Dust Raven

Everybody likes jokes. Here is a thread to post your favorite or most recently heard jokes. Here's one I heard today:
 
A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman's husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.
The little boy says, "Dark in here."
The man says, "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball."
Man - "That's nice."
Boy - "Want to buy it?"
Man - "No, thanks."
Boy - "My dad's outside."
Man - "OK, how much?"
Boy - "$250"
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.
Boy - "Dark in here."
Man - "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball glove."
The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, "How much?"
Boy - "$750"
Man - "Sold."
A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove, let's go outside and have a game of catch. The boy says, "I can't, I sold my baseball and my glove."
The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?"
Boy -"$1,000"
The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that, that is way more than those two things cost I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."
They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, "Dark in here."
The priest says, "Don't start that crap again, you're in my closet now"

Hey everyone.
 
Haven’t been active for many years here, but after a move out of state I might have finally found a group of players for Champions. Not getting too excited about it yet, but figured I’d polish up and see what’s new.

New PC, who dis?

Hey everyone.
 
Haven’t been active for many years here, but after a move out of state I might have finally found a group of players for Champions. Not getting too excited about it yet, but figured I’d polish up and see what’s new.

Are we still debating how to build a spoon or a towel?

Hey everyone.
 
Haven’t been active for many years here, but after a move out of state I might have finally found a group of players for Champions. Not getting too excited about it yet, but figured I’d polish up and see what’s new.

Hey everyone.
 
Haven’t been active for many years here, but after a move out of state I might have finally found a group of players for Champions. Not getting too excited about it yet, but figured I’d polish up and see what’s new.

Everybody likes jokes. Here is a thread to post your favorite or most recently heard jokes. Here's one I heard today:
 
A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman's husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.
The little boy says, "Dark in here."
The man says, "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball."
Man - "That's nice."
Boy - "Want to buy it?"
Man - "No, thanks."
Boy - "My dad's outside."
Man - "OK, how much?"
Boy - "$250"
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.
Boy - "Dark in here."
Man - "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball glove."
The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, "How much?"
Boy - "$750"
Man - "Sold."
A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove, let's go outside and have a game of catch. The boy says, "I can't, I sold my baseball and my glove."
The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?"
Boy -"$1,000"
The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that, that is way more than those two things cost I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."
They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, "Dark in here."
The priest says, "Don't start that crap again, you're in my closet now"

Everybody likes jokes. Here is a thread to post your favorite or most recently heard jokes. Here's one I heard today:
 
A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman's husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.
The little boy says, "Dark in here."
The man says, "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball."
Man - "That's nice."
Boy - "Want to buy it?"
Man - "No, thanks."
Boy - "My dad's outside."
Man - "OK, how much?"
Boy - "$250"
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.
Boy - "Dark in here."
Man - "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball glove."
The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, "How much?"
Boy - "$750"
Man - "Sold."
A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove, let's go outside and have a game of catch. The boy says, "I can't, I sold my baseball and my glove."
The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?"
Boy -"$1,000"
The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that, that is way more than those two things cost I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."
They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, "Dark in here."
The priest says, "Don't start that crap again, you're in my closet now"

Re: Jokes
 
Man discovered weapons and invented hunting; woman discovered hunting and invented furs. Man discovered colors and invented painting; woman discovered painting and invented make-up. Man discovered speech and invented conversation; woman discovered conversation and invented gossip. Man discovered agriculture and invented food; woman discovered food and invented diet. Man discovered friendship and invented love; woman discovered love and invented marriage. Man discovered woman and invented sex; woman discovered sex and invented headaches. Man discovered trade and invented money; woman discovered money and after that, man was a complete mess!

