Beast

looks like a mental illusion to me
I did this using Change Enviroment
the Characteristic roll is vs Dex
if the target fails they are on the ground and having problems getting up
Prone they are 1/2 DCV and let the ranged deal with them(haymakers, called shots, parking buses on them, etc...)
Vertigo scream(vs dex or fall):  Change Environment (-7 to Characteristic Roll or Skill Roll), Area Of Effect (32m Cone; +3/4) (37 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about a fourth of its effectiveness (not vs hear flash; -1/4)

I never got a paid subscription thankfully.

What happens to executives who cost the company a ton of money, tank their stock price, and expose them to legal liability?  Asking for a friend.

My own interactions with Darren were infrequent, but always a pleasure. Many years ago I engaged in a defense of Hero System on the then-hostile RPGnet forums, by posting links to many of the diverse fan-created Hero websites, showing what Hero was capable of and what its players had done with it. Darren mailed me a coffee mug with Hero stats on it, as a thank-you.
 
Darren was younger than me, and should have had decades more to enjoy and to contribute to all of our enjoyment. But this game is one monument to his life, and we honor him every time we play it.
 
EDIT: BTW I posted news of Darren's passing on the forums for Champions Online. I thought they should know about one of the major creators of the world they play in.

I wondered which origin types are particularly popular for the Champions Universe, and what types of Powers go with them the most.
 
Why? Because
1) It might point to character concepts that are cool but have been neglected; and
2) I’m a deranged nerd.
 
So this has been my spare-time project for the last week.
 
The whole CU is very large, but not all of it is equally propmoted. So I’m restricting the domain of analysis to the three volumes of Champions Villains. 292 characters total, not counting “agent” types such as Doctor Destroyer’s robots or Necrull’s Necrullticians. Individual characters only!
 
Here are the categories I devised when I did this analysis for my own Champions settings:
 
* SUPERNATURAL BEINGS are innately magical creatures: demons, dimensional conquerors, undead, etc. Examples: Bloodrage, Takofanes, Tyrannon. Also people with supernatural ancestry, such as Frag.
 
* MUTANTS were born with super-powers in their genes. I also include MUTATES, whose origin stories specifically say that their powers are the result of genetic manipulation (such as anyone given powers by Teleios). Examples: Menton, Hurricane, King Cobra.
 
* ROBOTS AND CONSTRUCTS are artificial beings. They have powers because somebody else built them that way. Robots are of course the result of tech; but golems and similar magically-created artificial beings fit in this category as well. Examples: Mechanon (duh), Syzygy.
 
* ENCHANTED characters were given powers by magic: a curse, a spell cast upon them, a magic potion, or the like. Examples: The Basilisk, Black Fang, Harpy.
 
* WEIRD SCIENCE covers all those lab accidents, exposures to industrial waste or atomic radiation, and empowerment processes that are scientific but aren’t specifically called out as exclusively based on gene-splicing. (Though some origin stories are not clear on this point.) Examples: Durak, Bulldozer, everyone in Project Sunburst, Sunspot.
 
 
* CYBORGS started out as normal people but gained powers by having bits added to them. Usually techm but I extend the concept to magical additions (such as a magical gem permanently affixed to the character’s body) or other surgical modification. Examples: Interface, Fiacho, Cairngorm, Howler.
 
* SORCERER characters cast spells. Examples: Doctor Yin Wu, Demonologist, Talisman.
 
* INVENTOR characters build gdgets (including, but not limited to, powered armor) or otherwise do things using SCIENCE! It’s implied that they can build new tech, even if they don’t have VPPs — they aren’t limited to just one device or suite of gadgets. Examples: Doctor Destroyer, Teleios, Utility, Binder, Doctor Philippe Moreau.
 
* TRAINING: If a character’s powers come down to extraordinary skills that aren’t super-tech or sorcery, they go here. Mostly martial artists, but there might be others such as a super-thief with incredible skills but uses mundane tech, Examples: Scorpia, Green Dragon, the Cahokian.
 
* WEAPON: The character’s powers derive from a device that could be taken away, whether it’s tech, magic, or undefined. Moreover, the character lacks the skills to replace or alter the device easily. Examples: the Warlord (he didn’t build his own battlesuit), the Crowns of Krim, Lazer.
 
