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Typically unless the bullet is a magnum or cut down rifle cartridges like are used in the Casull, a pistol round will deform more and break when they hit a hard substance like bone. The NYME cut a guy open and found a 25 had entered a guy's skull through his eye and bounced around inside the brain case before losing its energy. Did no out damage to the skull at all. 38's have also been known to bounce off rib cages. .45's may break the bone and shatter. A 357  or 44 magnum have shot through cars.
 
Rifle bullets have been known to go through concrete walls which would stop a pistol round.
 
Pistols are easier to carry and concealable. They're easier to reload. Sometimes you might have to shoot the target more than one time before they go down.
 
You shoot a guy with a rifle, sometimes the bullet will keep going and hit somebody behind the original target.
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Another thing that might be interesting--I've noticed a few fantasy RPG supplements that basically pitch an entire campaign, from beginner through the highest levels, in one book.  You could do this in Hero system as well:
--Champions--from street heroes to cosmic protectors
--Fantasy Hero--from green adventurers to legendary questers
etc.

Exactly.  Now instead of cluttering the book with annotation and melting the brains of new players that just want to actually play a game. In the back you add an appendix the shows the build annotation for the builds in the front so people that care can see how things were built.
 
Hero really needs to get people to play enough that they will then want to learn how to build/customize things. 
 
It's kind of like a house. 
 
When someone buys a house for $350k, they expect something they can actually live in.  That is 99% of the successful RPGs.
 
Now if they show up to their "$350k house" and discover it is stacks of lumber and hardware and they are supposed to "assemble it themselves" they will be pissed and probably sue. But this is Hero right now. Here are some design rules, create the game yourself.
 
Back before internet and streaming and the modern 24 blitz of things to do, we had enough spare time to actually be bored. In the 80/90s I had hours of free time with nothing to fill it.  I loved Hero and spent hours building.
 
Now people seem to have far less free time and given the choice of number crunching or watching a stream, well they watch the stream.
 
A common theme for Hero these days is something like "oh god, don't do a generic high fantasy world like D&D and Pathfinder.  There are too many of them."
 
But that is exactly what Hero needs.  A rulebook on Playing, not building. People trying to learn a new game want to be able to grab a standard concept a play.  Use characters designed using pre-built capabilities, spells and gear with NO DESIGN ANNOTATION.   Close to D&D, buy characteristics, buy pre-built abilities, spells and gear from lists.  Include a suitable selection of creatures and treasure plus an introduction adventure.
 
In the back of the book include an appendix with just the build annotation for the stuff on the list with an introduction that directs you to Fantasy Hero Complete and how to build anything.
 
Heck, you could make the current Fantasy Hero Complete the second half of the book.
 
The first part allows people to PLAY  Hero. The second part shows them how to create their own material.
 
All of the successful RPGs are like a three legged stool.
Leg 1 = Rules and supplements
 
Leg 2 = Setting Books, Creature/Treasure/NPC books, etc.
 
Leg 3 = Adventures and Campaigns so people can play.
 
Hero ignores the 3rd leg and wonders why the stool keeps falling over.

My view of it from the original Superman movie series was being confined to a pane of glass spinning end over end through the universe for all time.
 
Like some murderous spinning amusement ride that never ends and confines you to two-dimensional space and prevents you from aging - for eternity.

uh... really? Phantom Zone was just schlocky "super jail where villains go until writer needs them for a story" stuff. The PZ was more of a sieve than Arkham. So many of the things taken as canon were basically "bad writing MacGuffins" and not something that should be considered intrinsic to the mythology, but people never seem to recognize that. So many tropes that need to be jettisoned around superheroes and certain characters in general were manifestations of the reality of the medium or the politics of the time, and not intrinsically part of the fiction. 

This is why I loved the MCU, because, for the most part, they kept the core aspects of the character and world, but dumped all the non-essential minutia that so many cling to, but are essentially unimportant. Cap was always Cap no matter how many costume changes, or whether his shield was vibranium or adamantium or indestructible or not, or whatever. I think why Endgame was ultimately so amazing, while DCEU falters, is that they've failed to find and portray the core aspects of the characters in a compelling way on screen. (Wonder Woman being the shining example of when they DID make it work. Gal Gadot's version is nothing like, say, George Perez's in the details and presentation... but at the heart, it absolutely is... thus it works.)

Desolid, not if attacker makes an Ego roll

Desolid (Invisible Power), with limitation "If attacker makes Ego Roll at -4, power does not work that phase vs attacker", with another limitation "Power fades and must be reactivated if user attacks"

Triggered (Trigger is being a target of a sensible attack) Mind Control (One Command, "Do Not Attack Me"), AVLD (Magical based Mental Defense only), Area Of Effect.

We could start by voting for parties that don't explicitly forbid the collection of good data on gun violence.

Call it a Messianic metaphor. Easy-peasy.

Not being willing to kill - even in the most obvious self-defense situation - is choosing to go extinct.
 
When inherently peaceful people take this stance they offer the world on a silver platter to violent invaders.
 
Even Non-Aggression Principle followers will defend themselves.

I had tried a Beyond Famous Star with cheese at Carl's Jr a few weeks ago. The patty tasted ok, but was really chewy. According to their webpage, I could have saved myself 40 calories (mainly through fat)  and about 300mg of salt if I had the one with meat.

Support this assertion with statistics, because all of the statistics I see indicate the opposite. Gun crime tends to follow the Pareto principle, as far as I can tell.

This is the most pertinent point; Even with the generic D&D Books that have no specific campaign world attached are Build & Go for the most part (the GM needs to do enough work to populate an appropriate level adventure.)
 
One of the better books for Players from the 5E era was the Character Creation Guide, it's as close as Hero has come to a pure Players Guide.
 
A set of books that is GM Campaign and Players Creation Guide that strips the rules down to "this is what you need to play this specific campaign" & then have a note "for more detail on creating your own game or adding to the system get the Full Ruleset..." might be a way to go for Hero. Reduce the Needed Rules down enough for each campaign and it might be one book...

That's about where I am. Despite being a firearm owner, I do acknowledge that we have way too much firearm-enabled violent crime here in the US, and that Something Must Be Done. However, I also have serious qualms about whether the kind of laws popular among my fellow liberals would actually help. Many such laws focus on cosmetic features, and are thus useless. We also see that in many cases, shooters were already prohibited by law from having the guns they used, making it obvious that laws aren't an effective barrier. And finally, as Pattern Ghost pointed out, there are many ways for people to commit mass violence, if that's their goal, which don't require access to firearms.
 
I'm in favor of actual solutions, and I'd be willing to accept some restrictions on my firearms ownership if I felt confident that those restrictions would actually save lives. However, I don't think the root of the problem is access to guns--I think it's cultural. There's some pervasive aspect of US culture that makes people think that enacting violence is a go-to solution, and I feel that until we address that, passing laws against specific tools of violence won't accomplish anything good.

I've always liked 20 as the cap for the vast majority with 21-25 being the range of athletes and intellectuals who border on superhuman in heroic campaigns.
 
Non-supers getting up to 30 feels more like a Champions setting.

Yeah people messing around on devices, they just lost their phase, no "held phase" you rude bastard.

D&D got back into the adventure business pretty hard with 5th Edition.  Not only is there a new hardcover or two with each season (currently going on Season 9), but Adventurer's League has a process to take in 3rd party author work and make sure it is sanitized for organized play.
 
I'd much rather spend 30 minutes reading someone else's adventure and modifying it to fit my players than create from scratch.  I'm a reasonably creative guy and yet I doubt, as an individual, I could punch out something as masterful as The Storm King's Thunder or Paizo's War for the Crown.

I missed what this was in reference to?

There's people that thought the terrorist survived that move through?
 
Superman hits him at incredible speed.  You don't even need a wall there for him to be dead.  Just the collision with his dense Kryptonian body at that speed would be absolutely fatal.
 
Add the brick wall (hit by Superman first or not) and that guy is a broken, bloody ruin best left off camera to preserve the PG-13 rating.
 
Though I'll admit I see the Flash do stunts that are worse - all the time - and somehow not instantly vaporize someone by punching them full force while moving faster than a bullet. 
Taking a rough guess at the Flash's weight he's roughly 1000x the weight of a 9mm bullet.  The energy transfer would vaporize mere mortals.

Fortunately I grew up watching some British comedy so I'm enjoying the style of humor more than I suspect many will.
 
I'm enjoying it.  My wife is looking at me like I'm insane.
 
Add that to the - Watch after the wife and kiddo go to sleep - pile.

I wish I could like your statement more than once.
 
A moderate degree of tribalism is natural and healthy. 
I care about my child more than other children.
I care about my family more than other families.
I care about my city more than other cities.
I care about my country more than other countries, etc.
 
I don't think you can remove individuals from a healthy degree of self-interest (Captain America!) without doing the kind of damage that lead to the death of 200 million people last century.
 
Moderation really is the key.  Too far left or too far right and you're in the ditch.

Well... Psychologist Jonathan Haidt does find distinct patterns of thinking in self-described liberals, conservatives and libertarians, and the differences are more pronounced the more strongly they self-identify ("very conservative," "very liberal," etc.) But yes, there are people who don't fit neatly into the categories; the same "moral foundations" can lead to different conclusions (for instance, Loyalty and Authority matter more to conservatives than to liberals or libertarians, but loyalty to what group, obedience to which authority?); and different systems of moral reasoning can lead to the same result. After laying out his research in his book The Righteous Mind, Haidt urges people on all sides to try using other systems of moral reasoning as a way to persuade people of different viewpoints, instead of just yelling at them and preaching to the choir.
 
So I'd say, that viewpoints and policies on different issues are not getting lumped together by pure accident. But the connections may not be obvious, and "poaching" of issues from one camp to another may be possible. I'd nominate same-sex marriage as an example: mIt began as a liberal issue of compassion for an oppressed minority, but became a majority viewpoint with support from libertarians who didn't want government telling them who they could marry, and conservatives wanting to stay loyal to family members and mollified by seeing LGB people showing reverence for the institution of marriage.
 
Dean Shomshak

Thanos' new plan was to kill everyone in the universe, and start over. Tony's action prevented that. Seems like he used appropriate force in the situation, at great cost to himself.

I don't even think "left" and "right," "Liberal" and "Conservative," are useful categories for discussion any more. So many viewpoints on entirely different issues -- economic, social, religious -- get routinely lumped together into each camp, when individuals can subscribe to some of them but not others. It's become a tactic to simplify complex debates, and slap labels on huge swaths of the populace for the purpose of denigrating any position they might have that someone else disagrees with.