Foxiekins

Re: Negative stats? Why would STUN need to be replenished from outside...? STUN is recovered by your REC, which comes from STR and CON, while STUN comes from both of those as well as BODY...

Re: SPD, but only for (x)? I created a character that was Speed 4, with +2 Speed under Powers limited to a Fuel Charge... He would decide post-segment-12 if he wanted the extra speed in the next turn or not... He had a real incentive to drop the Speed Boost the moment he no longer needed it, as the Fuel Charge was 1 charge per day, and only 5 minutes long, in addition to the 12 point Suppress on his REC Characteristic while he used the Speed... Alternatively, a boost to Speed could be a type of Concentration thing, with a Skill Roll made every post-segment-12 to determine your Speed for the following turn... Of course, neither of these is Speed only for (x)... I would only allow something like that in a Symmetrical situation... i.e. Only if the higher Speed had a set of Phases on the Speed Chart that contained every Phase in the set for the lower Speed, so it would be obvious which were the extra phases... If the Phases didn't match up that way, I wouldn't allow it...

Re: Leaping Limitations! Um, guys....? Look at the Original Power... Someone with 20 STR and +8" Leaping can leap 12" if he is leaping horizontally, or 6" if he is leaping vertically... The power lets him do either one... Horizontal Only means you can't leap Vertically... Vertical Only means you can't leap Horizontally... Someone who is Horizontal Only could make normal horizontal leaps, which generally require some vertical clearance, but they can't jump straight up... Vertical Only means jumping straight up is all you can do with the power...

Re: CHAR: Thor. (Marvel Style) A VPP for Mjolnir would also let Thor improvise... One nasty thing I saw him do was throw Mjolnir, and then pick up Loki by the throat... Mjolnir must return to Thor's hand, no matter what is in the way... Even if it's Loki's head... Mjolnir does all kinds of nasty damage to anything getting in its way...

Re: Speedster limitation I would construct this as: Surface Tension and Inertia Are My Friends: Clinging (normal STR), Any non-gaseous surface (+1); Linked (Running: -1/2), Only while running at least a half-move (-0), Cannot resist knockback (-1/4), Maximum inverted or vertical distance is 1/2 combat Running (-1/4) 20 Active, 10 Real After all, you *do* have to use Running to use it... Greater Power must be used at Full Effectiveness is an option in Linked for an additional (-1/4), so I would reckon Only while running at least a half-move to be (-0)... Plus, if there is a limit to running upside down on the ceiling, there is likely a limit on how far you can run straight up a wall as well... If y'all don't mind, I'm gonna steal this notion for a Speedster I'm building...

Re: CHAR: Thor. (Marvel Style) Actually, the reason Thor and other Asgardians are described as not being "True Immortals" is that they need the Apples of Idunn to remain young... Without eating them on occasion, they grow old...

Re: CHAR: Thor. (Marvel Style) I generally go with the notion that pushing your Strength can at most double the characteristic value... Thus, a normal schmoe with STR 8 can at most push to STR 16... Someone with STR 20 can at most push to STR 40, etcetera... If Thor has been observed to do something requiring a Strength of 150, then his Strength should be 75 or more... I'd guess STR 75, or STR 100 with the belt, since *I* would personally use the belt if I were gonna lift the mountain... Remember that Superman is vulnerable to Magic... If Thor gets double STUN on Superman with Mjolnir, that can account for the whupping without requiring Ginormous amounts of damage dice for him...

Re: Creating the Silver Age Team What about a Magician...? Mages were some of the very first Supers... For a Cosmic Entity, perhaps someone who is a Cosmic Avatar...? The idea is that the Universe as a whole is Sentient, and creates Avatars of itself to take a hand in things on a smaller scale... If Supers are becoming more prevalent on Earth, this could draw the attention of the Universal Collective to the point of them creating an Avatar for Earth... Once created, he or she could draw from the reserves of the Collective, although sometimes the Avatar would space out, as the Collective calls upon him or her in return... But oh, the power the Avatar can bring to bear, when he or she isn't distracted...

