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Re: Name help - Magnetic armor-guy

The Refridgerator

Re: Defences against the stun of KAs

That's a statistic, as in the third type of untruth after "lies" and "damned lies".

If I roll 1 die 5 times, and get 1 on the first roll, 2 on the second, 3 on the third, 4 on the 4th, and 5 on the fifth. On the sixth roll, what is the likelihood that a 6 will come up.

1 in 6. A die has no memory.

Re: Lame Superhero Rollcall

The lamest super heroes in comics are Oracle, Professor X (Charles Xavier), and the Chief (Niles Caulder of the Doom Patrol).

However, I believe "self-mobility impaired" would be the more P.C. term.

Re: Defences against the stun of KAs

I've not seen a problem with it either. In fact there was a player in one game I was in who got frustrated because he was playing this clawed demon brick, and he always went to the claws (HKA) first and several phases would finally give in and punch.

Re: Decoupling Movement from Speed or Segement moviement

No house rules, sorry.

As a personal rule, though, I keep a close eye on the number of inches of running and SPD. A 4 SPD person, with just the base 6" of running can run a mile in about 3 minutes 21 seconds. At 7" we get 2 minutes and 52 seconds. I'm not sure what the world's record is for running the mile is, but I know four minutes used to be some kind of benchmark for it.

Re: A fistful of Comeliness rules

Well done. I'm not sure if I'll be able to use all of these ideas, but certainly some of them.

Re: Defences against the stun of KAs

On a semi-related note, do any of you remember how in some old supplements (most notably Aaron Allston's Strike Force) how there were characters with "bullet proof spandex" bought as Damage Resistance?

Granted this was back in the days when Damage Resistance was bought either "half" or "full". I sometime wonder how that compares to Armor for modeling the effects of some types of body armour.

Re: Defences against the stun of KAs

As far as the option Marcdoc put forth a few posts up goes, I think it sounds interesting, and at least worth considering. I do have a question about it.

How would one explain why, for example, an armoured medieval knight would be in more pain from someone hitting him with a 5 lb. club than the same someone hitting him with a 5 lb. sword? If the armour is thick enough, he'd possibly take no stun from the sword blow, but the club might still do STUN damage.

Re: Still looking for original character sheets

They'll load, but they take a while. They're pretty big files.

Re: Lame Superhero Rollcall

a woman able to retain water at super hero levels

I've known too many women who claimed to have that power... for three or four days a month.

Re: Unity vs Your Super Team

Without seeing Unity's write-ups, I can't make a well-informed assessment. But the team I run has a dozen active members, including several in the 600-750 point range, and the set-up doesn't say how much of my team shows up. So, I'd guess, probably the CoJ would win.

Re: A character in search of a name

These two should team up and we can get Hot and Moist.

Re: Still looking for original character sheets

Wow. I'd never seen that style sheet before.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

>le sigh< It's always something, isn't it?

 

Okay, one more bit of nostalgia before I turn in for the evening. Anybody remember the cover art from Champions Third Edition? Here's my interpretation.

 

(The guy in green was the hardest to do, and he still doesn't look right. I didn't see any better way to do the 'V' on his cowl, other than pixel by pixel in MS Paint. The yellow splash on his neck and chest didn't turn out very well, either. I did manage to get the fire-lady's magic window, though, and the tough guy in the middle was a breeze.)

Cool.

Re: whatever happened the STRIKE FORCE?

Methinks the Main Man is discussing a different Strike Force.

Re: A Comeliness for Every Sense Group

Not really: someone with a nice personality wouldn't necessarily be attractive to the mental sense group' date=' and vice versa. I'm not sure whether they would even correlate.[/quote']

 

What does mental sense detect if not personalities interacting with other personalities, just in a direct, rubber science kind-of-way?

 

An outwardly pleasant personality would be attractive to the mental sense group. An outwardsly harsh and bullying personality would not be attractive.

 

The fact that people can project an outward personality that is different from their inner personalities is why we have actors and sociopaths.

Re: Multipower Variable Slot Question

yes' date=' It Can. It's Not Book-legal According To 5er, But That's A Completely Illogical Ruling That Deserves To Be Crossed Out With A Black Magic Marker. If You Pay For The Flexibility Of Multi Slots In Order To Use Multiple Slots At Once (that's What "multi" Stands For, After All), Then You Ought To Be Able To Do So. Sometimes I Think That The Reason Steve Doesn't Justify His Rule Design Decisions, Is Because They Can't Be Justified. (ok, That's Harsh, I Know. I Agree With Most Of His Rulings, But This Particular One Makes No Sense At All, So I Say Ignore It.)[/quote']

 

Amen!

