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Re: Answers & Questions Q: The king just said "Let it be printed!" What the heck does he want printed?? A: A knowledge of Latin.

Re: Robots, Robots for Sale! Ah ha! I was going to ask the same question as Tech, but FireTiger and Lord Liaden between them have answered it. Yes, FireTiger, that sounds just like Steve's chapter "Constitutional Law" in 4th ed Dark Champions, pages 70-71. Which in turn is part of the section "Superpowered Humans and the Law," p.61-71. I wonder if Steve is planning to update that matterial before putting it in the Stronghold book. There have been some changes since 1993, after all.

Re: Fantasy Hero Printing Error My copy of Fantasy Hero doesn't have any such problems. OTOH, I've had it for a goodly while.

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson Excuse me, but this is something that irritates me no end: the word is "canon." A cannon goes BOOM, canon is the collection of those works considered authentic, and as proper sources. Ah, OK. More than the canon, then. Well, the Rathbone/Bruce movies aren't bad; extremely padded, but that can't be helped when turning a short story into a 1 - 1.5 hour movie. The book, The Seven Percent Solution isn't bad, but suffers from the mistake of trying to bring real-world persons into the fictional world Doyle created. I've never seen the movie. Um, huh? Do you mean this is meant to represent Holmes as of about the time of the last (in fictional world chronology) story? That would be "His Last Bow," set at the very start of World War I (August 2, 1914, in fact) I don't remember that. Do you have a page number I can look up? Well, as I said, I was going by the Holmes of A Study in Scarlet (as per the OP). He clearly lost that DF as time went by.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What do you call the political-flames threads on NGD? A: Not since 1928.

Re: Adonis and his ladies (New Mastermind and henchwomen) Nope. You can buy different Followers together, so long as you pay for all of them at the cost for the most expensive. Actually, you have 8+16+4+4=32, so you can buy them all together as: 65 Followers: (up to) 32 built on no more than 200 base + up to 150 in Disadvantages

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Broods. What else?

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson OK, a few comments; some of substance, some nit-picking. His COM is not above 10, and perhaps only 8. He's skinny, sallow, with a beak of a nose and sunken cheeks. And that's when he's in good health; sick or overworked, he looks skeletal. I think more END would be appropriate; he's worked like a devil on a number of occasions. OK, just what period of Holmes's career are you emulating? Remember, Watson got involved because Holmes couldn't afford a place on his own. I'm not sure a KS of a language's vocabulary is a legit skill. A) Scholar only works on KS's, not PS's nor SS's You should show the cost including the point off for a Skill Enhancer. Otherwise it gets way too confusing (see later note) It would be best if you noted these two are INT based. Otherwise anyone reading the writeup will get confuse as to where you got these costs from. I disagree; throughout the Canon, Holmes shows extreme reluctance to use a handgun, and IIRC has never so much as threatened anyone at less than near-contact range. I don't believe he has this WF. I've never seen this term; I can only assume you mean the points saved from KS's by having the Skill Enhancer, "Scholar." There were 9 skills listed immedately after "3 Scholar" of which only 6 were KS's; there were 3 other KS's listed elsewhere. I have no idea where you're getting a cost of negative eleven. Certainly not true at the time of A Study in Scarlet; neither chronologically nor physiologically. Again, the question comes up, "At what point in his life are you modeling Holmes?" We do not hear of Professor Moriarty until "The Final Problem," the very story in which he "kills" Holmes, and that is about half-way through the Canon. Note that at that time, Holmes says he has been aware for years of someone directing much of the crime in London, it was only three months previously that he became aware of who. By the end of "The Final Problem" (we learn later) Moriarty is dead, and Holmes is (obviously) no longer hunting him. I think you need a more "generic" hunting; a Psych Lim like "Devoted to rooting out crime" or the like. As for Irene Adler, we meet her in "A Scandal in Bohemia." While Holmes admires her, it is for her intelligence and quick wit, not as "a woman of character." BTW, remember that in the first paragraph of "A Scandal in Bohemia," she is referred to as "the late Irene Adler." Just a point to keep in mind. I would certainly give him a DF: "Obviously unfamiliar with many aspects of culture/common knowledge". In A Study in Scarlet Watson lists his knowledge of literature, philosophy, and astronomy as "Nil", his knowledge of politics as "Feeble" his knowledge of botany as "Variable" (knows all about poisons, nothing about gardening), etc. There are other ways in which Holmes is shown as being out-of-touch with his society. Perhaps the DF could be phrased more generally as "Acts really oddly"; he "just doesn't get it" in interpersonal relations, a lot of the time. Though note, this fades as the stories go on. IOW, Holmes starts to gain better relationship skills. Hope this has helped.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: That woman claims to have an extra chromosome in the 23rd "pair." What does that make her? A: Obscure, but amusing.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Shooting people with a hammer. How do you do that?

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson He once straightened out a fireplace poker someone had bent (in an attempt to intimidate Holmes), he spent days in a cave on a moor, he's shown astonishing levels of endurance --- no, he's quite fit (and fairly strong). He's said to have studied baritsu (IIRC), but we're shown very little of it. He also knows singlestick, boxing, and fencing.

Re: Elementary, My Dear Watson Considering the number of times Holmes displayed a very, very high level of knowledge in an extremely recondite subject, only to never refer to the matter again, I think he'd need a VPP, only for knowledge skills.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat I have heard of sexual deviancy but not often enough! NT: Other things you've heard of, but not often enough

Re: New to Hero Check out the "Player Finder" sub-forum. That's your best bet.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Because you wished to use a demonstrative pronoun to refer to an object not in your possession or near to you.

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat A magnet on the end of a string. Throw the magnet, it sticks to the can, and he pulls the can of spinach right to himself. What?

Re: Adonis and his ladies (New Mastermind and henchwomen) Ditto. Oh well...

Re: Heroes Who Mess-Up "I don' know ma own strenth!" -- Bullwinkle J. Moose

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Rutabaga. Just because it's a funny-sounding word. I mean, really, say it over and over. Rutabaga. Rutabaga. Rutabaga. Rutabaga. Rutabaga. See, sounds funny. Sometimes the simple jokes are the best. Of course, the fact that a rutabaga is a kind of turnip is amusing all by itself. Yeah, turnip chips.

Re: Adonis and his ladies (New Mastermind and henchwomen) Are you thinking of Divine, from Underworld Enemies? (4th Ed. D.C., BTW). No plastic surgery involved, and he detests and abuses women. However, he does have a pair of female bodyguards of Heroic level abilities. Or is there someone I'm not thinking of, that you have in mind?

Re: Turakian Age Q: Gunpowder? That is what Greek Fire is!. BTW, where did you get the term "dragon ships"? I've never come across it before, at least as referring to Byzantine ships. Which pumped water through a brass tube, where the Greek Fire was introduced, causing the Greek Fire to combust. It was them pointed at the enemy ship(s), throwing "unquenchable" fire all over said ship. That's right---Greek Fire flared into fire upon contact with water! It also floated on water, so water wouldn't put it out. Real nasty stuff.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Well, Dr. Madgeneticist, your latest experiment just chewed through the main power cable. What do you think of that?! A: I can get the monkeys for you wholesale, if you're sure you want to go through with it.

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