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  2. Instand Death - No Escape

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    Re: Instand Death - No Escape

     

    Usually, an attack which harms a superhuman will have a good chance of KOing or killing a normal person. It's not too far-fetched to use such an attack. After all, Dr. Doom carries a Mauser to dispatch targets unworthy of his armor's weapon systems.

     

    Build it just like any other attack. If you want to get really technical, make it a Minor Transform: Normal person into a sleeping (KOed) normal person.

  8. Illiteracy...

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    Re: Illiteracy...

     

    As an illiterate, I feel uniquely qualified to answer this. Persuasion, (I forgot my glasses. What does this say?) and Acting (I read it, I read it. Go ahead and let's talk about it.) are the key skills. Eidetic Memory is purely optional.

  12. Character Transformations

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    Re: Character Transformations

     

    My first Marvel Superheoes character was named Bobcat. He was a normal man who was almost killed in a battle between the X-Men and some other group, it's sort of unimportant. He was saved from death's door by an unusual application of Warlok's transmode virus, which healed him and granted him superpowers of his own. He is a durable, feral warrior with the ability to control his transmode virus infection to perform two notable effects beyond pure fighting:

     

    He can override computers and AIs with no range and extra time;

     

    He can infect others with his version of the virus, bringing them from death's door (and sometimes beyond) back to full health.

     

    He also has the drawback that he is affected by mental powers which only affect the animal class or the machine class of minds, as well as the human class of minds. Incidentally, those he infects with his virus also have this limitation.

     

    In a few cases over the years I've played him off and on he has infected people who have developed their own, unique transmode-derived superpowers. This of course is a GMO thing, usually to explain an origin of an ally or villain of his (or another PC who wishes for a radiation acident!)

  13. Queer Eye for the Superhero Guy

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    Re: Queer Eye for the Superhero Guy

     

    Its weird that you should mention the whole perils of capedom. Ever since i read Alan Moores now classic The Watchmen I have never had a character with a cape since.

     

    Alan Moore goes into some detail about costume design and one of the characters mentioned was Dollar Bill, he wore a cloak and while trying to stop a bank robbery got his cape tangled in the revolving door, the robbers shot him :(

     

    My vote for a makeover would be Billy Batson/Shazam That gold cumberbund he wears around his beer belly whats that all about?

     

     

    Thais depends on the superhero subgenre you like. In a game I GM, I would never penalize a character for using a cape- I presune they are "perfectly" profocient with using their own costumes. And remember, Dollar Bill didn't want a cape- a marketing exec designed his costume!

  16. Queer Eye for the Superhero Guy

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    Re: Queer Eye for the Superhero Guy

     

    No no' date=' you're thinking Black Vulcan from the old Superfriends show. The Black Lightning from the comic book wore pants.[/quote']

     

    I'm pretty sure neither of them did.

     

    Which, if true, is about the strangest coincidence in all of comicdom.

  22. (In Character) The Q.U.A.R.K. Column begins anew!

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    Re: (In Character) The Q.U.A.R.K. Column begins anew!

     

    Dear Q.U.A.R.K.

     

    The end of the millennium brought out lots of panic and an upsurge in membership of dark and evil cults. However the cult ran into a snag with the old ritual sacrifice thing. There just doesn't seem to be any nubile virgins around anymore. And killing kids is just plain cheating. So where do you get a nubile virgin from nowadays ? Either sex but female preferred.

     

    Sincerely

     

    Death Tribble

     

    And if you figure that one out, let me know, too.

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