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well, Turtle Earth can work for some, too. LOL.

I'm lucky I got anywhere close to accurate, I was so tired when I wrote that.
So would Kamiji be accurate?

So theme is at issue. That may definitely affect the name. No cowboys no trenchcoats. Villain. Hmm, how about a non-trenchcoat mobster or mob assassin, villanous spy (not necessarily a tux), disenchanted guerrilla fighter, time-traveling Prussian soldier, foreign legionnaire, steampunk marksman, crooked cop?

One other question, Larker, do you mean to create the trench coat look, just with a different name, or go with something that's not a trenchcoat?
I've been looking into doing a cowboy for myself, for example.

Not exactly sure what you mean by "punny". Perhaps my storm ninja "Saiphoon" is a pun? As opposed to, say, putting two words together, like "Firesword".

I took a quick glance at Wikipedia for ideas, since my knowledge of ninjas is pretty limited. It notes that some of the legendary or mythological superhuman abilities of ninja were believed to come from the five classical elements. Of those, fire and earth/stone are mentioned along with their words, "ka" and "chi"(or "ji"). Perhaps these can serve as inspiration?

I've found available so far:
Stonesword (more a scrapper thing, I grant you)
Sparkshadow
Spark Shadow
Char Shadow
Charred Shadow
Shadowka
Shadow Ka
Shadowchi
Shadowji
Shadow Ji
Kameji (from "kame" = of the spirits/divine, and "ji" = earth)
Kamechi (same as above)
Nightka
Night Ka

I'm pretty sure there is more.

Except Michael is famous for voicing another speedster in JLU animation. You know, scarlet costume, yellow lightning?

Interesting for the fact that Geoffrey actually played a hard-to-kill creepy Voodoo bad guy with a skull mask not unlike Mr. Bocor... Baron Samedi from Live and Let Die. The Baron could have used a better tailor, but the similarities are there.

Just doubled-back and re-read this. Yes, yes I could see John Vickey in the role. His Neroon was one of the great highlights of Babylon 5.

Now if only there was a hero for Jason Carter (aka "Marcus Cole") to voice.

works for NA servers too. I've said before when making my aviation-themed character how I couldn't get "Ace" or "Barnstormer", so I took both, and LOVE my new name "Ace Barnstormer".

More recently, I kept hitting the wall of taken names when trying to find a name for my new fire/kin. I kept trying names that implied "fire dance". A little out-of-the-box thinking suggested considering "what is fiery in nature, but not necessarily fire?" and "what kinds of dances are there?" I ended up liking the sound of Chili Fandango. So there are still ways around the ordinary name and the sure-to-follow "unavailable" statements.

Btw, "Chili Flamenco" was not taken on Virtue, last I checked. Get it while its hot!

Its the penalty for breaking a "jinx" call-out after two friends say the same thing.


My contribution:
The Faceplant


And you guys should really expand this by including worst SG/VG names, and most dreaded NPC contact names.

probably because it is the same piece of terrain. A continuation of thought.

maybe not walk all over the city, but close to their current location should be fine. That happens frequently in other MMOs. The contact walks around a city square, that sort of thing.

First, I appreciate all that you said which I pulled from the quote. KB can indeed be amazing.

Second, focusing on the quote sections, KB is inherent to all the attacks of an energy blaster. Just firing the lowest power shot, unslotted for KB runs the "risk" of a knockback. So to prevent "used poorly" or to "limit uncontrolled scatter" would mean the blaster grabs two emote pom poms and becomes the cheerleader only.

One of my favorite characters is a energy/energy blaster. I refuse to slot for KB, and I can think of a lot of occasions still when I turn in battle to help a melee comrade, fire a shot, only to have his target go flying, even on a well-placed shot. I've learned to beef up hover so I can speedily zip around the battlefield trying to line up a shot opposite a wall to mitigate the KB effects. Not so great on open field missions though, nor in tight spaces, like sewer doorways. I'd love to change KB to a knockdown, allow a power to slot either KB or KD, or even have a special enhancement for chance of knockdown overriding inherent knockback.

KB is brilliant when I solo. When I get around to working on my second build, I'll definitely slot for KB.

That looks like a Hell Cricket

Which is fine, because in Praetoria, Bruce Lee survived. So Praetorian Blue Steel = Praetorian Bruce Lee.

Could be true, but that's assuming that the theory being batted about in the forums, concerning what Praetorian Clockwork might really be, is incorrect. If that theory is correct, the clockwork may indeed show on the PFN radar to some degree.

Possibly Hamidon somehow. The Devs stated a large chunk of the Praetorian world is overrun with Devouring Earth. Of course, Hamidon Prime and his Devouring Earth is not known for subtlety, so a Praetorian version would have to vary on that point.

The article writer predicts an announcement of a second game being worked on by Paragon Studios. But hasn't Posi already hinted as much in some previous speech? I think it was right around the time they changed the name to Paragon Studios.

well you said dreaming allowed!

I'm soooo building another MM if this happens.

And this should have a special power. Summon all to arrive...in a clown car.

Bonus points if the lowest clowns used acid-spraying joke flowers.

this.

I think there's still a lot of potential untapped with patterns.


On the thought that the OP pictured armor is "the Clockwork set": is said set supposed to be identical to Praetorian Clockwork? If you see the closeup of the P.C. at 21:10 on the Hero Con keynote address on Youtube, you notice that unit looks very, very similar to the Clockwork costume swag given out to the attendees (with a few minor tweeks on the players' version. That pattern has similarities, but is largely different from the OP's image: