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Yearly Archives: 2011
You want to base a whole COMIC on this?!
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Posted in Daily Random Panel
HM3: Isn’t it Ionic?
I've just posted an update to the Background-Standard set for HeroMachine 3 with Myro's prize for winning Caption Contest 98. He requested an Ionic Greek column, which I then broke into pieces. I have to say, I'm curious what crazy uses you all come up with for the various bits.
Thanks for picking a great, useful item, Myro!
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Posted in Caption Challenges, Challenge Prizes, Challenges, HeroMachine 3
Printable character stands and customizable dice
The indispensable and incredible Hammerknight has put together a truly inspired set of items you can import into HeroMachine to enhance your tabletop RPGs even more. I've posted them all over on the UGO forums, but wanted to be sure and add a post pointing to them here as well.
He's got printable and loadable templates for d4, d6, d8, and d20; round and square flat character bases; and both A-frame and tri-fold character stands.
Here are a few samples by Hammerknight of the kinds of things you can do with these really nifty tools. Please drop him a line of thanks for all his hard work, and if you end up using any of these in your campaign I'd sure love to hear about it. Enjoy!
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
Encephalitis is NOT a super power
Look, I get that Canada sometimes suffers from "Little Brother Syndrome", the feeling that their bigger sibling to the south is constantly picking on them. But it's awfully hard to resist the urge when we see someone like "Smart Alec" gracing their funnybook pages:
Stealing your mom's galoshes, sealing them with duct tape, then filling them with air does not make you a super hero. Nor does gold-plating your uncle's "Butt Head" hat. However, given that this guy is kind of a wuss, I have to applaud his decision to color-coordinate his purple Depends with the rest of his jammies.
As lame as his outfit is, though, it's actually trumped by his history. From the Marvel Database:
When the battle was completed, Shaman shrunk Thorne's body to the size of a toy and stored him in the pouch, hoping to one day find a way to restore his mind.
Thorne's body was later used by Walter Langkowski to escape from transdimensional space. Langkowski's soul took over the body and escaped from the pouch. After escaping the pouch, the miniature body was crushed when the Box robot fell on it.
You are reading that correctly. He was shrunk to the size of a toy, stored in a pouch, and eventually crushed when a Box fell on him. It's hard to have a more ignoble super career than that, folks.
(Many thanks to Myro for pointing this one out to me.)
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Posted in Bad Super Costumes
HM3: Ren boot
Oops, I forgot one of dblade's other submissions, now in FootRight-MaleStandard, a cool Renaissance boot:
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
HM3: Spiky-eyed Jungle Colonel
dblade is back once again with some excellent additions to the HM3 stable of items, now available. They are:
Long-requested epaulettes for military uniforms, in ShoulderRight-Standard:
A nifty earring gauge good for gritty urban dwellers and savage jungle tribespeople both, in Ears-Standard:
And finally, a set of super-long-lashed eyes (in Eyes-Standard) and a flesh-embedded spike (ShoulderRight-Standard -- that seems like a weird place but that's where the other single spikes are):
Thanks, dblade!
I'm also working on more of the nifty Chinese Zodiacs sent in by MMI, and Hammerknight's amazing "assemble your own custom dice" codes.
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Posted in HeroMachine 3
Poll Position: Super Hero Free Agency
You hear this sort of question all the time as it relates to professional sports, the idea that if you had to start a new franchise with just one star, who would you choose? Only this time, we're doing it comic-book style:
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I started thinking about this in relation to "Invincible" and "Hellboy", both characters that were completely unknown but who eventually staked out an entire comic book line of very successful follow-on characters. But few of us have the raw creative power of a Kirkman or Mignola, so it seems like it'd be better to start out with a known commodity.
The question is, which known commodity? Let's explore the options:
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Posted in Versus
