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The first thing I thought when I saw this ad was: Here's a superteam waiting to happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ox4ZtRuICs&NR=1 We have a zombie accountant, a luchador, a ninja, a teenaged monster girl and a lumberjack. There's potential here. They each have their own ads too. So we have a martial artist/stealth type (who likes candy) The Luchador seems like a fast brick with MA That leaves Monster girl (feral type powers?), the Lumberjack (animal communication/nature powers? Control over wood? Follower: fox?) and the zombie...(He seems to have allot presence and charisma despite his state of deadishness Maybe mental powers?) Maybe their civics should combine to form a giant robot?

Re: The Lion of Buddha Very cool!

Re: What defines a Superhuman? IMO, Superhuman means literally that: the character in question does something that is not possible for a human being to accomplish in reality: Fly on their own power, read minds, etc. It doesn't require that they automatically be better overall than most of the other people in the setting. Real life humans have pulled off some pretty amazing accomplishments. With highly skilled but arguably "normal" characters (Batman, most of the characters in Watchmen and allot of Pulp Adventurers, for example) there is a gray area. I would call them cinematic or larger than life rather than superhuman though. If you're a superhero is defined by how you use your abilities and the style of the setting.

Re: Junior Superheroes Let me try this a different way: No, you cannot make a Superhuman (Capital S) under standard Hero System point guidelines for less than X points if you use those guidelines. But you can create characters that have superhuman abilities for fewer points than that and these characters would generally be considered superhumans (small S) barring an unusual setting. You can create characters at the Superhuman point total that have no superhuman abilities too. They generally would not be considered superhuman in their settings.

I think I put this in the wrong forum... The Whisper Behind the Walls is the collective intelligence entity, a hive mind formed from the mental activity of all the insect life that collected in an abandoned research facility and were subsequently mutated by exposure to its contents. The Whisper is sapient and have more than animal level thought but isn't highly "intelligent" and is still mostly driven by animal instincts and urges. It does posses an array of mental powers and can perceive the world though any of its tiny bodies at will and project its powers though them even if they're separated by great distances and control its bodies as a collective swarm. As hive entity it is very hard to destroy physically. All its bodies would have to be destroyed individually but mental attacks will effect it as a single target. The fewer bodies it has the less intelligent it is and is little more than a normal insect with only one. What sort of build do you see this creature having? I've gotten an excellent suggestion to build this an AI (Thanks again, Lucius)

Re: Junior Superheroes The character will be in the Superhuman pt range in Hero System guidelines. That doesn't make him superhuman as general defintion. I can build a 200 pt cabbie that really has nothing exceptional about him. A 300 point character with nothing but general skills and contacts and typical statistics is going to be annhilated in a same for 300 points superheroes. Remmber the point totals in the book are guidelines not set in stone unshakable definitions.

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Re: Induce Synesthesia I think its really depends on what game effect you want it to have. Does it cripple a character's senses for a short term or disable them to some extent for a extended period of time? Another option might be a mental Entangle with sfx the character can't perceive the world clearly enough act/is helplessly confused by their muddled senses. The extreme version seems like a Transform that inflicts Synethsia on the target, defined as the GM wants it. The reversal condition might be another application of a similar power, super advanced brain surgery, etc.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? No, I'm arguing that police officers are human beings and sometimes commit unjust and crminal acts and somtimes due connection and fraternity, the so called "Code of Silence" and just plain corruption they get away with it or just get a slap on the wrist.. I've personally wittnessd several and know of many more accounts. You can search the news for more. And the idea that a cop killer beyond all known circumstance wouldn't have at least one "accident" over decades of crime is naieve. Cops are not fairytale Knights with some unshakable code of honor. People die in custody, get beaten, etc. Hardly a month goes by without a police brutality incident making the news and these aren't mass murderers beyond the pale of anything else that's happened in reality. Megaplayboy pointed out one incident. There's dozens, if not hundreds more depending on how far you go back.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? And many people have had "accidents" in jails and police stations or gotten some curbside justice. Rember Rodney King? An uncle of man caught a beating from a cop for being "disrespectful". How people have been shot while "resisting arrest" or tasered for no apparent reason? I think its rather naive to assume that if there was a killer on the scale of the Joker brought he wouldn't at least get some rough treatment, if not be killed. No one saying it would happen the first time but how long has the Joker been slaughtering cops and civilians in Gotham? There probably isn't a menber of the Gotham PD that hasn't lost a friend or someone they knew to him at this point.

