ScottishFox

I don't think anyone will live long enough to make anything stick on the Clintons. Epstein had a painting of Bill Clinton in the blue dress on the wall of his his evil island palace and people were so sure he'd "suicide" in prison they were joking about it days before it happened with a litany of unbelievable excuses (sleeping guards, suicide watch pulled, cameras malfunctioning, 40+ year no-suicide run ended, etc.). I think we all knew it was coming. I do think there is a long enough pattern of shady dealings to not want her to be President - ever. I'll admit I'm still upset by how she and the DNC screwed over Bernie Sanders. Bernie seems to be aging so fast I don't think he can make a legit run at it now.

Are you sure? https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/us/cash-flowed-to-clinton-foundation-as-russians-pressed-for-control-of-uranium-company.html

Just logged in for a bit. Man, that was a trip down memory lane.

Sounds like you want a little more granularity than the typical bullets, armor piercing bullets, armor and hardened armor. Using Piercing point by point will get you a high degree of control over it. So your final construct will be bullets, bullets with amounts of piercing vs. armor.

One of the best countries in the world decided that their best two candidates were Hillary and Trump. 330 million people to choose from and those two got the nod. We deserve whatever happens to us.

Also, water CAN be compressed. It just requires stupid amounts of force to get very little compression. Not that I knew this until a minute ago. Put another way, it takes a bit over 200 times atmospheric pressure to compress water by 1% at room temperature.

Here's one I was toying with. I was aiming for 2.5 as an average. As an homage to my martial arts years I feel like I have to leave vitals at 4x STUN Multiplier. Excepting eyeballs nothing stops a man like a groin strike. Mostly I lowered the stun multiplier for lower legs and shoulders. Just not a fan of limb hits making people go unconscious.

Well, it's being pushed out by the same people that create don't text and drive billboards. My daughter laughs herself silly every time we drive by it. "Better left unread than dead." ....Um....the text message or the billboard? Both??

I'll just assume that was a poorly delivered joke that fell flat. Otherwise, my head will hurt too much.

I find breakout rolls are too good in the current version. 12d6 Mind Control vs. Normal - Go kill your ally (requires EGO +10) which means it will generally work on Ego 10 targets with some reliability and become very sketchy against Ego 15-20 types. Then before they even do anything they get a straight ego roll (42pts of effect minus (Ego plus 30) = 2pts to spare = Straight Ego roll). A normal person has a 62% chance to break out of the effect before even losing a single phase. This is no good at all. The attacker had to make an attack roll. The attacker had to commit his phase to mind controlling the subject. And if both of those things work out (which is barely 50% likely) the target then has a 62% chance to snap loose before doing anything? One tweak we've made in our game is to not allow the break out roll until after the end of the characters first phase of obeying the command. I also like modifying the breakout roll to -1 per 10 points in the effect. So, in this example -4. Fantasy HERO is my favorite fantasy RPG, but you can tell HERO feel like it is built around a 50-75 point range for powers.

I've found several D&D spells can be best simulated with Change Environment using a rough guideline of being roughly as effective as falling down (1/2 DCV) at base value or 1/2 DCV & lose your turn using the APG +20 point version. Like you said, using other constructs makes the AP cost prohibitive for non-supers campaigns.

Picking up Greenland now before global warming turns it into a lush tropical paradise and the southern half of the united states withers into a desert wasteland would be a good move.

I think part of the problem is that the more severe side of the left tends to call anyone who isn't left enough for them ALT Right. A lot of the labeling is patently absurd. Two internet guys I like to listen to fairly often are Joe Rogan and Tim Pool. They're both moderate democrats. They dislike/hate Trump and agree with most things that would have been mainstream left only 8-10 years ago. Now Tim has a show that is being threatened to be shut down by Antifa nuts because it involves trying to get progressives and conservatives sitting down face-to-face to talk to each other. Tim, in particular, getting called ALT Right is incomprehensible to me. He likes universal income, health-care for all, and several other mainstream left ideas. If this kind of nonsense doesn't cool off by 2020 there are going to be lifelong liberals voting for Trump because their own party has lost its mind.

Same here. I HATED Temple of Doom. Almost entirely due to the child actor they chose, but I hated it.

It seems like Triggered abilities ignore action economy to some degree. One of the moves in Fantasy HERO is Riposte which is a HTH-KA that is triggered whenever the hero blocks an attack. Since they've just blocked they wouldn't normally have an attack to use. If the Trigger is bought to the level that it automatically and immediately resets I think you'd be good to go.

Clever idea. Add a limitation - perhaps Side Effect - so that you're automatically hit by the attack. That should balance the power and possible - get the hero clobbered if a large number of attacks are entering their Absorption area. PS: I like the character concept for this. Good stuff.

You could probably do a complex build with barrier and adding fully invisible and mobile with the limitations no range, single instance, only to block electrical/energy attacks, and feedback. Then use the damage coming in through the feedback limitation on the barrier and Absorption to power up their attacks. Possibly you could do something similar with Reflection (only to reflect attack at yourself) and the Trigger advantage. @Killer Shrike provides an elegant solution, but a limitation has to be limiting. If their ability to power-up by taking energy hits is actually an advantage for them and the team then it should be built with powers.

Caveat: I only play Fantasy HERO now. I find the hit location chart to be a touch stun heavy with hit locations and have considered trying to make adjustments that make sense. The more I tried to mess with it the less I liked tinkering with it too much. One option I'm still considering is capping the stun multiplier at 3x unless body damage gets past armor. One of the problems I'm seeing in game play right now is that head/groin shots are immediate fight enders. Ex: Tanky McTankerson (Tier 4 - near end of campaign) has 15 rPD and 8 PD. Monster damage is typically in the DC 8-10 range plus or minus special effects. One average damage hit to the helmet is 11 BOD / 55 STUN minus defenses leaving him unscratched, but down 34 STUN and nearly unconscious. The groin shot is slightly less unbalancing at 11 BOD / 44 STUN but that is still 21 stun through defenses.

I've found keeping a Combat Effectiveness Spreadsheet really helps for this. There are hard caps for each category (OCV, DCV, damage, PD/ED, base stats, etc.) and a total combat effectiveness score that players are limited to. Generally they can max out a couple of areas before they have to start weakening others. It's not perfect, but it prevents any one hero from having the best offense, defense, highest damage, highest speed and highest variety of attacks by way of ignoring skills entirely and being better at HERO crunch than the other players.

I came home last night to find my wife had hot washed and hot dried my cold water / tumble dry only new shirts (2 weeks old - bought 6 of them at $50/ea). Then as I groan over my damaged new clothes I reach into the dryer and find after nearly 50 years of life the tiny flange that holds the door closed. It fits neatly under the nail of my middle finger and gently lifts it partially off the nail bed before splitting it. I had to trim it back to the point that the air hurts. 😐

Solid advice here. The sooner you get this out diplomatically the faster the group can deal with the issue. Sacrificing your ability to have fun so that others enjoy themselves is very unhealthy for long-term relationships. Negotiate something that is fun for everyone.

I find if I don't use a Pathfinder or D&D equipment cost sheet for these things the immersion damage to the players is not worth it.

I miss 4th edition. Perfect balance of crunch and playability. If Hero Designer had a 4th edition option I'd be using that rule set now. Separating Transfer into a linked Aid and Drain just took a power that was intuitively understood and turned it into several lines of crunch. The fact that Grab has SIX pages and change and the equivalent maneuver in D&D's 5th edition player handbook is less than a single page is very telling. The champions 4th edition hardcover was both visually great and a good balance between too many and too few rules. I feel old and nostalgic. 😐

Depends on where you place the fat.

I thought adjacent hexes are DCV 0 vs. AoE attacks. Leaving the possibility for the land mine to miss its own hex does not make dramatic sense. This is the type of crunch that scares players away instead of drawing them to the table.