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I just realized I don't think I ever said which aliens I wrote for AA3. The last time it came up in this thread the book hadn't been released and they were going to be mentioned in the Twitch stream. I wrote the Dromada They're a group of very skittish herd people, who on their world have been a prey item of other creatures. The other I wrote is the Kothama. These are massive mammoth like contemplatives that spend their lives contemplating the cosmos.
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I like the skittish space camels and sagacious floof beasts.
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I personally want to thank you for creating the Dromada, I never even realized we needed savory space camels until I opened up Alien Archive 3.
Thanks, keep up the good work!
What pray tell led or inspired you to go down that road.
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Question part the first) Have you ever seen Dragon Ball? What about Dragon Ball Z? What about Dragon Ball Z Abridged?
Question part the second) What do you think of any of them?
Question part the bonus) Have you seen Saint Saya (sp?) and what do you think of that?
Question part the third-or-fourth-depending) Who's got two thumbs and now owns the AA3...? :D Ttthhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiis g-
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Hey, another question: have you seen Tiger & Bunny and if so, what do you think of it?
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Thank you! I am really proud of the Dromada!
I was asked to write a skittish prey creature. But everyone knows how much I love cows so I was told it couldn't just be cow people. So I kind of just went with what seemed like a reasonable development for that kind of creature. Jackrabbit like hind legs for fast and powerful movement means they can run away really well. They eye stalks are mostly so they can have all around vision. The camel like heads were mostly because I like the droopy, kind of dopey look of camels. I had a lot of fun writing them, and I may have chuckled a bit as I added "tasty" to their stat block.
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I have seen some bits of the various Dragonball shows. But not enough to know much about them beyond they sure do spend a lot of time training and staring at eachother while sweat beads up on their foreheads.
I don't think I have seen any of Saint Saya or Tiger & Bunny. Anime has never really been a thing for me really. I think I just missed it becoming a very popular US thing. When I was in high school the local artsy theater got things like Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Akira, The Wings of Honneamise, and The Record of the Lodoss War from time to time, and I sometimes went to watch them. But outside of that they weren't very common or accessible. I guess some of the Saturday morning cartoon stuff I watched was anime? Silverhawks, Voltron, etc. So maybe I have watched more than I think? But it seems like it really became a thing here in the US shortly after I graduated. But as a result I am not very familiar with most and will watch it if something catches my attention for some reason, but typically don't go looking for it (I have some toys for a line called Shinkalion and discovered there is an anime for it, so if that ever makes it's way to the US I will likely give it a watch). But it is usually a safe bet to assume I haven't seen them.
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Oops, I missed the last part of one of your posts. I hope you are enjoying AA3! I can tell you which creatures my coworkers in CS did if you'd like!
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Oops, I missed the last part of one of your posts. I hope you are enjoying AA3! I can tell you which creatures my coworkers in CS did if you'd like!
I'm always up for more info!
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I have seen some bits of the various Dragonball shows. But not enough to know much about them beyond they sure do spend a lot of time training and staring at eachother while sweat beads up on their foreheads.
That's more than fair!
My favorite conceptual series is the original Dragon Ball. It has some problematic elements that haven't aged well, but I enjoy the blend of fantasy and sci-fantasy (it never actually reaches any real "science" - just fantasy science).
The majority of my memories of the series were probably from DBZ, because as a teen at the time it was the hotness. And it was pretty cool! ... at the time.
The majority of the DBZ episodes are "filler" - even the non-filler episodes. Some of the filler is great. Having recently watched DBZ:A, however, it's actually hard to watch the original. It also takes a number of steps away from the whimsical fantasy of the original DB, which isn't inherently bad, but does bother me in retrospect (as various fantasy creatures and elements slowly vanish and are replaced with, "It's aliens." - this isn't inherently bad, but a lot of things vanish without explanation in the background, too; I didn't notice this at the time, but it does bother me, now).
I've not actually seen anything beyond DBZ - so no GT or Super for me, though I know those exist (though GT is pretty broadly panned as 'bad and should feel bad').
