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Hi there. I’m Dannyalcatraz, and I design oddball PCs. I’ve done it since early on in the hobby, all the way back to AD&D. Most of my D&D characters are within normal, expected boundaries, but there’s enough oddities to fill a sideshow circus. Thanks to a Dragon Magazine article, I was the...

I can’t speak to other games, but HERO has a pretty good history of illustrating how to build classic comic book characters, especially in magazine articles. Besides obvious NPC homages to certain characters in game supplements, I’ve got several articles in which writeups for various Marvel & DC...

Never saw it. The only MCU stuff I’ve seen in theaters were the 1st Avengers and Iron Man movies. How does it’s plot apply to my musings?

Could be. I basically quit buying comics in the mid-1990s, but still kept checking up on developments in the major characters. But not as obsessively as I used to when I was buying virtually everything. So I may have missed them doing that, if so.

From AD&D through 4Ed, I have used psionics in most of the campaigns I’ve run, plus many times when it was an option in a campaign in which I was a player. And I’ve designed many psionic PCs that have never been used.

A thought occurs… Perhaps you’re designing too difficult a challenging for the low level party you’re describing. Perhaps tone it down a bit, and have them react to THIS heist with more powerful guards & wards for subsequent adventures? Instead of golems & tentacle horrors, perhaps there’s...

That was kind of my point. Batman as written for the past 20-30 years has an arsenal of equipment and a plan on how to use it against nearly any super-powered threat he knows of. With enough time to prepare, he’s a threat to virtually any DC character on Earth, and some off of it as well.

They’re the same “power levels” across much of DC’s history in terms of character efficacy, especially when you consider Batman’s noted ability & intent to plan to take down any superhero/supevillain he’s aware of, coupled with a billionaire’s bankroll to “get things done.” His cave that houses...

Mod Note: The phrase, “with respect” does not mitigate subsequent disrespectful proclamations. Be better, going forward.

“These are the people in your neighborhood. They’re in your neighborhood. They’re in your negh-bor-hooooood!”

You want power imbalance? Play RIFTS. But in terms of point-based supers systems, you don’t necessarily get power imbalances in the campaigns, regardless of the heroic archetypes. If you modeled Supes & Bats in HERO, you’d probably use the same amount of points for each. But where Superman’s...

Mod Note: First post; first violation of the rules. Familiarize yourself with ENWorld’s rules- which you agreed to abide by when you created your account- or your time on this site will be very short.

I see what you did there! 😂

Some thoughts: 1) not a copper golem, a coral golem. The sharp roughness of the coral plus the stinging tentacles of the polyps might make for a nasty foe. 2) I wouldn’t have giant oysters, but having the clergy & workers within the temple cultivating pearl oysters within the temple pool...

I might be tempted to make a Meyer lemon infused simple syrup for drinks and dessert glazes.

Ditto…except for my *#%^%%^#ing carbon-steel pan! It’s CURSED! (But I love it.)

Correct me if I’m wrong, aren’t Meyers slightly sweeter than most other lemons?

“Rolling Coal” is already illegal in some states, but not enough. And the penalties for doing so are woefully inadequate, IMHO.

and By “impossible” I mean something more than a trivial commonality. A poem about sunsets could have been composed at anytime in human history and still be relatable. OTOH, someone asserting that a poem written in the 1700s was about Robin Williams’ rise to fame and untimely demise would be...

Susan Backlinie has died. https://people.com/susan-backlinie-the-first-victim-of-the-shark-in-jaws-dead-at-77-8647337