dougmacd

Front left.  Biggest burner, closest to the sink, no small inquisitive hands.

The Hero Games website. Figured itd be better to give the money directly to the company.

I thought Jif was a brand of peanut butter.

Agreed. Is there a reason you don't simply use a limited power?
+4d6 Blast, Only usable after 12 segments of combat (-1) 4d6 RKA, No Range, AoE: Explosion, Personal Immunity, 1 Charge, Only usable at half health (-1½) Just set the limitation values to something reasonable for the character/campaign. (I.e., dependent on character SPD, average number of rounds of combat, etc.)
 
Or buy the powers normally and limit them with a Physical Complication:
Power X deals four dice less damage the first 12 segments of combat (Infrequent, Barely impairing) Can't use power Y if health is over 50% (Very frequent, Slightly impairing) Again, set values appropriately. This makes things a little harder to track -- it won't be obvious one can't use the full power unless you look at the whole sheet.
 
 
Doug
Keep the criteria simple. Tracking phases or hits is easy; tracking points of damage or END spent is fiddly.

Agreed. Is there a reason you don't simply use a limited power?
+4d6 Blast, Only usable after 12 segments of combat (-1) 4d6 RKA, No Range, AoE: Explosion, Personal Immunity, 1 Charge, Only usable at half health (-1½) Just set the limitation values to something reasonable for the character/campaign. (I.e., dependent on character SPD, average number of rounds of combat, etc.)
 
Or buy the powers normally and limit them with a Physical Complication:
Power X deals four dice less damage the first 12 segments of combat (Infrequent, Barely impairing) Can't use power Y if health is over 50% (Very frequent, Slightly impairing) Again, set values appropriately. This makes things a little harder to track -- it won't be obvious one can't use the full power unless you look at the whole sheet.
 
 
Doug
Keep the criteria simple. Tracking phases or hits is easy; tracking points of damage or END spent is fiddly.

For my amusement...
 
Density of the Sun: 1.41 g/cm3
Density of dirt: 1.1 - 1.6 g/cm3
This is reasonably close, so let's just say they're the same density. So an equal volume of dirt and the sun weigh about the same.
 
Volume of the Sun: 1.4 x 1027cubic meters ≈ 1 cubic meter * 290
6E2 p171: 1 m3 of dirt = 10 BODY
6E2 p173: Each doubling of mass is +1 BODY
So 90 doublings = +90 BODY
 
Therefore, the BODY of the Sun ≈ 100 BODY
 
 
Doug
It's left as an exercise to the reader to calculate the mass of a frictionless spherical cow

He was the size of two asteroids!

Weird build idea: multiform to an Artificial Intelligence (6E2 184)! Telepathy to access computer info, clairsentience to access computer cameras/microphones, etc.
 
 
Doug

The formulae exist, it remains possible to buy to those proportions.  I think it is good for the system not to be locked into them though.

I'd like to show any combat luck values for a character along with the the standard PD/resistant PD ED extra for my template. Is there any way in a template to access specific powers and their values through a tag?  This would be in addition to the standard <!--IFPOWERS-- > tags.  Thanks.

I agree, the system matters less than the players and GM.  A good system makes things better, and a worse system makes things less fun, but you can still have a blast.  You can have a fun Tunnels & Trolls campaign, or a memorable Top Secret game.  You can play RuneQuest or AD&D, or Universe and have fun.
 
But the system makes things better.  Bad mechanics annoy and grate at me even when I am enjoying a game.

And it assumes each die rolls a three. (So slightly below average.)
 
 
Doug
Ninja-Bear ninja'd my response. At least I got to include some of my message-in-progress.

