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Re: Ridiculous things in comics that you don't mind. Actually, there's several effects that can't be justified by nanotechnology(1): * Transmutation of elements * FTL travel * Teleportation * etc, etc. If you have a player who tries to snowball you with the possibilities of nanotech, throw chapter 10 of _Engines of Creation_ at him. (Entire book available online for free.) (1) All of these effects are known to comic book science, of course... but they've been done with NON-nanotech machinery, decades before the concept even made it *into* SF. i.e. -- if the DM rules that such effects aren't possible with tech of any kind, that also includes tech of the nanite kind.

Re: Is defeating a Master Villain sometimes counterproductive? *reps Pendaran*

Re: Captain Atom? Note also, at the end of the 'Janus Directive' storyline in SUICIDE SQUAD, Captain Atom destroyed Kobra's giant orbiting spaceship by vaporizing it. In a thermonuclear event large enough that people like Firestorm were scrambling like hell to get miles away from the blast radius(*) before zero time. So if Captain Atom takes some time to wind up "wave motion gun" style, he can let off a No Range Explosion (that he has Personal Immunity to, natch) of literally strat-nuke proportions. (*) Fortunately, being up in space and all lets you have room to throw these kinds of booms around.

Re: [GM Advice] PC's Buying Defences vs. Adversaries Attacks

Re: Is defeating a Master Villain sometimes counterproductive? I don't think they count mystics either, only mutants and radiation accidents. Not to mention that if CU is contradicted by later source material, well, later source material wins.

Re: Ridiculous things in comics that you don't mind. Well, actually, nanites that restored just enough nerve function that she can wiggle her toes, and *might* someday walk on crutches again with enough physical therapy, actually /does/ come across as more realistic than Zatanna just going "teG tuo fo taht riach dna ecnad!"

Re: Is defeating a Master Villain sometimes counterproductive? Actually, no, it was the Silver Age Superman that Pre-Crisis Darkseid used to play pinata with. Note, one of the most impressive scenes in 'Great Darkness Saga' is where a weakened PC-Darkseid, at only a fraction of his power, is still manhandling Pre-Crisis Superboy, Pre-Crisis Supergirl, and Pre-Crisis Mon-El like a Green Beret beating on crippled infants.

Re: Captain Atom? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Atom

Re: Ridiculous things in comics that you don't mind.

Re: What would Dr. Destroyer *really* do? A list of ye personality disorders can be found here: http://www.mentalhealth.com/p20-grp.html

Re: What would Dr. Destroyer *really* do? Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From our "Aberrant in the Bronze Age" game -- Hermes, a young Chosen (nova) known for his speed, is speaking to Artemis, a nature goddess who has been raised in the wild and only recently come to civilization. They're on their way back from having consulted a rather gloomy and naysaying oracle. Hermes -- "See? I can angst after all." Artemis -- "I was /not/ angsting." *looks at him* "What does it mean, by the way?" Hermes -- "... you know, I'm actually not sure."

Re: Ridiculous things in comics that you don't mind. I wasn't aware of our giant purple Moslem-hunting robots.

Re: Ridiculous things in comics that you don't mind.

Re: WWYCD: Another Run In With Blackthorn... ... I ask the DM if he could possibly have been slightly less obvious re: his source material.

Re: Power Question: Purple Man Well, Doom did seem to resist it on a naked EGO, so yeah.

Re: Ridiculous things in comics that you don't mind. Unstable molecules, or as Champs genre book puts it, "Near-Magical Costume Material". Because even if they're all hotties, I still appreciate it when they can keep their clothes on.

Re: DC's Best Martial Artist

Re: [Campaign] UNITY Prime Thank you. Uploaded.

Re: [interest in an online game?] Avengers: Generation 3 If the armor is instantly summonable, cannot be taken off of you, and will re-appear on you at will, then you simply buy Armor, no limitations, and call it a special effect of the power. (The fact that you are visibly a man in armor does not, by itself, qualify for OIHID at -1/4, that requires an additional limit as I briefly outline below. For more details, check yer 5e revised under "Only In Hero ID" for the full rundown.) If you can conceivably be prevented from summoning the armor (such as by covering your mouth so you cannot speak the summoning word), *or* it takes you a full-phase action to summon it, but it can't be taken off of you without prolonged effort out of combat, then it qualifies as Only In Hero ID (-1/4). If the armor can be taken off your unconscious body /and you can't resummon it until you get it back physically/, then that might quailfy for an additional -1/4 limitation, 'Physical Manifestation'. But that one's a DM call. (Technically, so are the first two, but they're DM calls likely to be granted in most campaigns as they're 'default' usage of the disad in question, straight from the book.)

Re: [Campaign] UNITY Prime HTML versions of characters now up. Trebuchet, you still need to get Azure's finalized sheet to me. Bc, you haven't let me know yet whether it's ok to post Scathach's.

Re: This equipment will self-destruct...

Re: This equipment will self-destruct... In most official Hero Games supplements that I've seen, self-destruct systems get statted. OTOH, those were self-destruct system for automatons or vehicles, not just foci. Given that a class of foci exists that can only be used by a designated user -- Personal Foci -- and it costs zero points, I'd rule that self-destructing gear was a special effect for Personal Focus. OTOH, to be fair, I'd also allow the PCs to try and beat the SFX of the self-destruct... for example, if you write down privately "the gun's circuits will melt if the fingerprint sensors in the grip detect the wrong fingerprint", then if the group's gadgeteer comes up with a way to hack a fingerprint sensor (Security Systems roll after first correctly identifying what kind of sensor needs to be hacked, pulling an Images vs. Fingerprint Reader out of his gadget VPP, etc.), voila, the gun is intact for reverse-engineering. Now, as for killing the *agents* -- again, two ways, One is stat it out (Triggered No Range RKA, Only Affects Character), and the other is to abstract it (Phys Lim: Dies If Captured (Infrequent, Greatly)), and adjudicate whether the PCs can stop it as a question of their SFX vs. your SFX.

Re: Marvel's Best Martial Artists Eh, I won't say I've *never* pirated anything (just ask my mp3 collection *cough*), but I like to have *limits*...

Re: DC's Best Martial Artist Interview vs. What's Actually In The Comic = Interview loses.