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Re: Good-by Speedster Don't forget invisible opponents, a halved DCV is pretty easy to hit even if it was 16 to begin with. Edit: On that note Invisible power effect force walls.

Re: Re-Imaged Hero(ines) Liked both, repped both. SupremeSerpent wins in my eyes by a narrow margin. Okay SS your up.

Re: How would you construct and Ecstasy Weapon? Actually I just thought of a fun way to simulate it: Overstimulator 6000!!: EB 6d6 AVLD (touch based flash defense) +1 1/2 OAF -1 Doesn't work agains creatures with no sense of touch or pleasure -1/4, 12 charges -1/4. Active cost 75, Real cost 30

One of the comics series I really enjoyed was when they released a re-imaged version of the DC universe with known names completely redone. So in the spirit of re-imaging I want to have a little running contest. I'll give the name of a hero from comicdom and give me a character based on the name. After 48 hours I'll choose my favorite and then the winner will choose the next name and choose the next winner. I want to start with a less known character, The Scarlet Fox.

Re: WWYCD: Good Dog Bad Dog Jaguar Pequeno would end up having to knock the poor mutt out more than likely as something about her powers makes most canines (and villians with canine based powers) very hostile twoards her.

Re: WWYCD: The Famous Guy Hypotheticals Phase 1: Quantum (His world has a DA equivilent character that he has delt with previously) "I think we've gone over this already, I have the backing of the UN and act as a member of Interpol. We work as equals or you shut up and leave me alone." Jaguar Pequeno "Your city, I don't suppose you have a deed for it. We can wokr together or not but it's your choice, any fighting between us will also be your choice. Now if you don't mind I have a villian's scent to track." Jaguar will pretty much track the guy as fast as she can, if asked she will share whatever info she has with the DA provided he asks her. Phase 2: Situation 1: Quantum "So let me get this strait, your willing to activly hinder other law enforcememnt simpoly because it's your city. Thats it, I'm shutting your base down and finding the component and if you try to interfear I'll throw you in jail for hindering a police investigation." (Quantum, has a whole slew of ways to find the doo-hickey the only real way he couldn't was if the DA activly hindered him) Jaguar Probablyt would never be in this situation as she has access to a team that is like the JLU in scale, complete with at least 1 green lantern analoge, 1 sorcerer supreme and 1 clarivoyant of global scale. If they couldn't do it the DA sure couldn't have. Situatiuon 2: Both Call the UN and arrange for the evidence to be removed via the government, they spent the points on international police powers damm it.

Re: WWYCD: You C becomes a Toon? Corona would first off gain the DF "Sexy" background music, the likes of which would be played around jessica rabbit. She would be be insanly moving about trying to find out and how to reverse what the hell just happened to her. Jaguar Pequeno would hope that as soon as she transforms back she turns nmormal. Either way she's hitting up the mages in the Global Guardians to try to put her right.

Re: A contriversial "Would your character...?" Corona "You sick F&^%ing *%(&*^ ...*the swearing would go on for quite some time* i'm 15" Unfortunatly she is rather low powered at the moment so while she couldn't take him down herself she would get help and make sure he went down hard.

Re: Single Green Superhero seeks.... (personels for your characters) Snap Dragon SAF looking for laid back guy who can deal with a VERY Chineese family. Quantum SWM looking for woman who can deal with someone who is very much a geek. Jaguar Pequeno(Would not be making this herself) Looking for respectful male for SHF, must be able to deal with occasional mood swing. Speaking Portugese is a deffinate plus. Corona (Would be POed at anyone making an add for her, but they still might.) Looking for teenage male for SWF, must be able to control ones self around highly attractive females. Geekish tendancies probably a plus.

Re: weapon weights? One other place to check out the facts about weapon weights is here http://www.pbm.com/%7Elindahl/cariadoc/shield_and_weapon_weights.html. There is an entire section with weapon weights and lengths with a weight per length ratio.

Re: HERO 5th LARP? Some things are pretty easy to figure out. Damage, both resistance and dishing it out, should be done by DCs. Other thing will be harder to simulate, like super speed will be a bit harder to take care of. However seeing as I have actually larped I suppose I could think of mechanics to use for some of the harder to simulate powers, given some time. ed: Feel free to PM me if you want to go further with this, I would not be adverse to hleping out.

Re: Martial Arts in the Pulp era For a decent list of martial arts from europe ranging from 13c to 21c check out http://www.aemma.org/library_top.htm . As far as pugilism and wrestling, Fiore De Libre had a wrestling style that shares many fundimental principles with Aikido in the very early 15th century. Pugilism was much more complex than most people believe, complete with Counter strikes, wrestling takedowns and counter wrestling techniques.

Re: WWYCD: The rest of the world's Supers just changed sex. Snapdragon Would be getting alot of "why haven't you changed back into a guy?" questions as her shapeshifting powers allow her to to take on just about any humanoid form. She'd be checking with her grandfather to see if he can tell her anything about what happened. Jaguar Would be spending lots and lots of time with the Guardians resident mages and supergeniuses finding out just what happened to her. Corona would be faced with 4 female team mates who are now all female and probably attracted to the 'Male' her. She would be a nervous wreack.

