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Re: Entangle as improved grab I happen to have studied this very problem for the same reason - tentacled alien hero. An entangle has the advantage of not reducing your DCV, but it also costs a hellofalot more than Martial Grab. Take some stretching, take some martial arts, and a few damages levels with that martial art. It will give you a much stronger grab than it would buy an entangle. Entangles break, while typically arms don't. If he's a brick, see how much villain you can tote around with your casual strength, buy some PSL's for encumberance, something like that. There's ways around the DCV issue, and almost all of them are cheaper and more generally applicable than Entangle. And get a little Japanese girl for a sidekick. It's funny.

Re: Does this make ANY sense? I'm about to play a superduper genius, and it presents challenges - I'm not as smart as my character, which is hard. It means that the GM will occasionally have to give me a peak behind the curtain, which is why the deduction, tactics, and retrocognition are there. I can certainly see why it would frustrate a GM and why it can be an obstacle to role playing (How will I ever NOT say "I wish I'd thought of that!" - I always find myself saying that.) But it fits the concept, and I'll just have to play it carefully and the GM will have to balance how damned smart Marshall Hood can really be.

Re: How to steal a comm link + I think the skills approach would also require a cryptography roll of about 3 or so, although TUS may have different suggestions.

I have an AI character that I would like to bless with the ability to surrepetitiously usurp an active mind link (if it has electrical special effects, of course). In reality this is done all the time, believe it or not. It's an important facet of military communications - enabling your own and either disabling or overtaking your opponents comms, to gain all their intel and possibly send them bad intel. I want Zulfiqar to do the same. I first tried Aid to Mind Link, Usable as an attack, but compatriots said no, for a lot of pretty good reasons. My current attempt is a mind link simultaneous with shapchange for the hearing and radio groups (Zulfiqar can broadcast), contingent on successfully dispelling the mind link to be duplicated. It also requires a Mimicry roll. Looks like this: Mind Link, any 64 minds (45AP) + Shapeshift (Hearing, radio, Imitation, Cellular, only to imitate electronic Mind Links, 38AP) Requires a Mimicry Roll (-½), Requires a successful Dispel Electronics on Mind Link imitated (-½). What do you folks think? What I'd like that to like is this: I dispel the Mind Link, I Mimic the mind link (I took the "Cellular" adder to reflect that I would mimic the encryption and recognition standards), and I establish the doppelganger as though it was the one dispelled. Would that work?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings I got a spam from one Baal Lemons, offering me \/|/\Gr@, etc. Baal Lemons? Viagra?

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Least Competent Criminals The robber of a Bank of America branch in Tampa, Fla., in August is actually still at large, but according to witnesses, the bag of cash he took and stuffed down his pants as he fled had exploded, from the chemical dye pack inside, creating a temperature of about 425 degrees. Said a police spokesperson, "There's no way that he was not injured." (In his spirited post-ignition dash, the man jettisoned almost all the money.) [Tampa Tribune, 8-10-06]

Re: Musings on Random Musings I just kind of assumed it.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Male primates are a violent lot. After the male nodded off in post connubial bliss, the she-primate could sneak off and survive. Her male offspring were likewise quick to sleep. That's my BS argument and I'm sticking to it. Doesn't make me sleepy but it sure makes me less aggressive.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Sorry Pops, that was yesterday. Today I have a Palm Treo, which is an internet connection, camera, phone, e-mail, outlook, calculator, calendar, alarm clock, rolodex, and deck of cards (if you like solitaire, anyway). It has an IR output that will eventually make it work like a credit card, too. The keyboard is too damn small, as is the screen, but in an iteration or two that big assed ridiculous thing under your desk is going to seem as quaint as an Underwood Typewriter. Remote storage, present processing, and some clever way across the ergonomic divide is all we need, and the market will provide it, whether we want it or not. sigh... This is why I prefer to go camping. To get away from all this progress once in a while.

Re: Musings on Random Musings -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yeah. Mine e-mailed me a virus warning that snopes listed in 2000. I chose not to tell her.

Re: Musings on Random Musings Accentuate the positive. Don't think "Oww," think "There's a woman who's going to need some aloe vera gel."

Re: The cranky thread You could be missing a cog from the big gear that engages the starter motor, but probably not - it would make more noise. You could have a sticky pin in the starter - I like that one, because it's easy to diagnose. You have to find the starter and hit it with a hammer (not oo hard) while someone is trying to start the darn thing. Obviously this may require a little care. If that is the case, the starter it needs replacement. And you can hit it as hard as you like with that hammer.