Re: A Comeliness for Every Sense Group

"She's really attractive to the mental sense group" sounds like gamerese for "She has a nice personality."

Re: Defences against the stun of KAs

Killing Attacks are assumed to have some kind of attribute that makes muscle, bone, fat and flesh ineffective as defenses against them. Muscle, bone, fat and flesh can defend against blunt ("normal damage") attacks.

The basic assumption is that resistant defenses effectively blunt the stun damage.

A bullet that hits me in the chest is going to rip through the muscle, fat, and flesh and maybe hit a lung or my heart. A bullet that hits my flack vest, is very likely to hurt, but the tightly bound kevlar fibres distribute the force over a larger area.

A sword to my head is going to cut me open. If I'm wearing a helm, the impact may still make my head ring, but that's from the helmet striking the whole side of my face., not from a cut.

A laser will cut right through me. I can run my unshielded hand through an open flame. I put my gauntleted hand in the flame, and if I'm unlucky, the gauntlet will heat up. You shoot a laser at the gauntlet, and the gauntlet heats uo before the laser cuts through.

Re: Energiser Bunny Effect

Why do I have Chumba Wumba's one hit running through my head now.

And this guy also kind of reminds me of Mr. Immortal from the Great Lakes Avengers/X-Men/Initiative.

Re: A Comeliness for Every Sense Group

Over priced???

Re: Always on for size and/or density altering powers

So far, I've found the piecemeal approach to be cheaper than the intuitive approach.

But then again, the fact that the book says "you shouldn't use the intuitive approach" has seemed, since 5e came out, very bizarre and kludgy. I mean, 5e introduced the "inherent" advantage, but then the main group of powers that were often built with 0 End, Persistent, and Always On that could really use the inherent advantage, we're told not to use.

That made no sense.

Re: is having DNPC as follower legal

I'd not allow a follower to also be the character's DNPC.

What I would allow, however, is the character to take a Psychological Limitation to reflect the strong emotional attachment that exists between the "leader" and the follower. e.g. Psych. Lim: Loves Wiskey as if the dog were his own child.

Re: Completely Undetectable

And if there is supposed to be a way to tell the difference between the real thing and the imposter' date=' I'm not sure that ability to play the saxaphone would be enough of a hint. While that GM might have thought he was being clever, it's not hard to imagine that that solution would never in a million years come up to the players.[/quote']

 

It wasn't whether or not we could jump on that particular clue or not. There's often a risk when setting up clues. In this case such a ridiculous omission that I'd rejected out of it out of hand. This was prior to the '92 election; the whole country knew, by then, that Mr. Clinton played the sax. That Viper would have a Clinton-clone that couldn't play the sax would be like making a left-handed clone of a right-handed person.

 

But the real problem wasn't the "can we think of the clue." It was that we had multiple mentalists scanning BOTH brains. That NONE of them could notice the difference in the two brains? Basically, the clue was undetectable through means that it should have been detected, except for the one precise path, to that clue, the GM wanted us to follow.

 

If he had said "Fantastic Girl, something seems off in the part of the brain where his musical skills should be" when Fantastic Girl was doing the telepathic scans, then it would've been better.

Re: Completely Undetectable

It *might* be in bad form.

If the character actually has Shape Shift, Images, or Invisibility vs the affected special senses, then it's less likely to be in bad form...

If several characters have Shape Shift, Images, or Invisibility vs the affected special senses, then it's probably bad form.

If the "exploitable weakness" makes no sense, then it's bad form.

I've been there.

Viper had a clone of Bill Clinton. The Defenders had both the clone and the real WJC. The cloning process was apparently perfect. No differences in any bit of DNA. The duplication of knowledge/brain patterns was likely a perfect match, enough to fool our team's mentalist, and every other mentalist in every other team the Defenders were on speaking terms with. There was no way we could tell the two apart. Except...

The clone couldn't play the saxophone, because apparently that's where his "I secretly work for Viper" information was stored.

Somehow, no mentalist, with any level of telepathy could find this out, but if we had them both try to play the sax...

It was the weakest damned story I'd ever played in.