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Re: Inceptum Terminus: You Decide the Fate! Just like the rest of the state is designed to feed the city the boroughs are designed to serve Manhattan. Sorry, I'm from the part where all the real action is. No office, Queens is nice if you're looking for a wife, just ask Akeem.

Re: Inceptum Terminus: You Decide the Fate! You know I would say bring it on, everyone wants a piece of New York if only because the lesser 49 just can't hack it. Every movie who do they target? New York, you know why? Because no other city in the country is worth bombing. Bring it on. Nuke New York, you'll have bums with mind control making you give them change. I originally came on here to say New York has been over done but you know what it can't be over done because you can't do it in. Come on, you ain't got the balls. - - - Sorry, bit of home town pride there. - - - So it's not on the list but if you want to really mess with people try Las Vegas when CES is in town. The city is packed to capacity from people all over the world and primarily from the tech sector. Vegas is spread out but the majority of where people are is very small in compairison. Did I mention it's a box canyon so the winds will just move things around inside the kill zone and slow disapation?

Re: Surprisingly Effective Builds? Did a Luck based build for a friend that used Combat Skill Levels with various types of Limited attached to them. The character never got to use all of them at once but his OCV and DCV were typically higher than any challenge that came at us. This got really ugly when multiple parameters were triggered such as when fighting several henchmen along with a Major villain and they teamed up on him. There were moments when he just didn't want us to take him out because he didn't want to loose those levels in badass.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Garbage - As Heaven Is Wide

Re: The Killer It would seem a ridiculous number of Combat Skill Levels and Penalty Skill Levels are in order or depending on the point value of the game a Naked Advantage Multipower. The guns could be built as normal 2d6 Ranged Killing Attacks (+1 Stun Multiplier). Then use a Multipower to give him things like: +2d6 Ranged Killing Attack (Super Stopper), Indirect (Bullet Pending), Armor Piercing, Penetrating and Area of Effect. Points withstanding if you can pull it off I would buy it at twice the value of any one slot so the Killer could get twice the bang for his buck. (This would require increasing the costs of the naked Advantages to compensate for the higher values.) With this set up the Killer doesn't need a special Gun. Just a gun, all the tricks and abilities come from him.

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? Who Trades with the Stockmen?

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? This thread got me thinking what would modern versions of these characters look like? Not age them 20 years but more in a modern setting how would one reimagine them.

Re: The "Armani of armour." Now all I need is a machinegun that looks like a briefcase and I'm ready to go to the office.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Alien Sex Fiend - Now I'm Feeling Zombiefied

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Bravestarr, also see Firefly. Sorry no matter how much the fans like it... (Fan of Firefly, don't kill me.)

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? The Dresden Dolls - Girl Anachronism

Re: in the spirit of christmas! Never underestimate the power of the Geek Side.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Some of us have less fond titles for Cortez.

Re: Heroes from All Fifty States Utah villain is a giant pizza monster....

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... Do not underestimate the powers of Paltrow, if she stands sideways you can't even see her.

Re: Heroes from All Fifty States You can't just have 50 villains ... Heroes need more than that.

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged?

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? Your cometary has the perspective of history not the perspective of the time period. When Reagan began talks with the USSR and Gorbachev he was ridiculed by his own party, political strategists and the intelligence community and very importantly by Nixon as being wrong for engaging the enemy and falling for communist propaganda. No one ever said what Ozymandias did was the right answer. What I pointed out is that there is a difference in perspective from life during this time period versus looking at it through the lens of history.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Fates Warning - Saints in Hell

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? Upon rereading my post this may be flaimebait but I'm going to post it anyway. Also warning there be spoilers if you've not actually read the book. Some of the perspective of Watchmen is lost if you did not grow up in the 70's and 80's. It helps if you can remember hearing air raid sirens in school and climbing under your desk or into an actual bomb shelter. Part of what Watchmen tries to capture is this ever looming fear that no mater how superior America was militarily the inevitable destruction caused by a war with the USSR could not be avoided, Mutually Assured Destruction was the best possible outcome if the nukes ever did fly. "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." Albert Einstein, 1955. Ozymandias did not set the stage, what he did was move the pieces already in place before changing the game. You can argue what the character did is wrong but the cause was not the exile of Dr. Manhattan or any other action taken, but continued escalation of the Cold War. Watchmen is not a question of which character was right or wrong. All of them were flawed, they all had their own beliefs, motivations and ideals. If you walked away from reading the book thinking Ozymandias bad, Rorschach good, and that's the end of the story, reread it. For the fun geek references you can say "the good of the many outweighs the good of the one" but it's not about justifying Ozymandias' actions. The setting assumes conflict between the US and USSR is inevitable. A good reference scene early on for this is the newsstand commentary. Would you undo everything and allow World War III to begin? Would you have rather done nothing and waited to see if Dr. Manhattan could have or would have stopped it? Everyone will come to their own conclusions. For me it's the questions one if forced to ask when reading Watchmen, then forced to revisit at its conclusion. It is a reflection of politics and human nature, not a simple morality tale. That is what, in my opinion, makes it such a strong piece of literature. It would worry me that people reading this work would take things at face value or no longer connect with the context of the writing although I don't feel the work is dated only that modern readers should lok at the time period around the work to help frame it. Okay, two cents delivered....