I don't think I have seen any of Saint Saya or Tiger & Bunny. Anime has never really been a thing for me really. I think I just missed it becoming a very popular US thing. When I was in high school the local artsy theater got things like Ghost in the Shell, Ninja Scroll, Akira, The Wings of Honneamise, and The Record of the Lodoss War from time to time, and I sometimes went to watch them. But outside of that they weren't very common or accessible.
I recently (as in today) finished Saint Saya, and I have to admit, it didn't grab me. That said, I suspect my reasons for not strongly relating to it are shallow - I wasn't as into the art style and or a few similar things that just made me shrug. I think the storytelling was probably fine.
Tiger & Bunny was something that I ignored for a while because I thought it was a weird-looking series and I just... didn't understand it. And then I decided to watch the preview, and was hooked. I watched it. Twice. Then shared it with my kids. It... is not the best anime series I've ever seen. But it worked for me. Unfortunately, it left Netflix (the only way I can easily access things) this past October 15th, so I'm not sure where it's available.
(I know you're avoiding Netflix, which is fair.)
I remember lots of talk around Ninja Scroll and Akira. I actually saw the latter, eventually, and didn't really understand the hype - I hated all the characters and the plot was dumb. (It's not, really, but that's how I felt at the time. It is, however, not the best.)
I loooooooooooooooooved Record of Lodoss War (the OVA, not the series). I remember first seeing it on the oooooooooooold Sci-Fi channel Saturday anime thing. I loved it so much I got a job, saved up and purchased the (at the time) very-expensive DVDs. I was disappointed at the rapidity of the climax and resolution, but I loved it, otherwise. I'm not sure how it would hold up today, because I let a friend borrow the DVDs, and have never seen them since. I vaguely credit it with getting me into D&D at all.
I have seen the series since then, however, and... it does not hold up. It wasn't bad, but it just wasn't as good (or melodramatic, which I might have confused as "good" as a young lad) as the original.
I've never seen The Wings of Honneamise or really heard of it, so that's cool! I'll have to look it up!
I guess some of the Saturday morning cartoon stuff I watched was anime? Silverhawks, Voltron, etc. So maybe I have watched more than I think? But it seems like it really became a thing here in the US shortly after I graduated. But as a result I am not very familiar with most and will watch it if something catches my attention for some reason, but typically don't go looking for it (I have some toys for a line called Shinkalion and discovered there is an anime for it, so if that ever makes it's way to the US I will likely give it a watch). But it is usually a safe bet to assume I haven't seen them.
Oh my word, Silverhawks! Oh yeah! Awesome show intro show intro! I count it up there with my childhood favorites right alongside Bravestarr!
I actually never watched Voltron, so that sort of show was not something I was really exposed to until Power Rangers.
That said, I honestly don't know if I'd consider Silverhawks, Voltron, or Transformers anime or not... I mean, it could be, or maybe it's just a US toy commercial show that happens to be developed by Japanese studios? I'unno.
(Also, Transformers may or may not have been Korean. I honestly don't know, and have forgotten.)
I've never heard of Shinkalion, so that could be neat!
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Oh!
Also!
I'd forgotten!
Voltron (love that synth voice, and Optimus Prime voice-over)
Speaking of, Transformers (Sound Wave was so stinkin' aaaawwwwsome~!)
Wings of Honneamisefeature film trailer
And, of course, Record of Lodoss War
(Not necessarily linking either Akira or Ninja Scroll due to mature content - but they're easily found on YouTube!)
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Katina wrote the Sarazon and Shimreen, Sam wrote the Ferromagnetic Ooze, and Virginia wrote the Lurker in Light.
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I think I should clarify. I wasn't necessarily recommending those animes (I recall Wings being kind of problematic with some very questionable content?), but that those were really the only ones I had access to. The average person's access to the internet was in its infancy, connection speeds were waaaay to slow to be able to do anything like streaming. So whatever that theater got (it was called The Lensic) was all I ever had access to. Some comic shops may have been able to import things if you asked to special order them, but you were committed to an expensive purchase sight unseen if you did that.
