Ninja-Bear

Yeah I understand about the the bad mechanics and it grating you. I’ve been working on being like Elsa and let it go.

About ties on rolls but I caught in 6th that if there is a tie say for grappling then the person with the higher STR should win the contest. i.e. STR 21 vs. STR 20 both roll 4D6 but if there is a tie then no latter if STR 21 was attacker or defender he wins. I like that rule. I think it works well for any edition. It gives a reason to have a slightly higher STR.

About ties on rolls but I caught in 6th that if there is a tie say for grappling then the person with the higher STR should win the contest. i.e. STR 21 vs. STR 20 both roll 4D6 but if there is a tie then no latter if STR 21 was attacker or defender he wins. I like that rule. I think it works well for any edition. It gives a reason to have a slightly higher STR.

Silly  man, Duke only plays 2nd Edition, Hero. 

I have played in a 5e campaign a few years back. We had a blast. Most games can be great if you like the players around the table with you. 

I believe that that is GM permission territory. 

Personally I don’t know where I picked up the “everything has to be bought” idea. I know thought that idea seems to be prevalent since 4th ed. 

Personally I don’t know where I picked up the “everything has to be bought” idea. I know thought that idea seems to be prevalent since 4th ed. 

In fairness, this is as much a GM issue as a system issue.  "No, Tarzan does not need to roll a climbing skill check to safely shimmy down the drainpipe to the street below" or "roll in case it is an 18" is a GM's decision.
 
One can decide that ElectroMan can, indeed, boost a car battery, or one can require a Power Skill Roll to convert a Blast into an Aid: Battery END.
 
One can require a roll (at your 8- skill) for mundane use of a Familiariity, or accept that, since the character can work in the field, that 8- roll is good enough to perform routine tasks under low-stress conditions.
 
A "game powered by Hero" would do well to include some in-play examples (e.g. "The GM rules that this is a reasonable use of SpiderGuy's webshooters and does not require the player to roll for success of this action"). Part of the problem is that 5e and 6e have moved Hero from "a game" - where benchmarks for these elements could be set - to "a system" where those are more benchmarks for the GM to choose to build into the game under consideration.

Fully-compatible 5e add-on and Pathfinder are not exactly away from D&D.
 
That's on the level of "I heard cigarettes are bad for you, now I use a filter or smoke a pipe"

For what it's worth, Menton has Teleportation listed as an example power from his Vast Psionic Powers VPP under the name Psychokinetic Body Transmission. So it's at least theoretically available as a psionic power in the Champions setting, though there probably aren't that many powers Menton is unable to access as such.

Combining these two posts, I’ve now got the image of a WerePoohbear in my head.

Also @Duke Bushido about Limitations that I wanted to clairify is that it seems in older editions that there were several and that the author though choose those or rather something close to it and just described how the Power was limited. Now it seems that we have a a longer list and more of “this is the only way” to use the limitation.  

Also @Duke Bushido about Limitations that I wanted to clairify is that it seems in older editions that there were several and that the author though choose those or rather something close to it and just described how the Power was limited. Now it seems that we have a a longer list and more of “this is the only way” to use the limitation.  

@Duke Bushido, you got what I was saying pretty good. And for everything  in the forums, I’m not against specific skills when the game requires them. But there are many games where you don’t want all that specifics in your game either. 

I was going to say that about skills. In 4th to he a doctor you need to buy both professional skill and knowledge plus perk. 
 
Also it seems that the concept of having every seemingly minor disadvantage having a point cost to it. 

What are you trying to say? I live where you’re talking about. 😁

Let me see for the distractors of Deadly Blow, (Which is the classic Thief Back Stab ability). You don’t have a problem Haymaker doing more damage but have a problem with Deadly Blow? Talk about Meta gaming! Or I can buy up more damage to with my punches -matter the method or edition but Deadly Blow is a problem? Shaking head.

Let me see for the distractors of Deadly Blow, (Which is the classic Thief Back Stab ability). You don’t have a problem Haymaker doing more damage but have a problem with Deadly Blow? Talk about Meta gaming! Or I can buy up more damage to with my punches -matter the method or edition but Deadly Blow is a problem? Shaking head.

A small but significant slice of that pie chart must account for jokes about the Dread Gazebo.

And it assumes each die rolls a three. (So slightly below average.)
 
 
Doug
Ninja-Bear ninja'd my response. At least I got to include some of my message-in-progress.

The following suggestion has been added to the main list at the top of this thread.
 
Mythic Forces: Under the entry for "Divine" Intervention, above, is the story of how circus strongman Johnny Hercules received the Hercules Force in an amulet bestowed by Zeus. Johnny died in the Battle of Detroit, and his amulet, apparently powerless, was buried with him. But the Hercules Force continued to exist, and over a decade later "chose" another human vessel for its power, a student of Classical culture, who became the second and current Johnny Hercules. One of his greatest foes is the monstrous Typhon, once a bitter, angry archaeologist who was the recipient of the Typhon Force, a sort of balance to the Hercules Force.
The PDF book, The Hercules Force, which fully writes up both characters, suggests that other "forces" could exist based on other gods, demigod heroes, or divine-level monsters. The examples imply that these would be mythic figures who are either dead or imprisoned, e.g. Achilles, Python, Baldur, or Ymir. Powers granted would be consistent with the legendary abilities of those entities. The forces are most likely drawn to people with personalities similar to the original source being and/or familiarity and strong attachment to the culture it comes from. They would differ from empowerment directly by a mythic god in that there would be no potential meddling in the character's life by their patron divinity.

@Black Rose, are you looking at avoiding the gaze attack? IOW, if eye contact isn’t made then no affect? If so, how about a type of Block Maneuver? It could be based on MOCV vs MOCV. If the player successfully makes the Block the SFX is that the player avoided his eyes in time.