Lawnmower Boy

I don't even know what a hamburger costs in D&D so I can't compare monetary systems.

Well, I suppose the easiest way to start would be to list villains book-by-book, and then figure out how you want to organize them. For starters, here's the roster from Classic Enemies, including the page number where their write-ups begin.
 
THE ULTIMATES by Steve Peterson.......................................5
BINDER by Steve Peterson ......................................................,6
PLASMOID by Steve Peterson .................................................. 7
SLICK by Steve Peterson .. ........................................................8
BLACKSTAR by Steve Peterson ...............................................9
CHARGER by Steve Peterson ................................................ 10
THE CONQUERORS by Bruce Harllck................................. 11
NEUTRON by Bruce Harlick ............................................... ..... 12
ARC by Bruce Hartick ..............................................................13
ANKYLOSAUR by Bruce Harlick.............................................14
WYVERN by Bruce Harlick......................................................15
EUROSTAR by George MacDonald.......................................16
FIACHO by George MacDonald ..............................................17
BORA by George MacDonald .................................................18
DURAK by George MacDonald ...............................................19
WHITE FLAME by George MacDonald...................................20
LE SONE by George MacDonald ........................................ ... 21
MENTALLA by Geol\}e MacDonald ........................................22
THE WHIP by George MacDonald..........................................23
PANTERA by George MacDonald ..........................................24
THE RAIDERS by Andrew Robinson. ...................................25
BULLET by Andrew Robinson ................................................. 26
BIG JOHN by Andrew Robinson .............................................27
STARSEER by Andrew Robinson ...........................................28
TERROR, INCORPORATED by Steve Perrin. .....................29
PROFESSOR MUERTE by Steve Perrin ................................30
SCORPIA by Steve Perrin .......................................................31
GIGANTO by Steve Perrin ......................................................32
FEUR by Steve Perrin .............................................................33
AGENT by Steve Perrin ...........................................................34
PROJECT SUNBURST by Glenn Thain. ...............................35
RADIUM by Glenn Thain .........................................................36
RAY by Glenn Thain ................................................................ 36
SUNBURST by Glenn Thain ..................................................37
DOCTOR DESTROYER by George MacDonald.................38
LIGHTNING AND THUNDER by George MacDonald........ 43
PANDA and RACCOON by Stacy Thain...............................45
PANDA by Stacy Thain....................................................................46
RACOON by Stacy Thain ................................................................4 7
INDEPENDENTS.........................................................................48
AVAR·lby Glenn Thain ..................................................................48
BEAMLINE by Eric Christian ...........................................................49
BLACK CLAW by George M~D~nald ............................................50
BLACK DIAMOND by George MacDonald......................................51
BLACK PALADIN by Steve Peterson ..............................................52
BLACK MAMBA by Bruce Harlick ...................................................53
BLOWTORCH by Glenn Thain ................................................ ....... 54
BULLDOZER by Steve Goodman ...................................................55
DRAGON MASTER by Glenn Thain ...............................................56
DARK SERAPH by Barry Wilson .....................................................5 7
DREADNOUGHT by Barry Wilson ..................................................58
EARTHMASTER by Barry Wilson ...................................................59
FOXBAT by Bruce Har1ick ...............................................................60
ESPER by George MacDonald .......................................................61
F/REWING by George MacDonald ................................................. 62
THE FOX OF CRIME by Ray Greer ................................................64
FREON by Bruce Harlick .................................................................65
GREMLIN by George MacDoiiald ...................................................66
GRIFFIN by Barry Wilson ................................................................6 7
GROND by Steve Peterson .............................................................68
HALFJACKby Bruce Harlick ...........................................................70
HERCULAN by Glenn Thain ............................................................71
HIDEOUS by George MacDonald ................................................... 72
KING COBRA by Bruce Harlick ....................................................... 73
LADY BLUE by George MacDonald ................................................ 73
LADYBUG by Glenn Thain .............................,................................ 7 4
LAZER by George MacDonald ........................................................ 75
MECHASSASSIN by Andrew Robinson ..........................................76
LEECH_by Steve Peterson ..............................................................77
MENTON by George MacDonald ....................................................78
MONGOOSE by Glenn Thain ..........................................................79
THE MONSTER by Mark Williams ..................................................80
OCULON by Steve Peterson ...........................................................81
POWER CRUSHER by Andrew Rm>lnson ......................................82
PLAGUE by Kevin Dinapoli .............................................................83
RAINBOW ARCHER by Nick Smith ................................................84
RIPPER IJy Mark Williams ...............................................................85
SHAMROCK by Glenn Thain ..........................................................86
SLUG by Kevin Dinapoli ..................................................................87
SPARKLER by Barry Wilson ...........................................................88
THOK by George MacDonald ..........................................................89
TIMEMASTER by Scotl Bennle .......................................................90
THUNDERBOLT by Andrew Robinson ...........................................91
UTILITY by George MacDonald ......................................................92
VIBRON by George MacDonald ......................................................93
 

