Timewaster's Guide Archive

I agree with you there, Harbinger.  I hope they keep in that same feel for any followups, especially the very first that is b&w.  Also when the girl is in the shower after seeing someone die, and keeping the over-the-top stuff from going way over the top.  Overall adding to a more gritty and realistic story, something you could take a bit more serious compared to the latest Bond films.  Last thing is I like they took enough time to actually finish an origin story, rather than trying to cram it all in under two hours.

Lol, I wonder how many people who actually got one first day took it home and started gaming, vs how many just turn around and try to resell them to make a buck.

I saw this recently.  My brother saw a preview for it a long time ago.  He waited for it to hit theatres, but it never did around here, but it just came out on dvd so he got it.  I think it was about 25$ at FYI, where Media Play used to be for those around Orem.  There is the english version on one side and russian version on the other.  I thought it was alright, but it wasn't really a vampire movie.  There were vampires, but there was also shapeshifters, seers, witches, etc.

The basic setup is there are supernatural forces for both good and evil.  You are raised as a human until your gift comes out, sort of like Highlander.  When this happens, you must choose to join the light or the dark.  Each person so transformed also has their own unique gift, it varies from person to person.  So one person might be a vampire, and another a shapeshifter, etc.  There was a battle between these two forces long ago, but it was obvious that everyone would die and neither side would win.  So the leaders of light and dark called a truce, and made police forces to insure the balance was maintained and each new person could choose freely between light or dark.  Daywatch is the police force for darkness, and Nightwatch the police force for light.

Supes Blue, sweet!  Now try explaining this to SE, he had at least 2 different origins to being split into Superman Red/Blue and the different powers.  Although I think the best one was he overloaded with energy to the point he became solid energy.  Then when Red/Blue teamed up, they lost so much power that they finally recombined into the old Supes.  The other main one I remember being that he was slightly out of phase with reality from when Tolos tried pulling him into Kandor (the city in a bottle).

Actually, I will just post a link that explains it rather than try to explain it myself.  Its been years since I even read any of the comics about the Man of Energy.  http://www.supermanhomepage.com/comics/comics.php?topic=comics-new_supes

42, you should try making Superman Blue with MnM rules.  Or at least a PL 10 version that someone could play.

Wow, well this will take some explaining... I thought you would know this already SE, being a Supes fan.  But for the quick answer, that is how post-Crisis Supes' powers work.  Lois and Clark series came out after Crisis, and so it follows that version of Supes (in other words, the show borrowed from the comic, not the other way around).

Okay, the very first Superman would be called Kal-L, this is the Golden Age Supes.  Originally he could leap about an 1/8 of a mile, but slowly became more powerful and could fly, works for the Daily Star, etc.

Next you would have Kal-EL, this is Silver Age Superman.  He has a significant increase to his power levels, works for the Daily Planet, revealed himself to the world as a teen (Superboy), had met Lex in Smallville before they became enemies, etc.  Here is also introduced the idea of the Multiverse.  Kal-L from Golden Age is from Earth-Two, while Kal-El from Silver Age is from Earth-One.

After this you have the miniseries Crisis on Infinite Earths (this is where you get pre-Crisis, post-Crisis).  This would be in the mid-80s.  LONG story short, it explains the origins of the Multiverse and eventually a new singular universe is made that has combined aspects of the different parallel worlds.

Post-Crisis, you get the Modern Age Superman introduced in the Man of Steel series.  This is where Supes powers are described as I say, with his force-field and such.  In the Silver-Age, his outfit was invulnerable b/c it was made from cloth from Krypton.

After this there is also Zero-Hour, which changes stuff up yet again (but this time it deals with time travel instead of parallel worlds).

And very recently you have Infinite Crisis.  Lex jr. and Superboy-Prime have made a dimensional tuning fork from the remains of Anti-Monitor, and tricked Spectre into destroying all magic to create a power source.  Then with the fork they begin recreating the alternate earths.

One thing said about Supes is his invulnerability formed a sort of short-range forcefield around him, and thus tight-fiting clothes would be inside it.  Thus any damage to his clothing would be from something that penetrated his invulnerability (and thus able to hurt him).  He also could supposedly extend this force to objects he picked up, letting him for example pick up a car just by the bumper or a large building or boat, which otherwise would simply be crushed under its own weight or whatever (b/c its being supported by such a small point, ie one or two human hands rather than the whole foundation or whatever.).

Yeah we have played this a few times.  Its a fun game.  I like that it usually doesn't take too long and it plays a bit different every time.