Beast

Re: Rail gun damage?

dodging out of the path may not be possible depending on how fast the projectile is compared to it's flight time

while you can fire various thrusters in random patterns to make it harder to predict where the target will be but there are ways to counter this

1)have multiple weapons to salvo fire at an area the target is predicted to be in(each weapon fires an a slightly different course in hopes at least 1 will hit)

2)self guiding weapons that can make mid course,course corrections

a)Torpedoes in water need power to overcome friction, in space that is not needed in space(these weapons may need segment to turns to hit their targets)

3)Shotgun munitions (at some point during the flight time the weapon deploys sub munitions so it covers a larger area

Those would have to be pretty huge thrusters. They have to basically put out the same amount of energy that the railgun round contains.

 

Newton's second law say that F = ma, i.e., momentum is mass times acceleration. If a railgun round of mass x is accelerated at rate a, it will contain xa momentum, which will shove the firing ship with that much force. The thruster will have to emit the same amount of force in the opposite direction to counteract this.

 

Which means you really don't want to in the thruster's exhaust plume.

 

 

 

This is a problem with all non-seeking weapons, be they cannons, railguns, laser batteries, or particle-beam weapons. And there is no real solution, short of time travel or telepathy.

 

Your target has a certain area that represents its possible future locations. The area is determined by the time-of-flight of your weapon from you to the target, the target's initial trajectory, and the target's engines (how much can it change its trajectory within the time-of-flight).

 

If this area is larger than the target silhouette, you probably will never hit the target.

 

Possible solutions include making your weapon home in on the target (despite the target's attempts to jam the homing mechanism), and area-effect warheads. Both of which work poorly with railguns.

Re: PA: Wasteland HERO Reboot

if you want to use the plague

look for a copy of the Hero almanac #1

it is stated out in 4th ed terms but with a bit of work you could fit it into fifth ed

Re: PA: Wasteland HERO Reboot

if one group are known to be carriers(typhoid Mary)

there will be a lot of discrimination or even hostile hatred for outsiders

cities will be walled

outsiders shot on sight

how well is disease transmission known

Re: What's the duration of Strength?

Strength is a constant power only for lifting and squeezing/holding

Telekinsis is also is the same way

punching with either would be an instant effect

how you define your damage shield grabbing and holding is going to be the trick

but since to get damage shield needs to be a constant power your going to have to find a way to have who ever touches you to stick to you so you couls have grabbed them without having to use an attack action

solution

add a transparent entangle to simulate quick hands grabbing the person who touched you

the second damage shield then does damage to them

you could put a limit of only 2 targets may be held at 1 time

so others could strike you but unless you wanted to release 1 already held to hold another

Re: Restrainable Limitation

the big one would be cannot use said power to blast your way out of an entangle or t-port out of one

wing won't work

it would be where like an OAF you cannot use it if grabbed or entangles, but it cannot be taken from you

spiderman{movie version)if his hands cannot do the right gesture he cannot shoot his webs

Re: Looking for ideas: Power based Martial Arts

naked advantages for double knockback

NND strikes that need no need to breath for the defense as you have just sucked the air from his lungs

30" of gliding down so no fall will ever hurt you

Re: Alien Wars/PA Hero. Any thoughts?

from red storm rising

the parts about the air force weatherman Lt in Iceland after the russians invade and take over

while not an alien invasion or PA,it does give a vivid journey of a small band trying to survive in hostile territory after their world comes crashing down around them

Re: Healing: Can Heal Limbs - Only 1 limb or multiple?

was it in 1 or 2 hits

if 1 both will grow back GM might want to give them each reduced capability

if 2 I would say 1 at a time with reduced capability if not brought up to 75% of lost body(each limb seperatly

Re: Age of Heroes: Game on Lost Coast Gaming

would this character fit in?

