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Friday Night Fights: Historic SuperHeroes Entries!

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Last Week for my weekly Poll Position post I had asked you to decided the Theme for Friday Night Fights and your decision is in! After a tough back and forth battle between Monsters and Historic Super Beings,  it has been determined that the Theme for the 5th Friday Night Fights by you votes will be .... Historic SuperHeroes ( or villains ).

What that mean is this. I will be providing you with five periods of time and it will be your job to select a TRUE historic figure from that time period and re-image him/her as a SuperHero ( or villain ). You must stay as true to the time period as possible while designing Super Costumes and gear which should provide a true challenge for all you talented HMer's out there. What does a Medieval European Super's custom look like ? Or an Ancient Egyptian Super Villain look like ? Have fun and let those creative  juices flow.

Now Here is How it is going to work: You are to create for me FIVE  pictures one for each of the five categories listed below. The images can be created with any version of HeroMachine you wish, however the image must have been made completely within HeroMachine, no editing with any photo editing software save for basic cropping and the addition of a "Simple" boarder. Once you have these pictures created you are to Name the file in the following manner  Roundnumber-Charactername. So for example if I created  a SuperHero George Washington for round one I would name the file "Round1-George Washington" ( or "RoundOne-George Washington"). Failure to name the files properly will result in disqualification from the contest.

Once you have your pictures created and named properly you are to EMAIL them to me at Kaldath@gmail.com . DO NOT post your entries to the comment section of this post, also DO NOT post your entries for public viewing until AFTER the appropriate round for each image has concluded.  You have one Month for today to create and submit your entries to me with the deadline being 12 Midnight Eastern Time November 25th 2013. You are limited to only ONE SET of entries for this contest, and all entries are final, substitutions will not be allowed so make double certain you have your images the way you want them to be before sending them to me.

The contest will be judged by you the members of this community via rounds of voting. The first round is a qualifying round where the top 16 entrants based on your votes will move on to the true competition and will compete in a bracketed tournament pitting each entrants against each other in head to head polls to determine who moves on to the next round.

The Five categories for this contest are as follows:

Round One: Early America - The Time period from the landing at Plymouth Rock until the US Civil War

Round Two: Medieval Europe - The time periods from roughly about 500 AD to 1500 AD

Round Three: Ancient Egypt - The era when the Pharaohs rules the Nile

Round Four: The Roman Empire - The time from the First Caesar til the collapse of the empire, roughly 27 BC til 476 AD

Round Five: World Wars I & II - Covers the period of time between the beginning of World War I til the end of World War II

If you have any questions about the theme or how to submit you entry please feel free to ask in comments below. Also I would like to take a moment to note that the Heromachine community is fairly world wide with different world views, Historical figures one culture views as a Hero may be viewed differently by another culture so I do not want to see any bashing of people here if one persons interruption of a historical figure does not match your own! Though with that said I DO NOT want to see any Racist, Homophobic, or otherwise Bigoted type entries and will disqualify anything I believe crosses that line.

Kaldath’s Caption Contest #13 Winner!

Last week I  asked you all to give me your best caption for the following image:

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Of the entries submitted the following are my top five finalist............

Bryce Wasley
See any pockets on this costume? I had to put my phone somewhere…

Calvary_Red
Let’s do the Time Warp again!

Frankie
“Darn it! Every time I hear a buzzing noise, I get convulsions, and end up in the spread eagle position.”

Timedrop23
I spoke to the clavicle and the elbow, and they agree the artist is a douche. What say you, mouth and flagrantly baggy crotch?

Rendu
“Phooey! Every time I try to step out of the panel, this shock-harness goes off!”

And the winner is ..................

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Poll Position: Black Canary vs Siryn

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This weeks Poll position will be a classic versus pitting DC Comics's Black Canary against Marvel Comic's Siryn.

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Lets take a quick peek at the the powers and skills listed for these two power crooners!

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Kaldath’s Caption Contest #13

Well after a weeks delay it is once again time for the caption contest to commence. This week the image I want you to caption for me is ..........

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As usual you are limited to three (3) entries and those entries need to be in by next Tuesday October 22nd at 12 noon Eastern time. Also remember to keep you entries within the bounds of PG-13 ratings.

Poll Position: Friday Night Fights!

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There seems to be enough interest for me to run another Friday Night Fights  therefore this weeks poll position will be dedicated to possible Themes for FNF.

Monsters: Five different monster types such as Vampires, Demons, Golems, Bestial monsters etc.

Super Team: A five member team of supers with 5 different Hero/villain types such as Brick, Blaster, Gadgeteer,  Martial Arts, etc

Mix Genre: Five characters from a mix of genre such as Fantasy, Super, Horror, Sci-Fi, etc.

Historical Figures as Supers: Five characters from five different historical periods of time such as ancient Rome, Ancient Eygpt, Early America, French Revolution ect. The catch of this would be that you need to re-image a true historical figure from the given time period as if he or she had been SuperHero of Supervillain back in his or her day.

Public Domain Remakes: I select five public domain characters you will need to re-design.

Other: Some other theme you'd like to see.

 

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Last week I asked which party role you prefer when gaming, Tank, DPS, Healer, or Crowd Control. The Result of the poll based on your votes is .... Tank ... winning by just one vote, with DPS coming in second.

Caption Contest Delay!

I am going to take a week off from the caption contest, so I will not be posting up a new one this week. But don't worry a brand new caption contest will be posted next Wednesday.

Anime Talk: Open Discussion

 

As I sit down to write this edition of Anime Talk I find myself drawing a blank on a topic so I have decided to make it an open discussion on all things Anime.  Is there a favorite series you want to recommend? A Favorite Genre of Anime ? A hated series you want to warn us about ? A rant? Any and all things anime are free for your comments in this post, so have at it!

Poll Position: Party Roles

This weeks poll position will visit the topic of party roles. Now this is more aimed towards MMORPG's however the concept is easily applied to pen and paper RPG's also. So here we go which of the following is your preferred role while playing an MMO or P&P RPG?

Tank:  tanks redirect enemy attacks or attention toward themselves in order to protect other characters or units. Since this role often requires them to suffer large amounts of damage, they rely on large amounts of vitality or armor, evasiveness and misdirection, or self regeneration. Tanks are often represented as large or heavily armored.

Crowd Control:  the crowd control players role is to limit the size of an attacking force via use of powers and abilities that de-buff/debilitate the enemy.

Healer: the healer is a fairly self explanatory role. The healer is responsible for keeping the party alive during combat by healing damage taken or apply bluffs to the party to enhance the parties chance of surviving.

DPS: DPS stands for Damage Per Second, and it is this players role to hand out large amounts of damage in as short a period of time as possible.

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So there you have your choices, please take a moment to vote and then let us know in the comments below why you chose as you did !

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Last week on poll position I asked if you preferred playing a Hero or Villain in games and based on your votes the winner of that poll is  ..............

HERO with 69.66% of the vote!

Friday Night Fights Interest ?

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Well I am considering running another Friday Night Fights and am trying to Gage interest. If I do this you will have a full month to submit entries instead of one week which I ended up extending an additional week last time. If you are interested leave a comment below, and you can also suggest a theme for the contest.

Kaldath’s Caption Contest #12: Winner

Last week I asked you to give me some replacement dialog for this image:

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and these are my top five entries:

Keric
Ben Affleck will never do me justice!

Herr D
I’ll have this medium–RARE, thank you.

Herr D
What? You’re SURPRISED? Some fortune-teller YOU are . . .

Frevoli
you can’t fool me; your plot ends here, Two-Face

JR19759
“You said you’d do anything to get out of Arkham…”

 

and the winner is ........................

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