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Post by Adminenkainen on Aug 27, 2015 15:51:13 GMT
Take your time thinking over this one. I'd like your favorite published comic book hero and your favorite H&H hero -- not just ones that have been statted, but ones you've seen or read being played.
I'll go first, of course. My favorite comic book hero is the Thing, the tragic hero of the Fantastic Four, and my favorite H&H hero is Alpha-Woman, my wife's hero she enjoyed playing so much she created three incarnations of her for three different games.
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Post by order99 on Aug 31, 2015 1:37:55 GMT
My favorite heroes change drastically from writer to writer-Captain America can be a jingoistic jarhead under one writer, and then someone like Ed Brubaker can turn him into the Ethical and moral center of The Avengers...The Hulk can be formulaic and tired under some writers, and then they hand him off to Peter David...etc.
Favorite hero? Jack Knight, Starman. Inheritor of a legacy that he was more than happy to give to his appreciative brother,he reluctantly took up the mantle when he was needed-on his own terms. Refused to hide his identity, took full responsibility for his actions and wore civvies with a jacket, goggles and an antique badge. He was a decent fighter and wielded a weapon capable of levelling buildings-yet most of the time his first response in a conflict was "Hey, how can we resolve this without blood?". He refused to let the Starman Legacy run his life-he kept his store, kept his friends and made new ones, had time for a romance untainted by Secret ID shenanigans, wasn't too stubborn to ask family and fellow heroes for help...in short, Jack Knight was decent, honorable and likeable man who just happened to be on-call for a thankless, dangerous job-just because it was the right thing to do.
Best of all, when fate brought Jack to a major turning point in his life, he wasn't afraid to pass the Gravity Rod to a worthy successor and go where he was most needed-his love and his newly-discovered children. In that moment, he became a true Hero to me. It didn't hurt that by finishing the Hero's Journey author James Robinson gave Knight a genuine, finished Story Arc-and for reasons unknown no other writer has been tempted to use Jack since, a fact that I am grateful for...
Runners up-Speedball in his original Ditko series (YAY, Comics are FUN AGAIN!!!!) and Sandman under Wagner's Sandman Mystery Theatre run.
Now H&H heroes? Just on the basis of the Ur-Editor's RPG summaries I would have to pick the late (in your game at least) Jethro Dumont, The Green Llama. If your game had been an actual comic series, this would have been the Golden Age equivalent to Supergirl's and/or Barry Allen's sacrifices in the Crisis on Infinite Earths series-the Moment Everything Changed. He was also an awesome character whilst he lived-I suppose I can credit his Player for that...
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 1, 2015 18:58:07 GMT
Of your three candidates there, Order, I liked Speedball the best.
And now I know who you are, "Order" -- you played Dr. Fate and Green Lama in two of my past H&H message board games! The death of Green Lama was over two years ago and I had to go back and re-read your "Moment Everything Changed" sacrifice. Very creative interpretation of being smothered by a lurking monster...
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Post by order99 on Sept 4, 2015 3:13:12 GMT
Sorry to disappoint, but I have never had the honor (or time, alas) to participate in any of your message board games they made a great Archive binge-read for me though! I don't know who the Green Llama's Player was, but he impressed me...The Sandman in your more recent completed JSA game ("wait a minute-Axis infiltrators, nation-wide Crime Sprees, Undead horrors...and some Nobody was behind all of that?" ) was no slouch either!
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Post by Adminenkainen on Sept 4, 2015 18:05:55 GMT
Sorry to disappoint, but I have never had the honor (or time, alas) to participate in any of your message board games they made a great Archive binge-read for me though! I don't know who the Green Llama's Player was, but he impressed me...The Sandman in your more recent completed JSA game ("wait a minute-Axis infiltrators, nation-wide Crime Sprees, Undead horrors...and some Nobody was behind all of that?" ) was no slouch either! Ah, well, thanks for being honest. Too bad; I'd lost track of that player when he dropped out and it would have been good to hear from him again. I will keep hoping that I can have a reunion of old H&H players here someday...
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Post by order99 on Sept 5, 2015 1:55:36 GMT
Feh, i'm just hoping for some Players, PERIOD. Our schedules are all over the place...
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