DasBroot

Yep.

The Internet:

"Oh my god. why does Hollywood keep doing the same thing over and over again... do they not have any original ideas anymore or the guts to change things up?"

Also the Internet:

"I can't believe they changed something.  You can't just change things in a series - those things are why people loved it in the first place.  They have no respect for their fanbase."

I find the partial thing a little odd since the super team leader has NO powers of her own that we know of (unless she has the super-power level genius thing going on instead of just top level human). Unless being rich enough to buy the right level of powers IS one of the super powers that elevate you past 'partial' or 'unpowered'...

I get that someone with the mutant power to ripen/age fruit (and only fruit) probably shouldn't face off against Doctor Destroyer ("No! You rotted the bananas I was using to control my monkey army! You fool... you've doomed us all!") - but I'm glad that Caleb realized it does sound a little elitist.  

(Ariana might not be cut out to slug it out with guys who can punch through stone - but her powers would come in pretty handy if she were a police officer, EMT, or fire fighter).

Heart - Crazy on You

For me it would depend on narration style as well.  

First person can actually get away with fairly large casts as you interact with them through your protagonist so don't really need to worry about what the others are off doing with their part of the story since their results will be reported to and through your narrator:  "I looked up as Green Lantern returned to the Hall.  I could tell from the look on Hal's face that he hadn't managed to locate the Parademon base.  Hopefully one of the others had more luck."

The narrator could have a variation on those lines for twenty more returning heroes without any expectation on the reader's part to be witness to Hal or any of the others exploring the desert looking for Apokolips energy signatures - even if GL's in most scenes with the protagonist normally.

3rd person though? 3 to 5 unless you're planning  multiple thousand page books ... though you can squeeze in a few (hundred) more if they don't remotely evenly share time as viewpoints (So... no Perrin or Matt again this book, Mr Jordan? Oh, but the maid got three chapters...).

"Legsweep" to the "head".

Wouldn't that be a roundhouse kick?

That's exactly why I don't use hit locations, but if the players love them then they have to expect this to happen from time to time.  I didn't see base damage listed there but the combat stats were fine (as long as the brute wasn't using his +4 CSL with legsweep for OCV).

Looks like tactics as much as anything, really.  The brute was outnumbered (even 2:1) and didn't have an area of effect attack - whoever he was attacking should have been Martial dodging or blocking while the other guy pounded on him.  If he switched targets then they switch roles.

If they did that and could harm him at all on a consistent basis then only dumb luck (like an attack roll of 3 and another boot to the head) could have saved the brute.

Darkseid (barring full Gauntlet being owned by Thanos).  He's stronger, tougher, and actually gets to hold territory he takes for more than a mini-series.

Who pulls the trigger first?

Super Dimensional Fortress 1 (SDF-1) from Macross vs Space Battleship Yamato

In addition to Hugh's excellent points I highly recommend not using hit locations in most HERO games for this reason.  If something can hit a PCs head and one shot them then eventually something WILL.

There's really no other way to look at the newest Trek movie series.  If they were released in the 90s as a TV show it would have been called "Star Trek: Extreme!".

Which I'm ok with because overall the new actors are pretty faithful to their characters (Kirk was the weakest but he's pretty Kirk-like, finally, in Beyond) and the action IS pretty good: I love the pulsed bursts of the new movie phasers, though I know it's kind of polarizing in the community - too frantic compared to the 'stately' or 'dignified' long pulses of the series (a complaint about the Defiant on DS9, too, so it's an old one).

Showing an opinion even though they missed the voting deadline? I don't think anyone who has done it *whistles innocently* expects it to alter the outcome of the match in any way.

Barda ditches her mace and flight disks and limits her strength to match She Hulks after taking a hit to see what she's up against - she *wants* a good fight.  

In the end, though, her vastly superior fighting skill wins out.

Firestorm has a lot of ways to shut Barry down (or at least slow him down) but they all require planning and thought.

Time is not on your side when fighting the Flash - not even if we use the CW version.  

Wonder Woman. She's not as fast or strong (maybe - PG has never been written to be as strong as Superman for some reason)  but she's a better fighter and has a magic lasso.   If we're taking the mega-speed sucker punches off the table for not selling enough issues there's no way PG could win.

That reminds me of Metro Man's existential crisis in Megamind - where he used his super speed to take a good look at his life, walk around, read a book, etc, mid fight.  It's one of my favorite scenes in a movie that I wasn't expecting to like (but ended up loving).  

No, for several reasons.

First, according to ​Champions Complete ​a Power bought outside of a Framework can only add onto one Framework Slot, and such a power cannot be used by itself. Also Framework Slots can never add to one another. Buying the Framework Slots as additives to a base power outside of the Framework is never explicitly permitted or prohibited, but doing so would constitute an obvious attempt to circumvent the rule mentioned above... so I don't consider it legal and would never allow it. 

For example:

Is perfectly legal, but

is not, even though in this case the end result is the same (2d6 Normal Damage at Range).

 

I've always found that limitation interesting.  You can't have a blast that can be used without using one of its multi-powers - but you *can* use your Strength to inflict damage without having to use a hand attack or hka in a multi power if you don't want.

It's a semantic thing - hand attack / killing hand attack are powers which add *bonus* damage from strength: they don't add to the damage strength does, technically.  

If the damage from strength is 'bonus' and you can use it without using a multi power slot that benefits from it then I wonder what the reasoning behind not allowing a Blast (or other power) the same priviledge (can use it on its own outside of the pool, or combine as bonus damage (pro-rating, etc) to a blast inside the pool?

