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There is  long history of characters having a single dehabilitating weakness.  Bram Stokers Dracula had multiple weakness including being destroyed by sunlight.  Werewolves being harmed by silver and the fey being harmed by iron also predate the appearance of superman.  Then there is the most famous disadvantage in history.  The term Achilles Heel comes from the Greek mythology that is thousands of years old.  Giving superman credit for the idea a character having a weakness is ignoring a long history of other characters having weaknesses.  
 
Even in gaming there are numerous examples of this.   When AD&D first came out Magic Users could not use armor and clerics were limited to specific weapons.  Champions might have been the first that gave players the choice of what their weakness was but is not the first to build weaknesses into characters.  
 

Oh no, you don't!
 
That"s how 2/3 of this threas happened!..:lol:
 
 

This really seems like one of the edge cases the rules didn't think of. If the only benefit you get from Desolid is the ability to be amorphous enough to ooze through things, then just cost it out as its own thing, using Desolid as a basis. Forcing the system into a universal, catch-all, build anything toolkit breaks down whenever a power provides more than a single benefit, IMO. There's a reason Growth and Shrinking were decoupled from most of their bonuses. This seems like a similar case. If a player just wants to be amorphous, then give them a custom power called  Amorphous, costed as appropriate to your campaign setting. Shouldn't be too expensive, IMO. But you don't get any built in defenses, or any built in weaknesses. It's a problem solved easily by GM fiat.

IMO, requiring such a high ratio of character build points come from Disadvantages diluted their impact. When I first read Champions, I thought, "Wow, this game has some role playing hooks built right into the system!" When I first built a character, I thought, "How am I going to cram in X number of Disadvantages on this sheet and keep the character in concept?" If you only have meaningful disadvantages, then you don't need as many to define a character, and that side of the character sheet starts looking more diverse among characters in the group. It also makes life easier for the GM.

I checked through a few editions, and the qualifier that Universal Translator only enables one to speak or write a language "crudely" seems to appear in 5th edition. 4th edition version just says that, yeah, you can speak, read and write any language you encounter. (With a few qualifiers such as physical ability to "speak" in the mode presented). So one solution is just to use 4th edition. (I'm not checking previous editions.)
 
OK, so you're stuck with a particular edition and you don't want to say the Rules As Written for that edition are pointlessly limiting. Steve Long gave another way out in 5e by deriving Talents from standard Powers and Skills. Officially, Universal Translator consists of two Detects: Detect Meaning of Speech [10 points] + Detect Meaning of Text [10 points]. Except thi9s is wrong. BY RAW, a basic Detect only registers the presence and intensity of some object or quality. Detect Meaning of Speech will only tell you that yup, that's speech and it has more or less meaning. You need Discriminatory, at the very least. And you would also need Transmit in order to speak back.
 
So let's "correct" the derivation, while conserving the final cost, by treating it this way: Detect Meaning of Speech (3 points -- pretty specialized), Discriminatory (+5 points), Transmit (+2 points); + Detect Meaning of Text (3 points), Descriminatory (+5 points), Transmit (+2 points). Though by RAW you could reduce the cost to 15, because you can add a second class of entity to a Detect for a flat +5 points without needing to re-purchase all the added modifiers.
 
To Detect and Transmit the finer shades of meaning implied by true mastery of a language, add Analyze. For the verion of UT that conserves existing point values that pushes the final cost to 30 points. Using the two-categories hack, the final cost drops back to 20 points.
 
You'll still have to make a PER Roll to comprehend or communicate in the language, but getting a better roll for this single Enhanced Sense costs only 1 point per +1. Buy +3 and I think it's fair to say you'now effectively have 4 points of fluency in any language you enounter.
 
If you're *really* persnickety, add +2 points for "Sense", so you can use it without needing a half-Phase action. But I think you can bring the whole thing in at 25 points.
 
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Man!  Suddenly i don't want this power.
 
I can't imagine having to repeat everything 7,151 times!   That would be like having eight kids!
 
 

Nah - just a Data transfer cable.

How well I know.
 

Since you want it, I hope for your sake they do. But personally, I've found both comic companies to have been rather creatively bankrupt for years, and their universes having become something of a convoluted bloated mess. Neither world entices me to role-play in it any more.
 
I'm happier with our Champions Universe for my supers gaming fix.

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One way to look at it is to ask if it's ever going to be a plot point. A good acid test for whether something is going to be a plot point in an adventure is whether it will ever come under time pressure. If you envision a scenario where a priest PC has to consecrate some bodies before the necromancer villain can get to them, then it may need a little mechanical definition. Which doesn't have to involve a power write up. It could just be noting down how much time the ritual takes. I'd leave the mechanics on the necromancy spells and have the rest be settings factors, as others have suggested above.

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IMO, requiring such a high ratio of character build points come from Disadvantages diluted their impact. When I first read Champions, I thought, "Wow, this game has some role playing hooks built right into the system!" When I first built a character, I thought, "How am I going to cram in X number of Disadvantages on this sheet and keep the character in concept?" If you only have meaningful disadvantages, then you don't need as many to define a character, and that side of the character sheet starts looking more diverse among characters in the group. It also makes life easier for the GM.

If the players are buying it, LS for the stasis and Mind Link for the ability of the operator to enter the sleeper's dreams, with the appropriate limitations.
 
If it's a thing installed on a vehicle that the GM didn't have the players pay for, simply handwave the build and narritively describe how it works. It's good to keep in mind that not everything that you can build with points has to be built out. The points balancing is more to keep the player characters relatively in line with each other. I typically just give the players their bases and vehicles for free, so they don't have to carve out the points from their character sheets.
 
It sounds like the second case is true, since it's a SF game and most genres outside of supers suggest that players don't pay points for equipment. So, handwave is the best build option, IMO.
 
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IMO, requiring such a high ratio of character build points come from Disadvantages diluted their impact. When I first read Champions, I thought, "Wow, this game has some role playing hooks built right into the system!" When I first built a character, I thought, "How am I going to cram in X number of Disadvantages on this sheet and keep the character in concept?" If you only have meaningful disadvantages, then you don't need as many to define a character, and that side of the character sheet starts looking more diverse among characters in the group. It also makes life easier for the GM.

That's how I read it as well, its not just streamlining, it is simply logical.
 
And there is a corollary to this rule: if you have a skill, even if you fail, you do better than people who don't have it.  Say you have acrobatics; I screwed this up once in a game, and the player never attempted an acrobatics roll again.  He wanted to flip out a window to avoid a bad guy with a gun.  I had him try the roll, fail, and he ended up draped over the window sill.  OK it was funny but... I failed as a GM.  He should have gotten through the window, but landed on his face, or kicked out part of the window frame in the process, something like that.

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Which one?

I just tried generating some examples "in the style of" with ChatGPT 3.5. The results were pretty laughable, and all clearly recognizable as ChatGTP's own style, which I suspect is imposed by its safety constraints. It's pretty bad at style mimicry, unless it's something like Dr. Seuss, where it can pick up some obvious things.
 
At least so far.
 
Edit: To comment on the actual lawsuit: It's not illegal to ape someone's style. AI may eventually be able to do so, but it's not currently illegal. They're poking the wrong branch of government to get the protections they want. They need new law, because existing law doesn't really cover their concern.

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It's premature to give up on the American system.

Actually, I found coming across this video on this thread to be something of a relief, even an actual balm to my soul.

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I'll summarize:
 
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Is the current propaganda being broadcast on Russian TV.
 
 

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