Willpower

This is a pretty cool tool, though it doesn't have nearly enough bodysuit options. I had to make mine a solid color. I can throw it into photoshop and fix that, but most of my players can't.

So Foreman doesn't even use the Precognition power? Ok, I can see all that to simulate it then. That's pretty cool cause, as I said the actual precognition gets pretty expensive and its hard to quantify what it would do for you. Though I disagree that precog would not help him make a free throw. He goes to shoot, sees that he misses and pauses, dribbles once, goes up again and starts to attempt it again. Swoosh.

I'm just gonna shut up bout this now.

I don't want to push my luck so I edited this. I will just shut up about this issue now. People always just jump to defense on this site anyway and I don't want to get booted again. Still not buying Hero though. M&M is awesome.

Vondy, I know. To be clear, I never accused anyone of Plagarism. I said it is similar. Plagarism is taking someone else's work and saying it is yours. I was just talking about an idea. And this was WAY before 6th Ed.

Vondy, I agree with you. And I freely admit there were times when I was suspended (banned is too strong a word, I wasn't actually banned, just had privileges revoked for a few days I think once for a few weeks) where I deserved it. But other times (and most times) where on other sites I never would have been, and didn't deserve it. I also agree to give credit to where it is due and though I still have not bought a thing from Hero in years, I recently looked at Champions Complete and was tempted. I like a lot of what I saw in there, and was pleasantly surprised that some of the rumors I heard (like adding a 4th die to the resolution mechanic) weren't true. I have to say Steve did good here. Though, I have to add, as I mentioned in my first post he, himself has not always been that good at doing just that. Even upon receiving proof that I had suggested to Steve directly the ideas that they ended up using, no one at Hero would even suggest to say well it was a good idea. They insisted that they came up with it independently, which may be the case, though with giving the exact same idea to the creator who shot down said idea, only to have himself a few months later does not sound like coming up with it independently. At best it sounds as if he the thought came too him later again in a way that would work how he originally said it wouldn't (though I suggested how they would originally) and he may have forgotten the part where the idea came from someone else. To those that, that sounds reasonable too though, I reiterate, if it were a legal case, where you plagiarized without remembering you did so (again, not claiming this is the case, only comparing it) you would still be found guilty.

Greywind, Sorry, you weren't there. That may be your opinion, but its just not the fact. Maybe it is better now. Hopefully. In the past, I had said just a few minor negative things, had pages of responses telling me I should find a new system, because I was looking for a house rule for a perceived flaw. Or told much worse. And when I would say something as simple as the dreaded L word. (lemmings) I would get banned. Not really banned. That maybe too strong of a word. I would be put on suspension and not allowed to post for a few days to a few weeks. Now imagine my shock when instructed by the powers that be at Hero that me suggesting people blindly following them can be compared to lemmings is WORSE than others telling me I should kill myself because I don't like something with the rules and asking if anyone else felt the same way and had a work around.

Seen X-Men First Class? Grappling would work great if you can forcibly teleport someone with you. Port in, Grab X, port up 40 inches with X, port back down without X. X takes maximum velocity impact damage upon arrival. Completely nullified with flight however.

Without anything else. I have no idea what this would do, other than allow you to react to what the opponent is planning on doing instead of not knowing. Trust me, this by itself ROCKS. (I see him winding up for a big blow so instead of going defensive like I was going to do, I instead make a break for the door and hit the alarm panel knowing I won't be there when his reach into Cleveland is finished.)

These are all good suggestions, however, I usually determine with the immense cost associated with Precognition built like this (80 AP, and that's not counting if you want to hear as well as see) that some of this stuff should be gimmies. For instance. By seeing a few seconds in the future if you are searching a building and about to go through a door, once you open the door you will know if there is someone on the other side, or if you are going to activate a claymore or something. So with Precognition and making a perception roll, you should know this and hence know if you have to open the door, or if there is immediate danger beyond the door or whatever. You can simulate this with things like Danger Sense and N-Ray vision so you can scan the room before going through, however, that is sort of ALL implicit in the Precognition in the first place, so I don't think you would need it, since you bought a power that cost 4 times what any of those other powers cost already. PS. Likewise with things like Demolitions, you know that if you cut that red wire things will blow up, so DON'T CUT THE RED WIRE. Can easily work with overall levels based on anything that Precog would help with. I do use that, though it almost shouldn't be needed for some things.