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Shinkalion is a fun toy line I think. It's made by Takara Tomy, which is the company responsible for the Transformers, and I am pretty sure the anime is just a toy commercial show for the line. Takara also makes PlaRail which is the standard for toy/model train tracks in Japan. There are others but it seems like PlaRail is what most companies shoot for compatibility with. Takara also makes a variety of Shinkansen (the bullet trains and rail line in Japan), buildings, and so on for PlaRail. So they made some Shinkansen that transform into robots. That's what Shinkalion is. They're very simple and mostly share the same transformations and molds, but I enjoy that the train modes match the real life trains not just in appearance but in color as well (These are not my pictures, just ones I pulled off the internet; E5 Hayabusa in real life, and E5 Hayabusa Shinkalion toy). You can get a little motor that fits in the middle car so your Shinkalions can drive along the tracks as well. It is a very simple, but fun toy line I think.
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I think I should clarify. I wasn't necessarily recommending those animes (I recall Wings being kind of problematic with some very questionable content?), but that those were really the only ones I had access to. The average person's access to the internet was in its infancy, connection speeds were waaaay to slow to be able to do anything like streaming. So whatever that theater got (it was called The Lensic) was all I ever had access to. Some comic shops may have been able to import things if you asked to special order them, but you were committed to an expensive purchase sight unseen if you did that.
This is totally fair and accurate. I remember trying to even understand what anime was at one point - there wasn’t a lot of information going around about it. I’m still interested in understanding series that I may have never heeard of, but, yeah - all things come with the caveat of “here are memories, explore products carefully.”
I just appreciated looking up the show intros! :D
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Shinkalion is a fun toy line I think. It's made by Takara Tomy, which is the company responsible for the Transformers, and I am pretty sure the anime is just a toy commercial show for the line. Takara also makes PlaRail which is the standard for toy/model train tracks in Japan. There are others but it seems like PlaRail is what most companies shoot for compatibility with. Takara also makes a variety of Shinkansen (the bullet trains and rail line in Japan), buildings, and so on for PlaRail. So they made some Shinkansen that transform into robots. That's what Shinkalion is. They're very simple and mostly share the same transformations and molds, but I enjoy that the train modes match the real life trains not just in appearance but in color as well (These are not my pictures, just ones I pulled off the internet; E5 Hayabusa in real life, and E5 Hayabusa Shinkalion toy). You can get a little motor that fits in the middle car so your Shinkalions can drive along the tracks as well. It is a very simple, but fun toy line I think.
That is pretty awesome! It also explains all the trains in the intro! So cool!
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Here is a bonus intro that is not an anime, but is a cartoon I adored as a kid. I still sometimes sing the intro song in my car.
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Here is a bonus intro that is not an anime, but is a cartoon I adored as a kid. I still sometimes sing the intro song in my car.
I'D FORGOTTEN ABOUT DENVER~!
That's awesome!
Also: huh, a post of mine that I thought I'd submitted is gone. Hm. Well I'll write it again, later!
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What is the biggest party wipe (or biggest in-character disaster) you've ever been a part of or experienced at the table?
What is the biggest out-of-character gaming-related disaster you've ever been a part of or experienced at the table?
What is the biggest unexpected success (in-character or out-of-character) you've ever been a part of or experienced at the table?
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We round robined GMing Second Darkness during the original Pathfinder playtest. I ran volume 3. The final fight is with a drow wizard on the top of his tower. There was nothing preventing the PCs from just flying up to the top and immediately confronting him, so they did. They steamrolled him because they had all their resources and all that. Then they went down to exit the tower and were just going nova on everything they encountered because they had already defeated the boss and just had mook mop up. So, like fireballs on single drow and so on. But the bottom floor of the tower has a young green dragon. By the time they go there they had nothing left. I think there was one PC left standing when it finally went down and it would have been a TPK had the dragon got another turn.
Out of character, we had some players have a huge fight, in a one quit the game because they wouldn't play with the other anymore and they haven't spoken to each other since. It was unfortunate because they had been pretty good friends before that and I liked both of them a lot.
In the above mentioned Second Darkness game I played a rogue. For some reason I was responsible for our money. He had grown up an urchin and had a habit of hiding things away in little hidey holes around Riddleport. So our gold was stashed in small amounts across a dozen different hiding spots. The thing is, at the end of the first module
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The first sounds exciting!
