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Re: Question regarding Gestures/Incantations If I understand the rules, and your question correctly. I do believe that if you add Gestures and Incantation to the HKA you would need to do that for every attack. But have you thought about 'Charges' as a possible solution. This way you have X amount of swings. But I would probably buy it as an RKA no range that way you could similate an HKA, but a mystical sword energy, where the blade doesn't do additional damage based on Strength. Heck, you might even get away with a Focus limitation, so it can be taken from your grip.

Re: Super Prisons without Super Tech You actually want the reverse. Have the time speed up. So when they come out in a week, to them seems like 20 years. They will have aged, and everything. I would also link a lifesupport of no need to eat, breathe, or possibly sleep on it too. But make the area a desolate place. This way the super criminal hopefully won't advance technology or design something as payback.

Re: Rough Draft PC Are you making this character in HD? If so, you might want it to show both your characters Normal Characteristics and the souped up one from her Power Armor. Also if you can, please describe how she changes from Costumed Hero(?) to Hot Trottin' Supermodel Mama. This might show why OIHI might not be the right disadvantage. Even though there is really no wrong way to build a character, there are some ways to make it expandable(?) possibly even more efficient. Like the Sceptor - To me it is an OAF device with two gimmicks a smack upside the head and an energy blast. I would make that a Multipower plain and simple. So now my math may be wrong because I don't have the books or HD to help me. But say you have a 60pt MP OAF Sceptor of Doom (60pt MP) OAF (-1) real cost 30pts 3u Smack of Doom +6d6 HA + Double Knockback (60 Active Points) 2u Blast of Doom 8d8 EB This costs me 35 points. I could probably add in a few disadvantages more, but it does the job and its elegant. Now I can up my Energy Blast to be 60AP maybe even add in an adder. It doesn't cost more endurance, and overall it is a good design. Plus I can toss in a couple of other powers at 60 active point cost... how about having that Mace be used as a Shield with an Activation Roll (you do have to get it inbetween you and the attack...) Also on your Sceptor you have OIF, OIHI along with Gestures - I don't see that as legal. OIF means it can't really be gotten rid of easily. OIHI means you really are never without it - ie can't be taken away. And gestures seem rather silly, it kind of reminds me of Sailor Moon doing the little dance before you smack the enemy. If that is what you want... more power to you. I just don't recommend it. Especially with OAF basically screams Mace to me.

Re: Rough Draft PC I think you have a good concept. It just needs refinement. I don't mind spending more on characteristics, that is if there is a reason. I do disagree about the SPD needing to be a 4 or 5. I currently have a character with a SPD 3 (minimum I would say), and that is perfectly acceptable. One of the keys, I would look at is the chart on what the averages are for a certain point campaign. Try to keep the OCV/DCV SPD and stats inline and this should be gravy.

Re: Rough Draft PC I would build the character a little different. I would make the characteristic boost a permanent boost through the armor. So give the character additional characteristics, but with the lim OIHI (IE The armor can never really be taken away) or OIF (It can be removed but under certain circumstances). This might be a little more expensive, but you also no longer have to spend points on the Multipower Besides, it looks like you can only activate one of the powers in the first multipower - not good. I can just picture it... I activate my Armor... it is kind of dark, I activate Nightvision... oh there is that bad guy, he's shooting at me. Darn, my defenses dropped! Not to mention, you have your weapons outside of the Multipower! This is not a 'bad' thing, but how often will you be able to smack someone up the head with the sceptor and shoot someone else with the energy blast at the same time? I also have a problem with the Strength... seems a little high. Comliness a little low (would rather see an 18 or 19) and a Presence a little low... That is for a supermodel car show girl As for SPD - isn't the cost wrong? Don't you need to spend at least a point to bring it up to 2?

Re: Why does Image Comics s[tin]k? I actually liked quite a bit of the Image Then versus the Image Now. They had some neat comics, that seemed fresh and new. I personally enjoyed Stormwatch and Cyberforce. Gen-13 was also another favorite with Witchblade. But when Marvel went through its whole virus thing ugly mess, I just bailed on comic books all together.

