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  2. Mind Scan vs. the Cosmos

    in HERO System Discussion

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    Morty: You know, Rick, when I first saw all those Ricks and Mortys, I thought, "Gee, that kinda devalues our bond." But then I realized it just means that our relationship must be pretty special to span over all those different timelines.

     

    Rick: Yeah, it's gotta be that way. You're a camouflage.

     

    Morty: Camouflage? Wh-wh-what are you talking about, Rick?

     

    Rick: Ricks have a very distinctive and traceable brainwave due to our genius. The best way to hide from an enemy's radar is to stand near someone with complementary brainwaves that make ours invisible.

     

    [picks his pen]

     

    See, w-w-w-when a Rick i-is with a Morty,

     

    [writes diagram]

     

    the genius waves get canceled out by the, uh... ahe-hem... Morty waves.

     

    Morty: Um... because... our personalities are so different?

     

    [Rick's portal gun beeps]

     

  3. Rethinking Haymaker

    in HERO System Discussion

    Posted

    Example:

    You have a Mind Link with Bob because Bob the friendly mentalist established one with you. You've had one with Bob for years because you are buds with Bob -- i.e. you trust Bob. You're on one side of the planet, asleep, when Bob (on vacation on the other side of the planet) learns that you slept with his significant other prior to the time he established a Mind Link with you. Bob is now very angry. He is also a mentalist who, until now, respected your boundaries by never combing through your brain or mentally attacking you -- but no more. Because you didn't respect Bob's boundaries, he no longer cares about yours -- so Bob decides he's going to turn your brain into mush. He winds up a mental blast haymaker against you ... and will automatically hit you...

     

    You clearly don't have a Phase. Combat will begin on the Segment Bob commences the Haymaker ... and you will have no clue until it hits you (whether awake or asleep) ... unless you happen to have Mental Awareness (in which case you need to make some crazy PER roll because you're asleep). But to be crystal clear, Bob is the mentalist, not you, so you lack Mental Awareness. With that in mind (see what I did, there? :) ), you clearly can't see the mental blast haymaker attack coming because you're halfway across the globe and it's an attack you can't perceive. And if that wasn't good enough for the GM who insists on making ridiculous excuses to try to ignore the problem I've demonstrated exists within RAW (or find ways to try to deny it's possible for a mental haymaker to surprise someone) ... you're asleep ... when Bob can clearly haymaker you ... with surprise.

     

     

    My point:

    Haymakers can be surprises ... especially mental ones across a Mind Link from someone you trust. I tossed in the slumber just to really underscore it for the naysayers... even though it shouldn't have been necessary to go to that extreme.

     

     

    Let's take it farther:

    Your slumber is taking place on the upper bunk of a bunk bed -- which places you 1.5m above the floor. You have 1d6 of Unluck, which the GM rolls ... and determines that you fall out of bed. It happens to be the exact segment the haymaker is supposed to land, so you move 1.5m, downward, land with a THUD, take a small amount of damage, and (obviously) awaken. Per RAW, the mental blast haymaker misses ... because you moved at least 1m.

     

    And we're now back to the automatic hit (via the Mind Link) ... automatically missing. Our RAW conundrum is still alive and well ... with the only solutions presented so far being GM fiat ... mostly by individuals who would rather GM fiat their way around the flaw within RAW, than address/correct it.

     

     

     

    The above is improbable, you say? Umm, well, I painted a rosy picture gone bad. Imagine, instead, that Bob didn't find something out and the he was, instead, Mind Controlled into attacking you ... by a hostile mentalist he was fighting. Suddenly the attack on an unsuspecting friend ... across a Mind Link ... is highly probable. But according to people, here, you can't surprise someone with a mental haymaker across a Mind Link. RAW says nothing of the sort ... only GM fiat does ... and I'm looking for solutions other than GM fiat since we know we have a problem in RAW... in that RAW contradicts itself.

    Is this still about Haymakers?

     

    If the attacker is so favoribly positioned & the victom is so helpless, then I call it a coup de grace.

     

    Adventurers might use it on monsters that were already beaten but not yet killed.

     

    Not a noble act. Even vs evil monsters.

     

    Walking around the aftermath of a battle delivering mercy-killings is a cold-blooded line that can not be uncrossed.

     

    Demands strict lifelong atonement.

  21. Group types

    in Fantasy Hero

    Posted

    When I GM AD&D2 I give everybody the Complete Priest's Handbook to make PCs.

     

    They can have any kit they want from any book.

     

    I make them roll for a psionic wild talent from either the Complete Psionicist's Handbook or the Will & the Way (darksun).

     

    Then they get to pick a philosophical faction or sect (planescape).

     

    Each PC ends up unique.

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