Quote from: RPGPundit on May 14, 2024, 08:17:17 PMYou do make a good point about the Book of Wonders, though it hadn't been written yet at the time of the setting (unless I'm very mistaken about that).
Quote from: RPGPundit on May 14, 2024, 08:17:17 PMAs to the magic items, I derived them from a variety of Arab, Chinese, Turkik, Indian, and steppe tribesman sources, but at this point I'll be damned if I can sort them out. Some of them are a lot more famous than others, and some had a lot more detail while in others I had to extrapolate and just fill in the blanks with my own ideas of exactly what they do.Well damn. I was afraid of that as it's been so long. I held out hope though since it's nice to have an image of how some of the items fit into the legends of the surrounding cultures. Do the ones above that I tried to puzzle out at least seem accurate to you?
Quote from: Darrin Kelley on May 14, 2024, 06:34:05 PMQuote from: RNGm on May 14, 2024, 11:00:18 AMWell, you certainly showed them (IDW) by repeatedly continuing to buy them despite how bad they were. Companies will never learn a lesson unless their customers do first. Knowing it was so bad so recently and that the RPG license was likely acquired a while back when they were still in control/the current thing, did you do some research on the RPG to see if it was more of the same before buying it? It may sound like harsh words from a stranger online but I'm a fellow (former) fan of many properties that have been utterly ruined over the past decade by woke nonsense that will never be taken back and had to learn the same lesson myself. Trust but verify doesn't work with the woke; it's more like verify and assume until proven otherwise.
It was impossible to know the contents before buying. They had no previews of the books. Renegade usually doesn't do previews. So you don't know until you have the books in hand.
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2024, 09:11:44 PMSo yeah. The good thing about Transformers (also a bad thing) is that there are so many different "canons" out there, you can pick and choose. I personally prefer a huge helping of the G1 Cartoon continuity, with a few tweaks to close up some of the setting plotholes, and a bit of cherry picking of good ideas from the other continuities.How is that a bad thing? Numerous concepts now considered integral to the IP were introduced in reboots, like sparks, Primus, the primes, megatron's tragic backstory, etc.
Quote from: Ratman_tf on May 14, 2024, 04:05:12 PMQuote from: GeekyBugle on May 14, 2024, 02:35:51 AMQuote from: Ratman_tf on May 13, 2024, 01:07:42 PMQuote from: Omega on May 13, 2024, 01:35:07 AMQuoteI never understood classifying Darkman as a superhero movie. It's like saying Evil Dead 2 is a superhero movie. Kinda, sorta, maybe if you squint and broaden the definitions to their maximum.
er. The Darkman movie about the scientist who is disfigured and fights crime using synthetic skin to disguise himself as different people?
Thats like claiming Batman isnt a superhero because he has no superpowers?
Darkman is a deranged psychopath. He doesn't fight crime. He wants cruel and bloody revenge on the specific criminals who caused his situation. Even at their worst, "dark and gritty" superheroes like Batman or Punisher still have some kind of code of morals and a goal to help people. Darkman is just some poor guy's ID run rampant. If anything, he has a lot more in common with supervillians.
Agreed but then... Isn't The Crow the same? He's NOT fighting criminals, hes getting cruel and bloody revenge on those who killed him and his fiance.
And I looooove them both.
I love Darkman. (Haven't seen The Crow. ) I just don't put it in the same category as "Superhero".QuoteFurthermore, isn't Batman, Punisher, The Executioner (especially those who do kill) just extending his revenge to ALL criminals? Just playing devils advocate here but you could make THAT argument and not be 100% wrong.
Yes. That's why I said *If you squint really hard*. Mostly because superheroes as a genre can include other stuff. Marvel in the 80's ripped of The Terminator (Cable) and Alien (The Brood) So you could argue that X-Men is a Sci Fi and/or Horror comic. But I think at that point the genre categories are pretty much useless.
I could argue if Punisher is a superhero, why not John Rambo? They're both pretty similar characters. Military veterans who had a traumatic experience and went rogue.