Dr. Anomaly

Re: Legion Flight Ring? I do have write-ups for the Legion equipment... let me see if I can dig them up. I will note at the moment that I ended up (for a variety of reasons) building the flight rings as tiny vehicles.

Re: Bizzare character build, please help! If you DO go with something like OddHat's suggestion of +8 DCV to represent the fact of it being hard to hit the 'vital spot' (and use the special effect of a 'near miss' as something like "...the blast goes completely through his leg, leaving a smoking hole... which promptly seals over as though the damage had never been...") and DO keep the defenses fairly low, so that when he gets hit it counts, I offer a warning: Beware of Area Effect attacks! If you do go that route, and keep defenses low, increase the little bugger's Body, so he isn't accidentally killed by a medium-strength AoE blast of some kind!

Re: Telepathy The problem with this build is that only other telepaths could hear him, though; the 'transmit' won't do a thing to get his 'voice' to those who don't have a way to 'hear' him (don't have some kind of mental sense).

Re: Invisibility, No Fringe, Requires Squid Miniature Giant Space Hamsters!

Re: WWYCD: "I" in Team Thanks for the extra info.

Re: Q on a 'New' Disad. Accidental Change is the Transform of the Disad world? Edit: [facepalm] D'oh! I was trying to be funny, but only after I posted it, it hit me... change = transform... so of COURSE it is...

Re: WWYCD: "I" in Team

Re: Pulling Authority & Other Genres

Re: Alucard vs. Superman or Lobo

Re: Alucard vs. Superman or Lobo Me, I'd just go with the obvious... spell 'Dracula' backwards... what do you get...?

Re: What rule don't people know?

Re: When success is a failure Some EXCELLENT suggestions there! Repped!

Re: People with Powers

Re: How To Build A GRASER Given that positronium is just an electron and an anti-electron in a mutual (decaying) "orbit" around each other, I think I'd quibble with calling such an arrangement an 'atom'...

Re: People with Powers

Re: WWYCD: We hope you're feeling better now Didn't see this the first time around, so... When Dr. Solomon Kinkaid wakes up and is told by Dr. Kincaid (funny name coincidence there) the story, the first thing he's going to feel is an absolute gut-watering shock of fear, as it will in some ways be very similar to a... shall we say highly unpleasant sojourn in an alternate world he experienced at one point. The second thought will be... "Maybe this is true." After all, the person that he's cultivated as Dr. Kinkaid is that of a wealthy but rather New Age flaky genius who bankrolls the Millennium Knights because Dr. Anomaly is the techno-mage that he (Dr. Kinkaid) would really WANT to be, if he could, had he any powers... so this means that it would cross his mind that perhaps that's the way things ARE, and that he had just crossed the line in his 'hero worship' into the delusion of thinking he WAS Dr. Anomaly. And trying a small spell of some kind and finding his magic not responding would tend to strengthen that worry. But after he'd had a bit of time to think about it (and talk his way out of the hospital... something I'm quite confident he could do, given that his intellect was very high even before The Event [and I'm not sure from Hermit's description if he'd still have his boosted intellect or not, as it's not up in the official 'superhuman' range of 50+, believe it or not... it's in the 40s]) he'd come to the conclusion that SOMETHING was up. Step one would be to contact the Millennium Knights... not difficult, considering that Dr. Kinkaid's offices are in the same indestructible building that houses the Knights. Given his knowledge of things... a LOT of things, including the secret society of supposedly good-guy mages that Dr. Anomaly is sometimes overseen by, and the problems they had a while back, as well as details of some distant-past and sideways-dimensional jaunts the team has been on, as well as certain very... ah... PERSONAL details from inside his wife's mind, he should be able to make a very good job of convincing THEM that something is up. From there, it's a question of figuring out the situation or solving the problem, whatever it is. If it's some kind of mental trap, he'll probably figure his way out eventually, most likely by noticing and then capitalizing on small inconsistencies and such. Otherwise... we'll just have to see. But I'm confident that he'd find a solution, sooner or later, one way or another. (And one other thing that would help prove his case... his sister Rebecca is a telepath operating as a super-hero with a group in Scotland, and could certainly verify that he is who he thinks he is.) On the other hand... one thing that has haunted him for years, even before The Event that gave him actual powers, was his parents' disappearance in the Bermuda Triangle. I think it's the lack of closure as much as anything that has caused the problems, he he's made periodic trips down there for years, trying (and failing) to find any evidence of what really happened to them, even if it's finally finding a sunken boat with some human remains on board. If THEY were 'alive' again... that could well prevent him from TRYING to solve the 'problem' about believing he's a de-powered Dr. Anomaly. At least for a while. And if it did turn out to be some kind of trap or other such figment, finding out they weren't really alive again could seriously screw him up. ... You know, an odd thought just occurred to me... On more than one occasion, Dr. Anomaly has created a simulacrum of himself that is basically him with all his memories and skills, but no powers, so that Dr. Anomaly and the team's sponsor, Dr. Kinkaid, could appear at the same function in public at the same time. (This 'powerless' version of himself is done with a very carefully constructed Summon, and part of the reason that version of himself is powerless is that he can't make a Summon large enough via his Magic Pool to be able to create/summon an actual, full, powered duplicate of himself.) So... I wonder... what if the 'Dr. Kinkaid' that woke up in the hospital is a simulacrum that, for whatever reason, didn't just go 'poof' when the power of the spell and alchemical solutions used to create it ran out...? Now THAT would be an interesting quandary for Dr. Anomaly, his team, his wife, AND 'Dr. Kinkaid'...! Eeesh. I think I just scared myself with that thought...

