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Except that limitation isn't so heavy if the character can make anything a cat.

The limitation on one Power set doesn't take into effect other Powers or skills that a Character might have. That's the loophole that the player in question discovered.

Hero's greatest strength is also unfortunatly it's biggest drawback. The system is so versatile that within a large group of players and GM's (like I started off playing with many years ago) some will become so proficient with the rules that characters became too efficient with very few points.

I knew a player who had a character named Cat Master with only two abilitys.

1). A large VPP with the heavy limitation that it only affected cats.

2). A Transform attack that turned anything into a cat. Cars, buildings, villains, other PC's, the planet Earth....

All he had to do was do the transform, perform whatever voodoo he wanted, and then so it would leave the door open for himself next time, not really turn anything or one back, but just an illusion that made it or them look like they did before.

An extreme example, and the player only ran him a few times and then retired him to NPC status. The point is though that unless a GM is willing to drop the hammer on a player for being too smart or too creative (and may not even have that option if it's a multi GM game) it becomes easy for one or two bad apples to bend flexible rules.

P.S. I learned to play Champions at the M.I.T. Strategic Games Society. Everyone of 'em one lab accident away from super powers.

Just because the Emperor's visions put together the people and missions doesn't mean the PC's ever actually have any contact with him. Especially if these are covert missions against rebellious factions of the Lanstraad.

Ya know... Looking at that paragraph, I just realized I just created a evil Super-Agent game for Star Wars.

If you want to GM a game set in the Dune universe, what about a team of operatives put together by the Emperor Paul I composed of different facets of the Empire. A Freman warrior, a Bene Geseret, a former Sadukar trooper, a Mentat assassin, a pilot of the Imperial Navy and so on. Diercted on secret missions by the Emperor shown to him in prophetic visions.

Of course it would have to be called..." On His Majesty's Secret Sevice."

It seems like such a NPC thing for a villian to have so why does it actually NEED a write-up and if it's for a PC then let the GM take all the points in the character and apply it to a creative way to mess with the characters who get cursed.

Either way no special write-up is needed. If this is just being done as an exercise in game mechanics than that's a horse of a different color.

Paul is a NPC, built on at least 250 pts. Everybody else is a super-agent probably built around 75 - 100 points.

The Strangers were one of the teams but the idea was that EVERY paranormal in that universe was someone from that cable car. Prime, Night Man all of them and all the villains.

Either developing their powers then and there at the start or later after some triggering event. Most living in San Francisco but others were tourists or there on business and went back to their home cities.

They do, it's called Strike Force.

Nah, I want the recovery of the Wasp to be linked to either the introduction of The Micronauts, or part of The Hulk's Jarella & the micro-verse movie.

Malibu comics had as a basis for paranormals a San Francisco Cable Car full of people exposed to a white event.

Heroes, Villains, entire teams all from one origin.

Hank Pym (Ant-Man/Yellowjacket) did that for a while during his run with the West Coast Avengers while he was between hero ID's. No costume, just a jumpsuit with lots of pockets to hold all the usefull items & equptment he'd shrunk beforehand. I think that's where they got the idea for the tank keychain in the movie.

Write it up as a small VPP with a list of say 20 or so everyday items. An armored car down to handcuffs.

The Blue Knight. It references both the shield and a connection to the police force.

With a nod to Cancer, I'll say,

"Lots and lots of booze."New Topic; Foxbat has now been spotted at BOTH the Republican Convention and the Democratic Convention. How does this fit into his Master Plan © ?

My comments we're in reference to this, not the pizza line of comments that came after. If I have anyone on "Ignore" on this site it's by mistake. And if anyone had a question about anything I posted, why didn't you just message me?

The Surbrook's Stuff website does a very fine group of BtVS characters in it's TV section and a Alice Liddle the Vampire Slayer elsewhere. It should have all you need.

...And always remember, the words of Rupert Giles. "Don't speak Latin in front of the books."

OK, somehow, I'm not sure why, I'm only just now discovering Larry Correia's Monster Hunters International series.  I'm not sure why it took me so long.  I blame you other people on the forum.  

 

Got the first two books on audiobook, about 1/3 of the way through the first book.  Thank God for my daily three hour round trip commute (Boston traffic SUCKS).

HEY!!! Somebody else from the Hub of the Universe! Right now I'm stuck out in western Mass near Springfield. Where you at?

To do system to system damage match-ups I like to check the weapon lists in both books. If one says that a sawed off shotgun does two D4 damage and the other says it does "Remarkable" damage then you have a baseline for comparison.

Matching up a number of weapons that you have a basic idea of how much force have in the real world will give you an idea of what that means in both systems.

