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Grailknight

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  1. It's supposed to be Healing. All those things you mention are valid Disadvantages on a Blast. This Power's only utility over a Selective Heal or Blast is that it can be used to do both vs undead/demons. Yes, if you're not fighting undead/demons, the +0 on the KB is fair. But what happens when you do fight them in this fantasy campaign? Now we have a Selective AoE KB Blast combined with a Selective AoE Heal with two different conditions that are both advantageous to the caster: Healed allies and potential KB on enemies. We did this by fiddling with some modifiers so that we don't Heal the undead/demons or KB the allies. And I assigned it the smallest Advantage possible, +1/4. I agree there, but then you also have to add something for the Does not Heal Undead/Demons. Otherwise, you've created a Selective AoE Heal with a Side Effect that is a pure benefit to you when it should be a separate Blast.
  2. I highly doubt that you' need to heal your friends at the start of a combat so whether it's useful then is moot. This is supposed to be a Healing spell with a bonus, not a combat mainstay and certainly not an attack you'd lead with. I'm not suggesting that it gets anything larger than +1/4. It's not offensive in most cases but when it applies it's definitely advantageous. I'd give the extra KB vs undead/demons a +0 if this were strictly a Blast.
  3. I don't think it would be hard to get the SEC to accept FSU and Clemson.
  4. I doubt that you want to Heal the bandits. And it's an Advantage because it doesn't affect your allies except for those rare exceptions you mention.
  5. Yeah, unlike other conferences, the ACC wrote their current deal in the era of conference jumping and the member schools were very meticulous on the procedures for leaving and the legal and financial consequences. And they made it binding until 2036. No one foresaw the fiasco that the Pac-12's poor negotiating leadership would create and how that debacle would pretty much destroy the existing balance. But if the committee had been honest, FSU would have been in or at least it should have seen the whammy coming for weeks. If the justification for dropping them out of the top 4 was the loss of their QB, why did they not drop them before the last 2 games? They didn't look great, but they beat Florida without requiring the miracle that let Alabama top Auburn and they didn't get dropped. Then they beat #11 Louisville with their 3rd string QB, while Alabama beat a Georgia team playing without their two best skill players at TE and WR. They didn't want the possibility of another Georgia-TCU but that overlooks that TCU beat Michigan to earn that beatdown. They didn't want to listen to the networks whine about no SEC schools making it. So, they bowed to the de facto BiG10/SEC overlords and gave us this. So, here's FSU, which played by all the rules, went undefeated and won their conference championship and they don't make the Playoff? With the committee being comprised by a majority of ACC affiliated voters? I'd be outraged and looking for any way out if I could find one too.
  6. Do the Undead and Demons in your campaign have Breakfall? More importantly, do all the Players? Knockback doesn't just push you away. You are knocked prone and have to spend a half move to stand. Opponents may get to attack you while prone. Without a ranged attack, you may not be able to attack on your next action. It's a powerful mitigation that is underestimated because it can be negated by a 3-point skill. So yes, IMO, not doing Knockback to your allies is worth something when applied to an Area of Affect attack. Meanwhile, at +1/4, the cost changes from 40 to 45 active points, 18 to 20 real points and doesn't increase the END cost or Skill Roll difficulty. So, the change is 2 real points. Hardly crippling. Even at +1/2 (Which is what you'd pay for a Selective Attack that hits the hex and isn't rolled against each individual target.) it only costs 22 real points but would cost 1 more END and have another -1 to the skill roll. You're the GM and you're giving this power to the player, does 4 points make that big a difference when you're giving it away?
  7. I like it but KB doesn't affect Non-Undead/Demons is definitely not a +0. I don't know if it's worth +1/2 but it's definitely a +1/4.
  8. Nope. Not unless I can see the suit of plot armor that all the Doctor's companions wear to survive even one episode.
  9. There's a mom who can't wait for the school year to start.
  10. There's a 10-mile-high petrified torso in the middle of the Indian Ocean that has not been mentioned in any movie other than the one it emerged in. Also, very little acknowledgement of that 30k mile tall being that addressed the entire planet and said he be back to pass judgement on humanity in a mental voice everyone on the planet heard. They are clearly ignoring some events.
  11. Watch the four Rebuild movies on Amazon to get the complete experience. The creator went back into depression over the course of the first three and recovered during the planning and making of the fourth. The animation is spectacular, and it actually tells you what the plan was at the end while giving closure to the characters.
  12. Soto has led the National league in walks for 3 years running, he'll be fine wherever they put him in the lineup. Stanton will have to have to DH whether he likes it or not.
  13. I am more and more convinced the Niners LT Trent Williams is the MVP. He got hurt early in their first loss and missed the next 2 games. With him back they are curb stomping the league again. 42-10 over Dallas in SF, 42-19 over Philly in Philly. I don't see anyone out there who can keep them from the Super Bowl.
  14. Depends on the night results. Right now, Washington is in and that won't change. If Florida state and Michigan win, they're in. Michigan is a lock and FSU will be an undefeated Power 5 champion even if they are missing their top QB. In that scenario, Ohio State and Georgia will probably be eliminated for either Texas or Alabama. They'd both be Power 5 champions, but Texas did beat Alabama at Alabama. Alabama has probably improved more than any other team over the course of the season, but a head-to-head win should still settle any debate. Michigan will most likely win unless Iowa's sneaks the Steelers in, and no one notices. FSU is a more likely upset candidate and their loss would be cheered on in Austin and Tuscaloosa. True chaos would be for both teams to be upset tonight. (An Iowa win would be... surprising.) That would setup a 6-way scrum of one loss teams, all Power 5, all football royalty. Alabama and Texas would be the main beneficiaries here, both would be Power 5 champs even though they both started the day behind the other 4 in the rankings. That leaves FSU, who'd probably be left out, Michigan, losers to Iowa, Ohio State, losers to a team that lost to Iowa, and Georgia, defending National Champions that lost a close title game. Having seen all these teams twice, I'd personally pick Georgia but there would be much wailing and gnashing of teeth, conspiracy theories, insane media debates and general lunacy no matter which gets in.
