RDU Neil

It wasn't explicitly said, but I think a big part of the problem was them choosing to concentrate on saving an outsider's life (in gratitude for him rescuing Nakia) rather than continuing the pursuit of Klaue at all costs. If W'kabi was aware that they came back with Ross in tow for medical treatment, it may have been a big sticking point for him that the new king was yet again prioritizing some other agenda over justice for his parents. If T'Challa had sent Nakia back to save Ross while he and Okoye continued trying to bring Klaue to heel, things might have played out very differently.

Fair... I didn't watch the entire second video until you pointed that out. I think that clearly points to "both weapons drawn, gun wins unless knife guy is already on top of him"

The MCU has had a very "low key" response to supers and aliens and gods, that make it feel like "super stuff" is at least accepted to an extent. Sure, a new Hero pops up ("Ok... I am Iron Man!") and it makes a big deal... but so do new Pop Stars or a big athletes in the real world, and we've had them before. This is a world that handled "the Event" from Avengers as another 9/11... not something that undermines fifty thousand years of religious and social dogma around humans being the center of the universe. Clearly this is a world where "out of this world" stuff is at least known. I'm sure it has its "chemtrails" and "false flag" crackpots as well, and those opinions of the Event or Sokovia would be interesting, I'm sure.
 
Ultimately, having heroes that have existed in the past that aren't well known or referenced every day is completely fine, IMO. Most people don't keep detailed records of every event that happened in the past, and if they were even mildly obscure, people could easily have overlooked or forgotten them.
 
Real world example... I was recently talking to a couple young women at work. In their 20's, smart, educated... and neither of them had ever HEARD OF the Beatles or U2.  I'm not saying they didn't listen to them... they had never HEARD OF THEM!
 
If it is possible for a generation in the US or UK to have no idea about two of the largest pop culture/rock bands ever to exist, it is easily possible for a series of off events twenty or more years ago to have been missed.

There are people who don't know about 9/11, or have very vague ideas about it at best.
 
IMO, it would be fully understandable for most people in the MCU to not have a super detailed history of every person in a costume for the past fifty plus years as a common reference point. Unless you spend time researching stuff, I'd say most people these days couldn't tell you much about the Syrian war, or the fascinating facts on the YPJ's role in battling Syrian rebels and Turkey, or the current War in Donbass, or the status of Brexit, or the Catalonia separatists... or even much about the shooting in Florida a few weeks ago and the resulting protests, etc.

The world is a big place, with a lot going on, people get on with their lives if not directly impacted, and it is very easy to not know a lot about the world. I'd assume the same is for the MCU.

Hey, they have photos of Bigfoot and Nessie. That doesn't make folks any more believing in them.
 
Ant-Man and Wasp (the Pym generation) were both active into the 1980s according to the Ant-Man movie, but they were working clandestinely for SHIELD. (And if any supers can keep a low profile, it's them.)

So, the implication is that, while never explicitly stated, the attack that ends your phase, and despite their being an explicit rule that you can only attack once per phase... that actually you can have an attack for every separate power you have? That doesn't seem intuitive... more like rules lawyers reading a lack of clear "no you can't" as a "can." I remember when it was stated in 5th Edition, and it was an appalling ruling, IMO, and luckily our group basically ignored it.
 
And as Lucius just demonstrated, this is a min-maxing nightmare I'd never want to deal with in game.

I totally agree with this... as I could watch "On your left..." over and over again... and have.
 
My main question is "what is the pill we are being asked to swallow?" What is the Russo bros' intent here, as they are too smart to just handwave it.  It is hard to separate what is being shown on screen from what strongly-invested viewers are seeing on the screen. I'm ok with it, but it is a question I have. Is the perception of Captain America as "Cap!" purposefully unclear... is it just more realistic "some people like him, some don't, some really have no idea who he is?"... or are we supposed to bring our comic book attitudes of "Cap! he's perfect, never wrong, always on the side of right, people who don't listen to him are villains!" to bear?  Is the movie expecting us to bring our preconceived notions, or not (especially since most movie watchers will not have those notions).
 