The Silk Detective

Val Char Cost Roll Notes

15/60 STR 5 12- / 21- Lift 200.0kg/102.4tons; 3d6/12d6 [3]

20/30 DEX 30 13- / 15- OCV: 7/10/DCV: 7/10

20/30 CON 20 13- / 15-

14 BODY 8 12-

23 INT 13 14- PER Roll 14-

11 EGO 2 11- ECV: 4

25 PRE 15 14- PRE Attack: 5d6

14/24 COM 2 12- / 14-

3/24 PD 0 Total: 3/24 PD (0/12 rPD)

4/24 ED 0 Total: 4/24 ED (0/12 rED)

6/7 SPD 30 Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12/2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 12

7/18 REC 0

40/60 END 0

32/60 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: 125

Movement: Running: 6"/17"/12"/34"

Gliding: 30"/120"

Leaping: 28"/112"

Swimming: 24"/48"

Cost Powers END

32 enhance body(magic,super tech,alien tech): Multipower, 40-point reserve, (40 Active Points); all slots OIHID (-1/4)

3u 1) Leaping +25" (28"/37" forward, 14"/18 1/2" upward) (Accurate, Position Shift, x4 Noncombat) (40 Active Points) 4

Notes: 136"non-combat(227 mph)34"combat (57 mph)

3u 2) Running +11" (6"/17" total), Position Shift, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (40 Active Points)

Notes: 34"noncombat(68 mph)17"combat(34 mph)

2u 3) Sky diving: Gliding 30", Position Shift, x4 Noncombat (40 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about half of its effectiveness (cannot slow her decent below 30" per segment and must accelerate to normal fall spped; -1)

3u 4) (Total: 40 Active Cost, 32 Real Cost) LS (Extended Breathing: 1 END per 20 Minutes; Safe in High Pressure), Usable Simultaneously (up to 2 people at once; +1/2) (7 Active Points) (Real Cost: 6) plus Swimming +22" (24" total), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (33 Active Points) (Real Cost: 33)

24 Ultra lite body armor: Armor (12 PD/12 ED) (36 Active Points); IIF (-1/4), OIHID (-1/4)

Notes: Invisible skin tight force field effect treat as armor

Powered up , all slots OIHID (-1/4)

54 1) +45 STR, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (67 Active Points)

24 2) +10 DEX (30 Active Points)

16 3) +10 CON (20 Active Points)

4 4) +10 COM (5 Active Points)

5 5) +6 ED (6 Active Points)

8 6) Clinging (normal STR) (10 Active Points)

11 7) Healing 1 BODY, Can Heal Limbs, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Continuous (+1) (37 Active Points); Extra Time (Regeneration-Only) 1 Minute (-1 1/2), Self Only (-1/2)

Perks

3 Anonymity

5 Money: Well Off

10 Fringe Benefit: Improved Equipment Availability Advanced Military equipment

15 Equipment Points: 75

Talents

3 Absolute Range Sense

Skills

3 Acrobatics 13- (15-)

3 Breakfall 13- (15-)

3 Bugging 14-

3 Computer Programming 14-

3 Concealment 14-

3 Conversation 14-

3 Criminology 14-

3 Deduction 14-

6 Electronics (Communications Systems, Metal Detectors, Radar, Sensor Jamming Equipment, Sonar) 14-

3 Inventor 14-

3 Lockpicking 13- (15-)

3 Mechanics 14-

2 Navigation (Land) 14-

3 Security Systems 14-

3 Stealth 13- (15-)

3 Streetwise 14-

Everyman skills

0 Language: English (idiomatic) (4 Active Points)

0 Paramedics 8-

0 Persuasion 8-

0 PS: Private detective (Custom Adder) 11-

0 Shadowing 8-

0 TF: Custom Adder, Small Motorized Ground Vehicles

Total Powers & Skill Cost: 275

Total Cost: 400

275+ Disadvantages

10 Distinctive Features: genetic construct (Not Concealable; Always Noticed and Causes Major Reaction; Detectable Only By Technology Or Major Effort)

5 Physical Limitation: abnormal physiology (Infrequently, Slightly Impairing)

20 Enraged: Normals are harmed (Common), go 11-, recover 11-

20 Hunted: to be named 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Harshly Punish)

15 Psychological Limitation: Code vs Killing (Common, Strong)

15 Psychological Limitation: Loves male attention (Common, Strong)

10 Psychological Limitation: Annoyed by incompetence (Common, Moderate)

15 Reputation: Property damage, 14-

15 Social Limitation: Secert Id (Frequently, Major)

Total Disadvantage Points: 400

Background/History: Caitlyn is a prototype genetic construct that is also using nanite technology

