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Re: Legion of Super-Pets I had completely forgotten about Proty. Don't remember anything about him actually. I think, inspired by Oddhat's impressive retooling of the Defenders as supervillians, that I am going to come up with a villainous, Iron-Agey version of the Legion of Super-Pets. Dark Legion of Super-Pets, as it were. Let's see -- Streaky can be some sort of mutant sabre-toothed tiger, Comet a Nightmare, Krypto a demon hound of some sort and Beppo a variety of giant carnivorous ape. This may have potential!

Re: Batman vs Midnighter So, who would win in a fight, Midnighter or Streaky the Super-Cat? I think Streaky would totally own Midnighter.

I've been reading some of the old Silver Age DC comics they have online at http://www.superman.ws/superman-comics/ . Has anybody ever tried writing up Krypto, Comet, Beppo, and Streaky? It would be kind of cool, in a warped way, to update them to the Iron Age and run them against the Authority (which I've never read, but have read about on these boards). I still can't get over that Supergirl married a horse. That is just wrong.

Re: Marginally Powered Sit-Com Heroes Oh, Oddhat beat me to it with the Thumb VPP. Shoulda read all the posts.

Re: Marginally Powered Sit-Com Heroes Maybe the Fonz should have Summon: Hot Chicks and a small VPP with his thumb. Didn't he nanu-nanu/thumb-duel Mork from Ork?

Re: Economics 101: Character Building in a Point-Based System I think "Leatherman Tool" was the name of a gay biker bar I saw once.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... I just finished Olympos, the sequel to Dan Simmons' Ilium. Trojans, Greek Gods, and sentient robots. It was fantastic. The best SF/fantasy thing I've read since Perdido Street Station.

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Re: Homeric Hero By the way, I really do recommend the Simmons books, Ilium and its sequel, Olympos. Nanotech-enhanced Achaeans on Mars, allosauri on Earth, sentient organo-robots, wormholes and nuke-throwing Thunder Gods. Can't do better than that! He's a fine writer too.

Re: Homeric Hero Thanks LL! I'll take a look at the write-up.

Re: Homeric Hero Well, the Fleet-Footed Mankiller (sure wish I could get people to call me that , nicknames are soooo boring nowadays) is daughter of Thetis, so he's a demi-god. Stats would probably all be above human max, except for INT and EGO (which would be lower). His schtick is that he's fated to be killed by one person (maybe insane amounts of Luck only to avoid death). And he's got contacts like "Athena, Goddess of War" and a big honking spear only he is strong enough to use. I think I'm going to stat him up. This could be fun. Iliad, here I come! Psych Lim: In the closet about Patroclus.

I've been reading Dan Simmons' Trojen-War-based sci fi opus Olympus, which inspired me to go back and look at the Iliad. It occurs to me that that a generally Homeric setting could make for a great game -- very larger than life characters, levels of violence that are off the scale, gods intervening in daily life at the drop of a hat, and other such good stuff. Has anyone ever done something like this? Achilles has GOT to be built on at least 600 points. Christopher, Son of Robert, Fleet-Footed Mankiller

Re: An Immaterial Question I hereby declare that the universal center of reference is myself. This will be very good for my ego. I pushed the Earth a whole 20 feet away while I was climbing the stairs this morning.

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Re: AIs, automatons, etc. as PCs In theory, could one buy one's power armor as a base? A really big suit of power armor.

Re: Elves Can I play a Dark Elf ninja with claws that come out of his knuckles? That would be kool.

Re: AIs, automatons, etc. as PCs I always wondered how to build Fortress Lad.

Re: Elves Thanks for the info. IIRC, somewhere (Nichomachean Ethics?) Aristotle says no one should begin to study philosophy before they are 60 (50? memory is vague). OK, now back to elves!

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Re: Elves Is this really true? As far as I know the low premodern life expectancy was mostly due to very high child mortality. If you made it to 20, you stood a good chance of living as long as a lot of contemporary people. Plato and Aristotle both died at around the age of 80, and I don't recollect them being thought of as Methuselahs.

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Re: Speedster advice Silly rules question -- to buy Dispel Desolidification, does one technically need to buy it "affects desloid"? I'd buy it "Self Only" too.

Re: AARGH! How do I build this power without exceeding active point caps? Thanks to everybody for the feedback. There are some great idea here. I think I'll go with the big linked option and hope the GM waves the AP cap -- I'm planning on submitting the character to a campaign on Uberworld, and they seem pretty accomodating. I had completely confused MPs and VPPs on the half-phase to change slots thing. Thanks for the correction.

Re: AARGH! How do I build this power without exceeding active point caps? The detect in the gun is an interesting idea -- with the lim "only to determine what type of attack to fire," I suppose. OK, time to go home. I'll check out the boards again tomorrow. Thanks again!

Re: AARGH! How do I build this power without exceeding active point caps? Thanks guys. The problem with making it an MP is that it takes a half-phase to change slots... This is really annoying. Maybe the GM will let me wave the AP cap, given that none of the individual powers exceeds it, and that only one of them every actually affects the target at a time (or even CAN affect it period).