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Re: The Emergence Of Superhumans If metahumans first show ~1000 CE you aren't dealing with "the world" but with a bunch of "worlds"----West Europe, East Europe/Byzantium, Islamic, South Asia, East Asia, Meso-America, Polynesia. There's such little communication that each of them is operating independent of each other. Metahumans may change one, but the others aren't changed. Unless #1 metahumans are supremely powerful and "world conquereres" or #2 metahumans only come to be on the "borderlands" between "worlds". EXAMPLE: A superduperman popping into existence in central India is not going to effect West Europe or Polynesia unless you create strange situation.

Re: Supers: How'd they get that way (and why do so many of them wear long johns?) Another game I was in superpowers happened because a Hawking black hole went through the Earth. Going about .06c. Hit in the middle of Sumatra, exited through east edge of Glacier National Park, zipped around the moon, hit again in west edge Glacier Nation Park, existed through Aldabra Is. (Seychelles). Everyone close to the entrance/exit points got powers, the closer the stronger. All the PCs had been hiking in Glacier Nat. Park, but none knew each other. Kind of interesting set-up.

Re: Mottos for use in games OK, now it's our turn. We're all in this together, so let's get out of it together.

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... OK, this is one guy not a team. ...if his "Power Armor" is a full body cast.

Re: Warehouse Plans With all these cool maps, I could have a DC campaign that never left the warehouse district!

Re: Would you allow the white knight defense?

Re: Would you allow the white knight defense? I gotta remember that one.

Re: Qi Unless I missed something you have only one power in the EC. Also it should get OIF.

Re: Effective builds

Re: The Emergence Of Superhumans IOW, The Schimmelhorn Effect; Or, Supertech Depends On The Supertechnician

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... ...if they're battle cry is "Not the face!"

Re: How to encourage RP? Another good one. The guy who roleplays talking to the (cop/stoolie/barista/whatever) gets him as a contact. The guy who says "I ask him about ____" and then roles dice doesn't get the contact.

Re: Mottos for use in games I saw its a palindrome. Didn't know the Romans thought they're cool.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Best w/o explaination: "Can I balloon the aardvark?"

Re: High Speed Low Drag Tactical Toys Just occured to me: Talking about drag and corsets at the same time is asking for trouble.

Re: Building a Motorcycle Mecha! I'm calling that attitude is elitism. Why? • Not everyone has a computer • Of those that do, not everyone has internet access • Of those that do, not everyone's signed up to these boards • Of those that are, not everyone knows how to use the search • Of those that do, how would they know its there to be searched for? But at any Hero System game, someone has the Big Book O' Rules (pat. pend.). TUV like everything besides the Big Book O' Rules (pat. pend.) is optional. So if its not in the Big Book O' Rules (pat. pend.), its not a rule. That's how every game I've ever played works. There's the realio-trulio rules, optional rules from supplements, and house rules. I've never heard of any game where the chattering of someone on some forum is official rules. That's how I do it, that's how everyone I ever played with does it, and I won't change. I have enuf probs getting my friends to play Hero. I tell them they have to go to some hole-in-the-wall forum to get the "official" rules, they won't ever play Hero again.

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if...

Re: Effective builds Detect Defence Powers (No Sense Group), Sense, Discriminatory, Analyze: 17 points (5+2+5+5) Variable Special Effects (and maybe Variable Advantages) on an EB/RKA. Extremely useful: you know how to rip through your foes' defences, and you can.

Re: 12 of the Deadliest Unmanned Killing Machines in Our Arsenal Line of sight, like the article said. The writer knows <0 about encryption.

Re: Supers: How'd they get that way (and why do so many of them wear long johns?) 2001, February, 13, 16:45 UTC. Most of the people on Earth simultaneously have a vision; those younger then 9-11 y.o., some of the most insane, and some in very very very bad health are the exceptions. OTOH, the asleep wake up. The vision is of a person(?) who hits the complete bottom of the Uncanny Valley, in clown clothes, rattling something in his/its hand. The things are tossed on a table; 6 d10's of different colors. The person(?) reads off the numbers in the native language of whoever's having the vision. Followed by "Sorry, not you"... ... ... ...except for those who got all zeros. They are the ones; the superpowered few---if you can call 5,367 few. They had a longer vision, where the person(?) rattled lots more dice, randomly picking the powers thru an unknown method. And that's where powers came from---in one game I played in. Kinda fun, playing someone who got powers by random chance. Why the long johns? Excessively influenced by comic books.

Re: Building a Motorcycle Mecha! If it's not in the Big Book O' Rules (pat. pend.), and not even in TUV, it's not a rule. So you don't have to break any rule at all. Multiformed Vehicle is exactly what Ragdoll needs.

Re: Narf's Supers Stuff You forgot the Mafia Contacts and the Rep: Union Goon

Re: The Emergence Of Superhumans The farther back, the more the effect. Changes wouldn't "damp down" they'd accelerate. One 100-point flying blaster at Marathon and there's no Greece, no Rome. Persians and the following empires rule Eastern Europe, Carthage and its following empires rule Western Europe. No Christianity or Islam either. Gunpowder stays a propellant for rockets, guns aren't used, etc. etc.

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... The team used to watch "Mystery Men" for inspiration, but they stopped 'cause they became intimidated by them.

Re: Effective builds Teleportation, Megascaled, Extra Time defined as travel time (it's supposed to be preperation time!). FTL at 10% or less the cost.