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Re: Pesky Vehicles. Well, hopefully they catch it before it gets to lay an egg, let alone get that far. But between the mooks w/ nets and it's acid, the suit should be in enough danger to keep the pilot concerned.

Re: Who are the greatest (?) super villains? "For we are Geek, hear us ROFL" Thank you, kindly.

Re: Pesky Vehicles. And yet, it's the first time I've seen it. Thanks.

Re: WWYCD: "Dude, you stole my shtick!" The Spector would have a conundrum. As a long time masked-man, he has appeared since the 1860's. The problem is there have been decades between his periods of activity, and each time, some new aspect of his metabolic control powers has surfaced. In the 1860's he was the fearless man. In the turn of the 20th century, he could regenerate. In the 1st and 2nd world wars, his adrenal boost ability let him lift over a ton. In the 60's and 70's, he returned from Okinawa with a firm mastery of Karate. In the late 80's his Hyper-boost made him a modest speedster. People don't know that it has been the same man each time, and he's reluctant to let the world know. This "Imposter" may simply be someone who has "taken up the mantle", so to speak. How to prove that he is the true and rightfull bearer of the title, The Spector...?

Re: Pesky Vehicles. Okay, newbie to the board here. "IIRC?"

Re: Pesky Vehicles. Actuallly, one of the other PCs has more than 25 PD. The problem with DEF 25 on a vehicle is that vehicles only take BODY, not STUN. The counterbalance is that the suit loses fuctionality as it takes damage, but first, it has to take damage.

Re: Compensating for PC Abilities Sorry' date=' Blue, I missed the question. I have, and continue to do so, but, I [b']demand[/b] that eitherthe means of preventing the resurrection be obvious or easily figured out. Example: A Vampire. There are enough stories for the oponent to figure it out. the means of resurrection require external influence. Example: I allowed a character called "The Phoenix." He had been slain by a VIPER Steel Serpent, (5th Ed. had just come out), and none of the party knew about the ability, not even the players. They decided to cremate the body and Fwoosh! The Phoenix was eventually killed and buried in Antarctica, and the PC's flubbed the recovery mission.

Re: Who are the greatest (?) super villains? Sadly, my favorite villain was one that went up against Hal Jordan/Green Lantern, and yet I cannot remember his name, just his schtick. He wore yellow from head to toe, and carried around an industrial paint sprayer filled with yellow paint. For an entire issue, he tormented his adversary, until GL just landed next to him, and socked him one right in the jaw. Which was the villain's point entirely.

Re: WWYCD: This Is A Very Delicate Operation... Hmmm. Leatherback would be be torn. The only female in the party is someone he would like to know in the bilblical sense, and is ruled by an enlarged medula oblongata. Yet, he has a strong sense of honour, and knows that any aggression would likely result in her death, The Specter, same group, characters have been swapped over, with Leatherback studying to be a priest (It didn't work out, can you tell?), would be lecturing the Stalker on how there are better ways to court a lady, but this is better than most of the stalker's earlier attempts (Specter is a semi-pulp figure was born in 1844). Whisper would just possess said maiden, and then unleash the dark harvest upon the room, but then, he's messed up in that returned-from-a-fiery-torment-in-hell kind of way.

Re: Pesky Vehicles. Hmm. Entangle. The next batch of mooks is supposed to be securing an LV-426 lifeform... And I just had a "Duh!" moment. Penetrating. The damn thing was intentionally designed without hardening.

Re: WWYCD: "Dude, you stole my shtick!" Anyone else who actually wants to look like the winged love-child of Grond and call themselves Leatherback, is welcome to.

Re: Compensating for PC Abilities Detect Truth? As long as it's not discriminatory, it doesn't let people know when someone is lying to them, because it's not Detect Lie, it's Detect Truth, half truth's are wonderful. I'm probably mis-quoting here but, "A lie that is in part truth, is blackest of all." And as Mr Johnston pointed out, stealth opposes sight and sound, and persuasion strikes me as the interaction skill for lying.

I've just made a big boo-boo. After having already given all the characters the o.k., I'm looking at the vehicle-rule-powered-armour of one PC, and realising that 25 DEF means a lot more to a vehicle than a character. (I've been playing for more than a decade, you would think that that had sunk in by now.) My main problem is that I HATE giving mooks weapons that are designed to affect specific characters, and yet, this monster needs at least 2½d6K AP to so much as scratch it, and anything more is going to turn at least two PC's into meow-mix. Especially the Cat (Half-size Devon-Rex/Long Story). Help me non-doubling winds, and fellow HERO gamers, you're my only hope.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... D&D3E Having just encountered a Sucubus, the party's cleric of Pelor gleefully declared, "A Sucubus? Touch Attacks, here I come!" From a different game (Record of Lodoss Wars, D&D3E), these gems. From the High Elf Wizardess. "I've only been a lady for a couple of days. It's very hard work!" "Why would there be any problems with us travelling through the 'Forest of No Return'?" "What I wouldn't give to get my hands on that wizard's staff!" From my character. "Excuse my Elf, she's a friend." "And they wonder why I want to kill things." "What do I do for a living? Basically, I kill things." And just to throw a Champions one in the mix... The party gadgeteer had, as many do, become our quartermaster. He had devised many tools and weapons for us, and came up with a 2d6 continuing RKA w/ AoE:radius. He called it a Fuel Air Thermite grenade, or FAT grenade. After having used it in a couple of sessions against robots and zombies (our GM finally realized the low book-keeping needed for low BODY automatons), our team faced of against Half-Jack. With most of us out cold, the hardened gunfiighter (who had the most unfortunate term for removing the pin of a grenade, as you will soon see) turned to the GM and said, "So it's just me and Half-Jack? Okay. I crack a FAT, and show it to him."