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Re: Champions Universe: The Director’s Cut I'm using most CU material as-is, with a few exceptions. My campaign (on hyatus) is currently set in 1992, so some characters are younger, less experienced or missing altogether. The Champions have the 4e roster (Defender, Obsidian, Jaguar, Solitaire, Quantum and, yes, Seeker). I plan on moving to the 5e roster when the campaign fast-forwards to the 21st Century, with Defender as the only remaining (and much experienced) original Champion. The whole mystic world is conspicuously missing, but that's because I have no mystic long-term playing characters yet - mostly mutants and tech guys. I'll add magic-based plots if and when need arises.

Re: Anthropomorphic/Furry HERO Resources Would Carl Barks Disney characters count as "Furries"? Also, no mention of the old "Justifiers" RPG? I had fun playing it back in the days. I heard rumors of an upcoming new edition, but I can't find a link right now.

Re: Critical Sweep? I agree with Dust Raven. Also, remember that you have to pay END for each attack in a Sweep, so in effect the more targets you are attacking, the harder (and less accurately) you are swinging. As for the fact that Cyborg didn't seem to be making a conscious decision, that's standard fare in RPGs. Players make conscious decisions all the time, even when their characters are acting unconsciously. Heck, I can choose when my D&D barbarian character flies into a berserk rage!

Re: Critical Sweep? The Cyborg episode you describe seems a starightforward application of Sweep to me. Why do you feel this is not the case, Hyper-man?

Re: Impossible to abuse / Absolute Balance challenge.

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal Cinematic or street level. It it was superhero or fantasy one would need to add all the artifacts stored beneath the Vatican: the Spear of Longinus, the Holy Graal, the true Shroud, whatever.

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal Larger than Avengers Mansion or Four Freedom Plaza, I reckon. Nor should we. The Deal should be equally good for all Popes, so accounting for individual psychology is unnecessary. And I'd say "Public ID" is already included in the "Cardinal" Deal. I'd rather include: Watched: The Media and many religious institutions around the world, 14-

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal That would be the Perk alone. A Package Deal would probably include Bases, Followers, Disads, etc...

Extensive, lavish headquarters. About a billion followers, some of them very powerful on their own. Swiss Guards. The PopeMobile. And the list goes on... How many points is it worth a Pope Package Deal?

Re: What's the most ridiculous PC you've ever been subjected to? The absolute worst I've seen was Captain Sheep, but I'm too ashamed to post that here. Another character, not as ridiculous as useless, was Black Hole. An alien lifeform like a floating ball of black energy that shoots black energy. Coudn't talk human languages. Came to Earth for no reason. Followed the PCs for no reason. And with that name, he was the butt of jokes. Polpo. A sentient, psionic squid. Lived in a plastic bag full of water and was carried around by an NPC. Only breathed water and died when a stray bullet punctured the plastic bag. Mako Dragonshark the Cyber-Ninja. Son of a Chinese Dragon and an Hindi Rakhasa, abducted at a young age by a clan of Japanese ninjas who raised him as their own. Again abducted by an evil American technological corporation that turned him into a cyborg, thus activating his dormant psionic powers. With said powers he took control of the evil corp. He was a wizard-dragon-rakhasa-ninja-cyborg-psionic-millionaire. Too bad he wasn't a pirate too. Despite being unbelievably munchkined, he was an utterly inefficient build with a few dozen powers, all of them useless. He relied on his many Followers in combat. Months later, the same player submitted me another character with the very same name, this time for a game of Justifiers (anthropomorphic sci-fi exploration). His genetic makeup was 20% Human, 20% Great White Shark, 20% Eagle, 20% Siberian Tiger, 20% Komodo Dragon. Don't ask me what he was supposed to look like, I just don't know. But he was a Ninjutsu master. And a cyborg. And wore a Power Armor. And was a Space Pirate.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What did Hulk say after donating at the sperm bank? A: The cat! You should have used the cat!