Re: Musings on Random Musings I suppose that I could love you, If my heart were still intact. It keeps ticking, but not tricking me, like it used to - that's a fact. I've been burned and I have learned To let the muscle do its job. It beats and beats, its no mean feat, It doesn't have to throb. Loudon Wainwright III, "I Suppose"

Re: Musings on Random Musings I have Tyrrany and Mutation, Fire of Unknown Origin, and Secret Treaties on Vinyl. Kickin' it old school, and all that. And yes, hasten thee to a music store. Everything before 1981 is worth owning. Club Ninja is worth owning. The Revolution by Night is a little sketchy. Imaginos is the best album ever pressed. Period. Yes it is too better than Dark Side of the Moon. There's been like NINE "best of" albums since 2001, which seems a little excessive. I admit I haven't heard Heaven Forbid or The Curse of the Hidden Mirror, which probably means I'm stuck in the past.

Re: Musings on Random Musings It was Heavy Metal: Black and Silver, the last song on the A side of Fire of Unknown Origin, that branded a love of BOC right onto my soul's naughty bits. All right, maybe that's not the best way to put it, but man I was hooked, and from Cities On Flame all the way to Imaginos (will they, for pity's sake, remaster and rerelease it already?) I have always played it much louder when no one else was around. So, yeah, it may take some travel, but we'll all be there.

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Re: Musings on Random Musings Well, yes. On the one hand, ick. But on the other, why not innoculate at a younger age? Innoculate at 5 and effectively wipe out the disease altogether. Sure, it shouldn't be necessary for your daughter to get the innoculation until she's, oh, thirty-five or so in your opinion, but why not get it now? Perhaps the unofficial motto of the drive for earlier innoculation should be "If there's grass on the field, innoculate."

Re: The cranky thread Are you one, Herbert?

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) My hate of d02 know no limit! (or something like that)

Re: Two weapon fighting in HtH and Ranged I'm a little confused. Why is Two Weapon Fighting a better buy than 2 Penalty Skill Levels with Sweep or Rapid Fire? TWF - 10 points. 2 PSLs with Sweep - 3 points. Hit him twice with your right hand. "Left hand" is just a special effect, isn't it? This also makes "ambidexterity" superfluous until/ unless the on-hand is injured/ entangled. Am I missing something?

Re: Activate THere is of course the moderate risk of no-powers day, which is inevitably the day all hell breaks loose. Additionally, you are asking for gambling without risk. The house generally frowns on this. Aside from that, seems OK to me. I'd take it down 1/4 to reflect the diminished detriment that comes with certainty.

Re: Enhanced Senes -> "free" Tracking and other benefits 10 points. Tracking sense. And now for another question: Police and MP dogs are trained (very effectively, IMHO) to threaten. What sort of PRE skill is this? Is it Oratory? Persuasion? Interrogation?

Re: Exotic ammo in DC? There's a bunch of nifty exotic shotgun shells, but you can't get them at S-Mart or anything. Screamers, doorbusters, etc. Try this link If that link doesn't scare you even a little, you're a braver man than I. Just the same, I've bookmarked it.

Re: A couple of Canine questions. That's awesome. I'm building a silver age flagsuit right now. I think he just got himself a sidekick. The aerial insertion vest is the kicker.

Re: THE ULTIMATE BRICK -- What Do *You* Want To See? You just model it as a special effect - as the range increases, so does the thrown person's improbable luck. example: In a fit of rage, Stone hurls the hapless mook, one of the Lynchpin's underlings, down the block as far as he possibly can. (90 STR = 80 extra strength - 4 levels due to the mooks inherent aerodynamic instability, which means 48". Add 18" with this rule and heave the mook 66", or 429 feet. The mook soars through the air, a flailing, helpless creature, tumbling head over heels towards a moving van, waiving his arms like a large man trying to roll up the windows of a very small car. Suddenly, the moving men start carrying a large overstuffed couch down the loading ramp on the back of the truck, toating the couch right into the path of the oncoming SAM (Surface to Air Mook.) The mook's screams of panic and dismay are snuffed out in a sudden muffled thump and a quiet "oof." The moving men put the couch down, and help the mook to his feet. He straightens his collar, offers Stone a universally understood salutation, and considers why discretion might actually be the better part of valor as he runs off into the alleys of Champions City.