Re: Clever Future Weapons The Computer is your Friend...!!!

Re: Clever Future Weapons Erm... NitroMethane Gel *is* a high explosive... It's a gel so it can be pumped into the chamber, and metered as desired, as well as a slightly different mix being a blasting explosive you can apply with a squeeze bottle... The metered propellant weapons are actually obsolete at the time of the campaign, but some folks insist on using old, tried and true designs, particularly since they can take blasting gel sold on the market, mix in a chemical additive or two, and use it in the weapons... Something like black powder enthusiasts or folks who own Mausers today... This is, of course, talking about the hand held, single shot versions... The version I referred to *is* a vehicle mounted weapon... Didn't you notice the part about the rotary mechanism, and 100 rounds per second...? The thing masses around 40 kilograms dry... It's designed to draw propellant from a vehicle's central store, which also serves to charge the propellant wells of infantry weapons in the field if need be... Those fire the same ammo, just with a lot less propellant so the recoil is managable, and tunable to the setting you want...

Re: Clever Future Weapons One thing I came up with for Sci-Fi was an improvement over gunpowder... Or nitrocellulose... What *is* state-of-the-art propellant based on these days, anyway...? Cordite was in back around WW2, right...? Anyway, the stuff I came up with had around 12 to 16 times the energy density of nitrocellulose... And it was in the form of a gel... One of the nastier weapons used a rotary mechanism... A round would fire, and the rotation of the block would carry the chamber around to where it would vent, another round would be loaded, propellant gel would be pumped in behind it, and then it would fire again... It would send 7mm diameter, 7cm long projectiles of spent uranium downrange at 100 rounds per second, and at just over Mach 5... Military weapon, of course... Gunneys were infamous for saying "Go Go Speed Racer" before sending a barrage downrange.. There was also the Plasma Carbine... It had a paraboloidal compression chamber, with an ellipsoidal focussing chamber, arranged so that the focus of each was at the same point, in the center of the throat between them... The plasma, driven by microwaves, would hit speed of sound as it passed through the throat, and accelerate hypersonic afterward... It produced a converging tidal bore pulse that tried to punch through anything in the way, and was fairly successful given that it used a mix of deuterium and helium 3, and was designed for a micro-fusion event to occur in the throat as the weapon fired... Nasty...

Re: How to use the President Well, like I said, they were time-travelling... So they knew things everyone else didn't, from reading the history books... So they were able to figure out the President had been replaced by a doppelganger, and grab him from where he was being held captive, in northern New Mexico, and get him back where he was supposed to be... It was a bad morning, early that day... July 16th, 1945...

Re: How to use the President I used the President once... But the PCs were Time-Traveling at the time, due to a horrific bizarre accident...

Re: Sci-fi wear swords? Been a while since I've been on the boards, but let's look at the question... Why use swords...? There is a simple reason... Swords outclass knives... In a melee combat, a sword gave you a reach advantage... The fellow with the knife had to get inside your reach to threaten you... Likely this is not the original intent of the question... More likely, what was meant is something like "Why use swords and NOT guns instead?"... I will make no claims, I will just speculate... Perhaps there are no guns anymore... Conventional guns use a contained explosion to propel a projectile at high velocity... This means that the ammo for a gun contains explosives... Which means it can be removed from the ammo and used to make a bomb... And what are the uses of explosives, other than in guns...? Demolition and Excavation... If technology such as tractor/pressor beams, force fields, and cutting lasers exist, there may be no need for explosives... Due to the danger of terrorist bombing, explosives may be routinely scanned for, and highly illegal to own in any form... Some folks may say "This means everyone will use Lasers, then!"... But let's look at how they do damage... The sword sticks through your armor and puts a hole in you... The laser begins burning and vaporizing from the outside in... Lasers attack the surfaces of things first, while a thrusting sword will hit someone's vitals a lot quicker... Of course, this means that to conform to this, a Laser probably needs to always take Reduced Penetration... This does not mean guns will vanish... Gauss weapons and Air Rifles don't require explosives... However, the EMP of Gauss weapons will be detectable when they fire... High-power Air Rifles don't have that problem, but they might be classed as Military weapons, and hence restricted, or have a stigma to them, rather like Saturday Night Specials... Plasma Blasters are even more noticable than Gauss weapons, so enough said about them... Plus, let's look at weapons that use an electrical discharge to incapacitate... We have these today, but the taser, firing little darts, has its problems... The hand-held stunner is more effective, but has poor reach... Building this into a sword would seem to solve the problem... Someone is wearing insulated kevlar? Stick him with the sword, and stun him now that the swordtip is past the insulating armor... I can picture a stunsword as a progression from the stun baton you see in Sci-Fi already... Plus, one more thing... Camoflage... If you're on a planet of alien primatives, you can explain yourself as being a zweeblok from the other end of the world... And you can use a sword and blend in, without the problem of being worshipped or reviled as a god/demon when you blow people away with your high-tech weaponry... Just some thoughts...

