Andrew Cermak

Re: Ultimate Speedster Question.... sorta Speaking of characters in Ultimate Speedster art, has a name been attached to that speedster with the full face mask, visor and what looks like circuitry on his spandex?

Re: I am hot! I'm trying to read this as anything but tangential, and I'm failing. You're talking about the temporary value of stereotypes in our interactions with others balanced with the need to move past them. This situation is about a person assuming a stereotypical role to elicit a targeted reaction from an audience. Perhaps. Are you saying we can't condemn behaviors if doing so insults the perpetrator? Do you think Siren would agree that gender is irrelevant? From her statements, she seems to expect to be treated a certain way because of her professed gender, and to celebrate that treatment. Given those statements, am I really the one "separating people I meet here by gender?" Rather, Siren appears to have aggressively separated herself. The problem with this lovely scenario is that it places the burden of responsibility entirely on those subjected to inappropriate behavior, rather than on the person behaving inappropriately. It's an unreasonable expectation, especially when that behavior goes beyond "trolling" and "attention-getting" into the realm of the offensive.

Re: I am hot! Nah. If anything keeps females out of RPGs, it's insulting stereotypes of feminine behavior like the ones propagated in this thread. But this is all just "being fun," right? See, that's the other major thing keeping women out of this hobby: guys condoning and encouraging this kind of attention-mongering. Of course, that's *if* it's a girl. If it's not, it's some guy revealing his deep prejudices and other people defending him for it.

Re: Evil Unleashed? I'm pretty sure the Equipment Guide did have some new material in it, mostly dealing with poisons and chemical weapons.

Re: Melee Reflection Thought so. That example illustrates, though, that there may be two separate Ranged elements requiring two separate advantages/adders. One to deflect melee attacks made at a distance from the deflector (Inertia protects Redstone by deflecting Hyperion's blows), and another to reflect melee attacks to targets at a distance from the attacker (and then she redirects Hyperion's blows to hit Power Princess instead).

Re: Melee Reflection

Re: Ultimate metamorph El Jaguar doesn't have a VPP, does he?

Re: I am hot! Don't worry, dude. We're all completely fooled.

Re: What fundamental thing would you change about the Hero system? Yes. Marvel and DC have a joint trademark on the word, so any publication using that term in the title will likely be sued. If Marvel and DC don't sue, they risk losing trademark protection.

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone And can you add Reduced Endurance to it? If I could control how quickly DoJ shipped the book to me, I would, believe me.

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone I don't have the book, but SFX wouldn't necessarily dictate that. A speedster whose powers are based on time control might logically be able to take a nap while his opponents stand there frozen.

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone I haven't gotten the book yet, but I'm already imagining a Midnighter style character who "enters the Speed Zone" and makes Find Weakness and Analyze Style rolls against all his opponents before they can even act...

Re: [Thread FlashbacRe: What fundamental thing would you change about the Hero system Well said.

Re: How to Create: Nano-Tech Needles Sounds like a simple RKA, only vs. Robots. But if she's carrying both types of needles all the time, and Charges aren't an issue, then you don't really need to write the two needles up differently. The whole thing can just be waved away as special effects.

Re: Draining SPD to Zero If you want the target to be immune to external effects while frozen, then you're looking at either Extra-Dimensional Movement, Usable as Attack, with the special effect that he remains visible in this dimension as a frozen statue, or a combination of Desolidification, Usable as Attack, and an Affects Desolid Entangle.

Re: Difficult Build: Armor that tranfers damage The first suit of armor grants the wearer extra STUN and BODY equal to the STUN and BODYx2 of the person wearing the second suit (Built as +40 Body and +60 STUN, IIF Independent, with a -1/2 Limitation). The second suit of armor "grants" the wearer a Susceptibility to the wearer of the first suit taking damage (built as a Major Transform, Triggered by putting the armor on, healed by removing the armor). That's the easiest wasy to model this in game terms.

Re: Who are the greatest (?) super villains? Bullseye, Deadshot, Taskmaster...I tend to like the badguys on the lower end of the power scale, who nevertheless run with the big boys thanks to skill and style. My favorite villain, however, is high, high up on the power scale: Thanos. He may have started as an imitation of Darkseid, but he's outgrown him. Thanos actually gets stuff done; Darkseid looks threatening, but then gets kakked by the Atom and Green Arrow or gets the tar beat out of him by Superman. He's all hat and no cattle, at least since Crisis.

Re: Invisibility limitations

Re: Champions Worlds You've carefully selected titles from different worlds for your examples, but I could just as easily note that X-Men is different than Fantastic Four and both are different than Deadpool or Sentry. Or that JLA is different than Batman and both are different than Swamp Thing or Green Lantern. Having one world doesn't restrict you to one flavor of story. Any of these titles could be replicated in the CU with minimal alteration. EDIT: I'd say the Authority is the only title in this post that posits a world significantly different from the CU.

Re: Champions Worlds They were planning on publishing Psychic Wars until Allen left, and that was completely outside the meta-setting. It's only a limit if they consciously decide to publish only within the meta-setting, and I don't think they've quite done that.

Re: Champions Worlds The various Fantasy and Star Hero "worlds" explore different genres of fantasy and sci-fi. The Champions worlds you suggest here are all one note variations of a typical iron age superhero universe. Apples and oranges.

Re: Affects Solid World

Re: Need help: Heat Metal Just adding LS: Immune to Heat to the list of defenses would solve that.

Re: Need help: Heat Metal Hmmm. Would Usable as Attack allow you to give a Damage Shield to an inanimate object? If so, that would probably be the simplest way to model this.

Re: Older HERO rules in 5E games What is this rule, exactly? I've thought about adding a rule for this myself, but haven't settled on anything.