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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat They're appearing in a Celebrity Supers Softball Tournament against the Avengers, the West Coast Avengers, and the X-Men. Look out, Defender, Wolvie is one sneaky pitcher. New Topic: Creative uses for an abandoned VIPER base.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Re: Viper/Demon and organization in other fiction like them In the Stargate SG-1 universe, the obvious candidates are the NID and their successors, the Trust. They have all the cool toys, and lots and lots of agents. And they're doubly dangerous because they have substantial government contacts.

Re: Colossus Perhaps I may be of assistance. Yes, an attack does need to do BODY damage to cause Knockback. So attacks that don't do BODY--most NND attacks, for example--don't cause Knockback. Attacks that have the potential to cause BODY damage, like standard EBs, KAs, or punches, can also do Knockback as a result. Here's the critical bit: a character does not need to suffer BODY damage from an attack to take Knockback from it. Standard, Resistant, and even Hardened Defenses have no effect on Knockback. The only things that affect Knockback, if I recall correctly, are Density, Growth, and Knockback Resistance. Let's take look at your example above. Your version of Colossus would, indeed, take 11 STUN and no BODY from the attack. However, Knockback is determined independently of all that. Let's say this attack was a punch thrown by another brick--Arclight, for example. After tallying the STUN and BODY, Arclight's player rolls two additional dice. Let's say she rolls 7. She subtracts this from the BODY total to get 5" of Knockback (12 - 7 = 5). Assuming that Colossus has one level each of Growth and Density Increase, as suggested by some of the other builds, we factor those into the Knockback calculation as well: Growth gives -1" Knockback/Level and Density Increase gives -1"/level. So, in the end, you end up with a total of 3" Knockback that Piotr takes from the attack (5 - 1 - 1 = 3). In short, you can do Knockback to a character without getting any BODY through their defenses. For example, I remember a fight between several of Colossus' teammates and Juggernaut. Juggy hit Rogue and sent her flying several hundred feet (and through a stone fence, as I recall). Rogue spent the trip shouting "Ow-ow-ow-ow-OW-ow-ow...", but when she got up, she had no bruises, broken bones, or other impairing injuries. In other words, she'd taken a lot of Knockback--enough to send her trough a stone fence--but had taken no BODY damage. I hope that helps.

Re: Llama and Chablis I don't have any Chablis on hand. How about a nice Chianti?

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Yeah, I blew out my ACL a couple of fights back. You'll have to settle for a semi-respectful curtsy, big fella."

Re: Superhero Images Thanks for the tip. I think I'll download it and play with it myself. Rep to thee!

Re: test. Holy cow, you sound just like my 2nd period class! That's not a good thing, by the way....

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "I'll take The Paris Sewer System for $200, Alex." (Les Miserables had 50+ pages on the topic, as I recall.)

Re: Colossus Yeah, trying to build someone like Colossus on 350 would be a bugger, even with the OIHID limitation. I'd always pictured Colossus with a STR around 70.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... GM: Do you have Seduction? Billy: I spent three years of my life stranded on a deserted island. Who would I have seduced? {puts arm around imaginary palm tree} "Hello, my darling. Your bark is looking particularly radiant today...."

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat "Of the eight of you in this class, three of you will end up on welfare, two of you will spend most of your lives in jail, one of you will be a college dropout, one of you will join the Army and be dishonorably discharged, and one of you will most likely shoot yourself and save your spouse the trouble. I'm SO outta here."

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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Your passport was issued by the Democratic Republic of the Congo. (Go Senators!)

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Nice terracotta army you've got there. What's with all the dirt? A: It's not that difficult, if you've got the right equipment.

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat Folks from Roanoke, Richmond, and Blacksburg start chasing after the poor critters because they remember reading about how a unicorn can only be ridden by a Virginian. New Topic: Roses are red, violets are blue, ___________________________.

Re: Countries that don't exist (but should) Rep to both o' yas!

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: And chasing a rabid white rhino through the streets of Dover is just an ordinary day to you, is it? A: I'm going mad, and you're reaping all the benefits!

Re: Musings on Random Musings ...if you could just move yours I could get working on my own.

Re: Countries that don't exist (but should) I sometimes tell people I'm from Eastern Slobovia. You know, it's one of those countries that came crawling out of the woodwork after the fall of Communism.

Re: test. Bloody right. Repped!

Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat The Cowboys have three players and a coach on the NFL's All-Criminal Team: Michael Irvin, Nate Newton, Alonzo Spellman, and Jimmy Johnson. ( http://www.thephatphree.com/features.asp?StoryID=850&SectionID=2 ) New Topic: Classes that should have been offered in high school, but weren't.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Cursum Perficio from Enya's "Watermark" CD

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Who ever thought a professor could make vector calculus so interesting? A: A hippie, a mime, and a retired NFL linebacker in a pink bunny suit.