Christopher

There are simply cases where you should technically buy "Inherent" or "Always On"". But do not bother, because it does not affect the average game that much. I mean, how the heck is it negative if you can not turn off your persistent defenses? How the heck is it positive, if the question does not come up? In both cases it would be a +0 or -0. And I do not bother writing a lot of -0 or +0 stuff down.Why would I, that would just make the sheet more complex. The 0th rule of any Power Modifier value is: "This asumes a certain standart scenario in a standart game." That "hacking people to turn off thier powers" question, really just deviates for that standart game. You just create a setting in wich being (mentally) forced to turn off a power, would be a weakness that can be regularily exploited*. So not being able to turn off your power, suddenly turns out ot be more off a benefit. It shifts the whole "Always On" Power Modifier more towards positive effect (Advantage) and away from a Negative Effect (Limitation). In a scenario where it was a minor limitation to -0 Limitation to begin with. The first question for mental powers is always "what level of EGO+ did you archieve?" If you got Ego+30, you can totally force a person to torture thier soulmate to death, or something comparable he is "Violently Against". Turning off your defenses in a fight (wich presumes there is a enemy that tries to hinder him) to save said loved one, would be equally something he was "Violentely Against". Same if he knew (or was convinced) said loved one migth become suicidal if he dies/is defeated. Turning off your defenses when there is no perceived threath, that would be a EGO+0 or EGO+10, maybe. Casting multiple times on the same person (like a Mental Illusion to make him think there is no danger, then MC to turn his powers off), should follow the existing rules for "Complimentary Mental Powers". The actuall situation is quite different from what the Mental Powers try to get him to act on. And I do not have the exact rules in my head. *Especially true if a Player has this ability. Nothing shifts the "average scenario" as much as a player power. Rewriting every villain sheet to: 1) "Have that advange" and 2) "reduce points elsewhere to afford it" would be too much of a hassle, really. And unless the villain appears more then one time, there really is no point for it. If this is a villain power and he does not come up more then once, why bother writing it down on the player side either?

"Immunity to Martial Arts NND" is dealt with in Hero System Martial Arts 6E (HSMA 6). Choke hold is just one of the possible forms of NND, that Martial Arts can choose from. Choke Holds is simply one of those.

Predicting the future is solved simply, by just following the "Uncertainty Principle" as part of your world build: "The more precise the prediction, the less precise the reality. And vice versa." I actualyl wrote something on the mater: http://www.herogames.com/forums/index.php?/topic/87678-dealing-with-prediction-or-the-uncertainty-principle/ Unfortunaltey the thread dropped into the archive of hte Forum.

That is what I meant. If I am original, I can not be any of the copies. If I am copy 27, I can not be the original or any of the other copies. I am only one of those 28+ very similar persons. Let's take a usually permanent change that would be circumvented by the cloning. Say, loosing a leg or arm. If I loose a arm, the clones would not magically loose thier arm too. They would have thier arms cut off after being cloned, to be similar to the original. They might even have the memory of me loosing my arm. But they sure as hell did not loose the arm the same way as me. What if we have a different approach to cloning, like time cloning? If I was time cloned right here, right now. Would those two beings be to different but similar persons. Or be twice the same person?

If I was replaced last night, then by definition I am not the same person as when I was not repalced last night. I can not be the same person (continous existence) and a different person (repalced every night) at the same time. I can only be one of the two. I might not know wheter I am one or the other, but I still am one or the other. If you have two blocks of lead identical down to the quantum level next to one another, they are still two blocks of lead. If you damage one, the other will not magically copy that. If you only ever showed me one of the blocks and then suddenly started showing me the other one isntead, you would be showing me a different block of lead. The two blocks are similar. They might even be equivalent down to the quantum level. But they are not the same. If I damage one, the other one would still be unaffected. I am a programmer, I have to know the difference between Identity and Equality. Those differences mater in programming.

And now I am thinking of the "I am Spartacus" scene. Would explain why it is so hard to find - others keep claiming to be it.