If you watch with your hands covering your eyes and only peeking through your fingers you can try the Frank Miller version of The Spirit.

I remember the show well. My mom had a crush on Ross Martin, so she never minded me watching it on reruns even though it was a little too old for me.

Get a hold of Strike Force. The best instructional book (for any game system or genre) on how to run a long playing campaign, types of players and the care & feeding there of. In either the original version or the new.

That was no more "cheating" than using a GM's screen to keep nosy players from looking over to see how well or badly you rolled.

The only dishonest thing would be if you skipped over low numbers to get high ones.

A good GM can be Evil but they must be Lawfull Evil.

"To live outside the law-You have to be honest". Bob Dylan

Both have quills.

 

Lucius Alexander

 

Neither has a palindromedary, usually

Both also have legs, but Carroll never put the answer he wanted in the book, which goes to my original point about not letting the player's search for an answer bog down the game in progress.

Skip going for a descriptive name somebody else would choose for him. Work on what this guy would call himself.

How does he see himself and his creations? If he's a Southerner with a battle-suit and a sense of history how about Stonewall after the Ironclad ship named after the General.

If he sees himself as more of an action hero how about something like Capt. Science! (ALWAYS spelled with at least one exclamation point!)

A lot of gadgeteer/weird science characters just use their titles and names like Doc Savage, Prof. Haley from the Challengers of the Unknown, Adam Strange, or Dr.Doom.

What the answer is isn't important.

Does the GM want the players to give the correct answer? If yes, than whichever of these they come up with is the correct one, Ta-Daa!! And the story goes on. If the story is about what happens after the characters get the answer wrong, than no matter what brilliant piece of Philosophy they come up with is wrong.

A good GM, like a good magician doing a card trick always give the audience the illusion of choice while keeping control of the situation without letting them see it.

Besides if the spirit is truly mischievous, he'll probably have an answer that makes no sense at all anyway.

Remember Lewis Carroll asked " How is a Raven like a writing desk?" and never did supply an answer. People are still turning their brains to taffy trying to come up with an answer for that one.

Oh yeah, I'm sure the back room discussions there were hot & heavy for several years, and it's not like Marvel was in any way reluctant to do a Spidey movie. I'm just pointing out that as I understand it Sony still retains a good deal of creative, distribution decisions, etc, so there may have been an element of of "If we're going to do this, we have to do it soon" involved. Plus let's be honest, even the lowest-grossing Spidey movie is a guaranteed money-maker, so from a business standpoint they'd be fools not to run with it.

 

 

I can't find a bunch of specific quotes, since the Intertubes are all full of the latest news that Greywind posted. Basically ever since Iron Man 2 whenever Feige has been asked about it he gushes about how great Johannsen is and how awesome a BW solo movie would be and how much he'd reeeeealy love to see it...but they just can't make it work for reasons that are never explained. Seriously he sounds like a guy saying "I'd love to do it but the boss won't let me," which is an odd thing to hear coming from the %$#@*%!! Studio President. I just feel like if it was as simple as a scheduling problem, they would've said so instead of dancing around it like that.

 

 

Yay! Tho I'll be more excited when we actually get dates attached...

The truth about the Black Widow movie probably goes something like this... Marvel can commit it's resources at any time to one of two projects the first would be something that their Marketing Research Dept. says will make them a boatload of money or a film that people say they want but is of a type that usually fails at the box office.

The films Salt, Hanna, Lucy and not to mention Ghostbusters all were failures as far as the studios were concerned. I personally love Action Spy movies in general(I even liked Man from UNCLE) and have a crush on Scarlett Johansson that makes me see even the crappy Woody Allen ones she's in so I would without doubt go to a Black Widow movie, but I don't think they're going to make it just for me.

Good intentioned people will sign petitions and demonstrate for all kinds of things, but when it comes to putting their money or votes where their mouth is... It can get awfully lonely out there.

Robert Heinlein once wrote "When ever you ask yourself "why do they do something" the answer is always money." Some may call that statement harsh, but I've always found it to be accurate and the best way to deal with any situation is with the truth.

Movie companies are in business to make money and have the general moral fiber of a Sewer Rat and if movies with Female Action or Multi-Cultural leads made money for them they would paint Tom Cruise and tell the the Hollywood press he was a African/Chinese/Lesbian all along.

The only thing that'll get BW or a Capt.Marvel movie made is if they think the fans will see any Marvel movie no matter what and if it does well enough then they might take a chance on others, but until then.

If they get done you can bet that they'll have a strong male Co-Star to make the big shots feel better.