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Labyrinth blueprints, for that maze of death

LOL  apparently so, because just now, there was a DeSantis PAC ad attacking Haley on China......  
 
I can laugh now but we know this is gonna get old REAL, REAL fast............

EDIT:  side thought.  Is Trump going to accept ANYONE who's run against him, this time around?  I'm thinking...no, on the basis that running against him will still be viewed by him, as disloyalty.  We've got the reports that the #1, #2, #3, and #4 priority for his nominees will be loyalty.  

The Maine Secretary of State rules that Trump does not qualify for the Presidential ballot, due to his role in the Jan. 6th events.  Turns out, it's how the Maine law works...it first has to go through the SoS's office, as the chief election officer for the state.
 
This entire election is shaping up to be ugly, in ways that transcend the normal electoral politics. The entire structure of the election is going to be called into question, if Trump doesn't win...he'll assert the whole process was poisoned, if he's not on all the ballots.  And in any state if he's excluded?  Oh man...nightmare.  Alternate selection of electors, election challenges, potentially CONSTANT objection to seating delegates when the time comes to certify the delegates. Absolute chaos.

The Maine Secretary of State rules that Trump does not qualify for the Presidential ballot, due to his role in the Jan. 6th events.  Turns out, it's how the Maine law works...it first has to go through the SoS's office, as the chief election officer for the state.
 
This entire election is shaping up to be ugly, in ways that transcend the normal electoral politics. The entire structure of the election is going to be called into question, if Trump doesn't win...he'll assert the whole process was poisoned, if he's not on all the ballots.  And in any state if he's excluded?  Oh man...nightmare.  Alternate selection of electors, election challenges, potentially CONSTANT objection to seating delegates when the time comes to certify the delegates. Absolute chaos.

The Maine Secretary of State rules that Trump does not qualify for the Presidential ballot, due to his role in the Jan. 6th events.  Turns out, it's how the Maine law works...it first has to go through the SoS's office, as the chief election officer for the state.
 
This entire election is shaping up to be ugly, in ways that transcend the normal electoral politics. The entire structure of the election is going to be called into question, if Trump doesn't win...he'll assert the whole process was poisoned, if he's not on all the ballots.  And in any state if he's excluded?  Oh man...nightmare.  Alternate selection of electors, election challenges, potentially CONSTANT objection to seating delegates when the time comes to certify the delegates. Absolute chaos.

How about Barrier, 1 PD, with Opaque to Normal Touch?  Rationale being, if you can't touch the surface, you can't cling to it.

Speak for yourself.
 
I had a spreadsheet for character building...gosh, late 80s, maybe early 90s?  I forget.  Handled figured characteristics, managed Elemental Controls.  I think it derived net movement too.  OK, had to enter advants and limits by hand, but that's easy enough.
 
 
Yeah, it's like 6E contains the rules and all the commentary on the rules...wrapped together.  Which is a big part of why it's so wordy, altho another aspect is that it could desperately use serious editing.

Interesting little analysis piece on the latest fad, motion offense

I thought you were gonna say they were Roman lions, playing in the Colosseum.....
 
EDIT:  on another note.......did we just forget about past offensive offsides calls in the past, and now, after the Toney play, they're sticking in our heads?  There have been...gosh, I dunno, 4 or 5 since then?  Another brought back a Prescott scramble for a red zone first down...  OH...I see.  Illegal shift cuz the receiver backed off after lining up wrong...that's motion...when another player was in motion.  OK, that's not common, but it's something we've seen forever, the WR backing off....

More info on just how incredibly devastating it was:
https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/wines-worst-enemy-phylloxera/
 
There's STILL no treatment.  This is probably one of the reasons why California has *seriously* restrictive laws about fruit imports, altho there are more recent pests.  But in today's terms, the damage would be in the multiple billions of dollars.
 
For valuation?  
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/09/03/the-jefferson-bottles
 
$157K in 1985 would be somewhere around $500K now...and actually, I'd tack another zero onto that.  Both the wine market...I could get *good* California Cabs for around $25 back then, they're $150 or more now...and basically all forms of collectibles have exploded in the interim.  Potentially less per bottle if you have quite a few, but a half mill per?  Should be fairly easy...assuming they didn't get trashed in the time travel.  
 
It's also plausible to find Napoleon cognacs...as in, Napoleon I ordered them.  THOSE would go for insane bucks.  Remember that this voyage was one of THE events of the day, and the first class passenger list was glittering.  
 