Re: Worst Fear! I have a character actually living his worst nightmare. He can not die. His backstory was a very vile vicious man who was immortal. After living for 400 years, he started wondering why... When was this vicious cycle going to ever end? When will he grow old and die? At the very beginning of the campaign, another PC saved his life (it was actually an NPC but he doesn't know that!), and that PC is the embodiment of an "Angel". So my character turned his life around and decided to do "Good" things, but it is very hard since he is a very Materialistic and Greedy person. So hopefully what ever higher power there is, will remove his curse and let him die naturally (of old age).

Re: "Shallow" Purchases Wouldn't UT with Eidetic Memory be sufficient? What ever language you were able to figure out, the memory would kick in to make sure you remember it.

Re: Villain Summary Charts/Tables In Books Personally I rather have it in an Excel file or some other way to sort the characters by. Have a nice quick way to sort the characters, name, powers, points, teams, etc... It would end up being a nice free updatable refrence.

Re: "Shallow" Purchases Languages old dead, and hardly used like esperanto and useless 8- skills like Basket Weaving.

Re: WWYCD: Anti- 'Authority' I tend to play dark and greedy characters. So, if this happened my character would of A) been a founding member or joined up soon after and worked their way up to being one of the heads. In either case, if I saw the organization turning evil - that is where I would usurp control and form a coup. Of course using my flunkies to soften the organization up for either a) My character to take over or Other governments to take them down and pay my characters lots of money in the process.

Re: Weird Dream I would redesign my characters multipower. Currently I have a character with an equipment multipower, with his weapons added into it. I would pull out the pistols, and create a multipower around them to represent various types of ammunition.

Re: Genetically engineered humans I don't recall what Star Hero has, but I would like to think it does. A while back, when I first started 5e, I believe I made a mistake of putting Stats under an Elemental Control by having the stats be nanites. It was a high powered game, and survivability was not looking good from the stories the GM was telling me. But he allowed the character - grudgingly. Would I make the character the same way again? No. As for being susceptable to Magnetic Attacks, what do you think the nanites do in the body? My view is this - they are there to make the characters stronger and quicker by repairing the muscles and bones, making the body a finely tuned machine. If the nanites get hit by an EMP attack, they might shut down, but the effects are still there. If you have the character with a healing ability, that might turn off. Possibly the stats might start to fade at some time based on useage and body damaging itself and the nanites can't repair it, to keep it at top physical condition. But the nanites should reset, and turn themselves back on so there would be a limited amount of down time.

Re: Genetically engineered humans To me this is more like a "Racial Package" similar to an Elf or a Dwarf. So this character would get the benefits of being a super human (ie better statistical bonuses) but would also get the drawbacks (ie pre-set disadvantages) As to make the stats cheaper, I can't think of how to do that. I know how to do it if it was an exoskeleton or some sort of booster. But straight up stat increase without having it linked to something it is nearly impossible when the powers are innate. As a side note you might be able to give him a "Power" of Aid to his own characteristics. This would give him an increase when needed and appear superhuman.

Re: Can someone explain.... I am not sure if I would go with your option 3 the Multipower. Why not put the Desolidification in the multipower? I just don't see very often people running at top notch and not slow down when they hit the wall for desolidification. Unless you are using the desolidification like they utilize it for a stretchy character. Then you can use it to kind of simulate the super fast running around things just by going through them.

Re: Help with a Catwoman Design Why not build the Panther as a Follower. You can then build powers and abilities with a limitation only when the follower is the exo-skeleton of the character.

Re: Super Prisons without Super Tech To ensure loyalty you could always pull something from Cyberpunk and Shadowrun - Cortex Bombs. On a similar note, you could always rig a collar around the Super. If the collar gets too far way from a sensor station it goes pop (or it passes by a sensor station) there goes the head of the super.

Re: Super Prisons without Super Tech I would probably set up an island prison to drop the more hardened criminals who would not conform to a prison society ala No Escape. 24/7 sattalite tracking of inhabitants - food and medicine supplies dropped off every once in a while. And have a military force picketing the island. Anyone who tries to escape will be killed. It should be run by the UN or UEG or some international agency. If that is not available then it would probably be run by the US or NATO