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Re: WWYCD: "Dear Superhero" (Warning: Ugly situation) Mal would buy a plane ticket. Soon, each leader calls a meeting in a dark room and orders his troops to leave the civilians alone. Violators of these orders are found in several pieces. Also, a number of new superheroes appear, each telling how they gained their powers after being struck by strange, purple lightning. Rumor has it that a red-haired girl was seen near the sites of all of the strange lightning strikes. Mal returns home with an empty Energy X canister and a slightly duller sword.

Re: Questions about vigilantes Regarding your second question, I would say that vigilante status doesn't necessarily confer any restrictions on power selection, if the classification is purely social in nature, and not a classification based on powers. Iron Age characters, however, tend to have powers that effect them adversely in some way.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! New Team: The Human Zoo Five people who have had their minds melded with those of animals. They might have psionic or magical powers that are often associated with the animals, but no animal physical characteristics.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Ned Wolfe, Manwolf Ned Wolfe was once an employee of the circus; Specifically, he was the ventriloquist who made a wolf in their sideshow seem to talk. Then, one day, he and his wolf were struck by lightning. When Ned awoke, he found himself in the body of his wolf. Now, he lives out his days as a dog, and, when the full moon shines down upon him, returns to his human form. However, Count Superia can hypnotize him into turning into the form of a horrifying Manwolf!

Re: What are YOUR character trademark(s)? My characters tend to be non-human in some way, and are often devious. Also, they tend to have high DEX, SPD, and CVs, martial arts, and lots of noncombat skills.

Re: More cosmic weirdness: diamond planet

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! For the Dread Titans: Hurricane wields the power of storm to bring down the League of Giants! He projects thunder, lightning, tornadoes, and water from the body of stormclouds that he constructs around himself. This body can grow up to a height of 100 meters tall! When not enlarged, he looks like the very archetype of mundanity. No one really knows where he came from. New team: Academia Diabolica 6 villains who are themed after college faculty. For example, they might have a Dean, and certainly some sort of professor. Also, their base, the Diabolical Academy, should be described.

Re: Brain-Scanning Alien All members of the species have the sense(which is sight-based), but using it to read minds is a learned skill. It has other uses. While the sense is passive, actually looking at someone's brain-waves would behave like telepathy(which would have the Only To Receive limitation). It would also Require a SS:Neurology Roll, require Concentration, and take Extra Time. Would it need to have a limitation like Surface Thoughts Only?

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Captain Nemo & His Sub-Marine Legion John Nemo had just been informed, after several years of service as a submarine captain, that he was getting too old to serve in active duty. Rather than retire or go to a desk job, he decided to go rogue. He began to wage war against naval forces, but was shot down. However, his submarine crashed near a damaged alien listening post. Its computer rebuilt him and his ship, and he woke up the aliens. They agreed to join his crew. He turned the listening post into his secret base, and used its cloning device and factory replicator to build himself a Sub-Marine Legion. Now he goes by the name Captain Nemo, and once again wages his war against the Navy.

Re: AWOL: Life-Form Table The Life-Form Table referred to is the Life Complexity Table. The previous step says to determine whether life exists, and this is presumably meant to be by your decision.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Gunslinger is a textbook weaponmaster type, and carries numerous guns around on his belt. However, people are always very surprised when he attacks. Why? Because his guns are actually a diverse array of gimmick boomerangs, of course! He just disguises them as guns to maintain the team's western motif. He's not the brightest light in the building, either, and considers bad puns(like his name) to be high wit. Also, how many members to the team?

An alien can see electromagnetic fields, including those in human brains. After much training, perhaps including subconscious teaching methods, he has learned to analyze the brain-waves of sentient beings. What level of telepathy could he achieve from this?

Re: Starting points Having less than 250 would put the the characters within the point range recommended for Heroic characters, rather than Superheroic. A starting super in 6e is typically built on anywhere from 300-400 points. Long-established comics characters have often ascended into the 450-500 range, so they could still handle a 400-point character with relative ease.

Re: Final Destination Keeneye would be missed by his numerous ex-girlfriends, but not the Board of Directors of MetroCom. He's not popular with the public, so no one would miss his costumed persona until the crime rate skyrocketed. His rebirth arc would probably involve a villain creating a clone/quantum duplicate/replica of him for some evil plan, which then goes rogue and turns to superheroing. Varn is actually vaguely popular, so he would at least get a memorial service. At that memorial service, he would appear out of nowhere and warn of some dimensional menace that is approaching.

Re: Once Were Minions I like this idea. I'd be interested in playing in this, but, as I usually GM instead of playing, I will file it away to run in the future.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! New team: Automatonics Five robot-themed supervillains. Only one of them is actually a robot, and only one builds robots.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Donald Trump went to sleep one night, and, when he woke up, he was in a different world. In this world he found that he could make the most powerful superhero into a bumbling incompetent.

Re: Aliens in Dark Champions I may use that sort of scenario early in the campaign, and then have the aliens come to get their stuff back.

Re: Mass Effect Shields? The method that I suggested was itself based off of a video-game mechanic; in its case, the starship shields in Star Trek Online. As the shields are described as "regenerating", I thought to use regeneration. The Healing-based way above would work better.

Re: Mass Effect Shields? How about using the Barrier power on 6E1 p.169? If you englobe yourself, you get a shield that takes all damage that would otherwise be done to you until it breaks. You could limit it so that it will only block things moving at a certain velocity. In order to move while using it, you need Mobile(+1/4), and to shoot through it, you need One-way Transparent(probably at the +1 level). To make it recover, you could either turn it on and off when you go behind cover, or buy Regeneration, Applies to Barrier BODY, not character body(probably -0).

Re: Aliens in Dark Champions I'm working on a weird-conspiracy Dark Champions campaign, which I intend to feature aliens. I want to know how overt those aliens can be, and how many of them have to be aliens only in the 'foreigner' sense of the word.

Re: Aliens in Dark Champions Therefore, overt alien invasions would probably be out of the question, unless everyone were irrational alien deniers("No, it wasn't aliens that destroyed New York, it was terrorists and bungling by those idiots at the Pentagon!").

How much in the way of aliens can a campaign feature while still remaining Dark Champions, instead of Star Hero? The discussion of the 'weird conspiracy' subgenre in 6E2 does mention aliens, so it's evidently not a flat "aliens make it Star Hero" situation.

Re: How can mutants be discriminated against while other "supers" get a pass? Bloodstone's reasons #2, 3, and 5 probably apply to most non-Marvel worlds. The only reason explicitly contradicted is #4.

Re: Life Support and NNDs An alternate multipower presented for the Morbane writeup in DEMON:Servants of Darkness featured a blast with NND against Diminished Sleep. The special effect was making a day pass for the target in one second. Drains to characteristics could have the special effect of an aging ray/spell/whatever, and be NND against Longivety. Most of the NNDs vs. unconventional life supports that I can think of have time manipulation as the special effect.