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Bloodstone

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  1. Re: A Thread for Random Videos OMG! Paint Your Wagon! Best Eastwood movie ever!!! :: dives for cover :: Actually, this was one of the (many) musicals my grandmother and I used to watch together when I was little, so it does hold a special place in my heart
  2. Re: Ben 10: Ultimate Alien Eatle still gets the award for worst first appearance ever, but Clockwork has to be a close second! (of course, this is sort of Clockwork's second appearance...)
  3. Re: Ben 10: Ultimate Alien New episode in 40 min, but I won't get to see it til this evening since I'm not going to be home for many hours Lets hope the new alien isn't as brokenly powerful as he sounds
  4. Re: Guided Bullets a reality First thing I thought of:
  5. Re: How would you write up this acrobar in 5th or 6th Edition? Highly limited skill levels? Not sure, but aren't there optional rules somewhere for skill degradation due to disuse? Obviously, intense practice would be something of the opposite.
  6. Re: Robocop vs Terminator Perhaps we should ask the OP to clarify the circumstances of the fight.
  7. Re: Robocop vs Terminator Terminators take no stun, have access to better weapons, are faster, might be stronger and have much more advanced computer brains. But... I give it to Murphy, in part because of the hero factor and in part because Arnold was taken down by a pair of non enhanced humans, one of whom didn't really know what the hell she was doing (at the time).
  8. Re: How would you write up this acrobar in 5th or 6th Edition?
  9. Re: How strong is... Someone with STR 20 is four times stronger than a guys with STR 10 And someone with STR 30 is four times stronger than someone with STR 20
  10. Re: X Ray-ted Vision Oddly, one of the characters I didn't list is Iron Will. I didn't list him because, while he has the body of a Nazi super soldier, his mind is shared with the astral projection of a 10 year old Jewish boy (who would have grown up to be one of the worlds most powerful psychics, had he not "died" back in the 40's). Regardless, little William is the moral compass of the duo and would have serious issues with this sort of thing...
  11. Re: X Ray-ted Vision Because a shapshifting clown could manage to be incredibly arousing while simultaneously triggering he psych lims of anyone that fears clowns But like I said, not sure exactly what he intended, so just speculating...
  12. Re: X Ray-ted Vision http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia Not sure if coulrophile was a typo of the above or if he was implying a reference to a clown fetish.
  13. Re: Weapon Mastery (Coments Welcomed) I'd probably put it around 50 point range myself, given what it takes to build maneuver-less martial artist via the mix of an MP and some levels (and I still think maneuvers tend to be the cheaper and stronger option most of the time). However, you can do it via a VPP for probably half that much (assuming GM permission of course). Obviously, it's much more expensive (and powerful) if you want the option to do things like Dim Mak and toss Hadokens though.
  14. Re: Very flashy, acrobatic martial arts styles? A variety of reasons: - there isn't always a good record. There's a lot of stuff that's lost to time because many aspects of the arts are passed down master to student via oral tradition. Often times, people don't realize what bits of history are important until it's too late and memories aren't always that reliable to begin with. - even when there is a good record, things are often lost in translation, especially when dealing with foreign arts. - lies and outright fabrication. All too often, histories are deliberately changed. Of course, there are also sometimes just honest misunderstandings and misinterpretations that never get cleared up. - martial arts politics play a big part in all this. Even in small groups, human nature gets the better of the facts all the time. - many people that practice martial arts aren't actually interested in the history. Those that DO have some appreciation for the history often do more harm than good because they frequently help perpetuate myths. Relatively few people do serious research about the martial arts (in part because few folks have the necessary resources, skills and background).
  15. Re: Why is Speed so unpopular? But they DO need to purchase Transdimensional, as well as various perception powers so that they can perceive at Speed Zone speeds.
  16. Re: Psychic Flashes I treat this no different from how I work Contacts. If they always approach the player, then the NPC is purely a GMing tool. The day the player decide to go to the NPC and ask for their help is the day they become a Contact on the players sheet. So, as a GM, if I am occasionally giving the player precognitive visions that are mainly there as plot hooks, I'm not going to charge the player for that ability. It's a story telling aid and nothing more, something mentioned in background material but otherwise not on the sheet. But the moment that player tries to use that ability in his own way, say by trying to grab an extra few hours of sleep during a difficult investigation, then it's got to be a power. I still have control over most of it and there will be lots of limitations, but now it's more than just a tool fro the GM.
  17. Re: Very flashy, acrobatic martial arts styles? These days, I think it's often accepted as having been the main component of the art. There was also some very probable influence from Shudokan karate and possibly Shito-ryu. Then some questionable influence from Yang style Tai Chi and Chuan Fa/Kung Fu. The actual influence of taekkyeon, is probably the most hotly debated aspect of this, with some folks claiming it was a MAJOR influence on the art and others arguing that it may have had virtually no influence what so ever. The biggest technical influence on TKD in the last 40+ years has been the contest rules of the art itself, though. Oh, he certainly wasn't. There were a lot of important names back in the day that helped shape the art. Choi was a major player and allegedly a big factor in bringing the other kwans together under the TKD banner. Almost everyone was calling what they did some variation of "karate" prior to the mid 60's. I didn't claim to be and I'm sorry if it comes off that way
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