Kal'El Wayne

Re: Unmaking Sir Johnstone smacks the anomaly with a rolled up newspaper. It stops destroying the world.

Re: Your character's theme music! I too am not computer/internet savvy enough to apply videos to my suggestions. I would welcome someone else to do it, though. For Sir Johnstone, he rarely ever leads the cavalry in person. He's not a superhero so much as he is like Oracle, organising other superheroes, but if the world is under threat or some such, he will call in all his contacts and move out to save the world. So either "Ride Of The Valkyries" or, since it is such a rare thing, he might have the only silent moments in the game. So all the rest of the 'episode' would be filled with background music, then when he decides to lead the troops, everything goes deathly quiet. Possibly even 'breaking the fourth wall' quiet as the bad guys mention how quiet it just got. Too quiet. For Strange Iron, a Power Armour type with some occult ability, "Starman" by David Bowie. A starman waiting in the skies who thinks he'd blow our minds. For New Leaf, the incarnation of nature who attempts to rehabilitate criminals, "It's Not Easy Being Green". She has this whole 'green' thing going.

Re: DC-What if you had to draft a superpower registration act? Put simply, if my very English butler hero, Sir Johnstone, were asked, he would make America a police state as far as people with superpowers were concerned, with having any superpowers, whether you use them or not, whether you got them on purpose or accidentally, would make you a criminal, and so would inventing anything better than the basic technology that existed before the law was passed. Then Britain would open the doors to any superhero or supervillain (free pardons and tea for everyone!) who chose to become a british citizen. And all British supers would be declared 'ambassadors' with full diplomatic immunity. They would be practically encouraged to keep commiting crimes in the country that made them illegal. All of a sudden, the moronic country that made superheroes illegal would have regular supervillain attacks and no superheroes to protect them, the British isles would be 25% superheroes, and 25% patriotic British supervillains who bring boatloads of money into the country, and if the country who thought registration was a good idea tried to start a war over it all, we've got an army of patriotic supers.

Re: Raptured For some reason, I read that as "Zl'F would shrug and light herself on fire.":p

Re: Characters Losing Their Souls - How To Handle It? Thing is, the guy who chose to sign up to 'do a task or lose your soul' in return for getting the butler's soul back where it belonged, is doing something heroic and if he chooses to give up his soul rather than help evil, that's also a good thing, so if he chooses to give up his soul, I'd have that act of complete unselfishness be enough to release his soul at the very least.

Re: Heroic Vampires

Re: WWYCD: "Dear Superhero" (Warning: Ugly situation) Well, note that Africa, being a large continent, may be too large for some of them to cross easily, if they don't have A) Powers that move them, or enough wealth to buy a plane ticket. And they may be very loyal to their own country's government and therefore, when told not to go, they don't. Plus, maybe their local supervillain has been acting just as bad recently and they needed to stop him first, because he's more powerful. Or maybe they just can't leave their own country for very long, like Captain Britain. Or maybe, just maybe, they couldn't care less. Like Doctor Doom, WonderWoman's mother, Namor and a host of other jerk superheroes/rulers.

Re: Heroic Vampires DJ Blackrock The Damphir sounds good, please. At the very least I could cannibalize (vampirize?) some of his powers. Lord Liaden Thanks for the thread link.

Re: WWYCD: "Dear Superhero" (Warning: Ugly situation) I like the idea of another surprise twist. The PCs main villain 'just happens' to be there when the PC(s) arrive(s). Of course the twist is that it really is a coincidence, that the writer of the letters was told that they were both superheroes. And the archnemesis is there to help. Can the PCs handle the idea of an alliance? Or will they choose to fight the lesser of two evils? Sir Johnstone will make a small call to a friend and the civil war will stop. Then he will have a friend take over the country and set up a better government. StrangeIron would fly straight over, see if his new penpal was alright, then toast some badguy weapon caches. He'd stop everyone who was armed, no matter whether they where on the government or the rebel side. New Leaf would fly over and see his new friends, get them to hide in a camoflagued hole, two miles away from the village, then stand there and get shot a lot when the rebel troops come. Then he'd talk to them. Half an hour later, the whole group would be rebuilding the village and moving in. Any troops that followed would have the same thing happen.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Lost In Space. As in Lost... IN SPAAAACE!!! The Robinsons land on the Island, fix everything within an hour and spend the rest of the series providing perfectly logical explanations for everything that happens. Edit: The Robinsons and their pet robot, pet supervillain and pet Matt LeBlanc.