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... Your GM rolls d4's for your opponent's damage out of sympathy.

Re: Nothing can stop me now! There is a complete story seed up on the Gladiators thread based on Asperion's suggestion.

Re: Mercenaries The Gladiators Finally: The Eliminator Another firebombing, this time no one is close enough to stop it before the Gladiator can escape. The female Gladiator known as Inferno leaves a flaming trail across the night sky that screams: this is a trap, but heroes are heroes for a reason. tracking her flame trail to just outside the (county/state) to an old Army base the compound is lit up like the Fourth of July, every light is on, Spots circle in the night sky searching for something. If the Players can detect radio transmissions there is an encrypted signal going out from the main building. Decoding it will reveal a video feed of security cameras.> Lights run down the center of the hanger to a giant metal wedged slope that stops a few meters shy of the roof. (If possible feel free to dangle a DNPC or two here.) Also, at the top of the pyramid is the metal case from the Towering Inferno Scenario. The lights make it impossible to see the sides of the building. (Barring Night Sight or other vision powers) Once the full team is inside the doors will seal, and a force wall will be erected around the outside of the building. The wall has 8 PD and ED, if the PCs blew the doors off they can see field of energy behind them. Once sealed the lights come up revealing the Gladiators as they are teleported in lining the tops of metal bleachers ageist the walls, four on either side with Battle Axe and Atlas closest and Inferno and Oblivion closest to the pyrimid. to the main doors. It is a 4" drop from the top of the bleachers. A voice powers over the PA system: Welcome Heroes! The prize is at the top of the pyramid all you have to do is survive long enough to reach it! With that minor explosions lining the center path to the pyramid go off making a kind of runway. As with the Great Escape Gladiators that know their powers will be ineffective will use firebombs to make things more difficult. Overall the Gladiators will double and triple team the PCs using teamwork to go for quick Stuns focusing on whoever is closest to the briefcase. Should a PC be KOed they will not go in for a kill. Complications: There are pyro-charges laid all over the hanger floor. The Gladiators know where they are and will avoid them. The Pyramid's floor are lined with metal spikes that will shoot out is anyone PC or Gladiator. Pyramid Spear: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 1/2d6, Trigger (Activating the Trigger is an Action that takes no time, Trigger resets automatically, immediately after it activates, Character does not control activation of personal Trigger; +3/4) (44 Active Points); No STR Bonus (-1/2) The Spears attack with an OCV 5. If the PCs are all KOed they when they wake up they will find themselves in the same building but all the gear is gone. The DNPCs have been lowered from the Pyramid and left next to them. If any of the PCs reach the top of the Pyramid the Gladiators will stop attacking instead running for bleachers where they first teleported in.> - - - Done... Hope everyone enjoyed the story idea.

Re: Mercenaries The Gladiators Optional: The Great Escape With one or more of the Gladiators incarcerated The others will join together to break them out. To make things interesting they've brought more explosives than for just the one cell. Fire Bomb: Killing Attack - Ranged 2d6, Explosion (+1/2), Lingering up to 1 Turn (+1/2) (60 Active Points); Independent (-2), 1 Continuing Charge lasting 1 Turn (-1 1/2), OAF Fragile (-1 1/4), Range Based On Strength (-1/4) Final Cost: 10 Each Gladiator on Bomb Duty has 5 Fire Bombs.>

Re: Who homages the Watchmen or those the Watchmen homaged? "Meeting with Veidt left bad taste in mouth. He is pampered and decadent, betraying even his own shallow, liberal, affectations. Possibly homosexual? Must remember to investigate further... ... The first Silk Specter is a bloated aging whore, dying in a Californian rest resort..." - Rorschach - - - "Good Joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains."