Christopher

Re: Combat Skills Levels with engtangles Don't let names fool you. There are only concepts. The three basic concepts are: Characteristics, Powers and Skills. Perqs a little bit outside, but talents are build as skills/powers so there is not really a distinction.

Re: Combat Skills Levels with engtangles In 6E2 it specifically said that you can "Haymaker an Entangle". So yes, CSL and Martial Arts Bonus DC Apply to Entagles like everything else.

Re: Pulse, teleporting martial artist. C&C welcome.

Re: The Badass Sewage Collector, or, "THEY became a hero?" I did try to rebuild Thungdil once in D&D 3.x, gave him one Level of Expert or Commoner/the rest was pure, dwarven Warrior. Gave me a lot of Skill Points I couldn't have gotten elsewhere. And I once had the Idea for D&D 3.0 Hireling: There was the Prestige Class to make a rogue better suited for dungeon crawls (traps, sneaking). But, the prequsites where so that an level 7 or 10 Expert could qualify, thus gaining the ability to disarm high level Traps at first level of the Prestige Class. As good as a rogue for traps and sneaking, not really fit for fighting however...

Re: The Badass Sewage Collector, or, "THEY became a hero?" Thungdil Bolofar from the book "The Dwarves". He's a Dwarf raised by humans. At the beginning of book one, he's a smith and has as much fighting experience as a normal traveller. At the end of book one about two months later, he kills the demon, saves the world and gets the (dwarven) girl. And that is were is where his story really starts (book 1 of 4). Of course he had a little bit of genetic "born warrior" thing to help him get up to speed in battle, has something to do with the clan he comes from... There is some evidence suggesting that robin hood could have been a Lumberjack, before becomming an outlaw.

Re: Resistance vs. Striking Appearance I think more people will have a certain skill than a certain talent. Overall, most heroes would hardly feature Interrogation (or torture, as it's called in Medieval Settings) but for their oponents (bad guys, or just a medieval torturer) it could be more often used/bought as SA. Overall, it of course depends on how common a certain power/skill is, and thus how often the defense will come into play.

Re: Cougar (6e Update)

Re: Multiform Also, one more thing: Has 5E Multiform extra rules for Foci? Because if your idea is true, how much would a Multiform bought as focus cost? You don't know if a 25 pt child or a 400-pt Superhuman picks up your 100 pt Dog-Form-Amulett. And should the mighty Hero not be able to transform into a lesser being for the same cost a small child does it?

Re: Multiform When in doubt, "WwSLd (What would Steve Long do?)" Also, since we use different version. Can anyboy give me the differences between my laydown and what the 5E rulebook says? The important passage from 6E about the cost is: "The cost for Multiform, which only the true form pays for, is 1 Character Point for every 5 Character Points the most expensive alternate form is built with (i.e., his Total Points; Matching Complications don’t reduce the alternate form’s cost)." If the descriptions are otherwise identicall, I'd say it was just a misspelling that got corrected.

Re: Pulse, teleporting martial artist. C&C welcome. Propably the Spamfilter. is more active for new member (not full members). Will be reviewed by a Admin shortly.

Re: Who's Hunting You? And Why? Landslide: While she isn't finished yet and isn't planned to start with hunted per se, she has a special form a DNCP: A Gang, that want's beat her up to "even the score". Unfortunately she's a brick and they are street punks so they can't even get her to flinch with a hit in the face (not even if they use a Bar Stool). And they are oblivious to danger. They would even try to attack her when she has just aggroed meachanon to get him away from [place with many civilians] and he's just running/flying right behind her. So she always has to rescue them.

Re: Who's Hunting You? And Why? I have this Idea for a character wielding a comiscally powerfull, anti-technology sword. At full power it could precisely kill an entire robot army in a city without scratching anything else. He's way away from that, but still mechanon is hunting him since he has "Clean Weapon of Mass Destruction" vs. Robots. Mechanon wants to kill everybody, but he want's to kill you above all!

Re: I'm not scared of your reputation It depends a lot on how common reputation is. In a standart game? Sure, a -2 should be okay. All your heroes have it and you need some henchmen that don't cow from them? -1 1/4 tops. overall they would be equally good at just buying Normal Defensive Presence

Re: Magical Knight When you really want to combine Transformation and Focus, how about Multiform? He needs the broken sword (Focus, however easily you want enemys/thieves to get it) to Transform. When he does, his empowered sword, the Armor and the better Statistics just "pop" into Existance out of nowhere. When the Knight-form looses any Foci, he still has to retrieve them. And saying that loosing the sword makes transforming back impossible, could also be interesting. Downside of Multiform is of course more Paperwork, a general Consens on how to Improve the alternate form (simple way: Does not Grows faster than True Form) and how damage is translated between true and alternate (important if their BODY/STUN/END varies strong). Something OIAID and Multiform share is: When one has a complication that the other does not have, the complciations gets one level easier to conceal.

