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by Orbiter
Fri Aug 19, 2022 2:26 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Sinbad! Roc! ERIS, GODDESS OF CHAOS! Watchmen!)

Complete waste of paper? No. Expanded way past the point the narrative as a whole required? Oh, yeah. Yeah.
by Orbiter
Thu Aug 04, 2022 3:35 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Mandarin! Temugin! Spymaster! Whiplash!)

Hey, Jab, slightly off topic ... or going off on a tangent or something. Have you read Karl Kessel's Section Zero stuff? If not, I recommend it because it's fun. And it vaguely seems like you don't take requests -- did I hear that somewhere?-- but if you enjoyed the series and felt the spontaneous ...
by Orbiter
Wed Aug 03, 2022 5:36 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Mandarin! Temugin! Spymaster! Whiplash!)

Hey, Jab, slightly off topic ... or going off on a tangent or something. Have you read Karl Kessel's Section Zero stuff? If not, I recommend it because it's fun. And it vaguely seems like you don't take requests -- did I hear that somewhere?-- but if you enjoyed the series and felt the spontaneous d...
by Orbiter
Wed Jul 27, 2022 4:44 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (The Ghost! Count Nefaria! Madame Masque!)

Yeah, Immortal Iron Fist felt like they were adding to the Iron Fist lore rather than complicating it. And it worked well for Iron Fist because ... there's a difference between developing a character and destroying them, maybe? Current editors and writers evidently cannot see how cultivating an orc...
by Orbiter
Mon Jul 25, 2022 5:49 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Stane! Sons of Yinsen! The Ghost! Count Nefaria!)

Nefaria's conflict with the new X-Men wasn't as arbitrary and out of the blue as it might have felt to a new reader at the time. He had a grudge against the original team from them beating him in X-Men 22-23.
by Orbiter
Wed Jun 08, 2022 4:00 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Animal & Elongated Man! JL Elite & Antarctica! Despero!)

Speaking of the Legion of Super-Heroes ... what's the deal with Ayla Ranzz? The three books statting up the DCU left Light(ning) Lass out entirely. They mention her as Garth's twin, in his allies section -- are we supposed to assume identical stats? Even Negative Woman got a "just like Negative...
by Orbiter
Sat Jun 04, 2022 10:50 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Firehawk! Geo-Force! Metamorpho! Etrigan!)

I read an old Hal Foster Prince Valiant story one time in which Val decided to pull a bluff that was very interesting in hindsight. He pretended to be a demon to scare some opponents as part of a plan. His disguise consisted of killing a goose, plucking it's feathers and using it's yellowish skin as...
by Orbiter
Thu Jun 02, 2022 11:57 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! Blue Devil! Firestorm!)

If anyone's seen her actually showcase super-strength or the like, please let me know, because the past several pages of Mayfair stats have proven to me they also had no clue how strong anyone is, either :P. As has been noted, the game had the misfortune to be released right around the time of The ...
by Orbiter
Wed Jun 01, 2022 6:00 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! The Manitous! Black Lightning!)

Billy has something far worse than name recognition with the public. He has magic word recognition. Do you know how many years I've spent telling people that his name is not the same as the wizard who granted him his powers, only to have DC throw me and Billy under the bus by caving to them? Oh, wa...
by Orbiter
Wed Jun 01, 2022 5:30 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! The Manitous! Black Lightning!)

Thank you. I try. But sometimes I forget whole eras of comics. I know that feeling. When I tell people about the old TV series "Babylon 5" and why the should watch it, for years now I've told them about a conversation between Ambassador G'Kar and Lennier. I'm doing a rewatch because of jm...
by Orbiter
Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:35 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! The Manitous! Black Lightning!)

Overall, it's kind of an interesting look at how one RPG company attempted to stat up DC characters during a time when even the writers didn't know how powerful the characters were. As a general guide it isn't bad, but it could do with a lot of shuffling around. My memory wasn't that bad, after wal...
by Orbiter
Wed Jun 01, 2022 4:11 am
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! The Manitous! Black Lightning!)

Ah, OK. I largely gloss that "captured and tortured by goons" bit over in my bio since... well, it's completely unmentioned on Wikipedia. Like it never even happened. Granted I've never seen a comic reference it since- wasn't there a "she was probably raped but we're just not gonna t...
by Orbiter
Tue May 31, 2022 5:15 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! Black Lightning! Phantom Stranger!)

And as far as the power level of the Phantom Stranger goes, I've said it before and I'll say it again: X is BS. He's like PL 8 or 9 based on the stories where he actually did anything. He used to have difficulty with Tannarak, for cryin' out loud. (For those who don't know, Tannarak is basically Mar...
by Orbiter
Tue May 31, 2022 4:26 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! The Manitous! Black Lightning!)

Regarding Black Canary's martial arts skill "often given TONS of cred in her own book, but not as much elsewhere", in Pre-Crisis Justice League comics, Batman often recognized that she was more skilled than him. And as far back as the first edition of Mayfair's DC game, that was acknowled...
by Orbiter
Mon May 30, 2022 5:08 pm
Forum: Character Sheets
Topic: Jab’s Builds! (Shingen! Leather & Lace! The Lunatic Legion!)
Replies: 35255
Views: 7023969

Re: Jab’s Builds! (Black Canary! The Manitous! Black Lightning!)

Regarding Black Canary's martial arts skill "often given TONS of cred in her own book, but not as much elsewhere", in Pre-Crisis Justice League comics, Batman often recognized that she was more skilled than him. And as far back as the first edition of Mayfair's DC game, that was acknowledg...