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Ockham's Spoon

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  1. I have a shirt that is dry-clean only, which means... it's dirty.
  2. Here's a new Champions campaign, all the characters start with this choice:
  3. Rage Against the Machine never really specified which machine they were furious with, but I strongly suspect it was a printer.
  4. Took my kid sledding on one of the local hills. After going down several times while I watched, she asked: "Daddy, are you going to go downhill?" "Honey, at my age, that is all I ever do."
  5. Apologies if this has been posted before, but I have a weakness for Venn diagrams
  6. From a practical standpoint, how different is a duck-sized tiger from a house cat?
  7. Non! It was Jacques Cousteau! Watching his voyages aboard the Calypso while he narrated it in his French accent made marine biologist seem exotic and sexy. Plus he helped invent SCUBA gear and used it in his documentaries so we nerds knew he was a real scientist and not just some TV production dude or flaky New Age animal lover with no real expertise. On the other hand, mermaids and Atlantis. I didn't actually go into marine biology, so I could be wrong.
  8. "Landlord" and "Landlady" are needlessly gendered terms. Please be more inclusive by using "Landbastard" instead
  9. Credit Dave Barry: French kissing is really sexy and romantic, at least according to French people, but bear in mind they also like to eat snails.
  10. A lot of guys that refer to themselves as 'alpha males' make me think of the term 'alpha' in a software context, where alpha code is unstable, missing important features, filled with flaws, and not fit for the public.
  11. I don't know what the special effect of the ability you are considering, but you might also go with +6 DCV, only vs. Gaze Attacks, which wouldn't keep them from being hurt on a lucky roll, but would keep them from being affected by gaze attacks very often. Desolid only vs. Gaze Attacks might be another option, but then you would need Flash Defense as well. You could also house rule that Damage Negation to say it does work for Flashes and such just for this specific application of the power.
  12. Or you could buy Flight with the limitation "Only to simulate Leaping and Gliding", giving you only one movement power to deal with 😁
  13. When I migrated from D&D to the Hero system, our adventures became much more character and plot oriented rather than hack & slash, shoot & loot mentality that a lot of the D&D modules have. D&D dungeons were often designed like a series of deathtrap puzzles with minimal rhyme or reason, and while that is fun on some levels, it lacks depth. I still use some of the interesting bits of D&D modules as inspiration, but wouldn't adapt one directly into Hero. If you are looking for inspiration, something that is intriguing but would require fleshing out, check out the One-Page Dungeon contest entries. They run the gamut from wacky to serious, and from basic to fantastic, but there are a lot of good ideas. You can find them here: https://www.dungeoncontest.com/
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