Any folks out there interested in gearing up a MU for this?

So, one of the many ideas that is 'in development' due to my ADD is a game that would be a continuation of the 'Young Justice' animated series. I'very got the storyline for a full year 'Season 3' frameworked out. Any interest?

Some of these might be a bit old, but they're favorites

Sword Art Online (Season 2 just hit Netflix)
Madoka Magica (for a twisted take on Sailor Moon)
Yuki Yuna Is A Hero (in case Madoka Magica wasn't depressing enough for you)
Monster Musume (lots of fan service, but also funny and sweet)
Tiger & Bunny
Macross Frontier
Gangsta!

Okay, folks. The PDF of the new rules set has just been released. I'm still going through it all, since Savage Worlds isn't one of my normal jams. But, if people are still interested, I expect that we can start moving on this in another couple weeks.

Definitely will be needing coders familiar with the Savage Worlds system for this. As well as a 'standard' card deck code that includes Jokers for a total of 54 cards in a deck.

Debating between the new 'standard' setting in the Wyoming/Colorado area or the custom California setting I've been working on and off with for a couple years now. Thoughts?

@greenflashlight Backstorry on Marc/Stephen comes in Episode 5.

CW: trigger for child abuse.

Just letting folks planning on watching it all a heads up.

@toreadorfool I totally get that. I was developing a California setting because 1) I'm from there and know the area and history, and 2) it was a good way to allow both Union and Confedearcy characters to interact as a sort of neutral site playing both sides of the Civil War and supplying both with Ghost Rock. Also, two of my favorite Western series are Zorro and Have Gun-Will Travel, which have California roots.

However, the timeline's been altered because of the Meta storyline for Deadlands. The year is 1884 and the Civil War now ended in 1871 after the Battle of Washington, with the Confederacy's Ghost Rock machinery running out of fuel and the Union forcing Lee back and securing the Confederacy surrender at Appomattox a few months later. So, no need to have a neutral territory for Union & CSA characters anymore. The US now has Territorial Rangers, based off the Texas Rangers, which continue the Ranger lore in-universe; and the Agency is still around as well.

Other Lore updates:
-The Great Flood happens in 1880, taking out Lost Angels and Reverend Grimme
-Hellstromme wins the Great Rail War in 1879 by burrowing under the Rockies in secret, then disappears from the public in 1883.
-The Sioux Nation performs the Great Summoning in 1881, making technology cease to function inside the border.