austenandrews Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers If you want this to be useless' date=' add "only when eyes open"[/quote'] Doesn't "based on Sight" cover that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Anomaly Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Doesn't "based on Sight" cover that? Not if your eyelids are transparent, I suppose... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Not if your eyelids are transparent' date=' I suppose...[/quote'] Invisibility, Eyelids Only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Anomaly Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Physical Lim: Transparent Eyelids (All the Time, Slightly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prestidigitator Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Physical Lim: Transparent Eyelids (All the Time' date=' Slightly)[/quote'] Hmm. You might have to buy Danger Sense and Persistent for Sight though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers +10 STR, Only For Casual Strength, Only When Pushing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
austenandrews Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Mind Scan, Based on Sight, Nondiscriminatory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Anomaly Posted April 6, 2006 Report Share Posted April 6, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers This is beginning to remind me of an old April Fool's D&D article in Dragon magazine...with spells like "Locate Self (gestures: grabbing your own backside with both hands)" and things like that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers This is beginning to remind me of an old April Fool's D&D article in Dragon magazine...with spells like "Locate Self (gestures: grabbing your own backside with both hands)" and things like that. Actually they had a series of articles in that vein. The Aprill 1989 one, for instance, was titled "Still More Outrages From the Mages," so it at least the third. (I have a photocopy of that one, BTW.) They were all written up it the then-current correct form, and were anywhere from sslightly amusing to laugh-out-loud hilarious. Example: Find Terrain (Examination/Indentation) Level: 1 Components: V, S Range: Touch CT: 2 segments Duration: Instant ST: None AE: Personal Explanation/Description: Casting this spell enables the magic-user to locate the terrain (i.e., the ground beneath his feet). The somatic component of the spell consists of falling flat onone's face to get a closer look, doing 1-4 hp damage. There are others like Transmute Rock to Stone, Explosive Familiar, and Audible Curse, but I'll spare you from the rest of the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Anomaly Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers There are others like Transmute Rock to Stone' date=' [i']Explosive Familiar[/i], and Audible Curse, but I'll spare you from the rest of the article. Yeah...those are the ones I was remembering! Hey, we can do that in HERO, too! Transform Rock to Stone: Major Transform (rock into rock that's identical in every way except it's now referred to as a stone), Partial Transform (+1/2) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Yeah...those are the ones I was remembering! Hey, we can do that in HERO, too! Transform Rock to Stone: Major Transform (rock into rock that's identical in every way except it's now referred to as a stone), Partial Transform (+1/2) The description of Transmute Rock to Stone had one of the funniest "Gestures" I can remember: "The somatic component for this spell requires that the spell-caster pull his index finger out of his mouth so that his cheek makes a popping sound, then rotate the finger vertically in the air while whistling a low glissando." :rofl::rofl: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers They were all written up it the then-current correct form' date=' and were anywhere from sslightly amusing to laugh-out-loud hilarious.[/quote'] Find Traps 1/2 Material Component: One hireling Move Earth 1/2 Material Component: A shovel and a hireling Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basil Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Summon Yourself. Transform Air Into Anything, Only If At Least 250 Kilometers Above Sea Level, Air Must Have Same BODY As Object Created {NB: it takes 1.254 cubic meters of air to mass 1.6 kg, which is amount needed for 1 BODY. Volume of air will double for each +1 BODY. If you're above 250 km, you'd better be in a pressurized vessel of some kind, so using this power will likely run you out of air real fast.} Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Threnody Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers +1 Overall Level (10 Active); For Characteristic Rolls only (-0), Only With Figured Characteristics (-1). 5 Real Points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jkwleisemann Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers Find Traps 1/2 Material Component: One hireling Move Earth 1/2 Material Component: A shovel and a hireling Those come out of Artax's spellbook? :-P For those of you who don't get the reference... you owe it to yourselves to read Nodwick. And PS238, really, though it's not related to the joke.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. Anomaly Posted April 19, 2006 Report Share Posted April 19, 2006 Re: Self Defeating Powers And PS238' date=' really, though it's not related to the joke....[/quote'] SO true! ----- One excercise in 'free speech' later... "Hello? Yes, this is Principal Cranston...What?!? The gym will be off-line for how long?!? That's worse than when that robot wrecked it!!" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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