Created to have her conscience placed within as to extend her creator's life

Caitlyn was sent out into the world with false memories as to see how well her body performs

Caitlyn did not know she was being watched on how she performs

in general the memories used are from various people melded into one this is also where she gets all her skills

now that she has awakened in a different world she still wants to do good

Personality/Motivation: want s to do the right thing

Quote: shush

Powers/Tactics: brick

detective

Campaign Use:

Appearance: Norrmal form Platinium blond 5'10"

hero form platinium brunette 5'2"

appears to be 25 yrs is in fact 5 yrs old

Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy

Very good story(glad I'm in this game)

Boy are we going to be in for it when we head out

Re: Child of Mine . . .

while Electra may not have any powers if she imparted her child who has Spider-man's dex,speed,strength,leaping,inventiness,and wise-cracking

along with her martial ability from say 3 yrs old till their powers kicked in

that would be one heck of a fighter who might be able to take on either or both of them

I consider Spidey a brawler he has no formal martial arts training

give him ninja training

look out

Here is a fun game for everyone to play. Lets assume that two supers get together and produce a child. The parents can come from any reality, so long as both are recognizable (no home-brewed characters). Think of all characters as belonging to one mega-universe for the purposes of this thread. Following the laws of genetics the child will possess aspects of both parrents, so the abilities of the child will be in either or both parents. There cannot be anything like Spidy and Electra creating a speedster. In that case, the child could possess spider-like powers, since Spidy is the only parent that possesses powers in this union. Each poster will be given a pairing to child then will have to create a new pair for the next poster.

 

 

Lets start off with: Flash & Spiderwoman

Re: Innate Defense vs Power Limitations

for me it would seem that human 2m tall 100 kg is the default

so you would need to buy powers,talents to move away from that default

there may be some semi organic componets (ala the gel packs in ST:V)that might be affected by diseases

Re: Inceptum Terminus: Chronicles of the New Confederation

I'm going to assume then

they are going to wait for 6th ed so as to have any character builds done to those specs

Thank ya for the preview review SD and I appreciate it.

 

 

 

We're hoping for 9 months at the latest. There will be a pdf and paperback copy planned for the book and will hopefully be the first book of many from LCSB Publishing LLC. Prices haven't been determined yet since we need to finish the final draft of the book.

 

There will be many, many things in the book that haven't been seen by anyone outside of the company, but I can tell you that this is only the tip of the iceberg that SD mentioned.

Re: Inceptum Terminus: Chronicles of the New Confederation

so when will this be out?

is there going to be a dead tree version

or only pdf?

how much will it cost

Re: Half-Golem?

I would just go and ruin his whole body and stick his soul(maybe what is left of his body sealed up) in a golem and let him have an automaton body

and not have to worry about how to play each body part

I would still have him have stun and can be dazed(part of his humanity)but he cannot bleed out

of course normal healing would not work on him

def will cost triple

Re: Megascale Movement, Lightspeed, and Escape Velocity

well unless you buy an attack power with trail on it you would be very areodynamic and your going over Mach 1 might scare cats, blow hats off,ruin rose gardens and knock over trash cans

also unless you have a limited amount of endurance(match your end use per turn with post 12 recovery)you can escape earths gravity by going 1"per phase (so long as you can breathe and your flight does not require an outside oxidizer

modern rockets are limited by fuel so they need to reach escape velocity

Re: Shadowcats Vehicular Insanity Shop: The Strangest Submarine design

you don't send boomers into harms way

the converted Ohio class had 24x Trident 2 D-5 SLBM

when they went to being infiltration boats they took off all the Trident D-5s

and replaced 2 of the launch tubes with a lock out system for delivering commandos and their equipment for platoon strength

the other 22 tubes got shortened and each now holds 7 cruise missiles

the longest ranged cruise missles have a 2500 km range with a 200kt warhead or 250 mile range with a 1000lb HE or bomblet dispenser

the Trident D5 has a range of 4000 miles

why go down to 1/4 your throw weight if you have no plans on reducing your force below 64 missiles with 4 subs

for those cruise missiles to be of use

the sub will need to be in or near the white sea or in the Black sea to hit deep inside Russia(no other real targets unless you go after India or China

if these subs launch there is a good chance their location will be given away

do you risk giving an unlaunched D-5's location away in a conflict that had peopel shooting?

