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Re: No more Figured Characteristics?! Then again ... I DID make this character back in the day: http://members.dslextreme.com/users/rogermw/champions/OECV_woman.html

Re: No more Figured Characteristics?!

Re: No more Figured Characteristics?! Lots of threads about this topic? That's odd. I originally posted this in the 6E Questions forum, after searching for threads there with "Figured" in the subject. (There were none.) When I came over here (to the HERO System Discussion forum), and looked for threads with "Figured" in their subject, there were only two from the last YEAR. Including this one.

My worldview is shattered. Oh well, time to make DCV Man....

Back when I wrote The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters, I'd never heard the term "munchkin" either. But I sure as heck knew the concept; it was what my gaming buddies all seemed best at. We were in the habit of coming up with the most obscenely overbalanced ultra-powerful characters we could get away with (especially easy in a game like AD&D, where so much of character creation was based on the luck of the dice), showing these characters to each other, and moaning: "That's disgusting!"

So that's what "USPD" stands for. And here I was thinking of the United States Police Department (a la Escape From New York).

Guys! Guys! Guys! Rogue's power of stealing others' powers has ALREADY BEEN WRITTEN UP in one of the published HERO Games Champions supplements! It's in The UNTIL Super Powers Database, page 262. It's called "Transference Touch." I'm surprised no one's brought this up in this thread yet.

Well, consider this: In the D&D 3rd Edition Epic Level Handbook, there are tables for rolling up random epic magic weapons and epic magic armor. Although the rules state that there's no specific "treasure type" or "combined hoard" you can find that'll have one of these randomly-rolled epic magic items in it, the tables still exist. At the end of both of these tables, there is an entry for "roll again adding +10 to the result." This entry can be rolled over and over again. There is no upper limit to how high the "plus" on an epic magic weapon or a suit of epic magic armor can become. You can theoretically have a +infinity longsword or a +infinity shield. Of course, the question arises of what happens when an infinite Attack Bonus meets an infinite Armor Class....

Plus, AD&D had all the other games beat in terms of bragging rights. Who else but an AD&D player could boast, "I got a +6 holy vorpal defender frost-brand flame-tongue sunblade luck blade longsword of wounding, sharpness, dancing, disruption, final word, slaying everything, thunderbolts, throwing, speed, quickness, all dragon slayer, life stealing, and nine lives stealing, with intelligence 17, speech and telepathy, ten non-alignment languages, eight extraordinary powers, eight special purposes, and all the artifact abilities in the Book of Artifacts supplement!"

Sorry, but I've bought that book, and I have to admit its treatment of the Flash left me somewhat underwhelmed. (They didn't do a very good job of explaining that "formula" for human running speed, either, or which of the variables you could change to run at super speed. The wording implied that it's physically impossible for a human with normal-length legs to run faster than 10 miles per hour. )

Speaking of Penetrating attacks: When the Hardened Advantage was bought for the Force Wall, was it defined as going against the Penetrating effect, or the Armor Piercing effect, of an attack that was both Penetrating and AP?

Goodman would be proud of you. (Come on, somebody had to say it!)

Or instead of "Dazed", we could rename CON Stunned to "Fazed." There's no possible chance of confusion with that word!

Wait a minute ... the Aqualad of the 1960s clearly did not have aquatic telepathy. There was even an episode of the Aquaman cartoon show where this became a major issue. When did Aqualad start talking to fish?

Of course you should pay points for appliances. That blender on the kitchen counter's got at least a 1/2d6 HKA going for it.

Re: Damage

Hmmm ... if that's the case, then the underwater earthquake would only have produced 276 megatons. That's a lot of energy, to be sure, but it's not an "order of magnitude" more energy than the theoretical 100 MTon yield of the Tsar Bomb. (Unless we're talking Astronomy magnitudes, here.)

You're right! I should have noticed that. But then ... what about the additional Active Points attributable to the portion of his +1/4 Rapid Noncombat Movement Advantage that are applied to the NCM Adder? Basically, this +1/4 Advantage adds 72 Active Points to his 144" Running and 24 Active Points to his 19 levels of Improved Noncombat Movement. Obviously, those first 72 Active Points increase the END cost when he Runs, but do those last 24 Active Points also add to the END cost when he Runs?

Well, obviously, my "me" character Havok's hero is the "real" Havok from the X-Men. The fact that my "me" character Havok is DEX 10, SPD 2 notwithstanding.

Re: I should read more... comics... But UltimateX-Men is still being published, isn't it? According to this article, the Iron Age ended, like, two whole Ages ago.