Some people like playing Cosmic Level campaigns and reading about cosmic-level superheroes.

Some people like playing Street Level campaigns and reading about street-level superheroes.

So ... what's the industry terminology for the power level/s between Cosmic and Street?

Spiderman-
Because he's not entirely street and not quite take on Galactus level....

I like the notion of the phrase 'standard 4-color', but it seems to limit the content by the virtuosity/moral content that usually goes with that idea, as in a particular age of publishing...

I've always thought my campaigns in terms like this:

Most people who hear a call to action and exploit their talents and knowledge to act without the benefit of virtually any superior powers or equipment could be said to be of street level... we called this simply 'heroic'; the idea of this that ones actions define you and a street level character having still more skill and ability than an average citizen in most cases...

Then the next level which has the abundance of more powerful abilities as 'superheroic'; most V&V campaigns are located in this comfort zone which includes the happy-go-lucky four color and also the gritter Authority/Watchmen types. I usually take note that the farther a 4-color campaign progresses in experience points and power gain, the closer to cosmic it becomes as the content becomes more complex. It also seems to take on grittier content as the players try to make characters more interesting, detailed, and relevant.

At the top of that evolution, intervention by higher forms of beings such as gods, spirits, certain masters of mysticism, and stellar characters cause the landscape of the setting as reacted to by players to be 'cosmic'. They travel greater distances and interdimensionally as a matter of course as they become aware of beings greater than the perception of the normal populaces of their home worlds....

Oh, but we must name it Spider-Man! And we can name the street level Punisher, sorta above street level but not quite Batman, and silly scenarios not worth repeating...ever... Howard The Duck. 

Yeah, I see Howard's appearances as apocryhal. I just wish that Marvel also saw them that way!

I must confess that I like Captain Carrot. Everything about him I like. Most of the Zoo Crew, though, were lame in my book. But I'd buy a Captain Carrot solo series in a snap. This, of course, is totally off topic, I know. 

John wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 9:29pm:


During the Secret Invasion posters, when they showed Howard, I was thinking he would turn out to be a Skrull. 

AlabasterKnight wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 11:32pm:


AK, you've posted in the wrong thread.

dsumner wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 1:41am:


Chuck Norris doesn't fall. Everything else moves up to meet him.

davew wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 9:05pm:


I detest him as well.

When I played Marvel's Overpower card game, they had Howard the Duck's image on the "2" card (an essential card you needed to have in your deck).  I would play with another version of the "2" card that (game-wise) was less efficient and powerful, simply because the lesser version did not have Howard the Duck's image on it.

I have also never watched more than a few seconds of the movie.   

davew wrote on Sep 24^th, 2010 at 7:23pm:


As do I.  In our campaign, we recently brought a dog back with the team when they returned from an apocalyptic future.  The player/GM who ran that future apocalypse rolled up stats for the dog (it's really agile and pretty smart) and wanted to actually play it (him) for awhile (as a PC) - Gypsy the Crime Dog!  I encouraged him to reconsider, as having a dog with a cape (not that he would have put a cape on it, but you know what I mean) is starting to go down the road to silliness that is a bit too campy and corny for my tastes (no Krypto the Super Dog in my campaign!)   

Besides (and the line of reasoning I used with him), it would end up being too difficult to never be able to talk (like playing a Wookiee in the Star Wars RPG), he could easily be killed (one bullet, likely), and the novelty would likely wear off pretty quickly.  Plus, the other heroes aren't likely going to just take a dog along when they go on a mission!   

Majestic wrote on Sep 25^th, 2010 at 2:47pm:


taking the dog along... on a spaceship, and the dog...uh, has to go for walkies.
(Hold on Gypsy, there's an asteroid up ahead...)

Is anyone else tired of all this bickering and infighting about Howard the Duck? 

Ahh!  Howard the Duck!  Brings back memories!

Howard the Duck #13

You know you want someone to post stats for 'em! 

mw

Display Name wrote on Sep 27^th, 2010 at 10:49pm:


NO!!!!!
I've already mentioned the fact that Howard does not, and I mean, does not convert to V&V at all on another thread...

Display Name wrote on Sep 27^th, 2010 at 10:57pm:


TROY'S PROVERB
Show me a man who does not know Howard the Duck, and I will show you a lucky man indeed.

I've consulted members of the Illuminati and did some of my own research. This is what I've found.

Not only is Howard The "Duck" (other texts refer to Demon) responsible for single handedly destroying Marvel Comics, he is also responsible for...

1. New Coke
2. The ill fated Billy Idol album Cyberpunk
3. Britney Spears doing the bald thing
4. The tv show Full House
5. The safety hazards of the Pontiac Fiero
6. That really amazingly horrible dining experience I had one time at China Wok
7. My wife threatening to make me dress up like the tv character Maude for Halloween
8. Those crappy, annoying Head On commericals
9. Bristol Palin appearing on Dancing With The Stars
10. Dancing With The Stars itself
11. The short lived "slap bracelet"
12. The assassination of Billy Mays (you just thought it was an overdose)
13. The band S Club 7
14. The discontinuation of those Ocean Spray cranberry hard candies that I bought by the ton in the 90's (I'm still pissed about that)
15. The current ongoing pomegranite fad (there was a time, years ago, that I was considered a weirdo because I would buy and eat this strange looking fruit called a pomegranite that everyone else would refuse to try... cretins)
16. The band Creed- because they annoy me, nevermind I never bother to listen to them or to radio for that matter
17. Those Croc shoes that caused everybody to go out and spend a fortune on different colored pairs of cheaply manufactured, foam rubber shoes
18. 8-Track tapes

If anyone else has come across any evidence of the evils of Howard the Duck, please share....
we need to fight this thing! 

Okay,
19. Influenced John to spend his hard earned money on Howard the "Duck" (aka Demonic servant of the Elder tentacled masters) merchandise.