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    Sorloc got a reaction from Hermit in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    "Nervous?"
     
    "Yeah."
     
    "First time?"
     
    "No, I've been nervous lots of times."
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    Sorloc reacted to Pariah in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    "All right, you primitive screw-heads, listen up! See this? This... is my boomstick! It's a twelve-gauge, double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt-blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right...shop smart. Shop S-Mart. Ya got that?!"
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    Sorloc got a reaction from Armory in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    Come alone! And bring your overthruster!
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    Sorloc got a reaction from slikmar in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    : [sobbing] Everything. OK, I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... when my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out!
    [much later]
    ...but the worst thing I ever done: I mixed up all this fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. And I never felt so bad in my entire life!
     
     
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    Sorloc got a reaction from L. Marcus in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    : [sobbing] Everything. OK, I'll talk! In third grade, I cheated on my history exam. In fourth grade, I stole my uncle Max's toupee and I glued it on my face when I was Moses in my Hebrew School play. In fifth grade, I knocked my sister Edie down the stairs and I blamed it on the dog... when my mom sent me to the summer camp for fat kids and then they served lunch I got nuts and I pigged out and they kicked me out!
    [much later]
    ...but the worst thing I ever done: I mixed up all this fake puke at home and then I went to this movie theater, hid the puke in my jacket, climbed up to the balcony and then, t-t-then, I made a noise like this: hua-hua-hua-huaaaaaaa - and then I dumped it over the side, all over the people in the audience. And then, this was horrible, all the people started getting sick and throwing up all over each other. And I never felt so bad in my entire life!
     
     
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    Sorloc got a reaction from Jazzidemus in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    Come alone! And bring your overthruster!
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    Sorloc reacted to Cassandra in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    History is made at night.  Character is what you are in the dark.
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    Sorloc reacted to L. Marcus in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    "Hello? Uh, hello? Hello, Dmitri? Listen, I can't hear too well, do you suppose you could turn the music down just a little? A-ha, that's much better. Yeah, yes. Fine, I can hear you now, Dmitri. Clear and plain and coming through fine. I'm coming through fine too, eh? Good, then. Well then, as you say, we're both coming through fine. Good. Well, it's good that you're fine, and - and I'm fine. I agree with you. It's great to be fine. [Laughs] Now then, Dmitri, you know how we've always talked about the possibility of something going wrong with the bomb. The BOMB, Dmitri. The hydrogen bomb. Well now, what happened is, uh, one of our base commanders, he had a sort of - Well, he went a little funny in the head. You know. Just a little funny. And uh, he went and did a silly thing.
     
    Well, I'll tell you what he did. He ordered his planes...to attack your country.
     
    Well, let me finish, Dmitri. Let me finish, Dmitri. Well, listen, how do you think I feel about it? Can you imagine how I feel about it, Dmitri? Why do you think I'm calling you? Just to say hello?
     
    Of course I like to speak to you! Of course I like to say hello! Not now, but any time, Dmitri. I'm just calling up to tell you something terrible has happened.
     
    It's a friendly call. Of course, it's a friendly call. Listen, if it wasn't friendly, you probably wouldn't have even got it. They will not reach their targets for at least another hour. I am, I am positive, Dmitri. Listen, I've been all over this with your Ambassador. It is not a trick. Well, I'll tell you. We'd like to give your Air Staff a complete rundown on the targets, the flight plans, and the defensive systems of the planes.
     
    Yes, I mean, if-if we're unable to recall the planes, then, I'd say that, uh, well, uh, we're just gonna have to help you destroy them, Dmitri. I know they're our boys. All right, well listen, now, who should we call? Who should we call, Dmitri? The what, the People, you, sorry, you faded away there. The People's Central Air Defense Headquarters. Where is that, Dmitri? In Omsk. Right. Yes. Oh, you'll call them first, will you? Uh, huh. Listen, do you happen to have the phone number on you, Dmitri? What? I see. Just ask for Omsk information.
     
    I'm sorry too, Dmitri. I'm very sorry. All right, you're sorrier than I am. But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are, Dmitri. Don't say that you're the more sorry than I am because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we're both sorry, all right? All right."
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    Sorloc reacted to Jazzidemus in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    Hey, hey, hey, hey-now. Don't be mean; we don't have to be mean, cuz, remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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    Sorloc reacted to Pariah in A Thread for Random Movie Lines   
    To be your friend, I would have to be more than clumsy. I'd have to be stupid!
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    Sorloc reacted to Grailknight in Superleap (Superland?)   
    You're no jumping up. you.re bracing for a fall equal to your jumping ability.
     
