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Trebuchet

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  1. How would one go about building a "normal" human that can run 100 meters (50") in just under 10 seconds? As I understand the 5ER rules characters perform all actions as if they are SPD 2 except while they are in combat even if they have a higher base SPD. Obviously a sprint on a straight track would use Non-Combat Movement by default; but that seems to imply that such a runner could do 25" per Phase - a movement that even many supers couldn't hit. If base Running is 6", should the character Push to get five more inches and then buy a few more inches of Running; or can characters even Push when out of combat? Suggestions?
  2. Re: Sherpas or other high-altitude normals? That's why I specified this was for 5ER. Our gaming group doesn't use 6E. Lots of good food for thought here. Thanks everyone!
  3. 5ER lists a Life Support for Low Pressure/Vacuum but obviously even a guy from the top of the Andes can't survive in outer space. So how best to build that ability? Just put a Limitation on the Low Pressure/Vacuum LS? Buy Environmental Movement (Mountaintops)? Very high REC?
  4. We thought we would post a link to our campaign's online encyclopedia. It's still a work in progress but hopefully there's enough meat on the bones to make rummaging around an enjoyable past time. Although it is call the MidGuard Universe after our primary Champions team, characters and other items from our Hudson City (street level 250 point base supers), Justice Watch (Standard level supers in a government-sponsored team), and New Century pulp campaign set in the early 20th Century are also included since all take place in the same game world (albeit New Century being 100 years earlier). All characters and rules used are 5ER. http://home.earthlink.net/~jeffspur/
  5. Re: Obfuscation and Unbreakable Vows... Why not a large scale AoE Invisibility with Invisible Effects?
  6. Does anyone have plans for a late 19th century sailing ship?
  7. 1) Wu Shu Master, the scourge of the Chinatown tongs, is the only living practitioner of the ancient Fou Lang style of Scottish kung fu. In his Secret Identity as Armstrong Chen, humble self defense instructor at the local YMCA, he has entered a charity martial arts tournament. As he prepares himself for his first match, he realizes his opponent is a leading lieutenant for one of the tong leaders whom he has fought several times. Wu Shu Master is faster and stronger than Armstrong but not different in physical size or build, and Fou Lang is a Distinctive Style. His opponent – one Armstrong knows has Analyze: Style - is quite likely to recognize it and hence discover Wu Shu Master’s secret ID. He can’t just drop out; this match is for charity, and the orphanage needs his help. What 5E Skills, Powers, and/or other abilities could our hero use to disguise his style and thus protect his secret identity? 2) One of Fou Lang’s most devastating attacks is a precise strike to a nerve cluster which temporarily paralyses the individual limb struck, rendering it useless for several seconds but otherwise doing no actual harm. How could this ability be built in 5E?
  8. Re: Team size Our gaming group has 8; but 1 is GMing so max actual team is 7. I find that a bit unwieldy as player or GM and prefer 4 or 5 person teams. This gives us plenty of variation but still is small enough to keep track of. I'm considering building a Zodiac-based villain team but I'm not sure I want to run 12 characters at once.
  9. Re: Sherlock Holmes? He uses boxing against a villain in Arthur Conan Doyle's The Solitary Cyclist. And yes, it was supposedly bareknuckles (although he might have been wearing regular thin leather gentleman's gloves). IIRC there was another story where a retired professional boxer remembered Holmes fighting in the ring and thought he would have gone to the top of the profession had he kept fighting in the ring. Even though he was slender Holmes of course was very tall for Victorian times (around 6' 2") and must have had an impressive reach.
  10. Re: Sherlock Holmes? No current contract for HD; no plan to get one since we're sticking with 5ER.
  11. Re: Sherlock Holmes? The canonical written version is what I had in mind. Like Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan, the films and TV stuff missed the mark.
  12. I was wondering if anyone had done or seen a Hero version of the Great Detective?
  13. Re: What value for Limitation of a defense Power that only works when Combat Luck doe Combat Luck is a Talent, not a Power, and any Power that is not Inherent or Always On can be turned off at will although the methods, depending on the sfx, can certainly vary. The same would undoubtedly apply to Talents.
  14. Re: What value for Limitation of a defense Power that only works when Combat Luck doe This is the path I'm going to go with. The Combat Luck is always in play' date=' but the 25% Damage Reduction only applies at such times as Combat Luck would apply [u']and[/u] in Heroic ID. Thanks for the input, everyone. Now for another question: Does non-Resistant Damage Reduction still apply against the Stun from a Killing Attack, or does that require Resistant DR?
  15. As the thread title says, what Limitation value in 5ER would you give for a supplementary defensive Power that only works if Combat Luck applies? (There are other Limitations on this Power, but even if those conditions are met it still doesn't protect if the PC's Combat Luck wouldn't apply.) I have a value in mind, but I thought I'd see if I'm out of line.
  16. Re: Combat Luck when you cannot be surprised Seems to me if the character has "Combat Luck" but it isn't possible to catch him in an "unlucky" situation then it should simply be bought as raw defense of the same level and appropriate Hardening. OTOH, you could just rule that the reason he has Combat Luck is precisely because he has all those other abilities making him very hard to catch off guard and just use the Talent as written. There will still be occasions it doesn't work; both Danger SEnse and Spatial Awareness still require rolls.
  17. Re: Game Master Lament Unfortunately for Lord Ghee, he has a number of rather obnoxious players in his group*. Several are "adult" only in the legal definition. *I gamed with them for many years; my own group is essentially a spinoff because I didn't like the direction that group was taking (or some of the players, for that matter). Several of my current group participate in or are recruits from that one.
  18. Re: Game Master Lament I think the mistake was with the semantics. Calling it homework was a bad idea. It should've been "I've got copies of several Three Musketeers films; and anyone who can't watch them on our movie night is welcome to borrow them." No tests, no quizzes.
  19. Re: Lariat, Lasso, or Noose Stats I don't have, but a traditional lariat is between 30 and 35 feet long so the 15" of stretching is much too long. I'd give it about 5" of Stretching, with No Noncombat Stretching as one Limitation.
  20. Re: The Golden Apple Zl'f would turn it over to the non-governmental organization she (secretly) works for for evaluation as to the contents. If there are crimes, then she'd pass the drive on (after copying it) to the International Criminal Court for prosecution. If the ICC doesn't proceed, then her team MidGuard might see fit to do a bit of vigilante work.
  21. Re: Rule of X? Well said (and repped). That's exactly how we try to work it in our game. As players we communicate and protect each other's schticks; as co-GMs who also play we understand how things look from both sides of the GM screen; and we all look for ways to make another player's PC shine. Invert that whole rivalry thing and Rules of X to supposedly balance character effectiveness become redundant; even silly looking. We're here to have fun, not to dominate a game.
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