Re: Need help with scientific term for my campaign... Plus, it really makes a difference what you mean by "most efficient"... Most efficient at *what*...? LEO is most efficient at receiving and debarking planetary cargo if you don't have tethers... GEO is most efficient for the same if you do have tethers... And is much more than halfway to the rest of the system... The big advantage of Lagrangian Points is ROOM... You can put an awful lot of stuff out there at L-4 or L-5...

Re: Simple power I need help with: "Low Pitch Thrum" I would suggest an Area Effect DEX Suppress, myself...

Re: Overwhelming PRE attacks

Re: How Dense Is A Nebula? I believe the Solar Wind is around 1 proton per cubic centimeter...

Re: Cities and the West... Well, this background also uses the concept of metastable equilibriums for evolution... That evolution works in jumps and plateaus, rather than smooth progressions... The idea is that a species will undergo a period of varience, followed by a renormalization as new traits are universalized through the race... But, when one of the traits that universalized through mankinds ancestors was intelligence, it threw a joker into the mix... Most mythology likely thus originated with the plethora of extranormal abilities that accompanied the birth of Modern Man, although there are those who argue there have been historical extranormal flare-ups between that primordial one and today's flare-up... Intelligence itself seems to have been the only trait from the primordial surge, with other traits pointed at as being the traits universalizing from intermediate ones... The ability to use Magic, and possibly the ability to NOT use Magic, are the most frequently quoted examples... Judging from the present day, Flight is likely to be the new universal trait in a few hundred years, once the surge settles down and spreads...

Cities and the West... In my campaigns, I've gone with the Hybrid Vigor model... Basically, someone is more likely to manifest extranormal abilities if their genetic parents have genetic diversity between them... The notions of 'racial purity' and a 'master race' fly in the face of this, and thus the Third Reich kind of shot itself in the foot as regarded supers... And the West, being nations of mostly immigrants, has a much larger ratio of extranormal incidence... And the trend is highest in the cities, where larger populations mix... After all, look at how many heroic characters in myth, with enhanced ability, were half-breeds...

Re: The Elements...

Actually... The character was an attempt to use Multiform for something *other* than the Alternate Identity schtick... He had the "Team Player" mentality from all those years of football, and then wound up Super and also disqualified from playing football, which put a real crimp on his financial situation since his scholarship went out the window... He also conspicuously used his powers in the public view, since he had a Public Identity rather than a Secret Identity... Not showing off, just not bothering to hide..

The Elements... Namely: Fire, Water, Air, and Earth... The original character's powerset was a Multiform... Base form was Human, but he could also take 4 alternate forms which were elementals bound to him mystically... He also had a Public Identity, since a kindly, helpful little old lady had told the reporters who he was, and how to find him... He was a football player in college before his 'accident'...

Okay, one more clue... What do Red, Green, White, and Black stand for as a unified set...?

Re: Three...?