    Powers aren't a detriment to the character unless you take a disadvantage or complication.
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    Sorloc reacted to eepjr24 in Superleap (Superland?)   
    6e2 141 discusses this.
    5er 435.
    4er 176.
     
    - E
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    Sorloc reacted to unclevlad in Life-Linked Equipment (5th Edition Fantasy)   
    Sidebar.
     
    In a fantasy campaign...change it from being armor to being defensive bracers.  These *can* be worn 24/7 without the onset of Odious Personal Habits.
     
    edit:  secondary thought, defensive bracers are quite appealing for many types.  No weight, not as obvious, no movement restrictions.  Even if these aren't codified as game hindrances, it's still the kind of thing that should be appealing to a character.
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    Sorloc reacted to unclevlad in Life-Linked Equipment (5th Edition Fantasy)   
    Yeah, ultimately it's a wonkin' big Side Effect.  I'd throw in +10 CON too.
     
    I"d not use a 10d killing attack, as that's overkill.  Unless the intent's to just flat-out kill the person and there won't be a chance for a healer to save his butt...then 10d is fine.
     
    I wouldn't use a Transform;  it says subvert, not becomes.  So it's more like Mind Control.
     
    Last, these both have their own conditionals.  The killing attack may not be active until the armor's worn in combat (read:  absorbs some of the damage from a blow) or maybe after 24 hours of total wear.  The mind control or transform, from what you said, is more like weeks to months.  Which maybe says, do it as a Mental Transform, and set a VERY long Recovery Time.  Like a year.  (If the mind transform is once a month, then recovering 5/year means never, without taking the armor off.)
     
    There's a logical downside here.  You are saying the individual quite literally NEVER takes the armor off, or it kills him.  So he's wearing it in the shower?  In bed?  That suggests a different route:  a Dependence (armor must be worn).  Separate staging...the dependence doesn't kick in for 4-6 hours, but once it does...it's once a turn.  At least the 3d6, and I'd have no issue if you said it's 3d6 doing Body from the get-go (not just after going unconscious).  
     
    Dependence
    --extremely difficult to obtain dependent substance (well, ok, here that's saying it's hosing you, and there's no other way around it)
    --3d6 does Body (+30 points)
    --6 hours before initial effect, but 1 turn afterward.  Call this a -5 overall.
     
    And the demon subversion thing could also justify tossing in an Addiction.
     
    The damage starts when the demon feels pain on its own, as he's being pulled back to his home.  It ends when that happens...perhaps 5 minutes.  Another aspect is, doing it like this allows the creation of an obsessive/addictive behavior...the wearer likes to take it off to clean and inspect his armor, which is like petting the belly of the puppy to the demon.
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    Sorloc reacted to Lucius in Life-Linked Equipment (5th Edition Fantasy)   
    Demon Hide Armor:  (Total: 52 Active Cost, 11 Real Cost) Life Support  (Eating: Character does not eat; Longevity: Immortal; Safe in Intense Cold; Safe in Intense Heat; Self-Contained Breathing) (22 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect always occurs whenever the character does some specific act (armor comes off); 10d6 Killing ; -1 1/2), Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect does a predefined amount of damage; 2d6 Severe Transform: into possessed host for demon; -1 1/2), OIF Durable (-1/2) (Real Cost: 5) <b>plus</b> +10 STR, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (15 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect always occurs whenever the character does some specific act (armor comes off); 10d6 Killing ; -1 1/2), Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect does a predefined amount of damage; 2d6 Severe Transform: into possessed host for demon; -1 1/2), OIF Durable (-1/2) (Real Cost: 3) <b>plus</b> Resistant Protection (5 PD/5 ED) (Impermeable) (15 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect always occurs whenever the character does some specific act (armor comes off); 10d6 Killing ; -1 1/2), Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect does a predefined amount of damage; 2d6 Severe Transform: into possessed host for demon; -1 1/2), OIF Durable (-1/2) (Real Cost: 3) <b>plus</b> Named not for being made of a demon's hide, but because it hides a demon (Real Cost: 0)
     
    Lucius Alexander
     
    Hiding behind a palindromedary
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    Sorloc reacted to unclevlad in Multiform with equipment   
    Yeah, I think this is handled on a case by case basis when there's no points involved...like normal clothes.  If points are involved, then the rules say each form has to pay the points.
     
    Literature and comics go both ways.  Werewolves, for example, often trash their clothing, especially in a hybrid form that's usually rather larger than human;  but a shapeshift spell often just says the clothes et al. just disappear while transformed, then reappear.  Note that this applies to things on the shifter when the shift occurs...a cell phone sitting on the table never transforms.  Fnally, you'll see "shifter clothing" quite a bit, and that's generally a freebie.  Cuz this covers the Growth and Shrinking types.  GMs may do this just to avoid adding an implicit Complication onto these.  Now, that said...if the Shift is a curse like Lycanthropy...then trashing the clothing is more fitting.
     
