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Re: Enchant That it is more expensive. Just what I said in Post Nr. 3. And Enforcer84 disagred with that in Post Nr. 4. But right now I'm not so certain we even talked about the same thing. @Aradai: It would really help to know if this is just to empower swords or should be applicable for any Attack under a certain Active Points (note that all Weapons have about +50% higher active Points than their mere Damage would indicate, propably due to Inherent Advantages).

Re: Limitation on Recovery for Long Term Endurance I know the vanilla rules say End-Reserves have no LTE, but wouldn't it be easier to just change that? Maybe make it a Limitation that they are effected.

Re: German for Fearless? I once made a Neverwinter Nights Character simply named "Tod" (Death). A female Weapon Master (Scythe). WhenI would have used her as an NPC in a real D&D game I would have giver her a mask that creates the illusion of her wearing a black Robe, being a skelleton (with the Scythe staying normal) and a mor fitting voice. Maybe add some boots of flying or a summonable horse to make her immune to falling. And suddenly I think about rebulding her in HERO as a 400-pt Super.

Re: Enchant Afaik you do it this way (asuming 30 Ap Attack has do be made Armor Piercing): First you make the Power to be given: You buy a naked advantage Amor Piercing (+1/4) for up to 30 AP of HTH or Killing Attack (or generally every attack). So it's a 37 AP, 7 Real Cost "Power". You then take those 7 Real cost as the Base Cost for your UOO (+1/4 for one Recipient), so the power would be considered a 9 Ap/9 Real Cost Power for you. So it's already more expensive then just having a Naked AP for your own attacks. See 6E1 359 for the rules.

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... I know it's still fun. Just trying to get my point of view clear and why I wouldn't consider it, unless she got sentient and wants to. About the questions: I asumed your girl is not comming along. I asumed the femal crewmember in question wouldn't be jealous, just disgusted at you free time activity if you use cb's. And just asume you are interested despite all this. About remote controll: Isn't there some way to fuse with summons? Wouldn't place it in the companion in the first place. It's more like relaying all sensory/motoric I/O to a module somewhere at home. Perhaps a sort of Clairsentience or Mind Control with sensory feedback/concentration (like for the Astral Form Example on 6E1 204 or a ghost posession power), target must be willing and a Bulky Focus (the interface hardware).

Re: German for Fearless? I asked a Thesaurus for those and hope they help: About Courage (Mut): Bravour · Bravur · Courage (the French; means the same as in english) · Edelmut (heroic courage) · Kühnheit (willing to take risks) · Mannhaftigkeit · Mumm · Mut · Standhaftigkeit (being steadfast) · Tapferkeit · Traute (never heard of it) Beherztheit · Eifer · Feuer ("having fire") · Mut · Wagemut (willing to take risks) Kühnheit · Mut · Schneid · Verwegenheit (also includes using his intelligence/cunning) About Monster: Bestie · Monster (ugs.) · Scheusal · Unmensch Biest (may also mean an "evil" women) · Monster · Monstrum* · Scheusal · Chimäre/Schimäre · Ungeheuer · Ungetüm* · Untier *may also mean an Item that's extremely big/excessive compared to normal items of it's type. Like a Monster Truck or Hummer compared to normal cars. For the Bug thing: Käfer (Bug); however the word is more common to describe the "VW 1303 Käfer" (Volkswagen Beetle) and Herbie (an intelligent "VW 1303 Käfer" and Star of some Dysney Movies) with his Number 53. Schabe (short for "Küchenschabe" - Cockroach) About Terror (I've go a lot a different way to say despot/despotic government): Absolutismus · Despotie · Despotismus · Diktatur · Gewaltherrschaft · Schreckensherrschaft · Terror · Tyrannei · Tyrannis · Willkürherrschaft · Zwangsherrschaft About Nebel (Fog): Brühe* · Dampf · Dunst · Nebel · Nebelschleier · Schleier · Smog · Suppe* · Trübung · Vernebelung *these mean a fog "as thick/visually impenetrable as a soup".

Re: A dozen and onre Idea

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... No, I won't. I don't value or judge any sexual activity/orientation (as long as all paticipants participate voluntarily and aren't taken advantage of), but for me any sexual activity without emotional basis is meaningless. If I would consider this "taking advantage of" would depend on how close they are to be human, but that is another story. And yes, I actually am a heterosexual man.

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... I really start to dislike Video pages for that. Can't they at least tell me if the video isn't avalible everywhere? This is really taking the fun out of a lot of posts. I hope that helps finding the right one for your location: http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&tbm=vid&q=internet+is+for+porn&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq= @Lucius: Isn't that the same writup as for the "hiborean girl" you made? Also, the entire Idea was just for the unlikely chance I get one anyway (standart issue for crew; Other crewmember dies and she needs some place to stay). Like I said when I can do the household chores on my own, I do them myself. And if not I use a normal "cleaner bot" with no...other functionality and no chance of emotional attraction. Other questions: What if you are maried/in a realtionship at that time, what would you do then? What if there is a female crew member you have interst in, would you still take one (or more) even if it could ruin every chance with her? Is there a way for take over the body remotely? We do have this super-intenet and when your girl/women is at home and has suiteable interface... (not my thing either, but for others that might be interesting).

