Fuzzy Gnome

On 11/6/2017 at 9:00 AM, DasBroot said:

Off topic but since the Build was capitalized I thought this was about a character named Doctor Strange Build, so I was curious.

 

(He's the one they call Dr Strangebuild, he's the one that's going to make you feel alright, he's the one they call Dr Strangebuild, he's gonna be your Frankenstein... /motley crue)

 

 

After they added the Doctor Orpheus-esque beard (the Mystic Pack, I think) to City of Heroes, I made Doctor Strangebeard. His build was Radiation Emission/Radiation Blast. 

My legs are bionic

My spells are atomic

My worries are gone

I love the bomb

Or it can be transferred to an heir, or to a conqueror. Yeah, I won this sword off that guy I defeated, which made it easier to beat him...

Combat would have been so different in the Cretaceous if dinosaurs had tactical teleportation.

Re: Outside the Box powers

physically' date=' not morally.[/i']

Oh, I dunno. When that gamma bomb went off and Bruce got a ton of beef from some other dimension, it was already alive when he found it. Fridge horror.

Re: Istvatha V'han - why can't she conquer Earth?

Never underestimate the Moroboshi Grip.

Re: Costumes

It might shrink if it got wet' date=' so she changed into her speed skating outfit to swim in.[/quote']

 

If the series had gone a fourth season, I'd like to have seen her speed skating in a pilot outfit.

Re: Costumes

The back of her costume is much higher than several of the comic book versions including the one posted earlier this thread.

She seldom arched her back, and she always made sure to change out of her swimsuit before swimming.

Re: Are there ANY good plant/wood powers names?

The Germinator.

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

I think Croatoa also has some graveyards.

Croatoa has a haunted park with memorial statues and cenotaphs. All it lacks is actual graves. I'm pretty sure you can't get the badge there.

Re: Odd Costume Designes

He'd probably be better than the briefs-clad German CoH hero my friend created' date=' [i']Wunderpants![/i]

That made me laugh.

Re: Hey Gang!

Hi, Jack! Can this be my first thread hijack?

Re: Need help with CoH crossover

I found a screen of Positron's build during CoV Beta.

Re: Solar Sails

Yeah, I vaguely recall a poem from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about Icarus seeing how high he could go, and getting in trouble when he flew too far from the Sun.

Re: Need help with CoH crossover

Miss Liberty has damage resistance where Mynx has defense. I fought Malaise once or twice; I think he has radiation debuffs and maybe psychic blasts... I don't remember exactly and I've deleted my old screenshots to make room on my HD.

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

Guitar/panda rocker?

Re: Affects Solid World

Your Head

A Splode

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

T'was Bora.

Re: So ... uhm ... Pulp ... yeah.

Trouble is Pulp is a medium, not a genre. It's like asking What is Manga? The Continental Op, Tarzan, and Kimball Kinnison are all pulp. Indiana Jones and Han Solo. About all they have in common is "two fisted action" and highly competent characters.

Re: How to: Ego Roll Wall

...or go (temporarily) insane due to the mental stress. After all' date=' there might have been a [i']reason[/i] your mind couldn't take going through. I wouldn't feel that bad in most cases about imposing some kind of side effects for circumventing the problem that are not there if you overcome the problem in the usual fashion (e.g. making the Ego roll).

 

Of course, you should reward imaginative problem solving, but myabe this one shouldn't really be considered imaginative at this point.

Common sense doesn't have to be imaginative. You wouldn't stand in a fire you could leap through, or try to swim through quicksand. Why not try to avoid or minimze any obstacle you encounter?

Re: Ahead, Warp Factor...

Oh, agreed. And the physics describing forces we can throw around with our present technology is well-enough known that nobody's going to build an antigravity device or any similar space opera gadget without harnessing cosmic forces. It's just the idea of doing it within a century that seems damned unlikely.

Re: Ahead, Warp Factor...

Someone on Slashdot, who apparently read the article more closely than I did, said that the 57% c figure is the velocity where the 'forward' gravity reaches zero. By the time the antigravitational bow shock pushes the payload to 57%c in the launch vehicle's inertial reference frame, thrust has reached zero. So your launch vehicle will have to not only be massive enough to generate a powerful gravity field, but be moving quickly enough to still be going 57%c relative to the payload when the payload reaches interstellar velocity. Additionally, the payload will have to be very agile to dodge something closing at more than 57%c that's big enough and close enough to be generating strong gravity. Velocity based DCV perhaps?

Re: Sick of Wolverine

Clearly' date=' Stark is paying him too much... but at least that makes sense as the man can't clone himself. [/quote']

I wonder. His regeneration got ridiculously powerful that time Magneto or Lady Deathstrike or whoever it was stole his adamantium. Has he ever tried cloning himself? Fission isn't just for paramecia and radiation accidents anymore.

Re: Fixing Find Weakness

*rant mode*

And a wee spiteful bit of myself wanted to point out that it's a redheaded stepchild orphan mechanic from 1st edition, with potential balance issues and major abuses and weird justifications that don't fit with the toolkit system...

 

Just like Killing attacks.

 

But because Find Weakness is considered to fit a classical superheroic concept, a lot of the same folk who hate the KA orphan mechanics as "not superheroic" will vehemently defend the FW orphan mechanics.

 

*end rant*

I'm one of those people. I think Killing Attacks stink, but I tolerate Find Weakness. The difference is that Find Weakness usually only comes up for over-the-top superheroic martial artists, while most genres are full of Killing Attacks. It's like the rulebook is saying that the best mechanic to describe mundane stuff you can get at Wal-Mart like pistols, bows, and straight razors is a Wildly Unpredictable Stunning Attack. I find it less jarring that Karate Kid can stun Superman than that any brick or armor dude in any genre has to be pretty much immune to a 16 ton weight in order to have any reasonable chance to stay conscious after a fusillade of mundane submachine-gun fire.

Re: Ahead, Warp Factor...

The crackpot author of the article expects a starship launch by the end of the century. Apparently all we have to do is fire a star at the payload at near-light speed, and the antigravity beam will accelerate it shocklessly to tremendous velocity. We have less than 100 years to answer these questions:

How do we accelerate the star?

It seems to me that if you're firing stars around the galaxy at velocities greater than 57.7% c then you have the technology not to care about g-forces. Just fire an unobtanium replicator at your target and build the starship and crew when it arrives. Or fly the mountain to Mohammed.

Will the payload reach a high enough speed not to be overtaken by the star?

I assume the magic number 57.7% c represents the speed required to make an antigravity beam that can repel a distant object hard enough not to actually collide. Does it depend on the mass of the propelling body? The article doesn't say.

Is this propulsion method safe for the environment?

I'd think a star flying through the spaceport at near-light speed would disturb the local wildlife. How far from the solar system do we have to fly before hitching a ride?

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

Daily Bugle: Threat or Menace?

You can make it work correctly by using the command

/newspaper$$em newspaper

Or you can do something like

/bind n "newspaper$$em newspaper"

The idea is to override the cower animation with the newspaper emote. Alas, I couldn't get it to work with the laptop emote; further experimentation is in order.