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transmetahuman

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  1. Re: Looking for ideas for a "useless" power. You already nailed the applications I thought of, and more. But let this be a lesson in the importance of choosing the right thread title.
  2. Re: Best ever Reason to NOT be a superVillian!!
  3. Re: Best ever reason to NOT be a superhero... A guy could get hurt doing that stuff.
  4. Re: SG-1 style campaign My first thought was why use the CU at all? It'll take so much work to change that you might as well just loot the CU for a few ideas and make the rest up yourself. But, assuming you want to use as many CU elements as you can, your title suggests an idea: have most of the CU elements bleed over from an alternate universe. Maybe a permanent gate was opened by a villain over there, or the dimensional membranes between the two worlds just got weak for some random reason.
  5. Re: Best superhero titles of the 70's Hey, still makes perfect sense to me. My poor beer-drowned neurons aren't up to remembering which titles I was reading when, or which were actually from the 70s instead of just being read in the 70s. I know I was a big X-Men fan from quite a while before the New X-Men, up until about the time you had to buy a million spin-off titles to keep up with things.
  6. Re: (Character) Tattooed Man So this guy can turn pictures of anything he can draw into real objects... why would he become a thief? I'd be drawing big magical mansions or gigantic piles of gold and jewelry or something. I guess the lockout helps to explain it, and I'm sure there's some kind of time limit or something, but jeez, sometimes that whole "hero or villain, no in-between" thing gets even more silly.
  7. Re: ONE power: what do you do with it? My response was based on the "no frameworks" rule (so, no personal level teleport)... but yeah, with a good portable GPS, and no huge hurry while you zero in, I guess megascale would work out fine. Another book reference: see Jumper by Steven Gould. It's exactly what this thread's about: a normal teen gains teleportation, he's apparently the only one in the world with a super-power of any kind, and the story is just him exploring its possibilities and hazards. Good read.
  8. Re: ONE power: what do you do with it? Hmm, yeah, but how useful is megascale teleport without floating or fixed locations? Can we expect character points from experience? Will "the GM" allow a lock-on from a television image in realtime? I'd reduce the level a bit and throw in at least a couple floating locations - and a x2 mass. That way I could use it for legal stuff... if that's how I should decide to use it.
  9. Re: Campaign Tone -- explaining “Bronze Age” I had a problem with your definitions, in that they basically came down to "everything that sucked was either silver or iron; everything that was good was bronze". It's probably fine for your purposes - listing elements that you don't want to see in your games - but as a definition, well, I'd like to see an example or two of a characteristic flaw of the bronze age. Some have been suggested on the boards - for instance, "stories and characters were apparently required to be Socially Relevant, in annoyingly fashionable ways". I can see why you don't want to bring the flaws of the bronze age into your game, of course, but otherwise you're not defining the Bronze Age so much as you're listing Stuff You Don't Like.
  10. Re: Top 20 Comic Weapons The comic is called Transmetropolitan. My library had a few issues/collections, but I can't remember the company. None featuring burning anal geysers; not sure if I'm happy or sad about that..
  11. Re: Top 20 Comic Weapons WW's lasso got beat out by Daredevil's billy club? BOTH TIMES??? My top three would have to include Mjolnir, Spidey's webshooters, and Cap's shield, I think. Power rings are just too omnipotent (or at least "omniversatile") to be all that cool, IMO.
  12. Re: Signature Request *CW #7 SPOILERS* Haha... maybe someone could just punch the Scarlet Witch repeatedly until she gets it right. Or the writers...
  13. Re: matchmaker for masks? Sigh. I should've guessed; not many gay guys to choose from. How'd Spider-Man get in there? Jeez, I'm no homewrecker. Edit: Okay, that's weird. Took the test again, with the "Do you like bi-sexual boys?" question answered at both ends of the spectrum, since I didn't know whether they were correlating the gay question with this one. Do you like bi-sexual boys? - Not at all: My Super Hero Lover is Spider-Man (66.4%) Spider-Man is perfect for you. He's totally nerdy and always cracking jokes. And cute! A date at the museum or a movie would be right up his alley. Don't expect to spend the whole evening together though, Spider-Man's known for ducking out early. Other Close Matches: Batman (66.4%) Colossus (64.6%) Do you like bi-sexual boys? - Hellz Ya! Batman (63.4%) You like bad boys who are smart and experimental. Batman is looking for a smart, sensitive woman who likes the nightlife. Expect to stay out all night with this one ladies! Other Close Matches: Spider-Man (63.4%) Rawhide Kid (62.8%) Assuming these are dimensional alternates, gay and single, I'll take Spidey, please. My other choices seem to be cold, a different kind of cold, or completely anachronistic (and unfamiliar).
  14. Re: Civil War in the Champions Universe!
  15. Re: Signature Request *CW #7 SPOILERS* The impression I had is that they thought that having supers required to register was right - something that, if it was the real world, I'd agree with. Vigilantes without accountability are a horrible idea. What burns everyone is the ridiculous/draconian/fascist lengths that the pro-registration side went to; the manner in which the enforcement of the law was carried out (and granted, for some, the permanent loss of some beloved traditional superhero tropes from the MU). I don't know if Millar/Quesada/whoever are saying they think Iron Man was right, or heroic, or even "not a complete d**chebag", so much as they're saying he happened to be on the right side of the argument. Though I haven't read a single CW story, so what do I know.
  16. Re: [build Challenge] Kid Emo (Supervillain) For inspiration. Well, actually, I tried to resist and just couldn't.
  17. Re: Heroes: How do you build... You're right, but it's the current usage anyway. Some people use: cyberpath, cyberpathy = your "cybertelepath" = the equivalent of machine-class mind telepathy/mind control... but I think most people find the word unwieldy. with cyberkinetic, cyberkinesis = transmutation of machines, like that Alpha Flight guy could do. or even cyberkinetic, cyberkinesis = animation-like control of even mechanical devices like cars. I wonder if we could get "cyburgy" (cybernetics-working") to catch on, for the catch-all term. I kinda doubt it... Edit: I'm guessing it evolved from pyrokinesis and cryokinesis, which are more about generating and controlling heat/cold than about "moving heat" or "moving cold". So the -kinesis suffix in our little subculture has been associated with control more than motion.
  18. Re: Capes: When Superheroes stop being four color and start being real Yeah, damn those doctors who expect paychecks, of all things, too! Joking, here; I like selfless heroes too... but the automatic condemnation of any super who actually wants to make a living from his power does kinda bother me.
  19. Re: Heroes for HERO? Hmm. It just occurred to me that there's some circumstantial evidence that the Haitian's whammy is non-directional/all-or-nothing. The only reasons I can think of that the MIB didn't deal with Sylar by just having Eden tell him "Sit there and don't use any powers" are 1) The writers didn't think of it, or 2) They didn't want to risk even the two seconds of Sylar being unsuppressed that it would take for Eden to neuter him, which implies that the H couldn't suppress him without also suppressing Eden. On the other hand, it was criminally stupid for Eden to not have been fully authorized and encouraged to neuter Sylar that way ("don't use any powers" is nothing like "take this gun and kill yourself"), once the Haitian was gone. And they didn't do that, so it seems likely the writers didn't think of it or hoped we wouldn't so they could railroad the plot.
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