death tribble

Where did you get that watch ?
Where did you get that smile ?
 
Isn't a funny one
or just the proper style ?
 
I would like to have one
just the same as that
 
Wherever I'd go they'd shout
'Ello
STOP THIEF !
He stole that watch !
Get Him !' 

He is NABLA !
An inverted triangle is called Nabla and so this is his name.
And his power enables him to speed up or slow down a target. The latter is greatly useful with someone falling out of a window or off a building to say nothing of a falling vehicle.
The former can allow someone to move out of the way or to allow someone else to move fast enough to get someone else out of the way.
His reaction time and speed is greater than others which does allow him to beat speedsters more often than not.

Well I didn't think I would get away with it but
 
The Odyssey
 
Despite it's length is a poem

Fakthulhu
 
Want to know why people who play Call of Cthulhu and Dungeons and Dragons should not be allowed to go into genetic engineering or be allowed near wish machines ?
You do ?
Well let me introduce you to Fakthulhu.
The body of a barbarian warrior and the head of the Great Old One. It is a monster of destruction and banned in 17 States of the Union. Yeah that's right the most liberal ones.

The Iliad
 
Despite the length, it is a poem.

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
 
Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry:
Come buy our orchard fruits,
Come buy, come buy:
Apples and quinces,
Lemons and oranges,
Plump unpecked cherries,
Melons and raspberries,
Bloom-down-cheeked peaches,
Swart-headed mulberries,
Wild free-born cranberries,
Crab-apples, dewberries,
Pine-apples, blackberries,
Apricots, strawberries; --
All ripe together
In summer weather, --
Morns that pass by,
Fair eves that fly;
Come buy, come buy:
Our grapes fresh from the vine,
Pomegranates full and fine,
Dates and sharp bullaces,
Rare pears and greengages,
Damsons and bilberries,
Taste them and try:
Currants and gooseberries,
Bright-fire-like barberries,
Figs to fill your mouth,
Citrons from the South,
Sweet to tongue and sound to eye
Come buy, come buy."
 

Dr No: I work for SPECTRE
 
James Bond: SPECTRE ?
 
Dr No: SPECTRE - Special Executive for Counter Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, Extortion. The four great cornerstones of power headed by the greatest brains in the world.
 
 
James Bond: Red wine with fish. Well, that should have told me something.
 
Grant:  You may know the right wines, but you're the one on your knees. How does it feel old man ?
 
 
Goldfinger: Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavour... except crime !
 
Bond: My dear girl, there are some things that just aren't done, such as drinking Dom Perignon '53 above the temperature of 38 degrees Fahrenheit. That's just as bad as listening to the Beatles without earmuffs !
 
 
Blofeld: Sit down, Number Two. We will discuss your NATO project later. I regret to inform you all of the death of SPECTRE Number Six. Colonel Jacques Bouvar was killed by an unknown assassin. His services will be greatly missed.
 
M: You may now open the folders in front of you. Code name: Thunderball. As you can see, we have very little to go on. All the members of the crew had top security clearance. You'll find their photographs and service records in your files. You'll be working with NATO, CIA and all allied intelligence units. Well, that's all - until you've discussed your individual assignments with me.
 
 
Blofeld: James Bond. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Ernst Stavro Blofeld. They told me you were assassinated in Hong Kong.
 
James Bond: Yes, this is my second life.
 
Blofeld: You only live twice, Mr Bond.
 
 
Bond: This never happened to the other fellow.
 
Bond:  It's all right. It's quite all right, really. She's having a rest. We'll be going on soon. There's no hurry, you see. We have all the time in the world.
 
 
Bambi: I'm "Bambi"
 
Thumper: And I am "Thumper." Is there something we can do for you ?
 
Bond: I can think of several things, off hand...
 
Tiffany Case: My God! You just killed James Bond !
 
Bond:  Is that who it was ? Well just goes to show, no one's indestructible.

Valhalla

Although it really is a crocodile and not a gator, I will give this to Rich McGee.
I liked the references to luggage, his shorts (which are Egyptian) and the other bits and pieces.
 
So Rich take it away !

(I'm not allowed near radiation)
 
Pegasus

They need a miracle

The Face of Battle by John Keegan
This looks at military history and then at three specific battles, Agincourt, Waterloo and The Somme. It shows how big the battles were and how large were the forces involved. It also shows how warfare evolved in each case. The Somme covers the most as it is not a simple task to explain what happened and why. It is a fascinating read.

Storn Cook. I have a few commissions with him.
Like 150.....
 
I will wait up to another six days before announcing a winner as per usual.

I'm sorry but they just screamed D+D and I'm a Champs guy. Not the Champsguy obviously.
 
So to try this again this is one of the earliest commissions from the Storn thread that is still available.
 

 
 

 

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Dr Who.

Well it has been over a year now and no entries so how about this instead. What can you tell me about him ?

Today marks the 60th anniversary of the first broadcast of Dr Who.

f you take a life, do you know what you'll give ?
Odds are, you won't like what it is
When the storm arrives, would you be seen with me ?
By the merciless eyes I've deceived ?
 
