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Re: A White Wolf aneurysm And, IIRC, oWoD had an uber-NPC who was exactly that - a vamped werewolf.

Re: Normal Human Then you have exercised your Right of Houserule and are using NCM far beyond the 5eR RAW and completely outside the scope of 6e CM. Right of Houserule means that, if it works for your gaming group, You're Doing It Right =For You=. It also means that it is not necessarily applicable to The Rest Of Us - and for me it is not.

Re: Alterate Timeline: 9-11 Averted You're mellowing out in your old age. Back in the day it woulda been a day; two, tops.

Re: Normal Human This is, IMSWAG, part of why CM is not a Complication in 6e. The other part (again, IMSWAG) is that Complications are story-driven (their value depends on the frequency with which the Complication routinely affects the story), while CM is a mechanical restriction on character construction. How often would CM routinely* affect the story? *as opposed to unusual or contrived circumstances

Re: Post "gotchas" here HS5eR, p. 25: "Heroic characters are typically subject to the Normal Characteristic Maxima rules, which restrict their ability to buy Characteristics: beyond a certain point, they have to pay double cost to improve their Characteristics. They do not receive Disadvantage points for this." HS5eR, p. 32: "...Normal Characteristic Maxima, applies only to Heroic campaigns; usually it acts as a “default” for the campaign and does not count as a Disadvantage." So, in 5eR, CM was not explicitly mandatory for Heroic campaigns, but the language used implied heavily that CM in Heroic campaigns was an assumed standard. However, 6E1-49 is explicit in declaring CM to be optional for any campaign, Heroic or Superheroic. It is also explicit (where 5eR was not) in indicating that CM is setting-wide, and not a dividing line between non-super and super characters in a Superheroic setting. (By the way, 4e explicitly stated the opposite of the latter...)

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Re: Oyster-Woman Umm... yeah. And what exactly is her "valve"? Porn Champions, here?

Re: Ever need blueprints for the USS Missouri? Yeah. Those bad boys would have been monsters...

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Re: APG Cover Preview Echoing upthread: that's nice!

Re: Thats one nimble little bull What I find amazing is the assumption/expectation that the published CU content will change from the previous simply because 6e makes it easier to do so. Keep dreaming. (To echo others, play the way you want to. If you're having fun, You're Doing It Right (For You).)

Re: Haymaker a PRE attack? I think I'd houserule a Haymakered PRE attack to be a Full Phase Action, with all of the other limitations of a Haymaker otherwise in effect. The first SFX that comes to mind is the character stopping everything they are doing, striking a suitable pose, etc. This differs from the normal PRE attack modifiers in that the character is trading a Full Phase Action and taking the Haymaker limits for a guaranteed +4d6 on their PRE attack. I'd call it square.

Re: Post "gotchas" here So is Characteristic Maxima. Which, come to mention it, is now also an explicitly optional and setting-wide rule; either all PCs and NPCs are under the limit, or none of them are. (Right of Houserule aside, of course; the above is the RAW.)

Re: Who is your favourite Champions Character Background/History? Dr. Gerhardt Spregen (sp?), from one of the 4th Dark Champions supplements (I forget which at the moment). Our local group took that character and background and spliced it in to Teleios for a nasty worldbeater...

Re: Clyde Barrow's Sawn-Off BAR Yep. When you can change the world around you instead of just reacting to it, that's munchkinism in most gamers' eyes.

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Re: Thats one nimble little bull Don't bet on it. Such a paradigm shift would require fundamental changes in the base assumptions that have not only been inherited from 5e and previous, but have been clearly stated in 6e.

Re: Opposed Presence Attacks Which also opens up the possibility for a great story event: Charismatic Leader is down, so one of the other heroes rises to the occasion...

Re: Clyde Barrow's Sawn-Off BAR Close. It was more of an ironic inference that if a player wanted to do something similar in a game, and no one in the group had heard of Mr. Barrow's having done so IRL (or maybe even if they had), that player would be (falsely, IMO) accused of munchkinism.

Re: Clyde Barrow's Sawn-Off BAR Munchkin! (Somebody had to say it... )

Re: Update to 6ed? Nope. PRIMUS is the vaporbook...

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Re: Post-Iron Age Champs: the Rio Accords I believe the literary term you seek is "Star Chamber". And yeah; I choked on the celebrity provision. Maybe the term "assassination" would better cover it; that refers to intentionally targeting a person who is prominent for any number of reasons.

Re: Enforcer84's DC & Marvel HDv3 Files Unfortunately, I don't have any of those files myself, so I can't post, but It's heartening to see folks helping out like this. "Must spread rep..."