It has been a long standing question that you ask at parties. "If you could have any single super power what would it be?" Statistically the top choices are Flight, Invisibility, and some variation of Omniscience (ie. Know what women want, read the stockmarket, Be the world's greatest detective). My friends being what they are, the actual answers I've gotten tend to range a little further afield than that. The poll on the front page of this site reflects some of the variation from the last time I asked that question.

Each of the Presidential Canidates has a Proposed Tax Bill.. basically an "If I was President, this is how I would change taxes." document. The chart below shows what each of those bills would do to your current tax payment under the plan. You'll note that if you're making $3 million or more in a year, the amount of taxes you'll pay will be going up significantly if Obama gets his way. I can't image this makes him very popular.

So far in this discussion, I've been dealing with the 'testing' aspect of RPGs as "Character A attempts Action X and with varying degrees of chance either succeeds or fails. While not entirely wrong and certainly representative of any number of RPGs, it doesn't take into account all of the grey areas of success and failure.

Over the years comic book (and other medium) characters have gained their powers through any number of sources. This is something that gets a lot of looking at in RPG books but is often glossed over in the source material. Generally a character's origin doesn't have a strong impact on who they hang out with except in certain cases. Magic seems to be the exception in that magic using characters often hang out together and there is a conceit that only magicians can properly battle magic threats.

Upgrade has been made to version 6.3.

This one wasn't very painful and the site was down for less than an hour. While I was in there, I added a photo gallery module as well. I'm going to need to build out the menu for it still, but if you want to take a quick look, you can find it by clicking here.

I really wanted to edit this one down a little bit, but the converter that I downloaded was working weirdly and stretching the whole thing out. So here it is.. blemishes and all.

This evening we went to The Silver Diner for dinner. It is probably worth noting that the location we went to is the one in Rockville, MD. This location is the 'flagship' restaurant where they often try out new items. On a number of occassions we've gone and been given surveys about our experiences. This was not one of those nights. Even so, its worth keeping in mind as the quality is generally higher than other stores in the chain.

Prime

Sometimes the universe just likes you. At the point of his 'death' Steve had the good fortune to be both psychically connected to his teammate who 'speaks computer' and wearing Omega's Gauntlet which had a direct satellite connection back to the Omicron computers. Powered by Current's mutant power his personality quickly overwrote the AI system and continued to overflow pretty much all the bases major systems (Including the Cryo tanks) until they shorted out. Highly disoriented, his subconscious attacked the deleted teleport buffers until it was able to pull enough data to materialize a (somewhat idealized) copy of his body out of the teleportation stream. His unique genetic makeup had sucked up the energy of the teleporter like a sponge. Now he exists in a constant state of half-teleportation, moving himself and others through those states at will.

Prime

Steven LeSueur.. aka. Prime woke up in a tube with a bunch of people who were apparently Superheroes. He'd grown up hearing tales but they had disappeared before he was old enough to know what that meant. Pretty soon he discovered that he was one of them.