     
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    Sorloc reacted to dmjalund in Multiform with equipment   
    in a fantasy campaign there may be a spell that allows you to attune clothes to fit into the multiform (perhaps costing like Instant change but works with any clothes)
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    Sorloc reacted to Funk Thompson in Multiform with equipment   
    I'm not sure there are specific rules for this; each form follows the campaign norms.  Any equipment used by any form would need the appropriate proficiency skill bought for that form if applicable, etc.  
     
    I had some multiform critters in my fantasy campaigns, but none that used equipment IIRC.  So I can't say I've tested this in play.
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    Sorloc reacted to Hugh Neilson in Damage Shield   
    I believe you need Constant and Surface, and can now apply No Range since it cannot target anything but yourself.  With range, I should be able to put the damage shield on Foxbat's Ping Pong Ball Gun at 30 paces.
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    Sorloc reacted to dsatow in Damage Shield   
    You still need to buy it constant (+1/2) if you want it to last more than an instant.
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    Sorloc reacted to Christougher in Damage Shield   
    You always had to build it.
     
    In 4E, Damage Shield was a +1/2 Advantage on an attack power.
     
    In 5E, Damage Shield was a +1/2 Advantage on an attack power.  By RAW, you usually had to add the +1 Continuous Advantage, but a lot of people didn't agree.
     
    In 6E,Area of Effect Personal Surface was a +1/4 advantage on an attack power. 
     
     
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    Sorloc reacted to Cassandra in Damage Shield   
    One example of a Damage Shield is where someone hits a Brick like Superman and ends up hurting their hand.   I'm not sure it's worth the point cost unless the character is a pacifist and the Damage Shield is Stun Only.
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    Sorloc reacted to C-Note in Potions   
    FH 5th p281 describes what is required to create potions.
     
    5th Edition Revised has an example potion with the requirements built in to the potion as limitations:
     
    Potion Of Giant Strength: +30 STR, Trigger (quaff potion; +1⁄4) (37 Active Points); OAF Fragile Expendable (easily spilled or diluted liquid, brewed from giant’s blood and other components which are Difficult to acquire; -1 1⁄2), 4 Continuing Charges lasting 1 Minute each (-1⁄4), Concentration (creator has 0 DCV while brewing potion; -1⁄2), Extra Time (takes minimum of 1 Hour to brew potion; -3), Gestures (must make arcane gestures while brewing potion; -1⁄4), Incantations (must incant magical formulae while brewing potion; -1⁄4), Requires An Alchemy Roll (-1⁄2). Total cost: 5 points.
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    Sorloc reacted to Cantriped in Trying to build a healer...   
    Since you are using 5th, have you looked at Transfer (STUN into STUN) with Delayed Return/Fade and Only To Starting Values?
    It won't kill your enemies, but it will let you play a kind of Drain-Tanker, in that your attack will simultaneously bring them closer to being knocked out and you further away. Once they are unconsious, just finish them off with a knife or something. The Transfered STUN will fade eventually, but you'll still be Recovering any lost STUN while it does, so with any luck by the time it fades you'll be be fully recovered anyway.
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    Sorloc reacted to Cantriped in Trying to build a healer...   
    I hold an unpopular opinion on this subject, and say this at the risk of starting another long and fruitless debate... but: 
    That only applies to Adjustment Powers that increase or decrease one of those elements (Aid/Boost, Absorption, and Drain/Suppress). Healing does neither; it very explicitly only restores lost points of an affected game element. In other words, it doesn't give you more BODY or STUN, it just restores points of them you've lost; as such it isn't included in the rule you quote... CC/FHC are far clearer on this point (although neither edition is as explicit as I'd like).
    Unfortunately (for the credibility of my position), the 6e v1&2 rules for Healing have been muddied by Steve Long's official intrepretation of how Healing works, which contradicts the rules he actually wrote. In addition, once you include his most recent errata for those volumes (which he released suspiciously soon after a very long debate on the subject came up) the examples now support his position; but still contradict the relevent rules sections in every version of 6th edition. Using his official intrepretation, Healing is even worse than it's overpriced die and arbitrary per day maximums already made it appear. I would even go so far as to say his version of Healing is an unsalvagably inefficient point-trap on purpose. Which is an odd design conceit considering that the role of Healer is so unpopular that most systems have to bribe their players into playing one.
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