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You could do it as a straight Detect Invisible sense. From what I can tell, that should work unless the person specifically bought Invisibility against "Detect Invisible".

I can't say I'm familiar with the character but he looks just ducky. To meddle a bit: ==== He's got 5 purchases for movement powers. You could put those into a multipower then just put a focus limit (or Only in Heroic ID) on the appropriate slots: Multipower 10 active points (unbelievably athletic) Running f1 Swimming f1 Leaping f1 Gliding Cape (Flight 10m (10 Active Points), Gliding -1, OIF -½); f1 Swingline (Swinging 15m (8 Active Points), OAF -1); f1 You end up spending 15 points instead of 14 but you have the option of increasing the movement power (or buying to 0 END) all the slots except the Gliding Cape. ==== I find martial arts irritating for these kinds of characters as well since most dark knights seem to have 20 maneuvers at least. I'm not extremely familiar with how 6e might have changed the rules for building new maneuvers so someone might need to check the costs but for your consideration but these were published in 4th edition. Note: I really like maneuvers where the opponent falls. Toss +0 -2 Disarm, Full Move, Falls (4) Moving Dodge +0 +4 Dodge, Abort, Full Move (4) Charge +1 -2 strike for STR +2d6, Full Move, Falls (5) Offensive Escape +0 +1 strike for STR +2d6, +10 STR to escape, uses up your full phase (5)

Yeah, I guess you're at least getting a discount for eating a danish, but it still doesn't seem like eating the danish is free.

I love your approach to the character. Is his density increase power under his conscious control? Or is it triggered and uncontrolled? If you're going for the mindless brute version, his INT and some skills could be Only When Not in Heroic ID since The Hulk doesn't have access to those. In the comics, Banner is traditionally depicted as being puny, even by the standards of normal people, especially at the beginning of his career as the Hulk. I could easily see his extra STR, DEX, CON, BODY, PRE, COM, PD, ED, and SPD being bought as only in heroic ID. Maybe the armor and movement multipower is Only in Heroic ID? I can see the Hulk using those powers but not the baseline Dr. Banner. And if you're going to be true to the comics, I'd think of adding a Leaping slot that has megascale, though I admit that I haven't done the math to figure out the extra distance you might get from megascale. If you're going for the movie version of the Hulk, you could add a Swinging slot to the multipower to represent the "super-parkour" power he displayed jumping from building side to building side in the Avengers movie. He moved smoothly along the sides of those buildings as if he were Spider-Man.

Does anyone else find it funny that it costs a character point to speak danish but no points to eat a danish?

In this discussion, I'm strongly reminded of one Iron Man comic book from the 1980's. He was going to some multi-millionaire mastermind's yacht, I think either Stane or Justin Hammer, with the idea of beating the hell out of him. The mastermind had used his immense wealth to hire literally 40-50 villains (who'd faced off one-on-one against solo heroes like Captain America, Daredevil, and Spiderman) to act as his personal army of bodyguards. Iron Man ended up just plowing through the villains in a short but epic battle because Batroc the Leaper, The Ringer, The Spot, The Constrictor, and a lot of other villains who can legitimately take up a whole issue fighting many heroes really shouldn't be able to stand up against Iron Man.

I think villains should be equal to or a little stronger that heroes. 1) Many villains suffer from some sort of complication which make them focus on something other than being efficient in combat. They can be after revenge, after the loot, showboating, vain, competitive against their partner, distrustful of their partner, or all sorts of things which distract them from being their best in combat and working together well with their group. 2) When the game is multiple villains vs the PC's, the GM has to do all the thinking and planning for the villains. The players each get to sit there while other players are acting and think about what they'll do next while a GM has to think on the fly each time he has a character he controls act. Unless the GM wants the game to slow to a crawl, the GM can't take the time to maximize the combat efficiency of the characters he controls. The traditional way of balancing that out is making the villains a bit more powerful than the heroes. Or at least more powerful in their niche ability than the heroes. So you get a lot of Sabretooth vs Wolverine or Wendigo vs Wolverine...which leaves Wolverine having to try to either outlast or out-think his competition rather than beating them through superior savagery.

That's how I'd recommend doing it. Maybe also give Harry Potter a personal immunity to it.

XS from the Legion of Superheroes and The Flash fame Raven from the Teen Titans

One of the stars of Captain Marvel did a 53 minute live stream and among other things, showed off how she did her own stunts.

They've had to re-write and reshoot the movie so many times...and after already pushing back the release date, they're pretty much forced to release it this time whether its any good or not. Last I heard, it was still doing terribly in test screenings. What a waste.

