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Grailknight

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  1. The modern NFL is all about windows of opportunity.
  2. This site is usually only a day or two behind contract announcements. Over the Cap https://overthecap.com NFL Salary Cap, Player Contracts, Salaries, Bonuses and Analysis
  3. Actually, The Legion fits very well with the typical teen hero campaign if you discount the Kryptonians and Daxamites. They each had a single power, there's plenty of teen angst and romance and while they had less adult supervision, they were more integrated with law enforcement in the form of the Science Police and the United Federation of Planets.
  4. It's nearly impossible to judge the relative skill level of the top F1 drivers because of the inequities in their machines and crews. Red Bull figured something out three years ago, and has had a huge tech advantage that other constructors have not been able to approach. And each team gives their top driver the best crews they have so while they have supposedly equal cars, it doesn't work out that way on the track. Hamilton is a lame duck, so he's been demoted to driver 2 and Russel is getting all the love from Mercedes. I give mad props to Red Bull, but not as much to Verstappen (Though he is unquestionably a top tier talent.) His 1st title was the result of one of the most blatant cases of official misconduct I've seen in any sport. Since then, his car has just been better. If F1 went to a format with truly standardized machines or allowed more in season mechanical changes, we might see driver skill become more relevant. As it is this season is Red Bull's, Ferrari is next, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo will fight for third and all the other teams will take the scraps.
  5. I'm sure it didn't happen intentionally, but following that link led to a scam "your computer has been locked site."
  6. While I can think of a few niche scenarios where this might matter my inclination is follow KISS here. I really can't see any way this could break the game even slightly, so I'd allow it until presented with one.
  7. Just got back from Dune II and definitely enjoyed it. It's well acted and though it has some deviations from the original books, they actually improve the movie for me. It does end where the book ends but seems to leave a part 3 opening. Good acting and SFX, tight story and a thankful lack of much of the mental dialog of the 80's Dune. Overall, 8 out of 10! It's long though so don't buy a drink in the lobby.
  8. I couldn't believe it until I read it. Apparently by using that glove to partially cover his window opening he could gain that extra .133 mph that put him on the pole. You wouldn't want to do it in traffic but in qualifying there are no other cars around in NASCAR.
  9. The cost of the Naked Advantage and the END used is based on the STR alone. Why? Because the Naked Advantage must be used while the Martial Arts remain optional. You can use STR without Martial Arts. You even have the choice of using the Martial Arts without using STR.
  10. This particular ambiguity has been around since First Edition. I doubt that anything "official" is forthcoming.
  11. And as GM, you have every right to enforce your version of genre. If a PC wants his Martial Throw to do Knockback, then he has to come up with an SFX that the GM will allow. For myself, Target Falls will usually occur in the same hex unless it has the Throw element which will allow same or adjacent hex landing spots. Also remember that Martial Attacks roll an extra d6 when determining KB. You may wish to consider extending that to Throws to reduce the extra STR distance.
  12. Typically, this gets addressed when the campaign is laid out. A very important decision that need to be made by the GM is " How powerful are Supers compared to real world law enforcement and military?" It can be as simple as keeping DC's in the 6-8 range or more complexly by setting some house rules on the interaction of Supers with "real world" technology vs super-tech. Then you must decide on how important campaign events are to the world stage. A JLA/Avengers level team isn't going to be focused on fighting organized crime and the Gang Busters will not typically be the main hope of staving off an alien invasion. Typically, they'll only interact in passing. If both types of groups are present, then the interactions need to be kept clear. One member from that JLA type group might be challenged by a group of the most powerful of the Gang Buster's foes and conversely one weaker JLA/Avengers villain could have a plot foiled by the Gang Busters entire lineup at a high injury cost.
  13. Somewhere in between. He had the strength and agility to dominate those normal foes but was far more conscious of hurting them than they were of him. Ultimate Spider-Man didn't want to go through the years of character progression and stressed the difference between him and normals much faster. He wasn't really more powerful but they didn't want to tell the same stories, so the difference was highlighted.
