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Re: I am your NEMESIS! Having had more than a few arch-enemies in the past 19 years, the guy looking for one is nuts.

Re: How to present combat to new players Give them a boot to the head.

Re: Doesn't this sound like a gadgeteer villain idea to take over the world? Too late. Bill Gates has already done this one.

Re: Make a Green Lantern Oath It occurs to me that the classic Lantern oath has the exact right cadence that it can be sung to the tune of "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star."

Re: What do you call "Four Color"? To me, four colour means the comic book was printed using four colours of ink: yellow, magenta, cyan and black. Every other colour was generated by mixing the inks to varying degree. (Cyan and magenta are close enough to blue and red that this had led to the myth that red, blue and yellow are the "Primary Colours") I'd have to check at Quebecor to be sure, but I'm reasonably certain that colour comics are still printed using those four inks. What has changed is that it is no longer necessary to have four different printing plates for every page and to have each sheet of paper sent through the press four times. This change occurred sometime in the early 1990s. That said, I think the term "four-colour campaign" is a misnomer, as it refers to a magazine production process that was in use for over 50 years. As such, it could cover a lot of ground.

Re: Make a Green Lantern Oath In darkest night or brightest day, you do evil I'll make you pay 'cause I'm already to do that crime fightin' thing 'cause I gots me a Green Lantern ring.

Re: NND and Entangle The No Normal Defense Entangle made my head hurt. I think this is a case where mechanic was mis-reasoned from effect. It's presumably physical, rather than mental, but STR isn't the right characteristic to use to break out of it. Why not just use "Target breaks free with CON instead of STR" (+1/2) or maybe "BODY instead of STR"?

Re: The Classic Justice League starting members on 350 points No. He'd be fairly tough, but he could be rendered unconscious. And he had an Ego score. The Multiform with the Tornado Tyrant and Tornado Champion should be left out as it was a one-time plot gimmick. Perhaps Regeneration with a time delay, the Resurrection adder, and limitations about he must be reconstructed first. Either use Duplication (with the Very Different adders) to build the Professor, and make all of Firestorm's abilities "Not while duplicated." OR build them as two different characters. Build Firestorm as the Hero ID only form of Ronnie. Build the Professor's Hero ID with invisibility, desolidification, Mind Link (with Ronnie), and some serious Physical Limitations to reflect that he's really merged with Ronnie, and cannot roam about. Or make give the Professor a Multiform where his other form is an AI.

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Re: The Classic Justice League starting members on 350 points If she's willing to tnesnoc.

Re: Going from Champions to Mutants and Masterminds

Re: Going from Champions to Mutants and Masterminds You know, with out the parenthetical comment, that sentence looks like it has a typo in it.

Re: Can you see where I'm coming from? In my 21 years with the system, I have found that worrying overly much about the three sense special effect wasn't worth the time or effort. Basically, we just play that the use of powers is generally detectable. Almost always by sight. Any other sense groups we just let common sense guide us. Sonic powers can be heard. The use of heat/fire or electricity can be felt, even if one isn't the target. And we have a mage whose magical energy stinks. But we don't take the time to make sure there are three. If there are, great. If not... oh well.

Re: Continous *Continous* Damage Shield You have to bypass the current Damage Shield rules (which, IMO, are broken). I'd recommend building the attack with a Trigger (the trigger being whenever the character is touched) and let the "damage shield" aspect be a special effect.

Re: Hero System: Design and Intent Well, I'm pretty sure the original designers of the system were looking at the comics where the fights made up 19 of the 23 pages in a comic book. I, for one, think the system does a good job at including enough rules for different types of social interaction to be reflected, without being dependent on the PLAYER's acting ability, but not so many rules that they overwhelm a scene. I've run and been in combat-lite stories that were as much tabletop improv as anything. I'm glad the rules are there, when they're needed, but I'm glad they're also reasonably easy to let go of for long stretches.

Re: The Classic Justice League starting members on 350 points I'd like to see Katar Hol and Ralph Dibny, if just to see how you would differentiate them from Eel and Shayera.

Re: What ratio of superhumans to humans do you use? I've never bothered with such statistics. What constitutes a superhuman? If an individual has abilities that are superhuman, but is a hetero-sapien (i.e. an extra-terrestial; artificial intelligence; a super-smart, sapient collie; etc.) should they be counted for comparison purposes? They aren't really a super-human. The whole point is they aren't any kind of human, at all, super or otherwise.

Re: "Outsider" perspective on Hero System Sean wanted "taser dart and they are pretty much instantly unconscious (or incapacitated) for some time". "Some time" is vague. The range called "GM discretion" is certainly some time. It may be too much, but I erred on that side, rather than the "oh it won't knock him out long enough to be realistic" side. If it's too much, it can be scaled back. The +1/4 might be under priced, but I think +1/2 is over priced. And Hero doesn't allow for +3/8 Advantages. I don't have Grond's stats memorised, so I don't know how effective it would be on him. Assuming Grond has a 40 ED, he'd take 12-17 STUN per shot. He'd take about the same from a 4d6 NND attack (assuming he lacks the defense).

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Re: Paris Hilton as a super villain She's not already?

Re: Working with Multiform I've built and played a Captain Marvel pastiche using OHID.

Re: Designing Characters Excuse me, I have a plane to catch: +30 STR, no figured characteristics, only when trying to move very large vehicles (-1).

Re: Instant powers Naked Advanntage, Armor Piercing on x STR, Limited Power: Only vs Targets that have been fought for three consecutive phases (-1/2), requires an INT roll(-1/2).

Re: New Power: Width Increase Which begs the idea that the powers of Growth, Density Increase, and Shrinking shouldn't exist at all. The assorted miscellaneous game effects could still be bought separately, with the limitations of "Costs END" and/or "linked" and labeling the becoming temporarily big, small, or heavy "special effect." Probably coming in 6th Edition. But right now, they ARE (still) grouped together. And the "you can use the 'pre-existing grouping' if it's not permanent, but if it is permanent you can't, but you should use it as a guideline" rule does nothing but add complexity and restrictions to the rules.

Re: Resurrection, my players dislike it Hey, if someone took something of yours, without asking for it, would you want them to be able to keep it, even if you replaced it?