The second - I'm sorry to hear about. That's always sad.
The third is awesome! Weirdly, the character I have for SD also tends to do that exact same thing, so I wonder if we'll be wiped out, too? I can't wait to find out!
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For us, the biggest in-character disaster came from what amounts to an (unknowingly) "scripted" battle in a 4e game. The GM was running a battle substantially above our level, and expected that we'd lose - which we did - but our dice were also on fire and we put up such a massive counter-assault that we took out a few boss-level characters along the way (characters that were supposed to be nearly invulnerable to us). While our characters were eventually all taken out, but not before we'd used an ability that dealt damage over time, which was just enough to put down the guy who beat us. We made our death saving throws, but the GM had to rethink how everything went.
The situation for the bad guys was:
- of their three heaviest bruisers (not most powerful creatures, but just strong brutes), two were unconscious and one was non-sentient (and waiting on orders from the two who were unconscious)
- of their minor army (about two dozen) all were taken down and captured
- and the enemy that accomplished all of this was entirely unknown
We'd taken down (non-lethally) two patrols and an invisible imp (though that was mostly by luck, and we killed it before knowing quite what was happening) before they'd sent a major force to figure out "what the heck; no, really, what the heck" which we'd also taken prisoner.
So they sent in a burrowing umberhulk (who knew the tricks, "make a tunnel," "close a tunnel," "attack those guys," and "rescue unconscious allies") and two powerful dragonborn to reclaim all the forces we'd just imprisoned. We managed to take down one dragonborn, then almost the other, but the umberhulk finally wiped us (as we'd used up every resource we had by that point), but didn't stay around to kill us (as it's mission was to rescue the unconscious). The problem was, of course, we'd blocked it's actual way out - the way it'd come from - by magic wall so it collected its unconscious allies in a sleigh and made a new tunnel... somewhere... and then just... hung out, waiting for orders (because that's what it was trained to do). But the only people that knew where it could possibly be were unconscious on the sleigh.
Suddenly down not only 24 soldiers but 2 of its strongest and an umberhulk, the bad guys freaked the heck out and posted their army as guards. The other bad guys eventually woke up... in a small and unfamiliar underground chamber with an umberhulk who'd dug into a random direction because its previous path was unavailable.
We (eventually) woke up and because we didn't understand what, exactly had happened with the bad guys (we were as blind to them as they were to us) our perception was, "These guys are invincible! We'd better negotiate." so we called down the corridor and demanded negotiations and "prisoner release" (we meant ourselves; the bad guys thought we meant the missing folks).
Our series of interactions eventually led to us kind of accidentally infiltrating the bad guys () and the ones who were stuck were eventually found, again. We made good friends of the bad guys, then engaged in an insidious plot to assassinate them one-to-three at-a-time, eventually using a thing we found to quasi-control the villain and take over.
Spent the rest of the game teaching orcs football bjorker in order to expunge their aggression in non-lethal displays of combat-like (but not murderous*) physical activity, while we called off and made a treaty with the very people we'd summoned to full-assault the caves (in an act of desperation, prior to being taken down/taken in).
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The GM was uncertain when and how the plot (which had consisted, originally, of the straight-forward, "we get taken out; we get enslaved; we escape; we return to town; we defeat evil army") turned into "we all collectively seduce the evil queen and trick her into channeling evil into taxes instead of murder (while we quietly murder and replace the other advisors, blaming it on those advisors and/or a fictional evil earth spirit)" which... is much more complicated.
But (after a bad initial reaction) the campaign was a success!
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The biggest out-of-character disaster at the table involved a guy who seriously could not read the room and immediately and repeatedly made choices entirely opposed to more or less everything the rest of the party (and players) wanted at almost every step. He was eventually removed from the table by the other players.
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I have no idea what the biggest unexpected success is.
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Hey, boss...
Having written for Starfinder Society, do you think you'll be writing more?
What was the biggest challenge in writing for SFS?
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It sounds like your biggest unexpected success might be the same as that in character disaster!
