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Re: warhammer 40k Star hero I was thinking that if I were to run a game in the Warhammer 40K universe, I would completely eschew the military aspects -- as most of the protagonists and what they stand for are uncompletely unsavory and are either not open to character development ("For the Emperor! Die foul Xenos!" or "Kill dem 'umies!" being the limits of thought for some of the principals) or are totally subverted to the military hierarchy. Instead, I would play it more like Call of Cthulhu in space. The characters are on some dystopian Hive World/idyllic Paradise Planet and start to unravel the foul chaos cult festering under the surface. I might even try to import the Call of Cthulhu SAN rules in some way.

Re: What Are Your Hero's Most Embarrassing Moments? There was the time X, Master of Antimatter, found himself battling VIPER agents dressed in only his underwear. Wait, no, that was just a dream.

Re: WWYCD: Dr. Destroyer vs Takofanes I would go to the Hero Games boards and start a "Who Would Win: Dr. Destroyer vs. Takofanes?" thread, so that I would be able to determine the likely winner.

Re: Mexican Vampires Say Cortez was a vampire. Bring him back. I have a vague, likely false, recollection that the Incas (not Mexico, I know) killed a conquistador by making him drink molten gold. I think one could work with that idea.

Re: Champions the Comic What exactly is a "standard email address"?

Re: Dist. Features (But OIHID????) Multiform works well here.

Re: Dist. Features (But OIHID????) Practically all of my characters have this.

Re: Eleven Lamest "Super" Villains Good thing he didn't go to the wrong doctor. He could have become the Incredible Trouser Snake, the One-Eyed Man.

Re: Real life powers... (Adv's vs Lim's) Balance? 1. Full Life Support, Longevity: Immortality and a huge Cosmic Variable Power Pool. 2. It's a VPP. Depends. 3. Are you crazy? 4. I'm Godlike -- who cares what they think? I'll just configure my VPP to a "Transform Block of Ice into Fortress of Solitude" at the North Pole and live there anyway. 5. Screw 'em. Heck I'll just configure my VPP to a Megascale Area Effect Personal Immunity XDM UAA and send the rest of the population to the Phantom Zone. If I get lonely I can just configure my VPP to Summon or Duplication.

Re: Real-world "Dungeon" in Italy Yep: http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToH_Gallery/ToHGraphic3.jpg http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToH_Gallery/ToHGraphic10.jpg http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToH_Gallery/ToHGraphic14.jpg http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToH_Gallery/ToHGraphic27.jpg

Re: Real-world "Dungeon" in Italy Hmm, those look remarkably like the player handout illustrations in the Tomb of Horrors. Where's the big elephant-shaped juggernaut?

Re: WWYCD: Dumb, Da-Dumb, Dumb, Dumb... Take a vacation at my Fortress of Self-Glorification, oops I mean Solitude.

Re: Champions the Comic And so, once again American Exceptionalism rears its ugly head.

Re: Champions the Comic So... who would win in a fight, this incarnation of the Champions or the current one?

Re: Panspermia, anyone? I miss academia.

Re: ~ All Out War~d&d Vs Hero Vs Palladium Runequest, baby.

Re: Intuitive Knowledge Hmm, good points all -thanks. I think I will eliminate the Limitation idea.

Re: Intuitive Knowledge I'm surprised this didn't occur to me. However, aren't skills like Electronics both functional and entail theoretical knowledge? This guy could for instance fix an appliance, but he couldn't draw up an electrical diagram of it, both of which I imagine the Electronics skill encompasses. Same with Security Systems and so forth.

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Re: IHR/Genocide Robot, Minuteman Prime Or, they could be lured in and trapped, like in a Roach Motel!

Greetings o enlightened superbeings! I've got a question. I'm making a character (a technological manipulator) who has an instinctive understanding of technology. It is INSTINCTIVE, not rational. He could fix a machine, or figure out how to get a computer to do something, but he doesn't really understand the theory of how he does it (he thinks he's appealing to the Machine Spirits that inhabit machines). So he would be unable to explain it to someone else, to theorize about it, and so forth. He can DO but not UNDERSTAND. What kind of limit would you give for this? I'm thinking -1/2. There is likely something about this in TUS, which I do not have...

Re: IHR/Genocide Robot, Minuteman Prime How does he capture anybody in the first place? Or are people stuffed in the pods to get him started up? (I would give him extra Running to match his size. And an Analyze Superpowers skill, so he knows what he's absorbing.)

Re: IHR/Genocide Robot, Minuteman Prime His characteristics are all zero if he hasn't captured anyone? Am I reading that right?

Re: [Char] Dead Head I don't have Hero Designer...

Re: I am so, so old... Look at it this way -- in 1000 years, you and your kids will be practically the same age! You're already well within the margin of error of carbon dating.