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Re: Elemental Control Variant In short, Robyn. We disagree. Enough has been said. Have fun and seeya on the forum. Bye.

Re: Elemental Control Variant Yep...*chuckle* Damn that cut and paste. Sorry, Hugh.

Re: Elemental Control Variant Imagine two very similar communities; I'll call them Heaven and Hell to facilitate comprehension. Both are filled with vicious arguments about nearly everything, but one has an excellent reputation and the other has a horrible reputation. In the one called Heaven, all settlements are handled publically and onlookers can see that everyone has calmed down and made up. In the one called Hell, all settlements are handled privately, and an onlooker can only see disagreements all over the place. Lets imagine two different boards. One called Heaven and one called Hell. In Heaven, people are kind to one another and rather than chastise and alienate people in public where there is the risk of public embarassment and public shame, they first kindly and respectfully point things out in private, allowing the person to change their behavior before risking further public embarassment. In Hell, they just lambast them in public, puffing themselves up and doing it mainly for their own self-edification, not a genuine concern about the members of the community or the community itself. Hmmm...I know which I would prefer. You seem to enjoy looking up the definition of words. Look up the phrase "Passive Aggressive" and see how aptly that fits your behavior. Again, I ask you respectfully and coirdially to take this to a Private Message. As it stands, your public display is only serving to lessen you in esteem. As a gentleman, I ask to bring this to a private forum as it has obviously gotten to the point where you cannot help but reply. Lets stop boring the board, shall we? Lets take this to a private forum.

Re: Yet Another Block and Missile Deflection House Rule

Re: RKane_1's Heretical and Audacious Block Variant, Part 2 Reading more on that as I just got UMA Or if you have superior DC reduction to his DC or take so little damage as it is a suitable sacrifice for the benefits of the maneuver.

Re: Elemental Control Variant You have not provided a point for us to disagree on. You have accused me of being inflammatory yet have not cited any specifics. I will admit there was one such post but I was approached about it in private and it was retracted. Badgering someone about past wrong-doings that have been corrected only seeks to belabor the point that you seem to feel that you are somehow better and need attention for being so. As for me missing the concpet, right back at ya. I have made a point that a Private Message is the more civilized method of communicating with another. You seemed civilized, certainly with the modicum of eloqunt speech you've been able to muster, however, politeness and decorum seem to elude you. May I also suggest you try to ascertain whether you do speak for the community. It seems the sheer ego to state without question that you speak for the community without appointment by that community screams of self-importance and self-righteousness. If you are unable to send a Private Message because you feel in your heart of hearts that there are those interested in this conversation and the community would benefit from your preachings, then, by all means, continue. The link you made was quite insulting and you know that, I am sure. You meant it as an insinuation which is abundantly clear and frankly beneath what I had surmised of your character. I am sorry I was wrong in that. But any lessons to be taught by you would fall on deaf ears of any pupil if delivered in an insulting manner. So what are your distinct goals in this conversation? You say you wish to speak for the community yet have no nominations for any post here. You are showing, in my humble estimation, the worst that the boards have to offer. Is this the community that you wish to build? Again, are you able to let this drop? Are you able to respond respectfully to a request for private discourse? Are you able to "let it drop" or does this still elude you?

Re: Mind Reading & the proper use of Another problem with telepathy being a letigious nightmare comes from the fact it would be hard to own anything of value where price can be negotiated. "Why am I being sued by this Car dealership again?" "Well, you are a known telepath and he believes that you bought it using undo influence of your mental powers." "But....I bought it at sticker price..." There are certain ways around this like buying it through an intermediary or even online but once knowledge gets out that you are a telelpath, people would most likely treat you differently and possibly suspect the deal may have been influenced. You may encounter nuisance law suits for people stating that you are invading their dreams and causing them mental anguish. You would have a tough time with sexual liasons as if you were a known telepath, you could be up on charges for Statutory Rape seeing as the person may or may not have been able to make informed consent if you had used your powers. There are a lot of legal issues with telepaths. Even more so with those telepaths who are celebrities. I would imagine telepaths are a very private lot who keep to their own.