Re: Heroic Vampires The VPP was basically just because I tried making his skill list and realised that he had roughly ten points worth of skills in each new 'era' of about 250 years each. Rather than spend a boat load of points of historically accurate skills, I figured I could use a ten point VPP to fill in for a historically accurate skill set if the need ever arose. His low Con is just because I figured he wouldn't necessarily have much, he never had much as a normal human, and becoming a vampire gave him all the immunity he needed, so he never needed to develop good constitution. I used inherent to stop people from trying to drain his powers. He doesn't have powers, as much as just being dead. It's all sort of built in to his existence. Plus, as a ghost's desolidification is inherent, and I was buying it all at no end anyway...seems like the right way to model undead. Nothing costs endurance because you can't get tired, and your 'powers' are just side effects of being a corpse. It's not the Dracula style of Early Victorian 'classical' vampire, it's the early European 'living dead' vampire. I just didn't want to give him a very 'corpsey' look because another of my characters for this is going to be a 'voodoo' zombie. I thought that having two very similar characters wouldn't work so well, so I let the zombie have the 'corpse's shell' looks and some brick qualities. The Dex is low because he's as dextrous as he was in life, but the extra Dex for CV is just there because I can't find out how much it would cost to buy CV by itself. It's there to represent the movie style, where a vampire seems to act normally until it is attacked and bats the arrow out of the air or it feeds by moving at superhuman speed. The 'only in darkness' is to help promote classic vampire hunting styles, like knocking on a cottage door, flying high so no one sees you, then swooping down to grab someone who answers and draining them high up in the sky, away from the light of the lanterns/candles/etc inside the cottage. Could someone else build this better for me? Or recommend alternatives?

I was trying to do a set of write ups for PCs on the normal 200/-150 point Superheroic campaign style, using the classic monsters, starting with Vampires. I struggled a little to buy everything I needed, but I think I've done it. Tell me what you think. Arthur Str 10 11- (No End, +15 Str with no end, Only in darkness +1/2, 20 Real Points) Dex 10 11- (+10 Dex, 30 Base Points, Only For Working Out CV -1/4, Real Points 24) Con 10 11- Body 10 11- Int 10 11- Ego 10 11- Pre 20 (10 Real Points) 13- Come 20 (5 Real Points) 13- Speed 2 in the light or 5 in darkness (30 Base Points, Only in Darkness -1/2, 20 Real Points) Running 7’ Swimming 2’ Leaping 2’ ‘I’ve been killed before, it’s not that bad.’ Healing 1d6 (1 body per turn, 10 Base Points, No End +1/2, Persistent +1/4, Inherent +1/4, Can Heal Limbs, Resurrection-stopped by leaving a stake in the heart, 45 Active Points, Self Only -1/2, Extra Time: 1 turn -1.25, 16 Real Points) ‘Remember to breathe.’ Life Support: Total (50 Base Points, Inherent +1/4, 62 Real Points) ‘Zero brain activity.’ Mental Defense 20 (Inherent +1/4, 25 Real Points) ‘I’ve learned a lot, over the centuries’ Variable Power Pool 10pnts (15 Base Points, No End +1/2, Powers Can Be Changed As A Zero Phase Action +1, 37 Active Points, Only Skills -1, 18 Real Points) ‘You learn to ignore mortal wounds after a while.’ Armour 15 pd/15 ed (Base Points 45, Inherent +1/4, Real Points 56) ‘?’ Flight 8’ (Base Points 16, No End +1/2, Persistent +1/2, Innate +1/4, Active Points 36, Only in Darkness -1/2, 18 Real Points) Distinctive Features: No heartbeat, Not concealable, Major Reaction, By touch, -25 points Hunted: various ‘Vampire Hunters’, as powerful, NCI, Frequent, Kill. -20 points. Psych Limit: Code Vs. Killing, Common & Total -20 points Social Limit: Secret ID, Frequent, Severe -20 points I still need a quote for Flight and better quotes are always welcome.

Re: It pay to listen to the stories of your Grandfathers I love the bit with the Turkish Consulate!

Re: Super Fantasy- The Land of Mar'Veldc

Re: Star-spawn gunslinger This is gonna be really fun if the bad guy ever tries a 'Lets see who you really are!' style unmasking scene.

Re: Super Fantasy- The Land of Mar'Veldc And of course, if you include DC, Poison Ivy is a perfect cleric of Hulk. Her main reason for worshipping him is because she is so furious at the rest of 'humanity' (or sentient being-ity) that she begged Hulk, God Of Anger And Nature (After all, what's the one thing beside Betty/Jennifer that can calm the Hulk down? That's right, being alone with nature.), to give her the power to stop the mindless destruction of plantlife. So he made her into a Nature Demi-Goddess. After all, he doesn't care if she's good (saving lots of plants/nature) or evil (killing lots of humans), as long as she treats nature right (and/or is furious about some injustice). So there you go, a nice little pantheon for you. A God and two Demi-Goddess' of Nature and Rage.

