Ghost Knight and Clarity vs. Fire
Another online RPG I participated in, back in 2004. My character, Thomas Temple aka “the Ghost Knight”, and our friend Mutsumi’s telepath Ming aka “Clarity”, respond to an emergency. Our normal GM...
View ArticleTeam Lambda: Link
I’ve mentioned these guys briefly in the past, but here’s actual information about them. Of the five or six characters I created for this hypothetical super-team, Nick is the most dramatically...
View ArticleTeam Lambda: Diver
This is another superhero from Team Lambda. I wanted to create a ninja character, one that had something like the “traditional ninja powers” but that didn’t rely on ninja magic as a power origin. Light...
View ArticleTeam Lambda: Nick Knack
Here’s another super – Nick Knack, the most complex character of the group. A cop turned private detective, he used psychic powers to crack cases. While a psychic detective is sometimes encountered in...
View ArticleFolklore and Comics
The Aarne-Thompson classification system interests me for many reasons. For anyone not familiar with it, basically it’s the Dewey Decimal System for folklore. First, and most obviously, the fact that...
View ArticleThe Hand – a supervillain
The “real magician posing as stage magician/illusionist” trope is something I’ve seen before. I wanted to do someone who was a stage magician, and did have superpowers, but that wasn’t actually doing...
View ArticleThe Psychic Curse
Originally posted here: http://astralfrontier.tumblr.com/post/54848685608/the-psychic-curse So I picture this psychic detective (such as Nick Knack on a bad day) – inspired by Sherlock Holmes as...
View ArticleTraining Dummy
Originally posted here: http://astralfrontier.tumblr.com/post/54863111171/training-dummy An F-list villain, finally captured and thrown in jail after years of giving minor heroes grief, tells his life...
View ArticleDeathtraps – from the Supervillain Survival Guide
Alright, you’ve beaten up your nemesis. You want him dead, right? Of course you do. There’s just one problem. Remember how we said that the superhuman body reacts to near-lethal levels of damage by...
View ArticleWhat do villains do? – from the Supervillain Survival Guide
So you’re a superhuman who doesn’t know what to do with himself. If you’re reading this, maybe you’re considering self-gratification. As a super, your physical needs will diminish. Eating, sleeping,...
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