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Re: Suggestions need: Animal super villains I always thought that the mice were aliens - so it's not really an animal with powers, as opposed to a galactic superbeing, intruding onto our dimension. You could modify the background to the Mighty Wom-BOT, and make him a cybernetic wombat. A kleptomaniac raccoon. An assassin based off a walking stick, or some other variety of camouflaged insect. A sloth? - SPD 1, but when he finally attacks, you really don't want to be the target. A giant (well, bigger than normal) hagfish, able to breathe air and teleport A star-nosed mole. Or any mole. It's been done to death though. . . An aye-aye (seen here). Make him bigger, and you have an ugly nocturnal primate that behaves kind of like a woodpecker. And, because it's just strange, and ugly, the blobfish.

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Hopefully the name is good enough for an invite to the SG. If ya see me, invite me. (My global is @Yossarian, if anyone ever wants to look me up. My main toons are on Infinity, but Dr. Cuisinart is going to see play a couple times a week, I think.)

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Finally created a toon on Champion - a Scrapper (yeah, had to try the Dual Blades and WP sets) named Dr. Cuisinart. Blades do seem fun so far, though it has been a long time since I played a Scrapper, so the sheer joy of not having to run all the time (Blaster) or taking forever to kill things ('troller) might be part of it.

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Re: Wild Card's Hero Doh. I had skimmed over that part in Ultimate Metamorph in the last week, too. Fair enough. I was thinking that he should only have about 2-3", with HH having something like 6" of KB resistance.

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Re: Wild Card's Hero Thoughts - Dr Finn doesn't have distinctive features? I would have thought that Harlem Hammer would have 1 level of DI, Always On, etc. I'd probably give him a bit more knockback resistance. Golden Boy should probably have a couple points in knockback resistance as well. Not much, since he can still go flying, but enough to generally keep him on his feet. (Or, alternatively, about 3" less than what HH has). Looks good though. Rename a few, and they drop into Champs very nicely.

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Re: Players wish to emulate dnd's sense motive. I don't have the book handy, but I recall a "skill" like that in Dark Champions. IIRC, it was Telepathy, Only to Detect Lies, and it took extra time as well as some other limitations.

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Re: Wild Card's Hero But he's not really invulnerable. IIRC, he doesn't get shot with anything bigger than 20mm shells. (In fact, he says "They were scared to try anything bigger than a 20mm on their tests. So was I. If I were hit with a real cannon, instead of just a big machine gun, I'd probably be oatmeal.") So a sufficiently high Force Field and/or Damage Reduction should work.

Re: Order of the Stick That doesn't necessarily solve the problem: Igor: Okay, you may notice that this character is a bit more powerful than most. But by deftly taking a series of minor quirks, disadvantages and hindrances, I was able to raise my point total by five hundred percent. Which allowed me to create Deathgrippe, the cybrog-assassin, with infra-red vision, lightning-fast reflexes and a massive tech level 15 plasma rifle!! He's also got personal body armor, super strong synth skin and laser-like marksmanship, as well as concussion bombs, hyper nunchaku, the "Killer Grip" skill and Wang-Chung evil eye! This character may seem a bit extreme and may be a bit superhuman, but it is going by the rules, if you know how to tweak them, caress them and play them juuuuuust right! Matt: Considering we're playing "Bunnies and Burrows," I'm impressed. . . Igor: Oopsie! I forgot to draw in the rabbit ears. And the thermonuclear grenade launcher. (From Dork Tower #5)

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Re: Wild Card's Hero I've have to look for the reference, but I recall that Carnifex's regeneration isn't concerned with the aesthetics, hence the mismatched features. Maybe list it as a -0 mod to the Rapid Healing?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Well, if you specter make my heart wraith with puns like that, you need to do a shade better. Certainly mohrg than that, anyway.

Re: Disturbing Character premises... Years ago, I ran an ogre in a Runequest game. In the Runequest game, Ogres appear just like normal people, albeit rather gifted ones, tending toward higher strength, more intelligent, better-looking, etc. The problem, however, is that the food source for Ogres is the flesh of intelligent humanoids. . . As long as we kept hitting towns, the other players were safe. But they never did put two and two together and wonder why when we hit a new town, my character did some "errands" and some people disappeared. He would have killed the other party members in their sleep, but reasoned that keeping them alive made sense, since (1) there is safety in numbers when adventuring; and (2) no sense in carrying his emergency rations when it so obligingly walked around on its own. Here's another one - immortal man, living in an isolated fortress, enslaving an army of errily merry midgets, who spies on innocent children, and rewards those whose behavoir he deems "good" with gifts and sweets. What's worse, he visits their houses in the dead of night, and no lock nor door will bar his way.

Re: Order of the Stick Can you still get a role-playing bonus, for uttering something like the "I am a sexy shoeless god of war"?

Re: Just for fun... a Campaign Ad! Well shoot, there goes my next character concept. . . .

Re: Worth his weight in Diamond A fairly brief search shows that diamonds have an average specific gravity of about 3.5. IIRC, a human has a specific gravity of about 1.0 (with some variety, since some people float better than others). So, you would probably figure about 350 kilos for a human-sized chunk of diamond.

Re: Muppet Champions

Re: Muppet Champions Snuffy hasn't been an imaginary friend since '85. The producers of Sesame Street were worried about the message he might be inadvertantly sending (that if an adult doesn't see it, it never happened) in the wake of some sex abuse scandals. So, in '85, the adults finally met Snuffy, proving that he is indeed, real. He would, however, have the "Disappearing Act" skill from Dark Champions.

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Re: Need Some Latin Blessings Here is a listing of some common Latin prayers: http://www.thesacredheart.com/latpray.htm (with English translation beside them) And, for more than you will ever need: http://www.preces-latinae.org/Titulus.html (also with English translations) One slight note - Ecclesiastical Latin and classic Latin have some very different pronunciations. If I am not careful, I send Christmas carols (like Adeste Fideles) in classic pronunciation, which would be a problem if I were in a small group.