Springald Jack

Re: Who's the most evil villain in CU? I think you're painting Neitzche with a blacker brush than he deserves here.

Re: Default side-effects of super-powers See my thought to all of the whole time in comics thing is actually pretty simple. Time in the comics isn't human time it's myth time. The events of a god's mythologies are ever-present rather than occuring at a point in History. And Supers are certainly mythological fiugures. So what does that mean for gaming? Well there are two kinds of approaches 1. Games that also take place in myth time. Chronology is loose and fluid and not to be worried about. 2. Games that to a certain extent realism-ize comic time. A setting like this thread talks about where Supers age slower than normal is a realism-izing technique. Mythology vs a created realism is actually applicable to any convention of comic books and a given universe may use mythology for one and realism for another freely... There is nothing wrong with either approach a lot of people here seem to favor 2 whearas I prefer 1 for issues of time. Just my $0.02

Re: Standard Effect ... why 3? THis would tend to be my feeling and while I don't mean to compare Mr. Long with the developers of D&D 3 in the optional rules for non-random hit points they also use slightly less than average numbers and say that it is fair because of the predictability to undershoot it. All that said it would hardly destroy the HERO system to base standard effect off 3.5 rounded only at the end in your own games.

Re: Let's talk about Combat Luck I think the always lets 1 BODY through is really cool. This may totally replace combat Luck in my games.

Re: How do you feel about Superheroes that kill? I've actually been in a argument over this one at the M&M forums. I sort of think that the choice of "kill in extreme circumstances" vs. "never kill no matter the cost" is something every hero has to face. Both choices are heroic if made rightly. The first is based on the principle that the goods of the many outweigh the goods of the few and killing extremes saves many from death. The second says that it is not my place to decide who lives and who dies because I am not a god. Which choice is right actually depends on how the consequences are played out.

Re: Dependence: A useless Catagory of Disads? Actually green Lantern's (0-point) dependancy is essentially one of the examples in the fifth edition corebook. Just Sayin' -- Patrick Ley "And I don't care how they spell things on the Internet/When you email me spell the whole word out"--Strong Bad

in addition to what I've seen mentioned don't forget The Dark Crystal Labyrinth's more serious no humans necessary older sibling -- Patrick Ley who realizes this is his first post here