... well, you know; we all want to change the world.2011 draws to a close today, and for the first time in a long time, the farewell I bid the passing year is a fond one. I know it's been a hard year for many of us, and certainly, in the Big Picture, there have been grim tidings and outright catastrophes. I hope 2012 is better for every one of us ( Read more... )

athelind grauphs, "If YOU had a Green Lantern PC, how would YOU hand them the ring?"
halfelf chirrs, "Mail order."
athelind pencils in "Hurt halfelf" on his Google Calendar.
halfelf chirrs, "My character responded to an ad in the back of a comic book, and got this nifty ring!"
athelind inks it in.
halfelf chirrs, "What I didn't know is that the green lantern went to the manufacturer and stuck a REAL ( Read more... )

Given:

Conservation of Surnames: If two people in a comic book setting share a surname, they must be related, no more distantly than first cousins.

The Arkham Hypothesis: Gotham City is smack in the middle of Lovecraft's New England. Arkham Asylum really is in the Gotham suburb of Arkham.

Then:

Iris and Wally West are therefore close relatives ( Read more... )

The Legacies premise is pretty straightforward:

LIFE:

• They Began When They Began. The characters of the DC Universe each started their active adventuring career on or about the same time as their first appearance on the comics stands in our world.1
  
• Life Happens. They aged normally2 from that point, and had full lives. Many of them married and had ( Read more... )

This is partly related to legacy2020, and partly a matter of general curiosity ( Read more... )

You know, I never quite believed in the Bat Signal. Sure, I've seen searchlights shining on cloud layers, but the idea that you could see a silhouette of something placed over the light, and see it so clearly, seemed like pure fancy.

I was, evidently, incorrect:

In New York City in the early 1890s, nighttime clouds served as projection screens ( Read more... )

A call for assistance to the DC comics fans out there in the audience: I need your ideas!As many of you know, I'm currently running a superhero RPG set in an alternate DC universe, where Superman and other characters started their careers at about the times they made their comic book debuts, and time passed normally. Heroes aged, had children, ( Read more... )

(Cross-posted from legacy2020)

The Batman Timeline is probably going to be the longest and most involved entry in the legacy2020 blog, because it is, for now, a Gotham-centric game.

( That doesn't mean the commentary on it is gonna be SHORT, though. )

After a few months of hiatus, I've resumed updating legacy2020, the journal for my Mutants & Masterminds campaign set in an alternate DC Universe ( Read more... )

Odd. I've made light NaNoWriMo in years past -- honestly, I've outright mocked it. However, it just occurred to me that this year, in my own peculiar way, I actually participated ( Read more... )