  14. Spring training wackiness. https://www.espn.com/mlb/#:~:text=Rays infielder hits a homer... to second%3F
  15. Very interesting and it seems to mesh well with what I'm seeing in the people around me. I'd love to see what some of the commonsense pundits on each side make of this study.
  16. Not equivalent. Those things happen and the only thing the character can do is suck it up. The character can just not use his full Shrinking and it never comes into play. He can gamble and use his full Shrinking and it still may not. This is effectively a Side Effect on his maximum Shrinking but since it doesn't automatically take effect, we need a novel solution. Pairing that 3-Real Point Power with a Limitation on his Shrinking is the best compromise I can come up with without new RAW-Conditional Side Effect. And again, for an NPC, this is a plot device that happens when the GM wants to tell that story. It has no effect otherwise so I wouldn't write it up and advise other GM's not to do so either. It can only constrict your story telling choices with randomness when you need a set outcome for the story to work.
  17. But do you have a horn and hat? Go all in!
  18. Yes, this Power as stated is not something that works to the PC's advantage currently, but they should still pay for it. The options I gave both cost 3 Real Points, not crippling. If this is going to be a recurring theme, then that means there will be multiple plots around the alternate dimension. By paying for it initially, the PC can buy down the Limitations with experience and learn to travel back and forth freely. The alternate world could become a place for a secret base, a setting for a star-crossed romance, am origin for a PC nemesis or even a full-blown sub-campaign with a war/rebellion theme. Making the PC pay for this should at the very least, increase PC buy-in if the GM wants to do any of these.
  19. They can't even pretend that they are hard to make either. The entire plot of the first MCU Spider-Man was about preventing the theft of cutting-edge technology with the main prize being a cargo plane full of arc reactors. If Vulture could have gotten away with just one crate, he could have bought a small country.
  20. Yes, tech advances are one of the problems I have with the MCU as a setting. I can deal with Vibranium being relatively rare, but Pym is right to keep tight control of those Pym particles and Stark's arc reactor would completely change the world all on its own. It completely vaults us past all our existing energy sources. A single Iron Man armor can lift a payload of tons on its own. Age of Ultron showed that scaling it up to large platforms was easily possible. It would enable orbital elevators, orbital rings and then on to asteroid mining and Gundam style space colonies.
  21. Hugh's post just doubles down on my original question. Normally, the Takes No Stun Power triples the cost of Resistant PD/ED. Will the doppelgangers have full value, or will they be reduced? This is going to be the biggest factor in determining strategy.
  22. If this is an NPC, there is no need to create the Power, it's a plot device under control on the GM at all times. For a PC here are two options using XDM only: Extra-Dimensional Movement (Single Dimension) (20 Active Points); 1 Charge which Recovers every 1 Month (-3), No Conscious Control (-2), Conditional Power Only Works if at Shrinking Maximum (-1/4). This one still requires GM control to determine if it activates. Or: Extra-Dimensional Movement (Single Dimension) (20 Active Points); 1 Charge which Recovers every 1 Month (-3), Requires A Roll (8- roll; Must be made each Phase/use; -1 3/4), Linked (Shrinking; Lesser Power can only be used when character uses greater Power at full value; -3/4).
  23. Are the doppelgangers going to have their defenses adjusted to equivalent points using the Automaton rules? With only 1/3 of the PC's defenses, you should be able to do the job with Haymakers, Move-Throughs and Pushing. If their defenses are not adjusted, then Drain BODY or some sort of Damage Over Time attack are the only ways I can see.
  24. I initially thought Side Effect but those are supposed to always go off. But I'd do it with a Linked XDM Power with an Activation Roll and a Limitation on the Shrinking that locks it on for that Xd6 weeks.
  25. There you go attacking the real root of the problem. It's not totally that simple though but if you spread that to all executive pay then we're coming closer. If the average worker at company X makes $60,000 and he mean makes $40,000 then the CEO making $6 million may make sense. But making $30 million? That's probably out of line with their contribution to the company.
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