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Re: Code VS Killing Poll Considering that many people (rightly or not) regard the Joker as the archetype of teh insane supervillain, perhaps you could explain just how he qualifies as "legally sane"?

Re: Character Help: name for female powerd-armor Muslim heroine Locally, (meaning the Vancouver, BC area) it's not all that unusual to see Moslem women walking around outside the home. The Koran does require that women in a certain age range be escorted by a male relative or an older female relative, but a powered armour heroine whose armour appears to be male isn't likely to catch trouble for this unless her cover's blown, and even then you could argue that the armour's *far* better protection than any escort. And please, remember that the "black body-bag" outfit is *not* a Koranic requirement, only the covering of the hair, the body from neck to ankles, and the arms down to the wrists.

Re: Weak Supers who just needed better writers Let's try it this way: Nuclear reactions involve the strong and weak nuclear forces. Chemical reactions involve the electric force. Chemical King's powers work via the electric force. Thus, he cannot influence strong or weak force reactions. Does anyone have a problem with that notion? Oh, and in one of his first appearances, he caused a villain's gun to catch fire by increasing the rate of oxidation on its surface.

Re: Weakest Supers in books you've read? When you stop to think about it, that's actually a very formidable ability. In the pre-Crisis history, he ate the Miracle Machine; even Mon-El couldn't destroy the Miracle Machine. Weak is one thing, bizarre or highly specialized is another. With Warlock's help, Doug Ramsey once defeated the Magus, and on another occassion he prevented Lila's Dyson sphere home from self-destructing. In one issue of "What If?" he became advisor to Illyana, Queen of Asgard, and helped bring peace to the Nine Worlds. I'd have to say the weakest super-hero I can think of is probably Robin, the Boy Wonder. He's a very intelligent adolescent jock with a bunch of neat gadgets.

Re: Suggestions? Telepathic PCs just captured VIPER agent Oh, and comparisons to the Lensmen novels are entirely inappropriate. Lensmen gain their Lenses only after they have proved themselves to be uncorrupt and incorruptible.

Re: Suggestions? Telepathic PCs just captured VIPER agent Might I suggest this alternative view of "invasion of privacy": In most comics, and in most SF, telepathy simply *happens*. Telepaths generally don't have to learn to use their powers, they have to learn how to not use them, and how to interpret what they recieve, but the ability itself cannot be "turned off." Thus, picking up thoughts is no more an illegal act than the previously cited example of looking at a girl taking a shower in the middle of the sidewalk. Sure, it's probably polite not to ogle her, but said ogling isn't a crime. In Champions, it's different: Telepathy normally costs END, it's a deliberate action. Thus, it would be legally equivalent to a search of a person: You need probable cause, a warrant, or similar. Now you have a case for invasion of privacy. This view solves the problem neatly: If there are sufficient grounds for a physical search, then there are probably grounds for a mental one. Oh, and on a tangentially related subject, in the issues I have of the current series, the Lasso of Truth forces the person holding it to tell the truth *even to themselves*. It also works without being in Diana's hand; it will work for or on anyone (except, possibly Diana herself).

Re: The green alien's burden It depends entirely on the leaders. Bush Jr. would probably declare war on general principles, you can depend on every religious extremist to declare the aliens "Satanic" or the equivalent, every tin-pot dictator will see them as a convenient way to get advanced weapons (laws? Trading? We need those weapons!). The moment the country starts to become prosperous, most organized crime group will do their level best to take over or at least become a major power bloc. Basically, every major power group in the world will assume they're hostile, evil, or whatever, and react accordingly. As Tommy Lee Jones said in "Men in Black," a person is smart. People are blind, stupid, panicky animals.

Re: Looking for NEW words of transformation: (SHAZAM, Thunder! Thunder!...) My character in one PBEM has several powers bought with OHID because she can't use them as her day-to-day self, only in her super identity as Champion Wind. She *also* has Secret ID, and some other psych lims constraining her ability to change and to use her powers. The OHID limit is valid because she can't use the limited powers most of the time, and changing to Champion Wind is not something she does casually.

Re: What WOULDN'T your character do? One of the other characters has a really nasty Side Effect.

Re: What WOULDN'T your character do? Champion Wind: Use her powers for personal gain. Advocate a violent solution. Harm an innocent. Ironically, she's the second most peaceful member of her group, and she has probably the most lethal powers (at least to others... ).