Doctor Doom - I don't think Doom is inherently a villain. There's a benevolent noblesse oblige to his character which requires him to fulfill social responsibilities. Even in the mainstream 616 universe, many of his attempts to take over the world are based around the idea that the world is screwed up and he can really fix what's wrong with it and make things better for people if only he were in charge. It'd be interesting for 616 to see alternates where his doppelgangers successfully solved world hunger, poverty, and the unending grind of daily life without resorting to despicable behavior like killing underlings who fail him. Captain America - I think I'd like to see this not for the other Captain America's themselves but for the various alternate realities and how those others choose to carry on the fight to inspire people and make those worlds a better place. Nazi America with the Germans having won WWII and co-opting American patriotic symbols for their puppet government in the US. Communist World where the "domino theory" was actually true and the creation of North Korea and a communist Vietnam led to most governments around the world falling to the "red doom". Obama becoming president and ending racial strife in America. Donald Trump wearing the Serpent Crown. Green Lantern - I see this not as a recreation of the Green Lantern Corps but at alternate looks at how the Guardians might have decided to use the Corps. They could have been control freaks and have put a Lantern on every planet to act as the leader and enforcer of the Guardian's will. Or use them to raise and train rebel groups to overthrow unjust governments. Or to start a religion centered on the Guardians. I mean you'd have to get around that whole "There's only an Oa in one universe" thing before you could come up with alternate versions of the Corps but once you handwave that away, there's a lot of very alien ways for a group of aliens to use an army of super-enforcers. Phantom Girl - I love Phantom Girl but most of her alternates would be just looks at different versions of the Legion of Superheroes. And with all their nauseating reboots, we've seen that over and over anyway. I'd rather just see a LSH story in the Paul Levitz era before the Great Darkness Saga. That'd dovetail in to the DC movie universe trying to set up Darkseid as an ultimate god-like villain if they wanted to show the lead up to the Saga in subsequent movies. No alternates, just a great story with a great group of heroes with distinct personalities. The Hulk - I'm not much of a fan of the character in this multiverse-bending setting. If a mindless versions met another version, most likely they'd instantly start a fight and destroy the world around them and I don't see a way around that without some convenient handwaving to erase that part of their personalities (Dr. Strange cast a calming spell on them, etc.). And I don't know what you'd do with more than one mindless Hulk at a time anyway. I never liked the gray-skinned version. Professor Hulk is vaguely interesting but I don't know what he'd do on the big screen.

I have to put so many modifiers on my politics these days. I used to describe myself as a supply side, civil libertarian for supporting the "open borders " Republican Jack Kemp with his flat tax plan for president in 1988 and Democrat Moonbeam Jerry Brown with his flat income tax plan in 1992. But that's getting kind of dated now. Today I'm more of a Civil Libertarian, Constitutionalist, Small Government, Original Never Trumper (before Romney's clique joined the Never Trumpers and ruined the name). So I'm a CLiCoSmaGONT. The Clicosmagont. Kind of rolls of the tongue, doesn't it? Complications: Never invited to join a party

Harvard reports to the EEOC yearly so the last date of her being in violation of that law would be her last year of employment there.

From what I remember reading the statute, the president doesn't have to justify the emergency, he only has to declare it. Congress needs to do a whoopsie on that because like on so many other things, they assumed that all future presidents were going to act rationally. Or at least in accordance with his own political interests.

Yeah, the statute of limitations was 5 years from when she stopped being employed at Harvard so it expired last year, you know, "long ago". I don't want to lock her up. I want people to look at her with a critical eye and decide if that's the kind of person they want to be representing the Democratic Party. She clearly pretended to be a minority to benefit her career then tried to quietly drop that claim when it was no longer to her benefit. I think the wide array of choices the Democratic Party has this time around that it can find someone who isn't so ethically flawed (especially on the issue of representing rather than exploiting minorities). And if all the candidates turn out to be ethically flawed, let's look at all their flaws and all of their positions on policy issues and find the best person to represent to party.

Yeah, most of the country got its ideas of what the west was like from reading escapist literature, even the people who were actually living in the west. Dime store novels started as serials in the 1850's in magazines and newspapers then became books around 1860. The first wild west show came around 1870. By the time Buffalo Bill's Wild West came around in 1883, there'd been decades of free advertising to prime the audiences and tell them what they'd want to see and be disappointed if they didn't see. Yeah, Hollywood played its role later on but it wouldn't have been successful doing that without most of the mythology being in place already. Cutting out the reality of Hispanic and black cowboys so Hollywood could sell movies to primarily white audiences was probably necessary for their business model. A dime store novel could get away with "hey, there's a group of cowboys standing over there" without specifying what race each of the cowboys was. They couldn't get away with that in movies because the audience could see the actors. And even as late as the 1950's many movies still intentionally minimized the number of scenes with black actors in them so those scenes could be cut out of the version of the movie which was distributed in the southern US because people in the south wouldn't go to see a movie if they were going to be subjected to the "horror" of seeing a black actor or musician on the movie screen. I get a kick out of watching old movies sometimes because I realize what I'd seen on TV in my youth was the censored version and all of the sudden this movie has black servants bringing in tea in certain scenes or when the characters go into a club, suddenly there's a black musician or singer on stage doing a song for a couple of minutes. (This probably wasn't malicious racism in my youth as much as it was that the shortened run time of the censored version allowed the TV station to run more commercials).

