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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?

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Re: Book of the Empress Cost. Apparently going to full color raises costs by almost an order of magnitude. It seems artists want to be paid more to break out the crayons. I'm now regretting not loading BotE onto my Color Nook as I would have been able to sneak reading it while at work.

Re: Book of the Empress All right, I've finished the Introduction and Chapter 1 "A Crusade Across Realities: The History Of Istvatha V’han." I'm not a superhero fan, but there were a couple of things that almost made me want to squee in glee. Admittedly, one was pretty close to a "Take That" for a few posts on this board. Specifically, the bit in the Intro about "Realism." That aside, the first chapter being presented as excerpts from the official V’hanian histories as well as rebel tracts was fun, even if it did leave me wondering what "really" happened. My favorite bit by far has got to be the following: On the other hand, we seem to have been given the Empress's entire history without any illustrations of Istvatha V’han as a petulant 16 year old. I am disappointed. Very, very disappointed. EDIT: Unfortunately, that's as far as I am going to get tonight as I have to get up early for work tomorrow. I'm sure someone with less need/desire for sleep than me will post more by the time I get up. tomorrow

It's here! I got the pdf, straight from Hero Games a little bit ago. I can't say I like having to download a program to get the file (dropbox), but I can't think of any good alternatives so I'll just have to cope. Also, I think my attempts to get a copy of the file onto my computer caused everyone who got it before me to be notified of two extra copies. Sorry guys. Enough talking, now I need to read it!

Re: Video Game Martial Arts (Coments Welcomed) It doesn't look too different from what you did with 5th. I'll have to have a closer look/compare and contrast when I get home (presuming I remember once I get home... that's getting to be more and more of an issue ) http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/577-Fighting-Game-Hero?p=717290#post717290

Re: Transcript of Steve Long's MYTHIC HERO chat -- Feb. 22, 2012 You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Lord Liaden again. Alas. Thank you for posting this.

Re: MYTHIC HERO Kickstarter After watching the video on the Kickstarter page I'm a bit confused. I could have sworn that Steve had said he wasn't going to put stuff like how to play demigods and gods or how to make your own gods and pantheons into Mythic Hero, but on the video he said he was going to do just that. Ah well, my misconception and enough to push my pledge up from the cheap seats into "get a hard copy of the book" territory.

Re: MYTHIC HERO Kickstarter April 2? You should have made it April 17 or some such, so those of us expecting to get a tax refund can schedule it as thing to buy with the IRS "gift". I expect to be pledging when I get home though. Yes, I know I should file early if I expect to get a refund; I'd like to introduce you to my little friend... procrastination.

Re: Susano Considers His Next Possible Projects (What Do You Want To See?) Mike's Martial Artists: You're going to update Midnight Maid for 6E? >shudder< I might buy it, depending on the price point. The Well of the Worlds: This looked interesting when you were posting your Actual Play. If I haven't given Steve Long all my money by then, Ill pick this up. Kazei 5: System Upgrade: If I bought this, I'd probably have to buy Kazei 5, wouldn't I? That said, K5 has been on my radar for a while. Maybe inform my wife that Xmas is coming up...

Re: Possible HERO System Supplement Kickstarters From Steve -- What Interests You? Mythic Hero: 25$ It turns out this isn't the book I was hoping for as I have no use for god stat blocks; but I'd be willing to pay/pledge $25 for Steve Long to research pantheons so don't have to. Cyber Hero: Maaaaybe $25 I like the genre, but never managed to get into a game. It depends on my financial situation at the time of the kickstart as I'd be buying it to read, not to play. Dark Champions: Zed, no interest. STORMlords: $50 Easily the most interesting offering and I've been keeping an eye on it since it was first mentioned. If I'm feeling flush at the time of the kickstart, I could go $100.