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"80P to strength.Figured it made sense to make Supes have 100 in at least that category... and also because I was experimenting and wanted to throw around 20 d6's for fun." STR starts at 10. Adding 80 character points gets it to 90. "45P to dexterity for 35 dexterity" DEX starts at 10 and costs 3 pts per pt. Your DEX would be 25. "the enemy test characters I'm testing him against all have 35 dexterity and I at least want to contest them whenever we're on the same segment." Who are these "enemy test characters" and where did they come from? "20P to Speed because I wanted to go on the same segment against the enemy test characters so that I can context them with the requisite 1d6 tie breaker." Your DEX is 25. Under 4th edition, that makes your SPD 3. Spending 15 pts raises it to 5. 20 raises it to 5 with 5 wasted character points. You get to count the "leftover" DEX you see. One way to think of it may be to say that 25 DEX gets you to SPD 3.5 but the .5 doesn't help other than making it cheaper to get to 4. "4 ED" This makes me foresee the following dialogue: Mad Scientist: Stand back! I have a raygun and I know how to use it! Superman: I will not stand back! I am SUPERMAN! Mad Scientist: ZZZAP! Ha, not so super now are you? Superman: *groan* Mad Scientist: ZZZZAP! again! Now you're "super pile of ash!" "25P for 50 points of damage resistance to Physical (and Energy attacks? I'm not sure how this power works. Do I have to purchase individually for physical AND energy attacks or?...)" Yes, you have to buy it again to cover energy attacks. "20P Regeneration + 2 body per turn. " Definitely useful, although not a power I associate with Superman. Superman: I'm back! Mad Scientist: ZZZAP! I thought I Zzzapped you already? Superman: *groan* Mad scientist: ZZZAP! How may times must I zzzap you, superpest? "Distinctive Features (haircut, curl): Easily concealable: 5P" I think this is stretching things a bit. A "distinctive" haircut would be, like a mohawk or something really exotic. "So, on another note, if I took power limitations, would that lower the cost for certain things and could I effectively get even more character points from the savings and apply them elsewhere? " Yes. Putting an Advantage on a Power makes it both more useful and more expensive. Putting a Limitation on a Power makes it both less useful somehow and cheaper. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary points out that the fundamental question to ask is, what makes you think you can create Superman on 250 pts? That's like thinking you can play Conan the Barbarian as a 1st level D&D character.

The idea I have is that you're trying to spell PAGAN. Lucius Alexander A palindromedary is always a good idea in a tagline

Now enter I, Gilgamesh the king Of mighty Uruk, high gated city. Two thirds a God am I, let poets sing Of how I know of neither fear nor pity. Hi, I'm Enkidu. Shamat taught me to haiku. She taught me a lot. Gilgamesh the king Thinks he's so hot; my fate's to Teach him pity, fear. Pythia am I, oracle and seer. I draw aside the very veil of time. Apollo holds my sanctuary now His priestess there dispenses idle rhyme. I am Delphi's oracle, original and true Take heed if i prophesy to you. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary thinks we've seen this team before....somewhere....

Actually, set the question of why aside for a moment. With dragons and manticores and djinn and the like more or less crawling out of the woodwork on a pretty regular basis, tell me HOW??? Lucius Alexander With woodwork coming out of the palindromedaries

If I do more verse, do I get more picks? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary wonders how to get shovels

There was an age of wonders fair to see After the thawing of millenia winter's chills Before the peoples round the inland sea Fled their great cities for the woods and hills. After the thawing of millenia winter's chills Before the folk who built with bronze and stone Fled their great cities for the woods and hills With Legends in their very blood and bone. Before the folk who built with bronze and stone Came those who forged strong myth from dreams and words With Legends in their very blood and bone Their Gods and Heroes were both seen and heard. Came those who forged strong myth from dreams and words Before the peoples round the inland sea. Their Gods and Heroes were both seen and heard. There was an Age of Wonders fair to see. My setting is the lands around the eastern Mediterranean in the time between the end of the last great Ice Age and the period of disruption called the "Greek Dark Ages" or the "Bronze Age Collapse" - where the flickering light of History gives out and the shadowy images of Legend loom. Lucius Alexander There's no way I'm fitting a palindromedary into a set of linked quatrains like that.