Re: RKane_1's Heretical and Audacious Block Variant, Part 2 But is the Block that sets up so many maneuvers in Martial arts FOR a counter strike. Sacrifice the possibility of a little damage for an edge on your opponent. Aggressive/Defensive Fighting. Charging into your opponent to deliver a strike after deflecting his on the way in.

Re: Elemental Control Variant Are the community standards relentless rudeness? In that case, you are the bastion of community standards. You persist in crass and base behavior disguised with a practiced eloquence. I have asked for this conflict to end with both parties respectfully bowing out. Yet, you persist, Out of respect for the community, I asked this debate be taken to Private Messaging, yet you persist. If anything, it seems you are quite content to drag this out on the thread. Congratulations, as I am sure you are know realizing you have found that I am just as stubborn as you are. But the community on the whole that you care so deeply about doesn't seem to be any better for it. Again, I offer the olive branch. Let this end or take this to Private Messaging, please. Perhaps you should RE-read it yourself and take a few items to heart. Or just take a few lessons on peaceful conflict resolution. In any event, you are having little effect on me as I treat rudeness with rudeness and persistance with persistance. What is effective with me, is polite respectfulness. If I truly erred, sending me a private message and allowing me to correct the issue with humility serves the purpose of correcting the behavior best. If I showed my "true colors" by being terribly rude in reply, then badgering me in public might be in order. If I retracted my statements with an apology and then sent you a thank you for pointing out my faux pas, then a peaceful resolution would have been the more likely outcome. The only conceivable reason I can surmise that you choose this tact is you simply wanted to throw your weight around and "put the newbie in his place". Doesn't work with me. Sorry. Again, please send this to me in Private Message. Otherwise, I am content to write reply after reply just as you are seemingly content to do. I propose we discuss matters as adults in a private forum. I offered you an olive branch (and a "fig leaf" too earlier....it was late and I had my analogies corssed) but I will throw in the whole bush and a dove or two if you will simply seek to respectfully change this venue to a private message. I honestly cannot recall anything said with an inflammatory nature save for the one item I was redressed about and that was dealt with. Is there the possibility that you could be reading too much into the remarks I made or taking something too seriously when it was meant in jest? Is this a possibility that perhaps both of our perceptions should be questioned and not just mine? Robyn.... as stated before. This thread is going nowhere and partly, I am to blame. For that, I apologize to the community at large. If you perceived my previous remarks as inflammatory, then I am sorry you were offended by them. Often I speak my mind. Sometimes it leads to good things, sometimes to bad but at least I am honest in my dealings with people. If I don't like someone, I will be able to articulate why. I put this to you. If you felt that something I posted was inflammatory, then you could have approached me via private message instead of making this a personal crusade of yours Earlier you tried to correct me about the use of the word "investment" and that you did not have a vested interest in retaliation. Vested Interest is defined as "Those groups that seek to maintain or control an existing system or activity from which they derive private benefit." You have an "investement" in this community as the amount of sheer hours you spend here and the thoughtfullness with which you post here time and time again. Ergo, you have a vested interest in it and it seems that you have taken it upon yourself to help police it, thinking that I am a "barbarian at the gate". I respect your intent but your delivery is coming off, at least in my perceptions, as self-righteous and aloof. Again, I was impressed by your eloquence when you first responded. It was disarming and I responded to you with, what I believed to be equal respectfullness. As I see it, what you have done here is perpetuate an argument long since over. Can we let this drop? I would much appreciate it, kind sir.

Re: RKane_1's Heretical and Audacious Block Variant, Part 2 But then he will have spent a lot more points and have a maneuver worth the points spent. This would be great for a Master who has spent the points in order to refine his Block.

Re: Derek's Block & Missile Deflection House Rules... This is preposterous! Using rules that have worked fine for the last 20 years in a gaming system that has been playtested again and again? The idea is ludicrous! Crazy, I say!

Re: Yet Another Block and Missile Deflection House Rule Actually, this ain't bad. Oddhat. Though since damage is now a possibility, you may want to consider a reward for the Blocker. As Hugh pointed out, the dodge is less trouble and nets no chance of being hit. Some type of reward for Block would be in order to a penatly for the Dodge. Otherwise the Dodge would be chosen everytime. But I like this idea. You should run with it a litle more and figure out some extrapolations of its effects.