Everybody likes jokes. Here is a thread to post your favorite or most recently heard jokes. Here's one I heard today:
 
A woman takes a lover home during the day while her husband is at work. Her 9-year old son comes home unexpectedly, sees them and hides in the bedroom closet to watch. The woman's husband also comes home. She puts her lover in the closet, not realizing that the little boy is in there already.
The little boy says, "Dark in here."
The man says, "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball."
Man - "That's nice."
Boy - "Want to buy it?"
Man - "No, thanks."
Boy - "My dad's outside."
Man - "OK, how much?"
Boy - "$250"
In the next few weeks, it happens again that the boy and the lover are in the closet together.
Boy - "Dark in here."
Man - "Yes, it is."
Boy - "I have a baseball glove."
The lover, remembering the last time, asks the boy, "How much?"
Boy - "$750"
Man - "Sold."
A few days later, the father says to the boy, "Grab your glove, let's go outside and have a game of catch. The boy says, "I can't, I sold my baseball and my glove."
The father asks, "How much did you sell them for?"
Boy -"$1,000"
The father says, "That's terrible to overcharge your friends like that, that is way more than those two things cost I'm going to take you to church and make you confess."
They go to the church and the father makes the little boy sit in the confession booth and he closes the door.
The boy says, "Dark in here."
The priest says, "Don't start that crap again, you're in my closet now"

I haven't seen one of these threads in a while, so thought I start a new one.
 
The basic idea is to present a Power construct that is somehow self defeating. Meaning that by its very nature duplicates something the character can already do for free, or acts in such a way that it has no game effect.
 
For my contrubution:
 
Bad Dubbing: Hearing Group Images 1" Radius, 0 END, No Range, Set Effect (character's own voice), Incantations, Normal Hearing Only.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Dark rituals, an evil dagger and a dozen heads squashed by a morphing dragon... tonight's game certainly what a good one. Here are some of the more notable quotes someone actually thought to write down:
 
“That’s not ‘darque’… d-a-r-q-u-e?â€
-Michelle
“Uh… no.â€
-Dust Raven and Shane
“Good… ‘cause I find that a bit more than pretentious- I find that ‘dorquy’… d-o-r-q-u-y!â€
-Michelle
 
“Oh, look… it’s like the sadistic tooth fairy!â€
-Michelle, regarding the ninja knocking out DEMON agents’ poison teeth before interrogation
 
“Here is my hand… please, eat out of it.â€
-Richard, regarding Midnight’s critical success on a Conversation roll
 
“Wow… their new ninja is much more sociable than the other one.â€
-Shane, imagining what the press thinks of Midnight as Whisper’s replacement
 
“Your clothes are ridiculous, and you smell funny, too!â€
-Michelle trying to suggest a way to reduce an opponent’s EGO
 
“She can drive the limo… like a nail into the concrete.â€
-Dust Raven, regarding the dragon that has no transport familiarity
 
“I wonder if the insurance will cover claw marks…â€
¬-Dust Raven
 
“You successfully hit the EGO of Whisper’s foot.â€
-Dust Raven, after Touchstone abysmally fails an attack roll with Telepathy
 
(Regarding the DEMON agent forcibly buried up to his neck in concrete by Vagabond)
“He’s up to his neck in trouble right now…â€
-Whispering Death
“You might say he’s made a lasting impression.â€
-The Nightflier
“By the way, who is the morbane in question?â€
-Touchstone
“…Darth Malicious…â€
-Dust Raven, forgetting for a moment the morbane’s name
 
“If Cthulhu is a subplot, I don’t want to know what we’re really going up against!â€
-DeAnna
 
“Oh, I met him in the dungeon of a demonhame,
We had to beat him up just to learn his name,
And it was Lolock… l-o-l-ock… Lolockâ€
-Filk to “Lola†by group
 
“His name was Lolock… he was a Morbane…
With gold trim around his hood
And a knack for draining blood (pronounced like “hood†above)…â€
¬“With his cloak of darkest red,
He just wants to make you dead…â€
-Filk to “Copacabana†by group
 
“http://www.evilmustDIE.comâ€
-Dust Raven¬
“http://www.evilmustDIE.orgâ€
-Richard
“http://www.evilmustDIE.biz, let’s make a profit here.â€
-Michelle¬
 
“Would you like your death painful or extra painful?â€
-Dust Raven¬
 
“It doesn’t hate you… it just wants to eat you!â€
¬-Whispering Death, regarding the Tooth of the Night Dragon
 
“There’s now a hole in the ground… that’s, oddly enough, shaped like a human.â€
-Dust Raven¬
“Oh… now we can make popsicles!â€
¬-Aminta
 
“Doesn’t that suck… you won’t be able to take that guy to Hell now…â€
-Dust Raven
 
“Only a Ninja can kill a Ninja…â€
-Aminta
“Yes, only a Ninja, fire, drowning, or that dagger can kill the Ninja.â€
-Dust Raven

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Dark rituals, an evil dagger and a dozen heads squashed by a morphing dragon... tonight's game certainly what a good one. Here are some of the more notable quotes someone actually thought to write down:
 
“That’s not ‘darque’… d-a-r-q-u-e?â€
-Michelle
“Uh… no.â€
-Dust Raven and Shane
“Good… ‘cause I find that a bit more than pretentious- I find that ‘dorquy’… d-o-r-q-u-y!â€
-Michelle
 
“Oh, look… it’s like the sadistic tooth fairy!â€
-Michelle, regarding the ninja knocking out DEMON agents’ poison teeth before interrogation
 
“Here is my hand… please, eat out of it.â€
-Richard, regarding Midnight’s critical success on a Conversation roll
 
“Wow… their new ninja is much more sociable than the other one.â€
-Shane, imagining what the press thinks of Midnight as Whisper’s replacement
 
“Your clothes are ridiculous, and you smell funny, too!â€
-Michelle trying to suggest a way to reduce an opponent’s EGO
 
“She can drive the limo… like a nail into the concrete.â€
-Dust Raven, regarding the dragon that has no transport familiarity
 
“I wonder if the insurance will cover claw marks…â€
¬-Dust Raven
 
“You successfully hit the EGO of Whisper’s foot.â€
-Dust Raven, after Touchstone abysmally fails an attack roll with Telepathy
 
(Regarding the DEMON agent forcibly buried up to his neck in concrete by Vagabond)
“He’s up to his neck in trouble right now…â€
-Whispering Death
“You might say he’s made a lasting impression.â€
-The Nightflier
“By the way, who is the morbane in question?â€
-Touchstone
“…Darth Malicious…â€
-Dust Raven, forgetting for a moment the morbane’s name
 
“If Cthulhu is a subplot, I don’t want to know what we’re really going up against!â€
-DeAnna
 
“Oh, I met him in the dungeon of a demonhame,
We had to beat him up just to learn his name,
And it was Lolock… l-o-l-ock… Lolockâ€
-Filk to “Lola†by group
 
“His name was Lolock… he was a Morbane…
With gold trim around his hood
And a knack for draining blood (pronounced like “hood†above)…â€
¬“With his cloak of darkest red,
He just wants to make you dead…â€
-Filk to “Copacabana†by group
 
“http://www.evilmustDIE.comâ€
-Dust Raven¬
“http://www.evilmustDIE.orgâ€
-Richard
“http://www.evilmustDIE.biz, let’s make a profit here.â€
-Michelle¬
 
“Would you like your death painful or extra painful?â€
-Dust Raven¬
 
“It doesn’t hate you… it just wants to eat you!â€
¬-Whispering Death, regarding the Tooth of the Night Dragon
 
“There’s now a hole in the ground… that’s, oddly enough, shaped like a human.â€
-Dust Raven¬
“Oh… now we can make popsicles!â€
¬-Aminta
 
“Doesn’t that suck… you won’t be able to take that guy to Hell now…â€
-Dust Raven
 
“Only a Ninja can kill a Ninja…â€
-Aminta
“Yes, only a Ninja, fire, drowning, or that dagger can kill the Ninja.â€
-Dust Raven

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
Superhero team, narrowing the search for the villains, anticipating battle.
 
Our Leader, half in character, half out of character: "Let's keep the damage down to one city block this time, eh?"
 
Chuckles all around. I tentatively raise my hand, speaking for my super-strong character.
 
"Yes?"
 
"Is that one city block for the whole team, or a city block each?"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
The games for this week for me were full of great quotes.
 
Star Trek
 
To upgrade the shields you’re rolling 87 times. Suck it up. – GM
 
You bombard it with Gamma radiation and it emits Tachions? Holly S*#t this system is messed up.
 
He broke down his own shields….Impressive.
 
The game can’t continue I’m still rolling.
 
I’m sure Watson’s is interested about the alien ship but he is still rolling for the shields.
 
This is Star Trek all you need to do is mention Tackions and it works.
 
What do you think this is MY game? - Player
 
I just got done with the shield its uber now. – Player
The shields are down- GM
F*.-Player
 
You can’t use the blebtey blupes to fix the shields. But socket wrenches are immune. - GM
I can recalibrate the fields with a socket wrench. – Player
 
Isn’t Vacuum damage funny?
 
Is your cargo secure Captain? – PC Captain
Yes sir. It’s in the cargo hold, and the bridge, and the crew quarters, and in my room, and the bath room. – NPC Captain
 
He has a bad case of death.
 
I have brain slugs. I keep working.
 
Ponfar always happens during fall sweep season.
 
Your immune because you’re an elf err…. I mean Vulcan.
 
We need a lot of salt STAT!
 
This is what you get for randomly telepisising people.
 
I don’t want to devolve. I don’t know what a test-tube baby would turn in to.
 
If you quarantine my cargo I get to drive this s*&$ rocket forever.
 
My nanites are eating my hands. STOP IT!
 
I started my own virus. YES!!!!
 
If I mess up I kill 2 PC’s. Sounds like fun.
 
I gave them EVA suites to avoid the death.
 
PULP
 
Of course I was expecting a Piranha encounter it’s the f*&^%$# Amazon.
 
This combat took so long my hair grew.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From out first Pulp Hero session last night:
 
"I have Physical Limitation: Unconscious and tied to the back of an elephant."
 
"And they have those knives with the wavy blades, the ones that give you +5 to a Presence Attack."
 
"You never know when a book might eat you.'
 
To the British archaeologist: "You're standing in a bloody pentagram."
Response: "Bloody hell!"
 
"Do you go around the elephant?"
"He had two swords. He can go through the elephant!"

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...
 
From out first Pulp Hero session last night:
 
"I have Physical Limitation: Unconscious and tied to the back of an elephant."
 
"And they have those knives with the wavy blades, the ones that give you +5 to a Presence Attack."
 
"You never know when a book might eat you.'
 
To the British archaeologist: "You're standing in a bloody pentagram."
Response: "Bloody hell!"
 
"Do you go around the elephant?"
"He had two swords. He can go through the elephant!"

Two players in my game have the Luck Power.
(No-one has Unluck disad, but if they did
it would be the reverse of this system.)
Here's how I handle it.
At the beginning of the play session they roll
their Luck Dice, and count the body.
 
Then I hand them that many Cards from a special deck.
 
 
In addition, when I as the GM want to really get a character,
or its inappropriate for the villain to miss, I hand the target player
(any one, not just players with the luck power)
a card, and then I give the villain a re-roll.
This card is for future use, and cannot be used
in this particular scrape.
 
The cards may be used for several purposes:
- Re-Roll any failed dice roll.
- Force a re-roll on an enemy.
- nudge a success into a critical success.
- nudge an enemie's simple failure into a blunder (critical failure)
- Character may abort their phase to protect/help a desperate team-mate.
- use the flavor text on the card to alter flow of events.
 
