Trained Chicken

Re: GMs: Funniest Character Sheet Mistakes You've Seen. Susceptability to being immersed in waiter? Does that count?

Re: The Ultimate WWYCD: Ninja or Pirate! Gotta be pirates, every single time. Which brings up the interesting eventuality that all my wife's toons are becoming ninjas, forcing me to bring her characters to justice. "Quiet or Papa spank" takes on new meaning when my wife is involved.

Re: Name Help I'm not going to write him up- Any gaming consruction would ruin the idea of him, since Champs characters are written up using real numbers and their abilities are predictable in a Newtonian sense. Or maybe I'm just not clever enough to do him right. You're all welcome to run with it, since you've certainly helped in his devising!

Re: (best ever...) reasons for becoming a superhero IMO there are five basic reasons to become a superhero; five metaphysical origins. They were said best in Mayfair's DC Heroes 3rd Upholding the Good (I'd help people whether I had powers or not); Responsibility of Power (Power invested in me requires me to act); Seeking Justice (I or someone I know was wronged and I intend to make that right); Thrill of Adventure (Fighting crime is a good time); Unwanted Power (I was thrust into a position to be a hero, but I'd much rather be somewhere else). this isn't the same thing as a physical origin (strange chemicals, super armor, magic, whatever). That sort of talks about how power was granted. This is more about motivation for heroism.

Re: Name Help I seem to recall several villains in Marvel's silver age who used a device that was like a focus- but when it was taken away or broken, they could still use their powers. I wonder if I should give him a +3d6 HA, OAF Big Wrench (-1)?

Re: Name Help hehe, how about The Bohr

Re: A Thread for Random Musings Two of the most popular musicals of all time prominently feature Nazis.

Re: Name Help Ditto Lad! I love all your choices, they all tickle me. Thank you! I might go for h-Bar, if I can figure out a way to put a hyperlink on a piece of normal paper.

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week Bump! I can't wait for more, man.

I'm thinking of a character with the ability to see, and manipulate matter and energy on a macro scale in ways that quantum mechanics dictate matter and energy are manipulated on a quantum scale. So far this power set includes Duplication SFX with Teleportation, Force Wall, Stretching and other tricks based on having more than one body; Transforms of the category 'Item and thin air into Item and exact copy of itself, dependent upon the character's ability to otherwise construct the item'; A Naked Advantage to buy off the "beam" limitation on any RKA or EB up to X Active Points, Useable as an Attack, Ranged, IPE; Missile Deflection (side effect- colateral damage, -0), not sure whether to make it Ranged or not; A Multipower with two UBO powers in it: Summon Exact Duplicate of Self, Antagonistic, No Consious Control (no choice which power activates, -1) and Duplication, No Consious Control (no choice which power activates,-1). I'm thinking that in addition he ought to have access to Shrinker tricks/Dimensional Travel to the Microverse, but we'll see how large the first ideas get. At issue, though, is that "Quantum" is already a well-known character in at least two universes. What do you think I should name him?

Re: [Worst Ever...] Reasons to be a superhero I killed Captain Cold and was surprised at how easy it was. My braces sometimes receive radio signals. That's a power, right? I'm pretty good at poking you in ther eye. I want to get my face on a gum card. Meeting chicks. I fell into a vat of irradiated goo, and nothing happened. I have to try harder. This parachute means I'll never be afraid of heights again. If I do it right, I can climb a wall using only these two plungers.

Re: Around the World With A New Character Each Week I must spread some around before giving it to you again.

Re: Character concept: Mecha I'm not sure what input you're looking for? If it's my character or a PC in a campaign I run (which, of course, it isn't so YMMV), I'd try to get a technological origin for the armor. The way you have it sounds a lot like Darkhawk (who I just read about here), and that never really set right with me. However, as far as the power set goes, it sounds very cool, and everybody likes giant transforming robot girls.

Re: You cannot possibly be!! 4 I did some looking into Darkhawk, and he's been revamped a few times. Unfortunately, there isn't much to do as far as a write-up goes. His power set seems fairly stable at the moment, and his dopey costume kind of has to stay based on his currently revealed backstory. Here's your Link.

Re: THE Uber Team Zornwil, having Flaming Carrot makes any team one zillion times better. It was a crying shame they left him out of the Mystery Men movie, that's for sure. OK, this is my list of guys I really, really like to read about: Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman (Eclipse) Steve Ditko's Iron Man Milestone Comics' Static Henry Pym, Ant-Man identity Mirror Master (sorry, had to use a mercenary/villain)