Re: Elemental Control Variant Again....I ask you respond to me in private message, please. *ring, ring* Hello? Mr. Kettles residence....Oh, Hi, Mr Pot! What?.....I'm black? Oh....thanks. *click*

Re: Modeling, er, "sexual prowess" Ya' know? I felt kinda dirty modelling those powers.... **AND I LIKED IT!!!!***

Re: Robyn's straightforward and HERO-compatible Block house-rule I have seen a lot of Kung Fu like what you are saying but I have also seen, especially with graceful female Kung Fu anime chicks, flying across the room from a block, only to land and then get right back into stance. This rule seems to fit both Genres pretty well. Both the Kung Fu aspect and the Anime aspect.

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Re: Elemental Control Variant It seems as though you are in your pursuit of this issue and your seeming inability to "let it drop". Maybe a request for "breaking it off" is because....AGAIN....it is serving little purpose? Er....Robyn? Right now, its JUST you. Hugh and I had a heated discussion but ultimately I think we came to a halt slowly looking at each others points with more respect. I know I at least have more respect for the "thinking out" of my concepts he presented. I don't recall any issues with anyone else that were harshly dealt with by me but I did make light of them by claiming I was beseiged as many were so adamant about keeping Block the way it is. As someone told me, I am not the only newcomer to touch on the Block and a lot of veterans were tired of hashing through the same arguments. Can't blame some for being tired of the debate. Didn't know that before I started posting about it though. Thats the past. I can't change it. Cute link. Someone must have pointed it out to you some time ago and you, I am sure, have been waiting with baited breath to use it. Congratulations, Robyn. You did it. You achieved the goal of using someone else's wit in substitute for your own to insult someone. You must be proud. I'll call your mom and let her know what a great job she's done. But, to get something straight, just because you are very eloquent doesn't mean that you are not being as base and crass as what you are accusing me of. You are the one now perpetuating the petty, small, spiteful attacks. Again, as mentioned before. You are only making yourself look worse. Do you really want to be thought of here as someone who resorts to such infantile ploys? I thought you were claiming to be an adult. In my estimation, an adult would have left the situation be. It is hard with you insinuating such insulting things as the above link, Robyn. I mean. Honestly. Before this conversation, I would have thought it beneath you, now I do not know where your depths end, sadly. Glad to hear it. I am sure you will be searching the net madly for new links to insult me with, or perhaps you have a collection just waiting in the wings to substitute for actual effort. Bravo, well played, Master Robyn.

Re: RKane_1's Heretical and Audacious Block Variant, Part 2

Re: Robyn's straightforward and HERO-compatible Block house-rule How do Martial Arts Damage Classes and Hand Attacks work into this? What about Killing Attacks? Is this roughly taking the physical force of the blow and turning it into momentum from knockback to gracefully do a backflip out of it like I have seen in a lot of anime? Interesting ideas. Keep them coming.

Re: Modeling, er, "sexual prowess" Seduction of the Innocent is Cumulative Mind Control. That comment was for the power above it. The Commentary for each power is listed below it. Transform is automatically Cumulative per the rules, yes. Find Weakness would be a good one too. An Armor Piercing Mind Control... Yikees. I like the Drain as well though as it is someone sapping their very will to resist.

Re: Elemental Control Variant What exactly "serious" *HAS* been said? I must have missed something. Hmmm...maybe you are reading some of your own agenda into what I am trying to do. I just frankly came here for some good discussion about the game that I like and to talk with others who like the same game. I have some ideas I think are worth some merit but not more than anyone else's. I asked for feedback on a couple of ideas. Some were positive and some were resoundingly negative. All in all, its been an interesting trip. Frankly, I am trying to get along, but you are acting a little rude right now, especially after I was all smiles and contentment and joking around. So please break this off, already. This serves no purpose. I am getting tired of this and feeling besieged. Continuing this serious and accusatory tone only serves to further alienate me. If what I did was so wrong that I needed to be kicked off the boards for it, then I would have been. You aren't the person in charge of that so if you have a complaint about me, please see them. If someone wants to hang out and shoot the fluff, then lets kill some time in talking about positive things with Hero, already. If someone just wants to be mean, snippish, or hostile; well, its not making me look bad at all. Just that person. Meanwhile, I am on the top of the world, feelin' like a king. Nothing can break me of that. Nothing but good times. So....chill, Maynard.

