Katherine

Re: What should be DROPPED from HERO?
 

 
Actually using Two weapons if you are properly trained does allow you to attack multiple times OR use one for defense. You attack simoulaneously with both weapons. Its taught in two weapon fighting styles like Escrima, Kali and certain schools of fencing. At least that is what I have learned. That's in the real world.
 
I can't speak for guns I've never tried to use two at once. I suppose you could point them both and shoot at once.
 
In a cinematic world such as what Hero tends to emulate both of them are obviously a pretty effective technique. Personally, I haven't had any problems with Two Weapon fighting, certainly nothing game breaking. And everything in Hero is optional. You don't want them in your game, don't use them but I don't think they should excised from the game entirely because you don't like them.

Re: What should be DROPPED from HERO?
 

 
Actually using Two weapons if you are properly trained does allow you to attack multiple times OR use one for defense. You attack simoulaneously with both weapons. Its taught in two weapon fighting styles like Escrima, Kali and certain schools of fencing. At least that is what I have learned. That's in the real world.
 
I can't speak for guns I've never tried to use two at once. I suppose you could point them both and shoot at once.
 
In a cinematic world such as what Hero tends to emulate both of them are obviously a pretty effective technique. Personally, I haven't had any problems with Two Weapon fighting, certainly nothing game breaking. And everything in Hero is optional. You don't want them in your game, don't use them but I don't think they should excised from the game entirely because you don't like them.

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The Master
 
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Val Char Cost 15 STR 5 15 DEX 15 20 CON 20 13 BODY 6 18 INT 8 27 EGO 34 25 PRE 15 26 COM 8 8/20 PD 5 8/20 ED 4 3 SPD 5 7 REC 0 40 END 0 35 STUN 4 6" RUN02" SWIM03" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 129 

Cost Power END 17 The Devil's Tongue: +6 with Pre Based Skilled (30 Active Points); Increased Endurance Cost 2x END (-1/2), Costs Endurance Only Costs END to Activate (-1/4) 6 48 "I am the Master": Mind Control 12d6 (60 Active Points); Does Not Provide Mental Awareness (-1/4) 6 31 "I know what you really want." : Telepathy 14d6 (70 Active Points); Receive Only (-1/2), Only to read memories and hidden desires Power loses about a third of its effectiveness (-1/2), Does Not Provide Mental Awareness (-1/4) 7 80 Mental Lash: Ego Attack 4d6, Continuous (+1) (80 Active Points) 8 67 "You will submit" : Drain Pre 3d6, Delayed Return Rate (points return at the rate of 5 per 5 Minutes) (+1/2), Based On EGO Combat Value (Mental Defense; +1), Target Chooses Defense (-1/4) (67 Active Points) 7 20 "Yet another toy for my collection": Transform 4d6: Character into character with "Masochistic and "Obedient to Master" Psych Lims (Major), Partial Transform (+1/2) (90 Active Points); Extra Time 1 Hour (-3), Character May Take No Other Actions (-1/4), Requires A Background Skill Roll (RSR Skill is subject to Skill vs. Skill contests, Active Point penalty to Skill Roll is -1 per 20 Active Points -1/4) 9 19 Definitely a Dom: +30 Mental Defense (35 points total), Hardened (+1/4) (39 Active Points); Only vs Mind Control Power loses about half of its effectiveness (-1) 63 Mental Shackles: Entangle 4d6, 4 DEF, Works Against EGO, Not STR (+1/4), Backlash (+1/2), Based On EGO Combat Value (Mental Defense; +1) (110 Active Points); Mental Defense Adds To EGO (-1/2), Cannot Form Barriers (-1/4) 11 63 "Playing with Puppets" : Telekinesis (50 STR), Fine Manipulation, Reduced Endurance 0 END (+1/2) (127 Active Points); Only works on characters in Mental Shackles Very Limited Group of Objects (-1) 20 "You know you like it!" : Find Weakness:Ego Attack 15- (Single Attack) (30 Active Points); Human Minds (-1/4), Cannot affect the truly chaste and/or innocent Power loses about a fourth of its effectiveness (-1/4) 30 "I LIKE pain." : Physical Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% 30 "I like Pain" 2: Energy Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% 24 Eufibre S/M gear: Armor (12 PD/12 ED) (36 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) Powers Cost: 512 
 