Frankly' date=' the ecological niche for ballistic missile submarines is pretty damn small these days. Vertical Launch Tubes are standard equipment in attack subs these days, and if they launch ballistic missiles in addition to the cruise missiles that are frequently used, why not?[/quote']

Re: N-Ray with Senses having the opposite effect?

I would go with

N-ray vision(mental as the sense group)

then have those with mental defense as not being visible to you(maybe add force fields and walls)

from what I have seen in the rules is you need n-ray to see through objects

you will need to add targeting if it based on any sense other than sight if you don't want to have a non targeting sense roll

you will also need discriminatory and analyze to tell people apart

N-Ray Perception (Mental Group), Discriminatory, Analyze, Increased Arc Of Perception (360 Degrees), Sense, Targeting

Re: Adamantium discovered

actually it is by turning the outer 1 or 2 molecules on the surface to a very hard steel then folding the metal and repeating the process many times

giving a layered effect

there is also slow cooling so the metal forms a a single crystal structure they by not having any boundries where flaws can occur

Yes, as a rule of thumb, the "harder" a material is, the more "brittle" the material is.

 

Japanese samurai swords tried to avoid this by lamination. The sword is composed of alternating layers of hard material and un-brittle material.

Re: Shadowcats Vehicular Insanity Shop: The Strangest Submarine design

kinda silly your mix attack with a boomer

especially if you are going to use it to place infiltration units ashore or near enemy units

besides you can place synthetic passive sonar on the hull to give you a better view with out having a tail to worry about

only 4 trident D5 is only 1/4 of the Vanguard class and to have the same throw wt of tridents you are going to need 16 of them to replace the 4 that are already in service that is up to 32 crews needed

and who is going to order a boomer to hunt other subs

I can see a combo of a ssbn and a ssgn but both of these types of boats are ment to reach out an touch somebody never to get into knife fighting range

an Ohio SSBN has 24 tubes(22x7 tomahawks plus lockout for seals on the ssgn conversions)

so going with a split load of SLBMx8 tubes and 8tubes each with 7 tomahawks would give a better balance but would still be a boat that does not get close to the enemy

this sound like a politico trying to combine systems and make a jack of all trades and master of none

Re: Cat Burgler's Glasscutter

lock picking is quiet compared to just kicking in the door or blasting it

it will leave marks that will tell if the lock has been pick as opposed to using the key

since a glass cutter is being used somebody will know they have had somebody break in(damage is caused)

so the big deal we are going over is how stealthy you are going to be

both Sean and my creations can get you in past the window

mine will also open the safe behind the picture

and create an exit if one is needed because you failed on the security systems roll

bypassing alarms and traps is something different

that would be security systems

back in 1994 there was a chart in Adventure's Club that gave times on how long it took to use various skills(this chart is something IMHO missing from FREd and the Ultimate Skill glad I cut mine out and laminated and put it in with my quick reference stuff)

the time it gave for lock picking was 1 min as a base(harder lock more time or more minuses to your roll

so if you pay for a 1 pip glass cutter for 2 points and now you are in,in 2 phases or my monster 3 phases for a bank vault for 15 pts

when time is a factor you get what you pay for

Your question was "who needs lock-picking?" Now' date=' lock-picking is most often used for opening doors and locks [i']without[/i] causing damage. If you were only referring to the suggested use of Lock-picking to represent cutting glass, then my response was inappropriate. However, your mention of breaking into safes and such followed by “who needs lock-picking?” seems to suggest that this build could/would replace the lock-picking skill all together.

