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Re: Calling all lawyers--Supers and unique legal issues Double does apply, it is "black letter" law. No different from current reality.

Re: Icons - The Costume and Superpowers Store Actually the Saint (Simon Templar) kept 10%.

Re: Historical Late Medieval Period RPG If you can find a copy of first or second edition Chivalry & Sorcery, they had a lot of good info.

If you have a 50 point multi-power, with two 30 point (variable) slots, can you use them both at full power if you push the multi-power by 10 points at the cost of 10 end?

Re: Which is easier to swing, an axe or a sword? While I think most of what has been presented so far is basically true, I must protest that it is really more complicated. Great swords (2 handers) defeat armor quite well; "bastard" (hand and a half) swords do so fairly well. But the axe concentrates weight near the end so will always strike with more force than a sword of equal weight. Swords are easier to use effectively in defense, but most ancient cultures (not all) used shields as the main defense, so the weapon was mostly offense regardless of whether it was an axe or a sword. Regarding the comment that knives, and axes are still used but swords are not; knives and axes are kept more for their use as tools with weapons use as a secondary. Swords are lousy tools for anything but melee.

Re: Electro Magnetic Pulse I would think dispell is more appropriate. Dispell technology based on solid state electronics.

Re: Genetically engineered leaders? Remember, one man's utopia is another man's dystopia!

Re: Standard Military Gear circa WWII Going back to the original question, what kind of duty the soldier would be given would be a very big factor in answering this. Also if you would give the nationality of the soldier it would simplify things.

Re: Time Traveller in 1928

Re: One person versus a starship? Sorry to disagree. Hardy & Williams were dealing with Jousting Armor, not field armor. Measurements of field plate at the Higgins Museum in Worchester MA are where I got my figures. Having worn 16 gauge steel plate (SCA) and having worn flak vest plus full pack (army) I can assure you plate of over 2 mm thickness (steel) would not allow a man to vault onto his horse, which was one of the critical tests for knighthood. Kinetic energy is NOT all that matters for penetration. To really get into why is beyond scope of this forum, but if you look at actual test data you will quickly see that energy is only a small part. (FMJ bullets penetrate much better than lead balls.) Modern rifles do have much more penetration than any black powder musket. And hardness is not all that matters for armor. Pre-industrial revolution steel was generally much weaker in strength (both yield and tensile) and had lower toughness than modern steel. The 0.25" number for minimum steel to stop small arms assumes structural steel, which is not hardened, but is very tough. If you have a source for tests of medieval (either actual or recreation) armor being able to resist modern firearms, please give the source. I have never seen one, and would have GR8 difficulty believing it if I did read it.

Re: A funny challenge for a Damsel Brick Instead of throw, I would use Slap: How dare you!

Re: Presti's Weapon Rebuilds Real European chain weapons will not hit the user unless he is a fool. The chain is kept shorter than the haft, so by holding the end of the haft pointed away from you the weapon cannot hit you. Poorly researched replicas of such weapons usually have the chain far too long. Not being familiar enough with Asian weapons, I will not comment on them.

Re: Supergenius from Fringe **SPOLIERS**

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine It looks more like a machete to me.

Re: One person versus a starship? Stopping fire from black powder muskets does NOT equate to reasonable defense against modern firearms. Rule of thumb from WWII period: it requires 0.25" (6.35 mm) of steel to defend against a rifle with standard military (FMJ) ammo. WWII rifles are generally 2d6+1 RKA in HERO. Medieval plate armor thickness maxes out at around 1.6 mm, and the material was not as strong as early 20th century steel. Pulp era (1920's to WWII) "bullet proof" vests used much better steel plates, which tended to be around 3 to 3.5 mm thick. These vests would provide reasonable protection from pistols, but not from rifles. In fact, when the "357 Magnum" first came out, it was touted as able to penetrate "bullet proof" vests. Now HERO rules do not reflect reality well here: 45 auto rounds tend to do more damage to a human than 9 mm parabellum rounds do, but the latter have better penetration. Still, the pulp "bullet proof" vest is around rPD=6. So against 20th century firearms old plate armor would be at most rPD=2, probably rPD=1 for most. Of course, the non-resistant PD would be higher; as would its protection against unpowered weapons such as knives, arrows, etc.

Re: Alternate Timeline Campaign Now this I like!

Re: UN to Appoint First Ambassador to Space Aliens

Re: Guess the inspiration behind this superteam! Well, Shield and Scarlet Swift sound like Captain America and Quicksilver, so I tried various combinations of the Avengers; but none worked out. Wanna give a hint?

Re: Zeppelins I did a play test session at Gencon. It was interesting. I intend to buy the game when it comes out.

Re: Telepathic Hearing You could make mental defense increase the difficulty of the Int roll. For example, with a normal Int roll of 13, to read someone with 6 points mental defense the required roll is 13-6=7.

Re: White Dwarfs That is "Clark's Law".

Re: White Dwarfs Out of curiosity, what is "Clark's Maxim"?

Re: Doc Savage Adventures that never were I would love to read some of those. Right after i see the movie "The Night the Reindeer Died."

Re: Champions Villians Book I pdf now available in hero online store Perfectly reasonable explanation. But why do the sheets not show the correct number?

Re: Campaign Concept Source: "No Ordinary Family" He is a civilian employee, not a police officer.