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No worries.

Until a couple of years ago I thought the same thing.

Just a note for the non-Australians.

I noticed one of the characters linked to in the "Create a Villain" is called The Abo.

Please do not use that word, it's a racist slur on the level of the N word.

While we're on it - Walkabout is also pretty bad. It's part of the "lazy blacks" myth.

Thanks.

So is the guy voicing the Nazgul in that clip the same guy who voices Skeletor?

Edit: IMDB says  "No." ☹️

But Eowyn shares her voice with Ariel from the Thundarr cartoons, so that's cool.

17 hours ago, assault said:

 

And if you run out, there is always Wellington Paranormal.

Just binged 5 eps of season 3 Wellington Paranormal yesterday. 😁

There is no such thing as too much What We Do in the Shadows.

I'd like to see Halathaloorm. It sounds like something out of the Eternal Champion series.

On 3/11/2021 at 11:27 AM, Panpiper said:

It's not 'all' the martial arts maneuvers, it's the 'right' to buy 'any and as many as they like' martial arts maneuvers. None of the above are actual points spent, but are spent in the abstract to establish a relative balance. They establish ceilings to which the various stats/powers may rise, but they may not reflect the actual points spent. 

Oohhhhh. I see now. Sorry, I misunderstood. Still like it, I think it's a good guide. One I will happily steal next time I get to run a supers game. 

I'm not seeing a need for the entourage in this case. Sounds like the PCs have enough oomph to deal with low level encounters.

Remember you run the risk of overshadowing the PCs and the players if you give them a bunch of much more competent NPCs to hang out with.

Ivanova can do whatever she wants and call it whatever she wants.

I like it! Only thing that I would worry about is buying all martial arts manouevres for only 10 points. It seems really cheap to me. Does that 10 points lower one of the maxima from the above categories?

The Broken Earth Trilogy.

Rating: Very Excellent.

On 2/20/2021 at 9:24 AM, Matt the Bruins said:

Honestly, I'm surprised the family has a dog. I'd have expected any pets to be something Cruz would be more comfortable with, like say ophidians...

Hey! Leave snakes alone. They never did anything to deserve Ted Cruz.

Hmmm.

First - I'd put the lim on the END Battery.

Second - Sliding scale of horrible side effects sounds pretty cool to me. 

Third - nothing comes to mind.

Hope that helps. 🙂

On 1/31/2021 at 1:25 PM, Tjack said:

   

    I’m hip, my brother.  I’ve got those love/hate emotions about fandom in spades.  In my foolish youth I was for many years a staff member of one of the largest fan run Sci-Fi conventions in New England.  Since I was an E.M.T.  I ended up in the Security Dept. Every drunken, ridiculous, proto-Karen (both male and female) in a costume came thru our doors. 
   I’ve got some good stories that the statute of limitations are finally up on.  So, if anybody cares I’ll tell some tales out of school on another thread.

Yeah, dish the goss!

Hmmm. I'd make it a Drain against, oh, INT, PRE, DEX, OCV & DCV. Just off the top of my head. 

Also, welcome to the boards. :-)

I imagine the trap that Hayley disarmed, and that the bad guys walked into, is some sort of Maze spell/mini-plane.

So... no-one's touching that "Tim the Sorcerer?" Probably for the best.

On 12/19/2020 at 9:01 AM, JmOz said:

You know that a couple wheel chair bound "heroes" did this as well...

I did not. So... Professor X?

Another thought for things to include in the files: Oddly personal comments. 

eg: "Wears too much antiperspirant."

"Fond of classical music. Why?"

"Eats a lot of donuts."

"Did they know what they wanted when they got that haircut?"

Known strengths (ie: Powers and skills.) 

Known weaknesses. Eg: actual Vulnerabilities and Susceptibilities but also psych lims. that can be exploited, such as habits, obsessions, other patterns of behaviour. Basically - Complications. I'd hope that, as a hero, they wouldn't exploit DNPCs but I guess some versions of Batman would.

Known associates. It's much easier to find someone if you know where to look. Also you may overhear confidences shared if you are surveilling (not a real word) them. 

Then there's the actual plans. The hero will list ways in which to leverage the weaknesses and negate the strengths.

Then add some creepy stalker pics that Batman, er I mean Plan Guy, has taken of the hero at private times.

Yeah that's how it seems to me too. But I thought maybe others were doing it differently.

For me it varies with my mood.

Some characters get piles of limitations and advantages while I try to model the thing. Others might  get a simple "custom modifier" (as Hero Designer calls it) that I value at what I think it should be.

Hmm.

So I've always assumed that RSR on a VPP would mean an extra skill roll. The first VPP skill roll to reconfigure the VPP (as per VPP rules), the second to make the power work (as per RSR rules.) And if you have to do both in the same phase then so be it.

Is that too harsh? After reading this thread I'm thinking that may be too harsh.

I'm also a fan of baby name dictionaries. And yeah, I'll map names from a real culture onto one of my fantasy ones.

I also do a bit of the made up name thing. Now that I think about it, mostly for Orcs. Don't know why Orcs get this treatment when no-one else does... 🤷‍♂️

28 minutes ago, HeroGM said:

One of the characters I had before started as a Martial artist with 2 MAs. It got to the point where I was dumpijng points into it all and me and the Reff at one mid-season session discussed character rebuilding and growth. I could re-dump all the m.a points I spent into the 8 CSL, some +HTH attacks (4 pts either way) and take wf's and knowledge skills with the idea of "I know all of these and this is how I mix them"....if I didn't have the skill though I didn't know the art. 

Did buying the CSLs work out cheaper on points?

Yeah, I think it works well. And it's my preferred way of doing it unless I was running a specific martial arts campaign.

For new players it might be a bit more complex than buying martial manouevres. I think that "choose this power to be able to do X" is already well established as a gaming convention. Whereas "here's a bunch of flexible bonuses, do with them as you will" can be a bit intimidating when someone is already under the kosh from learning a new system.