I find artistic intent really interesting, and wondering whether they expected a certain "reading" of events from the fans, or were just happy to allow for different interpretations, staying true to their internal vision of the movie Cap, and not really caring what any particular audience brings to it. Both of those are important artistic decisions in how character and content are framed for an audience.

In this case, I'm actually agreeing with Christopher, which is rare, I know. It isn't that the authorities knew about Stark's parents... it is that CAP KNEW! The biggest "Whoa!" moment for me in the movie is that Cap states that he suspected, based on all the info Fury had given him and the months of searching... that he highly suspected that Barnes was behind Stark's parent's death.
 
That suddenly puts everything is a VERY different light, because it explains why Cap never really asked for help with Barnes; why he did everything on his own, and never really laid his cards on the table. That paints Cap in a much less flattering light, and IMO, it is what REALLY sent Stark over the "He killed my mom!" edge.
 
It wasn't just that Cap supported Bucky, but that he knew about Stark's parents and never came clean... that he made his choice, Bucky before Stark and the Avengers. That was what I loved about Zemo's plan... if you are going to have a convoluted plan to destroy the Avengers, hinge it on personal betrayals.
 
Again, I love this movie because neither of the protagonists were right, and both made decisions that made things worse, and both egotistical enough (in very different ways) to justify their decisions to themselves. Oh, and all of it completely in character for these movie versions of the two classics. Stark is the most self-sabotaging of characters (doing the right thing in the most wrong way possible), while Bucky is the most important person in Cap's life (especially after Peggy died).
 

Well, the movies are taking place in real time, around the dates in the MCU corresponding to those dates in the real world the movies are released. So the events in Avengers occurred in 2012, and Winter Soldier in 2014, which is how Cap's fighting skills had become so much more sophisticated; he had time to train in modern techniques. Age of Ultron happened in 2015, and you can see from the opening battle that the Avengers have worked together frequently to become such a polished unit, and from the victory party afterward that they've grown to know each other well. Civil War was in 2016, and there we can see the new Avengers team has also trained together in the intervening time.
 
Now, I can understand that you may want to have seen all those interactions take place on screen in separate movies; but given the demands in time and money for special-effects action movies these days, that's really not practical. For my part, I found the implication of time and events happening "off screen" to be sufficient. To be honest, I haven't heard many people complain otherwise.
 
The Civil War issues didn't come to a head over just two incidents. You may remember Secretary Ross's litany of crises the Avengers were involved in where innocent civilians were collateral damage: New York (Chitauri invasion); Washington (helicarrier and Triskelion destruction); Sokovia (no more need be said there); then the Lagos debacle involving Crossbones. Ross didn't even mention Thor's massive brawl with Malekith in London in The Dark World; nor the rampage by the Hulk in Johannesburg, and Cap's running battle with Ultron in the streets of Seoul, in Age of Ultron.
 
As for SHIELD, it's been a presence in the MCU longer and more often than you seem to recall. Phil Coulson and his agents were active in the very first Iron Man movie in 2008, and both he and Nick Fury named SHIELD. General Ross is shown using SHIELD's cyber-resources to track Bruce Banner's Internet correspondence in The Incredible Hulk. We get more SHIELD in Iron Man II, and even more in Thor. Of course between Avengers and Civil War we get the Agents of SHIELD television series, plus the two Coulson featurettes from BluRay extras for two of the movies.

