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Re: Ability Check Variant: Count the Body

Re: Scientists claim warp drive is possible Actually they never described any of the details of getting from Earth to the new system. Only that it had happened and now here they were...

Re: Would you ever allow a Large character as a PC? Don't see why not. They worked fine when playing Dark Sun (Half-Giants) as long as the players kept in mind just how big they were. Same thing with Trolls in Shadowrun (prior to 4th Ed).

Re: Ability Check Variant: Count the Body But they aren't twice as smart. Just a bit faster thinking (at least according to the HERO 5th Ed Rev. book). INT isn't IQ.

Re: Ship-Flipping for Evil Bricks Didn't think they should be directly. But they do have an effect on each other. Just because you're a fast swimmer with 60 STR doesn't mean that you should be able to lift up out of the water a mass greater than you per se as the water is a deformable material and will just give under the stress of you trying. Doesn't mean you can't throw that 12d6 punch...

Re: Handcuffs on a budget provided your followers are there or that you performed your summons before getting knocked out.

Re: Ship-Flipping for Evil Bricks That may be so, but the default swimming that all characters are given isn't enough... or if it is, then something is broken here...

Re: Jumping mouth! An unarmored person vs a KA would have no defenses so even an average hit would do 14 body which is nearly double what a normal has (8 body) and more than a starting heroic has (10 body). So that definitely sounds like more than enough to chomp through, heheh.

Re: Ship-Flipping for Evil Bricks As already pointed out, once a ship is flipped it really doesn't take anything to hold it that way. Flip your rowboat or canoe over and they stay upside down until you try and right it again. With larger vessels you have the same problem (as already pointed out upstream in this thread). Just getting it unbalanced is enough to send it over the rest of the way on its own. The question is, what is the brick braced against to utilize all that strength. You could be the strongest thing in the universe, but try and lift a whale while swimming and you'll find that all you'll accomplish is to push yourself further under as you are outmassed by the whale. Same with flipping the boat.

Re: Handcuffs on a budget And if you're knocked unconscious, then no one else in your group can get the handcuffs if they lack the summon power or the follower... hmm, doesn't quite seem to match up with them as a piece of equipment.

Re: Characteristic inflation

Re: Characteristic inflation Some of this goes back to the problem of the rate of hits in HERO vs real firefights and such. Even our well trained military units fire lots of rounds and don't hit a lot when they are in close quarters fighting. Look at the stats for the LA bank robbery where the suspects were in body armor with fully automatic weapons. How many shots were fired and how many people were actually injured? IIRC the ratio was greater than 100:1 (100 bullets fired to 1 casualty). When they are trapped and dealing with a mob (e.g. Black Hawk Down) they are just lethal because a crowd can't maneuver or hide like a person can.

Re: No Horses For You Answer... You, as Players, don't know why they are, just common knowledge that they are...

Re: gravitic well Just because... Vt = sqrt((2*m*g)/(p*A*Cd)) where Vt = terminal velocity m = mass of the falling object g = gravitational acceleration Cd = drag coefficient ρ = density of the fluid through which the object is falling, and A = projected area of the object.

Re: Doctrine for beginning vampire slayers? And what if they aren't "standard" vampires, but ones that, while weaker, can still move around in daylight?

Re: gravitic well Well, suppressing movement isn't quite accurate. They should be able to come at you faster than away from you (going down the gravity well rather than up it)

Re: No Horses For You They put political slant into horses of medieval ages or in math? I know it, like any source edited by people has slants when it comes to some topics, but that doesn't invalidate the entirety of the body of work... http://news.cnet.com/Study-Wikipedia-as-accurate-as-Britannica/2100-1038_3-5997332.html Wikipedia is about as good a source of accurate information as Britannica, the venerable standard-bearer of facts about the world around us, according to a study published this week in the journal Nature. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia

Re: gravitic well

Re: gravitic well

Re: Scientists claim warp drive is possible How to Build a Time Machine - Paul Davies http://www.amazon.com/Build-Time-Machine-Paul-Davies/dp/0142001864/ And Paul Davies research group - http://cosmos.asu.edu/

Re: gravitic well Well, you seem to be missing a limitation or something to describe that it can only be used for pulling towards the character. Plus it would have a falloff in STR the further from him you were...

Re: Philosophical: The Meaning Of Active Points And Real Points RSR with AP penalties is a reason I really don't care to play a spellcaster type in HERO. It also bit me when using some of the talents from Fantasy HERO, namely Evasion... where in HD you don't see anything about the build, just buy the talent and while the text says it requires a DEX roll, seems to also be at a -3 penalty due to be a 60AP desolid effect...

Re: We're outta here, gang! Woohoo... have fun storming the castle... or, well, the convention center...

Re: Cleanse the Planet Transform - 170d6; transform unhealthy world to healthy world.

Re: Handcuffs on a budget so be it; amen; - a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.