Doug Limmer

Re: Don't Look Into the Light... Darkness is Better Another thought: it sounds like someone with the right Transdimensional advantage on a sense would be able to sense this character. At least, it seems to fit the special effects.

Re: Adamant's upcoming Mars book Shadow Raiders, or possibly War Planets, depending on what country you are/were in.

Re: Space Wizards (info, advice, & suggestions sought) To pull out my favorite quote from Outlaw Star:

Re: Comics "Ages" sound bites I was thinking more along the lines of Judas Maccabeus, but then I think that we're still in an extension of the Bronze Age (the way the Seleucids were an extension of Alexander the Great's empire).

Re: Comics "Ages" sound bites

Re: STARFIRE the Roleplaying Game Did you only play one ship vs. one ship games? I've found that Starfire does pretty well for multi-ship battles (and has far less to keep track of than SFB).

Re: Starting from the beginning...help me!

Re: Affects Solid World The ball stays desolid long enough for me to reflexively move my foot out of the way?

Re: Dimension Brainstorming: The Dimension Of Lost Stuff I was thinking of Ozymandias for the ruler. Edit: except I suppose he's not quite so forgotten anymore.

Re: Super Football How would you beat a team with a teleporting quarterback?

Re: DC Suckverse? (Most of) The costumes are slightly different: the visible chest symbols are all different, and one seems to have goggles/eye coverings. Whether this means different people as the Flash, different costumes for different occasions, or that the Flash is now cashing in on marketing opportunites is yet to be seen.

Re: Opinions on build with Naked Advantages Considering that I, personally, am pretty down on Naked Advantages altogether, I'll have to say to avoid it. I think Naked Advantages are fine for advantages that are intended to always be in effect, but sometimes are countered (e.g.: Reduced Endurance, OAF (Wand of power) or Armor Piercing, not against metal), but to be able to freely tack on advantages seems to me like getting a Multipower for free. And to be able to apply a Naked Advantage to multiple powers compounds the problem. (Although, it doesn't sound like you're doing that here.) Since I don't like them much, I haven't studied the rules enough to help you with your final question.

Re: Pirate Weapons? Completely off-topic, but:

Re: Marvel's Best "Bricks"

Re: Your "2006" Pet Gaming Projects The one I have is four volumes. It rings in at about 2300 pages. The pages are kind of small, but so is the print.

Re: Your "2006" Pet Gaming Projects This may be biting of more than I can chew, but I hope to work out a complete, detailed HERO version of The Great Sage Equalling Heaven from the unabridged (translated) copy of Journey to the West I got for Christmas.

Re: Gravitar vs Graviton?

Re: Characteristics vs Aid

Re: Characteristics vs Aid I don't think anyone else pointed this out: your characteristic version of Super Strength can only be used by one person at a time. If you shift it to a second person, the first person loses it. You can have an Aid active on as many people as you want at once (until it fades, of course).

Re: Help With Hydroelectric Dam Complexes In USA...? [More Trivia]Until Civ IV' date=' where it's been renamed "Three Gorges Dam" (the really big one being built in China, or are they done already?).[/More Trivia']

Re: Yet Another STUN Multiple Thread... For what it's worth, rolling 3d6 and using a table like: 3-6: x1 multiplier 7-8: x2 multiplier 9-12: x3 multiplier 13-14: x4 multiplier 15-18: x5 multiplier gives almost the same probability results as Derek's idea, but I couldn't come up with a good mnemonic for remembering the chart easily. A chart like: 3-6: x1 multiplier (9%) 7-10: x2 multiplier (41%) 11-14: x3 multiplier (41%) 15-18: x4 multiplier (9%) gives an average of x2.5 multiplier, and is easier to remember, but doesn't give one modal multiplier result, and may not be what you want, either. Just some random ideas. :-)

Re: When sfx become an advantage A long time ago, back when Champions II came out, the GM I was playing with introduced a villain called "Chain Lightning". He would turn into a lightning bolt, hit several characters, and rematerialize somewhere else. It turned out that the GM was playing with the new "multiple Move By" rules, and the character had a bunch of movement and a GM-allowed conversion of the Move By damage to energy rather than a physical attack. However, the way the attack was described, I never would have thought to try a Martial Throw on Chain Lightning; how do you Martial Throw a lightning bolt? I'd say that that attack needed some sort of advantage --- probably a +1/4 like Derek suggested. Conversely, what if someone tries to Martial Throw the "Ninja Blast"? Other special effects for the same power build would probably make it obvious that Martial Throw wouldn't be a useful option. If you don't give the "Ninja Blast" an extra advantage, would you allow the Martial Throw to 'work' somehow? Would you let it stop the attack, or something?

Re: Fixin' what's broken - switching from d20 to HERO Earlier, you had mentioned wanting to have some idea how tough one opponent would be against another in a fight. There have been a variety of methods made to try to measure this. One of them, called the Effectiveness Rating, was presented in Digital Hero #3. I think there's a spreadsheet in the "Free Stuff" section that calculates it, but you may need the article to understand what the numbers mean. Like all such measures, it isn't perfect. But, it may give you a rough idea of how opponents will stack up to each other until you get a good intuition for it to do it yourself. [i personally don't have any practial experience using it; if someone else does, they may want to chime in.]

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Um, that's a really big dragon. If I'm seeing it right.

Re: Healing/Regeneration power build I'm tempted to suggest a triggered Summon, with the summoned creature being identical to a fully-healed version of the original, and let special effects handle the rest, but that might be considered 'cheating' by some people ...