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Re: i feel humiliated There is a good question of how the fight ended. Dr D could be worse in revenge then in the first round. 12 crits should be a fluke. I've seen it happen once in 20 years.

Re: Champs Worldwide: Whaddya want? I'd like to see a actual accounting of the major super-teams/people in most nations. A EU team....an explanation why China doesn't have a 2000 person super-army....villains, heroes of a variety of point levels.

Re: Permanently large? My longest standing character was Gorzubak the Gargoyle. He was a 10' tall statue of a gargoyle (complete with 16' wing span) animated by magic. I had trouble getting into some doors and had to crawl awkwardly, a fight indoors was a recipe for property damage in most cases. He had clinging which helped but only a little due to his weight (the total of 4 levels of DI&Growth). He was the team computer expert but needed to use sticks (like chopsticks) to operate a keyboard making rush jobs impossible.

Re: How To: "Spirit Ward" Why not use Hardened; only vs spirits. The rules already permit a wall to be hardened to prevent desolid from passing through.

Re: Weaponsmithing/Armorsmithing question Fantasy HERO addresses this. I think outside Fantasy, not enough genre uses complex armor to justify it. But weapons fit in every genre.

Re: multiform - is this for real? Lets not forget that ultimately, any power in the book (almost) can be abused if the GM doesn't monitor usage.

Re: Limb Paralysis Have you looked at the Disable element in the UMA?

Re: Explosion meets Force Wall: what happens? A force wall does does stop an explosive attack from hitting its target. The attack must go off at the wall or bounce if appropriate. i'd say yes Yes, but the move is entirely defensive. The wall can't be positioned with the intent to "aim" the reflection.

Re: Explosion meets Force Wall: what happens? Hawkeye and Songbird used this move on the Hulk in an issue of Thunderbolts. Songbird created a force wall (bubble around Hulk's head) to add potency to Hawkeye's arrow.

Re: Explosion meets Force Wall: what happens? Absolutely....the explosion advantage doesn't let an EB go through a wall. That requires Indirect

Re: Green Lantern Object Creation... I thought entangle was the bridge making power

Re: Goblin Glider focus......

Re: Social "Combat' and "Duels" Isn't this what role-playing is for? No combat, just social skills and intrigue?

Re: Shapeshifting Read Steve's answer again carefully. He also mentions this is a way to gain access to things not normally permitted in a VPP such as frameworks. But it is technically legal. Where his answer becomes strange is that he mentions he uses Multi-Form for metamorphs but fails to emphasis that he does not use a VPP for this.

Re: Shapeshifting In order, if I may.... 1) actually, yes...they do. Thats the point, aside from retaining sentience and an awareness of surroundings a shapeshifter *is* something else. A shapeshifter that transforms into a chair is actually made of wood. 2) which only supports my comment in point 1. actually this point argues both ways. 3) Becoming another creature or person entirely is the purpose of Multi-Form. Becoming something else entirely is the purpose of shapeshift. Just as Energy Blast and RKA are different takes on a similiar power.

Steve, we have been around and around on this. so now I turn to the master for an official answer for a Beast Boy style metamorph 60 pt Variable Power Pool, Zero Phase Shift (+ 1), No Skill Roll (+ 1), Multi-Form Only (- 1) 60 pool cost, 45 control cost is that legal? or a cheap way to avoid the restriction on number of forms?

Re: Shapeshifting See...i'm not convinced it is a legal power build. Nope...because it is the required visible effect of powers that we have been paying points for. The shapechange here is a SFX of the OIHID limit. If Norse-Hero-Hammer-God has +60 Str, OIHID (- 1/4)...thats not free it is 48 points. Which is a line of logic to return to the wonderfully simple 4th edition version.

Re: Scoffing at Magic: What do people think in your game world? In my world, magic isn't believed because it is not reproducible in any scientific way. People believe that some people have powers attributed to "magic" but that there is no proof of its existance. Most public mystics blend in with the super set and are thought to be mutants or other superhuman types using magic as a label.

Re: Force Field Limitation I'd agree with the UBO write-up. Looks good to me. I'd also skip the adder and give the guy a break.

Re: Shapeshifting My point is the SFX of Plas as a mailbox is not to avoid notice. People easily notice him; far more than even the bright fringe option would entail. At best it could possibly be Images, which has PER penalties. On to Plas as a dress... It is also silly to use 70 AP of powers to represent something so lacking in power. This effect includes many minor abilities such as being able to be folded and placed in a box. and i'm sure creative players can think of more uses. Why not have just two powers then? Seriously...EB, RKA, HKA, and HA all have the same effect -- they do damage. But with noticably different elements. Suggesting that shapeshift isn't unique enough to be its own power defined as "your shape changes" would suggest any power that overlaps any other power should also be eliminated.

Re: Shapeshifting Actually, since he'd be a bright red and yellow mailbox, the effect is not invisibility. How about a better example? In an issue of JLA, Plastic Man shifted into the form of a dress that was worn by Big Barda. The effect of this is (1) not get noticed, (2) he is a dress and can be worn, folded, and neatly is wrapped around Barda's body (thereby occupying almost the same space - maybe we should have him get desolidification and invisibility). This is not an illusion, this is not invisiblity. He is actually a dress being worn by Barda.

Re: Well, I finished reading Conquerors, Killers and Crooks, and... I was refering to the source. Forgot about the mother boxes and ... is it Takion now? ... being able to draw on it. But then....as i think on it, the mother boxes and highfather are able to manipulate any special effect, aren't they?

Re: Shapeshifting The problem with this is twofold. 1) There are very few shapeshifting SFX that would not involve all sense groups. The rare cases an exception is needed, just adjust with limitations. It also fails to be specific. Example: Plastic Man (DC) can change shape but not color. So does he or does he not need the sight group. Because if he shifts to be a chair, he looks like a chair except its a red and yellow chair. 2) Powers are intended to be based on function. the function of telepathy is to know someone's thoughts (which is why it includes empathy). the function of invisibility is to hide from a sense. the function of shapeshift is to alter your form into a different shape. hence, shape SHIFT. now, when i imagine this power....it doesn't sound sense effecting to me. The sense effecting rule is the result of a well-meant but incorrect use of the similiar basis rule that was used to determine the cost of Transform. But the logic doesn't flow here as well.

Re: How would you do this form of Teleportation? Sounds like a multi-power of various teleport theme powers. RKA/AVLD for the teleport item into a person. Regular teleport

Re: New To Hero: Character Advancement my first group....we all banked our xp until we reached 15-20 points and then all spent the entire bank at once. each of us got a new major ability between adventures.