Re: Cat Burgler's Glasscutter

and cutting the glass is not causing property damage

what I was pointing out that I feel that buying penetrating on 1 pip of body from a KA was under priced you should have to have at least the means to score 1 body with any other penetrating attack

by adding a few more limitations so that it is not usable in combat it is still something that gets the job done

be it a window pane or a bank vault door both are bypassed silently and if you are breaking in odds are what you plan for the other side is going to cost more that even a vault door

quivering palm attack: (Total: 29 Active Cost, 15 Real Cost) RKA 1 point, Invisible to Hearing Group (+1/4), Autofire (5 shots; +1/2), Penetrating (x2; +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1) (19 Active Points); Conditional Power Power does not work in Very Common Circumstances (only vs rigid non moving object; -1), No Range (-1/2), Restrainable (-1/2), Concentration (0 DCV; -1/2), No Knockback (-1/4), Extra Time (Full Phase, Only to Activate, -1/4) (Real Cost: 5) plus +10 with any single attack with one specific weapon (Real Cost: 10)

Anyone who doesn't want to cause property damage? Anyone who isn't trying to play the system? Everyone, because no sane GM would allow that build for its proposed purpose?

Re: Cat Burgler's Glasscutter

your right my bad

but that makes a 1 pip penatration attack really deadly if you add autofire to it and back it up with extra levels

it becomes really cheap too

you could also go with an RKA and just have it at no range

just to show how deadly a 1 pip attack can be for 18 real points and a total of 29 active

this attack will go through 1 level of hardened and if the character would normally hit on an 11 or less on an 11 or less they would get 5 body and 5 stun through

or make a man sized hole in a 16 def x1 hardened 9 body vault door in 2 phases silently

quivering palm attack: (Total: 29 Active Cost, 18 Real Cost) RKA 1 point, Invisible to Hearing Group (+1/4), Autofire (5 shots; +1/2), Penetrating (x2; +1), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1) (19 Active Points); No Range (-1/2), Restrainable (-1/2), No Knockback (-1/4) (Real Cost: 8) plus +10 with any single attack with one specific weapon (Real Cost: 10)

with this who needs lock picking

There are obviously various different ways to do it, but the request was for a glass cutter build as opposed to suggestions as to how to get through glass unheard.

 

The trouble with a 'lockpicking kit - and I'm making an assumption here - is that it works as a skill bonus to some sort of skill roll. Cutting glass is not really lockpicking nor security systems, although it could be PS Burglar (or PS Window fitter). Thing is ANYONE can use one of these. You might need a couple of goes, but built as a straight skill bonus it doesn't really simulate what it is doing in a general sense. For a character already with the right skills it works fine, but someone without specialist skill could pick this up and use it too.

 

You might want to check page 266 of 5ER on the effect of penetrating on a 1 point killing attack: it does 1 point of penetrating damage, if I'm reading it right.

Re: Cat Burgler's Glasscutter

with no str bonus penetrating is useless as 1 pip killing yields 0 body for the penetration advantage

I would just go with it as part of a lockpicking kit focused or not

Now I've stopped twitching...I'd suggest this, which incorporates silent cutting (effects included, so no glass smashing noises). I've left out RSR as it is not that difficult once you know what you are doing, but feel free to tinker if you like it. In this case, I feel like I am cheating with 'No KB' as that is an advantage, really and, in any event, you are never going to roll any KB. Still, I have to keep up the munchkin quota or I'll get drummed out of something or other.

 

Glass cutter 12 active, 2 real

Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 point, Penetrating (+1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Invisible to Hearing Group, Hide effects of Power (+1/2) (12 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about half of its effectiveness (Only works on glass or similar materials; -1), OAF (-1), Extra Time (Extra Phase, -3/4), Gestures (Requires both hands; -1/2), No STR Bonus (-1/2), Concentration (1/2 DCV; -1/4), No Knockback (-1/4)

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread

the coloring of Bettle and Booster is great

is that a red wall with cracks or a red sky with black lightning

if a wall it needs some texture

if it is sky the lightning needs some flaring or corona

it is a great pic

IMHO it just needs a little more background detail

Well here I go again trying a new coloring technique... This technique is really fast actually...

 

Anyways let me know what you think...