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I loved writing for Starfinder Society! That was the first adventure I have written! I have done 3 ACG scenarios, but those are closer to fiction writing than adventure writing. I would really like to write more, but that will depend on the folks who hand out assignments. They get solicited a good chunk of time before they release so I think the ones coming out for the next several months were all assigned while I was working on it. Hopefully I did well enough that I am offered one with the next round of assignments. I think there are also some internal rules on offering work to folks that already have open assignments, and I have been pretty in-discriminant when accepting offers. If the opportunity arises I would also really love to do some of the fiction writing that has been going up on the blogs.
I think the biggest challenge for me was in making sure the mechanics were ok. I tend to lean more on the narrative side of things, and even in my GMing am likely to make things up on the fly or wing them rather than relying on stat blocks. But I can't do that when writing an adventure. And making sure that everything is correct is a little scary to me because even though I know the rules well there is always that part of my brain exclaiming that I'm doing it wrong/badly/etc. There are 3 reviews up for the scenario right now and I have read all three and have spent some time thinking about the mechanical criticisms in one and how I could have done things differently to address those. So hopefully next time I can do better on that front!
Another challenge for me was that I really want to go full on describing NPCs and ships and everything. But word counts and the nature of adventures mean I can't do that. Plus this is an adventure, not a piece of fiction, so it needs to read and behave like an adventure. In previous stuff I have written there was more space for that sort of thing in both word count and just the nature of the material.
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The first sounds exciting!
The second - I'm sorry to hear about. That's always sad.
The third is awesome! Weirdly, the character I have for SD also tends to do that exact same thing, so I wonder if we'll be wiped out, too? I can't wait to find out!
Still haven't done anything here (real life trumps gaming table time, alas), but I was curious (and am too lazy to look things up right now) - did you ever finish this AP?
(I'm excited to do so, myself, if we can get back to playing it!)
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We sure did! Many many years ago. The same (mostly) group ran through Shattered Star as well.
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What question do you wish to be asked?
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Hmm, I don't think I have any specific questions I want to be asked. I can tell you that I love to talk about my toys, New Mexico, and Chicano studies stuff. So those all fall into the category of things I like to be asked.
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A whole range of them! I have tons of Transformers, tons of third party Transformers, Star Wars figures, super hero figures, Star Trek ships, some Ninja Turtle figures, some Star Trek figures, most of the Diaclone Reboot toys, a whole bunch of Shinkalion, Disney Infinity figures, a growing collection of StarLink stuff, and I just built my first 2 Gundams! And those are just the collections, not even the I have one of these type toys!
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Do you have any Food Fighters? I still have my Sargeant Scoop.
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I have one! Mean Weener! I sometimes think about trying to get more. I'd like to get a Private Pizza!
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My brother had him, I used to have the doughnut guy too.
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Have you seen the documentary series The Toys That Made Us on Netflix?
It's a really entertaining show.
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Ah! Ahah!
Diegopostsplosion!
Huzzah!
RE: Second Darkness
Still haven't done anything here (real life trumps gaming table time, alas), but I was curious (and am too lazy to look things up right now) - did you ever finish this AP?(I'm excited to do so, myself, if we can get back to playing it!)
We restarted it!
We've just met a really interesting figure - a woman who claims to want to get into the Cypher Mages, and just temporarily tagging a job at the GG, which I worked really hard to make sure she got - and she and my character have already become fantastic besties (), so of course I'm pretty sure she's a spy and/or going to betray us all. That's just friends in Riddleport, you know? But it's gonna be a great friend time while it lasts!
We sure did! Many many years ago. The same (mostly) group ran through Shattered Star as well.
Cool! I'm going to be GMing Shattered Star, and we kind of wanted to finish the other Varisian stuff in quasi-order, so we're doing this one first!
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A whole range of them! I have tons of Transformers, tons of third party Transformers, Star Wars figures, super hero figures, Star Trek ships, some Ninja Turtle figures, some Star Trek figures, most of the Diaclone Reboot toys, a whole bunch of Shinkalion, Disney Infinity figures, a growing collection of StarLink stuff, and I just built my first 2 Gundams! And those are just the collections, not even the I have one of these type toys!
That's awesome! Do you have a favorite of those?
(Seems Shinkalion is solid!)