Re: Elemental Control Variant I stated that it was fine for cinematic games which most HERO games are but I wanted a grittier, more realistic variant. The seriousness to which it was responded to was frankly a little over the top. Just like now. If I am making light of it, the fact you seem incapable of doing so in response indicates you may be taking it a little too seriously. Its a game. We all have our favorite parts of it and we all have things we'd like to change. I have mine, you may have yours. Its a simple past-time that has our imaginations engaged and that we like to use. That's all. It isn't deeply held religious or political beliefs. It's a game. A GREAT game, but a game none the less. I asked for input on a variant that I had an idea for and got a lot of feedback. Not all positive but I took what I asked for and did with it what I could. Its over now. You still beating the dead horse? Or can we laugh about it and move on yet? :bigsmile:

Re: Modeling, er, "sexual prowess" Well, we can start off simply enough. This power is a Super-Skill ... Seduction of the Innocent: Mind Control 6d6 (Human class of minds), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Cumulative (+1/2) (60 Active Points); Limited Power Power useless versus those with no interest in Sex or the Sex of the Seducer (-1), Requires A Skill Roll (-1/2), Variable Limitations (requires -1/2 worth of Limitations; -1/4), Does Not Provide Mental Awareness (-1/4). Cumulative so that during the course of the evening the character may make several linked advances, gently nudging the fly into his/her web. Those with the weakest EGO will be most eager to do as the Seducer asks. Variable Limitations sometimes Eye Contact (Eyes of Desire) , Gestures (Provacative Dancing), and/or Incantations (Words of Passion). This lures the person closer for the next stage... Spinning the Web/ Poison Kisses: Drain EGO 1d6+1, Delayed Return Rate (points return at the rate of 5 per 6 Hours; +1 1/4), Invisible Power Effects, Hide effects of Power (Fully Invisible; +2) (55 Active Points); Limited Power Power useless versus those with no interest in Sex or the Sex of the Seducer (-1), Variable Limitations (requires -1/2 worth of Limitations; -1/4), Requires A Skill Roll (Variable RSR; -1/4) This represents the little sweet nothings whsipered in the ear (Incanations), the soft caress (gestures), or longing looks (eye Contact) that lowers a persons defenses. Combined with the Power above, simple suggestions such as "Please stay a little while longer, won't you?" becomes more and more reasonable and desirable to the character slowly loosing their will to resist. The variable Skill roll could be Seduction but also Sensual massage or a Provacative Dance rubbing up against the target but it does require contact, of course. And finally, when the target has surrendered his or her will and is compliant to undergoing a more intimate interaction... Enthrallment: Major Transform 1d6 (Normal Person into one with a Psy Lim:In Love with X or Psy Lim:Slave-like Devotion to X, Intensive Psychotherapy), Works Against EGO, Not BODY (+1/4), Partial Transform (+1/2), Based On EGO Combat Value (Mental Defense applies; +1), Invisible Power Effects, Hide effects of Power (Fully Invisible; +2) (71 Active Points); Extra Time (20 Minutes, -2 1/2), Concentration (0 DCV; -1/2), No Range (-1/2), Requires A Skill Roll: Love-Making (-1/2) After a few throws in the hay with this Lothario/Jezebel....the character has surrendered their very soul to them and will likely come back for more. Combine this with an Ego Transfer or a PRE Transfer linked to the Enthrallment Power and instead of a Super-Skill, you have a psychic Vampire....or just someone who gets a boost out of using people and tossing them aside. Kinda scary, huh? Well, whaddya think?

Re: RKane_1's Heretical and Audacious Block Variant, Part 2 Fair enough. *shrug*

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