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  5. Speed Zone?

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    Re: Speed Zone?

     

    I'm posting just to get a seat at the discussion from the start.

     

    I think the Speed Zone was a half-[biblical beast of burden]ed attempt to give us a mechanic that could do all the neat stuff speedsters do in the comics, but at such a prohibitive cost and with so many warnings that most comments I've heard about it are along the lines of "I'd never approve a character made with this power in MY campaign world unless I were mentally deranged."

  6. Outside the Box powers

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    Re: Outside the Box powers

     

    Here's how it goes; Suppose you are in a 10x10 room with someone' date=' a guard say. Now with a normal FLASH you would make it so the guard couldn't see ANYTHING. Now restrict that blindness to just the sight of the character. She is standing in front of you and you can't see her for a number of segments equal to the FLASH. You can still see the room, walls , floor etc but not her, all is normal. By the time the Flash wears off she is long gone and you don't recall seeing her there at all.[/quote']

     

    New people entering the room can see you just fine.

     

    Invisibility with a time limit also works like this, but new people entering the room won't see you either.

  7. Outside the Box powers

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    Re: Outside the Box powers

     

    In the 1987 movie The Hidden an alien took over the bodies of humans by crawling inside them.

     

    This would be a HKA with a Linked Shape Change. The change would be limited to those killed, so it wouldn't be that expensive.

     

    Is that the one where the alien looked like some sort of giant mosquito? When it wasn't inside anyone, anyhow.

  8. Fort Knox Has Been Robbed

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    Re: Fort Knox Has Been Robbed

     

    "You don't say? Well, when it's been stolen, call me back and we'll talk." *Click*

     

    (I actually don't have any heroes who'd do that but it's the first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.) ;)

     

    Actually, except for Agent D. or Lance O'Bannon, T.S.C., not many of my characters were much good at this sort of investigation.

  19. Superhero settings vs People with Powers settings

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    Re: Superhero settings vs People with Powers settings

     

    Another thing: in the majority of Superheroic settings*, it's generally agreed that superpowers are beneficial to society in some way despite the loose cannons, while in PWP settings, the jury is either still out as to whether powered people cause less harm than they prevent.

     

    *IME. YMMV. ;)

  20. Superhero settings vs People with Powers settings

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    Re: Superhero settings vs People with Powers settings

     

    I've always felt that PWP stories have less-rubbery science and less-overt heroes and villains. The heroes and villains are largely unknown to the general populace. The actual existence of powers is either completely unknown outside the powered community or outsiders hold "superpowers" in the same sort of skeptical disdain as the Loch-Ness Monster, Sasquatch, or the Abominable Snowman. There may be some unpowered "true-believers" who have met or at least heard about these mysterious individuals with superpowers, along with some opportunists who don't believe in anything but an opportunity to sell powers-related merchandise (books, "artifacts", seminars, etc., just like any good moneymaking cult).

     

    Superhero settings usually include more fantastic origins than PWP. How many PWP stories feature someone who is transformed by a nuclear explosion (Hulk), Rocketed to Earth from a Dying Civilization (Superman), or a "god" (Thor). Also I think Supers are definitely in the "wear distinctive outfit" camp, whereas in a PWP setting, everyone wears pretty-much what normal people might under similar circumstances.

  21. The cranky thread

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    Re: The cranky thread

     

    But now I've talked to your manager' date=' and I've sent in a message to your Corporate Customer Relations office. Put the d**n iPhone away next time and do your job.[/quote']

     

    That part made my day. Could someone rep Ternaugh for me please?

  22. Genre-crossover nightmares

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    Re: Genre-crossover nightmares

     

    13 Monkees

    An attempt to clone a popular singing group from the '60s results in a worldwide pandemic, forcing scientists in the future to send an agent into the past to stop them.

     

    Miracle on Elm Street

    Santa VS Freddie Kruger: "You were always a naughty boy, Freddie/ It ends tonight!"

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