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That implies that Deadpool is actually entertaining.

It implies that someone out there finds Deadpool entertaining. Movie box office and comic book sales figures appear to support that assertion. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Y do you want to know? 

I disagree with both those, actually. 
Longevity should be free unless NND Longevity attacks are reasonably frequent (IE, going to come up).  Any benefits from living long, such as knowledge, should be bought normally with the "very old" SFX.  Even if NNDs are in the equation, 1 point is about all I'd support it costing. 
The +2 to Concealment should come with a mandatory purchase of Concealment so it actually works.  Or just be replaced with a mandatory purchase of Concealment. 

It's in 6e2 p. 107: Breaking Limbs, which also mentions severing them (damage equal to or greater than 1/3 the character's total BODY).  It's an optional rule to use instead of Impairing (damage >= 1/2 the character's total BODY) or Disabling (damage >= 1x the character's total BODY).  

Looks like the Moon got hit During teh Lunar Eclypse:
 

Is there an Skill Roll attached with Spellcasting?
While Hero does not have a System for Critical Failures, it would be easy to invent one. and the Focus burning out would be a fitting result for a Critical Failure.

Because Conversation and Persuasion already cover the "Polite Company" part?
 
I once did a breakdown using real-life iterrogation techniques. Including stuff like God-Cop/Bad-Cop. The end result was that kinda off Interrogation was only left to deal with outright Torture. Everything else was covered by other skills, assisting roles, complimentary rolls or bonuses.

Looks like the Moon got hit During teh Lunar Eclypse:
 

[Deadpool]"Hey, that's why I wear the red suit. Also in case Vanessa is on her period."[/Deadpool]

I don’t think you have to go anywhere near that high.  The Surbrook’s Stuff site has some 2000 point versions of the Justice League that I look at the way some guys look at a Ferrari.
   More power than I’d ever need, but I’d sure like to take one out for a test drive.

The problem I have is that the increased maxima is either always worth points (it gets used) or never worth points (it goes unused) for a given character.  This directly contradicts the idea of getting what you pay for. 

Multiple Attack is a combat maneuver, not a skill
 
Normally usign Multiple Attacks is a Full Phase action*, meaning it costs your Half Phase* Action and Movement Action*.
Rapid Attack makes Multiple Attacks only cost your Half Phase action, so you get to still take your Movement Action.
 
It does not do anything else to Multiple Attack, just reduces it's action cost to allow your Movement action to be taken before the attack (as Attack actions usually end your Phase).
 
 
*Close to every single modern RPG has such a distinction. You either get a Full Action. or a Half-Action + a Movement Action when you are up. I know it at least from Hero, D&D, Warhammer Fantasy, Shadowrun and OpenLegends.

"Birdnose help Grundy?"
 
This is the second time in 2 days that I heard this specific phrase regarding this specific movie.

The wisdom of Solomon Grundy.

We actually have a similar Thread:
 
The downside would be that you can not make a police officer that is just bad at this part of the work.
PS: Policing presumably also includes stuff like "doing Paperwork".
Interogation in the Precinct setting
Knowledge of the streets on your city part
And if you give it to players, you can bet they will try to find new ways to use something so poorly defined. You know, stuff like it replacing Weapon Skill or even Weapon Repair skill for pistols, Quickdraw and just about any other gun related skill.
 
 
I want to try something new for these challenges/questions, and that is to look how other Systems dealt with it.
Warhammer Fantasy:
Charm, Intimidate and event Torture might apply for a uncooperative witness (hates the police or whatever). But you need to know someone is lying/omitting something to even know to try. So that does not solve the problem.
Gossip might work, but only for "easy" information. Stuff they want to talk about anyway or at least do not mind. But it is also a "Racial Skill" for all Humans.
 
Shadowrun 4E:
Assensing and the Judge Intentions derived score might be used to figure out someone is lying.
Con, Negotiation and Leadership could be used to convince a unwilling informant
Ettiquette might also have a palce (like Warhammer Fantasy Gossip)
 
Hero 6E:
Bribery, Charm, Interrogation, Persuasion can be used to convince a unwilling Witness Oratory might work too, if you do not know a specific person who might have omitted/lied towards you
Conversation matche the Ettiquette/Gossip Scenario of the other systems. The way to get the low level information.
Streetwise/High Society act as complimentary skills
And we could not agree what even to use to detect a lie/omission
 
 
 
I want to point out that OpenLegends has two interesting options for failing the roll:
"Success with a Twist" (like an additional challenge at the next step)
"Failure but the Adventure continues" (you might notice someone was lying and you need to apply interrogation)
 
If it is information you need the players to have, you will have the alternative route pre-mapped (hopefully). But there is still a bonus to having good rolls.
 
And my group just had a case where 3 Characters failed 3 Spot checks each in a row. For a critical piece of information.

The thing is that Damage Reduction is ideal for Solo Boss Combatants in Hero, Giant monster or not.
 
On the one hand it only affects damage past defenses, so you leave those mediocore. That way everyone in the team can chip in to bring the enemy down.
On the other hand, it affects the check if you are "Stunned". Wich makes it a ton less likely that the Villain is getting stunned. And getting stunned is a huge issue if you are literally the only character on your side.
And it is also easily "slapped onto" any existing villain, if you decide Ogre should be buffed by the plot to become the Solo Villain for today.
 