Yeah I thought of that too. Though it is not giving me exactly what I want. I actually do have this too though. I have purchased a multi-gun which does many different types of attacks. Right now I have the empowerment set as a VPP which is limited to buying up to +3 DC of damage with up to a +1 advantage on it. With my multigun, it works out to a good attack, though not overpowering. Though I did want the attack to be set to increase an existing attack, so if I was somewhere without my equipment and I picked up a gun, I could still do better than others with whatever weapon I picked up, though not necessarily as good as if I had my gun, or if I were to get behind the controls of say a ships artillery gun, I would do better with it than other gunners and it would do even more damage than others using the gun. I suppose the way I have it built is the best way I can mimic that. Though Aid would work, if I could make it automatic, say adding a trigger or something. Would still be more expensive though.

I looked at aid. It actually costs more to do the same thing and does it worse. Because whenever you switch weapons you would have to take several rounds charging up the weapon in order to get the maximum benefit from the effect. This would work great if you were charging them based on a power, sort of like Gambit, only if he used an actual weapon instead of cards. Does not work so well if it is based off someone that is based on incredible skill with the weapon, like Bullseye. My idea is someone that is so skilled he can use a pistol to disable a tank, cause he just knows how to strike things to get maximum damage allowing him to damage things others would think were impossible. As I mentioned, it sounds a lot like Find Weakness, but I want it more instinctual than that. Not necessarily based on determining the weakness of a target, but just knowing how to use the gun to do more damage.

Frankly speaking, it depends largely on the writer for almost any particular character. It also depends on your personal definition of liberal and conservative. To many Conservative means not caring, big business and all sorts of other nonsense. To others, it means being responsible for your own actions. Though even those conservatives that are the most right wing still believe in sticking up for others less fortunate, which means those that can't fight for themselves. It is the worst diatribe that thinks conservatives don't think society should help no one. They simply think it is not the responsibility of society to do so, particularly when they can help themselves. Likewise, to many liberals mean the taking money from those who earn it to give it to those that just want to sit on their butts all day and all sorts of other nonsense. To others it means, society should work somewhat like a family, with those capable of better taking care of themselves and others doing so and giving a portion of that which they have more of to those less fortunate and less able to take care of themselves. Both sides have nonsense declared about them both to the far left and the far right. The truth of that matter is that, the nonsensical portions of both sides DO in fact exist, but DO NOT in fact make up the largest proportion of either side. For the nonsensical liberal, there are those out their perfectly able to work, who sit around and let society do it for them, even though they could do better for themselves if they would just try. My uncle is a case for that. He has a 180 IQ, and can type 90words per minute. Though he is a strong liberal and an alcoholic. He has no trouble getting a job, he just loses it shortly after, because he goes on drinking binges after he gets paid and doesn't show up for a week. He knows how to work the public welfare system though, so he either fakes illnesses, or exaggerates existing illnesses. For those that ask, how I know this. As I said, he is my uncle, family knows things. For the nonsensical conservatives, those who pinch every penny, pay anyone that has the misfortune to work for them less than they are worth, and do whatever they can to hide money from the government. Many of these will be employers that will take anyone working currently at full time status, and turn them all into part time workers so they will not have to pay for their healthcare. Though not everyone who does this will fit into that category. I am undecided if Green Arrow is truly a liberal or not though. I think that he is the case of someone who looks out for the little guy, though that concept can be liberal or conservative. The rest for him I think depends on who is writing him, and what the company itself out and out says about him if any declaration is actually made. Though, there are plenty of times when people think they are one political persuasion when in fact they act another. My ex-wife's family for instance, and devout democrats, however when I speak to them about any political issues, they always end up on the conservative side. They are home owners, and they have a bit of wealth, and they are against people taking what they have. That by itself does not make them conservatives, but the choices they make based on those principles put them more often than not on the conservative side of most bills. They always vote for democratic candidates however.

