Narf the Mouse

A base is essential. It's very embarrassing to have the villains infiltrate your secret apartment and have a running battle through the hallways. A base is the difference between a superhero, and "That crazy guy in room 1520 with the costume and those little throwing things shaped like bats."

Champions Complete and Fantasy Hero Complete are the new core rulebooks for 6e, although some people still prefer 6e1 and 6e2. For whatever it's worth, more people seem to like the two small books than the two big books.

I think I can answer most of your questions with an example: Bob the Absorbing Blob has 10 BODY, and 10 Physical Absorption to BODY, and 5 PD. He gets hit with a superpunch for 10 BODY. He subtracts 5 PD, applies the remaining 5 BODY damage, and absorbs 10 CP (the total BODY damage) to his BODY. So: 10 BODY - (10 BODY damage - 5 PD) = 10 BODY - 5 BODY damage = 5 BODY remaining after the damage is dealt. 5 BODY + 10 CP absorbed = 15 BODY after the absorption. He's absorbed 10 BODY worth of CP. He gets hit with another superpunch for 5 BODY. His PD reduces that to 0 BODY, so he takes no damage. However, he still absorbs the full 5 damage as CP, and applies that to his BODY. So: 15 BODY - (5 BODY damage - 5 PD) = 15 BODY - 0 BODY damage = no change. 15 BODY + 5 CP absorbed = 20 BODY after the absorption. He can absorb 5 more CP from his absorption. If his next absorption is 6 BODY, he'll hit his ceiling of 20 CP of absorption, and only absorb 5 of those 6 CP. But then the post-segment 12 hits, the turn is over, and his Absorption drops from 20 CP to BODY to 15 CP to BODY, and his BODY goes down from 24 to 19. He has 4 actual BODY, and 15 extra from Absorption. For extra fun, there's an advantage that turns Absorpton into a defence, so it can reduce damage, and absorb if it has capacity left. ...Anyway, if that didn't confuse you, it's probably not my fault.

Probably some sort of Killing Attack with a Side Effect? Not sure. I'd almost say a Naked Advantage Side Effect, but Side Effect is a limitation.

The narrator stated they they did a lot of walking, and "sleeping in an ox's footprint", or in short, sleeping by the sides of roads. That is what I was addressing. The mode of transportation used by the narrator, as stated by the narrator. They probably did take a ship or two, but as a poor scholar, they'd get only working passage. Which wouldn't be that much different, to the direction of my statement, than walking.

Alas, I was unable to find it, but on fanfiction.net, there was once a My Little Pony G1/Smallville crossover...With pre-evil Lex Luthor as the viewpoint character.

When the only way to get half-way across the world is to walk, if you want to go half-way around the world, you walk.

Actually, CinemaSins is a lot funnier once you've watched their "Everything Wrong With CinemaSins".

...Watch less CInemaSins, everyone.

Equipment points could work.

"Little Timmy! Can you see anything?" "No, Ma; all is well."

Having read a number of accounts of people starting starting new things, that's common. Your brain doesn't have the security of the old, and is still finding the security of the new. But the brain is more plastic than often thought; just a matter of finding the new patterns.

A goat, the dictator of Latveria, and two cymbals fell down some stairs. The headlines read...

...It's a complete and total non-issue. It's a fictional setting. It can have purple panda gods with pink polka-dots if it can make the idea fun, interesting, or otherwise worthy of my gaming dollars.

Having had to remaster a .pdf for POD, it takes time, and either a few specialized programs, or a full copy of Adobe Acrobat. Time costs money in business, and so do those programs. In order to spend the money to pay someone (or take time from other projects) to get the job done, they have to take time and money from other projects. And that requires some sort of assurance that they will make that money back. Although I don't have any special insight into Hero Games' workings, or Telepathy. That said, if the sales are too low, that's discouraging to convert more.

...Isn't this thread about fighting with a spear and shield?

Transform to add an Unluck complication to other characters?

I think the problem is, sales have been low, because most people who wanted them, bought them when they came out. At least, that's the reason I only bought Hero System Skills. I'm not sure what, for example, I would do with a second Bestiary. That being said, people are selling the Big Blue Books on Amazon for $1,000+, so putting them in POD may be worthwhile. I dunno. I don't have access to Hero Games sales figures, of course.

Built it in Hero Designer: List: Wizard's Staff 1) Reduced Endurance (1/2 END; +1/4) for up to 60 Active Points of Spells (15 Active Points); OAF (Staff; -1), 7 Real Points 2) Sight Group Images, +/-4 to PER Rolls (22 Active Points); OAF (Staff; -1), 11 Real Points 3) Naked Advantage: Trigger (Activating the Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; +1/4) for up to 60 Active Points (15 Active Points); 6 Charges (-3/4), 8 Real Points Removed 0 END from the third power, because Charges means it doesn't cost END. Is that correct to your OP, or did I miss something? Probably did, so no-one else mentioned that 0 END thing.

Cold, man, cold...

What if all your base are belong to you, but you've left all your trebles behind?

Good overall, but as other have noted, underdefended, and probably underarmed, too. One rule of thumb is to check your defences against the attack of someone using 70-80% of the AP cap.

Some comments (not demands ): 1) An autocalculate version would be cool. 2) The order of tab indices gets a bit messy after the BODY->Points entry. I'd suggest tabbing through it on a laptop or desktop.

Having watched a re-enactor demonstrate possible spear-holding techniques on Youtube... ...Sure. You just take an OCV and DC penalty as usual.

No offense intended; it's just that "Why play it X way?" is a question I see most often from people who only know one style of play. As for the question you were actually asking, not the one I thought you were asking, that is an answer that varies on setting, as you said. Which is one reason to collect many different game economy styles. Or if you are asking if any game actually needs exact prices, any game played clearly on the gamist axis, because prices are then a function of game balance, not market forces.