Vestnik

Re: Latest info regarding Tunguska Hawt Babes and Ape Men, my friend. Hawt Babes and Ape Men.

Re: Teleportation, huge noncombat, Increased END, Extra Time Just Megascale the second teleport in the MP.

Re: More comfortable in fire than out Isn't it even cheaper if you also buy Cannot Pass Through Solid Objects (-1/2)? That comes to 32 points, just 2 points more expensive than 75% Resistant ED Damage Reduction, Only vs. Fire.

Re: More comfortable in fire than out Why not just get Personal Immunity on his attacks? Would that work?

Re: Help Requested with Machine Guy BTW, do you think "Only Machine-Manipulation Powers" is worth a -1/4 or -1/2 Limitation on the VPP control cost?

Re: Help Requested with Machine Guy To be honest, the character started out conceptually as a power armor guy. I like the idea of power armor, but "a guy in a high-tech suit" is just BORING. So I tried to make it more interesting and so lo and behold Deus-X (thanks for the name!) was born. Plus, I like the idea of an improvised battle suit made on the spot with hubcaps for shoulder guards, part of a laptop serving as a faceplate and part of a lamp sticking out of one side. (Whereas his actual "prepared" suit would be more polished but still with a steamtech look about it, with magical runes and glyphs (are runes and glyphs the same thing?) covering it to channel the spirits.

Re: More comfortable in fire than out Doe speople with True Faith include religious fanatics and/or devil worshippers? If so I would make it -1/4. DEMON will kick his ass.

Re: Help Requested with Machine Guy Deus-X... I like that. Thanks!

Re: Vampire Hero I wouldn't give him a Vulnerability to Fire, just less defense against it. Vampires can be hurt by fire, but they don't go up like Roman Candles.

Re: C.l.o.w.n. Couldn't they just be reimagined and de-goofified??

Re: Suggestions needed: Animal super villains William Blake reference? Tiger burning bright?

Re: C.l.o.w.n. Why is CLOWN considered considered so passe and Silver-Agey? Lots of comedy-theme villains worked in the Bronze and Iron Ages -- Arcade, Joker, the Riddler. Hell the CU has Foxbat (a character I loathe), and he's stretching the goofy envelope.

Re: Latest info regarding Tunguska The Tunguska "meterorite" was actually an escape craft ferrying a group of Hawwt Alien Swimsuit Contestants from their doomed world. The great impact of the vehicle punched through the Earth's crust, depositing them in the primeval world of the Hollow Earth. There, our hawwt alien damsels are being menaced by the Ape Men, who want them to do things it's best not to think about it. Can the intrepid players rescue the hawwt alien babes from a fate worse than death, and possibly find love at the same time? Only time will tell.

