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I'll admit I didn't see that coming.

I guess the author just thought of the extra centaur legs as being a special effect of the additional running? In theory, any visible additional limb could be just a special effect of some other power and not an Extra Limb as defined by the rules. But if I were writing up a centaur, I'd expect those legs to be used as extra limbs with limited manipulation at some point so I'd require Buying Extra Limb.

No, but most everything can become a joke.

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Exactly. In any kind of realistic space battle, if the viewers could see one ship, they wouldn't be able to see the ship it was fighting with the naked eye. The capital ships would at least be hundreds of miles away from each other and not lit up so that they're easy to see.

I think of water as being very fluid. It could be a tidal wave (massively destructive), a wall of ice (the ultimate defense against anything other than an undead dragon's breath), or a placid lake (a place of serenity and poetry). I'd be tempted to make offensive water powers have one common distinction, defensive have another, and things which manipulate the environment in some way that isn't inherently offensive or defensive have another. For example: An offensive water spell like causing an avalanche or firing a water cannon might use something which can be done rapidly like incantation and gestures. Defensive water magics could require an extra phase and increased END when casting. Other things such as creating drinking water, making a flood recede, increasing swimming ability, etc. needs material components, five minutes of extra time or more, and a side effect of flash to sight as the caster's eyes glaze over with frost (or well up with tears). You could mix and match of course. If you want the fire magicians to be the best offensive choice, you could flip the restrictions on water's offensive and defensive spells. That'd make a water mage much better on defense and protection while more limited as a quick offensive threat.

We're supposed to be better than everyone else?

That's the difference between a professional writer who is writing a story about Batman and isn't emotionally invested in what happens to Batman versus a PC who is playing a character which is loosely based on Batman and is very emotionally invested in what happens to the character.

Apologies for destroying the city, but you must realize it would have been totally worth it if we'd actually captured Dr Nemesis and his gang of thugs, right?

I think you misspelled "Trump".

The Avengers: Age of UltroNecronomicon (aka The Robot Who Would Be Elder God) It actually could be a gain in efficiency since Ultron didn't have that pesky sanity to have to worry about losing in the first place.

Let me guess: the sound it makes isn't, "Boeing, Boeing, Boeing"?

Apparently being a Jedi makes you immune to being roasted alive over an enormous lake of lava. Everyone try to remember that none of us are Jedi.

Ding, ding, ding, ding! We have a winner! Running away in fear is probably the kind of mind-control-ish effect that bothers players the most, there's not much a player can do to creatively misinterpret such a command like they can with "attack your friends" so they're faced not only with a total loss of control of their character but their character can't even do anything interesting (like the brick gleefully pummeling his teammates or the mentalist choosing to use his fists instead of his BrainBlast to attack his brick teammate). Add to that the fact that the villain's power is designed so that it sidesteps things which might normally stop Mind Control... Don't be shocked if the team's weapons guy goes home to get his sniper rifle, fully intending on putting the villain out of the campaign permanently (or someone else otherwise tries to ensure that they never face that bad guy again).

He had a heart attack last year after having dropped his weight under 250 for the first time in years. The doctors told him that wasn't enough and he had to drop another 50 or else, which motivated him to get serious about losing the weight and keeping it off.

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Just when I start to think the USA is beyond all hope, I read a news story about Italy.

Italy - Two men cleared of rape charges, despite date rape drug found in the victim's system and physical evidence of a sexual assault, because a panel of three female judges think the woman looked too masculine to be sexually assaulted. I kid you not. https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/433864-two-men-cleared-of-rape-charges-after-court-rules-woman-too

Leroy Exodia X-Ray X-Ray-Ted Together they form the awesome superteam LEXX. Leroy, The Amazing Mullet Man is noted for both his super-strength and for being so stupid that he has his mullet in the front rather than in the back. Exodia is the cranial unit of a diplo-bot from Altair VII. Exodia currently has no superpowers per se since recently losing his body during a cruise when Leroy let Weevil Underwood "look at Exodia for a moment" then Weevil threw the Exodia body overboard. Exodia, though miffed, still tries to keep Leroy from getting lost and/or walloping the wrong target. Exodia often acts as the team spokesman. X-Ray is the newest member of LEXX. Her energy-projection powers have significantly increased the team's offensive potential. And her Comeliness has made LEXX the new darlings of the local news media. X-Ray-Ted was formerly known as being only Ted, the janitor of the Freedom Squad. In a freak accident during The Ultimates invasion of the Freedom Squad base, Ted gained X-Ray vision and used his new ability to outmaneuver and, ahem, ultimately escape the bad guys. Being somewhat drunk on power, and on several different liquors, Ted subsequently set out on a career to become a superhero despite his age and lack of outstanding combat abilities. Since X-Ray joined the team, X-Ray-Ted has spent the majority of his time watching her...purely in an effort to help her hone her powers and persona, of course. Ted so far has offered no explanation of why he spends the rest of his time watching other women.

I've always thought of Chi as being a form of psionics (TK, telepathy, precog, etc.) Most anything you see being attributed to Chi in the comics can be duplicated with various "mental" powers.

Jerry Pournelle used to rave about how great Kaiser was, at least in California where he lived.

I just like that the army of India has elements....

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Sometimes I have trouble getting interested in what's happening to another player's DNPC, especially if that DNPC seems to exist for no other reason other than to give the other player a bag of points. I don't mind rescuing or guarding. Or even doing an investigation if I'm invited by the player to take the lead in an investigation. But some players can be territorial about their DNPC's so I'm not going to jump in and start grilling the DNPC or take over and push an investigation if I'm not sure the other player will be okay with it. Having said that, my impression is that most groups would approach that scenario by investigating the scene of the murder, getting forensic evidence from the car, see what the police know, and question the DNPC about what she saw. And that the group would develop their own leads from there based on the information they'd collected themselves. Maybe they were thrown off by the DNPC continuing to be in the middle of things and dribbling out clues to them rather than fading into the background? I don't know the profession of the DNPC but unless she's in the business, I'd expect the police or the superheroes to be the ones finding and developing leads.

I had a high school friend who went almost completely bald before age 25. The guys in my family either do the very distinguished Phil Donahue full-head-of-prematurely-silver-hair thing or end up with the typical male pattern baldness while going gray with the remaining hair fairly late. Guess which one my sibling got and which one I got. Hint: No one calls me "The Distinguished Archer".