* MASTERMINDS would be powerful just from the people and resources they command, even if they didn’t have any other source of power. Example: Franklin Stone and Doctor Philippe Moreau are “pure” Masterminds; Doctor Destroyer, King Cobra, and the Warlord have extensive organizations in addition to their personal powers; Baron Nihil and Tyrannon rule entire populations; and the Demonologist can Summon whatever demons he wants, while the Engineer creates robots at will.
 
* ALIENS aren’t human, but aren’t specifically supernatural. Extraterrestrials such as Herculan and Firewing go here; but so does Leviathan (a Lemurian) and Ape-X (uplifted gorilla). This is often a “meta-origin,” worth noting even if not being human is not specifically the source of powers (as Herculan was artificially given powers that are not natural to his species, the Fassai).
 
* OTHER is anything so rare and weird that it doesn’t justify creating a new category, or the source of the character’s powers simply is not known. Example: Timelapse, Glacier.
 
* COMPLEX: Characters can fit within multiple categories, as the dimension lord Skarn is both a supernatural being and a sorcerer, or Cheshire Cat is both a highly trained martial artist and gained teleportation powers through weird science. But if a character fits in three or more categories, I just call it “Complex.” Example: Josiah Brimstone has one set of powers as a sorcerer, another set from the demon that’s fused to him, and a third set from magical devices. OTOH I make exceptions for Masterminds and Aliens, as these tend to be meta-origins — and I try to limit assigning categories based on what’s really important to a character. Just packing a gun or minor gadget, for instance, isn’t enough to place a character as using a Weapon.
 
Placing characters in origin categories can be iffy. Like, I don’t assign every character with martial arts on the character sheet to the Training category: Often its just an add-on and the character would function as a superbeing without it. And as the discussion of Weird Scienct and Mutate characters suggests, the line between them can be blurry. But the goal is to spot patterns, not to precisely classify every character.
 
Here’s the result:
 
Supernatural Beings: 30 characters; 10%
Mutants/Mutates: 65 characters; 22%
Robots/Constructs: 8 characters; 3%
Enchanted: 23 characters; 8%
Weird Science: 54 characters; 18%
Cyborgs: 9 characters; 3%
Sorcerers: 33 characters; 11%
Inventors: 26 characters; 9%
Training: 31 characters; 11%
Weapon: 44 characters; 15%
Mastermind: 25 characters; 9%
Alien: 17 characters; 6%
Other/Unknown: 9 characters; 3%
Complex: 3 characters; 1%
 
Further analysis available if anyone's interested.
 
Dean Shomshak

Just posting so it's known:

Unfortunately we have some terrible news to report. Darren Watts, who used to be one of our business partners in DOJ Inc./Hero Games and has also worked for many other companies in the RPG industry, suffered a very serious heart attack last Thursday (December 22, 2022). It appears that his brain was without oxygen for an as yet unknown period.

Darren's currently under sedation at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City. While he isn't conscious, his wife Diane tells me he can receive visitors.

We'll keep the forum posted as the situation warrants. In the meantime, please keep Darren in your thoughts and prayers.

The Dark Lord is Green Hornet?
and the PC's don't know it

"BODY" in a context of spirits can also mean how resilient they are, before they're disrupted/destroyed.  It need not translate to flesh and bone.  Even if you have a fully desolid spirit, BODY can still measure this notion.  

That is what complementary skills are for.  The skill chart for languages and science make since because they are variant of the same skill.  Realistically there is not really a lot of difference between speak one language or another.  They allow you to do exactly the same thing.   There is however a huge difference between rewiring a circuit and removing a trip wire.  If you are disarming an electronic trap electronics is a complementary skill to security systems.  If the trap is a pit trap being a genius in electronics will not matter in the slightest.   

There's some evidence to suggest that steel arrow heads were preferred;
 
 
 
Although, even if steel heads were successfully commissioned by various English nobles, the penetrative capabilities of such were perhaps only slightly greater? (7:40 into the video).

Well they are kinda both, you can both block with them and attack with them.  A shield is like a mobile section of armor which the opponent either attacks through or tries to bypass by targeting other locations.  But you can also slam someone with it or hit them with the edge.  Some shields were even equipped with blades and spikes to help with that.

