Vestnik

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

Write-ups linked at

http://www.realschluss.org/marginally_powered_sitcom_heroes/Fantasy_Island_Versions/index.htm , sorry, no HDZ files yet but will put up. Comments always welcome of course.

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

A Leatherman tool can do many things; none of them as well as the specific tools it emulates.

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.

Re: Homeric Hero

Mythic Greece is awesomely cool' date=' and is the main basis of the Fantasy Hero campaign I have sitting in my head but am unlikely to ever get around to running.[/quote']

 

I haven't played in since I was 15 years old or so, but I think Runequest had kind of a Greek feel to it -- the bronze weapons and armor, all the cults.

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

So THAT'S why the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.

 

Earth is in Retrograde.

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.

Re: An Immaterial Question

Reminds me of an episode of Futurama where it is explained that the spaceship's engines don't move the ship through the Universe. Instead' date=' they move the Universe around the ship![/quote']

 

Actually, according to Relativity, the spaceship DOES make the universe move, if the ship is chosen as the center of reference. There's no difference.

 

And when I walk, my feet are pushing the planet backward.

Re: AIs, automatons, etc. as PCs

Multiform sounds like the way to go, with perhaps some limitations to cover transfer between forms.

 

In one you're a base Whether the base has robot followers or not depends on how much function they have without his input. If they just sit around waiting to have his consciousness transferred in, then you pay nothing. In this form you could well sell back plenty of characteristics

 

cheers, Mark

In theory, could one buy one's power armor as a base? A really big suit of power armor.

Re: Elves

Are you sure you don't mean Mary Sues?

 

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

 

It sounds like Multiform is the way to go. Build a base AI "module" that's part of all forms, one form is the Base itself (yes, it is possible to Multiform into a Base too - isn't Hero wonderful?!)

I always wondered how to build Fortress Lad.

Re: Elves

Yes and no. Infant mortality was certainly high, but even if you looked at median survival of adults, it was certainly lower. So there were a few people who lived into their 80's or 90's: but they were rare. Aristotle for example was considered quite elderly, and he died at the age of about 60 (62 is the commonest cited age).

 

 

cheers, Mark

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!

Re: Elves

It depended largely on how hard you had to work. Farming and construction' date=' for example, were devastating to one's health back then.[/quote']

 

Ah. So elves are just really, really lazy then.

Re: Elves

In the past a human could expect to live 30-40 years and was an "adult" by 12-15. In some early cultures a woman could be a "matron" with several children by 20 and dead by 30.

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.

Re: Expanded Change Environment

What would be the game effects of these 2 items? Once that's defined' date=' we can price them accordingly.[/quote']

 

Wouldn't making the air unbreathable force the character to use the holding breath/drowning rules, statted out in some weird way?

Re: Speedster advice

I don't know - I'd go with

 

Desolidification , Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Persistent (+1/2) (80 Active Points); Always On (-1/2). 53 real points.

 

Dispel Desolidification, 27d6/Standard Effect 81pts, Reduced Endurance, (0 End; +1/2) <121AP> OIF (-1/2), No Range (-1/2) 60 real points.

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).