Thank you. I would just like to note for the record that Frosty the Hitman's bio might just be my favorite of all my characters'. It's a close three-way race between him, Crab Curburator, and They Saved the Brain. (Crab also gets bonus points from where his name came from.)

I don't actually enjoy City of Villains much - the setting just... blows too hard - but villain bios are a lot of fun to come up with. Sadly, I don't think it's feasible for TSTB to ever change sides. Crab, maybe. I know his bio says "villainy", but it's a comic book first-page blurb, they exaggerate. He's really just in it for the cash and the kicks. He's a criminal, sure, he wouldn't argue that. What they used to call a "scofflaw". :)

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Of the new batch, that I hadn't seen, I'm curious about Panjandrum. I'm guessing that bio was written in (20)06?

In a comic they'd be the boldface bits. Weird Crime Comics routinely commits '60s Marvel-level boldface abuse. :)

>Of the new batch, that I hadn't seen, I'm curious about Panjandrum.
>I'm guessing that bio was written in (20)06?

Yup.

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HA!

My wife loves that movie, and the ridiculousness of this is far beyond awesome. The song's playing in my head right now...

-Droken

Snorrrrt. These are all funny, but that one, for some reason, particularly so. Is he faceless? :)

OK, I have to see you that and raise you, fresh from the last few days:

DEADBEEF includes one of my favorite cheap costume tricks, which, I have to confess, I've never gotten tired of using since I came up with it more or less accidentally years ago: using the Reaper mask item and Single-Shoulder Mantle:Short Cape:Tattered 3 to pull off the Strider Hiryu effect.

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Sadly, no. I spent a while, both before and after character creation, trying to get him exactly right, but I couldn't find a set of head options that gave him a non-monstrous "blank" face and let me square it off and took the metallic texture. I had to settle for this:

And just to see your raise:

ETA: What you can't see on Kosher Bill is that I used one of the one-shoulder minicape options -- the very short fringed capelet -- to make it look like he's wearing a prayer shawl.

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

Also, anyone else think this is what would happen if CoH crossed over with Channel 4 series Misfits? Can't just be me...

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

Gods I love rubbish superhero ideas.

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"Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell/But I'll have all the best stories to tell" -- Frank Turner, The Ballad of Me and My Friends

Case in point: DEADBEEF wasn't doin' it for me. I like the design a lot, and the name is a nice (if obvious) joke, but it just wasn't working. So I sat and stared at the character generator for a while, which is roughly equivalent to glumly surveying a blank notebook page...

... and this happened.

Pretty much the same character, and yet whatever's different is just different enough to have some traction. She's level 7 now, which is a good sign, since most of my failed characters have an MTBF of about four levels. She may not make it to the really big time - with about five years of actual game time spread over the last seven, I've only got three characters who've made it past level 30 (Captain Photon, original-formula Jen, and Prof. Neutrino) - but she will, at least, probably not get erased, and that's something.

Speaking of staring glumly at blank pages, some of you may be relieved to know that this isn't all I've been doing this month; it's just the only thing that's so quick to get into a presentable state. :)

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I know what you mean. I have a lot of toons on Virtue. A good half of them came from the first year or so when I was just doing things for the sake of doing them. Some of them worked spectacularly -- my premiere toon Evangelia is a case in point -- and some didn't. But I haven't had the heart to delete the ones that didn't quite gel. Since then, though, I've been pretty much a concept player, creating toons only when an idea seizes me. (Like all the toons I've cited in this and the other thread. Or Pam Staafl, the Kim Possible clone. Or Range Sabre, Shield Sabre and Life Sabre, from the "Paragon Sabres" BGC tribute subgroup of the Riot 6.1 SG. Or... no need to keep going, you get the idea.) It certainly solves the problem of staring at the blank toon form if you only open the creator when inspiration strikes...

-- Bob
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My race is pacifist and does not believe in war. We kill only out of personal spite.

For that matter, I'd love the Praetoria PD energy melee power set.