Re: Invisibility, No Fringe, Requires Squid

Re: I have created a Regulation Act Hmmm. Given the existence of superhumans with superhuman computer skills, a database like this cannot be kept secure, and that means that anyone in it will (I see this as a certainty) have their identity exposed or sold to some "interested party" at some point... and if it's a sufficiently-motivated supervillain who gets ahold of the info in that database, what follows is mass blackmail/enslavement or mass slaughter. Not exactly incentive to comply with the law.

Re: Talking to the duplicates Hmmm. Since this is a PC we're talking about, my inclination to answer about whether or not the PC is convinced is "Whatever the player decides." In other words, this is skating into that area where dice rolls can replace role-playing, and I've never liked that.

Re: Appearance Shifting For Items Well, Black Rose hasn't said the cloak and boots can do anything (point-costed) other than change their shape/appearance. If that's the case, trying to tack on the +1/4 Variable SFX advantage may be impossible. On the other hand, if they were costed to even 1 point each, THEN you could quite reasonably tack that Advantage on...

Re: Rules to ignore, or replace Afraid I have to agree with Archermoo on this one, CTaylor. It does make a difference as to how it's applied.

Re: The cranky thread The Magic cards project is on "hold", even though I have more done, because of circumstances beyond my control. I my website is set to debit from PayPal, but that hasn't happened, I just discovered. So it's temporarily off-line. Why did it not debit? Simple. A couple of places that I'd signed up for the "free trial offer" using PayPal, AND CANCELED IN THE SPECIFIED TIME, have billed anyway... to the tune of right at $100, which I didn't have in my PayPal account, naturally. But my PayPal is hooked to my checking account. But I didn't have that much margin in my checking account, either. So now some checks, like the rent check I wrote just before the weekend, are going to bounce. And I'm going to have all kinds of fees on my bank account for that, too. So I'm currently in the red to around $100 more or less (more when the checks bounce and bank fees hit) AND I'm unable to cover the website fees. So until I can manage to get this mess straightened out, website off-line, no more cards, my mood shot, depression skyrocketing, and even if I can get those charges from those "free trials" canceled/reversed, it won't undo the fees for the bounced checks with the bank account. So those fees will, at least, eat up the money I would have used to pay for my website. I'm in a lousy mood, about to curl up in a corner, and have no way to upload the new cards I have written, even if I felt like taking my write-ups and making them into cards, which I don't right now. I have been in major financial difficulties, had JUST gotten to the point (via a new job) where I WOULD be able to cover my bills, BUT that won't be until the paychecks start coming at the end of this month. So I am up all kinds of creeks without any kinds of paddles and... Life totally sucks, I don't see a way of straightening this out any time soon (or at least soon enough to avoid my bank account getting flagged), and the depression is pulling me down fast.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Do not, repeat, do not get this thread closed!

Re: Bag of Holding...How Would You Do It? And that little issue is why when I made my suggestion, I specifically stated: Bag may only contain items whose total weight is less than or equal to the maximum lift capacity of the Strength bonus bestowed by the bag (-0)

Re: Bag of Holding...How Would You Do It? Well, one simple (possibly over-simple) way of doing it would be something like: +10 STR, only for carrying contents of Bag of Holding, 0 END (+1/2), IAF Bag (-1/2), Bag may only contain items whose total weight is less than or equal to the maximum lift capacity of the Strength bonus bestowed by the bag (-0) ...and the fact the things stored in the bag are larger than would normally fit is just the special effect of the power...