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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...

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Team 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...

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Team 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...

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Team 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...

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Folklore 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...

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The 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...

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The 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...

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Training 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...

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Deathtraps – 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...

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What 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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