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Re: Duplication Squared Yep. 5ER page 152, about 3/4 down the first column.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Big buckin' chicken...I can't get that bedamned song outta my head.

Re: The Last Dominion Campaign Setting You go, brother!

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Blue Sky Mine (the Diesel remix) by Midnight Oil.

Re: UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign I always came back intermittantly and always enjoyed catching up. Good stuff, bunny.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Black Friday - Steely Dan

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did I'll go back and read the thread later (I’ve skimmed), but some books that jumped into my head when I saw the thread title. Some are mentioned, some arent. Quantum & Woody (can't remember the publisher...Acclaim?) Badger (from whoever) Elementals (the original series, Comico I think) Justice Machine (the original series...Comico again) Mage The Mark (Dark Horse) X (Dark Horse) Ghost (Dark Horse) The Crew (from Marvel; I think this was supposed to be an ongoing series but it didn't pan out) Archer & Armstrong (Valiant) Route 666 (CrossGen) The New Defenders (Marvel: loved Beast, Iceman and Angel back then....not so much, now). Power Company (DC)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Hey Good Lookin' - Kentucky Headhunters

Re: Accidental Hero ID Two questions: 1) What books do you have, then? 2) We all seem to know of characters with accidental change or OIHID. The question is, what exactly do you want? A character sheet, write-ups, examples...what? 3) If you don't want us to get lost on OIHID and accidental change (which may necessitate discussion to answer your question), then again, as above, what exactly are you looking for?

Re: Having a painful movement Okay, if TP is usable as-is, then why not simply create a Linked Damage Shield NND (defense is Teleportation or Extradimensional powers)? You could get a 5d6 NND for 29 pts., or an 8d6 attack for 47 pts. Inside a framework it should be cheap enough to make it effective. Assuming they're not both in frameworks, that is.

Re: Having a painful movement Aah. Um, I knew that. ahem Well, then, back to the drawing board...

Re: Having a painful movement Hrm. Just read the UAA rules again, and the second-to-last sentence is: [quyote]A UAA attack is only usable as an attack -- the character cannot use it himself for its normal purpose. Egads, you'd have to buy a compound power: TP for you, TP UAA, and an NND. Both TPs could use a limitation like "same distance as target only, -1/4" or something, but yeah, yer right. That's getting pretty darn expensive if it's going to be remotely effective.

Re: Having a painful movement

Re: Focus on visibility 5ER 192: Later on the same page, however, it goes on to say: Paraphrasing now: Invisibility covers Body-Affecting powers (stretching, growth, etc) except in GM-approved exceptions (such as Duplicates not being invisible). Invisibility doesn't necessarily cover movement powers, depending on special effects. Invisibility should cover power that are closely connected or related to the character's body, such as some uses of Force Field (emphasis mine). It's essentially up to the GM what constitutes a fair measure of effectiveness for points spent, as opposed to a lot of freebies.

Re: Having a painful movement This might be a silly question, but why can't you just buy a compound power: TP with the Usable as Attack advantage coupled with a no-range NND limited to person teleported only (say a -1/2 limitation)? Wouldn't that work and do what you want? Might get expensive, but it probably should be.

Re: Fantasy Hero Chronicles Great lead-in for a follow-up adventure, though. The rest of the heroes now have incentive to both defeat the Baddies and to be a little more cautious. Assuming the original player isn't completely miffed I think you could easily turn this into a positive event.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread The old stand by cliche has been realized. I found $20 in the pocket of an old flannel I haven't worn all winter (cuz it was 'lost' behind a suitcase). Man, that just makes the day seem brighter.

Re: Switching manuver

Re: Absorb + MP

Re: Fantasy Hero Chronicles Was this session played already? If so, it must've sucked to be Jonathan.

Re: Racial Magical Abilities Another idea: if you're going to place limitations on the number of runes an item can hold, I'd use different criteria. The first idea is to use the BODY of an item to determine the number of Runes it can hold: use a formula like BODY/3 = number of runes item can hold. That way, certain items of greater size and/or stronger substance can intrinsically hold more magic. A helm with only 4 BODY would be able to hold 1 Rune, whereas a castle wall with 15 BODY might have 5 Runes placed upon it. Alternately, roll (AP of Rune)/5 d6 to determine the number of BODY (or DEF, in regards to armor) required to hold a particular rune. If the item has enough BODY (or DEF), it can hold it. If it doesn't, treat the Rune as an attack on the item (AP/5 d6). For example, a 10/10 Force Field Rune placed on a suit of chain armor has an AP of 20. Divide by 5 and you get 4d6, the average roll yielding 4 BODY. Chain has an average of 6 DEF, so the Rune will hold. Placing a second Rune of greater than 10 AP might cause damage to the chain, or cause the Rune to backfire (or whatever you want). For items without BODY or DEF stats, use the AP/5=BODY rule. Just some thoughts off the top of my head. Use or discard as appropriate.

Re: Racial Magical Abilities If they don't buy Mysticism at the start, I would require Half-Elves to buy Latent Psionic* if they ever intend to have Mysticism. If they don't buy Latent Psionic at the time of character creation, that means their genes lean more towards Human (or whatever the other race is) and thus they are unable to connect with the Elvish ability. If they buy Latent Psionic and later decide to develop Mysticism, you can apply the points from the Talent toward the VPP. *Latent Psionic is a Star Hero talent that costs 5 pts and is defined thusly: "Characters whose psionic abilities have not yet manifested (but will eventually) should take this Talent." Obviously you can change the name to "Latent Mystic" or some such, but I'd definitely require at least a place-holder talent at time of creation.

Re: Accidental Hero ID

Re: Switching manuver USPD II has a power just like that, on page 115. It's called "Trading Spaces". Oh, wait....yep, it's still there. Check out the online USPD for Teleportation Powers, 3 or 4 down on the list.

Re: Musings on Random Musings "Common People" is the name of the song on the album "Has Been", a (mostly) spoken word album by William Shatner, with much collaboration by Ben Folds (of 'Ben Folds Five' fame). Guest artists include Ben Folds (duh), Aimee Mann (former of Til Tuesday, now righteous solo act in her own right), Henry Rollins (former of Black Flag, and a righteous solo act and lyricist), country artist Brad Paisley, guitarist extraordinaire Adrian Belew (player with notables such as Talking Heads, King Crimson, Frank Zappa and David Bowie), Joe Jackson (not a big fan but I like his old stuff) and...um...a couple of others. For a spoken word album--and for William Shatner--it's pretty good stuff.