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Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... Man, thats a bummer, a darkly humorous ironic one but a bummer nonetheless

Re: Ben 10: Alien Force

Re: Captain America and Cast

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore

Re: Captain America and Cast Cap wears a chainmail bikini!? Okay, well, this is America and what someone chooses to do in the privacy of their own home is largely their business.... Seriously though, this is a really ambitious project. Can't wait to see more.

Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Am I alone in thinking that, scaled down in size or split up among four, that sandwich sounds pretty good?

Re: Watchmen: A GM's tale...or why we set campaign limits Personally, I like the Rule of X more than Hard caps. It seems to bring a bit more variety to the table. Hard caps with experienced players generally means all the character look the "same" mechanically (though have differing special effects) so there's less team work and tactics generated by covering each others weaknesses and exploiting individual strengths. ROX isn't perfect of course.

Re: What would your Character Be: Tiger Squad There's been a few "alternate Earth" threads. Most of them have "Alternate Earth" in the header if you'd like to search for them. They're pretty fun.

Re: An odd form of memory manipulation

Re: An odd form of memory manipulation

Re: I need help with a Magic System First, thanks for all the input. Delayed Effect works well except for one aspect. Quick Casting is risky (has Side effects) while long casting isn't, you fail you just fail.

Re: Immunity to Electric Attacks Desolidification could be a decent kludge with a just few nudges such as taking Limitations like Does not Protect from Damage or only protects from one SFX negates the requirement to get Affects Real World on Attacks or other powers. Most forms would have "Cannot pass through Solid Matter". 0 Endurance, Persist possible Inherent could be used. The issue of conductivity (does the attack pass through the target or not) would be a matter of sfx. When I get the chance I'll run the numbers.

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged?

Re: Bullet Kata Well, I think you were being a little too literal... and "Bullet Kata" is what I've most often heard it referred. But anyway you asked why I was considering Missile Deflection/Reflection and I answered.

Re: Bullet Kata Because that's what they are. If some shoots at her with a freeze beam (NND vs LS: Immune to Cold) because she evades it and causes them to hit someone else it's not going to become an RKA.

