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Re: Stupid EC Question Yup! I was replying to Tom, who seemed to have missed that. =)

Re: Finger & Palm Print Mimic I'd say it's a Touch Group SS, not Sight Group (you're changing the shape, not the appearance). Also, doesn't the Imitation modifier already include the "Must Possess Print Information" deal, as in "you can't Imitate what you haven't examined"?

Re: I need help with a Talent? Perk? Skill? Mebbe Mind Control, with some Limitations (Extra Time, Set Effect), a huge Area of Effect, and RSR: Oratory? It wouldn't have to be a lot of dice, since you're only talking about an EGO or EGO+10 effect. Or just a humongous Oratory Skill?

Re: Stupid EC Question

Re: Would you allow this

Re: EC's cannot have non-END powers!!!!

Re: 250 character points vs 350 character points Yup... I think the initial opposition to "400pt characters in FH campaigns" comes from the fact that you need very mature and fair-minded players and GM to run a working FH campaign on 400pts. Otherwise you get absurd CVs, damage, and/or defenses, or disgruntled players ("but WHY can't I buy a 7d6 RKA Fire Bolt spell?! I have the points for it!!!"). Which is to say... ~150 is a good default, 400 is not. Then again I don't recall anybody claiming it was.

In a recent thread you said: Is that last "(8)" a typo? Hero A starts with OCV 20, which would be 10 if at -10, no?

Re: Using N-ray vision to read a book on a shelf It should, obviously, be done with XDM: To A Dimension Where I Can Read Closed Books From Across The Room, And Also Look At Stuff From Any Direction, And Also Look Through Stuff, Too.

Re: Dodge Giant Blows

Re: Guess Who Finally Read the Powers Chapters The Laptop is a Focus for the power. The fact that you need to have a chip implanted for it to work is immaterial. Look at it from a purely rules PoV: to be able to use the Power (Mind Link), you need to have an object (the Laptop). That's pretty much the definition of the Focus Limitation. The fact that you can, or do, buy other powers that also have that object as thei Focus is immaterial.

I think I asked this once, or read about it, but my search fu is weak today... Can I perform a Disarm with a ranged attack by default, or do I need to purchase some martial maneuver for it? That is, is the Disarm maneuver usable with ranged attacks, or only hand-to-hand? If only hand-to-hand, is there a free ranged equivalent, or is it only available through martial arts?

Re: Which one? They're both confusing. Consider using Force Wall rather than Force Field. Force Field doesn't really (necessarily) create a force field, it adds protection to the user. Force Wall creates an actual wall. If your idea is to make the target of the spell better protected, but otherwise unaffected, Force Field is the way to go. If you're thinking of blocking access, both ways, so that the target would have to break through the field in order to attack anything outside it, as well as the other way around, then you want Force Wall. Regarding UAA vs UBO, look at it this way: UAA has the caster putting force fields (or walls) around targets, while UBO has the caster granting a power to targets, the power to put force fields (or walls) around themselves. Forcegirl uses her Force Field, UBO on Normalguy. Now Normalguy can protect himself with a Force Field as if he had the power, spending his own END to power it, and turning it on and off as desired. If Forcedude used her Force Field, UAA on Normalguy, then she spends her own END to put a force field around Normalguy. The force field is under her control, she can turn it on and off as she wants.

Re: Language Chart "Pidgin" might be a misnomer, then, since it refers to a simplified form of a language. You might want "patois", rather than "pidgin". =) Really just a nitpick, tho!

Re: Advantaged advantages One thing to remember if you're going the Naked Advantage route is that Naked Power Advantages are Instant, not Constant, so you'd probably want Persistent or something.

Re: Web Fluid Canisters That's not how it would work. Consider the same power but w/o Charges. Now you run out after 75 END, and don't have any more... ever. Adding a -3/4 Limitation shouldn't give you 6 times the power. =) Mebbe just get rid of the Charges, and just pay +5pts per x2 items if you want to carry around extras?

Re: 4th ed vet-- how different is 5eR? Um, the game's being made by Cryptic, not DoJ. DoJ sold Cryptic the rights to the Champions setting for it.

Re: Level of success Sean, I understand your rationale completely. One thing that irks me about that system, though, is how it works counter to the general die-rolling feel. Rolling a "3" in the current system gives you a "YEAH!" feel, while rolling higher, closer to your exact-roll-to-hit, might even prompt you to re-calculate to see if you actually DID hit. So while it makes sense, mathematically, it doesn't "feel" right. If I roll a "14", and it turns out I hit, I feel like "phew, almost didn't hit". Yes, if I manage to hit on a "14", I'm probably better enough than my target to warrant big hits, but I don't think those big hits should come when I roll "14".

Re: Martial Arts In A Focus ? I disagree on the NCC on Skills. His skills aren't really limited at all. He can, and does, use them whenever he needs to. While he doesn't quite know what he can do (and this is covered in the Phys Lim), he does act like he has to act (i.e. while he might not know he can defuse a bomb, he still run towards it and starts fiddling with it... and defuses it). If his Skills sometimes worked when he didn't want them to (like, say, he kills someone with a MA Killing Attack when he intended to knock him down and run past, or if he started monologuing (Oratory) when he wanted to be stealthy), or didn't work when he wanted them to (pretty obvious), or worked in ways he didn't intend (re-rigs the bomb to go off in 2 minutes, rather than when someone crosses the IR beam, Seduces the girl into marrying him instead of into going into the gun shop and getting him a gun), then NCC would be in order. As it is, the fact that he's surprised by what he finds he's able to do is SFX and Roleplaying... in truth, he's not hindered by his lack of background knowledge of his skills (i.e. where they came from).

Re: "Sliding Scale" Accidental Change

Re: Holding a Phase question Problem is when you do the ol' "mental command" Trigger schtick. Then you get to attack every Segment, while still getting your normal allotment of actions. 'Course, it'd wouldn't slip by any GM worth his salt. =)

Re: New Mechanic: OmniPool Framework I must say, I really hope this gets included in 6th Edition. This is one of the two things that REALLY have me excited about all the 6thEd discussion!

Re: another EC question Yup.

Re: Hero System - Champions - Fluff The HERO System doesn't lend itself to MMOs very well. It relies too heavily on GM approval/veto. While a part of me would love a game based on the HERO System rules, I'd have to admit I don't see how it could work. =/

Re: Sonic Overpressure Attack Explosion, Continuous, Limited Power (Only When Moving at Supersonic Speeds) Or change the Limited Power to Linked (to Superspeed, only when greater power used at full power).