Trencher

Re: Help Needed Completing a character

I have not read the whole thread but you could mix the different elements to find more forms. Water plus earth is mud, fire plus earth is lava and so on.

Re: Thoughts on Dr Yin Wu

I heard of the elusive Asian for several years now, when will it be out?

Who will illustrate it?

Re: Iron Heroes' Token System

Buy all the naked advateges the pc can use with the needs time limitation.

Quick and simple.

Re: Rifts HERO?

Morningstar11070 has a chart for converting RIFTS damage to Hero,

I used that as a baseline to decide how tough I wanted Skelebots to be.

Hmm.. where is that?

Re: Rifts HERO?

Okay, I understand now.

Great skelbot write up!

Re: basic permanent stats

Relative to what' date=' exactly? I don't think that statement is true at all. I can make just as good/original a background and personality for a -25+10 point character as I can for a 75+75 or 200+150 point character. It just won't be as capable a character. Of course the threats they will be going up against won't be as capable, either. And there's still plenty of room to customize the character's vital statistics, you just have to be willing to drop below 8 in some areas.[/quote']

Sure but when it comes to powers, super-skills and such you are pretty much empty handed. I am playing in a low powerd fantasy campain right now.

My character is a scribe and the adventurer played by the other player is an warrior. On the sheet we are somewhat different but anything he can do I can do. In play that is. Off course it is much better to begin low when you start out anyway, then you can increase in power as you gain xp.

Re: basic permanent stats

I do have to ask...why? Why would you want such a low starting point total? What kind of game is it you want to play in or run?

It is usual for GM's to go through an "anti-montyhaul and muchcin" phase.

Off course this low char point totals will mean that the characters are not very exiting or original.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

I think they'll be okay' date=' but it means putting themselves under the thumb of a somewhat obnoxious relative of theirs.[/quote']

What do you mean?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

"Your dog dishonors us both!"

It is true!

Re: basic permanent stats

your starting power level' date=' SuperSquirrel, is the one i want for my character in the Hero rpg. as a GM and according to the rules of Hero, do you start all players at the same number of character points so that all players have to be at the same power level when starting the game, or can one player have a different starting number of character points?[/quote']

You can start with any different number of character points.

If you can stop your players from you, you can even give them different point totals.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/toons/chase+me/

Re: Rifts HERO?

How does armour work in your bot write up Lensman?

Re: Hell's Gate Open (My New Game - Comments?)

We have very different ideas about legality, I suspect.

Legal Monsters != Benign, friendly, fluffy Monsters. It simply means the characters can't kill the monsters on sight, in the US.

There will be plenty of conflict for the PCs, that's never a problem in my games. The monsters are called monsters for a reason.

I'll work on the definitions of what the PCs can expect more, though. That can be clearer.

Re: Hell's Gate Open (My New Game - Comments?)

It's name promises more than the campain concept holds.

I thought that it was about a demon/monster invasion (subtle or unsubtle). If vampires are no longer a threat to humanity then what are the players suposed to do?

Re: Wwycd: They Blew It!!

NO

Really it was the comic where the U.S goverment used boy scouts to guard it and Spiderman teamed up with Punisher and...

Re: Wwycd: They Blew It!!

And your "perspective" is skewed in the extreme.

It's a comic book perspective, remember that Spiderman story where the U.S goverment tried to replace the gold standard on a cocaine standard?

Re: Wanted!

Because there would be no story. Thats why I'm having such a tough time with your logic. You can accept that superheroes/supervillians are okay. Yet you have problem accepting that they're not bulletproof. I don't understand why you can't just accept both those ideas?

Honestly, if you can accept that Lois didn't know Clark Kent was Superman for 50 yrs this should be easy.

Re: Wanted!

Plausiblity is very subjective. I find bullets killing people to be more plausible than less.

As for your take on genres I wholeheartedly disagree. Thats where the crux of our argument is coming from.

Actually no, I mentioned genre as back ground for the problem. No problem though. I agree that genre conventions or anything else does not need to be explained in stories. (If the stories are good that is)

But on the same hand there has to be allowed to say that this is just dumb.

