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Re: OIHID and/or Focus On the other hand if the armour can be damaged, then it's still a focus.

Re: OIHID and/or Focus It's redundant. You already got points for the focus being something you occasionally wouldn't have to hand.

Re: Matriarchial Societies You'd be wrong though, as long as men were making the laws and the third of all of government jobs held by them was the top ranking third.

Re: Matriarchial Societies Sex-linked psi powers. Prenatal child sex determination by women who set up a colony so that they could be in charge creating a numerical imbalance. Ovipositors. Egglaying. Cultural taboo against men knowing how to read. Sex-linked dyslexia. Cultural belief by both sexes that masculine warlike tendencies let to the legendary War of Annihilation and therefore men can't be trusted with positions of authority or weapons. Sex-linked emotion influencing pheromones. Cultural concentration of all masculine endeavours on military training to the point where women are actually running everything else.

Re: Life Force Control? Well its worth remembering that you can have too much of a good thing. We depend on air for life but our lungs can only hold so much. So you could have a damaging "life force blast" that basically causes the cells it touches to pop like over-filled balloons.

Re: WWYCD - with a twist!: Imbalance of Power All right. Hellfire: A Team Mate: Hellfire is suspicious. She'll suspect that a villain is trying to turn the team against each other. She'll gather the entire team together to try to figure out which villain and how, which will require the accused hero to go over exactly what happened on the occasions when the S.O. was injured. An NPC Hero: Hellfire trusts her team. She doesn't trust outsiders that much. She'll recommend that the S.O. break up with the hero and offer to hide the S.O. Then once she's hidden the S.O., she'll make sure that the hero knows that Mary is involved her disappearance. If the hero gets violent with Mary to try to make her give up the S.O. she'll take that as complete confirmation, flame on and put him in a world of hurt. A Villain: She'll take the S.O.'s story at face value, ask the S.O. where the villain is, and go pound him for being a villain.

Re: Attack of the 150-point Housewife What are they trying to do though? Spinkle weedkiller on her garden? Sleep with her husband?

Re: Answers & Questions Q: We've got no power and the toilets don't work. What are we going to do? A: No, that's my chiropracter.

Twofer No, crippled _leg_. Option 6: The ex-surgeon with the crippled hands had exhausted everything known to medical science and in desperation sought out a reclusive sage who dwelled on a mountain far from humanity. There in the Balkans, he found a kingdom of animal-men and their creator who taught the doctor things about biology no other man knew. He returned and continued to practice medicine, but now he specialised in the most bizarre and peculiar treatments and cases. He quickly lost his license, but continued unlicensed, and he was still the man to go to if you had a radioactive insect bite, an alien parasite, a case of lycanthropy.

Re: Character Concept Question Nothing comes to mind. Maybe, invisibility and insubstantiality?

Oops, Wrong Doctor Option 5: A brilliant young medical student, frustrated that his lame leg made it impossible for him to pursue a career in surgery (a speciality which involves a lot of standing) passed up an opportunity to vacation in Sweden to travel to Tibet to seek out a hermit reputed to offer miraculous cures. Although he had to hire someone to carry him up the mountain, when he arrived, the hermit offered to take him on as an apprentice. Apparently, he had an exceptional aptitude for weather control magic.

Re: Characters Losing Their Souls - How To Handle It? I'd go with a continuing gradual Ego drain.

Re: Rejected Superhero Names That would be Hourman. Although Green Lantern comes close.

Re: Other Odd Twists Don't get me calm. You wouldn't like me when I'm calm.

Re: What If? Empire Wins What the Ewoks should have been is Wookies. Their attack should have been a carefully planned long term uprising by slave labourers who had been helping build the second Death Star and who could easily rip apart several Storm Troopers each. But, merchandising corruption aside, as long as the Force is with the good guys, they'll perform better in combat than you could reasonably expect. Those are the rules of the universe. If they weren't, a rowboat couldn't have blown up a battleship in the first place and the story wouldn't have gotten to the third movie. But whatever. Assuming the empire wins I see these options: 1. Luke (or Leia) ascends to the throne with Vader as his or her eminence gris. Guided by Vader's teachings, he or she founds a dynasty which lasts for several generations. Conceivably Luke AND Leia ascend to the throne as a married couple. Keep it in the family, that's the Skywalker motto. 2. Luke (or Leia) is adopted as the Emperor's heir and eventually kills him because he's like really old and sick and probably about ready to cack off. Guided by the Emperor's teachings, they either don't reproduce or they leave any kids they have to be raised by others. They may be possible candidate to be adopted as heirs later, but only if nobody with more juice comes along. Note that the historical Roman Empire went through several Emperors who were only their predecessor's child by adoption. 3. Luke, the Emperor, Vader and Leia all die, and the galaxy collapses into warring factions. 4. Luke kills the Emperor and Vader and escapes. The galaxy collapses into warring factions, but Luke fairly quickly rises to the top thanks to his powers, and he reunites the Empire. However without a mentor, his Empire isn't likely to last.

Re: Other Odd Twists Just "SHAZAM"

Option 1: Captured by an Asian warlord, an American genius inventor/industrialist is coerced into building weapon for his captor, a humanoid battlesuit, but dies of a heart attack before he can use it to escape. Instead, the suit's artificial intelligence avenges its creator and escapes, making its way back to the United States, where it modifies itself to be able to pose as human and dedicates itself to protecting the family the inventor left behind from all those out to steal their inheritance. Option 2: Accidentally exposed to the radiation weapon he created, a government physicist discovers the biofeedback technique he uses to fight off the cancer transforms him to a super-strong giant. But if he loses his temper or his nerve, he reverts to his previous scrawny self. Option 3: When he was approached by a mysterious man who wanted to take him into a cave, he did what any rational homeless boy would do. He ran for his life. But later he got curious and he and 5 of his street-kid friends returned to the cave, venturing inside to meet an old wizard who offered to give them the powers and identities of 6 legendary figures. Option 4. A police detective from Earth suddenly found himself transported to Mars by a Martian wizard's miscast spell. Unable to return to his homeworld, he discovered that the lower gravity of Mars meant that the natives were physically weak and had slow reflexes and law enforcement was only carried out by bounty-hunters. He disguised himself and became one of the bounty-hunters.

Re: What does HERO Games have against >30 DEX, INT and EGO? Why would someone's defenses be low just because they had a high DCV?

Re: What does HERO Games have against >30 DEX, INT and EGO? Because that reflects the source material. Characters who supposedly have no superpowers (or whose superpowers are not relevant to their INT and Dex) are only marginally inferior, if that, to almost all the superpowered characters when it comes to agility, precision, genius, and alertness (independant of actual super senses like those of Wolverine and Daredevil). The benchmarks are supposed to set how far a mere training based mortal can go. It just happens that when it comes to Int and Dex, the limit that the training based characters can achieve happens to not be far off from maximum that almost all super powered characters achieve as well.

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Re: Regrettable Disads Wasn't he a giant who wore a loincloth?

Re: What If? Empire Wins I read an adequate Sailor Moon/Star Trek crossover which had a great scene early on. The Borg have abducted the Sailor Moon villain and tell him that he's going to be assimilated and resistance is futile. The villain smiles and says, "Oh, I quite agree. Resistance is futile." Then he assimilates them.

Re: Make everyone fight at your level... a heroic fighter in a supers world.

Re: What If? Empire Wins Not likely at all. Vader was intent on betraying the Emperor from the moment he knew who Luke was and the Storm Troopers could only display competence if the dark side of the Force was dominant.

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