Dreadnought

Re: Gun and Armor Critique. You don't need any modifier on the Entangle. Since Entangle is an Instant power, the effects don't end when you switch the multipower away from it any more than the damage from an EB heals after you switch away from it. As for the Armour, I'd buy it as: 36 Nano Mesh Armour Armour (15 PD/15 ED), OIHID (-1/4) Focus would work too, but whenever I hear talk of a retracting suit of armour, my first thought is OIHID.

Re: Random WTF momment... Dreadnought - Climbs back down the ladder mumbling about how he never used to see things like that before he started hanging out with Nephilim.

If a character has 1d6 of absorbtion (energy) to strength and 2d6 of absorbtion (physical) to strength, is the maximum increase to his strength 6 or 12?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... You don't want to know: "Can we ban the word Roboobs?"

Re: Pokemon HERO Me and my friend have been working on this for the last few days, and we just figured out the capture ability of Pokeballs in a way that actually works: 6 Pokeball: Suppress STUN 2d6, Continuous (+1), Cumulative (192 points; +1 1/2) (35 Active Points); 1 Charge which Never Recovers (-4), OIF (-1/2), Range Based On Strength (-1/4), Pokemon Only (-1/2) Notes: If Pokemon becomes conscious, it breaks out of the suppress. Basically, you hit a weakened pokemon with the ball and it takes a 2d6 suppress stun immediately. If this knocks it out, it gets caught in the ball. Then the suppress activates again each round until the pokemon runs out of stun or recovers fast enough to wake up. If it wakes up, it breaks out of the pokeball ready to keep fighting. If its stun is suppressed to 0, it gets trapped. Upgrades of the basic pokeball would just have more levels of suppress. How we did summoning is that you have a belt multipower with each slot being a pokemon. The belt itself was something each character paid for, and could then increase as they advanced as a trainer. Pokemon themselves would be treated as equipment, and each one would typically be Slavishly Loyal. If you manage to capture something that can't fit into the multipower then you have to sell back the Amicable until it fits into the multipower. If you catch something significantly stronger than you then suddenly you need to make ego rolls to control it.

Re: What Age are we in now Hopefully we'll see the end of the Quesada Age before too long.

Re: Characters favorite manuever Dreadnought is terrible at damage rolls. He has 60 Str, or he can use AoE one hex on 40 Str or a selective radius on even less (extra arms + stretching!). Recently I realized that I could use that to grab fast opponents rather than just hit them. I may not be able to roll even average damage, but I can reduce the enemies' DCVs for people who actually CAN roll.

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? The entire first season of Scrubs. Looking forward to seeing the rest of it.

Re: Do you use miniatures? My group uses whatever we have on hand. If there are actual miniatures hanging around, we use those. If not, we will often use dice. Recently, though, one of my friends has started making lego representations of our characters. He has come up with some amazing likenesses of our Champions characters. He even managed to give Tome a book chained to his hip!

Re: Jokes I wish I could give negative rep for that.

Re: Best Graphic Novels to Inspire a Campaign? I'd have to second the recommendations for the entire Ultimate universe and Astro City.

Re: Joe Quesada as a Disadvantage That's 45 points of disadvantages right there (assuming I had put in Public ID or is otherwise easy to find on the Hunted). Just goes to show how dangerous it is to get of Quesada's bad side!

Re: Joe Quesada as a Disadvantage Hunted: The Powers That Be (Mo Pow, NCI, Totally Ruin Your Life) 14- Physical Limitation: Occasionally Undergoes Complete Personality Change and Retcon (Infrequently, Greatly Impairing) (Note: this is a physical lim, not a psych lim because you can't make an ego roll to avoid a new writer)

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Saw Sweeny Todd yesterday. That movie was good. Messed up, certainly, but still good.

Re: Hitting Hex Variant You could do what the Negatizer Beam from USPD (which I can't seem to find at the moment) does. It has AoE Radius, only to hit single target. It's extremely accurate, to the point that it veers off to still hit the target if he dives for cover.