As a Fantasy Hero GM, you might be asked to design a village here and there. And then you have to ask questions like: Does this town have a smith? A village smith or someone equipped and trained to make weapons? How far is the next city? How far the next bigger city? I just found a video on that mater and 10 miles (16 km) seems to be about the magical number. Another intersting video is about trains. Here the range "at wich trains are cheaper then flight" is 200-300 miles:

"Gravitons? WE. ARE. SPARTILCES!" I guess with that name, a "this is sparta" joke was asked for.

It would make a difference for current me, certainly. Because I would know that someone will try to kill me to replace me with a clone when I go to sleep. For next me, it would be irrelevant. And yes, I do not exclude that this post was started by another person, by definition. Just to the best of my knowlege, it was not. How do you know you were not repalced while uner Anestesia? The operating crew told you, you were not. Implicitly. Even when you could not observe yourself being alive, you still were alive. A tree that falls in the forrest still causes a shockwave in air commonly identified as it "making a sound". Wheter a human observes it or only animals and insects, does not change that.* For sleep it was all the time my parents implicitly told me I was not replaced in my sleep while growing up. Plus all the times I stayed awake through the night and nobody came in, trying to kill me.* *In both these cases and time travel mechanics I think people are too dependant on "Observing is needed for it to be true". I do not observe the generator producing the electricity to run my laptop right now (I rarely use the battery). Yet my Laptop runs, hence the power grid has net energy income, hence somewhere a generator is running right now.

C&C Generals - Zero Hour Confirmed!

I would not have noticed, because I was dead. And I do not presume to be able to speak for a hypothetical clone of mine That is at the core of the continuity flaw - I am still dead. What that clone does not realy mater to me, nor will I have the capacity to have it mater to me. Sleep and Continuity of Consciousness: We do not currently know why we (as a species) sleep. Much less 8 hours per day. But I do not think it actually cancels the process of "consciousness". One misconception is that a few important parts of our body never rest. You heart never stops beating (for long) as long as you are alive. Even when it "rests", it is still working. The same is true for our brain - even in sleep, you is still online (even if on a power saving setting). You are mixing up being aware/having memories of being conscious with continuity of consciousness. Even while under the drugs, your brain never turned off. Braindeath never occurred.

Good point with the differnt kinds of Continuity. Memory vs Consciousness. And we are not even certain that given the same memories, a person would develop the same consciousness. Actually this ties into how memories actually work on a biochemical level. An area where the scientific knowledge uses the words "X is blieved to be" way too often.... It could be that truly exact replication of memory would result in an excact replication of consciousness. The same way waking a Operating System from a hibernate state is. Because the decision pathways through the brain an memory/experience created is part of that memory. Or not, we have no idea.

Of course not. After all, I share 100% of my memories with myself*. So by definition he must be somebody other then me, because he does not have the same access/same memories. And as I said, those 42 minutes were kind of big for Tagon. As a lot of them was spend in combat, a major factor of Captain Tagons life. *Within usual limits of biological memory access. Yes, when hitting post on this post I am not the same person I was when I decided to reply. However the difference is marginally entirely. Nothing remotely similar to "sacrificing yourself to save hundreds of lives". Now you are mixing up the clone and original viewpoint. The continuity flaw applies only to the original. It is still dead as a doornail. If there is something like a soul, that soul went on. It's decision maters absolute for itself. This is not like "death in Dragonball". What Kaff Tagon 2 has to deal with is being the clone of that relationship. Basically a sort of Son. I likened it to Kelvin timeline Kirk and his Father. With Tagon 1 being the Father, Tagon 2 being the Kirk.

There are a few problems with that: 1st, what if you die during this process? You could end up a vegetable, and not the Saiyan kind. 2nd, if your brain has to adapt it has a decent chance to affect who you turn out to be after the process. When they re-introduced Fenix as a Mark 2 Purifier in Starcraft 2 LoV, they asked "how true to the original is thins copy"? The answer was 99.8% (or something like this). To wich the only followup question was: "How diffierent could that make him? What if that 0.2% decision was a important one, like to support Tassadar?" 3rd. You actually end up having more issues dealing with "not being human" anymore. Because you are not even running on wetware anymore. The Roid Rage/Nanoman storyline from Henchmen for Hire dealt wit hthat issue: 4rd. You are really just protracting the isue, not solving it. 5th. Latest when you have your copy reinstatiated after a real death, the same issues will apply again.