Re: Alien with a big brian Sorry I couldn't resist. Many of your question depend on the setting the alien will be in. 8 is normal strength for a non heroic human being so compared to most PCs it won't be very strong but to Joe Normal it has typical strength. I'd called its phyical limitation: All the Time, Slightly. It can still commuicate and doesn't have to worry about lanaguage but does have to jump through more hoops (and can't do things like shout or address groups all at once)

Re: Alien with a big brian Follower: Brian. Said Follower should have either Growth (or the larger size templates).

Re: The Whisper beind the Walls Huh, that's a clever idea. Thanks!

Re: THE BOOK OF THE EMPRESS -- What Do *You* Want To See? LOL So true. So very true.

Re: Junior Superheroes Ah, I see you're talking the book guidelines. I'm defining superhumans as invidivuals that have abilities the push or exceed the norms we assume in reality. The ability to fly, shoot lasers out of your eyes etc. Point total really doesn't matter. It's how you spend those points. I can easly make a 300 point character that is entirely normal: incredibly skilled, talents and likely very well connected but as "normal" as any Joe you'd meet on the street physically particularly if you get really specific about Skills.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? I have to go with Megaplayboy on this one. Cops are human, even the best of them and they make errors in judgement, react emotionally, etc, all the time. Police officers have beaten and abused suspects because they didn't like their attitude let alone mass murdering other cops.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? Wait, are you talking about overall DC continuity or the Dark Knight film continuity?

Re: Pimp my villain: Madigan, Defense Manuever?

The Whisper Behind the Walls is a collective intelligence entity, a hive mind formed from the mental activity of all the insect life that was collected in an abandoned research facility and were subsequently mutated by exposure to its contents. The Whisper is sapient and has more than animal level thought but isn't highly "intelligent" and is still mostly driven by animal instincts and urges. It does posses an array of mental powers and can perceive the world though any of its tiny bodies at will and even project its powers though them even if they're separated by great distances and control its bodies as a collective swarm. As a hive entity it is very hard to destroy physically. All its bodies would have to be destroyed individually but mental attacks will effect it as a single target. The fewer bodies it has the less intelligent it is and is little more than a normal insect with only one. What sort of build do you see this creature as having?

Re: Unwilling Bank Robber Thanks!

Re: THE BOOK OF THE EMPRESS -- What Do *You* Want To See? Yeah, that's something I've been wondering about. I mean why the focus on the Earth when the Universe is incredibly vast?

Re: THE BOOK OF THE EMPRESS -- What Do *You* Want To See? I was referring to the overall drift of the thread. The concept of V'han is so extreme trying to make it "realistic" seems to be a waste or even counter productive. I largely feel the same way about the trend of trying to bring hard science into comics you mentioned. I'm glad its not very prevelent (at least IME). Comics are pretty fantasy and when you start over analyzing them it spoils things. At least for me. Since really most superpowers just don't work in a coldly realistic world, at least as we understand it. And that's not even getting into the society and other aspects of the genre. But that's just my preferences.The "partial handwave" approach doesn't work for me. If real world physics is going to matter, it should matter consistently or its going to be rubber science, it should be that way consistently. All IMO, of course.

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? That would be interesting. Or even something maybe more in line with the real world "The court, in part due to the testimony of the Batman, in this case of Gotham v Joker pronouces the death penalty."

Re: When, if ever, would your character kill? Honestly, given the number of people he's killed including law enforncement officers, Arkham staff, etc its amazing (if you ignore the meta reason) the Joker hasn't been killed "resisting arrest" or during an "escape attempt" or due to mix up with his medication.

Re: THE BOOK OF THE EMPRESS -- What Do *You* Want To See? Lets not get to hung up on "realism" and accuracy about things like physics. The concept of V'han is really one of those things that quickly falls apart if you try to make it "realistic" (IMO).