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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.

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.

3 hours ago, Starlord said:

CEO pay has skyrocketed 1,460% since 1978

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.

The last truly grandiose plan I dreamed up was a riff on the follow up to Age of Ultron. There's a giant vibranium spike sitting under that lake in Sokovia, along with the wreckage of several antigravity engines.

My villain wanted to collude with the Sokovian government and repair enough to make a floating orbital platform the size of a large stadium and from there begin an elevator, orbital ring and asteroid mining. Naturally, world governments would not agree but once launched it would have missile defense arrays and kinetic bombardment capability and it's own team of supers on hand.

A very grandiose Thunderbolts plot and for the kicker the villain offers to allow all heroes to join him and share in the leadership of the platform. He really does want to lead mankind to a brighter future but feels we needs a strong guiding hand to steer us there. He'd even be willing to step down for a Superman or captain America type to take over if that would build trust.

Yes, this idea can work and work well. Giving everyone a common origin, makes it simpler to weave plots together. And it makes less work for the GM on organizations.  Plus, single can still be pretty broad in scope.

It can also give some justification to fear by the population because these supers are different from the norm. All mages? They're after our souls! All cyborgs? They're going to turn us into spare parts! All mutants? We'll be replaced! Aliens? They'll enslave us and then eat us! It's much easier to fuel one strong conspiracy than lots of small ones.

17 hours ago, slikmar said:

I agree with you on Battleground and was a culmination of a lot, reminded me of Changes in that respect. Speaking of, if the spell CRT spoke of was the one from Changes, Harry couldn't have cast that spell, the vampires set it up, he just changed a parameter. If not, well, Harry has always been a powerhouse, what he has learned is control and maximizing that power. On the other hand 

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I cannot see how he gets out of the creature that can possess anyone if they even hear about it. They showed early that for some reason Harry can affect it, but it goes back to why I stopped watching DS9 during the shifter war, despite how good the writing is, if the bad guys can be anyone you have already lost.

 

I have been listening to the Junkyard Druid series, all of them, and there are a lot of parallels, including the power creep. If you like Dresden, I recommend it by M.D. Massey.

Harry can avoid being possessed by Nemesis because he is a Starborn and has power over Outsiders. They cannot control his mind without his consent and his magic and even physical attacks are more effective against them. He can still be killed but he'll die his own man.

The mass extinction thing has the potential to be catastrophic to the environment if it's too sudden. Think of those nuclear power plants, oil refineries and industrial chemical plants that could break down if not for human supervision. Areas around airports and busy freeways are going to take hard hits also. But if we can avoid most of that and keep enough STEM professionals and construction types going, it would give us a long-term benefit at a horrific short-term price.

If you want to see all the changes Rebirth has made:

https://discord.com/channels/568451050181492736/579233316688101403/1206687439301771314

I had heard of this, but my idea of the problem was off by an order of magnitude. I had thought that the major issue was special grades of sand for computer chips. Knowing that it's for construction, make the problem much more serious. And it's insidiously mundane, who pays attention to sand trucks? And I can easily see a Bond movie based around this. They didn't really play up the water plot in Quantum of Solace.

Your blast can use the Ranged Martial Arts moves right out of the box. I'd just buy the weapon proficiency for it and allow the Hand to Hand moves that apply.

On 2/1/2024 at 5:48 PM, Duke Bushido said:

Uh--

 

Let'a remember I never liked DnD enough to move beyond 3e, so when I say "I dont play DnD," it is specifically 3e and newer that I am talking about, in spite if not havibg (or wanted to play) any other edition for decades.

 

So, without attempting to discuss the pros and cons of its presence in DnD, would someone be kind enough to guve me a couple of examples of social justice as it appears in DnD, because I seem to have just entirely missed it....

 

  

Not so much Social Justice but Wokeness. As an example, inherently evil monster races have been pretty much removed from Pathfinder 2. Especially glaring was the goblins , who were despicable little rapists and torturers, were added as a PC race. You are supposed to believe that X years of lore was accomplished by "bad" goblins but any new PC's and NPC's were good acceptable citizens. 

Combat Sense will let you fight them. If you need to search an area of Darkness, you'll need an Unusual Sense that the darkness doesn't cover.

On 2/9/2024 at 2:00 PM, Ternaugh said:

Just finished my quarterly doctor visit, my muscle mass is up 2lbs, and my fat mass is down 9 lbs.

 

I was also told to eat more salt.

I have never heard of a doctor saying "Eat more salt." Did they say why?

Combat Sense is a thing.

This gets back to something that we've discussed before, a unified standard for the Hero Universe.

It would require all official Hero products to be examined and modified by a common editorial standard. There can and will be variation but there would need to be a consensus on levels of play like High and Low Fantasy, Heroic Adventuring (Westerns, Espionage, Black Ops, etc.), Beginning, Standard, High Power and Galactic Supers/ Magic campaigns and the spectrum of Martial Arts. And these editors would need real control over the ranges of what is allowed to be labelled as each.

Not a change of the game per se but a change in editorial direction. You can still have Dr. Destroyer and the Geodesics in the same universe, but they would not appear in the same product.

If you truly must build it, then use LS-Cold with Focus, Doesn't work if soaking wet. It's either a major plot point or a trivial add in a story.

So have the two villains come to Earth in a loose alliance and let one of the NPC cops be after both of them. They could normally handle them individually but need help against both. or beef up one of the villains with the adventure's plot hook and have the detective and cyborg/spaceship be partners tracking them down.

6 hours ago, Duke Bushido said:

 For 4e and up; yes.

 

For 1-3e; no.

 

Though I see I posted a bad number.  The actual cost should be 112.

 

10d6, in the early editions, is 10 END.  A +1/4 cuts that in half:

10/2= 5END.

 

Then you keep halving at+1/4 each lick:

 

10/2

5/2

2.5/2

1.25/2

.625.

 

.625 is still not less than half a pip, so .625/2 = .3125.  Now we are less than half a pip, which by the rulea is the point at which we can declare the END cost to be zero.

 

Five halvings at plus one quarter each is +1.25.  The original 50 pt cost times 2.25 is 112.5, or 112 pts.

 

This gets even uglier uglier if there arw other Advantages on the power, as reduced END is figured after everytjing else, since you need the total END calculations from other Advantages before you can start.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ok, I see where we differ, we rounded at each step and you're not rounding until you get below 1/2. A small difference but it does bring in one extra step.

Shouldn't that be 100 points. 5 to 2 to 1 to 0 should only be a +1 total Advantage.

It'll work just fine. Once you finish character creation, the only time it will come into play is a handful of Adjustment Power situations. Because there are price changes involved, you'll basically have 5th Edition results when affecting some Characteristics. You'll have to decide which edition's rules you use for Negative Characteristics also.

Hadn't noticed the Trigger requirement before and have been building it without it. Hero Designer doesn't flag it, but I suppose that's beyond the scope of the program's checks. The issue of not being able to Aid more than was Drained was just assumed as part of the Linked.

As Chris wrote, by RAW the Powers do not interact. Shape Shift doesn't really have a mechanic that negates it per se. Even if you see through a Shape shift used as a disguise, you don't see the true form of the user, you just know something's wrong. The Shape Shift would need to be Limited in some form to permit anything else.

I think Noose.

I know there's one in European Enemies.

On 1/24/2024 at 9:41 AM, Certified said:

... of Florida. 

Despite the more... colorful residents, I'd get Miami so that's a good deal.