The trick to all of this is...how the HECK are you gonna explain where they came from????  And to be sure:  Provenance Is All.  Because very obviously, a wine bottle that might be worth $100K has to be an *exceptionally* attractive forgery target.  If there's an issue with the provenance, a question of the authenticity, items can and do get pulled.  Plus, these days, the reach of auctions is much, much greater.  Phillips' New York watch auction had reps handling calls from Europe, and another group handling Asian calls.  Plus online bidding.  Essentially, for those things that have intrinsically limited supply, in many cases, the price has skyrocketed because the demand has exploded...AND because the number of wealthy to MASSIVELY wealthy has exploded in the last...mmm..50 years or so.  (Think tech money, for starters, but it's been true in many industries where mergers and acquisitions have created mega-corps.  Or...in 1980, Michael Jordan was worth...next to nothing.  Now?  $3B.  Jay-Z.  LeBron.  Magic Johnson.  Bob Dylan's estimated to be worth half a bill.  There's also the rise of the Chinese entrepreneurs.)  
 
An *extremely* valuable power for a campaign would be a form of psychometry focused on time of origin, and perhaps *general* history, to authenticate things/detect forgeries.
 
 

If not the numbers per se, then arguing about SFX and what fits/doesn't fit with any particular power, or in some cases twisting things...or saying they can't be twisted...to get something additional out of them.
 
Philosophically, I'm with LW here.  Give me the CLEAN definition that doesn't need contortion, whenever possible.

Come on, we know what happens.  If we ignore the foreknowledge, of course we do.  If not...forget it!  With the Tardis, well, MAYBE nothing bad happens.  With the Titanic, it WILL happen.
 
The Titanic is one of my "if you had a *small-sized* time machine...wearable unobtrusively, where would you want to go?" scenarios...after it starts to sink, either
a)  hit up the First Class bars and stash the booze...just because...or
b)  for value, hit up the purser's vault.  There would be hundreds of millions in jewelry there.
c)  hit up the staterooms of the elites for furs, jewelry, etc.......
 
In case you aren't familiar?  The Titanic would have TOP end wines from before the disastrous phylloxera plague that did MASSIVE damage to the French vinestock.  The only fix is to rip out the old vinestock and graft new, resistant vinestock...but that also means you've changed the wine.  The value per bottle would be......incredible.
 
This doesn't even create causality issues per se because in principle, no one would ever know what you took.

Nope. Not unless I can see the suit of plot armor that all the Doctor's companions wear to survive even one episode.

To my mind, STUN Only was set as a +1/4 advantage offset by -1/4 No Knockback because it will not cause permanent injury (nice in Supers) or damage loot (nice in Fantasy, but the decision was driven by Supers).
 
 
I believe that in 5e it will heal 14 CP of BOD, so 7 BOD and in 6e it will heal 14 CP, halved because BOD is a defensive ability in 6e.
 
 
 
Given that this is +/-0,. I would allow it as "knocks back, but does not heal, Undead".  Recall that Doc is seeking to make the ability work, not to impose roadblocks.

I occasionally consider Clairsentience for a character.  One thing I noticed...in 5E, I couldn't see 2 significant adders...multiple perception points, and mobile perception points.  Argh.
 
Finally decided to check the 5E template.  Yes...the adders are there, under Clairsentience.  So...why are they not showing?
 
 
Ohhhhhhhhhh......
The Source for those 2 adders is the UNTIL Database...and only that source.  Even tho the descriptions cite the page references for Revised 5E...they're not listed as sources.  If you go to Files -> Preferences -> Template, there's a page for 
 
Allowed Source Books (5th Edition Rules only)
 
And...yes indeed, there's the UNTIL Superpowers Database.  Click that to include it.  I didn't try that per se, I went the other way.  Edit the template.  Simply copy the <SOURCE> line that's for 5th Ed Revised and paste it over the UNTIL source line.  That got those 2 to show up...but I have no idea of any other situations like this.  
 
So...if you have a head scratcher like this..."why is this not showing up, it's in the 5E revised book!"  It may be a source issue in the template, and you may just need to tweak your preferences, if you don't feel like editing the template.

IF we can get through this period without imploding.  That's not clear yet.
 
And for those of us here, now?  We get to live in interesting times.  Lucky us.

I occasionally consider Clairsentience for a character.  One thing I noticed...in 5E, I couldn't see 2 significant adders...multiple perception points, and mobile perception points.  Argh.
 
Finally decided to check the 5E template.  Yes...the adders are there, under Clairsentience.  So...why are they not showing?
 
