Blau Stern

I have been sick as a dog and therefore distracted, we mostly play Saturday evenings. Edit: I am spaceknightfenix, I didn't realize this account still existed.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design.

Re: KX's Character Thread Heaven forbid it's something like a frag grenade, an area effect KA.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design.

Re: KX's Character Thread I did miss the 8 DCV, but that's not going to help you against area affect attacks, the moment someone spreads to a hex the character is dead.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. It's summoning Superman, he'll help him out, because it's Superman's nature, not because Jimmy asked it of him. Think of it as summoning an angel to fight a demon, yeah the angel isn't going to do what you say, but he's going to slap the demon around. The special effect is Superman flying in a whirl of blue, red, and yellow. That's right, everything is basically up to the GM on Jimmy's powers, it's not like he really ever chooses his powers, they just happen to him. I complain that a 250 point Superman needs the universe rewritten to make him useful.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. Or don't call him Superman. I could have sworn I said that earlier? Oh wait, I did.

Re: Why Your Heroes Shouldn't Kill Even if we weren't at war, we know better than to sit on our laurels, doing so is to commit societal suicide, and we aren't doing that any time soon.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. Average campaigns aren't low level. They're mid-tier and you can fit Superman there so long as you make it clear that there aren't that many people more powerful than him and those characters are considering insanely powerful.

Re: Why Your Heroes Shouldn't Kill What? You can still build weapons while moving to peace, there was this thing that happened in a relative time of peace called the cold war. We built more weapons during the cold war than at any other time in history. You can still move toward peace while maintaining a vigilance, conscripted armies aren't maintained, but regular armies are still kept. There's moving toward peace and being incredibly dumb, one of which involves science, the other does not.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. The only complaint I had about your 6e version was that he wasn't quite strong enough without dipping into his density increase, and I think his resistant defenses might be a little low, but both of those are easy enough to ignore.

Re: Why Your Heroes Shouldn't Kill Unless they beat their swords into fancy rifles. The the dudes with the swords get shot, repeatedly. That's why science is great, it has all the applications.

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Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. That's because he keeps getting rebooted and that's practically a new game itself, but even then it still holds true: the longer the character exists (in this case Superman) the stronger they become, it's shown, as time moves forward, Superman gets stronger. For example: he was way stronger just before the latest reboot, than he was in the 90s. I don't actually read the X-Men, but I'd recently asked a friend, who does read, about Colossus, and he said Colossus is a heck of a lot stronger than he used to be. Thing is certainly a lot stronger than he used to be.

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Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. I disagree, if those multi-thousand-point NPCs are only mentioned, then they aren't GMPCs, and the characters have to walk off with the show (without having anything resembling weaknesses) to be a Mary Sue. The sheer fact that you can have a universe where there is a Superman and Booster Gold is genuinely important, makes Mary Sues nearly impossible. Right until Red Hulk, Sentry, or Deathstroke show up. Like massey said:10-12 DCs doesn't fit those characters. That's patently false, every character in comics have grown stronger over time, some a bit more than others, but they all grow stronger. Spider-Man started at 10 Marvel tons, but he's probably closer to 20 or 30 Marvel tons by now. Wolverine's regeneration didn't start anywhere near where it is now. Colossus Started off at 70-80 tons and now he's in the 100+ category, not including his juggernaut or Pheonix powers. Etc. Or don't because that has never been the case and unless you are designing your own game, you really shouldn't be altering one game just to make up for your wimpy Superman writeup. Especially when it's easier to just make Superman tougher.

Re: Why Your Heroes Shouldn't Kill History is written by the victor, rarely has a morally superior force gone against monsters, it's nearly always been red vs blue. The separatists were destroyed, utterly, they are not the same as the rebellion, the rebellion were parts of the republic that realized "oh my god, Palpatine is a monster", part of the reason people hate the prequels is that it's morally ambiguous. There are different benefits for being a professional than there is being a conscript. A conscript doesn't serve as long and doesn't go through quite as rigorous training, which is what most people (who are still willing to serve, but not for a long time) want. I see most of the public recognizing that the Empire is evil, because of the stories of the republic. Why else would such a monolithic organization fail to quash the tiny rebellion? Humans are the monsters.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. I'm still not sure why his webshooters needed a minimum strength to use or why it stuck on some of the powers, but not all of them. That is why Spider-Man was able to eventually topple Firelord.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. Ha! Found the right template. This is my (admittedly, incomplete) Experienced Spider-Man. Yes, I think a veteran Spider-Man is that dangerous. When aggravated, he will destroy you.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. I have posted a build: Silver Age Jimmy Olsen at 250 points. I've been trying to figure out how to convert an HDC file to text while managing to not look like a bunch of random numbers and letters. I suppose I could just save a picture of it and post that, but I feel like that might be a bad way to go about it.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. I'm also not the only one saying it.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. When dealing with other people who fiddle with the nitty-gritty of such things, the people who do homages, tend to make it clear that it's a homage, either stating it outright, or by making it cartoony in some manner. The only thing cartoony about this, is the idea that someone would use this write-up. Plus, they could get a lot closer to building Superman at 250 points. Superman exists on paper and in digital format, that's no more in our skulls than any human. Then perhaps people should say "this is my Not-Superman", rather than saying "This is Superman".

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design.

Re: Gods with Off Switches vs. Loaded Guns. DC vs. Marvel in Character Design. I just figured that if he's going to call for help from a 3000 point monstrosity, that he ought to pay a bit more than 10 points for it.