BNakagawa

Thanks for sharing. eww....

My first mentallist. (whenever that happens)

You can model it however you want. However, in practice it's a little difficult to get players to act accordingly. (Unless there is a marked difference in character effectiveness) It's very easy to effect such stratification where the game mechanics mimic it. Toss a bunch of D&D characters of wildly varying level and see if you don't see a pecking order develop, regardless of what the social order might proscribe. Good players will be better able to wrap their heads around unusual social structures. Players with experience operating within highly stratified social structures (like oh, say the military) will also be better able to play within such environs. In general, the typical adventuring culture is one of black sheep and rule-breakers. Breaking societal rules in order to get things done is one of the staples of adventuring culture, so it makes imposing such limits on characters a bit of a challenge. Especially, I think, to americans. I think english, most europeans and many other cultures would have an easier time of functioning within an environment of highly defined social strata. $0.02

Actually, I don't even remember. It was probably at one of those bay area conventions where they would hand out stats for X-Men or Alpha Flight or Teen Titans and let them hammer on eachother for a while. A great way for complete novices to get to know a new game system because they already knew how the characters worked and what to try. Addendum: I did end up spending many a Friday night at the Beresford Rec center playing almost nothing but champions. Glen and Tom ran mostly, IIRC.

Huh. Let me know if you need illos for the anthro cop game. I can do that.

many of these suggestions are entirely too useful. The most useless supplement I'd actually like to see is the Ultimate Catgirl. Special effects, schticks, perks, talents, disads and skills tailored for the femme feline. Nyan.

Maybe, maybe not. Don't remember anyone named Acroyear, though... I played a very little in the D&D campaign being run by J Dauser, more of the various champions campaigns run more often than not by B T Tumey. I think I played a little car wars and probably some other stuff but I don't remember any of it very clearly. It's all pretty much a blur, really. I remember Sniper's first game as a PC was there (he started life as a dnpc). Sniper was a PC who mainatined a 2+ body suffered/experience gained ratio over much of his career. Who/what did you play there?

Depending on the shape of the blade you could make a scabbard that held the blade from the sides where it isn't sharp. Assuming the sides of the blades don't cut, you wouldn't need a magic spell to sheathe a blade like that.

I dunno. All he is is fast. You take a sufficiently powerful supercomputer AI and it can justify a SPD beyond 12. A full second is an awfully long time to a fast computer. Besides, like I said, all he is is fast. That's nothing compared to somebody who can actually manipulate timespace. An infinite number of actions between post phase 12 and the end of phase 1? Plausible for somebody who manipulates timespace, not so much for somebody who is just faster than normal. And then there's speed beyond infinitely fast, the ability to actually blink back in time a bit and do something. How fast is that? In actual play, though - I wouldn't want there to be anything in the game faster than the Flash. For sanity's sake if nothing else. $0.02

I always write up cat people with lower constitutions than Canine counterparts. Cats really stink at anything requiring endurance. Cats are great sprinters and lousy marathoners. (I have played more than my share of cat-people) $0.02

I first met Glen, Bruce and Tom (IceStar, Marksman and Rose) at the Beresford Rec Center. Either that or one of the local conventions. It's so long ago I've forgotton.

Based on the company he keeps (you'd have to see the back cover) I'm guessing it's IceStar. (pictured on the back cover are Gargoyle, Mind Maid and Force) Marksman and Mercenary are not pictured. Those are all the characters listed in the 1st edition dedication. $0.02

I don't think your penetrating HKA really accomplishes his stated goal. While it is true that a 3 1/2 d6 Penetrating KA will leak through 3 or 4 points of body damage, it will also cause an unarmored opponent to explode like a blood filled water baloon, which is rather unlike a blunt escrima stick embued with chi. (unless you are using a very Fist of the Northstar sort of definition of Chi energy) I think a few dice of NND does body linked to the martial arts attack fits the description nicely and doesn't cause normals to explode into kibble. $0.02