Re: Strength Damage: Pathetic or what? Caveat: I've only read the first 5 or so pages, I suppose the thread branched in some unforeseen direction but I can't read all this stuff tonight. So I'm getting back at the original question, I'll be catching up with the rest tomorrow. It doesn't bug me. For one thing, it has already been said that you don't get 8,5d6 damage out of a Bo stick with Heroic rules (damage caps and minimum STR). And if you're using Superheroic rules, you already threw "realism" (for all it's worth) out of the window. Then, a 8,5d6 Martial attack is actually weaker than a 8,5d6 normal attack. It gets less Knockback and, as per Martial Arts rules, is limited in its ability to affect object. The STR 43 guy can rip a car in half. The guy with a Bo can smash the headlights and scratch the paint job. Last but not least, I object to the notion that having Fast Strike represents "a year or so of training". HERO Characters with even the minimum 10 points in Martial Arts are accomplished, veteran fighter. They might as well have learned it overnight from an ancient master, if appropriate for the campaign, but that level of ability equates several years' worth of real-world training. Let's take weapons and superpowers out of this: let's say an Olympic-level powerlifter has STR 25, for 5d6 damage, while a fairly fit (STR 15) veteran pugilist might do a 7d6 Offensive Strike. I don't find this hard to believe. Sure the lifter is much stronger, but the pugilist knows how to hurt you. Given the choice, I'd take a punch from the lifter over a hook from the pugilist any time.

Re: Dr. Kirby Loo The fiendish Ubermachine IIRC.

Re: Dr. Kirby Loo

Re: Nudity and Sex in comics books There's a very loose self-rating system here too. Pr0n comics are routinely bagged, but there's no law about that - it's just a safety measure publishers enforce to avoid trouble with customer unions, families and the like. However, comics here are less prudish than American ones. Generally speaking, only gorey, gruesome violence or very explicit sex earn "Mature Audience" labels. Nudity alone usually doesn't. Of course it all depends on the comic's target audience: you won't be seeing Mickey Mouse's having a go at Minnie anywhere. Well, actually IIRC an issue of "Fantonald" (Donald Duck's superheroic persona) had a shot of full back nudity for a human, not anthro-animal, character. But that's aimed at older readers, and the Italian Disney market looks weird from an American perspective. "Dylan Dog", which was top selling comic here for a few years in the early '90s, often featured full nudity, and occasionally mild sex scenes, eg two lovers kissing in bed, sheets covering the loins but nipples in sight. This was self-rated "Over age 14". The most extreme instance I've seen was likely the uncensored issue 2 of Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell", which was not rated at all...

Re: Women!

Re: Foriegn Captain America's : ambles out of his grave, looking ghastly and cadaveric as any European : You don't know much about Europe, do you? Your trite stereotype of pastry-skinned blonds is nothing like the way Europeans perceive themselves. "Captain Celt"! : snicker : As for immigration, we've been having that for millenia, and my country in particular has been visited by countless waves of African and Middle-eastern settlers long before there even was a Muslim religion. Nothing new. The ancient mosques in sountern Italy peacefully rest side by side with ancient churches and even more ancient Greek temples. One last thing: you, sir, are a troll, and an ignorant one at that. I suggest from now on you take your inarticulate political rantings to the NGD area and leave gaming threads to gaming issues. : craws back in his grave :

Re: Battle of Detroit I idly considered running the Battle of Detroit as an epic ending to my campaign (currently on hyatus) set in the early '90s, but I haven't really be doing any work on it. I'd probably break it up into at least three smaller scenarios - a damage control and civilian rescue scenario, a Kaiju-like battle against Glacier scenario, and the main assault on DD's facility scenario.

Re: Rifts HERO What Curufea and Shadowpup said. Don't bother with MegaDamage at all - it's meant to represent large or tough structures that are hard to damage with small arms, so it's easier to just use high defenses. Plus, I think it's usually a Bad Idea to 'port game mechanics directly into HERO.

Re: Invisible to Touch Group?

Re: Invisible to Touch Group? Or for a truly forgettable lover. "Oh! You're done already?" More seriously, and on a tanget to this thread - would "Invisible to touch" be appropriate for a martial artist whose attacks are so fast and accurate his foes doesn't even immediatly realise he's been hit?

Re: At what point can HERO sue? Yep, but he didn't write Unhearted Arcana, he wrote Arcana Unhearted... different (and much better!) book, despite similar names.

Re: At what point can HERO sue? Unsurprising. Steve Long wrote Combat.

Re: Shadows of the City (by Scott Sigler) I only got to run the first part, but I found it to be an excellent adventure for a grim superhero game. I had to beef the opponents up too, bot I kept their damage more or less at the same level - the pack packs a nasty bite.

Re: Delete me please A character in the JoJo series had a "delete" power. In one issue he even used it to close to hand-to-hand range with his opponent, by deleting intervening space. His delete power also had "partial effect", and reality would adjust itself around the partially deleted object. For instance, he could transform a limousine in a sedan by deleting the middle section.