Mathew Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers Yep: There are also Captain America in the 1970s: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DndVAcwvJA I must have missed the Kid Super Power Hour back in the day: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Logan D. Hurricanes Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers I mused have missed the Kid Super Power Hour back in the day: "Kids are so stupid, they'll watch anything!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Posted July 11, 2010 Report Share Posted July 11, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers I don't know about you, but Dirty Trixie and Glorious Gal make that must see tv to me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Holck Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers I was trying to avoid Batman becuse of the over-the-top camp of the show. B Somedays, you just can't get rid of a Bomb http://knowyourmeme.com/forums/just-for-fun/topics/5437-1000-ways-to-get-rid-of-a-bomb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers That looks like it could have been good. Have you any more information? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddHat Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers That looks like it could have been good. Have you any more information? I remember seeing this back in the day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IndianaJoe3 Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers That looks like it could have been good. Have you any more information? I caught it on video. It stank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concord Posted July 12, 2010 Report Share Posted July 12, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers I caught it on video. It stank. You are being kind, IndianaJoe3... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers That looks like it could have been good. Have you any more information?What they said. Try the Jeffrey Combs movie Doctor Mordrid. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104115/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Desmarais Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers I remeber a couple of Spiderman movies back in the day on TV. But are they from the '70s? And how would you do a stretching character on a '70s tv budget? Or is that impossible? Focus the camera on the actor's hand. Then, while moving the camera physically away from actor, zoom in on the hand so that it appears to get larger. The end results is that it looks (sort of) like the actors arm is stretching towards the viewer. Cheesy, but cheap and relatively easy to do at almost any optical tech level. This technique accounted for most of Reed Richard's "stretching" in Roger Corman's aborted Fantastic Four movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greywind Posted July 13, 2010 Report Share Posted July 13, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers It wasn't aborted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers I've seen it...it should have been Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Desmarais Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers It wasn't aborted. Ok. More accurately then: Never intended to be released. It was made only because the studio that owned the rights to make a "Fantastic Four" movie would have lost those rights if it did not begin production by a certain date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers Ok. More accurately then: Never intended to be released. It was made only because the studio that owned the rights to make a "Fantastic Four" movie would have lost those rights if it did not begin production by a certain date. It actually wasn't horrible. I've seen Horrible. Come to think of it I do believe I've at various times dated Horrible. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers Some news of interest to this thread, the Bionic duo are coming to DVD this year and next (Six Million Dollar man/Bionic Woman) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted July 14, 2010 Report Share Posted July 14, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers Which will be good. Not great but good Great would mean I also get the Dog to, heh. I still say though that drawing makes for a great campaign Idea. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted July 15, 2010 Report Share Posted July 15, 2010 Re: '70s TV Supers Some news of interest to this thread' date=' the Bionic duo are coming to DVD this year and next (Six Million Dollar man/Bionic Woman)[/quote'] can you PM me with moredetails? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted August 29, 2013 Report Share Posted August 29, 2013 Bringing this Thread Back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 would the power levels of later supers showsl {nightman 'mutant x' heroes etc} work ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 Most would be low level. TV Superheroes tend to be one trick ponies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted August 30, 2013 Report Share Posted August 30, 2013 I think you could do 70s superheroes just fine on 250 (probably even 150). Everyone has normal characteristic maximum, automatically. It is an absolute cap (no spending double to go past) unless that is your power. Powers are limited to what crappy special effects budgets can show. If you can't think of a suitably cheesy TV show special effect, you can't buy the power. Most opponents are normals, or groups of normals. Most adventures will be fairly mundane. Help little Timmy's family save the farm from an evil banker. Mr. Drithers is going to have the sheriff take Tina's horse. Someone has been kidnapped, etc. Characters shouldn't necessarily be Champions combat efficient (high Dex, enough Con + Def to take a 12D6 attack without being stunned). They are pretty much the only people in the universe who have powers and so won't regularly engage in superpowered combat. Superman could have a 15 Con and 15 r Def and would probably be fine -- he's never gonna get hit for more than 6 or 7D6 anyway. The biggest threat you might face is some guy might drive a car at you. Powers that are noncombat related are probably more common and more useful. Characters should probably have a psych lim "reluctant to change into super ID" (common, moderate) because they usually seemed to stay in normal ID through most of the show. They saved the Hulk transformation (or whatever) for the climax. Players in their 30s may get a kick out of it because we remember those old shows. Younger players might not get the reference, though. My suggestion would be to have players build 50 point "normals" and then give them another 100 to make them super. They shouldn't have to max out Dex and Speed in this campaign, even someone with superspeed might only have a 4 Spd given how they tended to react onscreen. But your NPCs should reflect that as well. An NPC martial arts villain would probably be just fine with a 14 Dex and 3 Spd. This would be a compressed normal stat scale, requiring you to redesign any NPCs you take from traditional HERO supplements, but it would fit well in the "we don't have a fight choreographer" 1970s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 http://theemerged.blogspot.com/TV_WW.htm 1970s Wonder Woman for Champions. Built on 700 Points it's a little too much for my taste but covers things nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Bringing this Thread Back. In syndication! Lucius Alexander And now a word from our palindromedary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steriaca Posted August 31, 2013 Report Share Posted August 31, 2013 Humm... would anything from Ranma 1/2 fit, or is Jusinko cursed martial artest just to powerful? (Same question can be asked about Sailor Moon, and both Ranma and Usagi-chan had live action versions. Also, shutter, the Dirty Pair.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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