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Re: Variable Power Pools... This isn't a power for an NPC, it's for a player...

Re: Variable Power Pools... I'm the GM... This isn't a VPP to allow the player to have any skills they want... This is a mimic VPP to touch someone, and then know all their knowledge skills...

Is there a lower limit to the Control Cost of a VPP...? For example, what if I wanted a VPP to be able to emulate any number of skills...? Does that mean the Control Cost can be set up for an Active Point cost of 3 points, despite the Pool being far, far larger...?

6E1 156 didn't really answer my question... Let's say you have someone with +28m of Running, for 40m total, and a x8 NCM, which is a total of 50 active points... When they use 10m of Running, does this cost them 2 Endurance because 20 active points are being used, or 1 Endurance because 12 active points are being used...?

Re: Touch of Knowledge... Bizarre notion here... What about a mental transform, to create a copy of someone's memories...? It would be creating a set of memories from out of nowhere, wouldn't it...? Opinions...?

Re: Touch of Knowledge...

I assume you pay End for the Adder... Is it basically proportionate over the amount of Movement used...? i. e. as if the Active Cost were the Active Cost, divided by the max Combat Movement, times the amount of Combat Movement used...?

Re: What would you put on a 6th Edition GM Screen...? Wow... I've only got one of those screens available... 6 pages, but 3 of those are on the outside facing the players...

Title says it all...

Re: Touch of Knowledge... Actually, I'm the GM... I'm contemplating Limited Telepathy, linked to Eidetic Memory, but I'm wondering if there's a more elegant way to do it... The Languages could be Universal Translator, with such a limitation... I'm getting used to 6th edition, after a while away from Hero System, so I appreciate any suggestions you can make... And I will definately be looking at a VPP for the Knowledge Skills... Thanks...

I'm contemplating ways to build this ability, and thought I'd enlist the aid of anyone on the board willing to help... Basically, you touch someone, and gain the ability to read and write any languages they know, use any of their Knowledge Skills, and Remember things they know... Until you tough someone else, and gain their knowledge in place of it...

Re: SFX Question... What's in those blaster clips?

Re: SFX Question... What's in those blaster clips? My *Universal* power cells are cylinders of artificial layered-composite diamond crystal... They're extremely difficult to damage...

Re: Setting for a "realistic" campaign in space Potentially, a larger star could have 5 habitable worlds, if you stretch things... Innermost World, low in greenhouse gasses, is only habitable at the poles... Next World Out is closest to Earth... Third World high in greenhouse gasses, only habitable in the equatorial band... Fourth and Fifth Worlds orbit a gas giant... They would be too cold, except that a large gas giant will radiate heat... The innermost of the two would be a trifle warm, and the outermost a trifle cool... There would be other moons, but I believe you couldn't count on more than two having a decent temperature... Then, if you have a binary system, repeat... I would pick a respectable total number less than 10... Six or seven, maybe...

Re: Your characters, favorite by Archetype Brick This would have to be Behemoth... Normal looking, but made out of metal... He had Armor Piercing for his Strength, and a bunch of Strength bought "Only for figuring Casual STR"... Energy Projector Lucifer... Unmatched for sheer power... Pity he was immolated when he absorbed the detonation of a nuke... Gadgeteer Gizmo... 38 INT, Loads of stuff, and Bertha the Hoverwing... I'll never forget the other Player's faces when he said "Heel, Bertha", and the Hoverwing followed him into its hanger... Martial Artist Snapshot... Superfast mental processes, so he had 10 overall skill levels... So many people hated him... Mentalist Only Mentalist I've ever done is a villain while GMing... Mindlord... Got himself nervefried and put in a wheelchair... The Government was keeping Metahumans top secret, so they were keeping him to Memory Mod anyone who found out... His big plot was to force things to go public in a big, obnoxious way so he'd finally be allowed to go home... Metamorph Flex... Stretchy and Rubbery... Like Mr Fantastic, but without the elongation ability and not nearly as smart... Mystic Mage... He was one of the Tunguskee Airmen until he got shot down at the end of WW2... Found on the Island he was stranded on by an annoying old twit who refused to help him unless he became a student... 40 years later he was finished with his Apprenticeship, but by then it was the mid-80s... Man, was he a victim of Culture Shock when he got home... Patriot/Avatar Never played one of these, really... Powered Armor Cyber... Wasn't much at building Armor in and of itself, but Oy did he know Cybernetics... Other folks came to him for help with that... Speedster Impulse... He once ran across the US and back, in about an hour, when he was in his 70s... Had a stroke and died just after that, unfortunately... Weapon Master I don't think I've ever played one of these, either...

Re: Hello, I am new to HERO How many Levels of Growth does Teh Bunneh have...?!!!

Re: Foxfire...

Someone I know is trying to build a Kitsune in Hero System... One ability he is looking at is the ability to wreath a target in harmless flames, making it easier to spot and attack them... I suggested Change Environment, as it seems to affect everyone else's ability to perceive or attack the target, but he pointed out that Change Environment affects a hex... Is there a modifier that lets it affect single targets...? Or would it be better as Skill Levels that affect others...?

Re: How would you build this ability...? Well, she has stretching as one of her powers, which lets you play about with where exactly she is...

Re: How would you build this ability...? I'm contemplating it as an 8d6 Explosion... If she has the power active, she has an rPD of at least 5, and a total PD of at least 10... rPD 25 and total PD of 30, if she puts the Multipower completely into defense... With a CON of 30, the chances are low of her CON-Stunning herself even at minimal protection and non-existant at higher levels, but she can take STUN damage from the effect even then...

Re: How would you build this ability...? Well, it's an explosion that occurs at the point where the plasma is sheared away, spreading out from that point like a normal explosion...

Re: How would you build this ability...? Well, the results so far have been helpful... Thanks much, guys... Now here's the tricky part... If the plasma is released from confinement, it explodes, like anything else contained under pressure... She would be able to do this herself, and it would obviously be a power fueled from the END reserve... But if the plasma is shot away from her control, the same thing would happen to it... Which means that attacks can trigger involuntary use of the power... Any suggestions...?

Re: How would you build this ability...? Thankie Muchly...!!!

Re: How would you build this ability...? I don't remember that one... Is it in FRED, Revised, or elsewhere...?

I have an NPC from older games... She can exude a low-temperature plasma, and control and confine it with interwoven magnetic flux... It protects her from attacks, but the material may also be used actively... If she is using some of it for something else, she has less of it protecting her... It would be possible, to eventually strip this material away, by targeting it specifically, and doing damage faster than she could exude more... Also, the stuff is glowing yellow, and thus is obvious when she has the ability active... Abilities usable would be Extra Limbs, Stretching, Swinging, Extra Running, and something akin to an Area Effect Entangle... Any suggestions for how to stat it out...?