Also are those new Ninja Turtles, or old?
I had a huuuuuuuuuge collection growing up - there was a wonderful older woman who wasn't actually related, but loved us so much she sent me a different Ninja Turtle action figure each year for my birthday - but after I moved out of the house, I'm not entirely sure what happened to all of them. One of the only ones I never had? Ironically April O'Neal. I could just never find her in the store.
Now, by "Diaclone Reboot" you meant a reboot of the Diaclone series, not a "Diaclone" manufacture of Reboot-based toys, right?
(I think Diaclone is a series - I don't know for sure, though.)
What "generations" are you Star Wars figures from - the older, the 90s, or the newer ones?
(That's a horrible way to divide the spans of time, considering it puts two full decades of figures into the "newer" category, but I don't know how else to divide them. Feel free to wax eloquent in teaching me.)
Are your Star Trek ships large size/play sets, or smaller size/models?
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Also, I'm required by law to ask: which Gundam is best Gundam?
(This is secretly two questions: one is asking about series and the other about the actual mecha.)
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What about original Voltron?
Did you get Robotech figures or toys.
I had the Hover Tank from Masters that figures could actually ride, it was my favorite toy.
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I HAVE seen The Toys That Made Us! I love it! It is one of my favorite shows!
I don't have any original Voltron toys unfortunately. When I was a kid some of my friends did and I loooooooved the little action figures they came with. I loved the lions too, but for some reason those little figures were just something I was super into.
I don't have any Robotech either. Though I DO have some Transformers Jetfire figures, so I guess I COULD say I do have some Macross after all!
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I really enjoyed book 1 and 2 of Second Darkness, and I loved playing with that group! I ran book 3 which was kind of... let's just say I didn't love it. The rest of the AP was also kind of... I really loved that group!
Of all of those my favorite is Diaclone Reboot. They are really cool and the engineering is amazing! Diaclone is the toy line that became Transformers outside of Japan. All of the first wave Transformers were Diaclone figures rebranded. Takara eventually just moved over to the Transformers brand as well. In 2017 TakaraTomy releaunched Diaclone as Diaclone Reboot featuring mostly robots that didn't go on to become Transformers (or did but only in Japan).
My Ninja Turtles toys are from both the original 80's toy line and the 2012-2017 cartoon toy line (that is my favorite Turtles show).
My Star Wars figures are from all of the figure lines since the 1978 line, though the bulk of them are from the Black Series line. I do have a whole lot from the 90's toy line as well. The ones I have from the original toy line are so heavily played with that they have almost no collector value, except to me (similar to my G1 Transformers toys, and well, most of my toys really)! I used to play with my Star Trek galoob figures and I always included Crix Madine from the Star Wars line with them because he had his rebellion rank insignia in the same place the Star Trek uniforms had their com badges. Since his outfit was different he was an admiral.
When I was a kid I used to build Star Trek ship models, so I have a bunch of those but they're all still at my moms house. All unpainted. I have a ton of the recent Eaglemoss ships. I had a complete collection, but there are so many and they're still coming out and storing them is becoming impossible so I sold off all the non Federation ones. I have all the Federation ones (I love the Federation starship aesthetic), but will likely be selling off all but the lineage of Enterprises and a few of my favorites (Akira class). That bums me out but I have no space in my apartment and really do need to get rid of some of my collections.
I know almost nothing about Gundam, so the 2 models I bought to build were ones that I thought looked pretty. I got the Full Armor Unicorn (anything with a white, green, and pink color scheme will get me), and the Full Armor Unicorn Banshee. I have finished building both but whew should I have looked up the model grades first because these were definitely not new Gundam model builder friendly.
I had some really cool toys as a kid that ended up being given away to younger cousins and the like that I wish I still had now. There was a really large collection of He-Man that I had got from an older cousin. I had a handful of GI Joe figures, all of which have long succumbed to brittle rubberbands, but I also had 3 or so vehicles that were given away. I still have a tin full of M.U.S.C.L.E.S. and one of Army Ants. I had a couple of Barnyard Commandos and Dino-Riders that were given away (I would LOVE a Dino-Riders collection and if I give up some of my others and stumble on a wheelbarrow of money I would definitely start trying to build one). And exactly 1 M.A.S.K. figure that I loved (Matt Turner with the Condor motorcycle/helicopter), and 1 Captain Power figure that came with a ship (Captain Power got played with along with the Star Wars figures). I adored the Captain Power figure's armor.