Cost Skill 3 Acting 14- 3 Bureaucratics 14- 3 Computer Programming 13- 7 High Society 16- 10 KS: Bondage and Domination games (INT-based) 20- 8 KS: The S and M scene 17- 4 KS: Human Sexuality (INT-based) 14- 2 KS: Anatomy 11- 3 Language: Spanish (English is native (completely fluent) 2 Language: Japanese (fluent conversation) 3 Language: French (completely fluent) 3 Lipreading 13- 5 Paramedics 14- 7 Persuasion 16- 8 PS: Dom (PRE-based) 19- 4 SS: Psychology 13- 7 Seduction 16- 3 Streetwise 14- 5 Interrogation 15- 3 Conversation 14- Skills Cost: 93 

Cost Perk 10 Money: Wealthy 26 Omni Connections 20 Follower (100 Base, 25 Disad) 3 Well-Connected 20 1) Contact (Contact has: very useful Skills or resources, Good relationship with Contact), Organization Contact (+2) (21 Active Points) 13- Perks Cost: 79 

Cost Talent 8 Resistance (8 points) Talents Cost: 8 
 
Total Character Cost: 821
 

Val Disadvantages 10 Distinctive Features: Extreme beauty (Concealable; Noticed and Recognizable; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses) 10 Physical Limitation: Needs a high caloric intake per day (Frequently; Slightly Impairing) 10 Social Limitation: Openly gay and involved in an alternate lifestyle (Frequently; Minor) 10 Physical Limitation: Weird biochemistry (Infrequently; Greatly Impairing) 10 Hunted: The Church of Saint Michael 8- (Less Pow; Harshly Punish; PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find) 15 Psychological Limitation: Dominant, loves to be in control in any situation (Common; Strong) 10 Psychological Limitation: Loves to shock, embarrass and scandilize (Common; Moderate) 10 Psychological Limitation: Something of a Nova Supremacist, but not quite a Terat (Yet) (Uncommon; Strong) 10 Psychological Limitation: Dom's code of honor (Only the "willing", honor limits and safe words, no permenant harm unless requested, etc) (Uncommon; Strong) 15 Social Limitation: Public ID (Frequently; Major) Disadvantage Points: 110
 
Base Points: 400
Experience Required: 311
Total Experience Available: 0
Experience Unspent: 0
 
Background Summary: The Master (Jeffery Hedgeworth) is the product of a conservative Christian home steeped in the traditional values of the American Midwest. Jeffery grew up in the late 20th century knowing his was “different†but never bold enough to experiment and find out just how. That is until he found the internet. Suddenly there was a place for him, safe, anonymous where he could explore the confused but compelling feelings inside him and become the person he truly was. Hedgeworth took the screen name “The Master†on several online chat rooms and adult MMORPGs, a consummate homosexual dominator and bondage play specialist. It was his secret world and his escape from the humdrum life of a married Midwestern accountant.
Eventually though, he became bored with this. Typing and a plain screen weren’t enough and, filled with self loathing and guilt, Hedgeworth arranged a meeting with one of his online clients, another bored young man of the opposite bent. It might be a cliché, but perhaps it really was a match made in Heaven. The two clicked instantly and had one long weekend of passionate, painful sex that changed their lives forever. Hedgeworth’s more than his partner’s though. He found himself in more ways than one while wielding a whip. Most Novas describe their Eruptions as painful and a few describe an incredible bliss and sense of freedom. For Hedgeworth is was both. Pain and pleasure were always one for him and now he practically embodied that principle and The Master was truly born.
Hedgeworth immediately understood what had happened to him. Using his new charisma and parlaying his new talents with the help of other “contacts†he’d made online, he open his own clubs across the country. Of course, he divorced his baseline wife with a generous alimony and child support arrangement as he wanted to take care of the responsibilities of his former life. He also bore his former family no ill will, despite the fact they publicly disowned him. He didn’t care one whit. It wasn’t like he needed them anymore. Today “The Master†is one of the more outspoken and controversial members of the Queen Nova Alliance, a consortium of Gay/Lez/Bi superhumans. He’s one of the founding members, yet has some views which are unpopular even among the group being almost militantly against “Straights†and “Prudes†and often vocally so. He’s done a few things to earn the QNA bad publicity in the past (such as “breaking in†the son of a prominent Southern Baptist preacher and parading him around a Gay Pride demonstration in a leather thong). There have been a couple of attempts on his life, but The Master considers it the price of being a “revolutionaryâ€.