Tjack

You may have more luck explaining what kind of power level you’re looking for by using an example. It sounds like your describing somebody like the movie version of the Hulk, maybe a little bit less. If so then the above posts are right, your looking at a 50 to 60 strength with some extras to do things like shockwaves.

That makes sense to me. Because the candidates are a couple of the biggest punts I’ve ever seen.

You’re going to hell, so make sure the undertaker puts you in a lightweight suit. Remember cotton breathes, even when you don’t. At least Batman will be safe.

Him

I kind of remember that the giants world had a Nazi/Communist style repressive govt. And there were a couple of Will Robinson & Dr. Smith type characters . What possibilities wold you focus on if you were the showrunner? (That’s show business speak for GM.)

I think the only problem is even in the age of streaming/binging/downloading/whatever that not as many people have seen some of those shows recently enough to discuss them. Due to the others not being syndicated in my area the only one of those I watched regularly was Lost in Space. I’ve seen a couple of the others at conventions and such, but not enough to have favorites.

I still don’t understand what the limitation would be. You have a weapon that works only on bad guys, can’t accidentally hurt your friends or innocent bystanders and is still useable against neutral objects like doors, ropes and robots. If a player came to me as GM with this I’d tell them to go make a list of ten times this limitation screwed them over. If they couldn’t come up with one.... I know I keep coming at this from a different angle as everyone else but if your looking for someone to show you how to build this there are masters enough here. I’m the guy asking if this is the right thing to do. Which is one of the jobs of a GM.

Uhhhhh....Can I wash my hands like I’m washing Scarlett Johansson instead?

Yeah, but nowadays it’s Meat Loaf who’s living in a van down by the river.

We all have to stick together now that if you want to see the Great Pumpkin, you have to go thru the Great Apple.

It sounded like you asked about the type of situation and everyone started number crunching the example. The situation has to be handled differently depending on the player. If someone comes up with what they honestly believe is a limitation then a GM has to kindly take them aside and work out something that can satisfy their need to tell the story of their character. OTOH, when you get somebody who’s just trying to see what nonsense you’ll let them get away with if they steamroll you hard enough...Then you have to get hard. Some players will push and push until you draw the line and make them believe that if they don’t play fair then then they can take their ball and go home. I know this sounds a little harsh and this may be a “yeah, no kidding.” type of answer, but since you have very few posts I’m going to assume that you’re a newish GM. If I’m wrong I apologize and won’t try to tell grandpa how to suck eggs. If however, you are new to all this then I’m just trying to give you a little backup on what you already know but may be unsure of how to implement. Supervillains are much easier to deal with than real life players anyway. Best of luck either way.

Bombing

Flash! (He’ll save every one of us!)

Where is this from? It’s familiar and it’s going to bug me until I can place it. Thanks.

Hell, even I’m not crazy enough to argue with a Navy man. But my fellow cooks and dishwashers did also teach me how to say “Mas Cervesas!” “Mas Tequila!” “Gracias” and “Por favor.“. Along with every curse word in Spanish.

I’ve lived in other time zones....it didn’t help. Thanks for trying though, here’s your lovely parting gift. A years supply of Turtle Wax! Also a brand new turtle! Now you don’t have to go on line late at night......You can just sit in the dark and wax your turtle. Its quarter to six, things start to get a little stream of consciousness around now.

What does it say about us that we’re writing these at 2am?

Seth McFarland singing “Ain’t that a kick in the head” on YouTube. That’s the song Dean Martin sings in the original Ocean’s Eleven.

Thank you very much for letting us know that. I just watched them both. Wow.

I don’t remember the name of it but the one where Martin Landau plays a political defector placed in a booby-trapped room by his sadistic pursuer is a great nerve wracking story with a fantastic last line.

The best line ever on Third Rock From the Sun happened when the aliens were going to be inspected by their leader “The Big Giant Head” and went to meet him at the airport he comes out disheveled and played by William Shatner. They ask what happened and he tells them that he materialized on the plane and when he looked out the window “THERE WAS SOMETHING ON THE WING!!!!!” The audience cracks up, long, long, laugh. When it finally dies down John Lithgow’s character steps forward grabs him and says “THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME!!!!!” I don’t know exactly when the audience stopped laughing but I’m still chuckling.

Paladin of the Lost Hour was a short story by Harlan Ellison who was also a consultant on the show. I think they gave him the title of “Ombudsman”. I won’t go into the story itself so I don’t ruin it for anyone who hasn’t seen it. But I think it was wonderful. It also starred Danny Kaye in what I think was his final brilliant performance. I of Newton was one of the shorts the program used to fill time when the main story didn’t fill a full hour. A fine idea because it not only kept well written story’s from being padded to fill time but also gave us little nibbles like this which still gives me a thrill when I remember it. This one featured Ron Glass who later played Shepard Book on Firefly. Both are VERY worth the time it may take to find and watch.

“It’s a Good Life.” Agree with my choice or I’m sending you all to the cornfield. Before Billy Mumy was Will Robinson, before he was Lennier, he was the creepiest little kid in the world.

Puppies are easier to housebreak than children because when you rub a child’s face in it and smack ‘em with a newspaper people look at you funny.

This is a really cool looking item, but as a consumer what does this do for me and my game that say...six poker chips doesn’t. As a matter of fact you could use let’s say white chips to track the bullets in your six gun, red for the spare ammo in your gunbelt and blue ones for the bullets in your rifle. A GM could use separate piles to track the ammo for each member of the gang the heroes are fighting. All for a couple of bucks at the dollar store. Especially for a genre of gaming that’s not all that popular. And this is coming from someone who’s favorite genres are Superheroes, Pulp Heroes and Sci-Fi. None of which have the following of Fantasy/D&D. I don’t want to sound cruel but I’d rather point this out now rather than after you’ve sunk your savings as well as others into something that may not ever sell. Best of luck in this and all your other endeavors.