Re: Personal Companion Bots. and a months long voyage.... No need to. We do have the Internet, it's cheaper: http://www.clipfish.de/video/117370/wow-the-internet-is-for-porn Fun aside: Depending on how much I have to do all day and if I didn't have the time to keep my own cabin clear, I would perhaps go for a simple "cleaner"-bot or other robot that is more functional/robotic (and less human replicate). If I should, for wathever reason, wind up with a companion bot anyway: I'll guess I would start teaching her to do her own decisions, grow beyond her programming. The usuall "get human-like free will" thing. If she archieves that level and there should be some connection, I'll just go on like with every other women.

Re: Star (Trek) Hero Racial Templates Why do I always think GM instead of moderator? Anyway, I meant the side admins. And seriously, that is not a joke. (I would make this text bold, but formating isn't part of the mobile style either)

Re: Star (Trek) Hero Racial Templates I certainly need to talk to the guy choosing the color scheme of the forum about "links should be discernible from text with the naked eye" or general the concept of readability. Also, a black background does not work well with dark blue links. And after some experimentation with the different skins, that it might be very usefull to add the settings-menu or pm's to the "Mobile Sytle", so I can change back to the default. Could somebody please tell the GM's that I'm now "stuck" in the wrong style?

Re: Enchant That's it basically. The problem is, that useable by others makes the power more expensive (AP wise) and Armor Piercing does the same. I know behind such Ideas is often a strong concept of how the power works, but perhaps a Drain or Supress, maybe Area of Effect, would be better to archieve the same effect at better price? Another way, depending on setting and your allies STR/Martial Arts, might be to have/summon a weapon that is armor piercing (the magical, eversharp sword) and give it to an ally. Basically just a Focus/Material Manifestation with -0 Limitation "Useable by other". A little bit more information about target setting and who will be affected would help.

Re: A dozen and onre Idea

Re: Star (Trek) Hero Racial Templates Of course it not. Ot's just a misunderstanding, coming from the form of comunication we use. Anyway, this is my try to make an Modern Klingon (Post Voyager Return) Racial Template. I checked back with memory alpha for most of the parts, especially the social rites. I tried to keep to Tasha Idea, had the house rule that a templates shouldn't be beyond 18 Points and I tried to make it so that a "Standart Normal" Klingon wouldn't have all his points tied up: Abilites: 3 Klingon Strenght +3 STR 3 brak'lul +3 CON 3 brak'lul +3 BODY 1 Fit in high age LS: Longelivity: 200 years 8 Battle Focus +1 Overall Level; -1/2 Only when Stressed or in Combat Overall Abilites: 18 Complications: 10 Klingon Way of Live (Code of Conduct; Common, Moderate) Overall Complications: 10 Explanations: brak'lul: Klingons have a lot of redundant organs Klingon way of Live: Outside of Battle: Always be direct. Don't show weakness. Protect the honor of your house. Only die in Battle. Shun Medical Treatment for Recieved in Honorable Battle. In Battle: Ignore the above; Victory or Death

Re: Ability Guidelines for Cosmically Powerful Characters (6e) Easy to do in excel, but had to put it in a zip-file for the forum: [ATTACH]38400[/ATTACH]

Re: Using INT in Combat

Re: Ability Guidelines for Cosmically Powerful Characters (6e) I haven't completely read it jet but I see the following two things: A well worked out system that should keep the balance. A unwieldy monster of complex math I not that unfirm in math, but seriously: That is so complex, it would be better to teach a computer how to do the math. Do you have anything to help with that part (Excel-Sheet, Programm)?

Re: Ability Guidelines for Cosmically Powerful Characters (6e)

Re: The Beautiful People He: "Why is straw on the floor?" She: "Why do you wear a mask?" He:[Let's start a certain activity for adults] This was the beginning of an german R-rated film and yes, that lead to "action". The dialog is so bad, it can be found on youtube just for the laughs. And with what Lucius wrote I now have a very disturbing mental image...

Re: Tying Heroic Action Points to Complications As far as I undertstand the entire idea behind this post/house rule is to untie the frequency/severity of a Complications and the HAP's gained from them. You a look at the points to determine HAP's. Complications still affect you in the game normally (like they would do without HAP's), but you don't get anything from those occurences. Your gain is fixed, based on the points of complications you have.

Re: Combat Skills Levels with engtangles Now that you say it, I noticed it too. 2 CSL = 1 DC. 4 CSL = 2 DC or half a Haymaker (+1d6 Entangle).

Re: Tying Heroic Action Points to Complications

Re: Golden Hunter v6.1 Most likely rounding error. Could even be on my side, had to look up the precise rules where to round how. Still, adding even 2 DC's (10 AP) to 60 STR is already at the upper Limit for Standart Heroic, so you need to decide what you want and if you really need all that STR. Or just save points by dropping the KA to 1/2d6 + STR (17 AP, 14 Real Cost). You are right, haven't seen the +20 to REC and END. Often such increasses are noted in the characteristics block with the following format (if your GH had +10 EGO): 13/23 EGO 3 12-/14-

Re: Tying Heroic Action Points to Complications One important thing about Complication Frequency (and hugh's note about downtime-complications): "First, a Complication’s frequency indicates how often it affects the character in the game. Many Complications affect the character “all the time,” but what matters for game purposes is how often they influence his performance in the game[...]" 6E1 416 The italic part is directly form the book!