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Re: I hope we have cooler looking cars than this in the future. Probably in 30 years we are going to wish cars were that cool. Cars today are not as cool as ones from the 1960s much less car of future concepts cars of the that period. There has been a relentless march towards automotive banality over the last 40 years its end seems to be nowhere in sight.

Re: The Cape - What do you think of it so far? I liked it. It's cheesy and over the top, but it is fun. The pilot episode was too packed and need to be 2 hours, but the two episodes since then have been better structured.

Re: More City Books The Urban Fantasy sourcebook has a nice section on Reno.

Re: Help with a power

Re: Help with a power I think I would go with a AOE Blast with increased knockback and a linked barrier against physical attacks.

Re: Conan: The Current Movie in Progress..... I don't know. I kind of like the idea of Conan cleaving some guy's head off and momentarily having it appear as though the head were going to land in my lap.

Re: Tropes Revisited: Beautiful Female Martial Artist. Ideas sought Well, for something different from other have been suggesting ...

Re: Black Falcon 3.5 Well, lets see. By my math, you saved 84 points by using OHID on your powers and stats. So part of the time Black Falcon is a competent normal and the rest of the time she is a 484 point character. Without seeing the other player's characters or knowing structure of the campaign, it is impossible for me to say for sure. If all the other characters were monsters too or if the campaign set up was such that I felt that I could force Black Falcon to spend a lot of time in her secret ID without messing the flow of play, I might allow her. However, in most campaigns that I have run, I would ask for a different build.

Re: Black Falcon 3.5 Yes, it works without the multiform. A gag will prevent Black Falcon from appearing. So will someone putting there hand over her mouth, dunking her head in water, darkness to sound depending on how it is defined, knocking her unconscious before she has an time to change of putting her in a situation that she can't do the change without blowing her secret ID. I'm just enumerating ways that the transformation can be block, to point out that all these things are fair game for your GM and you should accept it gracefully when he does these things. Black Falcon doesn't have to accept it gracefully, and indeed should use every bit of her ingenuity to find some way to say her magic word while protecting her secret ID. It is just you the player that shouldn't argue when the GM says she falls into the water before she is get her magic word out of her mouth. Sorry to lecture but like most GMs I have had experiences.

Re: Black Falcon 3.5 Guy you can't take OIHID when you have made a multiform and the form in question is your hero ID. If she is in that form to begin with, she is in hero ID.

Re: Let's Play "The Naming Game" A character named Interface who was an AI's means of acting in the world would be interesting. It's funny how in trying to come up with a good name for one character you can come up with ideas for two others. Cyberstar isn't bad. I may go with that. Thanks.

Re: Another "Battle Royale" Question: John Preston Vs Judge Dredd ? I haven't seen Equilibrium so I can't really vote, but I would like to note that in the comic book Judge Dread is unbelievably fast. Really, he frequently does stuff that isn't humanly possible leading me to wonder whether he is secretly an android or something.

Re: Let's Play "The Naming Game" Please don't hand me straight lines. It forces me to make an EGO roll to resist joking off them and my EGO rolls aren't that good. Interfaces by their nature are conduits through which others act rather than actors themselves. So while you are right that her universal interface is her signature gadget, interface doesn't really suit her personally. Perhaps her ability to take control of machines could provide the basis for her name, but I have not come up with one based on it that I like. I briefly considered Remote Control but found it lame to me. My other ideas along this line, Machine Master and Machine Mistress, both strike as better villain names than hero names. Maybe you will think of something better than my ideas.

Re: Fractal Branching Ultra-Dextrous Robots Well, I guess you could buy a detect based on touch. So a person might know when they were touching gold and with the microscopic adder they could tell if there were even trace quantities present.

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Re: Let's Play "The Naming Game" Hacksaw? She is not really that hardcore, and anyway she is of Russian not German descent. Reasonable question. I pictured her with boot jets, bullet and energy weapon resistant costume, wrist minirockets that can go around corners, electronic countermeasures to radar and holograms to sight, and remote control over machines through her own patented universal interface. None of these abilities are set in stone at this point though.

Re: Fractal Branching Ultra-Dextrous Robots It seems like these things could use telekinesis with no range, fine manipulation and some microscopic adders. Of course adding microscopic to TK isn't kosher by the rules but as a GM, I would allow it.

Re: Religions in SF settings.

Re: Posthegemony Update Cool!

Re: Posthegemony Update Really interesting setting. How large do you expect the book to be and when do you think you will publish?

Re: Need help with New Campaign How about this? The last Uber Mage, Warsinger and Gingerbread Man put aside differences and egos and came together when a great evil threatened the world. In order to defeat the evil they gathered magic items of great power and an army of heroes to help them. They sacrificed much in there preparation for the battle that they knew was to come. And then it came. Great power was unleashed and army of heroes, including many who they had come to love, fell before the great evil. Yet when the smoke cleared the great evil was also fallen ... but not dead. It would recover. The legendary heroes has failed to secure some ingredient necessary to kill it permanently. The Uber Mage came up with a plan. Rather than let all the valiant who died bringing the great evil down deaths be in vain, he would cast a spell to bind the beast so it could not escape. Binding spells of such great power don't cheap. He would have to sacrifice all three of their souls to make the spell secure. Perhaps the others agreed to the sacrifice or perhaps the mage tricked them. Either way the spell was cast and both the mighty heroes and great evil disappeared and faded into legend. Skip to the present. Someone has decided to free the great evil for their own evil ends our PCs having gotten wind of this plan set out to prevent it. They fail. While the PCs are busy fighting underlings the necessary ritual is complete and the great evil is unleashed. Not considering the PCs worth it attention after its long imprisonment the great evil slaps them aside nearly killing them in the process and stalks off. Unbeknown to both the great evil and the one who freed it, breaking the bonds that held it not only released the great evil but also freed the souls of the Uber Mage, Warsinger and Gingerbread Man. Okay, I'm sure you can see where I'm going from here. Just add some rousing adventures worthy of legends, a quest to locate the missing ingredient needed to kill the great evil, an epic final battle, a decision about whether the heroes get to keep their expanded abilities after defeating the great evil, put in the oven at 350 and cook until done. Hope that helps.

Re: Conan: The Current Movie in Progress..... According to the Conan movie blog, Djimon Honsou has bought the rights to a script for a Thulsa Doom movie. I kinda doubt that this is going go anywhere, but it would be cool if it did.

Re: Religions in SF settings. That explains so much about the Californian budget process these last several years.

Re: Emotional Rescue Oh, when you said a VPP that enhances powers/attributes you were talking about her powers and attributes. Since you had been talking about soothing crowds and negating mass fear effects, I was thinking that her abilities had more to do with the powers and attributes of others. Well, never mind then.

Re: Emotional Rescue Giving your character some more thought, I think your idea of a VPP that enhances powers/attributes No Conscious Control is the way to go. You could have a second add on VPP that requires 10 or more people experiencing a similar emotional response to kick in, and possibly a third VPP for over a hundred people being emotionally on board. Question though, what if the emotion those 100 people are experiencing is fear of some villain or monster? Does the villain/monster get a power boost to make them even more frightening?