Re: Green Lantern In Abberant, I created a Green-Lantern like character called Blue Fire by giving her the powers of Quantum Bolt, Flight, Force Field, and Telekinesis. With my GM's approval, I also gave her, effectively, "Variable Special Effects" for her powers, so her Force Field, for example, could be a simple aura, or a Zulu shield, or whatever seemed appropriate to teh moment. Her favourite appearance for Quantum Bolt was the "Cream Pie Cannon," essentially a bazooka-shaped construct that fired construct cream pies. If you turn a gun on someone, they'll be terrified and angred and will probably come looking for revenge. A fire hose might outrage them. You can even tell a face-saving tale about being driven off by a swarm of hawks. But you just can't feel anything but stupid after being knocked cold by a stream of hypervelocity... cream pies.

I have a character whose power is that she can turn into animals, changing her shape but not her mass. When she changes into animals smaller than herself, she becomes multiple animals, but she's still a single mind distributed over many bodies. My question is this: If she were to turn into, for example, a majesty of golden eagles and attack someone with all of her bodies, would she get a coordinated attack bonus?

Re: Need Help with Some Villain "Lackeys"

Re: Need Help with Some Villain "Lackeys" Or perhaps they're repelled by stovepipes hats? Lincoln being an icon of good. Or even better, since this is eastern Europe and you need something period, Superman or Batman. And of course there will be local legendary champions of good with their own symbols. For werewolves, maybe it's not the light of the full moon but the sight of it. This also opens the door to inducing changes by use of a planetarium.

Re: Need Help with Some Villain "Lackeys"

Re: Super Metals and Alloys

Re: Super Metals and Alloys The toughest substance in the Marvel Universe, so far as I know, is Captain America's shield, made of a unique alloy of true adamantium and Wakandan vibranium. There are tougher things, but none of them are entirely material objects. Only the power of the Beyonder ever broke it, and only that same power could restore it. Now, that being said, I'd give true adamantium a DEF slightly higher than the absolute upper limit of BODY that can be done in your campaign world; secondary adamantium would have a DEF a point or two below that limit Kryptonite isn't particularly "super," it's just a mineral. It can be worked, shaped, refined, melted down, and so forth by conventional methods. Osmium is a real substance; to determine its game stats, look up its real world properties, relate them to steel, and go from there. It's the densest substance that exists outside of ultrabaric environments.

Re: TV Teen Titans Where does she demonstrate Desolidification in the show?

Re: Questions about Energy Blast

Vancouver, BC could berth it, but I'm not sure if nuclear carriers are allowed into the port. So I think the thing to do would be to let them buy the carrier - and deal with the problems of owning it. Fuel, berthing fees, feeding and paying the crew (non-trivial, trust me), insurance, licensing, maintenance, etc. Unless someone in the group bought "Filthy Rich" as a Perk, they might not be able to afford the upkeep. And that's without any comic book complications.

I never said it was always good, no matter who's doing it, I just don't see any fundamental difference in kind.

Well, a lot of the replies in this thread seem to assume that there is a fundamental difference in kind between a nation sending in troops to conquer a foreign land and impose a new government and a group of super-beings doing the same thing. If such a difference exists, I fail to see it.

You know, there's one thing everyone's forgetting in all this: Every government, in every place and time, without exception, is based to some degree on force and its application. Group A conquers group B and makes group B part of their nation, and that's generally considered legitimate, and it's happened in just about every country I can think of - including Canada, on the Plains of Abraham, when Quebec was made part of the nation. So why is not legitimate for a group of super-beings (group A) to conquer group B and make them part of their nation? There's a difference between conquest and oppression.

Ah... that's actually a cultural holdover from the pre-existing manga styles and the first Western cartoons to reach Japan - the Fleischer Studios' Betty Boop series. Most anime does indeed have that trait in its art (where do you think "Big Eyes, Small Mouth" got its name?), but again it's not universal, just very common. You won't find it, for example, in the works of Hayao Miyazaki or to a large dgree Leiji Matsumoto; I can give you a list of titles for either. Remember that almost all animation everywhere is stylized and exaggerated in some way; if you look at "Fire and Ice," where Ralph Bakshi uses extenesive rotoscoping, you'll see that a lot of the character action seems stilted and stiff, because it's too realistic for the medium. Japanese animation simply uses different stylizations than Western.

Then maybe he's studying the precursor art, Egg Fu Young