RPG Corner: Ye Olde League of Justice

Posted on July 16, 2010 by | Comments Off on RPG Corner: Ye Olde League of Justice

Your buddy who usually runs your gaming group calls you to pitch a new idea for the group:

The Justice League as played in D&D (any version)!

How would you assemble the team? How would you build them, in terms of class, alignment, race, etc., using only the rules for the edition you choose? Which JL members would complete your roster for your adventuring party of, say, 4-6 players? Would you start everyone at Level 1, or would you prefer to get as close as possible to the regular incarnations of the characters and start them out at various levels? What kind of equipment would you use to help replicate their powers?

And most importantly of all, would Robin be a Henchman?

I'd love to hear what you'd do with that scenario, other than hanging up on your buddy the DM!

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RP: Great moments in accidental honesty

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(From "National Comics" number 2, 1940.)

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SOD.196

Posted on July 15, 2010 by | Comments Off on SOD.196

Steam powered robot, via suggestion from Mark Edwards on the HeroMachine Facebook group.

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Green Lantern preview

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If you haven't seen it yet, Entertainment Weekly features a still of Ryan Reynolds (?!) in the Green Lantern costume from the upcoming movie:

Can't say I'm a huge fan of the glowing muscle ligature in the design, but as always you have to see it in action first. And that looks more like a Photoshopped head on a CGI body rather than an actual photograph, but what do I know -- not only did I not know Ryan Reynolds had been cast, I didn't even know there was a movie coming up. Ignorance is bliss, I reckon.

Thoughts?

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HM3: Companions-Humanoid

Posted on July 15, 2010 by | Comments Off on HM3: Companions-Humanoid

While rifling through old directories on the hard drive for a separate UGO request, I realized I have an awful lot of old drawings in Flash that could be used in HeroMachine 3. So I put together a "Companions-Humanoids" set for you:

I would imagine some of these can have other items applied to them for further customization, or you can just leave them as-is. For instance, with just a little positioning and scaling and layering you could do this "Charlie's Angels" remix:

Some of these are prizes from back when you got a custom illustration; if one is yours and you don't want it in HM3, just let me know.

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Once more into the crapper

Posted on July 15, 2010 by | Comments Off on Once more into the crapper

On a dare, Hammerknight can show you how to make your own toilet in HeroMachine 3:

I can't decide what's more alarming, that someone drew a toilet or that someone dared someone to do it. Speaking of which, have you ever noticed how un-toilet-friendly most superhero gear is? No zippers, layers of armor, spandex out the wazoo, and an almost sinister lack of access to said wazoo in the first place.

Anyway, the speculation last week over just how he got the book pages in his grimoire was really entertaining, so we're introducing a new feature this week -- "Guess How!"

Take a look at this Hammerknight effort and see if you can guess how it was done, either just explaining what you think the tricks are, or trying to replicate it yourself (link to show your work!):

I'll post the answer key after folks've had a chance to give it a try. Thanks HK, should be fun!

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RP: Shouldn't that be a shower?

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(From "Prize Comics" number 1, 1940.)

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SOD.195

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Is HeroMachine art?

Posted on July 14, 2010 by | Comments Off on Is HeroMachine art?

Someone on the "Star Wars: The Old Republic" forums posted the following:

Maybe I'm just going through a stage of Male-PMS, but I feel like being really blunt here. The people who post screenshots of there person made with HeroMachine and call it their artwork, well, there are several things wrong with this:
1.) HeroMachine is not your program, your just using a public device. You cannot call it your art if you didn't make it. So you spent hours slaving over the hardest efforts to click a button many times to get a poor rendition of something that vaguely resembles a person with a generic stance that never changes.
2.) It's beyond unoriginal. I've seen it a lot around here, and it just irks me! It is so much more beneficial to ask someone to draw it for you. It benefits you in that you have a genuine piece of artwork that somebody actually put effort into. It also benefits them in that it helps them with the experience. Computers don't learn to draw from reference sheets and imagination, they get it from a billionaire who programs it into them.

I think it's an interesting question -- are images created in HeroMachine art? Why or why not?

(Image © Fiona Katauskas.)

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Jarhead

Posted on July 14, 2010 by | Comments Off on Jarhead

Jeff's Super Hero Fashion Tip #32: If you don't want to look like road kill, don't wear helmets that make your head look like a steering wheel and a uniform with tire tread marks on it.

Example:

A lesser writer would say something like "If only his uniform were a mirage, ha ha!" but I would not stoop so low. But I would never take such a cheap joke, I prefer to keep it high-brow.

This guy looks like he should opening at the Mirage in Vegas, ha ha!

That's me, Jeff Hebert, Classy Humorist.

(Image and character ©Marvel Comics.)

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