BoneDaddy

No no, I'm playing mental mendicant here, rattling my tin cup and looking for a hand out.

The web sight provided no immediqate answers - whatizzit?

Q: Dude, what did you say before she slapped you? A: I never said I thought you were a Republican.

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I'm going to have to disagree. I haven't looked at the rules aspect too closely, but from an anthropological viewpoint, this is excellent work. You shouldn't be giving it away (since it clearly hasn't found an appreciative audience:rolleyes: ) - submit this to Digital Hero, get some green for your efforts.

I haven't found anything better that makes any sense. Link an attack to a martial block, nothing says you can't except dignity. Missile Reflection, no range? EB with trigger and no range was suggested in a previous thread. I haven't crunched the numbers, but it makes more sense than the damage shield

The trouble with the KB Resistance option is this - the train takes the full damage. I'd like to stop it with as little collateral damage as possible. If it was a Septa liner loaded with commuters, no one but Bruce Willis would survive the crash when the Train's move-through failed. Not particularly heroic, but quite dark & gritty. I want to stop the train, not kill it.

Nice. He's a pro at everything he does. I was wondering how to do that. It's too bad that he isn't miraculously good at anything - he can make GREAT shots, but nothing impossible. Luck based powers? Clairsentience? He seems awfully shootable. You'd do well to keep your head down.

Something on the North Sea, someplace on the Mediterranean, someplace in the Alps, someplace on the Danube. Someplace in Europe. I agree it should be fictional, but some oppotunity to adventure in Europe would be nice. Zenda. Luxembourg would actually be nice, but we can't fit another city in there.

Strong Guy is a brick, with his Strength at the campaign max (50). His leaping enables him to leap tall buildings in a single bound. One day, after a bout of building bounding, Strong Guy notices a powerful locomotive, hurtling out of control down the tracks, towards a stalled bus on the Rail Road crossing, loaded with crying nuns, screaming orphans, and a few puppies. Strong Guy leaps (naturally) into action. He can't possibly get to the bus in time - he isn't faster than a speeding bullet or anything. He jumps on to the side of the train, smashes through the wall (Tunnelling, 16 def, 1", only to smash through walls), grabs a hold of the engine's massive frame, and braces his mighty legs against the tracks and ties in a frantic effort to avert calamity. So, now what? Using only his strength, he digs a long painful furrow in the ground that extends well past the carnage of the nuns and orphans. He can lift 25 tons, the freight train weighs several hundred tons. He's just not more powerful than this locomotive. How about Suppress? Suppress running would be prohibutively expensive - the train could have 100" of running, and even 10d6 worth of suppress won't stop that train in anything like a hurry. It would take about 7 Suppressions, or 2 turns, which costs a busload of nuns and orphans. Suppress speed? I'm betting the Train's speed is no higher than 3, maybe 4. This could be suppressed more quickly. But what about inertia? The laws of physics won't like this one bit, but then, it fits genre, and it could be done fairly quickly. It could also reflect his superstrong ability to grab just about anybody and stop them eventually. Clinging? A handful of points could give Strong Guy enough clinging strength to hold onto the train and the tracks, but the tracks would yeild long before the train stopped, which brings us back to the long painful furrow in the tracks. Clinging linked to Aid (ground Body) seems a little off, and the ground needs a LOT of body to stop a train. A pigload of knockback resistance and the willingness to stare locomotive death in the eye and laugh? Seems like a poor choice, and the conductor won't like it at all. Whaddyall think? I'm working on a bag (multipower, actually) of Strength tricks for Strong Guy, and I think being More Powerful Than a Locomotive is precedented for strong guys.

Weird stuff, but strangely engrossing. Phil & KJ are great artists, with a genuine sense of the absurd. Have you checked out Girl Genius? Any review?

I think the suit computer has to have two things - gyrostabilizers so the suit can determine the forces being exerted upon it, and a relative position monitor (Its a GPS without a G - needs to be linked to some hard point - the drop ship, the CO, the center of the nearest major planet sized celestial body, etc.) The squeezing the trigger initiates an autocorrect sequence - corrects any added accelleration, puts velocity back where it was before the trigger was squeezed. "Simple" vector physics, I think.

regarding recoil - if the weapon is integrated to the pressure/0-G suit, the onboard computer could compensate for recoil with a simple thruster adjustment. I would expect any milspec 0-G suit to have such a capacity. (Hmmm... Integrated knockback resistance in zeroG, how handy...)

Trouble is you have to regurgitate within an hour or so, or wait a day...

A ceramic slug thrower with caseless rounds could work. There are obvious propellant issues that are possible with explosives. Given the natural properties of a gas (it will try to expand to uniform pressure throughout its container, even when that container is vacuum filled nothing), a tube of compressed nitrogen should work about as well as an explosive charge, especially in a near frictionless microgravity environment. A .38 special? I doubt it, frankly. There are temperature concerns, and any gas inside the shell casing will try to push out the round. The rifling on the barrel will be an impediment rather than a boon in a vacuum, I think, in that they would allow the gases more opportunity to slip past the slug, without there being any gases on the other side of the slug for them to interact with. Additionally, with a semi you get shell casings bouncing around, littering up the battlefield (assuming quarters more confined than the inky blackness of space) which is a real hazard, especially if when are hot. Earth designed munition just seem dangerous for weightlessness.

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In DnD I always played the theif. It's fun, and I rarely crapped where I ate (don't steal inside the party). As for Champs, for a while every character turned into a martial artist eventually. Mentalist MA, Brick MA, Teleporting MA, whatever - they were all MA's eventually. I've started to get away from that, by building a brick who ISN'T an MA, even though I want him to be.

I have supe named Jupiter who employs a host of orbs of varying size to accomplish manifold tasks. Among them is an orb named Leda, who functions as clairsentience. I call her an OIF and leave it that. Leda can be taken, but it takes some effort. I could make her an OAF, but I'm willing to pay for a modicum reliability. Remember, the special effect is not the power. The definition doesn't even have to be the BEST possible fit, as long as the rules you want to apply to the power are included in whatever you create. Take for example, the often underestimated supervillain - The Mendicant. His attack is an 8d6 indirect EB - his trained attack pigeon, Lyle. Lyle is not a focus, not an automaton, nothing but a special effect. He can't be captured or shot down under most circumstances. He could be drained or suppressed, of course. He's one bad pigeon. Could another model work? Sure. He could have a flock of 32 recoverable attack pigeon charges. But I ramble.

Q: What was the last thing PVT Jones said before he did push-ups until his shoulders exploded? A: Destiny! Destiny! No escaping that for me!

Or you could buy Strength, with the limitation Only to add to Throwing Distance. Any guesses as to value? Folks have more or less agreed that -2 isn't out of line just to increase casual strength. I would value this at around -1.5 or -1.75. Its somewhat more useful that casual strength, but only slightly. In fact it might be just as useful/useless.

So how would you figure the AP for that? I have a brick who could use this trick...

And that, folks, is why Ben isn't allowed to bring his coffee into the server room.

Q: What sort of evil is the most fun? A: It seems superficial, but if you scratch through the surface, you come out the other side.

Or from Scotland, MacAdam!

This can be complicated. It could be an aid or a drain, if that's the primary effect you're after. It could be a transform. It could be a summon. It could be a form of pre or post cognition. How do you plan to use it, heroically? Would it reverse the radioactive decay of a given isotope? Could you turn a beluga into caviar? An egg into a chicken? Are you reversing the effects of time, or what has happened to the object during that time? For example, could you return ashes to the original wood? Unbreak an egg?