It's hard enough as it is to maintain creative integrity in just a single tentpole film while holding at bay the slavoring demands of the corporate overlord and its voracious bottom line. Doing so over the course of a decade with a mega-franchise made up of smaller sub-franchises is nearly impossible. Long-form storytelling is just not cinema's forté, and the fact that Feige and Co. have managed to succeed to any degree is nothing short of miraculous. I cut them considerable slack when it comes to things that you normally don't do (or even get to do) in film, like long-term romance development, or recurring villains, or complex intertwined mysteries (ala Lost). Some things will inevitably be sacrificed at the altar of the Mega-Franchise and the need to "rush" to the big party that will rake in all the cash. It's fine to point out those flaws when they exist, but I don't think it is terribly realistic to believe it would be easy for the creatives to do any differently given all the pressure that comes from so many opposing interests, none of which care at all about striving for narrative perfection.

I thought this movie was very well done and definitely deserves to be ranked up there among the best of the MCU films. But, as others have mentioned, it isn't perfect.
 
I agree that Killmonger was too easily accepted as king; the fact that Wakanda's laws allowed for him to take the throne by simply goading the sitting king into accepting a challenge shows just how fragile and perhaps outdated their system of government truly is. But perhaps this was meant to show how fragile any culturally-isolated monarchy would be in the modern world?
 
I also didn't care for W'kabi's attitude towards T'Challa when he failed to bring in Klaue. You'd think he would understand that complex covert operations, conducted within the borders of distant sovereign nations do not always go as planned. Rather than see T'Challa's failure as nothing more than a failure of mission execution, he chose to see it as some sort of ideological betrayal ("I thought you would be different. But it is just the same thing.") That's just lazy Hollywood writing IMO, shoe-horning a wedge between close friends just to lay the (unearned) dramatic groundwork for the Wakandan civil uprising that needed to happen in the third act.
 
I also kinda wish Nakia wouldn't have repeatedly stressed that she was "just a spy" when she clearly had extensive combat training, including the expert use of those Tron identity discs (hey, now we know who invented those for the MCP!).
 
But the merits of the film vastly overshadow its shortcomings, IMO. The bad CGI Panther-action animation throughout the movie was par for the course for Hollywood (they really, really don't know how to do superheroic fighting action while also maintaining a proper sense of mass, inertia, momentum, and speed), but all the other fantastic visuals made up for it. And while I was disappointed to see two really fun and interesting villains killed off (Klaue and Killmonger), that was just par for the course for the MCU and was mitigated by the survival of all the wonderfully badass women in the film (including Shuri who was badass in her own, adorable Q-like way).
 
I can see how some people might feel that the movie's "message" was a bit heavy-handed, but I didn't feel that way. I felt it delivered its message of optimism and duty (to those who desperately need help) with just the right combination of eloquence and urgency. I am absolutely on T'Challa's side when it comes to his new mission to show the world how to reject disunity, and to step up and help all of humanity. Let's just hope the other tribes remain on board with his vision for Wakanda's future.

"Soon I Will Be Invincible" by Austin Grossman. Absolutely hilarious, but at the same time, completely honest portrayal of comic book characters and stories. Excellent novel.

Not sure if hipster or curmudgeon.

Yeah... there are a lot of tropes from classic Silver Age (and some Bronze) that weren't really logically thought through. Pretty simplistic, "What if Batman had Superman's powers????" kind of thing... dramatic cover, silly story, sells issues... and the concept sticks for years, until the overall readership stops buying into it, etc.
 
Now the Speed Force, when it was introduced, Post Crisis, when Wally took over from dead Barry, it was one of those first attempts to say, "How exactly does he move so fast without... burning up his clothes, himself, etc, or experiencing massive wind resistance, or killing anyone he happens to be carrying at those speeds, etc." Whether you buy into that concept or not, that is the personal audience/reader choice, but it does establish a clear "external" power source where simply being physically faster than other humans just couldn't explain the near-cosmic levels of speed. You actually CAN unplug a DC speedster from their power source... so it is at least internally consistent, whether or not you buy it as a viewer.
 
