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Re: golden age brought forword Science: It would seem that super science would be both common place and rare at the same time. Police with Laser Stun Pistols and rocket packs but computers remain mysterious devices few have access to. Racism: Groups should contain members of different races who may be as competent or more so than the Caucasian members ... ahem... despite their racial handicaps, which may be pointed out by other members of super teams. I would look to characters like Black Vulcan and Apache Chief for inspiration here. Pulp Age Tone: The Pulp era dealt a lot mystery, be it crime drama or exploration. Here I think information sharing should be scarce at best and this may force you to consider how information is distributed. Heroes of this world would likely have minor powers or no powers at all but are able to put information together allowing them to serve where the police cannot. I would say part of this may be more of a Space Opera but I got the impression you wanted to keep the setting more terrestrial based. Golden Age Tone: Here is a place where one can take some radical departures while keeping the same feel. The world may simply be something black and white. However, adding details such as state run or controlled media and labor camps to aid the poor we get to glance over the negative side of life and instantly add a conflict for players. There are other forms of control that might be used such as medication or a truly authoritarian government that cannot be questioned.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Attack of the Clone****** - Schaffer the Darklord

Re: Saiki, Leader of Thirteen Cuts (Villain) The statistical average is 3.5 per die but using the Standard effect in Hero Designer it only gives you 3 per die. Since Saiki is designed to be a villain I used the standard effect in several places to make math easier and to remove some of the overhead from the GM.

Recently I was toying around with some ideas from the villain powers thread and came up with an idea for a kind of escalating threat character. The Saiki is designed to be a threat to a team of heroes with a little aid from his gang. With one or two low level thugs Saiki should pose a fairly intimating threat to a team. To increase his deadliness consider adding Power Defense to resist Drains and Transforms. Hope you enjoy.

Re: Lame or awesome? I like to call that Tuesdays.

Re: Lame or awesome? Okay, and for my inner geek statement Cthulhu is not a sea creature disputed what later publications said. If he was why would it be imprisoned under water and need others to free it?

Re: Lame or awesome? From Lame to Awesome I think Bionic Commando has some room to shine here. Basic premise: Robotic Claw: Stretching: Only one arm. Expanding on the basic idea we also get: Swinging, Claw out swing across retract claw. Enhanced Strength, it's a robot hand, nuff said. Limited Armor, using the robotic arm to block.

Re: Lame or awesome? From the description if you wanted to add some creep factor might do some Presence for Pre attacks only for when he summons his rodent hoards then do a second Pre in the same way Linked to armor: Cloak of Rats. No one wants to get near that guy.

Re: Lame or awesome? How do they have time to do any hero work?

Re: The Golden Apple I do believe I'm obligated to give this over to the pettiest one. This may or may not start the Trojan war.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Mourning Air - Portishead

Re: Whirlwind Pyramid (a.k.a. Tornado Fighter) attack: how would you write this up? This could simply be a flight linked the power.

Re: Whirlwind Pyramid (a.k.a. Tornado Fighter) attack: how would you write this up? Whirlwind Pyramid: Energy Blast 8d6, Hole In The Middle (+1/4), Explosion (+1/2), Double Knockback (+3/4) (100 Active Points); No Range (-1/2), Requires A Skill Roll (Teamwork; -1/2), Limited Power Power loses about a third of its effectiveness (Must be used in conjunction with other team members Whirlwind Pyramid; -1/2), Gestures (Requires both hands; -1/2) Real Cost: 33 This build represents the a basic power each of the team members would purchase. Using the teamwork rules the 8d6 is enough to send just about anything flying when all 5 members are in the pyramid. The GM may rule that they can combine their damage total for things like breaking barriers as they do things like easily shred through steel plate but when used against oppentes it doesn't seem to have this destructive an effect. I might allow this with a custom +1/2 Advantage. That wold bring the finial cost to: Active Cost: 120 Real Cost: 40. Members of the team would likely need Teamwork skills in the low to mid twenties to pull this off consistently. That doesn't seem to be out of line for the characters.

Re: Nothing can stop me now! "Yes strike me, attack me, your anger fuels me and I shall destroy you with it!" For whatever reason I was thinking about how one would incorporate the Rope-A-Dope into super heroic gaming. Your Anger Fuels me without supporting powers is really only good against melee type characters. However, by adding something like Armor Only when blocking it becomes much more viable for Super heroic games.

Re: Screenshots Rise from your grave....

Re: Music-themed groups There's always Kissmyanthia.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie And The Banshees

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Stars & Stripes - KMFDM Edit: Gamer typo...

Re: The Boys Isn't that Lightning Reflexes? Edit: Based on what I know it may be worth giving them +1 Speed (Limited: Only for Attacks)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Kiss (Original Version) - London After Midnight

Re: "The Inquision Is Come" Just saying.

Re: The Brick is now a dinosaur Bricks by their nature were the most point efficient build. Bricks relied on core characteristics that few into important figured characteristics as RockSunner pointed out you got a lot more out than what you put in. Now you simply have to buy everything for the character that is important, the catch here is so does everybody else. I'm just not seeing this as a nerf.

Re: The Brick is now a dinosaur I think this may be overstating a perceived problem and not so much a real one. Bricks, especially well designed bricks seemed far more efficient than almost any other type of character. By focusing on their strengths they received bonuses to all their secondary abilities where other character types effectively lived in a vacuum. One can argue that things like Elemental Controls and other Frameworks worked to off set this cost discrepancy however, there was nothing preventing Bricks from buying stats in the same fashion. It looks more like they evened the playing field than sent the old model to the scrapyard, especially considering the starting point values seem to have been adjusted.

Re: The Boys For those who have any questions about Ennis's feelings towards mainstream comics. I would advise The Pro and the Spiderman "team-up" issue from the Welcome Back Frank Punisher storyline. Both are rather amusing and this helps to temper what reads like an unabashed loathing of mainstream comics. - - - As for the Boys issue it sounds like a moderately power level game. In 5th Ed Rev. I would recommend something along the lines of a 250 game maybe 100 + 150 in Disadvantages to represent the flawed nature of the characters. This may include a 10 - 12 DC cap and Defenses around 20 - 25 PD and 10 - 15 rPD. This should simulate the larger than life nature, being able to shrug off most small arms fire and super powered characters with attacks that are better but not vastly so. Additionally from what I understand of the Boys NPC supers would cover a much wider point range. - - - PS: Have I mentioned the ranking out and killing of a gay super hero for what appeared to be a cheap gerbil joke? At one point I was a fan of Garth Ennis having only read Preacher. Now that I've been going back and reading older Hell Blazer I realized that a lot of his plots including the central story and character origin had all been recycled. As a writer he seems to rely on the same couple of tricks to put together stories and as his writing progressed post Preacher it would seem this has only gotten worse leaning more towards just spoofing of mainstream comics.

Re: Stiletto Heels of Lady Heroing Because it's cool. Silk Specter II's landing in the Watchmen movie may have also affected this.