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Re: Roll With The Punch: Martial Arts? I wouldn't. I'd make it PD/ED, Resistant Protection, Damage Reduction, or Damage Negation, with appropriate limitations.

This power has the 1/2 Limitation "Psionic". What does this Limitation mean?

You are about to walk into a danger that is perceivable by your senses, but whose danger is inobvious. A cloud of gas, a light switch covered with something harmful, a food laced with a poison. The thing might be dangerous, might be harmless. Even if you have an Analytic sense that's only going to give you the composition of the substance, not its effect on the human body. What sort of skills should a hero have in order to raise the alarm? Chemistry is obvious. KS: Poisons. Pharmacology. How many others? Might just be cheaper to buy the darn Danger Sense instead of a dozen skills.

On 6E1 277, Shape Shift has the 3-point feature "Any Unusual Sense not assigned to a Sense Group". Does this apply to all Senses not assigned to a Sense Group, or must I pay 3 points for each and every individual Sense not assigned to a Sense Group?

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Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU? Gene Simmons is (a) a man ( a singer © came to prominence in the 1970s. He most likely would not make it in today's media environment, because record labels today select talent based on looks as much as ability. Rock bands didn't have to be pretty in the 1970s, but they must today.

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU? When were they ever out of favor?

Re: Master Villains in Champions that can survive a point blank Nuke

Re: Master Villains in Champions that can survive a point blank Nuke I'm getting mine from the Hero System 5th Edition Equipment Guide.

Re: Master Villains in Champions that can survive a point blank Nuke The version of Mechanon in Book of the Machine absolutely gets fried. He only has 30 fully resistant defense and 75% damage reduction. A 20d6 KA does 70 Body, netting 10 through ((70 - 30) / 4). So he takes 10 from the Thermal Blast, 10 from Static Overpressure (he's not a "soft malleable object"), and 10 every segment from Wind. That's a total of 80 Body, and it takes 40 to destroy him. As for Dr. Destroyer, the version of Dr. Destroyer in 5e Book of the Destroyer takes 7 Body from the Thermal Blast ((70 - (40 Armor + 15 Barrier)) / 2). He is Stunned on average in 5E but not 6E, though a max Stun Multiplier for 6E will leave him Stunned. If he can activate Tactical Adaptation he takes ((70 - 40) / 4) = 7 Body per segment from Wind (42 Total). Then, he takes Double Knockback from the Wind ((70 * 2) - 10) = 130d6. Halved for just hitting the ground that's 65d6, or ((65 - 40) / 4) = 6 Body every segment (2 @ 65d6, 2 @ 64d6, 2 @ 63d6). Dr. Destroyer takes a total of 7 + 42 + 36, or 85 Body, more than enough to kill him outright.

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU? The thinking gets clearer when you separate by sex. It is indeed true that good looks get you a presumption of competence, if you're a man. In the short run he will get more leeway than a less attractive man, and he has a much easier time getting a job, but he still has to perform. In the long run his lack of competence will be held against him. If you're a woman, good looks get you a different benefit: a free pass. An attractive woman often doesn't have to perform at all (others will do for her), and her lack of competence is frequently excused, hence the stereotype of "dumb blonde". She isn't necessarily dumb, but her looks have given her little need to develop competence.

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU?

Re: Invisible to Touch Group? I use invisibility to touch, not to prevent you from feeling me punch you, but to prevent things like pressure plates in a floor or certain kinds of motion detectors from triggering alarms/traps. Invisibility to touch doesn't prevent sand from showing your footprints any more than invisibility to sight prevents me from seeing an object move when you pick it up.

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU?

Re: What does a "20 Comeliness" look like to YOU? My top woman: Catherine Zeta-Jones. A true stunner. Top man: George Clooney (Brad Pitt isn't even in the same zip code) Women like Scarlett Johansson are hot, but they won't command the room like Catherine would.

Or is it just a copy of the original Big Blue Book's content?

Re: (5e, might still apply to 6e) Ways to attack through Self-Only Force Walls?

Re: (5e, might still apply to 6e) Ways to attack through Self-Only Force Walls? In 6E you either buy Indirect on all your attacks or One-Way Transparent on the Wall itself.

Re: Sense Modifiers in combat

Re: How would you build flight that works underwater? Multipower with Swimming. Define the special effect of your Swimming as "flying through water".

Re: Sense Modifiers in combat Only if said effects have specific limitations to that effect. I don't think there's a case by RAW that Rapid generally works to counter Invisibility with speed-based special effects.

Re: Sense Modifiers in combat If you're going to go that way, I would argue Discriminatory obviates the need for a perception roll. Otherwise, to be consistent, you would require perception rolls for Normal Sight to distinguish targets, something I've never seen done.

How useful are certain Sense Modifiers in combat? I'm specifically thinking of Microscopic, Rapid, Discriminatory, Analyze, Dimensional, and Tracking. You never need Microscopic to sense Shrunk characters, as far as I can tell. Dimensional and Tracking seem utterly useless when the targets are right in front of you. Smelling a gas to trigger Danger Sense shouldn't require Discriminatory or Analyze, since neither increases olfactory range like Ultrasonic or Infrared do for Hearing and Sight. All not having them did was prevent you from specifically identifying the gas. Rapid just seems inapplicable, unless reading books and train station signs is a big part of your combats.

Penetrative allows you to see though "blocking phenomena". The powers Darkness and Change Environment look like classes of "blocking phenomena". Can you then buy Penetrative on a sense so it works normally when affected by Darkness or Change Environment?

If they aren't Adders, then they aren't increasing the base cost of the power as an Adder does. Does that then imply that I could purchase Invisible Power Effects for Radar or Sonar based on the 5-point cost of the base Detect, not on the 15-point cost of the full sense that includes the Targeting Modifier? This might also imply you can Suppress or Drain just the base cost of a Detect and ignore its adders for active point purposes.