But ultimately... adjustment powers being mechanical instead of SFX based is, I think, the crux of the issue, and why inherent is probably, as Sean noted, not really necessary or appropriate for Hero. Instead, the weight is on the GM to make internally consistent SFX decisions about what works, and when. Like, if in a GM's world, all psionics works in the same way, and it is known that a particular subsonic tone disrupts a crucial function of a mentalist's brain and suppresses the power... then I'd buy it that rooms in the criminal justice system could be built with such audio devices, etc. But again, it requires thought and consistency in GM judgement to make it work, not just a simple game mechanic.

I'm leaning towards keeping both free.
 
Both require 1/2 phase and 1/2 DCV.
 
One gives more bonus PER and some bonus Iniative. The other gives more Init. Both only vs. expected directions. 

I own it.  It doesn't contain the droids you're looking for.

"Maybe catch sight of the other guy..." and maybe not. The DEX and dice will tell.
 
If Alert Carry hits and Targeted Sweep misses, then Alert spotted his target and got the gun in position and fired his shot before Targeted, suddenly hit, reflexively pulled the trigger before lining up his shot. If Target hits and Alert misses, then the fact Target's gun was in position to fire was decisive. If both hit, and it matters who shot first, it was whoever had a higher DEX. If both miss, each spoiled their own aim dodging the other's shot.
 
 
In my opinion, both would be a half move and held action. Hero is only capable of so much granularity. The difference is reflected in how the players describe their actions and/or in what the dice show.
 
However, if you really want to make distinctions, let me quote you again....
 
"so a practiced gun combat maneuver that provides an advantage should be more than a standard, no advantage, 1/2 move held action to fire."
 
A practiced gun combat maneuver sounds like something that would cost points like any other Skill or Ability.
 
 Combat Crouch:  (Total: 4 Active Cost, 1 Real Cost) Lightning Reflexes (+8 DEX to act first with All Ranged Attacks) (4 Active Points); 1 Recoverable Charge (-1 1/4), Concentration, Must Concentrate throughout use of Constant Power (1/2 DCV; -1/2) (Real Cost: 1)
 
Lucius Alexander
 
The palindromedary says now Lucius will probably write up a gun toting female character named Alert Carrie.
 

IM3 was highly flawed, but I frickin' loved it. I'll take Shane Black rewriting "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" as an Iron Man movie, any day.  I think the big piece that didn't work was that the film seemed to be designed to write Stark out of the forefront of Marvel movies, but then... that didn't happen.

Captain America vs Thanos' thumb...

IM3 was highly flawed, but I frickin' loved it. I'll take Shane Black rewriting "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" as an Iron Man movie, any day.  I think the big piece that didn't work was that the film seemed to be designed to write Stark out of the forefront of Marvel movies, but then... that didn't happen.

I love how anyone hungry for characters that aren't male, white, and straight to headline some movies in Hollywood for a change is a "social justice warrior."

We are on a site devoted to playing a game. Isn't everything here inconsequential?
 
I thought that was the point.

Heh... I've actually considered something this extreme, but I do realize that game balance is an issue. 
 
One thing I should note is that I'm also reverting to old Danger International range mods. Those are way more punishing and appropriate for "realistic" gun combat. -1 per 3" (6 meters) after the first 6. Not doubling -1 7-12 meters, -2 12-18 meters, etc. Double the modifiers if autofire (or multiple attacks)... so at any kind of range, you start to miss with most of your rounds... which again, is pretty realistic. Heck... 6 meters, almost 20 feet, is pretty much handgun range , and beyond that you better be REALLY good.
 
Hmmm... maybe it is worth going back to those old Autofire rules... +4 OCV if full auto, +2 for 5 round burst, etc. That would make things "gross" at close range, but quickly move into mostly missed shots as the distance increases.
 
Man I loved DI back in the day. I'm looking at my, still in good condition, Dennis Loubet '84 cover as I type. Single best game book I've ever owned.
 
 

http://www.westernmassnews.com/story/37720272/teacher-accidentally-fires-gun-in-classroom-student-injured
 

Mueller wants it to keep getting lost, for the most part.  He wants to stay under the radar until it is time to strike.