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Re: Is Punisher the problem? Jeez, the way some are carrying on, its like someone took away their favorite toy or something... To point: I don't really have a problem with an experiment like this, and would be interested in hearing about the results. It IS tough to build an effective gun-guy/special ops guy in a superheroic game and give him all the skills he should have and still be an effective character. It is not for everyone, though, and will require careful GM attention to the weapons the characters want, and would reasonably have access to. Really unique things, like the blaster rifle from alpha centary, should be paid for though. But if you pay for a weapons with points, its automatically better than any weapons you don't pay points for, even if the effects are the same. For example, the example I remember where two weapons with the same effect, one an assault rifle, another, a unique blaster paid for with points. As a GM, I'm going to make sure that the person who paid points for there blaster gets there points worth. Maybe these two characters will be caught in an area of effect blast, and the assault rifle will be reduced to a pile of twisted metal, while the blaster rifle came through unscathed! The cops are going to have a hard time tracing a blaster rifle's effects, but have lots of experience with ballistics on assault rifles, etc. You'll get your points worth, believe it!!!

Re: GM Question: Mystery Reputation Disad I guess that would depend on how bad this family is in your world. Is everyone going to shun them in the mystical world for this, or will they just be wary of them? I think that would determine how extreme the reaction is...

Re: Herogames: The Sportscar Product What, you mean I'm not the entire gaming market? Seriously, though, I know what you mean. I think the way we would need to go would be to have a basic description of the general power (ie Forcefield), then have a genre specific examples (Force Field belt, provides +5 yadda, yadda, yadda).

Re: Got the Metal in the Meat Repped!!!

Re: Harem question Except for the point that WW is bound to have more ego that ye old neighborhood crack whore, not to mention a little mental defense and power defense to boot!

Re: Odd 2x Stun rule Yeah, this ruling is kinda nasty. Of course, I don't like the idea of down people taking x2 damage to begin with. Why wouldn't everyone, always hit someone who is down, just to make sure they don't get up? Icky. My group doesn't use this rule, so the ruling won't effect us...

Re: Got the Metal in the Meat I definitely think money is the way to go here. The cyberpunk genre is supposed to be one where any joe can go and lay down the money to get the upgrades, if he is willing to sacrifice his humanity to do it. If you try to make it require points, how do you tell a character that he can't get the upgrade if he has the money for it? This has to be a money thing. Sure, cyber characters are better fighters than non-cybered ones, but non-cybered characters tend to handle human interaction much better. Everyone should have their moments to shine. The resource points idea from Dark champions isn't bad. I don't have that supplement, but I read lots about it, and like the idea.

Re: This week on "Champions"... from last game: Sentinels - Sunday - 1pm: The team sends their representatives to the party thrown by the "New Gods", meanwhile, Ballistic schemes to interrogate the prisoner who might hold clues to her past.

Re: What is YOUR favorite Champions character? I think my favorite personal character has to be Battery. I was young, and a lot of cliches went into him, but I really enjoyed playing him. He was a parapelegic (sp?) with both legs amputated just above the knee. His wheelchair actually transformed into his power armor. He was called Battery cause he had absorbtion, and would get stronger & tougher with each shot he took. I played this character over several years, and really annoyed my GM with Battery's tendency to keep rebuilding his armor, and fixing all the flaws exploited by the enemy...

Re: A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen

Re: A Modern League of Extroardinary Gentlemen Alright, my list Dr. Glass - the techguy of the group John Constantine - a little occult knowledge, a lot of contacts, some vague, undefined powers Hawk (from the Spenser novels) - Thug extraordinare Beatrix Kiddo - Martial artist, with contacts to the international criminal underworld Hannibal Lecter - Evil genius, brilliant mind, true monster All financed by the aged, mysterious and physically infirm "Mr. Wayne", a former playboy with lots of money What I thought a lot of most of the previous lists is that most of the characters were missing that sense of moral dubiousness that you got from the comic characters. Quartermaine was a recovering opium addict, Mina a former bride of Dracula, the Invisible man was a thief, Hyde a monster, and nemo a terrorist. All of my League members have that villian edge to them that people like MacGyver, Harry Potter, and Ralph Hinkley (as much as I love them all) are never gonna have...

Re: IHA Help Humans for Humanity, or HFH for short...

Re: Ring Ring go away.... Ok, I'm at work, and don't have a book with me, but I though focus worked like this: OAF - can be taken away in combat OIF - can be taken from downed opponent, can't be targetted in combat (hence, inaccessable) OIHID (not a focus, I know) - can only be taken by gm fiat Is this incorrect?

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Same with the Anita Blake books by Laurell K. Hamilton. Started off as an excellent horror/mystery series, and seems to have devolved into sex, sex, and more sex. The stories have become secondary to the descriptions of sex. But read 'em up to Obsidian Butterfly, and then read the others at your peril...

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Well, not recently, but I found Kushiel's Dart, Chosen, and Avatar to be awesome books. Jacquelin Carrey is the author, I think. Excellent books, but mature themes...

Re: Searching: Mechanon & The Zodiac Zodiac... *shudders*

Re: "So, Thor hits Superman with Mjolnir..." i believe the way my GM did it in our D-Marvel-c campaign was that Kryptonians didn't get their damage reduction vs. magic, and had a 1.5 vulnerability as well. Still, with all the stun they had, it was very hard to bring them down.

Re: Order of the white dragons Sounds cool! Run with it!

Re: Say somthing clever... PLEASE!

Re: HERO system observations and beefs Re: Your avatar. Good work. Get 'em involved early.

Re: HERO system observations and beefs Rest assured, Eosin, that I, at 32, share your view. You're weird for other reasons...

Re: Martial Arts/Film Noir Campaign Personally, being a "gun" guy, I bemoan the fate of firearms, but it does sound cool.

Re: HERO system observations and beefs True, and, quite honestly, I haven't. But doesn't this make it more difficult to get someone new into the system? If they have no or little exposure, and just see the book sitting on the shelf, aren't they less likely to buy the book and cracking it and reading some of the text? I think most people are gonna say, "I already know how to play D&D, this is way too complicated." Don't get me wrong, I love Hero, and have been playing for a long time, using it for everything from fantasy to sci-fi. I'm just worried about it, especially after the announcement about declining sales of gaming products across the board.

Re: HERO system observations and beefs I have to say that I wasn't very impressed with 5th edition revised. I bought it because we started a new champions game after a long time, and I didn't even have 5th edition, so I figured 5th edition revised might be the ticket. I have found the book difficult to use. There is a lot of information, too much in some cases, that you have to wade through to find the one thing that you are looking for. And yet, some little important bits of information aren't to be found with the powers/advantages/limitations themselves, but squirreled away in another corner of the book. The art comment made at the beginning of this thread seem right on to me. No, the art doesn't have to be great, but it does need to be better. Every single non-gaming friend and acquaintance has seen me walking around with game books, they have come to recognize some of them. Yet, when I'm walking around with 5e revised, they ask me why I'm walking around with a text book. It READS like a text book, and I don't think you are going to attract many new gamers to the system with that. Probably why they put out Sidekick, but that I think that makes my point. I would imagine that most stores are going to carry the basic book, then a "supplement" like sidekick...

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