Agonus

Pretty much.

And nothing says megalomaniacal villain like a cape too.

For what it's worth, there were a few mentions of miniatures games in the first few pages before we got derailed arguing over somethingerother.

My gods, man. You remind me of two friends of mine who got into a fist-fight over whether a short sword was a medium or small weapon in D&D 2nd ed.

Haha. Same here for the Best Mutilation bit.

There was another clip snuck in there though too. Saw that full on, sadly >.<

Aren't all awards shows sorta pointless? And I notice they're just calling it "Scream" now instead of the "Scream Awards," speaking of marketing.

I'm still surprised at all the names they get for the show. For crying out loud, it's freaking Spike TV. When did Spike TV get any pull?!

But the advance movie/TV clips and comic book appreciation are nice. Could have lived without seeing anything from the Human Centipede though. >.<

That's a thought. We have a player with a wife and a little army of his own.

And for what it's worth, the same guy "borrowed" a projector from the school he teaches at, and uses it to, ah, project a battlemap program from his laptop onto a wall. It's a neat way to do combat, especially large scale, if you have access to that sort of equipment.

You're still counting anecdotal evidence as fact.

It's down to the players. As you said, some will pick a background purely for any rule advantage it may provide. Or they'll take one line in a narrow faction description and beat it to death during gameplay. That's part of why I hate White Wolf's Noun: the Nominative system, I think it -restricts- RP because it forces you into the pre-existing narrowly defined in-game factions.

I still think the best aid to getting people to RP in a tabletop setting are a quality role-player or three. If someone is open to talking in-character, but hesitant to do so for whatever reason, seeing people have fun IC always helps.

These days, I prefer to leave my character's history a little open ended. If I need some background information during the game that I didn't already think of during character creation, I'll just ad-lib it as I go.

To-may-toe, to-mah-toe.

When I make a character, I tend to go for a class, then a personality. Then I usually add in bits and pieces of the background as I go.

In my experience, when I do make a full-on character concept ahead of time, the campaign tends to work in the opposite direction. Then I'm stuck with, say, a gritty bounty hunter working with a bunch of slacker criminals, or a blink dog (long story) in a dense city information gathering campaign.

I used to play a lot of CCGs. Hell, even after getting rid of 12,000 or so Versus cards, I still have a ton of Doomtown, Raw Deal, the DBZ card game, and a few others that I'm sending off to Noble Knight as soon as I can get them sorted.

I'm still on the fence about mini's though. Lost interest in Heroclix though I still have a lot. Sitting on a sizable 40K army I acquired in the last year, but only half of it is together. Started Monsterpocalypse, but I didn't want to spend a lot on it. But of course, even after my friend and I sunk about $100 into boosters and starters, we never got a single Cthul monster, which was the main !@##$$%&%^$@#@% faction I wanted to play.

So! Back to the tabletop RPGs for me.

Don't know if you know what he's talking about or not, but anyway...

Never said the US is "soft" on crime. But I don't think our current justice system works either.

Call on a local superhuman to defend you. Then the two supertypes will more than likely get so caught up fighting each other that they'll forget you're even there.

Going back to what I said before, I'd think that'll lead to superhumans battling each other more than trying to enforce their own codes on the populace.

It's more a power pipedream than a revenge fantasy.

I'd be tough on everything though, people have been caught up on crime in the thread, is all.

A dead criminal
-is no longer capable of committing crimes
-is no longer a burden on society.

I'm not saying crime prevention alone is enough to solve all of man's problems, mind you. But it's a step in the right direction.

Haha, good guess. But I wouldn't get rid of everyone. Just the unproductive scum of society. And my standing theory is that once the world learns what I'm doing, the people I haven't got to yet should shape up so that I -don't- have to go after them.

Agreed. I think Sam is more entertaining when he's not Sam, like when he's possessed and acting like the entity that's possessing him, or he's enraged for whatever reason. Just not drunk, drunk Sam is sort of painful.

I do like season 6 Sam's "What?! Me? I'm not hiding anything! Why would do you think I'm a cold-hearted ******* now? Nooo, everything's fine!" >.>

Ahdunno, zombie Transformers?

Unlike Kirkman who sent logic screaming out the window for the Marvel Zombies series, I have a little more faith in Abnet and Lanning. The story is so utterly left field it just might be the most awesome comic ever released in January 2011.

Yeah, if anything, it's this.