Re: Worth a thousand words? Captain Blight Douglas Blythe Player: NPC Val Char Cost 30 STR 0 18 DEX 24 30 CON 0 25 BODY 0 12 INT 2 20 EGO 20 15 PRE 5 12 COM 1 20/26 PD 0 20/26 ED 0 4 SPD 12 12 REC 0 30 END -15 55 STUN 0 8" RUN 0 2" SWIM 0 6" LEAP 0 Characteristics Cost: 49 Cost Power Undead Body 47 1) Unlife Support: Life Support (Eating: Character does not eat; Immunity All terrestrial poisons and chemical warfare agents; Immunity: All terrestrial diseases and biowarfare agents; Longevity: Immortal; Safe in High Radiation; Safe in Intense Heat; Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum; Self-Contained Breathing; Sleeping: Character does not sleep) 35 2) Unchecked Strength: +20 STR, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (35 Active Points) (Modifiers affect Base Characteristic) 40 3) The Dead don't fall easily: +20 CON 30 4) Well Preserved: +15 BODY 18 5) Unnatural Resilience: Armor (6 PD/6 ED) 14 6) Unnatural Resilience: +14 PD 14 7) Unnatural Resilience: +14 ED 20 8) What's pain to a side of beef?: Energy Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% (30 Active Points); STUN Only (-1/2) 20 9) What's pain to a side of beef?: Physical Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% (30 Active Points); STUN Only (-1/2) 16 10) "Ow.": +20 CON (40 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about half of its effectiveness (Only to prevent Stunning; -1), No Figured Characteristics (-1/2) 20 11) "A needle and thread will fix this righ tup.": +20 STR, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (30 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (1d6 Killing Damage; -1/2) 12 12) Tireless Marching Dead man: Running +2" (8" total), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (12 Active Points) 2 The Blight Effect: Change Environment 1" radius, Limited Power Power loses less than a fourth of its effectiveness (Expands slowly over the course of days; +0), MegaScale (1" = 1 km; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Persistent (+1/2), Invisible Power Effects, Source Only (Fully Invisible; +1/2) (14 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Day, -4), Always On (-1/2), Limited Power Power loses about a fourth of its effectiveness (Only affects living mortal beings; -1/4) 30 Death Defies Death: Energy Damage Reduction, Resistant, 75% (60 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about half of its effectiveness (Only vs Necromantic Magic; -1) Innate Abilities 21 1) Unbreakable Will: Mental Defense (25 points total) 32 Weapons: Multipower, 52-point reserve, all slots Affects Desolidification (+1/4) (65 Active Points); all slots OAF (-1) 2u 1) Machine Gun: Killing Attack - Ranged 1d6+1, Autofire (5 shots; +1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1) (50 Active Points); OAF (-1) 3u 2) Heavy Pistol: Killing Attack - Ranged 2d6, Indirect (Same origin, always fired away from attacker; +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (52 Active Points); OAF (-1) 2u 3) Combat Knife: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 1/2d6 (2 1/2d6 w/STR), Armor Piercing (+1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (50 Active Points); OAF (-1) Powers Cost: 378 Cost Martial Arts Maneuver Commando Training and Basic Brawling 4 1) Block: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +2 DCV, Block, Abort 4 2) Punch/Low Kick: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +2 DCV, 8d6 Strike 5 3) Haymaker: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +1 DCV, 10d6 Strike 3 4) Grab: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, 40 STR for holding on 4 5) Choke Hold: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +0 DCV, Grab One Limb; 2d6 NND 4 6) Low Blow: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, +1 DCV, 2d6 NND 3 7) Weapon Element: Barehand, Blades, Clubs, Fist-Loads Martial Arts Cost: 27 Cost Skill 4 AK: Indochina 13- 3 AK: Asia 12- 3 Combat Driving 13- 3 Demolitions 11- 3 Interrogation 12- 2 KS: The Military/Mercenary/Terrorist world 11- 2 KS: Asian Occult World 11- 3 Lockpicking 13- 3 Security Systems 11- 5 Shadowing 12- 3 Stealth 13- 3 Streetwise 12- 5 Survival 12- 5 Tactics 12- 3 Linguist 2 1) Language: Cantonese (completely fluent) (3 Active Points) 2 2) Language: Hindi (completely fluent) (3 Active Points) 2 3) Language: Japanese (completely fluent) (3 Active Points) 2 4) Language: Korean (completely fluent) (3 Active Points) Combat Training 5 1) Accurate Sprayfire 3 2) +3 OCV with Heavy Pistol Slot 10 3) +2 Levels with Ranged Combat 15 4) +3 Levels with HTH Combat Skills Cost: 91 Cost Talent 9 Ambidexterity (no Off Hand penalty) Talents Cost: 9 Total Character Cost: 554 Pts. Disadvantage 10 Distinctive Features: Undead (Concealable; Always Noticed and Causes Major Reaction; Detectable By Simple Tests) 10 Social Limitation: Considered dead (Frequently, Minor) 10 Vulnerability: 2 x Effect "Holy" Magic and Weapons (Uncommon) 10 Physical Limitation: Must eat raw meat to heal Body damage (Frequently, Slightly Impairing) 15 Hunted: Yun Li 8- (Mo Pow, Harshly Punish) 10 Susceptibility: Use of Holy or "Life" magic or powers 2d6 damage Instant (Uncommon) 15 Psychological Limitation: Headstrong, takes the direct approach over all others (Common, Strong) 15 Psychological Limitation: Protective of