Grailknight

It can be any of those things. I've used Mental Blast, Mental Illusion, AVLD/NND, Drain and STUN-only Blast in this manner. They all work, just a matter of SFX. Whatever suits the character concept best is what you should go with.

Even simpler, an Entangle as a Damage Shield that only works when used as an attack. You can add Cumulative to it to reflect the idea that it seems to be harder to escape after the initial entanglement.

This has to be a collaboration between the PC's and the GM. The PC's have to understand that they will not be able to fully retire the cape and the GM has to be capable of letting the PC's have a lasting line of success in an area of interest. This can be heroic or villainous. The PC's can be activists who clean up corrupt government or an organized crime gang that brings all the illegal action under their control. There will still be challenges that require their super personas but also plots and incidents that need diplomatic or intellectual solutions. It can work as long as both sides keep their goals reasonable or the areas of activity small. A single city or a small island nation would be best for these projects.

Unless you just truly hate all things anime, I highly recommend you go to see SpyXFamily, Code:White. If you're at all into anime, this is almost required viewing. It's the best movie I've seen this year. It has everything you'd expect in a theatrical release. High quality animation and score, a catchy score, good writing and excellent acting. Two of the mains are fairly dense emotionally, but that's part of the charm of the series. And you don't need to be a series follower to get into it. Everything you need is set forth in the beginning of the movie so you can become wrapped up in the unfolding story. 10 out of 10. I haven't laughed this hard in a movie in a long time and the entire audience was laughing throughout.

" I wouldn't believe him if his tongue were notarized" I am so stealing that for my next game.

Hero IS a skirmish miniature combat game. That's superhero combat in a nutshell. It just happens to also have a unique character creation detailing system and a good, if dry, skill system.

This might be a good movie trope, but it doesn't translate well to HERO. You are essentially penalizing some SFX but how do you make consistent rulings? What exact length of hair triggers the penalty? Why wouldn't capes be like tear-away football jerseys? What about horns, tails or body spikes? If you use this on a PC, do they now get a Physical Limitation? You're imposing one as GM that the player did not present to you in character creation. How many of your NPC's will have that Limitation? Are you going to be constantly opposing anime girls or the Dora Milaje? If you really feel this should be in your game, then purchase some Limited Skill Levels with Grab that only apply vs targets with the given handholds. Then describe the results cinematically.

I'm sure they command pretty big salaries for their market. But they rarely make movies aimed at foreign markets, so they have their pay based on domestic gross.

If you're trying to figure out how long a combat will be, then you need to factor in at least 2 other parameters. You need the SPD's of the participants and also relative OCV and DCV. with the other numbers you just gave 4-5 average SPD will be a 3-4 turn slog at if you hit on 11 or less and 2- 3 turns at 6-7 SPD. Even at 8 SPD or higher, you're going in 2 turns. Turning up OCV slightly will shorten the combats slightly but shifting just to 10 or less will make these combats take forever. Some will be decided by who runs out of END. You need to set all your variables and test them out. Only with a good baseline can you tweak.

Glad to see you back! For movement at interplanetary distances, you going to want to look at the Megascale Advantage rules for movement. They change 1m. increments into kilometers and additional levels increase this by factors of 10 per step. It can still get rather pricey, but it is doable. For interstellar travel, you'd use the FTL Movement rules.

I say just beginning because we don't have a true set of rules just yet. The transfer portal has changed each of the last 2 off seasons and NIL is still in the early Wild West days. Right now, those valuations are just estimates by marketing research and don't have access to all the income from all sources because there is no uniform reporting structure. Until the rules are firmed up, there's no way to know how much many of these side deals are worth. But just getting a free car puts most of these deals above $50K and there's hundreds of those type of deals if not thousands.

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I fail to see how a power with a Custom Limitation constitutes a simpler build than PD or ED. Also, the fact that it precisely duplicates an existing Power for less points sems to violate a metarule.

Shouldn't that be 9d6-14 and 12d6-24? I don't doubt your graphs, but the starting parameters seem off.

But you equated it 10 points of either PD or ED and it is much better than that. Those 10 points allow STUN damage on 50% of rolls of 3d6 if spent on PD/ED but are 100% effective if spent on STUN only DN. And there is no situation where the PD/ED would apply where the DN does not. One of these is clearly not getting what you pay for.