Darmian

I just tried adding a pic to this. Not just you.

One thing that was great for GURPS 3rd was the Character Creator Program they brought out for it. The 4th ed version was total crap in comparison. And I have a lot of GURPS books that I bought just to read! Because when they did a deep dive back then they really dove deep.

It happens in other places too! had a fully powered Statesman beat Darrin Wade into a pulp for me while a dead Statesman lay nearby.

I was attempting to write a Cimeroran arc as though the Cimerorans were real Romans, inasmuch as we know how their society worked. And no, it wasn't nice.

That doesn't look like a reply to me.

You know, that's a damn good question!

Yep. His friend Stefan did most of the "heavy lifting" in their work then.

Playing as Marcus Cole before he got powers wouldn't make any sense since he spent the period from 1918 to 1930 (when he visited the Well) in Europe.

Someone else used Blue Spectrum??? I am surprised AND delighted! Awesome stuff.

Thanks for writing an SFMA (Story Focused Mission Arc). We need more writers of these rather than another 100 fire farms.

I'd prefer if these things are to keep resurfacing that they be dealt with equally. Sister Psyche is at least as interesting a character as Statesman. The only appreciable difference is Statesman was COH's "foundational hero". I'm against bringing Statesman back in the period post Who Will Die? but would be happy for him to exist in game prior to his death. I'd love to see the same for Sister Psyche. At least her TF was preserved in the Ouro and didn't have to be rebuilt like the OG LRSF containing Statesman. However small Sister Psyche's presence is in game, she at least has more than Statesman if you know where to look. A big point entirely overlooked in all of this is even if you did bring them back would it make any difference? We know more about Tyrant and the Praetors as well as Recluse and the Patrons than we do about the Freedom Phalanx or the Vindicators. Something that really should be on a list to deal with.

If that's where I think it is, that is Dupont Tower. From its description in the Laura Lockhart arc it seems to be residential in that we're told it has civilians in it.

Welcome back @TerroirNoir2!

I'm not arguing the point that Diabolique dies/had to die, or even in fact that Dream Doctor did it. But the way it was done relegates the player/team lead to a side line character. A scene where the team hand her over to Dream Doctor and then he deals with her would IMO have been better.

I do know, and yes, MMMV LOL. It varies very much from what I consider to be a total BS move to shoehorn a pre-existing IP Icon into something else in the possible hope of dragging the previously dedicated COH base to MXM. But hey, corporate gonna corporate, y' know 😉 But hey, I'm just spitballing my take here. And if they had gone ahead with it, it was easy to plant it as a fait accompli and let it run. Can't see HC doing that here.

There's plenty of aggro aimed at Dream Doctor for swooping in for the kill in Dilemma Diaibolique. Player Agency is important and this would negate it.

Considering Statesman was a very public figure for the best part of a century I'd be very surprised if Crey didn't already have his DNA profile mapped somewhere. The snag being that if they made a clone then that clone never had access to the Well of the Furies.

Last Bastion is it. It's possible Night Ward had refugees/escapees for a while, but nothing grows there so no food although surviving supers might survive longer. Either way it's probably reverted to the dead and Drudges.

I'm going to disagree. Fight off the storm on the horizon? Absolutely. But on his terms. With Emperor Cole it's always on his terms. Stand with Vanguard and the Primals against the Coming Storm? I could see him doing that, but taking on Statesman's mantle to do it? That's a big no IMO.

There we go! I don't do it myself so the hearsay was wrong. Thanks @Greycat.

I'm told it's mostly on Excelsior.

There's another knot to the problem though. And I'm not veering away from my opinion that he shouldn't be brought back as detailed above, just working through an angle. Statesman is dead, but Statesman didn't die. Marcus Cole, an ordinary man, died. In Who Will Die? his powers are stripped from him and he dies as a normal human. So, do you bring back that man somehow? Hey folks, here's your symbol of hope, no he can't help with anything. Or do you break the entire canon timeline? Something HC, as far as I can see, is not going to do. COH is not having a Crisis on Infinite Earths moment ever.

No, Statesman is dead. As they say in Doctor Who, that's a fixed point in time. As to HOW he died? I always felt there was more to that story than we were given in Who Will Die? Perhaps someday we'll see it in something akin to "Along Came A Spider". I think the biggest issue the Live Devs left behind by killing off Statesman was not actually his death but his removal from almost ALL game material before his death. We never interact with him at all prior to that. Hell, if it wasn't for the HC Devs we wouldn't even have the Statesman led Freedom Phalanx version of the Lord Recluse Strike Force in Ouro. So if Statesman were to "return" I'd personally prefer cameos or what have you in the "earlier" parts of the game timeline so that when Who Will Die? drops for you, you at least have something to link it to. And the final thing? Making Tyrant a new Statesman was and remains one of the stupidest things I've read about City of Heroes. Anyone who has played through Praetoria in depth can tell you that the man just wouldn't do that. And there's no incentive for him to ever do it.

Chaosium print Call of Cthulhu. It's pretty much their signature game line.

Saw it today. I'd rate Thunderbolts as better personally. While enjoyable I felt that several great actors (Vanessa Kirby stood out for me) were trying very hard to make an OK script better by sheer force of will. The Retro-future 60s DID look great though. And Galactus is not a cloud. Bonus point.