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Re: Answers & Questions
A: Comparative numerology.Q: "Compare and contrast the spiritual and prophetic properties of 11011, XVII, and 27"? What class is this for, anyway?
A: Not a chance. YOU put on the red cape and the top hat!
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: The Hero staff are feeling down ! Let's cheer them up by ___________ !...sending in Carmen Electra in a Viperia costume!
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: Cross over celebrity musicians that just might work."And next on Classical 89, we hear Chris Cornell and the Canadian Brass performing Verdi's Dies Irae...."
New Topic: The LAST thing I wanted to hear today was ________________.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A: Obscure Publications.Q: Did you hear who's publishing transcripts of every single Farscape episode?
A: Two cups whole wheat flour, 1.5 cups brown sugar, a teaspoon of cinnamon, and 3.6 grams of weapons grade plutonium.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: Signs that your attempts to get tickets to the Police tour have gone horribly' date=' horribly wrong[/i'].You end up spending your whole evening with the Police...as well as the next 3-5 years, with the possibility of time off for good behavior.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A: Sirius' date=' Uranus and Ptah.[/quote']Q: Hey, I hear there's a new clinic in town that has a sinus specialist, a proctologist, and a salivary gland expert. Have you heard of it?
A: If you say "Reverse the polarity", I'm gonna beat you into another incarnation.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: The worst place in your house to find Mick Jagger lurking.On your back porch, gathering moss.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: Guys you don't want to know own a pair of leopardskin Speedos.Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, and all the surviving members of the Rolling Stones.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
You're adopted. Not only that' date=' you have a long-lost sister. Who, unfortunately, is your wife. The good news is this means you're entitled to a free house in Arkansas or West Virginia, your choice.[/quote']That ain't funny, is it, sis?
NT: First airlines stopped giving meals' date=' then they charged for snacks, but now, they've gone too far. They've started ______________________.[/quote']...wearing badges that say, "Don't forget to tip your flight crew. Or else."
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: You're parents just told you they want to talk with you about "something important." It turns out they wanted to tell you that ________________....that they're not the piano player and the Madame, respectively, at the local brothel. They're actually personal injury attorneys. They've just never quite known how to break it to you before now.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A: Not unless your story can be programmedQ: C++ Symposium? I thought this was the Oral History Society Convention. Could I just go ahead and tell my story anyway?
A: I'd give it a 12.6 out of 14.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: Unusual pick up lines to use on heroes and heroines"If you think my Magic Cleavage Window is amazing, you should see the rest of me....":
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Re: A little help
He wields a sledge hammer and I am having a problem with a build. I want him to have two tricks.1) the old hit the ground and knock everyone off their feet.
7u___"Hammer Time" 8d6 EB (Physical), Explosion (+1/2), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Only Affects Targets in the Ground (-1/2), No Range (-1/2).If knocking people down is the primary desired effect, you might want to throw Double Knockback (+3/4) into the mix. If my math skills haven't failed me, you end up with:
7u___"Hammer Time" 6d6 EB (Physical), Explosion (+1/2), Double Knockback (+3/4), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Only Affects Targets in the Ground (-1/2), No Range (-1/2).
On average, this would give you 12 'BODY' at Ground Zero from which to calculate KNB, as opposed to 8 'BODY' with the straight 8d6.
If all you were interested in was knocking people down, you might also slap a Does No STUN (-3/4) limitation on it. That saves you two points!
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Re: Sand Staff
I dunno.I can't really see making a distinction between silicon particles from a beach or desert and silicon particles from a chunk of dirt in Iowa. Maybe make the staff less powerful outside of a strictly sand area, and the character may not initially believe it will work outside of a sandy area, but fine dirt is fine dirt. Having it not be able to use dirt clods and rocks is certainly within concept, which is another reason to have a decreased effect in non-sandy regions.
The biggest distinction would be availability. 'Dirt' is made up of a lot of different things, of which 'sand' might be only a minor component. 'Sand' is almost entirely silicon dioxide. Dirt includes a fair bit of that, as well as other minerals (other metal oxides, carbonates, hydroxides, nitrates, phosphates, and the like) and organic matter. Drawing enough 'sand' out of the red clay you find in southern Utah, for example, could make the power almost useless.
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Re: Sand Staff
How dare you rep people for having characters that make sense. That makes the rest of us look bad!Of course, what the heck was I thinking?
Rep to thee for setting me straight.
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Re: Sand Staff
I want it just to be sand' date=' yes she may not be able to use it often, but it is one of her powers, she comes from the desert. Id rather her powers made sense and wre consistent with her back ground, than they were useful[/quote']So her powers are less powerful, but they fit with the character concept and backstory.
That, of course, is the Right Answer.
Rep to thee.
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Re: Sand Staff
At this point in the conversation, one of the players in my campaign would invariably say, "Is it a full staff, or just a publicist and a girl Friday?"
Seriously, though, the HA would be the way to go. And if it can be made of ANY small, stony, particulate matter (i.e., pebbles, gravel, or even just ordinary dirt) and not just sand, maybe a -1/4 limitation (Requires Loose Ground Nearby) would be appropriate. More points, but you can use it in Iowa and not just at the beach.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A:You only wish it was a computer game.Q: Angelina Jolie's in my bedroom and she's got pistols, and she's REALLY starting to creep me out...
A: Down the hall, up two flights of stairs, and through the waist-deep toxic sludge. It's the first door on the left.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: After their shameless killings of innocent monsters' date=' 'heroes' like Hercules, Theseus and Perseus have to do service in the community. Such as ?[/quote']Untying Gordian Knots...in the shoelaces of kindergarteners.
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Re: Answers & Questions
A:The last we saw he was going 100.Q: My Grandpa was just here at the top of this hill in his wheelchair. Where the heck did he go?
A: A peanut butter, mustard, and onion sandwich, on rye bread. Lightly toasted.
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
NT: How do you solve a problem like Maria ?You can forget about things like raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens. Those kinds of solutions never work. You may have better luck with Lederhosen made from old curtains, though.
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Re: What Kind of Heroes do you GM?
I hear that.Our group - the core three have been a group for 16 years, one recent addition about 6 months ago (a kid who is trying HERO for the first time), and everyone else is at least 7 to 12 years in the group.
Sweet mercy, has it really been that long?
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Re: Review My XP Policy
My advice on your XP policy is this.Don't upgrade to Vista or buy a Vista as a new edition until Microsoft debug it
The online comic strip User Friendly had an interesting bit on Vista this past Sunday:
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20070617
Summary: "Thanks for Vista! It makes us look so good!" Signed, the Ubuntu Linux guys
NGD Scenes from a Hat
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Re: NGD Scenes from a Hat
You can enjoy your pizza with soft drinks, cold draft beer, or a bottle of that Ol' Janx Spirit.