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Mass, as has been pointed out, decreases as levels of Shrinking increase. As to strength and movement decreasing: 6E1-283 under the Shrinking Power: Reduced By Shrinking (-¼): If a character wants to lose some abilities — such as STR, or the full power of his Blast, or the like — he can use this Limitation, which is described above. 5eR says approximately the same thing on page 219 under Using Shrinking. So add "reduced by shrinking" to the character's STR and Movement powers? Toxxus' "decreased striking surface area means more damage/penetration" could be done with a linked HA or HKA, I'd think.

Grandfather Paradox solved... maybe: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/time-travel-simulation-resolves-grandfather-paradox/ Short version: Schrödinger's Grandpa

Re: Types of Superheroes/Villains The Marvel Super Heroes (FASERIP) Player's Guide lists the types of possible Super Heroes as: Altered Human Mutant Hi-Tech Robot Alien The Ultimate Powers book increased the list to 42 entries (unless I miscounted) including three different types of Mutants (Induced, Random, and Breed - the FF are given as an example of Induced Mutant) and four types of Modified Humans, but no Mutates I'm afraid. Possibly you are recalling nonRPG Marvel material as Wikipedia explains Mutate_(comics) as you do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutate_%28comics%29

Re: LEGIONS OF HELL Now Available! aaaaaaaaand... Purchased! aaaaaaaaand... Downloaded! Now, to read.

While perusing the web, I happened across a couple of nifties from PopChartLab. If you don't want to click the link, these are images of posters (18" x 24") available for $27. Very helpful for people like me who have difficulty coming up with character concepts. Or people who just like superheroes. But not so nifty that I'm going to drop $54 on them. Especially since they look to be the same chart with slightly different visual styles.

Re: Planetary Value? I am a person who is reading this. Right now. When I read this, I was reminded of people who refuse to leave their homes even in the face of certain disaster. I've seen people, locally, refuse to evacuate in the face of advancing forest fires and at least one of the people who died in the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens did so because he refused to leave his home no matter what. Given that you stated that hard work would defenitely save the Earth, I'm certain that a large percentage of the human race would choose to do so rather than run like cowards. My children are old enough now that I can think of myself instead of them and I'd like to think that I'd be with the people working to save our home.

Re: Does Aid go to Active points or Real? I'm not Christopher, but if he is citing 6E1 page 141, I'd say you're right. I also agree with psyber624 that all you need to do is slap a custom limitation (and possibly increased fade rate) on Aid to get the effect you want. Remebering, as cited above, that Body counts as a Defensinve Power for purposes of costing Aid.

Re: More space news! Cute. But one of the links from that video was this one of honkin' fast photography. As in "so fast they have to correct the images for Relativity effects. As in, "so fast they can watch light move". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoHeWgLvlXI

Re: New Magic PDF From Steve: DESERT MAGIC I don't know if random posts in the forum are meaningful since you can track sales in the store, but I just bought the whole slew of them. Now on to reading!

Re: More space news! Black hole caught destroying star NASA has a simulation Here

Re: More Railgun ... I'm not thinking we're going to be getting many technical details.

Re: Physical Manifestation I generally don't reply to rules discussions for the same reason I generally don't reply to most threads (the less I talk, the less I look like and idiot), but moreso. However, I've been thinking about PM a bit myself though I've come to different conclusions. I hope you don't mind that I've cut your post appart to slip in my thoughts Since there's nothing about PM that makes the power or its source invisible, I think OIF would be a better comparison in which case it comes out looking to be about the right cost. Given that an inaccessible focus generally won't be taken away from you in battle, PM on most powers should play out exactly as OIF until someone gets captured/defeated. This is one of the reasons we have GMs, to stomp on ideas like this; PM shouldn't be allowed for powers that already have a physical componant any more than "Costs End" should be allowed for powers that already cost end. I'm not married to any particualr scheme for toughness so have no particular objection to your sugestion other than prefering to use already extant rules rather than making up new ones for every case. This comes down to the GM again, if the power has a disadvantage on it, it should be described in a way that makes it clear that the disavantage exists (except for inobvious focii where it's less of a disadvantage to not be noticed). Back when I read comic books, no one seemed to have trouble picking out when attacking a power would have any effect or not; or at least that's how I view it since comic books don't have to follow game rules. The language seems in line with Only In Alternate ID, but I see your point here. Extra Phase seems to be about right.

Re: 1800 Trek Alas, only five attachments per post, so Uhura is all by herself (if I knew it was going to work out like this, I would have done Kirk by himself ) [ATTACH=CONFIG]41967[/ATTACH]

I don't recall seeing these posted before. Now, through the magic of Photoshop:

Re: Book of the Empress The weekend got kind of busy, but I finally managed to finish BotE. I must agree with LL about both the Empress and Kharrl Korathon; I was reading along, dismissing most of the "destroy everything" and "kill everyone" bits as unfortunate by-products of war, then hit that. She can be one stone cold %@%^# when she needs to. The sections on V'ehicles made my eyes glaze over, it's invaluable for someone running a game where V'han's starships will be assaulted or for a Star Hero GM to lift, but that someone isn't me. The sections on how the multiverse is put together and how to make your own are from The Mystic World (including the art) but Edited For Content and to Fit on Your Screen, though I'm too lazy to do a side by side comparison to see what new stuff was added other than mentions of Istvatha V’han. The various example dimensions , old and new, were all well done and fun. All-in-all it's a good book, well up to Hero Games' standards and a good read. Even if I won't use most of it I don't feel like a chump for kicking in $25, even without the "Support Hero Games today so they'll be here tomorrow" factor. I only have one major complaint: Given its overwhelming importance to both the CU and the world in general, why did Foxbatworld receive such a small write-up?