Re: Power Transfer for Novice Player

Here's the character I've been working on. The provisional background is that the character was working in some as of yet undefined way in some huge experimental computer complex conducting research on advanced computer intelligence, in the course of which all the megacomputers and gizamos and whatnot in the complex were connected. Some freak comic-booky accident occured that resulted in the machine network gaining sentience, and, indeed, a soul, or group of souls. However, just as the network was awakening, the accident destroyed the complex, releasing the anguished spirits of the dead machines, who are now haunting my guy. But in a nice way. The character has control over "machine spirits," which means in effect cyberkinetic powers and the ability to supernaturally mold them into new forms. Most of his powers have been bought with a Focus limitation -- and this is something I'd actually like help with, as I'm not sure of Focus does it. His ability to rework machines is not infinite -- he could, if given a car, make a flamethrower, or with an electric generator make an electric blaster, but some of the initial product must be in the final version. He has a suit he has been absorbing material from various machines into. However, given no suit with him, he could animate for instance a nearby automobile to wrap itself around his body and create an improvised one, probably with less PD and ED than the typical one. I just bought the stuff with OIF, though perhaps Restrainable would be better. I haven't done Disads yet. Name suggestions would also be appreciated! Here he is. I've broken the sample powers in the VPP into three classes, two of chich require the OIF/Restrainable limitation and one of which doesn't. The Regeneration with OIF indicates that if he is badly wounded, nearby machines (his suit or any machines nearby), will perform emergency repairs on his body, replacing damaged organs with temporary cybernetic surrogates and so forth. Sadly I think he'd go down fast in a fight given his low DCV. Cost CHA Val --------------------------------- 0 STR 10/40 24 DEX 18 22 CON 21 0 BODY 10 8 INT 18 6 EGO 13 8 PRE 18 0 COM 10 6 PD 8/24 6 ED 10/26 12 SPD 4 0 REC 6 3 END 48 5 STUN 31 --------------------------------- 100 Cost Powers --------------------------------- 24 Armor Shell: 16 PD 16 ED Armor (48 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), Full Phase Only to Activate (-1/4), Costs END Only to Activate (-1/4) 16 Servos: +30 STR, 1/2 END (+1/4) (50 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), No Figured Characteristics (-1/2), Linked to Armor Shell (-1/4) 7 Computer Spirits I: +10 INT (10 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) 6 Computer Spirits II: +1 SPD (10 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), Linked to Armor Shell (-1/4) 90 Powers of the Machine Spirits: Variable Power Pool, 60 Point Pool plus 30 Point Control Cost, Can Change Powers as a Half-Phase Action (+1/2), Only Machine-Manipulation Powers (-1/4), All Slots That Do Not Directly Target Machines Must Take Limitation OIF (-1/4) Suit Manipulation Too Much Current: 6d6 Energy Blast, No Normal Defense (Being Electrically Insulated; +1) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), No Range (-1/2) (30 Real Cost) Way Too Much Current: 12d6 Energy Blast (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), Limited Range (20"; -1/4) (34 Real Cost) Power Drill: 3d6-1 HKA, Armor-Piercing (+1/2) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), No STR Bonus (-1/2), No Knockback (-1/4) (27 Real Cost) Flamethrower: 2d6 RKA, Area Effect (12" Line; +1) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), No Underwater (-1/4), No Knockback (-1/4), No Range (-1/2) (24 Real Cost) Slugthrower: 2d6 RKA, Autofire (x5; +1/2), Reduced Endurance Cost (1/2 END Cost; +1/2) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) (40 Active Points) Jets: 15" Flight (30 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) (20 Real Cost) Full Jet Propulsion: 15" Flight, 64x NCM (60 Real Cost), OIF (-1/2) (40 Real Cost) Waldoes: Extra Limbs (Up to 10) (5 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), (3 Real Cost) plus 5" Stretching (25 Active Points), OIF (-1/2), Only with Extra Limbs (-1/4) (14 Real Cost) (Total 30 Active Points, 17 Real Cost) Machine Animation Attack of the Machines: 8d6 Energy Blast, Indirect (+1/2) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) (40 Real Cost) Attack of the Pointy Machines: 3d6-1 RKA, Indirect (+1/2) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) (40 Real Cost) Machine Grapple: 4d6 4 DEF Entangle, Indirect (+1/2) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) Awaken the Spirit: Summon One 150-Point Machine Golem, Fanatical (+1) (60 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) Commune with the Machine Spirits Talk to the Spirit: 12d6 Telepathy vs. Machine Class of Minds (60 Active Points) Domination: 9d6 Mind Control vs. Machine Class of Minds, Telepathic (+1/4) (56 Active Points) Soothe the Spirit: 9d6 Suppress, Any Technological Power One at a Time (+1/4) (56 Active Points) Release the Spirit: 16d6 Dispel, Any Technological Power One at a Time (+1/4) (60 Active Points) Envigorate: 6d6 Aid Endurance (60 Active Points), Only vs. Technological END Batteries or Machines (-1) (30 Real Cost) 8 Cannibalize Machines: 1 BODY Regeneration, Can Heal Limbs, 0 END (+1/2), Persistent (+1/2) (30 Active Points), Extra Time (Post-Segment 12; -1 1/4), Self Only (-1/2), OIF (-1/2), Only to 1/2 Original Body (-1/2) 15 Detect Type and Condition of Machines 14- (Unusual Sense Group): Discrimination, Ranged 3 Infrared Vision (5 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) 3 Nightvision (5 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) 7 Radio Perception/Transmission (10 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) 4 100x Microscopic for Normal Sight (6 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) 4 +4 to Offset Range Modifiers for Sight Sense Group (6 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) 10 Radar (10 Active Points), OIF (-1/2) ----------------------------------------------- 187 Cost Talents ------------------------------------- 2 Absolute Time Sense, OIF (-1/2) 3 Eidetic Memory, OIF (-1/2) 2 Lightning Calculator, OIF (-1/2) 5 x100 Speed Reading, OIF (-1/2) ------------------------------------- 12 Cost Skills ------------------------------------ 9 +3 With Variable Power Pool 11 Power Skill (Int-Based) 17-/20- 3 Computer Programming 13-/16- 3 Cryptography 13-/16- 3 Electronics 13-/16- 3 Inventor 13-/16- 3 Mechanics 13-/16- 3 Security Systems 13-/16- 3 Systems Operation 13-/16- --------------------------------------- 41 350