Second Rule;  First one to smack Grandma in the butt wins!

I never intended to ever post but this needed comment.
 
I am so depressed about folk commenting on science like it is a debate.  I would like to point out that, at least once, the post came with commentary, and the commentary is indeed disinformation.
 
The headline, cursory look at numbers may show that the more shots you have improve your chances of getting the virus and don't stop transmission.  Any level of scientific understanding in the field would tell you both those statements are nonsense.
 
A vaccine almost never blocks transmission, what happens us that people do not get as sick, those infected are infected for less time, the virus is less virulent, and they produce less virus particles.  All of that reduces the risk of severe illness and transmission, all working to reduce the R number so that, eventually the level of virus in the environment us reduced to minimal levels and outbreaks tens not to spread to even epidemic levels.
 
Vaccines don't prevent illness, they do tend to prevent deaths and mass illness.
 
The strapline to a lot of this stuff is that we need to learn to live with Covid.  That the longer we go the milder the virus will become.  Again, scientific understanding in the field tells you that both those statements are nonsense.
 
It is a myth that viruses attenuate over time. The story is that the virus adapts to its host, that it doesn't want to kill off the animal that hosts it.  The truth is that the virus doesn't want anything.  It simply reproduces.  The changes that happen are random, we only see the "successful" variants, the ones that spread better than all the rest. Whether the one that spreads best is more or less lethal is entirely random. If we keep the level of Covid high, by not seeking to get it down to minimal levels, then we will continue to get more variants.  Omicron is Covid crossed with the common cold virus (rhinovirus) which made it more transmissible.  The longer we retain high levels the more likely it is we get a variant that is both transmissible as Omicron and as deadly as previous SARS diseases.
 
Gamers know that the most unlikely things will happen if we roll the dice often enough.  The chance of the deadly pandemic is improbable, not impossible and the longer we choose to "live with Covid" increases the chances we will die with it. Keep rolling the dice lads... 😞
 
There is the strange thing of cherry picking numbers.  Most folk in hospital may indeed be vaccinated, most cases of Covid may indeed be vaccinated (but only in countries where the vast majority of people have been vaccinated.  If you look at the vaccinated and unvaccinated population, the unvaccinated will have a higher percentage who contract the disease and a much higher percentage that gets sick and dies. Again, gamers, and especially HERO gamers, should be better at running the numbers than this.
 
There is the point of people choosing to compare the disadvantages of being vaccinated against the baseline of normal life.  Any medical intervention, even injecting sterile water, will result in poor outcomes (the placebo effect works both ways).  But we are now in the situation where you need to compare getting Covid to getting vaccinated, the chance of remaining uninfected is tending toward zero.  In all measures vaccinations are less risky than getting Covid.
 
