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Re: The "Armani of armour." One of the advantages would presumably be that you don't look armoured, so you're less likely to be shot with Big Guns - or shot in the head. The concealment itself is part of the defence, in other words. Not sure how well that would actually work, but I'm guessing that's part of the idea...

Re: Watchmen: A GM's tale...or why we set campaign limits That was just a special effect of taking the points from his base in the weapons research facility and putting them into his new Mars base...

Re: The best questions you can ask!

Re: Dumbest Moment Ever in your games Wow, a thread brought back from the dead not once but many times Shadowrun. Near future cyberpunk with magic. For reasons I can no longer recall, we are deep in Tir Tairngire, the Elven stronghold on the West Coast of what used to be the United States. We have no ID, no money, no contacts, no nothing. We manage to get a couple of assassination missions in return for Getting The Hell Out. We spend ages planning the first hit. Phrases like "triangulation of fire" are used. We have backup shooters, rendezvous points and all sorts. When it goes down, my character is up close, pretending to be a Japanese tourist, ready to deliver the letter that has to be left on the corpse in the (hopefully imminent) confusion. Shot 1 is taken by the newest player, the star of this particular tale. I'd spent the last several weeks explaining every single roll to him, multiple times. It never seemed to take. So I explained (again) what dice he needed to roll, and explained (again) what the result was. The GM told us that a Bullet Barrier spell suddenly came up, almost deflecting the bullet entirely (only a Light wound). Now, we all knew that only the most experienced and advanced Mages could make a Barrier spell that came up automatically. Those experienced and advanced Mages can do all sorts of rule-breaky stuff, and are quite terrifying. As the target wasn't a Mage, one of their entourage must be. I assume we are all dead. Fortunately the second shot (taken by an equally new, but much better player) does a Serious wound, and the third shot takes the target out entirely. We didn't even need our backup shooters. Hurrah! I leave the note, and we're all heading out, visions of victory drinks floating before our eyes, celebratory music playing in our ears, when I hear: "I haven't killed anyone yet. I'm going to shoot one of the bodyguards." And then, our sniper has a choice between two bodyguards; a large gentleman who has reacted inhumanly fast to the shots, who has drawn a pistol, or a slower, smaller, scholarly looking gent. Okay, he was a new player, but I'm sure we explained that the pistol couldn't even push bullets that far, let alone hit anything. And the big bodyguard is clearly armoured, and clearly cybered. And the wimpy guy? Probably the one who set up that Bullet Barrier. The kind of mage to whom range penalties are minor inconveniences to be ignored. The kind of mage who can break the very laws of physics to blow your brain out your ears from a mile away. But, crucially, much more likely to be squishy. But he still chooses to shoot the bodyguard, because he's biggest. So, one minor scratch to the bodyguard later, the mage centres versus penalties, and our sniper is wearing part of his frontal lobes as earrings. It was at that point if I asked the GM if we still had any of those remote controlled explosives we had used earlier, if we'd given any to the sniper, and could I remember the correct frequency? We did eventually get away, and even gathered up our sniper, although largely because he was evidence as opposed to any desire to save him. And the Deadly Mental Wound he took meant that his share of the take was put in a trust fund to finance his ongoing treatment for Persistent Vegetative State. We left him in a Tir Tairngire hospital surrounded by machines that went ping, and never looked back. Good times. Good times.

Re: Your Gaming Group's Jargon Hm. Could you not use Presence Attacks instead? All you need is the "hesitate" effect, and he's got enough time to monologue...

Re: Query's Art & Stuff Thread I like the face and the detailing, but the pose is a bit strange - I'm not sure where she's going, if you see what I mean.

Re: Fantasy Art Thread Impressive! Repped!

Re: Urban Fantasy Recommendations I don't know how many of you can get hold of BBC shows, but Being Human is Urban Fantasy. Brief summary: a Vampire, a Werewolf and a Ghost live together in an attempt at a "normal" life. Hijinks ensue. It sounds like the set-up for a sitcom, and it is quite funny at times, but there's also a lot of drama, largely because the Vampires are Up To Something.

Re: Urban Fantasy Recommendations For me it was the "Red Wedding". Bastard Freys...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... I dunno - seen "Blind Fury"?

Re: Code vs Killing, but Gods a little fuzzy about kneecaps. In the movie, he did it once, but I thought the point was that he realised that this was further than he wanted to go in future.

Starting with the 1500's! The Evolution of Spy Gadgets

Re: Russian Napalm Caverns Found it: Secret Brain Lab

"The reason for it to have such a strange look is because it was used later by Russian army to test the influence of Russian alternative to napalm inside of the brick houses. Due to very high temperature of napalm the bricks started melting just like ice melts in the spring forming the icicles, but those icicles are of red brick." http://englishrussia.com/?p=2284

Re: Superhero Images To be honest, not a lot of us manage the pic a week But it can be a nice place to hang out and swap ideas...

Re: "I can't bring myself to kill, but..."

Re: Fantasy Art Thread They look good - definitely enough for background filler! About the only criticism is that they look a bit samey - the roof angles all look very similar. I don't know if your software supports it, but a simple morph that changes the roof height (literally the two points right at the top) allowing lots of little random variations in roof height and thus roof pitch would add a lot of realism. Having said that, if they're just background "extras" it might not be even noticeable

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread That is extremely nice. I have to spread rep, otherwise I'd give you some more

Re: Expanded Unoffical Bibliography for Urban Fantasy HERO And indeed the Blade TV series.

Re: Expanded Unoffical Bibliography for Urban Fantasy HERO I think Harry Potter would be Urban Fantasy if they didn't spend all their time at school You could certainly do Urban Fantasy in that world. Harry Potter: the Later Years

Re: The Super Darwin Awards CoC: "Shall I grapple him, or use my shotgun? Grapple, shotgun, grapple, shotgun... Grapple!"

Re: Code vs Killing, but Gods a little fuzzy about kneecaps. Not so. The character very quickly picked up a specifically stated code against killing. Not as in a Hero System Rules Disadvantage, but clearly saying that he will never take a life. Trying to extrapolate from the first ten issues of a 70 year publishing history is like claiming Superman can't fly, as he couldn't in his first appearances. That's a fairly extreme reading of his character - he has been portrayed as anything from a dispassionate detective to an avenger, but I can only think of maybe two where he shows the kind of deliberate sadism you're claiming here. John Byrne had Batman musing that it was a pity that a particular thug was going to have to spend some time on crutches, and of course there's Frank Miller's "The other... hurts." I think both of those portrayals are on the edge of the Batman envelope. Other than the fact that he has stated he has it. [citation needed] Have the precise events that led to the loss of Green Arrow's arm in Dark Knight Returns ever been shown? I personally can't see how Superman would need to injure Ollie in order to bring him in. Superman has so many powers, and nothing Green Arrow could do could harm him. The closest I've seen is Green Arrow's death (he got better), where he had his hand on a deadman switch, and Superman offered to amputate his arm to save his life. Ollie refused. If there's more detail about what happened to the Dark Knight Returns version of Green Arrow, I'd like to know more.

Re: Characters Losing Their Souls - How To Handle It? Does a necromantically resurrected thread have a soul?

Re: Need Help With Codes of Conduct If I remember correctly, the GM occasionally tells you if you're about to do something stupid.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Is Hero-O-Matic down, or is it just me?