  15. The problem, or at least a major part of the problem, is that she's actually fairly true to her comics persona. Carol Danvers got her start as an antagonistic secondary love interest to the original Captain Marvel. She was Air Force Intelligence at the base Mar-Vell infiltrated before he broke from the Kree military. She's always been a hard-ass with a suppressed soft side. Her career was put on a treadmill after all the security problems that were caused by Mar-Vell's battles, and it took her awhile to recover. Near the end of the book she was exposed to a radiation accident that took years to manifest into the Ms. Marvel powerset. And during this time, she was an independent security consultant. Then came the whole Rogue story and the transformation to Binary and finally the transition to the current Captain Marvel. The MCU version has her as a pilot and not an intelligence operative and that's caused a slight shift in her personality. She went from being Hawkman to Hal Jordan Green Lantern. But neither of those are warm nor fuzzy and lack feminine traits. So, you have a female Jack Bauer with a spotty comic history that's suddenly been christened the most powerful hero in the MCU. I'm not surprised that non-readers haven't embraced the character, but I did think she'd get more approval from readers. The backlash against the actress, that from what I've read comes from one out of context comment, isn't helping either.
  16. Keep the #1 pick. They may want to trade Fields if Caleb Williams is there. If they like Fields, take Marvin Harrison Jr. at 1 and be happy. But you still take offers on it, some team may be desperate and stupid and make an offer too good to turn down.
  17. They are institutionally unable to make clutch plays. When the going gets tough they ... step aside. But they look really good while they're failing.
  18. First, you're responding to a post from 12 years ago. Second, Damage Reduction comes with Resistant and Nonresistant options already, so no limitation is needed.
  19. Thinking slightly outside the box, use Damage over Time on each power. It keeps the attacks on one target without needing to buy anything else, bought with Lockout, you can only have one going at once and you can set the deactivation method and only buy enough increments to last 3 turns at maximum. It's still going to be expensive but that can't be helped. Or you can Use Summon and have Intangible Automatons with Affect Real World their single power. Also quite expensive.
  20. If any other player would get only a 2-3 game suspension, then Draymond's suspension is 2x the average of that and I've said before that suspension will hit him for 1.3 million. The NBA players union has a great deal more power than the NFL player union. That's partly due to just being better organized and more to the nature of the sport itself. In the NBA, having 3 true and complimentary stars will make a team a contender or it can be done with 2 stars and a superlative support cast. That naturally makes those stars more valuable and gives them more power. And the league has to promote by its stars. All sports leagues do this though. You don't see a teaser for an NFL game featuring an offensive lineman and a kicker, you see quarterbacks, skill position players and dominant defenders. Baseball leads with the stars for each team. So does soccer and even hockey. Stars are the rising tide for the boats. The reasons the NFL players union's relative powerlessness are lack of unity and roster size. One player can be a star, but he can't consistently elevate a roster that's truly lacking in talent. So, when negotiations for a labor contract come up, the owners exploit the rift that's there when between the top stars and the rest of the team. As long as the stars get paid, they won't hold the line strongly enough to let the NFL union exert any lasting power.
  21. These situations aren't really comparable in scale though. I agree with you that Draymond Green has a history of sketchy conduct, but this latest suspension does take that history into account. He was given 5 games for what was essentially him breaking up a fight, not fighting himself. He didn't do something likely to injure Gobert. Yes, he put Gobert in a headlock, but all he did after that was shove him away from the scrum. He didn't throw any punches or try to tighten his grip or bring Gobert down with pressure. If he hadn't held it so long, and he did hold on to him an excessive length of time, he would have gotten a technical but probably not an ejection. Most other players would be facing a one game suspension, but his prior history led Silver to send a message. Jackson, on the other hand, is doing dangerous things. He's making illegal hits to the head and neck area and while he might not intend to injure, he's placing other players (and himself) in danger with his overly aggressive and reckless tackling. The NFL made those rules changes for player safety, covers them every tear with every team in training camp, and makes them a point of emphasis for the referees. Jackson has more serious incidents in one season than any other player that I can remember, even Burflict. He has two incidents after being suspended once. He's clearly not learning, but the NFL may not be able to give him a year-long suspension until his next strike. Four games might be light here, but it may be the maximum the collective bargaining agreement allows.
  22. It's not a bad movie but it's not great. i could have done with a lot less flerkin content and more of the main characters. For reasons I can't understand, a large portion of the usual MCU audience has antipathy towards Brie Larson and have attacked both Captain Marvel movies sight unseen. The Marvels, IMO, is better than Thor 2 and 4 and Incredible Hulk and as good as Iron Man 3 and GotG 2. It has flaws but MCU fatigue may be more to blame than the quality of the film.
  23. Cleveland's defense is awesome. However, their offense is missing their starting QB and RB. Their receivers are pretty meh outside of Cooper and they're rolling with a 5th round rookie at QB.
  24. He didn't have the endpoints. Doing it properly would have entailed a long conversation with Peter before they started to finalize the details and instructions to not speak up and change things. If a typical group of players can discuss how to use a wish for 10-15 minutes before giving the GM the final version, a supposed Sorcerer Supreme candidate should be able to plan one out also. I like the Strange appearances as a whole but you'd think that he could apply "First do no harm." to magic. He's supposed to be arrogant, extremely so, but not idiotic to the point of being the problem instead of the solution.
  25. Got 2 turkeys and all the turnip greens in the freezer or else there'd be room.
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