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Re: Superpowered Worlds

Re: Superpowered Worlds Do these super-strength-powered people live in an environment with correspondly powered-up animals (predators etc.), or are they at the top of the strength/food chain and nothing else can threaten them? Methinks that might make a difference. Interesting thought experiment BTY.

Re: Superpowered Worlds Captain Emu, can I ask you where you got your avatar from? I could have sworn I've seen it someplace.

Re: Build a Mundane Object in Hero System How would you buy the door itself? 1" Tunnelling through whatever DEF material, OAF Immovable Focus?

Re: Build a Mundane Object in Hero System Aha, you should put this in a Multipower with a deadly 1-pip HKA as well!

Re: Build a Mundane Object in Hero System Infant: Summon One 0-point Infant, Hostile, Delayed Effect (Nine Months), Trigger (Character Has Unprotected Sexual Intercourse with Adult Male of Species), Side Effects (Reduced Characteristics and Movement Abilities during Nine-Month Period, Reduced EGO Rolls), Activates 11-.

Re: VVP and AP limits Yeah, but they can always whip out a 1" Megascale Teleport or XDM and opt out of the situation. That's why I don't like instachange VPPs. Plot-busters and escape-anything artists.

Re: Adjustment powers vs. Megascale I've thought about that. If I have a Drain that is a poison, does LS: Immunity to all Poisons automatically protect against it, or is that a limitation on the Drain?

Re: Adjustment powers vs. Megascale So the same power that would immobilize both a turtle (1" movement) and an F-16 (5" Megascale) might have little effect against a cheetah (say 20" movement)? Mechanically it makes sense, but it sticks in my craw.

Ok, say I have 5" Flight, Megascale (1" = 10,000 km) (20 Active Points). I'm zipping along at my crazy fast megaspeed. Someone zaps me with a 12d6 Dispel Flight. What happens? Is it just as easy to drain this 5" Megaflight as it is to drain regular 10" Flight? Seems counterintuitive. Am I missing something?

Re: Rarity of Magic? Yeah, it's very much generated by a traditional lifestyle incompatible with new conditions. After Chechnya got de facto independence in 1996, the Chechen kinship groups immediately fell to fighting each other (specifically over access to financial flows) and raiding surrounding territories for livestock. Now, they've been doing that for hundreds of years, but then they were using swords and muskets. Whereas interwar Chechnya was filled to overflow with heavy ordnance. Sort of like if Apaches (the tribe, not the helicopter) had rocket launchers and machine-guns. (You also had the Islamist money coming in from abroad, and that radicalized the situation further.)

Re: Rarity of Magic? Changing technology rather alters the equation a lot. Tribal societies at a Stone Age level of technology can spend centuries raiding each other in a constant state of low-level warfare in which maybe 2-3 people get killed a year. Change the spears into AK-47s and grenade launchers and you get destruction of whole villages. Relatedly, places like Chechnya have clan-based societies with a code of revenge killing. If someone from Clan A kills someone from Clan B, Clan B has the right, nay, the obligation, to kill the guy or be entitled to some form of compensation (so many sheep or whatever). This is manageable when you're dealing with the occasional death by musket. If a squad fires a rocket launcher into a gathering of another, revenge just got a whole lot bloodier. Because you likely can't identify the precise perpetrator, and take it out on the whole clan.

Re: Comic Book Physics AoE Suppress: 20d6 Genre Conventions, All Genre Conventions Simultaneously (+2)

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal "Pope" comes from the Lativ word for "father" ("pater"), doesn't it? Orthodox Christianity has Patriarchs, which has a similar connotation.

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal Yep. I'm not Catholic, but non-Catholics tend to really overemphasize the infallibility thing. It hasn't even been invoked in the case of abortion. IIRC, the cases where it was invoked involved the Eucharist, Mary's ascension into Heaven, and then there's another I can't remember.

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal Infallibility has only been doctrine for 160 years or so, and has almost never been invoked -- a grand total of three times, I believe.

Re: The "Classic" Elements Legos Lincoln Logs Pick-Up Sticks

Re: How much would this VPP lim be worth? Thanks everybody. Multipower it is!

Hello all, I have a build question. This is probably very simple and has been addressed elsewhere, but... I'm building a character who is a shape-changing alien construct from a galactic empire that ceased to exist billions of years ago. He survived to the present day because he was in status (think Larry Niven's World of Ptaavs, from which I stole the idea). One of his powers is that he can reconfigure his body into a number of programmed modifications (claws, enhanced senses, an acquatic mode and so forth). He already has a large number of programs (I bought this as a VPP with a set list of powers). The programming knowledge and technology needed to create new programs have been lost billions of years ago, so, assuming it is not recovered somehow, no new configurations can be entered. I've bought this as a 30-point VPP + 15 Control Cost, Powers Can be Changed as a Half-Phase Action (+1/2), No Skill Roll Required (+1), Cellular Adjustment and Gross Body Alteration Powers Only (-1/2), Only Powers Listed Below (-1/2), Powers on List Cannot Be Added to (-1) (Total Real Cost 42 points). Do you all think this looks about right? Is that final Limitation too much? Big thanks!

Re: CHAR: Pebbles Does the rockpile emerge from her body, or from the ground? If the latter, I'd put Indirect on it and "only vs. targets on the ground." Is she always in gravel form?

Re: Need some Scandinavian Villains ! Hr could villainously visit Tallin, drink all the beer and harrass the poor Eesti waitresses. Wait, no, that's real life.

Re: Show me the Water Powers Maybe great big gouts of boiling water/steam? That could be pretty nasty.

Re: Need some Scandinavian Villains ! Evil ABBA in the Death Saab.

Re: Need some Scandinavian Villains ! Evil ABBA.

Re: Need some Scandinavian Villains ! The Mighty Fjord.