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Re: Why the dislike for Find Weakness? Actually, no. All Find Weakness would do, at its very best, would be to eliminate all or nearly all of the bridge's Defense. Its entire BODY would remain to be destroyed, which would take rather more than a firecracker...

I looked on the official site, and found nothing hard and definite about the system requirments for PC. Does anyone know more? I am relectant to pre-order/order til I know I can run it....

Is anybody from the board planning to go to Dragoncon this year? Anybody going to run HERO there?

HAs anyone else out there used Google Earth as a game aid? I was looking at it the other day, and it occured to me that having instant access to satellite photos of the area around the Eiffel Tower or the Japanese Imperial Palace might be a good thing for super-battles...

Re: I didn't create him, but now I wish I did! or this one? http://www.champions-online.com/rate_my_champion

Re: I didn't create him, but now I wish I did! How about this one: http://www.champions-online.com/rate_my_champion?champ=2753

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? And, oh yes, saved the world and it's billions of human inhabitants from nuclear annihilation, ushering in a (probably brief) era of peace and international harmony. That bastard.

Re: WWYCD: Magic Fishnets? I'm pretty sure that Black Canary could catch some cod whenever she felt like it...

Re: Your favorite Hero Codes of Honor The Oath Of The Skull, from Lee Falk's "The Phantom". Each new Ghost Who Walks takes this vow upon assuming the mantle: "I swear to devote my life to the destruction of piracy, greed, cruelty, and injustice, in all their forms, and my sons and their sons shall follow me".

Re: Wonder Woman Good job! My only suggested change would be to spend a measly 5 pts and raise her COM to 30. Attractiveness is a very subjective thing of course, but WW is usually depicted as the pinnacle of female beauty both in how she is drawn by most artists and by how other characters respond to her.... My 2 cents..

Re: VPPs for Dummies? (IE. Me!) The "TV Batman" could just as easily mean the "B:TAS" version, or even "The Batman"... I think each of those ran longer than Adam West and Co...

Re: Champions and the IRS If some of the PCs are aliens (either E.T.s of simply foreign nationals) then official from the INS might be interested in them... especially if they are here without proper documentation and/or are trying to work and earn wages in the US...

Re: Incarcerating Gadget/Focus Villains

Re: where do the villains get the MONEY? Blackmail could be a very lucrative crime for some mentalists or metamorphs. A telepath could uncover the dirty secrets of the wealthy and shake them down for either a big payoff all at once or a slow-bleed every month... A mind-controller could force the mark to do illegal/immoral/fattening things on camera, and then threaten to expose them ("So, Ms. Jolie, unless you want your little ... performance... with the Bolivian soccer team and their mascot to hit Youtube, you will kindly cough up 100,00 dollars each month...) A metamorph could mimic Ms. Jolie on camera, and then make the same threat. A different kind of mentalist could alter Ms. Jolie's memories to make her think/remember that wild night as actual fact, and pay to cover it up. A memory-eraser could steal the happy memories from someone, and then demand money for their return ("So, you don't recall the last twenty years of you life? Your marriage? Your children? Would you like to?") I could keep this up all day...

Re: where do the villains get the MONEY? That was Gaius Licinius Crassus (yes, the one from Spartacus).... he did exactly as you said, but he also had another trick: he would rush (with his fire brigade) to the site of a fire, and then offer to buy the property on the spot... for a fraction of its value. The panicked home/business owner, facing the loss of the building's entire value (in those days before insurance) would often agree.. and THEN Crassus would order his firemen forward to save the place, thus making a big profit even after the cost of the repairs...

OK, this thread was sparked when I was browsing the UNTIL sourcebook and noticed that the Neo-Nazi battlesuit villain Panzer was locked up in The Guardhouse. My first thought was "Why? Without his suit he's just a guy. Put him in a normal maximum security prison and let him rot there..." Which led to the whole question "As a GM, how do you get captured villains who have had their 'toys' taken away back in the game?" This is especially relevant to villains who can't rebuild their gadgets themselves (e.g. Armadillo, who basically lucked into his battlesuit) or whose Foci are unique (e.g. The Black Paladin's magic weapons and armor). If you are sitting in a cell, have no powers of your own, and your Foci are locked up in "Warehouse 23" in a secret location on another continent... you seem kinda stuck. What tricks and newspaper-thin rationles have you GMs all used to get around this problem?

Re: Star Guardian write-up? And another thing.... how is the "*" in Star*Guard pronounced? A gulp? A click? A whistle? Or if it is silent... then why is it even there?

Re: Star Guardian write-up? Cool! I'm looking forward to it!

Re: Star Guardian write-up? Thanks for the replies. Would anyone care to give me a short summary of the information from those various sources? What are the powers of a Star Staff? What kind of uniforms/costumes do the Star Guards wear? I am kinda getting the impression that they are the CU's version of the Lensmen or the Green Lantern Corps... is that about right?

Hey, does anyone which (if any) book has any info on the Star Guardians, either as individuals or as a group? I mean, apart from the brief references in CU? Thanks!

Re: Information for HERO/Champions Fans About The Champions Online MMO I just hope the character creation process is as flexible as is being touted. One of the things that always bugged me about CoH/V was how you were forced into choosing from certain Archetype options based on a team-role: Ranged, Melee, Support, etc... in other words, it was imposssible to build a nimble martial artist who also had a ranged attack, or a high flying energy blaster who was also nigh invulnerable, or a brick with healing powers, or.... anyway, you get the idea. I really hope CO doesn't do that.

Re: Building John Carter of Mars OOps, my bad.

Re: Building John Carter of Mars Don't forget that Captain Carter "remembers no childhood" (Psych Lim: Partial Amnesia) and has apparently always appeared to be about 30 years old. AFAIK it is never made clear just how long he has appeared to be 30... years? Decades? Even longer? It certainly would explain how he became such a great swordsman (lots of practice and experience), but on the other hand it makes it harder to believe that he is as clueless as he often acts... anyway some kind of Life Support: Longevity/Immortality seems appropriate.

Re: Seacouver, Washington, take 4 Hey. I've lived in the real Seattle for about 10 years now... let me know if I can help you.

Re: Telekinetic Tickling Hmm, I like the Mental Illusions idea best so far I think... although then the actual effects would have be adjudicated by the GM on the spot. This might be difficult, since few players or GMs specify in a character's write-up exactly how ticklish a the character is/isn't .