I've seen angels fall from blinding heights
But you yourself are nothing so divine
Just next in line
 
Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you
And I will replace you
You can't deny the prize, it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you
Are you willing to die ?
The coldest blood runs through my veins
You know my name
 
If you come inside things will not be the same
When you return to the night
And if you think you've won
You never saw me change
The game that we have been playing
 
I've seen this diamond cut through harder men
Than you yourself, but if you must pretend
You may meet your end
 
Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you
And I will replace you
You can't deny the prize, it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you
Are you willing to die ?
The coldest blood runs through my veins
 
Try to hide your hand
Forget how to feel
(Forget how to feel)
Life is gone with just a spin of the wheel
(Spin of the wheel)
 
Arm yourself because no one else here will save you
The odds will betray you
And I will replace you
You can't deny the prize, it may never fulfill you
It longs to kill you
Are you willing to die?
The coldest blood runs through my veins
 
You know my name
You know my name
You know my name
You know my name
You know my name
You know my name
You know my name

ow
 
that hurt

The Flying Net !
Whose heroic efforts made sure that all those turkeys that were dropped in Cincinnati landed safely.
Hurrah for the Flying Net !

Nothing in the rules prevents combat luck working against an AoE attack.  The description is considered a -3/4 limitation (6e Vol 2 p 447), so there's a lot left to the GM to adjudicate, including the possibility that different special effects carry different restrictions.  Achieving a common understanding with the player(s) is probably more important than the specifics of that common understanding.

They should be subject to one week's incarceration for every day before Remembrance Day (including that date), with their own Christmas muzak played non-stop throughout their incarceration.

I'd start by looking at the cost of 16m through 6 PD and 2m through 13 PD (the two extremes).  Either would cost 28 points.
 
A Multipower of both would cost 28 + 3 + 3 = 34 points.
 
If we went to the extreme of a multipower for every increment, there are 8, so 52 points. 
 
Usable as a second form of movement is +1/4 - I'm not sure anyone has ever assessed how this might be applied to Tunnelling, but it feels like we have multiple modes of Tunnelling here.  We'd have to assess how many different forms.
 
Allocatable resistant protection is a +1/4 advantage (with a caution sign). It seems like moving defenses around is no less useful than shifting Tunneling around.  If we applied a +1/4 advantage to one of the two extremes, we would get 35 points, which is remarkably close to placing the two extremes in a Multipower (although that's skewed a bit by rounding - we could bump to 20 meters/6 defense or 2 meters/15 defense for 32 + 6= 38 vs 40 for a ++1/4 advantage on 32.  Still in the ballpark.
 
This is a bit more flexible than just choosing one or the other.  I'd also interpret it as "auto-adjusting" - the player moves 4 meters through defense 6 (or less), then hits rock with 10 PD, so "spends" 8 meters to shift up to 10 defenses and has 4 meters remaining, just as if he had allocated 18m/8 PD from the outset.
 
 
If it were a VPP, it could have a 28 point pool, Cosmic, no skill roll, Tunnelling Only(-1 1/2), so 28 + 17 = 45 - a bit more pricy but with many more variations (including advantages) available.  That also backs up 42 points.
 
So a bit more flexible and valuable than a +1/4 advantage, which leads me to a +1/2 advantage or 42 points.  More pricy than a "pick one or the other" multipower and less pricy than "pick any combo" as a multipower.  This does not seem unfair, so let's call allocatable a +1/2 advantage.

I think I'd also call it +1/2 for defenses, and even for Entangle switching between dice and defenses.

As Doc notes above, for 42 points, I can have 16 m through 13 PD - what we want s clearly less powerful than that, so 42 is not the right answer. Possible options:
 
 - use a +1/4 advantage instead of +1/2.  That would leave a cost of 35 points, which falls between the two.
 - keep +1/2 advantage on Allocable, start with 2m Tunnelling through 6PD (14 points) and add 14m Allocable (+1/2, so +21) = 35 points again.  The character is not getting Allocable on the base 2m + 6 PD.
 
I prefer the latter.  The character could also choose to buy 16m, 6 PD allocable.  This would allow 26 meters through 1 PD, an option the character suggested in the original post does not have.  Now we have broader options.  This would cost 3 + (25 x 1.5) = 40.  The base 3 points is not allocatable - you need 1 meter and 1 PD to Tunnel at all.
 
It looks like we are in the same cost range (34 vs 35), so the only question is how to get there. I like Allocatable because it can be fine tuned (how much fixed vs how much allocatable) and it seems portable to some other concepts (like Entangle or Defenses).

Agreed, Doc - taken to its ultimate extreme, that rule should eliminate Mental Attack in favour of a Blast with IPE, LoS range, AVAD and ACV.
 
All the options seem to come in a pretty comparable prices, and clearly the cot should land somewhere between "16m, 6 DEF, no variation" and "16M, 13 DEF all the time".