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Re: VILLAINS, VANDALS, AND VERMIN -- What Would *You* Like To See? It reminds me of a GURPS character in one of the supplements I read. I forgot her name but she was a mad scientist who looked like June Cleaver. She would build a death-ray in one hand and bake cookies with the other. That in itself would be an interesting writeup. My mom, the supervillian

Re: VILLAINS, VANDALS, AND VERMIN -- What Would *You* Like To See? A temporal villian in the Master Villian area. Someone like Kang the Conqueror from Marvel Comics who not only wants world domination but temporal domination as well.

Re: CHAMPIONS UNIVERSE: NotW -- Updating Villains I'd like to see villian(s) who redeem his/herself and become heroes and heroes who have gone rogue and become villians.

Re: The Beverly Hillbillies On Granny, I'd had a couple of levels in Shotgun. She was just as good, if not more so, as Jed and Jethro!

Re: THE ULTIMATE MENTALIST -- What Do *You* Want To See? I'd like to add, in case it didn't come up, charts showing the results of attacks beyond the CHA + 30 range. What would the effect of mental powers be say at + 40, + 50, + 60, etc...? It could open up some interesting possiblities

Re: THE ULTIMATE MENTALIST -- What Do *You* Want To See? Expand on clairsentience and what it can/cannot do. Maybe some new adders (or advantages) to do things like speed up or slow down what you're seeing if you're viewing the past or the future (i.e. like a movie projector or a vcr). An deeper explanation of precognition/retrocognition. How accurate you can view the past/future. The viewing of multiple timelines (probably handled with the transdimensional advantage but is there a different way) or the possible interaction of them. Just my thoughts

Re: The Ultimate Skill (micro review) According to Steve in a prvious thread: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47026 Armorsmith Divination Feint Hoist Instructor Musical Instrument Familiarity Parachuting Poisoning Research Enjoy!!

Re: Fun Character concepts You may want to watch The TICK cartoon for some more ideas. They had Plunger Man, Captain Mucilage, The Decency Squad, etc... on the heroes side and The Deadly Bulb, Proto Clown, Chairface Chippendale, etc... on the villians side. If you've never seen it, the cartoon is still playing on a channel called JETIX which is part of the Disney Channel. You may want to buy the DVD of the cartoon which will be out the 29th of next month Enjoy!

Re: Countering the Speed Zone Point taken but at the same time some GM's will probably be ignorant about it, allow it without realizing the repurcussions and start pulling their hair out with a game breaking power like this I'm just looking for a viable defense for the Speed Zone other than outright banning it. I know some players will look at this power, drool with anticipation and want to start using the this ASAP to some major head busting. I hope this thread can shed some light on a good defense for a major offense Just my $.02

Tell me about your characters DNPC. My character has one called Henry who is the janitor of our base. He looks like Sam Elliott w/ a big white overgrown mustache who mumbles alot about "51" and "Rosewell" and "Project #@*&^%(" One of our other PC's tried to read his mind and came up with incomprehensible mathematic formulas and scenes from old B&W TV shows

Re: Countering the Speed Zone I'm sorry, I guess I'm not reading it too clearly but it sounds like there is no viable defense with this game breaker :

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone With the addition of the speed zone rules, it just doesn't seem like it would be enjoyable to play any other character other than a speedster What a bummer! : Sounds like a game-breaker to me

Re: Hindenberg Size Comparisons Yea, it's been posted before. It's a nice site though and I've used it on more than one occasion. Thanks for the reminder!

Outside of banning it, is there any other way of preventing it from ruining the game. The only way I can think of off-hand is to have another opponent that also has access to the speed zone. I just thought we should put our thinking caps on and try to whittle this this monster down to size.

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone I'm really surprised Steve Long hasn't jumped in on this issue yet. He could really clear up alot of things. It sounds like it's no fun at all to play the game (or for that matter play anything but a speedster) if you allow the speed zone and it's "BOOM" you squash the enemy and win the campaign. I could be reading alot more into this than I am but this issue is a bit disturbing.

Re: Character: The Accelerated Man I read where the Wild Wild West television show writer's based the episode "Night of the Burning Diamond" off an H.G. Well's story. It's an interesting read.

Re: Character: The Accelerated Man Nice writeup, though I haven't had a chance to read the UPS (started a new job) so I'll dig into the rules later, particularly the speed zone rules. I have a feeling the speed zone is going to be controversial for quite some time. Some will say it will be the greatest thing since slice bread and resolve alot of problems while others will say WTF!!!!!!!!! (most likely the GM's) and wonder what sick person came up with this idea. That sounds like a certain villian from a Wild Wild West episode, you didn't "borrow" from that did you?

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone Thanks KS! It all comes down GM control. I was just looking for viable controls to prevent abuse like you mentioned earlier. I know someone who didn't end up reading the rules right is going to try to make super "I-can-enter-the-zone-gut-Doctor-Destroyer-like-a-fish-and-get-out-with-my-***-intact" speedster. That's the abuse I'm thinking about. Better yet, enter the zone, dress Doc D like a clown and disappear before he knows what happened.

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone If I'm reading you correctly sounds like it should be banned outright. Or the other alternative you mentioned: Doesn't that kind of defeat the whole purpose of what it was mean't for? Isn't there an alternative to what you have mentioned above without diluting it. -How about a speedster villian with same powers? -Maybe something lurks in the speed force that's a danger to anybody inside it? Sorry for the rant just wanted the alternatives out there.

Re: Speed Force, too unbalanced? I didn't mean to cause a ruckus here (and I hope I didn't) and you're probably right. Any power can be abused as written if the GM allows to be. I just had a feeling that with the mention of the speed force would garner a reaction that many would say it's just too powerful for my game. On the other hand some would say this was badly needed and would answer alot of questions as to how to set something up like this. Like I said before, sorry if I reacted to quickly but I just wanted some early reaction. Oh yeah, if you guys are big into the Wild, Wild West televison series (Season One on DVD now), you may want to check out an episode The Night of the Burning Diamond. The villian burns diamonds down to liquid form to accelerate his body at hyperspeed (he's also invisible) but the side effect is that simple chemicals (i.e alcohol) can burn him up. Thanks

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone Is there anyway of allowing the speed force (without changing it as written) and not let it become the all-powerful power it seems to be? I mean, like I said before, you may be able to hit your opponent alot eaiser, but you still may not be able to get through his opponents defenses. That's my $.02 anyway.

Some are starting to complain that the speed force may be too unbalanced to play. What do you think? I know many of you don't have the book yet so follow ths link to read what some are saying. http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45916 Sorry if I'm jumping the gun but just want to get early impressions Was going too make a poll but thought of against it. Now just want some comments. Thank you

Re: Thoughts on the Speed Zone I think they want you to buy the book to find out Check out this thread for ways to stop a speedster: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45814 Oh, and by the way just because the guy is DCV 0 (like say a brick) doesn't mean he'll get through his defenses Boxcar: Me squash you like bug *Grunt* Zoom Man: "I speed up into the speed zone and hit Boxcar multiple times" GM: Okay he's DCV 0. But he has a 30 PD/30 ED hardend and a Damage Shield so you take part of the damage" Or something like that anyway, I thnk you get the point Zoom man: OWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Re: Friends, 1934 Instead of a sequel to Pulp Friends, why not start a Pulp Seinfeld game! It would be an interesting take to see writeups on Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer. ...and oh yeah, Newman too

Re: Invisable : Features Image power perhaps?