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Re: Why the dislike for Find Weakness?

Re: Nnd

Re: Balancing Mental Powers

Re: Balancing Mental Powers Per 5ER, page 201, Mental Illusions affect all the target's sense groups, and the attacker does not need to know about the senses affected. So, unless the mentalist is deliberately limiting what senses are affected, or some unusual limitation or house rule is involved, no.

Re: Home on the Range I was suggesting that while we were expanding what expanding STR could be added to, we could also expand what could be added to attacks.

Re: Home on the Range Why limit the x Adds to STR? Why not EGO Adds or PRE Adds or Energy Blast Adds?

Re: Home on the Range 5ER pages 129, 151. Drain does cost END to use.

Re: Psychological Limitation: Dangerous When Bored.... Judging by the first sentence of the OP, it indeed isn't a player character.

Re: Psychological Limitation: Dangerous When Bored.... That depends. How often do you want the character to get bored?

My question was about characters whose size/density changes, but can't be changed by the character. That is, characters whose size changes randomly (hence my question 2) or under some third parties control (hence my question 3). The procedure for always-the-same-size/density characters won't work for these cases, since it makes the bookkeeping for the size/density changes prohibitive. I am attempting to find out whether Density Increase/Growth/Shrinking can be used in such cases.

According to pages 146, 183, 218, the powers Density Increase, Growth, and Shrinking can only be used by characters able to alter their size &/or density. This raises some questions. 1. Does a character have to be able to alter size/density voluntarily to take these powers? more specifically: 2. Is applying No Conscious Control to these powers allowed? 3. If the special effects of the power make Dispelling/Draining/Suppressing/Transferring these powers appropriate, can you apply Always On to these powers?

Re: Ogrecave 6E interview If I understand you correctly: Two Presence Skill Levels with 'Only When Appearance Matters' and 'Activation Roll' does everything you want positive Comeliness to do. (And costs a lot less.) Presence with 'Only for Fear Based Presence Attacks' does everything you want negative Comeliness to do. Do I understand you correctly?

Re: It all hit the fan... The other heroes probably didn't stay dead.

Re: Superhero Generator Project

Re: Regenerating defences Ablative (5ER page 115) seems a good starting point here.

Re: Transdimensional PREsence Also: One can make a PRE attack through a window. One can make a PRE attack over the telephone, or over closed-circuit television. One can make a PRE attack through a Mind Link using Telepathy. One can make a PRE attack to a movie camera, and possible have it affect the audience of the movie.

Re: Transdimensional PREsence 5ER pp. 147-148: Indeed it doesn't. 5ER, Page 268: Transdimensional can only be applied to indirect powers, although that indirectness need not be due to the Advantage.

Re: Transdimensional PREsence Not only would I require Transdimensional, since I consider characters in different dimensions inherently Desolid to one another, I would also require Affects Real World, since Presence attacks are attacks. On the other hand, I would count Presence attacks as already Indirect.

Re: Non Combat Movement For what it's worth, my current ruling is that characters attacking while moving at noncombat are at 0 OCV, and limited to maneuvers with Fmove (such as Move Through and Move By).

Re: Ultimate Suppresser A VPP costs more points than a single base power. A lot more points.

Re: Unmaking Dandelion is convinced that she can't be killed. With some (but not all that much) supporting evidence. She would head into the anomaly looking for the supervillain.

Re: The Super Darwin Awards That revolving door death policy seems not to apply to most Champions campaigns. IIRC, the only HERO System mechanic for coming back from the dead is the Resurrection option for Healing, which I believe to be quite rare in Champions. I suggested a 'fix' for this somewhere in the Sixth Edition Forum.

Re: "Stun Target" power -- what am I doing wrong? It's an unofficial alternative to 'stun', for the apparent purpose of reducing confusion between stunning and Stun damage.

Re: "Stun Target" power -- what am I doing wrong? If you don't mind using a house rule: Flash with Causes Unusual Disability. (In case the link doesn't work for you: That's post#133 of the Powers Issues -- F-K Page 9)

Re: Susano's Eight Steps To Character Building I recommend that step six be moved to before step three, or even to before step two.