Rich McGee
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Duke Bushido in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
I've done that with the public art installations on the Concourse level of the Empire State Plaza in Albany NY.
For people names, I've got a beat-up old spiral notebook from when I was working in an insurance company mail room on summer break in 1985. Wrote down every halfway interesting name that crossed my desk and I've been using and re-using them ever since. Probably get you fired instantly these days, of course.
There's also Tovan Palequire, who's showed up at some point as a shady-but-loveable interstellar trader, smuggler and gun-runner in ever scifi campaign I've run since 1981. Cookie to anyone who recognizes the game without googling it.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Quackhell in Name suggestions for a character
In that vein, Fidelity. Bonus if he has sonic powers.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Cygnia in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
I've done that with the public art installations on the Concourse level of the Empire State Plaza in Albany NY.
For people names, I've got a beat-up old spiral notebook from when I was working in an insurance company mail room on summer break in 1985. Wrote down every halfway interesting name that crossed my desk and I've been using and re-using them ever since. Probably get you fired instantly these days, of course.
There's also Tovan Palequire, who's showed up at some point as a shady-but-loveable interstellar trader, smuggler and gun-runner in ever scifi campaign I've run since 1981. Cookie to anyone who recognizes the game without googling it.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Quackhell in Name suggestions for a character
Molehill? Bonus if he has Tunneling, of course.
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Rich McGee reacted to Cygnia in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
We hit the art museum here in Cleveland and I pulled out my phone to jot down the artists and titles' names to use as potential NPCs and locations for later.
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Rich McGee reacted to Steve in Name suggestions for a character
I like Major Minor for some reason. Maybe because it sounds like something out of the Silver Age.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Steve in Name suggestions for a character
My last full-spectrum size-changer was named Jumbo Shrimp. You're welcome to borrow that one if you like.
Less tongue-in-cheek options include:
Vantage
Magnitude (with optional "Man" or "Master" for a slight retro feel)
Major Minor
Mini-Mammoth
Little Big Man
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Quackhell in Name suggestions for a character
My last full-spectrum size-changer was named Jumbo Shrimp. You're welcome to borrow that one if you like.
Less tongue-in-cheek options include:
Vantage
Magnitude (with optional "Man" or "Master" for a slight retro feel)
Major Minor
Mini-Mammoth
Little Big Man
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Rich McGee reacted to Lord Liaden in Favorite Champions books from before 5e?
I'm curious if you did anything with Deathstroke beyond the adventure? For my own games, I decided that given the political climate in America in recent years, the concept of "government by criminals who are at least honest about it" would not be unthinkable, and could have not-insignificant appeal. The bones of an organization given in the module could be substantially fleshed out, particularly with the additions to the group of two people brought in to the group's 4E update in Champions Universe: the mind-controlling mentalist Scatterbrain, and her public-relations-expert father.
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Rich McGee reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Old School 4th Edition "Blue Book" Question
That would be Black Bolt who can speak, but his voice is almost incomprehensively destructive. His only appearance in the movies was in the unfortunate Multiverse of Madness Dr Strange movie, where he dies a stupid and pointless death just like everyone else in the "Illuminati".
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Rich McGee reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Old School 4th Edition "Blue Book" Question
He burns stun, apparently. Which kind of makes sense, because its basically burying someone in his body.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Cygnia in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
Also, read the next page - there's going to be three, with the last on Monday - and ask yourself if you're really sure you want to pet Kitty-Smaug there.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Duke Bushido in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
It's a filler art page for Girl Genius while the Foglios are travelling.
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Rich McGee reacted to Ninja-Bear in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
@Rich McGee, I appreciate Seth’s only reviewing what he has played.
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Rich McGee reacted to Ninja-Bear in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
@Rich McGee, I will give the one shot an A for originality. I mean this is D&D so why not Giant Undead Sharks? I figured the skeletons were sailor who got swallowed by the shark and that is what caused them to become skeletons. Or did the giant shark attack a ghost ship and swallowed the undead sailors causing it to become undead also?
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Rich McGee got a reaction from assault in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
Oh, now I get it. Sure, if the captain's used to being boarded by zombie sharks full of skeletons then it all makes sense.
And people say comics are weird.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from Ninja-Bear in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
Oh, now I get it. Sure, if the captain's used to being boarded by zombie sharks full of skeletons then it all makes sense.
And people say comics are weird.
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Rich McGee reacted to Grailknight in My existential crisis about SPD
Dr. Strange has been a martial artist since the mid-70's. He learned as the popularity of martial arts movies rose in western cultures.
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Rich McGee reacted to Ninja-Bear in A Thread For Random RPG Musings
Yesterday I had another interesting situation of assumptions. My brother ran us through a simple One-shot. The scenario involved an Undead Giant Shark. (We are in a ship). Now when the captain hollers for bludgeoning weapons, I thought to myself, that’s odd? So I didn’t get to understand that it was a Zombie Shark until my cleric laid Cause Wounds in it. My brother assumed that when the captain hollard bludgeoning weapons I , as a cleric would know that it was a zombified creature. Now he never asked for a Perception role and to be fair I never asked for one. I did tell my brother that I thought that I should’ve recognized it as an undead with Passive Perception. No one is really in the wrong here. It’s funny to me though how people just make assumptions in the game. This though reinforces to me that I have been giving information for “free- no roll necessary” aka “your character would know this” is a great GM tip. Not sure why so felt guilty about this before.
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Rich McGee got a reaction from wcw43921 in Pulp Images
Oh, it's carrying some kind of rotating flail. Never saw the second image before and I've spent years wondering what kind of lunatic equips a robot with a pair of cymbals. I know they can be pretty annoying, but if you're going to weaponize musical instruments bagpipes are the way to go.
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Rich McGee reacted to DentArthurDent in Looking for magical ingredients
My players always liked ingredients collected from slain monsters. They enjoyed saving the village from the troll and then harvesting its (teeth / heart / bones / whatever fit their current design) at (dawn / dusk / midnight) and taking it to a skilled (armorer / fletcher / …)
You get the idea.
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Rich McGee reacted to wcw43921 in Pulp Images
I posted the second picture in this Forum several years ago, but it's worth posting again to compliment the first picture. From the mind of Hugo Gernsback--if you're looking for a mechanical monster to terrorize your PCs, you can hardly do better than this--
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Rich McGee got a reaction from DentArthurDent in Creating Creatures: Top-Down or Bottom-Up?
Sure. The GM can always do anything they want.
That said, being a GM is an excellent way to learn that just because you CAN do something doesn't always mean you SHOULD. How's that catchphrase of Peter Parker's go again?