Is this a serious restriction? Or are we permitted rhyming fiction? I hope that this was said in jest But if it's real I'll make the best Of writing only rhymeless prose and fight the urge to verse compose. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary says: Stop Lucius before he does something verse!

What's the policy on historical people? Or current real people? There's no genre restrictions? Lucius Alexander I assume palindromedaries are acceptable in taglines?

If that's not the knight's job, what IS the knight's job?? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary thought dragon hunting was in a knight's job description

Q: What are you planning to do with that spatula? A: Violence is the answer. Lucius Alexander The palindromedary has a Y chromosome and a Y-not chromosome

Sanguine Renewal is a Healing spell with 3 charges and Self Only. Two of the charges are wasted because it does not have the necessary Advantage to be usable more than once a day. Second Wind, same thing. Chaos Bolt: Why would a bolt of supposedly pure chaos always be green? Phoenix Ward: I don't think Resurrection actually requires Trigger. The First Law: WHY?? Final Death: "beheading which is typically a ritualized public event." How does this square with that First Law? Lucius Alexander The palindromedary is chewing things over

We don't ask if we can. We assume we can and ask "how?" Lucius Alexander The palindromedary sometimes asks me "Why?" and sometimes asks "Why not?"

After inventing Death Tribble, Earwax was not prevented from naming it Death Tribble. Lucius Alexander Inventing a rotating saddle for a palindromedary

Q: Why do Hobbits run around barefoot all the time? A: What is it that goes in the night? Lucius Alexander Not the palindromedary

If I recall, Tariq Aziz was one of Saddam Hussein's more trusted confederates, and was Christian. Lucius Alexander Neither the palindromedary nor I remember the denomination exactly....

Lucius Alexander This sounds like a palindromedary tagline

Gilligan's Island Which island seems more like an LSD hallucination: Fantasy Island vs The Island of Dr. Moreau Lucius Alexander Are we not palindromedaries?

Oriental Adventures. No reason NOT to take a martial art. Half Orc Halfpint vs Half Ogre Halfling Lucius Alexander the palindromedary sometimes likes to do things by halves

Imagine stacking up dominoes to make a stack say, 12 dominoes high. Imagine flicking your finger at it and knocking off the top 4 dominoes. Now imagine it again but instead of a stack of dominoes imagine a mountain, and instead of a finger flick imagine a superpowered punch. Lucius Alexander Now imagine a palindromedary

What do you want them to be worth? Here are minimum or close to minimum values in my opinion: Hunted: Opposing Intelligence Agencies Infrequently (Less Pow; NCI; Limited Geographical Area; Harshly Punish) -5 Hunted: Own and Allied Agencies Infrequently (Mo Pow; NCI; Watching) -10 Social Complication: Subject to Orders/Regulations Frequently, Major -15 These could easily be adjusted depending on what the player wants for the character. Lucius Alexander What is a palindromedary worth?

Touch of Chaos: (Total: 57 Active Cost, 57 Real Cost) Deadly Blow: +3d6 ([broad circumstances]) (Real Cost: 57) Lucius Alexander Touch of a palindromedary

As long as we're quoting Snopes: "In an email sent to Snopes.com, Brandon Kendhammer, associate professor of political science at Ohio University and an expert in Nigerian politics, said the religious dynamics of the conflict were further complicated by the fact that Fulani herders had also been attacking farmers in Zamfara State, “where nearly all the farmers and victims are also Muslim.” He added, “Here, the conflict very clearly appears to be rooted in the impunity of criminal gangs.” " I think the real reason the Nigerian atrocities are getting less play than the New Zealand massacre has to do with the fact that one is in Africa, and the other is in a first-world Western nation we don't expect to be plagued with such violence. In Nigeria, violence is expected, thus, not "news." Lucius Alexander In a Lucius Alexander post, a palindromedary tagline is to be expected.

With a capacity to detect the invisible Lucius Alexander The palindromedary asks if it can eat the invisible?

......I may want to rethink my position... Lucius Alexander Counting limbs on a palindromedary

So because some Centaur, somewhere, might possibly study Tai Chi, all Centaurs have to pay for Extra Limbs? Lucius Alexander Paying for an extra palindromedary