Actually "Kaiju" are a perfect example of enemies that:
Have to fight a whole superhero team on their own Do not have minions For me DR is just a mechanic like everything else. You already made half the connections by giving the Solo Villains called "Kaiju" DR. Now you just need to generalize it for all Solo Villains (that actually act alone in this adventure)

If StatMan has to pay double for abilities MagicMarvin and SkillMonkey pay standard cost, who will actually be disadvantaged?  StatMan pays 50 points for +30 STR, so he has 40 STR.  Along comes Magic Marvin with his Mighty Thews spell (+50 STR for the same 50 points), which has a minor "only to activate" limitation.  Now who is overpowered?  I do agree with niche enforcement, but your limiting of characters example would work just as well with no NCM.  Seems like it is StatMan's niche getting trampled.
 
Any ability StatMan buys at double cost can be matched by a spell which has no NCM for passing any breakpoint.  Tossing out NCM does not mean tossing out all oversight for balance.  Show me the builds for StatMan, SkillMonkey and MagicMarven - each designed efficiently, under NCM or not, - and let's see the huge overpowering impact characteristics provide.
 
 
So why isn't 60 STR (40 of which is "only if he never cuts his hair, -0" so it is limited and NCM does not apply) overpowered?  My -0 is, of course, somewhat facetious, but we can simply make it Gestures only to Activate for a Spell of Great Might, and a similar Grace of the Cat spell to bump DEX similarly.  If the issue is niche enforcement, reduce total points available and avoid the need to double the cost of anything.

Now the fire rate in his counter-ambush, was clearly increased to Cinematic levels. Hitting 6 targets in 2 seconds tops is just not possible except for pure luck/some multiple hits from over penetration (the rifle should be strong enough for them, especially as no armor was involved).
The fire rate shown later when he was defending makes much more sense.
 
In reality that fire rate would not have been needed in the coutner ambush, however:
1) He had surprise. That means he got 1 phase where the enemy:
Could not abort
Was at 1/2 DCV (without an option to abort or use CSL defensively)
Migh even have taken x2 STUN and at 1/2 Hit Location penalties.
Getting 2-3 kills is entirely possible at that moment.
 
2) If he went first by the next phase, the enemy was still outside of cover. Even if they could abort now, they had to dive for cover (literally). 2 More kills.
 
3) Now at this point the german squad had around 66% casualties. That is the point were every sane person would get the f out of dodge. When they break, they run. When they run, they are at reduced DCV. Shoot in the back.
 
Now you only need 2 Shoots per round at -2 OCV to actually kill all 6. Maybe 3 shoots at -4 in the fist attack.
It was not even nessesary to get a kill on the hit. A disable (even being stunned) was enough. As long as they were out, the morale effect was there. While being shoot at, discerning if a ally is killed, disabeled or just playing dead is impossible.
 
 
If the game was WestEnd D6 Star Wars, I would say he "spend a force point" to actually buff his skill to the level where he could do that. If you are decent to good Heroic shoot there (6D6), double the amount with a Force point and have a strong gun (Blasterifle or Heavy Blaster), there is a decent chance you can kill 6 enemies with 1 shoot each in a single turn.
 
Shadowrun ranks Mooks by Professionality Level, wich includes a "they flee" threshold:
0: Flee at any one losst
1-2: Flee at >25% losses
3-4: >50% losses
3-4 seems to be a reasonable figure for german army guys. And 66% casualties is way past the 50% treshold.

I can watch it later.
 
With Warfare I think morale is the most important Stat. In other words: Presence attacks. With each shoot that connected, another Presence attack was made against the germans. Between the phase reduction and OCV penalties, that just was enough to avoid being hit. And the effects compunded too - every one killed without making a hit themself was a additional penalty. A bit less luck at rolling, and he would have died.

Chess is a 2 player sport. P&P RPGS are multiplayer. And boss battles are 4v1's. So the analogy does not work.
 
"Shoveling more points into them" can also mean increasing their SPD - wich gives them extra actions.
It can also mean increasing defenses, wich results in them not wasting that many phases on abort. Wich is again extra net actions.
And well, "shoveling more points into them" is itself cheating. So you are at best arguing "my way to cheat is better then their way to cheat"
 
To get an analogy that works:
It is like black has to fight several chessboards of white pieces. So it did a quick fusion with the black pieces from those other boards.

Electrical buying and selling is very common. German Coal Plants are actually mostly selling the power to France and Belgium.
 
Nuclear Powerplants have the huge downside of a very slow reaction time. Changing the output can take hours to days.
Renewable energy is by nature unpredictable.
Gas and Coal plants are resonsible for quick reaction adaption . For cases like this.

If it's not impossible, it's not surprising for it to happen - once. Out of all the literally millions of occasions in the annals of war where soldiers shot at each other, there are bound to be even stranger and less likely results than this.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary says it would be strange if there were NOT such unlikely events scattered about....

There is two things I remembered on the semi Experimental front:
 
Femto Photography:
 
Currently it is half-faked. There is no camera or computer fast enough to track light like that. So they do the next best thing:
They send a few thousand photons . Make 1-2 images each. And then composit them on a computer to make this nice animation. The only limitation is how quickly they can send the photons and make the full image from it.
 
The 2nd thing is Hoverboards. Lexus made them using Quantum Levitation. Of coruse the limit for that right now is "getting a Superconductor and a magnetic track". With the Superconductors cooling being the bulkiest part:
 
 
In Batman Beyond they also had this sport:
 
While it looks like antigravity, it might also be based on Quantum Levitation:
Room temperature superconductors woven into the suits.
Magnetic field induction woven into the glass.

superman spoke of it while discussing krypton and their legal system