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There are a number of languages, or at least forms of communication, in existence that do not have all of the components of most languages. Ancient Egyptian has been largly translated, and people can learn to read it, but I don't know that anyone really knows how to speak it, or any other dead language. American Sign Language and other sign languages all have communication, meaning, grammar and syntax, but they have no written component. Semaphore and Morse Code are other weird cases. Should these types of "language" be bought as Languages (and if so, how) or should they just be Knowledge skills?

Re: Speaking of Languages In some games, it may be useful, but in my Champions game I find the Optional Language Chart to be more complex than its worth for the tiny numbers of changes it would entail. So I don't use that option.

Re: Elves Reminds me of the method to tell if one's bride is a virgin by painting ones naughty bits green and yellow. When she laughs ans says "that's the funniest pair of ***** I've even seen" you'll know she's been around.

Re: Sure signs that your player doesn't want to be in your 350 pt champions game. I couldn't rightly say. I do know said player was (is?) involved in an ungodly number of PBeMs. So it's certainly possible.

Re: AIs, automatons, etc. as PCs There was a character in one of the later 4th Ed. "Enemies" books, the Yeoman, which was essentially a free-willed android. There's a character in my campaign that's also essentially a free-willed android. Characters like Red Tornado and the Vision, from the comics are also that type of character. However, such characters should be built as normal characters, with Powers to represent their mechanical forms. An AI in a box, like say, ORAC, really should only be an NPC. Imagine the player's reaction when he realises no one picked up his character to take him along.

Re: Superhero Images As I said, "More's the pity."

Re: Ultimate Scrapper? Actually, the first comic hero who had super self-healing as a power is the Simonson/Goodwin Paul Kirk Manhunter. Who was a martial artist/weapon guy who had a schtick about getting better. But he still usually rested while he was doing it. But while Logan's actual defenses may be lower, but with a higher REC and Regeneration, the whole "I get hit, but I keep standing there fighting" is still a brick trait.

Re: What are _____ like in your game? Is this the group you and Savinien frequently regale me with stories about?

Re: Sure signs that your player doesn't want to be in your 350 pt champions game. Nope. Too beligerent of a player. Jim brought in the one character submitted to him. Player lasted for one session. Spun off into a different game, with a mostly different group of players. Lasted maybe four sessions there, before he just stopped showing up.

Re: Ultimate Scrapper? Perhaps Mystic and Gadgeteer are two subsets of the "Jack-of-All-Powers" archetype?

Re: Help with a name please The costume ain't to Silver Agey either. Very Bronze to Iron. And the full face mask. Not silver agey. Starman (yeah, I know) Morning Star (I used this one) Captain Star Mirster Stellar Hyperion (yeah, I know) Starlord Power Star Sam Solar

Re: Superhero Images So many straight lines, so little time.

Re: Superhero Comics & D&D Alignments While I'd agree for the Golden Age (Mr. I led the JSA for most of the 1940s) and Silver Age Hawkmen, I'd have to disagree in regards to the modern "Hawkman the Barbarian" character. I'd call him more Neutral Good.

Re: What are _____ like in your game? At one point I was contemplating a setting without traditional demi-humans, but where the Neanderthal didn't die out, and basically filled the "orc"/"goblin" role. I would have also set an island out beyond something akin to the Wallace Line and have a race of "halfling" akin to Homo floresiensis. I considered researching other proto-human races to fill in the "elf" and "dwarf" roles.

Re: Ultimate Scrapper? I'm old. When I started playing Champions, they only listed four archetypes: brick, martial artist, egoist, and energy projector. And the difference between a martial artist and a brick was how you avoided damage: a brick sucked it up; a martial artist avoided getting tagged. I'm glad Hero has expanded the list (though Patriot doesn't belong since any Patriot is going to be something else besides.) But I do think there's a danger of over-doing the quantification.

Re: Ultimate Scrapper? It was (at least) on the back of a Marvel Treasury Edition (those big tabloid sized reprint books) dedicated to Spider-Man.

Re: Sure signs that your player doesn't want to be in your 350 pt champions game. I was (am) running the super-team that fills the RCU's Avengers/JLA niche. Savinien was running the ex-government supers vs government conspiracy group. Another friend, Jim, was running a small-team-trying-to-protect-a-city campaign. We met one would-be player who submitted a character to each of us. A good Avenger/JLAer type to Savinien. The ex-military super, to Jim, and the lesser-powered works-best-with-a-small-team guy to me. I swear it's like he had three characters that would fit well in three games, and he rotated each one GM to the right.

Re: Sure signs that your player doesn't want to be in your 350 pt champions game. Why can't we shoot those players?

Re: Elves But can elves bake cookies, still? Make toys working as slave labour for some fat dude with a fondness for venison?

Re: Ultimate Scrapper? Spider-Man is pretty much a reverse of the hybrid of the archetypes. Webbing not withstanding, he has Brick-like attacks, but defensive abilities like a martial artist.

Re: Are HERO gamers more wedded to more "realistic" game physics? BBB was realeased August 1989.

Re: Elves Which would still hurt like the dickens. Unless you're Uncle Scrooge McDuck.

Re: Ultimate Scrapper? My guess would be it's not gone into more detail because such a character is a hybrid of archetypes. He has Brick-like defenses, but attack abilities like a martial artist or perhaps a weapons master.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Superman Returns soundtrack

Re: Elves