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As mentioned earlier, most of the heroes and villians in the strip are current versions of heroic characters from various role-playing games I've tried my hand at. One of which was Champions, a heroic game that moves very very slowly. Once, in high school, we tried playing a game session where some VIPER agents were doing some bad stuff at the mall. Two of the PCs were on hand, the other was two minutes away. It took us almost an hour and a half to get through the first game minute of combat.

Anyway, Geist was an incredibly high-powered superhero. Normally, you have about 100 or 150 points to create a starting level hero. We decided we wanted to try to make Superman-level characters, so each of us took a thousand points to created the baddest bad-ass character. This one dick I knew created a character named "Spazz", sort of a Casey Jones from TMNT/Wolverine knock-off. He used a little over 1000 points. I created Geist with about 600 points: insubstantial, always on; invisible, always on; an assload of points into telekinesis; and a special defense -- mental attacks did half damage to him, but were redirected to everyone within something like a hundred feet of Geist. The only thing that could stop him were mental attacks, but they'd wind up possibly killing everyone around him first.

But enough about this recent "tell me about your character".

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