Re: [GM Help Needed] Superhero Mystries When running a good mystery some rules to follow. 1: Release your clues slowly and let them go nuts figuring everything out about the clue they had currently found. 2: Set the begining and the end point and make the rest flexible. 3: If they have a great idea when trying to solve a mystery go ahead and incorporate it. 4: Any additional informatin you must have should be made as hooks that can be dropped in at an appropriate place and be fairly story independant.

Re: WWYCD - Gerontocracy with casual physical violence Grier the plane traveling mage would introduce them to the fact that arcane eneries don't care how old you are. And that elemntals basically PNW flesh 95% of the time. Providing of corse he can't just blip himself away with his vast magics.

Re: WWYCD: A Bomb for Two Cities Jaguar Pequeno would do her best to get the bomb out of the major metropolitan area at least as she is completely unsuited for bomb disarming. She would send out the warning to other teams in the NYC area about what is happening. Quantum strips out the Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxegen out of the compunds in the bomb ruining any mutagenic compound. If it's an energy emitter he'll strip out several comductive atoms out of the emitters and power systems. Then he'll perform a massive distance teleport and lather/rinse repeat.

Re: WWYCD #124 or so:Peace on Earth Jaguar Pequeno would spend the day staring at Fenris as the reason that Fenris wants to kill her so badly is supernatural in nature and not anyhting based on thought. Wind would call for the Cosmic power to remove her from the presence of the mechanon robot that was reprogrammed to act like the Black Harlequin

Re: Gritty Vigilante \ Criminal Adventure Formulas Dirty Cops, from either end can make for some interesting adventures. Find the [PLOT DEVICE], everyone is kicking down doors looking for whatever it is and no one knows anyhting about the schmo who has it.

Re: Compensating for PC Abilities One thing that should give them a real problem... robots. Make automitons, no ego 3 out of 4 problems solved. And depending on the detect truths special effect it might stop that as well. Of corse throwing robots at them all the time will cause them to be most unhappy but occasionally used they would be quite effective.

Re: Please Critique My First Character For taking abeating you have 3 things that effect how well you take it, your defense, Con and Body. I'd have probably traded in some of the Dex for some con and bod. SKills look pretty good, but take WF with common melee weapons. Buying one ranged and one HTH level isn't the best way to do it, 1 overall combat level costs less, or you can buy 1 effects everything skill level for the same cost which effects both skills and combat. If you are going for the min-maxing route the magic hero numbers are usually at 13, 18 and so on adding 5. This is when you get additonal stuff for having a score in that stat. Some disads are very campain based, "always tries to do the right thing" is not worth much in a super hero campain but is worth a lot (and a big hindarance) in a dark future kind of game. Same goes for the Code vrs killing, really a problem in Dark Future and Fantasy genres, not so much in Super Heroing. I recomend you rebuild based on the info you've been given an repost, you learn by doing and my first champions charater wasn't all that great until I went through a few rebuilds.

Re: Difficulty reaching Super-Hero status Mount a .50 cal Machinegun on that sucker and watch the points fly away. 3D6 RKA AP (+1/2) AUto: 5 (+1/2) 100 charges (+1/2 or 3/4, I'm at work without my book) OAF (-1) Real Weapon (-1/4) Active cost: 122 Real Cost: 50

Re: Recommended Power Levels.... In general the real big things you have to deal with is active point cost of offensive powers (including non offensive powers that can be used on others) Defense ammounts and certain stats. DEX, CON, PRE and STR are the ones you need to keep the most track of. Easy bit Part 1. For active points of attacks and defences set a DC/active point cap. Generally for 350 points champions your looking at 60-70 points (12-14 DCs) for a max. For defenses the max is 2x the max DC for non bricks and 2.5 for bricks. On average you looking at 18-21 stun per hit for non bricks and 12-14 stun for bricks. Resistant is more of a tone thing and how lethal you want things to be. Less that 50% is fairy leathal, 50-75% is dangerous but not nessisarily fatal, over 75% is not that lethal. Stats DEX, take into account the Characters Combat levels. Someone with a Dex of 26 and no combat levels will have some disadvantages against someone with a 20 Dex and 3-4 combat levels. Look at the max value that can be generated on the OCV first 8-13 is a good range. DCV should be a bit higher to take into account defensive manuevers. CON Divide the active point cap by half. PRE, same as CON STR, active point cost Last bit, Allow a bit of tradeoff, someone with only 10 DCs in a 14DC game should be allowed to break the OCV limits somewhat as s/he isn't hitting as hard. By the same token someone can make a 30 RDEF brick buy shouldn't have a very good DCV at all.

Re: Medieval Farming Villages As far as blacksmiths go, you can always have something akin to the wandering smiths of Celtic Ireland. Thier anvil was a relativly small head on a nearly 6 foot iron spike that they would hammer in the ground where ever the stopped to work. A good kilm could sub as a forge and the metal would probably be originally smelted where it was mined.

Re: more stuff for the gunbunnies! Hunting, you know Kodiak Bears, cars and the like.

Re: Urban Fantasy... As far as other races go, once it starts talking and communication it's alot harder to write it off an non intellegent. Yeah a bunch of non intellegent species might be hunted out or killed. What happens when you deal with annother species that not only is intellegent but has magic? As far as technology vrs magic it's not always going to be a tecnology vrs magic deal. You can even have techno sorcery technogical priciples are combined with magic (on that note read Orion by Masamune Shirow for a good techno sorcerous empire). /edit PS: it's bad for your health to ask the 2000 year old dragon to move out, they tend to BBQ and eat the messengers.