Netzilla

I refer to it as "GM A.D.D."
As for how I deal with it; not well.

The campaign has a 40 Active Point / 8 Damage Class limit (with some exceptions allowing a 50AP/10DC attack).  The player in question appears to be trying to circumvent the spirit, if not the letter, of that cap (thus 2x 7 DC attacks as one power).

Through this and all the related threads about this players builds it seems pretty clear they are focusing on maximum efficiency of points. A GL like character was mentioned. Is this a superhero game?  I think asking the player what type of hero they want to play is much more important than how its built. You can certainly point out the ridiculous overlapping limitations too but I think getting their head out of mechanic-space and into describing their character in plain English is needed. It almost seems like they have a copy of hero designer but no rulebook.

Not me. Nor you, unless you think you can live well on five hundred bucks a month in Stockton CA.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary would like to visit

Golden Age Champions
 
Zoltan the Magnificent: I didn't know there were rules to car bowling.

Golden Age Champions
 
Zoltan the Magnificent: I didn't know there were rules to car bowling.

He has to explain how it's restrainable.  Presumably it would be evident from the SFX of the power, but as they aren't shown here, there's no way to make that call.  If he claims it's restrainable due to the Gestures, the would be double-dipping.
 
Also, did he really buy his characer's base running all the way down to 1m?

Maybe I'm just naive, but yeah, I'm surprised. By the blatancy of it more than anything else.
 
I have serious doubt that Trump understands the implications of what he's suggesting. I have little doubt that the people who crafted his speech understand the implications perfectly.

Meanwhile, Trump asked for the power to purge the government of non-loyalists.
 
 
 

You know, what you are needing to go alongside this is a description of the power as it would appear to people in-game.
 
With many powers it is kind of obvious what it might look like.  With this, you really need to get a feel for what the characters would see to really understand whether the limitations etc are appropriate.
 
I can see a magical energy carpet allowing a bunch of characters to fly away together and being able to be physically prevented from using that spot.  That all seems to work.  It is a harder ask for teleport, though a blue box appearing and everyone trooping through the door before it leaves with a strange wheezing noise comes close.  :-)
 
On another matter - you might want to look closely at the maths.  
 
25" flight (25 points), acceleration (+6 points), usable on others (+6 points) = 37 points which means 4 END, not 3.
 
It also means that the reserve has to be 37 points, not 31 (though the lack of the advantage on the reserve does mean this comes out at 18.5 or 18 points if you want to be generous.  The additional cost for the player is that each slot comes out at a cost of 2 points rather than 1.  It is an important difference because it is not the reserve that is being used by others, it is the individual powers and that is where the advantage should go.
 
I would also point out to him that I would not want to be flying using a power that is only 91% reliable.  The roll will be failed at some point and the power will stop working.  If others are travelling with him (the way he has bought usable by others) they need to be within reach for him to grant the power again.  That 1/2 limitation is saving him a lot of points in the reserve and in the individual slots.
 
Doc

What he's done is created a combined attack, which is legal in the game.  Note that he is paying the full cost for both attacks or 2xSTR end cost + both KA end costs.  Each attack is applied to the defenses and CON for stunning separately.  The attacks do not coordinate with each other but can coordinate with another player as normal.
 
Strangely, for a weapon, its not a focus but has a hand requirement?  Also, if it is restrainable, why the required hands? Don't they(restrainable/required hands) both work the same type of limitation on the power?
 
That said, you can always say no.  As GM you have final say over any power that a player wished to be included into your campaign.  Even if it is "rules legal".  You are the final decision maker and can say, "Look, I just think this power is unbalancing for this game."  Sometimes, I will say something to the effect of "Look, I don't like the power design, but I'm willing to let it run for a while in the game.  If its too unbalancing, I get to veto the power later on in the game, no arguments."

I hate players like this. Just tell him he can put as many points as he wants in the power, make his builds as complex as he likes, but in the end he will only ever do/roll one attack that does 8 DC. Even if the build comes out at 10 DC or 20 DC, you don't care. He will only do 8 DC. It is your game. He either goes by the cap or he doesn't play or he is just wasting points. 

Here's the quick-ref sheet I created for my players:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzQTNhU0hwMl9zbE0
 
Here's my customized GM screen:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzMExxenZOWlVKYUE
 
 

Jedi carry too much restrictive baggage. There are so many different types of "wizard" precedents, you can define yours pretty much how you want. So, wizards for me.

I had thought I'd weighed in about Pluto before, but I can't find it, so here it goes again.
 
This whole sequence, of finding a new body and calling it a planet, then sheepishly rescinding that label, has happened before.
 
In 1801 the first asteroid was discovered, Ceres, in what we now call the main asteroid belt.  Three more were found over the next ten years in sort of the same part of the Solar System.  Because there were several of them, and they all seemed undersized, they got kicked collectively into a new ghetto bin, "asteroids" or "minor planets".  Definitely judgmental and a bit scandalous, people forgot about this episode.  We now know thousands of asteroids, of course; the relabeling was the correct thing to do.
 
Advance the calendar to about 1930, and replay the tape.  The first object, Pluto, was found by Clyde Tombaugh and hailed as a new planet, though it was rather undersized and in a definitely funny place.  But, because Tombaugh was a truly great astronomer, it was sixty years rather than less than ten before the next examples were found.  Sixty years is close enough to a human lifetime that cultural inertia sets in and people get emotionally invested in lore that they picked up in their youth.
 
A bit of confusing excitement happened in the very late 1970s when Pluto was found to have a satellite (Charon), and there was a series of eclipses in the 1980s which let us get good numbers for the size of Pluto, and damn, it's small.
 