For example, the players are in jail, without weapons.
they cannot defeat the tough guards.
Lucky Player hands me the "Misplaced Trust" card,
and voila, on the next shift, the guards are rank newbies.
Guards are beat up and players escape. (of course they're
still in prison garb and have no equipment)
 
Once in a fantasy hero game, the players wanted to
get in the fabled library of Alexandria.
But the permit to enter is a costly thing
(yes its a Library Card for Alexandria)
 
Rich Character ponies up the cash.
Religious Character gets a writ from his church.
Noble Character calls in a Favor.
Wizard Character trades in a magic bauble in trade for his card.
Thieving Character picks pockets to pay for his card.
Then we get to the dumb brick fighter.
Player plays the Pity card. So the clerk
just stamps out a free card for the poor semi-literate slob.
 
Cards can affect combat, role-play, storylines, and skills.
I pretty much ignore the "luck levels" in the Hero rulebook
unless the player hands me TWO cards at a time, when
they desperately want something to happen their way
 
Unused cards are handed back to GM at end of session,
unless very special circumstances in effect.
 
Players seem happy with it.
They control their luck, don't have to wait
on me to remember they are lucky.
 
And most all of them are good sports to play along
when I "screw them with a villain" but hand them a
luck card for later usage.
 
 
 
 
Here's some samples of the cards:
 
Abrupt Change of Events
Suddenly things are not happening the way they were a moment ago. Alliances switch, secrets are revealed, and new information surfaces.
 
Added Animosity
The ill-will between characters grows past current levels. This animosity can be openly expressed or harbored secretly in the heart.
 
Bad Tidings
Someone gets bad news. It might affect play or it might be news of distant and still important events.
 
Bizarre Coincidence
Two or more things come together against incredible odds. Old friends (and enemies) run into you in the supermarket, you just happen to have the rare item you need in your closet, etc.
 
Pity
Sympathetic sorrow for another person affects a character's actions. This pity might provoke action or merely set a mood.
 
Change of Heart
A character's feelings change and alter a decision. Pirates spare prisoners and hassled innkeepers decide to make room for you after all.
 
The cards are long out of print and I have made my own set,
even adding some of my own devising.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread.
 

 
As they would say on FIREFLY ... Shiney!
 
PDS

Re: Build me a Satellite
 
I've done a GPS device as a limited Radio Transmit/Receive, usually with a focus. The Limitation value I use for GPS Signal Only is a -1, so with an OAF such a device will cost 3 points.
 
For the taking pictures thing: Clairsentience with Sight Group, LOTS of extra range plus a Limitation "Perception Point Must Be Outside Looking Down"

Re: Where else do you roll down?
 

 
Ah, okay. I think I lost you at some point, so I was trying to do a reality check.
 
I was actually running a mod of HERO for a while that used 3D10 instead of 3D6, and used 17 as the target number. Of course it was a Dragaeran camapaign...
 

Re: Multiple Special Effects
 

TRL has a good question, in your example, is that a 4d6 attack (can't tell what Power), or two seperate 2d6 attacks and go off together?
 
I'm under the assumption it's one 4d6 attack, with parts of it having different SFX. The only problem I'd have with that applying the damage to defenses that only apply to a certain SFX.
 
Personally, I'd just define the entire attack as being both SFXs. If the target has a Vulnerability to either SFX, it applies to the entire attack. If the target has a Defense that only applies to one of the SFX, it applies to the entire attack.
 
If you wanted the damage rolled to apply seperately, you should buy two attacks and link them together.

Re: Where else do you roll down?
 
They already tried changing the HERO System to a method of "you always want to roll high, and beat a target number." It was called Fuzion, and was almost universally loathed by Hero players.
 
I mean, come on. It's just not that complicated to say "If you're checking for success, roll low; if you're determining effect, roll high." That ain't differential calculus or something. Someone who seriously can't grasp that has a lot bigger problems to worry about than their choice of RPG systems.