Marcus Impudite

"Your MSG levels are over 9,000!"

"The numbers on the back of this paper are picked completely at random, don't expect them to do you any good."

"You should've gone with your first instinct and ordered the beef chow mien."

"The light at the end of your tunnel is actually an oncoming freight train."

"He who goes through turnstile sideways is going to Bangkok."

Your character and associates recently battled a group of baddies who stole SCP-999 (a.k.a., "The Tickle Monster") from the SCP Foundation. Their reason for stealing 999? They were planning to use the creature's secretions to create a powerful new narcotic that they could sell and put money into their organization's coffers. Investigating their hideout after the battle, a member of your group finds the crude lab they set up, where they had apparently already managed to produce a first batch of the aforementioned drug!

WWYCD?

Cost        Powers

7                 Crowbar: Multipower, 15-points reserve; all slots OAF (-1)

1u               1) Prying: +15 STR; OAF (-1), Only For Prying/Leverage-Based Tasks (-½)

1u               2) Use As A Blunt Instrument: HA +3d6; OAF (-1), Hand-To-Hand Attack (-½)

1u               3) Sharp Prongs: HKA 1d6 (2d6 with STR); OAF (-1)

Total Cost: 10-points

Double Post, Delete.
 

On the subject of Distinctive Features, they might qualify for one if they were likely to be encountered in other places outside the tomb. I'm leaving it up to individual GMs whether they would consider it worthwhile. Might make for some interesting scenarios, though...

Short Round: "Doctor Jones! Those rolls of bandages have been following us ever since we left the museum!"

Indiana Jones: "Yeah, you're right, that is weird... Hey, wait a minute, where's Willie?!"

Willie Scott (couple of blocks back, wrapped up in bandages): "Mmmmmmrph!!!!!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmrph!!!!!!!!!!!! Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz..."

Good catch on Extra Limbs, I'll correct that error right away and re-upload. Some of your other suggestions do sound good, I'll look the write-up over and get back to you on them. And now that I think about it, the vulnerability to fire would be logical. As for the Desolidification, it represents the fact that the bandages are thin enough to get through cracks (the one from the show managed to get at a protagonist from under a heavy stone door!). The Machine Intelligence Disad means its thinking is limited by how the priests who created it "programmed" it. It knows enough to fulfill its function, but not a whole lot out side of that.

Found some math errors that needed correction, updated the file just now.

An immortal would get older jokes that a person of the current generation probably wouldn't. For example, if you sat a teen or twenty-something of today down to watch a 70s era episode of Saturday Night Live or SCTV, they might laugh at some of the jokes, but others would go over their heads because they involved subject matter you'd only understand if you were around back in the day. Hell, I only know about Classic SNL and SCTV in the first place because I watched Nick at Nite back in the late 80s/early 90s.

Recently made some modifications to a monster write-up I submitted to the Downloads section of the site:

http://www.herogames.com/forums/files/file/338-magically-animated-bandages/

As always, if any GMs out their use it in game, please let us know how your players fared against it.

Rather than settle for just tying up their hands, a speedster with access to an unlimited supply of duct tape might put the "duct tape challenge" videos on YouTube to shame by wrapping enemies up mummy-style in nanoseconds...

What if the character is speedster?

 

Lucius Alexander

 

The palindromedary says that would be the opposite of me

Now there's an idea for a really kooky Champions character...Duct Tape Man.

Everyone here is clear that The Red Green Show called duct tape "the handyman's secret weapon" as a joke, right? What Red used it for was clearly ridiculous -- that was the point. On one episode he was actually trying to attach a salvaged duct to something, and couldn't think of what to use.   But as a system write-up challenge, it's a cool project.

 

You wouldn't expect to be able to order from the Acme Company all the things that Wile E. Coyote does.

As someone who has used real world duct tape, I'm well aware of that. For this thread, the cinematic and comedic versions of duct tape are what we're going for.

 

The etymology, and the distinction between modern "duck tape" and "duct tape," is rather more involved than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duct_tape

 

And Marcus, any fan of The Red Green Show is considered an honorary Canadian.

Thank you very much.

For those of you who have ever watched The Red Greene Show, it's safe bet you already know what this thread is about. For those not in the know, two words: duct tape.

The challenge for this thread: Write-up a power that represents something that can be done with duct tape. All powers must fit into a 75 Active Point Multipower. Have fun and be creative.

One I've been considering for a campaign world on the drawing board:

"The Deep Freeze": An ultra-secure cryo-prison located in Antarctica; built, funded, and staffed by the United States and three other countries (to be named later). Cryogenic incarceration at this facility is reserved for those world-class super-criminals who are just too dangerous to keep in custody any other way. Prisoners are in cryogenic stasis for the full duration of their stay, with cryo-medtechs and a state-of-the-art computer system monitoring them 24/7. The bottom most level of the Deep Freeze is exclusively for the baddest of the bad; the prisoners who were given sentences of 500 years or more. It's no secret that many of the prisoners in this group are hoped to die in cryosleep (i.e., "go permafrost") by many in their home countries.

Telling bad jokes in an elevator is wrong on so many levels.

Q: My acne is really terrible, Doc. What do you suggest?

 

A: Sorry I'm not made of sugar!

Q: What do you mean we can't make Christmas cookies this year?

A: They've been plotting their revenge ever since Firefly got cancelled.

In the game world, an inventor has recently developed a revolutionary new type of ballistics-resistant cloth he calls Protect-O-Weave, which is weight for weight stronger than Kevlar, can be given the look and feel of everything from denim to silk, and is even machine washable. In a video that has gone viral across the net, he puts a T-shirt made of the new material on a ballistics gel torso and, on a secure shooting range, a Campaign City SWAT officer takes shots at it with a wide range of different firearms. Results of the test are quite impressive: the shirt stops numerous pistol- and rifle-caliber bullets, leaving the gel torso underneath surprisingly unmarred. The inventor starts his own company to manufacture clothing made of the new armor cloth; taking on contracts to produce uniforms for various law enforcement agencies and even custom making bullet-resistant outfits for anyone with the money to afford it. Assuming some years go by since then, and Protect-O-Weave clothing has become increasingly affordable and commonplace, what would be the effect on society?

Not a bad write-up of Dana, though I personally would've given her 14 COM minimum.

What does heroin addiction have to do with the election?

Because you'd have to be high on something to want either Donald or Hillary as POTUS.