 
Ohhhhhhhhhh......
The Source for those 2 adders is the UNTIL Database...and only that source.  Even tho the descriptions cite the page references for Revised 5E...they're not listed as sources.  If you go to Files -> Preferences -> Template, there's a page for 
 
Allowed Source Books (5th Edition Rules only)
 
And...yes indeed, there's the UNTIL Superpowers Database.  Click that to include it.  I didn't try that per se, I went the other way.  Edit the template.  Simply copy the <SOURCE> line that's for 5th Ed Revised and paste it over the UNTIL source line.  That got those 2 to show up...but I have no idea of any other situations like this.  
 
So...if you have a head scratcher like this..."why is this not showing up, it's in the 5E revised book!"  It may be a source issue in the template, and you may just need to tweak your preferences, if you don't feel like editing the template.

Good catch on the fact that Selective is NOT needed for the Blast, with the possible exception of having undead allies yourself.  OK, I've read all 4 of L. G. Estrella's Unconventional Heroes series...where the main characters are...necromancers.  Who use lots and lots and LOTS of zombie allies.   (They're insanely silly and funny.)
 
I don't think I'd give -1 for "does no damage."  Not given that it's such a small attack.  Very little would be applying anyway.  But...combine that with undead/demons only?  OK, I can see -1 1/2 net for it.  As noted above, from a points standpoint, it won't make much difference.  
 
The problem won't be real points, tho.  It'll be active points.  4d6 with +3/4 is still 35 active;  with Reduced END, it'd be 40 points.  Then the cost of the healing.  You're still at 85 active.
 
I don't think you can take standard effect for the KB roll, can you?  Lessee...6E1 133.  It says you can apply it to a power...but the knockback isn't a power.  I'd consider allowing Std Effect...4 BODY for the Blast...and "average" for the KB roll, that'd be 7.  That means 1m of KB against anything medium sized.  Normally, I wouldn't care for it, but it's what this power's designed to *do*.  And it's not game-breaking by any means.
 
Mmmm...note that this power doesn't work against Desolid undead.......unless their defensive hole is Divine Magic, which certainly would be well within fantasy tropes.

So true.   I'm just hoping it's not overly violent.  
 
In some ways, where we are now is somewhere we'd end up at, sooner or later.  SOMEONE was gonna push the envelope and force some of these points forward.  Trump's just gone 10 or 12 steps beyond what anyone else has done, and thus forced consideration of a WHOLE lot of issues.

All of 2024 is going to be a complete s@#$ show...

Fair.  It is somewhat cheaper, and definitely lower active points (could be quite important.)  I'd be worried, tho...4m radius isn't that big, so how often are you going to actually get enough people in the AoE?  Perhaps I'm being a pessimist.
 
Plus, the notion of a "front line" cleric is likely to be pretty hard to do in a reasonable number of points.  
 
 
Looks OK, but...
--9 END per use.  Might be OK, as it's plausible it won't be used that much.
--the skill roll...is this a power skill roll, or a straight activation roll?  A skill roll shouldn't report 11-, but an activation roll doesn't normally include "divine skill".  Either way, this is NOT!!! going to be a very reliable power, most likely.  The skill roll will be at -9, because of the total active points;  an 11- fails over 1/3 of the time.  And even if you don't make the roll...you still burn 9 END.  If it's a power skill, you have to buy the skill to 20- just to get to 11-.  This won't be cheap.
--In general, how are the other powers structured?  Again...if this is going into a multipower, for various 'divine' spells/powers...that multipower is going to be fairly pricey.  You may well be able to slap the gestures, incants, and skill roll as common mods onto the MP itself...that'll help a lot, but the base MP size is still gonna have to cover the total active point cost of the compound power.

With respect, from all the commentary that I've read the issue is much more open to interpretation than what you assert.
 
Colorado's Supreme Court did not rule on who sits in Federal office. It ruled on who can be on the ballot in their state. That can be argued to be state jurisdiction.
 
The wording of the Fourteenth Amendment does not require that a person be convicted or even charged with insurrection, merely that they have "engaged" in that activity. "Insurrection" and "engaged" are not defined, but the CSC ruled that there are grounds to hold that Trump did indeed do that, in which case it can be argued that his exclusion as a candidate should be automatic, since he would be barred from holding office even if he did run. Congress can make an exception with a two-thirds majority vote, but it should be noted that after Jan. 6 prominent Republican lawmakers, including Mitch McConnell, publicly stated that Trump was unquestionably responsible for the events of that day.

Next stop, US Supreme Court, but still......
 
https://apnews.com/article/trump-insurrection-14th-amendment-2024-colorado-d16dd8f354eeaf450558378c65fd79a2
 
It's a start!

Do we DARE ask him to actually explain that one?