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The guy (I think his real name was Hawk?) who came with a jetpack from Captain Power was one of my all-time favorite action figures growing up - he was often Mega Man, for some reason. Also he was most comonly interacting with all my (now-dead from rubber band/plastic decay/destruction) G.I. Joe figures. I wish I still had him.
(I don't think I ever actually played with him as the character he was supposed to be.)
Similarly, Rin from Pirates of Darkwater was almost always Link (from Legend of Zelda - occasionally he moonlit as Crono from Chrono Trigger, but his hair was aaaaaall wrong). He often interacted with my X-Men and Batman figures instead of G.I. Joes because they were all about the same size.
Man, I remember M.A.S.K. So fun. I really need to watch more Turtles stuff - I fell off sometime in the mid-90s (when I was out of country a lot), but I wanted to see all the things.
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So, on the topic of toys and action figures....
Do you have Casey Jones?
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So, on the topic of Golarion and sofrito...
Have you considered slipping in references to some of your favorite dishes and cuisine(s) into the lore?
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I had the Warcraft Orc, and a human as well. He was huge, or at least I remember him being huge. Was probably a 6" figure. Anyway because he was so huge an muscley he was the person that my 3 3/4" super hero figures always had to fight. Mainly I had a Batman Returns Robin figure, and a Return of Superman Superboy figure, and since Tim Drake Robin and 90's Superboy (I know...) were 2 of my most favorite super heroes at the time, it was mostly them.
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I DO have a Casey Jones. He is in no kind of collector way as I got him when I was a kid and he is heavily played with. I don't have any newer versions of him though.
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So, one of my goals with my writing is to do well enough that if Paizo ever does an Arcadia book they consider offering me a country I can create. Basically I want to be in a position where I can write the New Mexico campaign setting I have always wanted. And yes, that involves the food. Some analogue for ristras and the chile they're made with obviously. Chile is such a staple and important cultural thing where I am from that there would absolutely be something similar. If there is anything that I really really miss from back home it is the way the entire city smells during chile season because every grocery store is roasting it outside. So I envision adobe building with colorful ristras, with the scent of roasting chile, carne seca (jerky that is hung outside to dry out, it's crunchy like chips instead of the chewy stuff you get in grocery stores here), sun teas, and sun drying vegetables. The food in general would have pretty big significance to the area.
I also have some ideas for including "the stories" which would be some fantasy version of telenovelas. Probably a weekly play that the town gathers for that has been going on for generations. As the performers age out or otherwise can't continue new ones are introduced, and they've been going for centuries. Maybe each town has there own and people travel between towns to see their favorite ones. Maybe there are cross overs.
I've also for years now been thinking about a Curandera class and I would love to be able to include that, or an archetpye, or something.
I have often talked about the way my home group handled religion in our New Mexican version of Varisians and I would love to go that route with a group of people on Golarion.
Lots of other stuff I have thought about but the question was about food and half this post is not. So yes, I want to add food to everything.
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I put this up a couple of weeks ago, and I am getting more ready. But if those of you who aren't on my social medias would like to take a watch (and if you have feedback feel free) here is the first video I have recorded. I am planning to do more like this, but I also have some other ideas for channel content.
I have a favorite robot toy that I want to take around and make little 2 or 3 minute slideshow videos of in various places. Like there is a neat walking trail near here and that would involve shots of it crouching over a mushroom, or hands on hips looking out over a stream, and so on all set to music.
I've also thought about something TTRPG related. I got my kickstarter stuff for Dragons Conquer America, which is set in the 16th century Americas, and I thought about making videos of the process of me creating a campaign for it.
Chicano studies is something that is very important to me and I have also considered maybe doing book readings and/or discussions where I would go over Chicano books. Fiction, essays, really anything that is from a Chicano voice.
Are any of those things any of you would be interested in? What kinds of content would you be interested in?