Starting with https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirlTropes and filtering them based off my recollection of Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Card Captor Sakura, Fancy Lala, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
Befriending the Enemy (A very common tactic of magical girls. It's very likely at some point that a magical girl will at least attempt this) Brainwashed and Crazy (Often happens to the Magical Girl's friends or Love Interest) Dark Magical Girl (The Magical Girl's rival with a Dark and Troubled Past) Gotta Catch Them All (If her goal is finding something) Magical Girl Queenliness Test (A Magical Girl princess must prove she can also be a queen) Magical Land (where either the Magical Girl herself or her Fairy Companion comes from) Mentor Mascot (A small Talking Animal or creature who grants the Magical Girl her powers and acts as her mentor) Villain-Possessed Bystander (The Victim of the Week is used by the Monster of the Week to attack the Magical Girl) Magical Hummingbird MoonBlossom sounds like the mentor mascot, and Princess Shadira fills the dark magical girl role. I would also expect there to be a proper Queen of the Moon Kingdom who's out of the picture -- probably imprisoned by Shadira.
 
In all likelihood, the Moon Kingdom is not accessible.  The land is being held under the sway of Nocturna;  MoonBlossom only just managed to escape to get Moonray's help on Earth. The long term goal is to return to the kingdom, overthrow Nocturna, and free the Queen... and possibly succeed her.
 
A fairly typically plot twist would be that Shadira is actually one of Moonray's IRL friends, unwittingly sucked into the magic, and with no memory of her dark magical girl alter ego.  (Also helps encourage the "befriending the enemy" trope.)
 
 
Doug
If you've seen it, Buffy the Vampire Slayer also fits the magical girl tropes.

Starting with https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirlTropes and filtering them based off my recollection of Sailor Moon, Magic Knight Rayearth, Card Captor Sakura, Fancy Lala, and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic:
Befriending the Enemy (A very common tactic of magical girls. It's very likely at some point that a magical girl will at least attempt this) Brainwashed and Crazy (Often happens to the Magical Girl's friends or Love Interest) Dark Magical Girl (The Magical Girl's rival with a Dark and Troubled Past) Gotta Catch Them All (If her goal is finding something) Magical Girl Queenliness Test (A Magical Girl princess must prove she can also be a queen) Magical Land (where either the Magical Girl herself or her Fairy Companion comes from) Mentor Mascot (A small Talking Animal or creature who grants the Magical Girl her powers and acts as her mentor) Villain-Possessed Bystander (The Victim of the Week is used by the Monster of the Week to attack the Magical Girl) Magical Hummingbird MoonBlossom sounds like the mentor mascot, and Princess Shadira fills the dark magical girl role. I would also expect there to be a proper Queen of the Moon Kingdom who's out of the picture -- probably imprisoned by Shadira.
 
In all likelihood, the Moon Kingdom is not accessible.  The land is being held under the sway of Nocturna;  MoonBlossom only just managed to escape to get Moonray's help on Earth. The long term goal is to return to the kingdom, overthrow Nocturna, and free the Queen... and possibly succeed her.
 
A fairly typically plot twist would be that Shadira is actually one of Moonray's IRL friends, unwittingly sucked into the magic, and with no memory of her dark magical girl alter ego.  (Also helps encourage the "befriending the enemy" trope.)
 
 
Doug
If you've seen it, Buffy the Vampire Slayer also fits the magical girl tropes.

Genocide is an ugly word, but it is an accurate description of what is being attempted against transgender folk here in the US.

A new anti-trans bill in West Virginia would ban "transgender exposure to minors" as "obscene matter."
 
If this passes, it will be illegal for me or people like me to exist in West Virginia. Bills like this are being proposed across the country, and some of the marginally less bad ones have already passed.
 
Some people wonder why I and people like me can't be friends with Republicans these days. After all, it's just politics. Well, I can not be friends with, or, honestly, even civil to, people who support the elimination of people like me. If you vote Republican in these times, you are voting for my death (or, I suppose, just my imprisonment, which, since you'd also have me put in a men's prison, might as well be my death). Whether you personally want me dead or not, if the party you support gets it way, that's the end result.
 
I limit my participation on these boards somewhat because certain frequent posters have made their affiliations clear, and I'm not going to interact with them as if they aren't evil and a threat to my existence.

No one else has mentioned it, so:
 
D&D was reasonably balanced for about 2 years, between the release of 4e in 2008 and the release of Essentials in 2010.  Even then, it didn't return to the profound, perennial imbalance you alude to until the official release of 5e in 2014.

Sorry, I stopped reading when the writer spewed "DC Comics has been in dire straits due to its SJW and woke agenda"...