Greatwyrm

Re: Sounds like a pulp plot to me... I'd say molemen needing a large quantity of water for use in their massive Rotary Steam-Excavator. Of course, you can't rule out evil Nazi scientists testing an anti-water atom, created in their secret laboratories.

Re: The President has a cronic medical condition

Re: The President has a cronic medical condition I'm sure they'd account for something like that, but I don't know how far out of their standard tactics they need to go. It wouldn't really be any different than the times you see any other president take his time shaking hands on a street or something. And really, its how fast the agents act that would save him, not how fast he reacts. If you've ever seen the clip of the attempted assassination on President Reagan, he's pretty much shot, picked up and thrown into the car by the Secret Service guys, and jumped on by the Secret Service guys before he has a chance to do anything. In game terms, your Secret Service guys should just have the maximum level of Lightning Reflexes you allow normal people to have in your game. Maybe even some kind of Human Shield power, depending again on what you allow. It might be built as a kind of Damage Reduction or Armor, Usable By Others, Trigger (when you see/hear an assassin), Lim: Only When Adjacent, Lim: You Take the Damage reduced. It would only help on the first shot if you saw the assassin before he struck, but would be good after you knew what was going on. Pretty much like real life, I guess.

Re: "Genetic Memory" as a power I'm no HERO expert, but I'll offer an alternative. How about a modified form of Cramming? IIRC, it gives you a 8- on a skill. Instead of preparing ahead of time, you prepare it with a night's sleep, still only usable once per adventure per purcahse.

Re: FH Gripes

Re: Barbed Arrows My only question is, why Recoverable Charges on something that's purposely designed to be difficult to recover?

Re: New Judge trying to understand Unstoppable Healing It's been a while since I've dug into the rules, so forgive me if I'm a bit off. First, I'm pretty sure Resurrection is either a Caution or Stop power. Warning you to consider limiting or excluding them from your game. The power reserve has Inherent and Reduced Endurance listed for all slots, but they don't seem to be included in the slots. The third power has Self Only and Usable by Others. Can you do that? IIRC, Resurrection says the GM is well within his/her rights to list circumstances that will cause the character permanent death. Stake through the heart, removal of the head, whatever you think is reasonable. Also, there is plenty of stuff that will ruin this guy's day. Drown him and leave him bound at the bottom of a body of water. He'll resurrect, be stuck, and drown again. Immerse him in acid and leave him there. Encase him in concrete. Really, all you'd need to do is incapacitate him (by doing enough damage to outpace the healing) and then pick something suitably nasty and difficult to escape.

Re: Power: Genetic Reincarnation... How about Longevity 2 points (effecitvely immortal, but doesn't come in to play very often) and Resurrection with a lot of Extra Time tacked on.

Re: So if I have 30 rPD/30 rED armor... poison your drink choke you Transform (armor to acid) push you into a hole full of water

Re: [World Building] Magic System Maybe it's just the lazy GM in me. Instead of making a table and trying to account for all the armor available in the game, maybe just make the penalty = (DEF/2). Magical or specially crafted armor could include what would amount to a PSL (and priced the same). For example, you could have plate armor 8 DEF (-4 RSR), but have it specially fitted and hinged so the RSR is only -2 (for the AP cost of 2 PSLs). I've been kicking around an idea of a campaign rule that the RP you have in a spell can't exceed the RP you have in the Power skill the RSR is based on. If you're Necromancy is Int+1, then you can't have more than 5 RP in any Necromancy spell. A 30 AP spell would need -5 worth of limitations to get down to that level, but only -3.25 (approx) if you had Necromancy at Int+2.

Re: fear-ability PRE is the best way to handle simple fear. If you wanted, you could also try Mind Control (issue command "flee"). If something was really terrifying, it might have a Transform (Mental) power that inflicted a semi-permanent phobia of the creature.

Re: Hero Designer v2.0 - CD-ROM Just adding my $0.02 as another happy Hero Designer customer. It's easy to use and very handy.

Re: WWYCD: You the Jury Fill out the jury questionnarie in such a way no lawyer in his/her right mind would keep you in the pool. 1. Do you know the defendant? A. Yes, he once killed my dog in an attempt to take over the city. 2. Do you have any particular bias against super-powered individuals? A. Yes, they are freaks of nature that must be purged from society.

Re: New World Map I guess it depends on how good your cable package is.

Re: New World Map I agree, but consider how many people live their real lives in that same way.