What's New

As part of the revised clean-up, I will be in a very non-systematic fashion (because it takes time and I just don't care to spend all that time on this archive site right now),  I will be removing the top-of-page navigation links to "Brian's Official Site" and "Jerome's Official Site" because neither exists anymore. My site is still labeled "Unofficial" because Brian never officially "blessed" it, although I'm sure he did approve of it and appreciate the gesture, and the lack of sanction was an oversight on his part of failing of my memory, whichever.  I'm a bit odd about protocol that way, so I'm not going to claim any official sanction without being very clear that I have it :-)  

I'm also removing the bottom-of-page affiliate links to Affinity Hosting because patric.net is now hosted with 1and1. Affinity treated me well for seven years, but during that same time they developed a ton of new service packages far superior to the one I had (at less cost too), never bothered to tell me about them, and when I asked their service people for a recommendation on a new package that would meet my simple needs they said "look around and pick one."  So I did — with 1and1.

In the summer of 1998, Brian let me take a turn at GM. I adapted a 1985 Marvel Superheroes adventure book and tried running that adventure while using the New Conquerors as a subplot. Unfortunately, the NC took over just like they always do, and the entire story got royally screwed up (mea culpa).  This is one of the factors leading to my resignation om the game.   (The NC were supposed to be accidental visitors from another dimenion, and the pulp ethics of the WT Universe affected their minds and brought out the true darkness within them.  While I still feel the heroes could have defeated the NC in a fight, the fact is that I portrayed the NC so well that the players were too intimidated to start a fight with them). Several of the villains here are adaptations of Marvel Comics characters.  For some of them, I copied existing Champions characters, and in other cases I simply made my own numbers.  The original book called for Contrictor (Constrictor / Whip), Sabertooth (Pathfinder), Melter (Melter / Pulsar), Mauler (Cloverleaf / Mechassassin), the Raiders (Raiders), the Leader (Other) and his Synthetic Hulks (Synthoids / Ogre), and Blizzard (Freezerburn / Cold Warrior).

The usual spate of nips and tucks. Added a couple quotes to Kodiak Steel.  Added character sheets for two of the Yeltzin triplets.

Renamed the "At some point I'd like to GM..." section to "Other world material" to reflect the fact that I did GM, and this section represents my non-character contributio to the WTU.  At the same time, I changed the purpose of the "other notes" to be for material completely unrelated to the WTU, but that I still thought was kind of neat.  

Added the dangling plotlines section. Changed the artwork for the Raiders. Added supervillain Morningstar. Added superhero Powerdancer. Switched from AOLPress to HomeSite 3.0 as my HTML editor and it's a significantly better editor. I made a lot of subtle changes too, throughout the site.