Change Environment is also better than Darkness for this purpose because Darkness doesn't penalize perception... it prevents it.  I would use Change Environment with the PER penalties bought per Sense Group, but instead of the Sense Group being defined as "Sight" or "Hearing" or the like, the Sense Group would be "Scrying Senses."  This eliminates the need to guess whether the scrying power is built using Clairsentience or Mind Scan (or whatever other sense, as long as the special effect is "scrying").

Darkness works.
Change Environment works.
Invisibility to Clairvoyance works for an individual only. It doesn't exactly pose a penalty except to "see" through a fringe.
Illusions might work to create false scrying.

I was looking at Green Ronin's Mutants & Masterminds Reprint Extravaganza and More! kickstarter, and it got me thinking about Hero. It seems like so many books are OOP, and it'd be nice to see them back on the shelves, and I thought this might be a great way of bringing them back. Or even looking at revising them slightly...

Think about what you want to include, builds, stories, challenging encounter locations, fully detailed NPCs, etc. Then ponder your page count. Consider art and writers. Then use social media to promote. @Beasthad a solid idea with the blog style, which would be easier than a zine maybe, although everybody loves a collection of goodies. 

Start writing a blog
advertise where you can

 

Start writing a blog
advertise where you can

 

Yes

Yes

Not ashamed of my vote:  I have never liked using photos of real people.  I am imagining a world that looks a certain way- let's say comic books, with latern-jawed heroes with their mighty seven-heads proportions-!
 
I do _not_ want to pop open Iron Man's helmet and go "Holy Hell!  That's Dennis Franz!"
 
More subtley:  I find the use of photos of real people and places (with the wxceprion of fantastic landscapes) to be extremely off-putting and it does hard damage to my suspension of disbelief-- and I am typically the GM!  It is like the _one_ thing that I just can't roll with.  I also accept that I am probably the only person on the planet for whom this is as big a deal as it is, and it stem,from the fact that I am an old fossil who has been gaming since before we could screenshot someone from the internet so art feels more "right" in the context.  Alternatively, it could be that I do not want that exact and detailed a face or body type; I have no idea.
 
If you can't draw- I know I can't- and dont know anyone who will whip something up for you-  screenshot a drawing off the 'net and show that to me.  Give me a stick figure done in crayon.  _Describe_ the character to me and I will block in a 2e character mannequin (badly) for you!
 
Just do not give me an actual photo of an actual person or an actual animal,or an actual car.....
 
Etc.
 

My assumption would be that UNTIL is a fig leaf for the US.

Countries with governments that the US doesn't like would rarely be members. Its leadership would be packed with people from close US allies, when they aren't from the US themselves. In effect it would be something like a Super-NATO.

UNTIL forces deployed in the US would be entirely drawn from US personnel, aside from the odd specialist.

That still wouldn't keep it safe from nationalistic demagogues.

It's likely that there would be at least local agencies as well.

get the "x2 body dimension"adder to have a wing span of 12m for 5 pts
 
Stretching 6m, x2 body dimension

Now that's an interesting question. I would just preface this by mentioning that the United Nations on Champions Earth is a more effective organization than on real Earth. I know many people consider that stretching credibility too far , but to me it's justifiable, considering how many extra-terrestrial, -dimensional, and -temporal invasions, supervillain global conquest attempts, and extinction-level near disasters Champions Earth has gone through over the previous eighty years. It must have been impressed repeatedly on world governments that cooperation on global security matters is essential for mutual survival.
 
UNTIL operating on US soil was a point of contention for basically the reasons you describe, Beast. America was not a signatory to UNTIL's Tribunal Treaty until 1993, and PRIMUS was formed in part to keep UNTIL out of the US by filling that super-security slot. Then in 1992 Dr. Destroyer launched his scheme to draw an asteroid down to obliterate America, which ultimately resulted in the leveling of core Detroit and the deaths of 60,000 people. UNTIL forces in Canada were alerted and deployed to aid against Destroyer, but were stopped at the US border by government red tape, and never made it until the battle was over. When the American public learned of that there was tremendous outrage, and pressure put on the US government to sign the Treaty.