Finally, in what is a massively longer post than I intended, there is the absolutely odd inclination of people in both the UK and US questioning the involvement of the private sector in the vaccination programme.  Both countries tend to think the private sector is more efficient than government, and the people taking this line mostly come from the political wing that is more anti-government than anti-corporation. I tend to agree that these companies should not own the vaccines, the profit motive restricts rather than includes and slows down the distribution of vaccines worldwide.  We should not be donating doses of vaccine, we should be allowing the third world to make their own and, while utilising the infrastructure of big pharma, should not be adding to their bottom line by paying profits on necessary, global and potentially perennial vaccination programmes.
 
I may now have said all I need to.  Hope this passes moderation....
 
 

Here's what I know - 700AM WLW is a 50,000 watt conservative leaning talk radio station in Cincinnati.  They have a massive audience and their signal reaches all of southwest Ohio and northern KY.  They provide covid hospitalization rates more than 2-3 week - I know because I listen every morning on my way to work.
 
For the last 6 months since vaccines have been widely available they have consistently reported that 96-99% of hospitalizations and deaths in SW Ohio and Northern KY due to Covid are unvaccinated.  

It would be funny if that was said as a joke, since all the evidence to date says the opposite, and the article you linked to doesn't cite evidence for that either. What it does do is treat the situation with flippancy and mockery, a common rhetorical tactic intended to denigrate an opposing viewpoint when it can't be countered with evidence or logic. COVID won't pass over people because they score rhetorical brownie points.
 
I would urge you to consider what that implies about the foundation of your position, and the motivations of the people who tell you to believe it.

The vaccines were never intended to stop transmission. They were intended to reduce the severity of illness from infection and the likelihood of dying from it, which scientific evidence says they've been very effective at. Reducing severe illness reduces the number of infected people occupying hospitals, which logically leaves more spaces in them for people suffering from other illnesses and injuries, and reduces the stress and exhaustion of health care professionals. Vaccinated people are also less hospitable hosts for the virus, reducing the opportunities for it to mutate into more dangerous strains, as has already happened, which would threaten everyone. Which sounds like an ethical position to take.
 
I also find it deeply ironic that opponents of vaccines frequently recommend treatment of infection with monoclonal antibodies, or drugs like hydroxychloroquine. Quite apart from the fact that the latter isn't FDA certified to treat COVID and there's no evidence that it helps; and that monoclonal antibodies aren't a preventative treatment, and are only authorized for emergency use in the United States; both are products from the same "habitually criminal" pharmaceutical companies. Monoclonal antibodies are also a more expensive treatment than vaccines. So if the drug companies were only interested in profit, it would be logical for them to push that rather than vaccines.

Great finale, bro. 

An obit clearly NOT written by an anti-vaxxer...
 
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/dailygazette/name/michael-malecki-obituary?id=31981585

Sorry, very late to this thread.  Been concentrating on other things, like getting a job.  
 
1) I think a lot of official villains which hit a defense wall are designed like that because they are designed to be challenging to the 12d6/60 act heroes.  They can be taken out by these heroes but are very dangerous to the same heroes due to the high amount of damage they throw.
2) Having been in several very high damage limit campaigns (over 15d6), the defenses generally goes up as damage goes up. So if your dice start at 12d6 and 27 def, it goes up as your dice goes up: e.g.: 14d6 and 35 def, 16d6 and 40 def, 18d6 and 48 def, 20d6 and 55 def, etc.  CVs are also similar, going up at a similar rate.
3) One of the biggest problems with getting to the high levels of powers is that you can never do a story with them at the lower scale again.  From 12-15d6, you can still have police, robbers, and governments step in and still be a bother.  But at some point, usually after 15d6, these things are quite silly.  It ain't like the comics where you can have a human interest story where the Justice League solves Santa's murder or where the Avengers takes on the Kingpin or the Circus of Crime.  It seems like the OP is fine with this, but it can be limiting.