The one store within convenient driving distance which had a setup like that went out of business despite being packed for Magic two evenings a week, packed for Yu-Gi-Oh on Saturday afternoons, mostly full for D&D Adventurer's League, and random people playing various things and using at least some of the space the rest of the time. I honestly don't know how places can keep the doors open if getting ~50 people in three times a week guaranteed can't do it.

From what I understand, the individuals had vows of poverty which prevented them from owning private property (or even carrying personal money on their own bodies) but they could do things which would enrich the organization (such as taking "damages" for loaning money). For example, if you believe most accounts, they sold Muslim slaves from the Holy Lands and non-Muslim, non-Christian slaves traded from lands further east. And they traded in grain and wine, some as merchants and some made on estates which were owned by the order.

I had a friend back in high school (aka the Stone Age) who I would have bet wouldn't pass the Marines minimum height requirement and if he passed their minimum weight requirement it would only have been if the doctor put his foot on the scales. But the guy was also tough as nails and his idea of having a good time in high school was to go on a five mile hike with a full pack (military weight). And he was obsessed with all things military and war gaming. He came out of boot camp as a lance corporal (the Marine corp goes private, then Private first class, then Lance Corporal, then Corporal) and, due to an unlikely set of circumstances involving a tabletop wargame defending the base against a red force controlled by a group of high level officers, had offers to immediately join the staffs of his choice of two colonels and a general. But he wanted tech training or to tote a rifle rather than be on an officer's staff. I wouldn't have bet that he could have carried me off the battlefield. But I wouldn't have bet against him either.

They could try it using "Last In-First Out". So if I got my Cosmic Attack the day before you got your Cosmic Defense, your defense goes out the window and my attack works. But if you got your Cosmic Defense first, my Cosmic Attack wouldn't work. That way it makes it more difficult to overthrow the Old Gods.

Yeah, it counts. 18 U.S. Code § 1001 was the one they nailed Martha Stewart for and she wasn't a federal employee on any level. https://www.wisenberglaw.com/Articles/How-to-Avoid-Going-to-Jail-under-18-U-S-C-Section-1001-for-Lying-to-Government-Agents.shtml At that link, a law firm goes over that law and some court cases in how its been used by the government.

That's exactly what I was afraid of when they reinstated Selective Service in 1980. There's no particular reason to exempt women except that "it's the way we've always done it" and I thought it was clearly unconstitutional even at that point in time. I don't mind women joining the military voluntarily. I don't mind women serving in combat roles. But I'll admit that I'm a dinosaur enough to mind women getting drafted then thrust into combat roles when they don't want to be there. I'm not thrilled about men being drafted then thrust into combat roles when they don't want to be there (though I can see some scenarios where the country might need more men than volunteerism could quickly provide). I much prefer an all-volunteer force of professionals who've been well-trained to a perhaps larger force of people who don't particularly want to be there and who've been half-trained. I don't see how you can keep women indefinitely out of being drafted for infantry combat roles. Eventually the disparity in treatment between men and women will come up in the courts and some judge at some point will rule that unwilling girls have to be slogging through the jungles of Vietnam alongside the boys.

This has been my thoughts for years. But as my income has steadily shrunk with there being no possibility of increase and I become closer and closer to being a shut-in, I find myself doing more online. Come to think of it, I probably haven't been to my LGS in almost three years. One thing you can do if you are a regular customer is point out to the owner of the LGS how much more expensive his price is than the cost you could get it online and ask him if he'd be willing to give you a discount. If the item has been sitting on his shelf for a while, he might be happy to get rid of it even at a lower price. I had the one owner knock close to $40 off the cost of a box of Magic cards which he'd had on his shelf for more than a year. Though that was still more expensive than I would have had to pay online, the price was close enough for me to feel comfortable in paying the difference and I didn't have to worry about the item being damaged during shipping. At the time I had a good idea of what a LGS would have to pay for a box of Magic cards and he still made a healthy profit (~35%) even after knocking $40 off the price. Of course that was when I was in his store once or twice a week. I wouldn't personally try to ask for a discount from an owner I'd just met but YMMV. Another thing you can do is see if your LGS is selling stuff on e-Bay. Sometimes they'll be selling stuff you might want there for less than his store's retail price and might cut you a deal if you offer to buy it in person and save them the hassle of shipping.

Security guards are usually hirelings of some kind rather than bank officials. I'd been vaguely thinking of having the guards be people who the nobility donated for that cause as part of payback of loans which had been given to them. But given human nature, I'm not sure that trusting such people around money would be the best option. On the other hand, if some fealty-sworn people broke faith with their liege lord and the church and made off with a sum of money, that could be a plot hook to get the PC's involved in tracking them down. On the gripping hand, I'm envisioning most of the loans as being small and with them being given out fairly rapidly within the same communities as the repayment of loans so that for the most part there's not large sums of church money being at the local churches or in transit at any particular point in time.