As is the story (because of its lack of genre conventions, actual action and overall overuse of clichés) is just plain crud.

It's all building up without delivering.

I compare it with the Blade 3 movie.

Re: Wanted!

But it doesn't have to make sense.

But it should be plausible.

How many times have we seen some action hero run through a hail of bullets while killing everyone with one shot. The action hero is not bulletproof. He doesn't have to be. He's protected with writer fiat.

If you use the action hero element in a super villain story then you should make an effort to explain why the superhero genres elements don’t work any more. (The superhero element being that some villains and heroes like the Hulk for example can’t be shot)

This was like watching a bad action flick just that all the thugs who were gunned down were dressed like captain dork. Think of it as Die hard movie but everybody was dressed like Robin from the old Batman Tv series. Oh and there is no real action you just see people pick up a gun but the fights are cut so badly that you only see who win not how they did it.

The story was interesting but ultimately morally bankrupt. They bad guys won: that's reprehensible to me.

I agree that the story was morally bankrupt but not because the heroes loses but because it’s so whiny and holier than thou. It is like listing to a kid who discovered that if he rips of the wings of flies when no ones is watching he is going to get away with it and that makes him think he is the smartest in the world. Also the whole “father has always watched over you son†bit was speculative and commercial.

Call it cliched but I wanted an ending where the killer realized the path he had taken and to repent, set about freeing the super heroes and restoring the world to a better place. He didn't and that sinks the whole story for me.

There is no way he would ever be able to repent.

As noted, he did kill WAY too many bad guys easily. Sure, he's lethal but he must have a find weakness-20 with enough speed to find weakness on 30 bad guys in a round. It was just too much. Some are just that invulnerable.

Re: ??

I use my held action and say "Hello" to the woman and take a new hold action.

Re: Wanted!

 

As for why there are no versions of Hulk, Zzaxx or any other hulk villians (Leader's plastic men ) is because it doesn't serve the story. I don't even know why you would ask this question.

It is because the whole supervillian thing kinda falls apart when you can just get shot.

And the Leaders plastic men are cool dammit!

Re: Wanted!

More spoiler alert!

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Well thanks to all of you for the explanation, I don't really understand why _he_ is so proud or happy over the way the world and why is he angry at the ones who is brainwashed?

Maybe it’s the fact that the villain controlled world is just as any other superhero world that threw me off the point.

Also I understand that he can kill the gimmick guys, but where are the bulletproof guys. The problem is that they are all gimmick guys. Where is this worlds Juggernaut, Zzaak, Hulk or even the Leaders plastic men? Sure he is good at shooting but if he can shoot someone then a swat sniper could do the same.

His power "the power to make anything into a weapon" is stupid, its a power we all have

There is nothing in this room I am sitting in right now that I could not turn into a weapon and kill someone with! Okay maybe yesterday’s newspaper but that’s it!

I thought his powers and adventure was an analogy for the abilities for all men and that the moral of the story was that "we don't live our life at fullest" or something like that. Since the "power" of one of the main villains is the utter lack of scruples I mean.

I never thought of it from the “the world was really meant to be a better place” angle. Why does it matter? First off a superhero world would be dull second the world changes from better to worse and back again according to who wins, the world is not a static place where anything were “meant” to be. Maybe that is why I did not get it.

If you ask me the book would have been better if it had been about that faceless dude instead at least he did something.

Re: Wanted!

SPOILER ALERT!!! and secondly and MOST important, the breaking of the fourth wall in the last issue seemed to me malicious and uncalled for by writer millar,who, in effect urinates in his own house by calling the fans that support him, well, terrible things.

Continiued spoiler alert!

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I did not really get the last part actually, what is he complaining to the readers about? That we don't go out and strangle people for their money? Why do he care?

Re: Musings on Random Musings

Sorry. It's my fault' date=' right ?[/quote']

No its not.

Re: Musings on Random Musings

You even caught me off guard.

I have been practising.