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Re: Penalty Skill Level (Breaking the System) I top PSLs out at +4 per category in most games. A character who declares a "high shot" still has very good odds of a head-shot.

Re: ...If I End Up In an Urban Fantasy Novel 69. Don't date the monsters.

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Re: Driving Under The Radar Not a bad idea. Or persuasion! "I really thought this car was the one, but on second look...."

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A pair of heroes wanted by local and federal authorities have rambling cross-country adventures in a pristine 1969 Ford Mustange Boss 429. Its a conspiciously rare and flashy muscle car. Yet the authorities who may well have seen the BOLO never make the connection that this is the car your looking for... How would you guys build this?

Re: ...If I End Up In an Urban Fantasy Novel You know, this sounds suspiciously like "Rebbe Mashka" in reverse. The Lubavitcher Hassidim, being from Russia, love Vodka. When the Lubavitcher Rebbe would say a blessing over a bottle of Vodka at a farbrengen the bottle, mostly full, would often mysteriously show up at one of his follower's houses. The custom replenishing the bottle then emerged. What they did, bizarrely enough, was apply the halachic principle of "follow the majority" vis-a-vis presumptive states to the vodka. In other words, you pour in less Vodka than there was to start with and then it all has the status of having been blessed. This practice continued after the Lubavitcher Rebbe died. You can, they seem to think, do this ad infinitum. So, instead of a holy water you can have holy Vodka! And its imflamable!

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Re: Resistance vs. Striking Appearance I allow players to specify the special effect Resistance works against. Example, Inured to Charming Men: Resistance [Charm] +3 Its faster than rebuilding resistance from the ground up, which usu. results in the exact same thing.

Re: Hero Games needs a new printer I suspect you have far better odds of getting a response if you send Darren Watts or HeroTina a polite email about your frustration rather than posting a complaint on the public forums. Forum Leaders List

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Re: Rocky Horror Picture Villain You forgot: Environmental Movement [High Heels] Tim Curry got his role in Legend because he could walk in them....

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Re: More Complications, Please This, again, presumes an implicit obligation to work them all into every scenario in some way based on frequency, which is an obligation I don't consider realistic for group play. That one can do so does not make it desireable.

Re: Tying Heroic Action Points to Complications It still doesn't make a lot of sense to me. On the other hand, that group could turn mundanaity into hilarity - like a good sitcom. So it worked.

Re: Tying Heroic Action Points to Complications They were playing investigators looking into paranormal "incidents" for a fakey federal agency. X-Files with an occult myth-arc instead of an alien one; or a more overt Millenium. Or a darker, grittier version of Bureau-13, Delta Green, or MIB. Cthulu-Fed? They walked round in MIB suits with sunglasses and ear-wigs chasing things that go bump in the night. The office... was a bunch of cubicles in a flourescent lit basement. They had neurotic terror "The Director" (who was referred to as him or he with a capital H) would call with a job. "You know what happens when He sends us out there... 'wheels up in 10" is a death sentence...'" I even had a Director calling sound effect for the "black phone" to cut into their antics. "Why is it black?" "What do you mean?" "Shouldn't it be red." "You mean, like for emergencies?" "Uh-huh. Code red. Red alert. Something like that." "Because its for black alert." "Black alert?" "For something wicked our way comes." "Wicked." "Yes. Wicked. As in evil." "Is that a joke?" "It doesn't ring when He calls. It plays Toccata and Fugue in D Minor." "Point taken." It rang normally for anyone else who called. They took the phone apart once and found it just had bells in it... because it was an old-fashioned rotary phone. They also had Apple IIe computers. And type-writers. It kept them from trying to google all the answers. Flashing green cursor on black screen: 'Syntax Error.' And the Computer Programming skill was verboten above 8-. Of course, character death was rare in that game, but it did have a lot of gross-outs and engineered close calls. Basically, one player loved coming up with quirky red-shirts who would last a few scenarios and then die while everyone else played characters who were in it for the duration. Except my friend who would just freak out every so often and try to gun down cthuluesque horrors screaming lines from living dead and army of darkness... he died a good bit too. Me: Why do you keep doing that? Player: Its cthulu or the whoopie cusions, man! What would you do? Me: Hang myself in the supply closet? Player: Exactly.

Re: Cool Guns for your Games Designed by Rev. Dr. Graves? You simply can't make this stuff up. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Re: Counters to problems? (Such as AoE spam and magic overuse) One becomes an experienced GM by learning the hard-way. The OP has started that glorious journey by starting a game (using the guideline) and realizing there is something they did not account for. In their wisdom, they've asked for the advice of more experienced peers on how to address the issue they now face. Do you expect those more experienced game-masters to give an answer other than what their own hard-won experience has taught them? One asks more experienced peers for the solutions they themselves use. Emmulation is like training wheels. Unless you try something harder, even if you fail at first, you won't up your game.

Re: Dwarves with No Spirits One way to handle the discrepency is to translate spirit into "aura" or "power." In other words, ones potential to do magic. Or, at least, flashy magic that isn't the twenty-minutes into the future forging techniques or rune-craft fantasy rpg dwarves typically do even if they aren't "spellcasters." In other words: soul is the colloquial soul, but spirit is the ability to manipulate forces beyond ordinary ken.

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Re: Using INT in Combat What if circumstances change between the time I announce my intention and my turn comes up?