I understand about fanboy or fangirl for that matter defensiveness. I've been on the receiving end more than once. Anytime you indicate that something in the Hero system isn't completely optimal, even though you specify was the best system (and is now only one of the better systems out there). People come out of the woodwork and start yelling at you. I've called them lemmings. I've been banned for that in the past. I've also been banned for responding in kind after someone has yelled at me for page after page of repsonses. They never got banned for that, but when I say something even something tame in response then I get banned. Yes those who own the Hero system tends to take good care of the boot lickers. I will probably be banned for this, because this website does not believe in free speech. That's ok. I've left this game before for YEARS. Not for being banned, but for the reasons I was banned. I've been around the Hero System since 2nd edition, so even longer than you, but that does not matter, unless I am constantly spouting about how they can do no wrong. I've been banned before for stating the fact that I was the one that gave the meaning for the first Anagram for FREd. It was shortly before 5th edition was launched, They displayed the cover and people were psyched. Someone asked Steve Long, what we were going to call the new edition, and Steve said, "You can call it Fred for all I care." I jumped on it and said, "OK, FREd it is. Fifth Rules Edition. It caught on, though it is forgot now, because before the year was out they revised the fifth rules, and the anagram became "Fifth Revised Edition" or FREd still. After that happened, I brought that out, some fanboys disagreed with it, cause there memories are about as long as their fingernail, so I posted a link to the original forum post. (Which you cannot do now, since they are all gone.) Boy that made them mad, cause they couldn't say I was wrong anymore. So I got banned again. The time I decided to leave, probably about 10 years ago now, was after they produced The Ultimate Mastermind. That was an idea they stole from me. Which is too strong, it is an idea I gave them. Steve Long had posted asking for ideas for new Ultimate books. They had a couple at the time and were expanding based off their success. I posted several. Two of which were the Ultimate Energy Projector and the Ultimate Mastermind. Both of which Steve responded too saying they were too genre specific and wouldn't work for the series, since they were trying to make something that worked in more than the super hero genre. I responded that I could see the point with the Energy Projector one, though commented that Energy projectors exist in Fantasy as well. I did not see the point for the Ultimate Mastermind though, cause there are masterminds in every adventure based genre. Steve disagreed, I said OK, and things went on, until they came out with both of them. I commented on the fact that I came up with those ideas, and Steve shot them down. They denied it. Again I posted proof, and they used a lame excuse about them not being able to remember everything that was suggested to them, and that they came up with it on their own. I never asked for anything as simple as even a mention in the book. Cause it was never suggested that that would ever happen. I just wanted a public acknowledgement on the forum, that I suggested it and they printed it, especially since it was publically broadcast that my ideas weren't right for the book series. Technically, had this been a trial for plagiarism, which I want to make known, it is not, the excuse that they didn't remember an idea they were presented with, and came up with it on there own would not hold water, once proof was given that it had been presented to them previously. I wasn't going for any of that though. I just wanted someone to say, 'I guess it was a good idea, cause we used it.' But didn't get that, I got banned again instead for being wronged by the company. So they lost me and all my money since then. I have not bought one thing. I didn't even play the game anymore because of it. I am only back now because someone I know wants to play a Silver Avenger in a game. I actually like M&M a lot better anyways now. So if they want to ban me again for telling the truth, then good for them. You all will see if that happens and you can see if you want to give your money to a company that would behave in such a say to a fan that had been with them for over 30 years. I'll post again in two days on this page if I can, if not, you'll know why.

What books are those in?