Eventually in the 1990s, improvements in telescope and detector technology meant we started finding lots of these things, these "trans-Neptunian objects", and Pluto isn't even the biggest of them (which Ceres, the first known asteroid, was); it's just the closest one to us, sort of.  Computational techniques and broader study of celestial mechanics gained us some insight about what this sort of object must be, and the ones we have left are a tiny remnant of what was a much larger population of icy bodies sort of the same size as the bigger moons orbiting the (real) planets.  (A few more satellites of Pluto were found with Hubble Space Telescope, upping the ante in the whole affair.)  We probably got our first good look at one of these trans-Neptunian objects in the late 1980s when Voyager passed through the Neptune system and returned images of Triton, which is almost certainly also a Pluto-class body that got captured into orbit rather than being accreted (eaten) or ejected (kicked out of the Solar System entirely) over the last 4.5 billion years or so, which is what happened to the overwhelming majority of that population. The amazing achievement of the New Horizons spacecraft passing through the Pluto system a couple years back got us a good, if limited, look at the one that started the whole hoo-rah.
 
But ... Pluto is just one member of a class of objects too small to qualify as a planet, for the same kind of reasons that Ceres and Vesta and Juno and Pallas are members of a different class of objects too small to qualify as a planet.  There is more to the list of qualifications than just size, but people hung up on this issue tend not to care about that, and not care quite loudly.

Here's the quick-ref sheet I created for my players:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzQTNhU0hwMl9zbE0
 
Here's my customized GM screen:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzMExxenZOWlVKYUE
 
 

Here's the quick-ref sheet I created for my players:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzQTNhU0hwMl9zbE0
 
Here's my customized GM screen:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzMExxenZOWlVKYUE
 
 

Here's the quick-ref sheet I created for my players:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzQTNhU0hwMl9zbE0
 
Here's my customized GM screen:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-Y_iIChR6rzMExxenZOWlVKYUE
 
 

You know, I could never understand that part. I remember all the critics of Hillary Clinton claiming she was in the pocket of big business, and that Donald Trump was immune to that because he has his own money. How do you not recognize that Donald Trump has all that money because he's one of the pockets?  All they did by voting him in was eliminate the middle man.

It's impossible to keep up.
 
The White House has effectively refused to impose sanctions on Russia in accordance with a law overwhelming passed by Congress last year.  This is literally a Constitutional crisis.  Rep. Nunes and his GOP teammates on the House Intelligence Committee have voted to release a heavily redacted memo that will show that the FBI sought a FISA warrant against members of the Trump campaign, but will conveniently omit the evidence that explains why the FBI sought the warrant. Andrew McCabe was forced out of the FBI for reasons. The GOP, which when presented with evidence of an extramarital affair by a U.S. president, launched a multi-year investigation with a special prosecutor that culminated in the impeachment of Bill Clinton, did nothing when it heard about an alleged affair between Donald Trump and Stormy Daniels, or the front company that was set up for the express purpose of paying her off. Trump has turned the State of the Union address into a fundraiser; donors can pay $35 and up for the privilege of seeing their names on the screen during the speech.  To be clear: Trump is openly using his office for the direct enrichment of his political party. Trump has played three times more golf than any other president at this point in his term. It was revealed that Trump literally ordered the firing of Mueller last year (which, again, constitutes obstruction of justice); Trump's counsel only managed to override this by threatening to quit. Negotiations to stave off the next government shutdown are going nowhere.  
I'm forgetting a whole bunch of stuff, but any one of these by itself is a serious crisis in government.  If I were cynical, I'd suspect that the GOP is counting on a constant drumbeat of outrage to wear out any opposition to its abuses of power.

There are a couple of files in the free Downloads section of this website that I find quite useful:
 
http://www.herogames.com/forums/files/file/271-hs6e-gm-screen/
http://www.herogames.com/forums/files/file/197-hero-combat-survival-guide/
 

Armed Trump Supporters Confront American Indian Arizona Lawmakers
 
I can't decide whether this part is ironic or just stupidity on the Trump supporters part--
 
"It was during the time that I left to find a security guard that one of the Trump protestors yelled at Rep. Descheenie to get out the country because he was here illegally. “--Rep. Wenona Benally
 
Rep. Eric Descheenie is a Navajo.  His ancestors were here long before the Trumpers' ancestors--but try telling them that. 

Christopher Wray forcing Andrew McCabe out of the FBI for basically no reason does qualify as ugly.  It's hard to paint that as anything other than an opening attack on the FBI.

I remember that All Things Considered has aired a number of stories about large numbers of the undocumented working in chicken processing plants.
 
(Having worked in my father's tiny rabbit processing plant, I can confirm that meat processing is hard work and quite unpleasant. Keeping workers was quite a problem... So many people who said they wanted jobs, even if it was only one day a week, but worked only a few times or never showed up at all.
 
(All white, as far as I could tell. If it matters.)
 
And every time immigration makes the news, we get another set of stories about employers treating their undocumented as virtual slave lablr, such as by threatening to turn them in if they keep demanding the pay they were promised. In the interests of preserving the rule of law, I think employers should not be allowed to get away with this.
 
Dean Shomshak
 
 

The PCs in my modified Champions Universe game have gone to visit Babylon.
 
After meeting their first Conurbite (the magical pretty people who live in Babylon), and I complete my description of her, I get back "It's Barbie Borg!"
 
I am now stuck thinking of Conurbites as Ken and Barbie versions of Star Trek's Borg, which is probably not too far off from how they appear from their description in Mystic World.
 
Babylon did allow me to entertain myself a bit when they bought a stripped-down copy (no weapons) of the Millenium Falcon from a Ferengi. They're now trying to figure out how to get it back to Earth.