Category Archives: Challenges

To coincide with our last RPG Corner, your challenge this week is something completely different -- if you come up with the best weapon design, you'll win either any item you like or a portrait of yourself, to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 Alpha program! And bragging rights, of course.

The idea here is to create just the weapon, using any pieces from any sets you want except for anything in the Body slot. I don't want to see androids or ninjas ("But their whole BODY is a weapon!"), I want to see something a character would use that exists outside of him or her self to cause damage. Otherwise the rules are as usual, only there's no limit of three this week -- knock yourselves out and submit as many designs as you think are good.

Just make sure you post a link to your weapon creation image hosted somewhere free on the web (the UGO forums, PhotoBucket, etc.) as a comment to this post, and you're good to go. I'll judge the winner next Monday.

Good luck! Bonus points and special consideration given to weapons that have a name and/or a brief description of them, similar to some of what was posted in the RPG Corner.

I have picked the Finalists for Caption Contest 73 and now it's time for you to pick the overall winner. Many thanks to everyone who submitted an entry, they were very funny overall. And now, on to the funny!

Oh, click on an image to embiggen it, and you can vote for as many as you think are funny enough to merit a win.

We've got a two-balloon Caption Contest this week, so make sure your funny is double-barreled, kids. If you can come up with the funniest replacement dialog for this comic book panel:

You'll win any item, or a portrait of yourself, to be included in the final HeroMachine 3 program. The rules are simple:

• No more than three entries per person;
• All entries must be left as a comment (all in one comment or separate ones, doesn't matter) to this post;
• Must be relatively clean, appropriate for broadcast on late-night network TV, for instance.

That's it! Good luck everyone, we'll post the Finalists for voting next Monday.

Oh, also, make sure it's obvious which part of your entry goes in which balloon. For instance:

Entry 1:
Balloon1 - "Don't make my hand angry!"
Balloon2 - "Because you won't like it when it's angry!"

Yes, that sucks, but it's on purpose so I don't scare you off with my Super Sense of Humor*.

* Actual Superman power.