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*psst* A link to the post(s) that made you think this would be of use. Also, of interest.

94/62 blood pressure, and 44 pulse. I appear to be kickin' old age's hiney!

Or, the variant that occurs in my games: some team members start out with an active dislike of each other that never improves and annoys everyone else so much we finally ask the player to leave. Of course, those are more clichés I don't love, and so fodder for a different thread...

The reformed villain, or the hero-turned-bad. I'm kind of working on the latter in my campaign -- one of the NPC members of the hero team left them to go take over (and reform? maybe) PSI. I'm still pondering how to introduce the former. I'm also quite fond of the legacy hero bit, but haven't had much call to use it yet.

Well, you're in luck - sort of - for their powers. They all had those vague, 80s power sets. Apocalypse had "complete control of his molecules", or somesuch. Selene was a "psychic vampire", and could control inanimate objects? or knew magic? or both? Mr. Sinister... um... not remembering. Gideon could mimic the powers of others. And had green hair. There's Cannonball... Actually, I don't even remember the others. hmm. wikipedia on Externals Nope, still don't remember any of 'em. Sorry.

Are you kidding? I had to micro-print just to fit Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh onto the line for Character Name. And it still ran off the edge! Well... actually... see, my character? Was a linguist.

I realized last night that I might be a tad bit out of practice with Call of Cthulu when I actually had my Investigator -- Cholmondeley Featherstonehaugh -- "just skim through" the copy of the Pnakotic Manuscripts we'd recovered, to check our information. It wasn't until the GM's eyes lit up and he asked me for a SAN Check that I realized how long it'd been since I'd played CoC...

Each punch uses the full END cost -- STR + HA. In the example, that'd be 5 END (1 from 15 STR, 4 from 45 active pt HA). If he's using all 5 shots, that's 25 END.

You've basically described a power that instantly undoes the effects of whatever power has just affected you: if you're hurt, it heals all the damage; it you're healed, it hurts you back to where you had been. That's all a Special Effect. The power is your powers don't affect me. But Desolidification, 0 END , Persistant, Always On, Fully Invisible, Cannot Pass Through Solid Objects. Then purchase Affects Material World for your STR and any other powers/attacks. When you're hit by an effect, you ignore it (unless it's Affects Desolidified), and you tell everyone "my power just instantly countered that effect".

Yeah. I once had a power armor character that the same thing came up with. We were fighting the Ultimates, and I'd somehow ended up facing Plasmoid -- who was shrugging of my energy blasts like nothing. So I picked up a telephone pole and swatted him. The GM and everyone else had a moment of this: "What's your STR?" asks the GM. "Um. 50?" says me. "Why don't you ever use that?!?" everyone else shouts. it costs END. my energy blast is 0 END... My character didn't get a re-write, but I did learn my lesson. In my current campaign I ruthlessly enforce niche protection. When I laid the high-STR smackdown on Plasmoid, I'd suddenly trampled all over the team brick's schtick. He was a little miffed. So now, the Martial Artist does not have more DEF or STR than the Brick in my game, and the Brick does not have more DCV than the Martial Artist -- no matter how they whine. They whine more if another PC beats them at "what they do".

Well. That was certainly judgmental. Not very "Christian". Also: rude. And on that, I won't entertain any rebuttals.