Andreyasan Prime went into retirement. And as a scientist both are destined to develop different stuff anyway. The only gav that died during the cloning was the original one. Because he simply stood behind the disabeled gate. So it was not even a heroic sacrifice. Schlock kind of died to own stupidity. Just remembered that those are the 2nd+3rd Andreyasan - 2nd was the single gateclone he made when firing that gravity gun in target Echo. ("Always make a backup copy of yourself before testfiring a weapon"). All of them have in common that did not die Heriocally enough to warant a shrine/memorial/statue. Tagon 2 relates to Tagon 1 kind of like new timeline Kirk to his dad.

Did you know that your brain is actually two persons, with one maybe just a mute watcher being unable to act? Another things are musing about mind copy immortality and the continuity flaw. Schlock Mercenary delves into that. Originally only in passing: While they had these thought exercises, true immortility (of the mind copy&clone flavor) did not become avalible until recently. While they had awesome medical technology (as long as they put the head into a cryokit quickly), there was still perma-death. Indeed at least one person per storyline/book died. Including one of the persons in above strip.* But the current book is all about that problem. It is called "a little immortality": https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2016-12-05 In the previous Story, Captain Kaff Tagon died. He did have a memory backup from 42 minutes before he died. Wich is a lot of difference, as those 42 minutes were packed full of action and he is a Soldier/Captain. And inclued why he choose a heroic sacrifice. And to make it worse, he was not resurrected quite away. But 4 months afterwards. So now questions arose. Like the one about agency: One realistaition I had that the relationship between this kind of clone and it's original might be similar to "having to life up to my parent". Just much, much worse - having to life up to your previous self: I can already tell that this storyline is going to be deep and confusing. *

I can not tell if that costume counts as another of these cases: "The Star Wars fan has had prior arrests for disorderly conduct and indecent exposure."

Love, good, truth, justice, equality. Sometimes those things need a preacher to further the cause. A lot of the time, they need a fighter to defend them.

Mad science means: Never asking "what is the worst that could happen?" My main issues with the story as described is that the aliens are so mind-bogglingly stupid. They literally gave him the ability to overcome thier "escape proof" prision. I mean it is one thing to have the saw smuggeled in via a cake. Another for the Prisionkeepers to give metal saws to thier inmates. And even replacing them when they get dull.

Effectively you have a adapting Hero in a Solo Incarnation. Kind of like Ironman, Batman, Spiderman. Those never translate well to a Hero Group Character. You have to first realise that they have way to much power to be effectively modelled ingame: http://www.herogames.com/forums/index.php?/topic/87378-translating-characters-from-fiction-and-the-secret-of-having-fun-in-roleplaying/ Superman (solo version) is a flying Brick, Speedsters, Energy Blaster, Martial Artist, Detective, Mentalist and many more. In Hero you pay for what you get. If you want to have many options (defenses or the like) to choose from, it costs more. One way to limit "adaptability" is actually to just not include a common weakness. For example, there is this Martial Arts ability called "Iron Shirt"*, wich effectively makes the skin superthough. But not against bullets, fire and the like (proper Limitations). When I build a shape shifter with such Martial Arts training, I removed those limitations. Limited skin shapeshift can propably cover those weaknesses of the original ability. Superior Iron Shirt* was born. *I am not sure if that was the name. And of course, adaption could also be the special effect of string abilities. Or even limitations. If the character can "adapt to enemy attacks", that could just be High Defenses. Maybe with the limitation "only after being hit by it once this combat/only agaisnt the last damage type taken".

To get back on topic: "Sometimes being super also means, being super confused how your powers even fit together."

They did show that training in Justice League, with Aersia (just can not find it online). The original training was against Arrows and similar projectiles. Something they did had back in the days of Greece. Personally I find the Invisible Jet with Mental Interface a lot less understandable as far as Wonder Womans powers go.

Meh, Bullets are just really small, really fast arrows in the end. Except for Railguns. Those are realy, REALY fast Arrows. Plus, they do it in much less logical cases as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOVsYeFOckw

As he once said: "With Mediocre Power comes Medicocre Responsibility". In this case the "Power" in questions is a Cantrip.

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