Grailknight

What's acceptable from players is not excusable from the authors of the ruleset.

They looked at it this offseason and decided to leave it in.

Champions characters have another not so obvious advantage. The typical fantasy character is built to take damage from KA's and focus more on Resistant Defenses relative to their total. KA's are better at doing BODY so a higher percentage of the character's total is Resistant. You want to minimize the BODY damage and on average, KA's do less STUN past lower defenses. It doesn't show vs your typical monsters, but Normal attacks are in general more effective against PC's than their equivalent DC's in Killing attacks. We had a player join the campaign about two sessions in who was a martial arts nut and he made a monk that did 8d6 Normal with a quarterstaff. He was weaker against big monsters, but just dominated any NPC that used standard armor and weapons because he consistently did more STUN. One of the plots eventually had the party attacked by his old order and it was the closest fight of the campaign because people were getting knocked unconscious in two hits from 12's and 13's on the Hit Location chart and stunned by one hit there.

That may be true of Superman being held back by the writers to make a story interesting but Superman in the hands of a PC is an entirely different animal. Unless you can match that speed and toughness your best-case scenario is that you wake up in jail. He patrols from 10,000 feet up as he can see and hear everything below just fine, approaches at faster than the speed of sound and then hits you with a Move-By using his 50+ inches of base flying and his 100+ STR with Noncombat surprise. When he really needs to go all-out, the writers remember that he is a Flash level speedster. He only gets hit with missile weapons when he doesn't take the trouble to use his full powers.

The next move I'd make would be to invite the MWC as a whole to merge into the Pac-12. That would keep those schools from having to pay any buyouts and give them a 14-team league as good as the other small conferences. The MWC would get the benefit of the Rose Bowl, an automatic NCAA basketball tourney bid held by the Pac-12 and a partial share of those residuals. And any undefeated conference champ would merit strong consideration for the 12-team playoff, so more money to split.

That clause in the Pac-12 rules that says that giving intention to leave comes with a surrender of voting rights does give them some legal standing. I'm for OSU and WSU to this extent. If there's a clause in the lease that says that moving out early forfeits your share of the security deposit, you should have been prepared for that loss.

You have to make a distinction between enemies with human motivation and values but different morals and those with irreconcilably alien thoughts and needs. You can coexist with creatures such as orcs and various types of beast-men. That doesn't mean it'll be all sweetness and light. There'll be wars and atrocities caused by cultural and religious differences and resource scarcity just with like other human nations. You can't live with things like Illithids or Xenomorphs who can only see you as cattle or reproductive hosts or both. You can either kill them or become fodder. The GM has to determine this when creating those races. There can be exceptions but be very clear that they are atypical individuals. Being a serial killer or a philosophical researcher can happen in any group and both ways.

They can be as individuals or even a pair or trio. It depends on their target and especially their tone. The problem comes when you have them target PC's who are actually heroic and haven't done anything wrong besides fail. If you've seen Shazam: Fury of the Gods, you could use that movie as an example. Good use of CLOWN- Mocking the Marvel family for bad strategy. Playing catch with the McGuffin in the middle of a fight does not exhibit the Wisdom of Solomon. Bad use of CLOWN- Blaming the Marvels for the property damage on the bridge and calling them menaces. They could have done much better, but at least they were trying, and they did save everyone's life.

For a real-world analogy, CLOWN is like this new wave of eco-protestors that we are seeing except they are protesting the PC's. You know like, the idiots who sit down in streets, deface art and interrupt entertainment and sporting events. They may actually have a real message but they're so obnoxious you'd rather beat them down to drive them off than listen to them.

I can see a market for the candy. I'm not part of it but I can see it. But that may be the most heinous crime committed against meat that I've ever seen.

Hmm, thrown a few big screen TV's and some Wi-Fi and this could catch on everywhere.

You can use grab. If you're really worried buy some of your defenses with Protects Carried Object.

Defender was even worse than that. He took NCM and Steve Long came up with the "Defender exploit" so that Characteristics bought in Frameworks weren't subject to NCM doubling.

Number 2 and number 5 are the most common IME with number 2 ahead by a large margin.

Approximately 20 years give or take a few months, it's building to its conclusion.

Possibly. I have a serious lack of players currently, but it may just become that nagging thought that I can't put down.

I wouldn't charge any extra then. This is simply a question of if you'll allow the Multiform in question. If he doesn't get the vehicle discount just rule on whether he can or can't be an Automaton in the alternate form.

What value would you place on this if a player asked for it. Nesting a 5 point per 1 point Vehicle inside a 5 point per 1 point Multiform will allow some extremely powerful builds.

I have much less issue with worlds where the hate is against all Supers no matter their power source. But I do feel that the inventor/gadgeteer types would be stuck in the middle. If they join the anti-super movement (because it's probably going to take more than conventional weapons to keep supers down), then they'll be accepted and probably placed in leadership or privileged and protected positions. If they don't, they'll be part of the problem and decried as traitors to humanity. My last project for HERO was going to be a campaign set in the aftermath of a worldwide anti-supers war. Maybe I'll look for my notes and work on it again.

Two options: Number one, make your car form without using the vehicle or automaton rules. Then it's just a regular Multiform. Option two, get with your GM and see what's allowed after you explain your concept. GM permission trumps RAW but be very clear and concise with your abilities and don't make any changes without approval.

Wow, it sucks to be Washington State and Oregon State right now. I only see two options for them. Number one is just to join the MWC and accept that they're no longer Power 5 schools. Secondly, they could swallow their pride and grovel to the Big 12 for entry on terms similar to but not quite as bad as SMU got from the ACC for reduced revenue shares for a time. I don't think either could make it as Independents.

Why make a new Limitation when Concentrate at this level does exactly what you want? The costing seems to be appropriate so just use it and move on. Life Support (Longevity: Immortal; Self-Contained Breathing), Usable Nearby (+1/2), Grantor can take back power at any time, Grantor pays the END whenever the power is used, Grantor can only grant the power to others (22 Active Points); Concentration, Must Concentrate throughout use of Constant Power (0 DCV; Character is totally unaware of nearby events; -1 1/2), OAF (-1) Cost: 6 Real Points

Verstappen didn't rise up to challenge Hamilton. Red Bull rose up to challenge and surpass Mercedes. As structured, F1 racing is prone to these streaks of dominance. While the drivers are the public face of the sport, the constructors and their engineering teams are its true stars. It's 90% the cars provided and 10% on the drivers and race day crew. Red Bull currently has the best car and the only ones in shouting distance of them are Ferrari, McLaren and Merecedes. The situation is volatile because the construction regulations and parameters in F1 are much looser than NASCAR or Indy car racing so their cars have greater variation from the norm. But they place strict limits on how much money can be spent within any given racing season. If one team makes a better adjustment to the offseason changes, they can count on being at the top for that year unless their advantage is very slim. I'd love to see the F1 drivers do something like the old International Race of Champions series. The top 8-12 drivers and their crews would compete in a series of races with identical cars from one manufacturer and would have to rotate cars and crews from race to race so they never drove the same one twice. That way we could have a points system for both drivers and crews and a fairer gague of each's skills.

Isn't this a game where we're playing as Batman or Hank Pym or Tony Stark or John Henry Irons? We play the real world 1% exceptions not the 99% rule. And in the real world there are athletes who are Rhodes scholars. Granted they're not as common as in genre, but they do exist.

That's probably even closer.