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Re: Suggested Point Caps I guess here is where I mention that when I first started with the HERO system, it was when supers were built with 100+100 ... and we liked it! My recent FH campaign was heroic with 75+75 and no active cap ... though we threw out the first traditional fantasy characters (warrior, priest, archer) and restarted with circus performers ... to encourage a less combat-oriented style of play. The traditional characters wandered through an entire cave complex and came out in decent shape. The circus performers were seriously challenged by a couple goblins and a hobgoblin ... but I think the players felt more satisfied with the win. So I guess it depends on the players ... do they want to be facing down Balrogs their first adventure out? Or do they want to work their way up from relatively normal to something special?

Re: Did anyone else... Little necromancer girls like to play dress-up with their Ken dolls too

Re: Alternate encumbrance rules (house rules) I was just looking over it ... it looks good, personally. I'll be digging up my encumbrance rules and comparing tomorrow to see how it might work in my campaign.

Re: The great armour race...

Re: Smart Missiles I like the Summon construct better actually ... here's why ... In both "real life" and fiction: Missiles have a rate of movement. They can be outrun (though rarely). Missiles have a turn rate. They can be outmaneuvered (more common). Missiles are a physical object. They can be blown up. With the Seeking advantage you have an attack that: Instantly reaches the target. It can't be outrun or outmaneuvered. Isn't a physical attack. It can't be blown up. Both of the above can be fixed with Missile Deflection ... but that seems a very non-genre way of solving the problem. If you outrun or outmaneuver a missile, you could be halfway across the solar system by the time you do ... and out of the fight though you live to fight another day. With Missile Deflection, you're in exactly the same spot as you were before. And that doesn't even get into the idea of how to simulate countermeasures or heavily-armored missiles ... all of which are much easier to deal with if a missile is a Summon.

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Re: Suddenly Alone on the Stations To add to the "literature as a source of ideas" portion ... the book Fallen Angels by Niven, Pournelle and Flynn.

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Re: Preliminary Skilled Magic System I did something very similar to the Ambience Magic System that Killer Shrike just posted ... though without the requirement for study. All spells were bought through a multipower. All spells required END. All spells were powered from an END Reserve (though mine have REC). Thin or thick spots existed ... as well as Mana Slaves (because all living things collect mana ... whether they can use it or not is a different story). I even have a city where they have a "mana tax" ... the tax collector comes around to package up the mana from each citizen into a little bauble that can be used by the ruling body to power spells (thereby keeping them even more firmly under their boot). I handled the REC in such a way that there was a maximum "flow" in a particular area ... you could use your REC or the area's REC, whichever is lower. I kind of like Shrike's system better for the REC thing though ...

Re: Authority supplement cover shot I had SuperWorld a long time ago ... and if you mean "very similar" as in "having virtually the same constructs and power list (albeit with different names) and pretty much identical overall design" then yes, I would concur.

Re: GEM Fighters Kind of a cool idea ... maybe if the campaign were resurrected, give the players a motivation to "bond" their gems together and share power. A collective boost or what have you ... but keeps everyone more even.

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Re: DEX vs. CSLs Ok ... to summarize, what I'm seeing here is that Level Lad is going to be better than Dextrous Dan in Level Lad's area of expertise ... as constructed, that happens to be HtH combat. But, conversely Level Lad is going to be worse than Dextrous Dan outside that area of expertise, i.e. ranged combat. This would seem to me to be balanced ... for the same amount of points, I can decide if I want to be decent at all combat (Dextrous Dan) or very good at a particular type of combat (hoping that I can keep it to that type of combat the majority of the time). The examples above showed me where I remember CSL's flexibility coming from though. In the straight-up fight between DD and LL, LL had the flexibility to choose how to approach things ... and the skill to make it work. DD just had to "makes his rolls and takes his (albeit good) chances ..." Thanks everyone for the scads of input ... I'm feeling much better about my knowledge in this area now