Perhaps I might point out that the original poster stipulated that some body damage always leaks through. All of the examples using penetration will not achieve this as the leaking damage is STUN not BODY. In order to fulfill the original request, I would use a stacked NND does body. $0.02

There are two distinct ways to look at archetypes or classes, and they depend on what you're looking to accomplish. When you're looking to balance a character set, you need to look at what characters do. This is important if you're playing in a setting that is all-encompassing and all inclusive. The Legion of Super Heroes is a good example. They don't care how you do things as long as what you do is unique. So if you're looking at archetypes or classes in this light, then you're going to focus on the functional groupings. HtH vs Ranged, CV high, DC low vs CV low, DC high. Active defenses vs passive defenses and so on. When I look to classify characters in this light, I look at a brick and say: CV -, DC +, SPD -, Def +. Martial artists are pretty much the opposite, with CV +, DC -, SPD +, Def -. Then when you're looking to shape a campaign, you have to look at archetypes and classes in an entirely different light. Let's say you're trying to run a campaign based on one type of sfx like the Blood or mutants. Then you're not going to be so interested in powered armored suits or self trained martial artists. In this case, you're going to want to exclude certain archetypes or require certain ones. Also, if you're looking to tell a certain type of story, then you're probably going to need to enforce or exclude certain things. Hard to tell a story about struggling to make ends meet when half of your PCs have bought wealth and one is a Tony Stark clone.

I dunno about those consumate Vs. I mean, they're cool and all, but they don't seem to do a good job keeping Trogdor from being instantly Sworded or Arrowed, you know...

My vote would have to go to the Lou Ferigno Hercules movie(s) Special mention to Conan the Destroyer.

that is true, but it still gives you a situation where an OCV 3 normal has only a 50% chance of hitting the head of an unconscious person.

maybe in HtH, but not necessarily at range... Out of combat or no, a head is still harder to hit than a person at range.

Solve the world's radioactive contamination problems? Unilaterally disarm all nuclear weapons? Or just nuclear weapons owned by foreigners? Or kill people with glow in the dark paint?

Good luck getting that approved. Assuming you're getting hit with 60AP attacks, let's just throw a vanilla 12d6 EB at it. Well, you absorb 28 points on the average, your defenses are 30 total, you take 12 stun, which is reduced to 3. Your absorbtion then returns up to 14 Stun and 28 end. So you're going to build a character that doesn't get damaged by an average roll on a 24d6 attack? That's a pushed Grond Haymaker and you didn't take a single stun pip? I don't think so. $0.02

Rivalries - everyone needs a rivalry. Maybe two. Presence attacks - remember that you can haymaker a PRE attack. I've seen this done countless times in various anime series. (I've also seen people leave before it went off) Addition by subtraction. Many an anime character is defined not only by what they're really good at, but also by what they're REALLY bad at. Ryouga Hibiki's incredibly bad navigation skills, Lum's horrible singing voice (especially funny given that her seiyuu was a singer) Akane Tendou's cooking - the list goes on and on. Plot induced Vulnerabilities - If you say something rude enough for you to get smacked, expect it to hurt, even if you are a brick and she isn't. Alternately, use megascale knockback.

Actually, I was contemplating building a PA suit that was powered by either a giant clockspring or flywheel (gyroscopically mounted) Either way, it would have a large end reserve that could recover only when you had a brick buddy turn a crank... REC costs end (that's gotta be a first) low-tech fun. Gotta love it.

Since you're in a 75+75 environment, I'd go with skills. I'd use the resistance model. You're going to be attempting to beat other people's disguise and concealment rolls, so just buy bonuses against those skills. $0.02

I'd advise against it. The last thing you want is some weasel getting a detect (power points) sense, discriminatory, analyze) who makes his roll and demands to see your villains' writeups. Or Detect(vulnerability) along with a variable sfx attack. Or detect (susceptibility) and a change environment. etc. etc. etc. Just say no to cheese. $0.02