It's RAW but I still find it interesting.  Letting outside pool powers combine with similar pool powers could lead to some interesting concepts ... like a person who can turn invisible (invisible sight) all the time but if they try hard (use a pool reserve) then can make themselves inaudible as well or hide their fringe.  If they do, though, they won't be able to use their invisible force blasts or create force fields that are also in the pool.

(I know it's a poor example because invisibility is cheap enough that they take mutliple copies - the one I described outside the pool, and a copy with the desired modifiers inside the pool and use it instead to replicate the exact same results, but still).

Hey, don't forget that Bruce Banner helped.

Flash streaked in at half the speed of light, his fist pulled back as waves of electricty cascaded from every part of his body.

Diana stood motionless, a statue who could never see him coming.

At the last possible second he stopped, fist cocked back.

"I can't hit a girl." He confessed, as she became aware of his presence.

"I can." Diana retorted, as Wally found himself sliding and bouncing away from the Princess of Power, his body only now beginning to register the force of impact.

As he tried to clear his head a golden lasso wrapped around his body.  This fight was over.

Star Trek Beyond

I really liked it.  So much so that I'm ashamed that the reason I didn't see it until now is that its horrible first trailer and boring title turned me off of the movie.

I have to say this makes me want to blow the dust off superhero PI detective story based in New Orleans I've been kicking around for years - and I haven't taken a serious stab at fan fic writing for well over a decade. 

It too has a fish guy of sorts, funnily enough but... well...

I froze.  Standing the middle of the warehouse stood a nightmare of teeth and muscle in a three piece suit.

 

Seven feet tall and three feet wide Lucas C Leucas was more shark than man.  His suit was expertly tailored to accommodate the nearly two foot long fins on each of his forearms and the signature dorsal fin rising from his hunched back. A powerful tail swished back and forth as if he were still in the water and his head - partially embedded in his upper chest and level with his massive shoulders - was dominated by a gaping maw that looked to have more teeth than a fishing lodge had shingles. Even from this distance his eyes were a dull, flat black - devoid of any shred of humanity.

 

Eel he ain't.

(and Hermit I ain't.  Just wanted to post a little excerpt of something that he inspired me to turn from a bullet point from years ago to part of a scene - so to Hermit a big   )

In genre people are *usually* shown to be exceptionally good at puzzles if they're meant to be exceptionally good at solving ... well, everything.  It's the fastest way to show someone is supposed to be a genius at solving problems in general.

With that in mind I'd go with the deduction roll, myself - though I really like the penalty skill levels vs time if someone actually wants to spend points to be exceptionally fast at solving puzzles.  

Or... skill levels for attribute rolls (int), bought for 'puzzle'.  Think I recall seeing in the builder that you can buy skill levels for base attribute rolls.

 

I mentioned this in another thread: the new DC Rebirth Titans series, which is pretty good overall,* has this problem with Wally. The team spends 2 issues getting the crap beat out of them by their evil doppelgangers created by Abra Kadabra. And then Wally decides OK it matters now, and beats all 6 of the bad guys single-handed. Between panels. In under 7 seconds. And it only takes that long because the bad guys are located in four different cities hundreds of miles apart. And yeah, there are consequences: going that fast leaves him trapped in the Speed Force but still.)

 

Hence my lobbying/griping that the Flashes (comic book power level) should have been in the "Unlimited" category.

I still feel Wally West from the animated Justice League Unlimited (aside from that one video I posted, which was all or nothing and the closest thing I could find to what the comic Flash does on a monthly basis) or Barry Allen from the CW Flash series would have been better fits for this bracket (and probably closer to what you and some others expect from a Flash in these circumstances). 

This story is sad and horrifying

 

Mountain lion snatches dog from bedroom

Indeed.  Better the dog than the child, though  - good dog for waking them up.

Not using what they're capable of in a "hypothetical battle" like this is tying hands behind peoples backs.  If we start using how comics are written - with abilities fluctuating to fit the needs of the story being told -  ONLY, then it really DOES boil down to:

"Whose comic does this fight take place in?"

Wally running circles a hundred times and getting clocked and KO'd wouldn't happen if it was his book and he had to win to move on to the next part of his limited series.

Diana being one shot by the infinite mass punch wouldn't happen in her book for the same reasons.

Personalities have to play a factor - otherwise this is just death battle lite - but IMO they *should* be trying their best to win within the limits of their abilities and personal codes.  That's why I went with the siphon speed win over the infinite mass punch - Wally would want to end the fight quickly and without causing Diana harm, not try to splatter her all over the country side.

Just to expand on this idea. . .

 

Complications and Limitations are basically a way for players to say, 'I want you to complicate my character's life in these ways.'  The frequency toggles and value of these constructs basically inform the GM as to how often and to what degree the character's life will get complicated.  Make sure your players understand this concept as well.

Indeed. If a player takes ten 5 point hunted or rivals it means 'I don't really want you to bug me but don't want to be unbalanced compared to the other characters'

If the entire group takes ten 5 point hunted/rivals it means they're players coming from a system without complications/troubles/disadvantages who hate seeing their characters 'penalised'.

I have seen both.

That just makes it worse when combined with Megascale!

"YYyyyyeeeaaaahhhhhhhHHHhhhH!" *bursts into flames seconds after jumping off the top of Mt Everest*

I wonder if the altitude you drop using Gliding would also be subject to the Megascale effect if you used Megascale gliding?  I'm thinking 'yes'.

On the other hand, Wally has a great weakness for a pretty face, and has always had a crush on WW.

He's not the only one, based on the early voting trend.

Seriously. She's a statue. Literally if he wants (I looked it up: it's Wally that can siphon off people's speed, not Barry).  Dodging bricks effortlessly and quipping is one of his things.