innocents, particularly children. (Common, Strong) 5 Psychological Limitation: Morbid sense of humor, constantly uses gallows humor and comments about mortality (Uncommon, Moderate) Disadvantage Points: 100 Base Points: 250 Experience Required: 204 Total Experience Available: 204 Experience Unspent: 0 Originally a US military man working with the South Korean government as part of a team investigating a serious occult crimes and gruesome murders, the future "Capt Blight" and his team were captured by the culprist, a Necromancer named Yun Li. Never one one to waste "Material" Yun attempted to convert the capture soldiers into powerful undead minions. All but the captain died and were transformed into her slaves but Captain Blight was practically immune to Li's influence over the undead. Blight escaped capture (he was still outnumbered), and decided to make it his "life's" work to keep stop Li Blythe, now calling himself Blight as a play on his powers and name, is driven to avenge his team and stop Yu from inflicting this state on anyone else. On the surface, he seems to have adapted to his condition but is in fact, deeply troubled. His demeanor has completely changed. He was once a deeply religious, quietly intense man and dedicated solider. Now he is bold, aggressive and of a darker disposition. Blight constantly injects gallows humor and grim if clever observations into conservation, often reflecting on the chaos and generally nihilistic nature of life. He rarely laughs except in irony and spends any free time he often wandering from bar to bar indulging drinks that can no longer intoxicate him, taking pleasure with hookers or women he picks up or alone, brooding and playing military video games. Blight's powers mostly stem from his current state. He is a corpse in many respects and as such feels little pain and stress from his environment. Always a strong man, he can exert more strength a human because he doesn't feel pain that prevents regular people from injuring themselves. In fact, he can truly push himself to superhuman levels but he does injure himself when that happens, tearing muscles and breaking bone from the strain. Somehow his Yun's spell effect his weapons. They are now magically imbued with his essence and can affect even the immaterial undead to great effect. The guns never run out of ammo, need reloading or maintenance. The guns work even in conditions where they shouldn't. Blight's undead physiology generates an invisible field of necrotic energy" the Blight" which he's named himself after. Living beings exposed to Blight are weakened, feel tired and ill and are susceptible to disease, infection and slower to heal, plants wither, animals grow weak, early term pregnancies might be lost to miscarriage. The Blight's area of effect is huge but doesn't start to effect area all at once. Blight has to stay there for a few days before the effect beings to show up and the area of effect doubles every day until it reaches its full size. You can't tell by looking at Blight that he is dead. He is a little pale and never seems to tan, his body temperature feels somewhat cool not alarmingly so and he's coached himself to breath regularly. He doesn't have a heartbeat or a pulse and no other vitals signs and doesn't bleed much when cut (and the blood is thick, blackish and partially clotted). While he can perform sexually (somehow) he doesn't ejaculate. His skin is dry and unusually firm to the touch.

Re: Worth a thousand words? Thanks!

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? I like the costume. Very Doom Patrol-ish.

Re: Bullet Kata The character makes their attackers shoot each other so the attack would match the one being fired at her. The simplest way I can think of to implement that is Missile "Deflection" but I wanted to see if there were other suggestions.

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged?

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged?

Re: Worth a thousand words? The artist will be very happy to know that impression came across so clearly.

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged?

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? I always imagined that, with a few serial numbers filed off, Telioss' character sheet wouldn't make a bad stand in for Ozymandiass'

I know there is at least one other thread on this subject around but I can't seem to find it… so I apologize for the duplicate thread. The effect I want to simulate in Hero terms has been seen in some high power/over the top movies and comics when an extremely agile/battle savvy character weaves and dodges among a group of attackers, drawing and evading fire such that their attacks hit each other instead. It's usually an effect used against ranged attacks but there have been melee versions as well. In addition, some times the character with the power can attack on their own at the time, sometimes not. My first thought was some form of missile deflection/reflection with limitation applied to Reflection portion of the power that limits it to affect targets in the line of fire for the reflected attack. I know the effect is one that is either cool or retarded depending your tastes, but it's something I’d like build for a specific character so suggestions like "find some really stupid goons" and the like don't really help.