Re: Resistance vs. Striking Appearance That would be a zone of "objective beauty". If you don't want to be affected, speak with your GM how he handles SA. If he thinks of it as Sexual Attraction, just being an alien/robot can make you immune against it. Or playing an Asexual character. If he goes for "everyone is affected", than a Limited EGO is the best way.

Re: Magical Knight Example: Wonder Womans armor only protects parts of here body. I could give the armor a required rool (there are even tables for that). If I don't, nobody will ever think about shooting her in the shoulder/kicking her against the knee. How the Powrs (an armor) looks has no meaning on it's game value. Only take limitations you want to be part of the game.

Re: Magical Knight the easier way (if you don't want him do be disarmed) is to go for a OIF for the sword: It can be attack, drained, damaged...but it just stays in his hand* or teleports back there on thought.... Limitations are things you want to be used against the character from time to time. *Possible ways are Clinging, subtle controll/improvement of hand muscels by the sword, a weapon tie or similar anti-disarm measures.

Re: Cougar (6e Update) Martial Arts does not nessesarily mean Traning. it can specifically mean a Beasts specific fighting techniques: Horn rams, claws, trying to trip the enemy (like D&D Wolfes/Dogs do). it's basically the advanced version of your Multipower. Don't give the names to much weight, they were only the fastest way to describe something and any power is equally suitable for guns-slinger, hulks or Karate Kids.

Re: Hello new hero here. The Guidelines are all in the basic book. The Champions Book is only Setting and (i guess) some Advantages/Limitations/Rules extra, but can't be used allone. Standart Superheroic (as found in 6E1 34*): 400 with 75 Matching Complications. (mean you get 325 Free and can get up to 75 with taking Complications. usually the Complications are at the maximum to get all 400). Other guidelines (SPD, OCV, Characterstics, Active Points per Power, Max Damage Classes, etc...) can be found on 6E1 35. If you have the Basic Rulebook, let me know. I have that too and can give you the pages. *This means the Core Rulebook Nr 1: "Hero System 6th Edition Character Creation", Page 34.

Re: Cougar (6e Update) Wasn't there something that DC Boni also increased things like STR Bonus for Martial Grab/martial Disarm?

Re: Cougar (6e Update) Everyone in know buys "Bulletproof Spandex" as +x/+x ED/PD, OIF. But it is your decision. And you might want to have more non-reistant defenses than resistant ones, since blasts are way more common anyway. The campagin guildelines for Standart heroic level say: Up to 25 of each (up to 18 of it resistant) but that is for the brick. Consider buying less "natural" OCV/DCV and CSL's instead. They can go into damage, OCV or DCV however you like. I also thought he would have martial arts in some form, for being a unarmed hth-fighter but I guess the MP can simulate that as well.

Re: Magical Knight For the sword I would go with the Martial Arts rules, they have the "Club" maneuver. The book says to carefully reviev any combination of OIAID and Focus. It depends mostly on what happes if he looses the shield/sword. Does he completely turn into a normal with rusty equipment or does he stay empowered, but without sword powers? Could others use the swords powers easily? For Framworks, I would put it all in one but give the shield power one big focus and the sword powers another. For the blast he may need to open his defenses, so he can't use the shields powers easily (unless he aborts to dodge, wich allows him to switch to defensive powers freely. Opales American Dream has a Captain America Style shield, and she build it as +10 or +15 resistant Defneses, requires a roll, Unbreakable Obviuous Focus.

Re: Hello new hero here.

Re: Counters to problems? (Such as AoE spam and magic overuse) Then this was simply a misunderstanding, that is solved now. But how about the other things in post 23, do you agree with them?

Re: Cougar (6e Update) I see somthing irritating: 5 Biosteel Costume: Resistant (+1/2) for up to 15 Active Points of ED (7 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) - END=0 5 Biosteel Costume: Resistant (+1/2) for up to 15 Active Points of PD (7 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) - END=0 I think what you tried to do was buying a Naked Advantage for your PD/ED but that's not how you usually buy armored clothing. Armored clothing gives you his own PD/ED that you add to your normally bought (unresistant) one. Buying a naked advantage as OIF would mean the Clothing somehow Transforms his skin to be more resilent to killing attacks, not that it protects him.