Re: Pet Powers I have a tendency to take historical personnages or characters in fiction and try to super-ize them. I've been trying to do this with Mary Shelley's Frankenstein for a while now but can't seem to get it right, since I can't decide what he's been doing in the intervening 200 years or what his powers would be other than mild Brickiness. I was going to give him electrical powers but then reread the book and realized the whole "created by electricity" bit isn't in there at all but is a Hollywood invention. I also reworked The Thing (the horror movie one) into a superhero I really, really liked.

Re: Tac-nukes vs. Nuclear Warheads This is not the place to discuss it, but the fact is that twice as many journalists were murdered in Russia under Yeltsin as under Putin. In fact, before the murder of Politkovskaya last year, the most high-profile journalist in Russia to be murdered was the editor of Forbes Russia, Paul Klebnikov. However, not much was made of this because Klebnikov was very, very pro-Putin, so it could not be spun as an act of the "Putin regime." Personally I think Politkovskaya was killed as a provocation, though I have no evidence for this other than that it hurt Putin significantly and he had nothing to gain from it. (It was also suspiciously timed for right when he was heading a major international event.) She wrote for a quasi-tabloid in Russia that is read mostly by extreme liberals and has no influence on Russian politics. It would be like Bush killing Noam Chomsky. There is also the evidence of the so-called "Nevzlin plan," Nevzlin being a Yukos guy wanted for murder now living in Israel, that circulated on the Russian Internet a couple of years ago, which called specifically to kill Politkovskaya, by name, in order to attack Putin. But that was a document on the Internet, so who knows. OK, I said I wasn;t going to go on about this but I did. The buck stops here.

Re: Tac-nukes vs. Nuclear Warheads

Re: MPAs and Martial Arts Oh crap.

Re: Tac-nukes vs. Nuclear Warheads Guys, speaking as a long-time resident of Russia, I can say that Putin is a hugely, hugely popular president who could easily become president-for-life if he wanted to. The fact that he's not doing so should tell you something. "Putin's Russia" is a meme spun by interested--and easily identifiable--parties in an attempt to influence Western opinion in their favor. Please, please, don't fall for it. Don't be suckers. EDIT -- speaking of which, I got a call from my dad a couple of weeks ago about how he had just seen Kasparov on Larry King or something, and Kasparov had claimed that he had no popularity in Russia because he wasn't given media access. I received this call at the exact same time as I was listening to Kasparov being interviewed on Russian radio. *sigh* (It amazes me that no one ever calls Kasparov on this obvious lie, since anybody who bothers can go to youtube and see him being interviewed on Russian TV,)

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Sunshine was very good.

Re: MPAs and Martial Arts Thanks. But then why do the dragons in the Bestiary seem to be designed to do just that? IIRC they have something like this: 60-MP-Dragon Attacks 4u Claws: 1 1/2d6 HKA 4u Bite: 2d6 HKA Armor-Piercing 8m Tail Bash: 8d6 HTH Attack

Re: MPAs and Martial Arts So how do the lions and so forth in the Bestiary use both their claws and bite simultaneously, as I assume they do? (Because that's what real lions do.) There must be some mechanism.

Re: MPAs and Martial Arts Actually it is an animal-based (dinosaur-based) character. The first KA is his bite, the second is his foreclaws and the last is his "Terrible Claw." I had them all stuck in a multipower, so in theory he could either attack with the claws and bite simultaneously or just attack with the TC (30-Point MP, the first two are cheap enough to come up to 30 pts. together and the third costs 30 pts.)

Re: MPAs and Martial Arts Great, thanks! PS. If have natural weapons (claws), do I have to buy WE: Claws?