Re: Super Fantasy- The Land of Mar'Veldc Rather than a clan of Hulks, try making him a God of Anger, currently residing in the form of a mortal priest by the name of Bruce like Thor does with his mortal form would be good. He's of average intelligence normally, but has 'berzerker rages' wherein he acts like the Hulk of the comics. And of course he's worshipped by the Conan/Viking equivalents in your Marvel Fantasy setting. The surname Banner might be Bruce's title, referring to his position as the standard bearer for Hulk. And Bruce's cousin, a Judiciary by the name of Jennifer, visits Bruce. When she gets shot to death by an assassin, Hulk gets mad, Bruce transforms, the assassin gets flattened (along with the building he's in) and then Hulk, God Of Anger, ressurects Jennifer. When he does so, she is enfused with some of the essence of the God Of Anger and becomes a Demi-Goddess. She can transform at will, into a form of a beautiful green giantess.

Re: A really tough kookie with a twist I would start with the basics. Physical characteristics need to be kind of high. I wouldn't try to get them as high as you really want them, yet. Try a lower score but with a +X amount to each that only applies when certain things occur, like 'Only when badly injured' (50% health). Then you still have a very high score when it really counts, a decent score for day to day fighting, and a good in character reason for improving your abilities later. You simply adapted. As far as Mental stats, keep them low, but add +X to Ego and Pre, Defence Only. Then improve them later, with your physical stats. You get more monstrous in appearance as you get more muscle/bone-spurs/etc. Buy the full range of your Life Support since adapting to any environment is the whole point of the character. Similarly, take the full healing, for the same reason. Keep an adaptation pool, but not as large, and lower the defenses. Improve those later, after getting in a few fights, because your body and mind have adapted to the greater threats that you face. Get rid of the claws and running, relying on leaping to get where you need to be. Then later on, you can improve those too, if you feel like it. On the whole, everything can be reduced with an addition that only applies 'When slightly hurt', another that applies 'when hurt', and a third that applies 'when badly hurt'.

Re: Spreading Good WIll Thing is, if that many of us think that this thing might be the thing that will destroy Earth if it isn't full of goodwill soon, then many of the public will too, so destroying it will still raise a lot of goodwill. Or you could just start getting supers to act like mythic characters, like Santa, the Easter Bunny, Xena and so on, thus raising awareness of these mythic people and raising goodwill. If everyone knew for a fact that there is a Santa, whether there was one already or not, I think goodwill would go up quite quickly.

Re: Bizarre Spell Ideas Doctor Vault’s Television Ghost Summoning Summon Television Ghost: 100 character points (20 base points) Reduced Endurance: 0 End (+1/2) (30 active points) OAF: Remote Control. (-1) Extra Time: Full Phase. (-1/2) Gestures: One hand fiddling with the remote control for a phase. (-1/2) (10 real points) Well-known Technopathic superhero, Doctor Vault, has created this device as a focus for him to summon holographic substitutes for people, drawn from the datastream of TV signals, into three dimensional realities. How aware they are of reality, and how accurate the replica is, depends on the settings of the remote control at the time that Doctor Vault summons the current being. Unfortunately, replicas of powerful heroes and villains are often unable to use much of their power, as the remote can only handle so much data at a time.

Re: superuseless superpowers Yeah, I love those things like 'Invisible: only when no one's watching' and 'Intangible: Only to things without mass'. Especially when the DM realises that you can walk right past a sentinel, and punch straight through a force field.

Re: Bizarre Spell Ideas This is a Magic Ring that my thief character found in some treasure, when the GM decided that I was being forced to babysit the rest of the party too much whenever they started to slip into munchkin playing mode. The Ring Of The Baby Sitter This ring temporarily turns it’s targets into themselves as they were when they turned fifteen years old. Exactly as they looked when they really were fifteen, excluding clothes. They also become compliant towards the person who transformed them, to point that any remaining desire to resist is usually expressed as the typical complaints of a fifteen year old. Transform, Minor 5D6: To fifteen year old self, No End (+1/2), NND: not having turned fifteen yet (+1), IIF (-1/4), Only Party Members (-1.5), During Winter (-1/4) Heals at target’s Rec per day (-1). Transform, Minor Mental 5D6: No End (+1/2), NND: not having turned fifteen yet (+1), Linked: Transform (-1/4), IIF (-1/4), Only Party Members (-1.5), During Winter (-1/4), Heals at target’s Rec per hour (-1). Can be used in any phase that Transform is used. 58 RPs Quite a character upgrade, but since, in my case, it only worked on the party, it wasn't that big a deal.

Re: Transporter Accident I should explain a few things. 1.) Yes, it's character's being taken from the campaign that they are in and being dumped in DS9. 2.) No, there is no way home. 3.) If your character comes from a culture that would be aware of Star Trek then yes, they are aware. This is a reality that is almost exactly like the TV series. They are not trapped in a tv show or anything. 4.) Yes, I know the most obvious idea for a lot of characters, especially Kirk-esque characters, is to hook up with a different Babe/Hunk/Being each week or so. That's why I had you immediately surrounded by Dax and Kira, after the transporter 'accident', then Bashir and Sisko while they check that you are healthy and not a threat. Flirt away! Edit: 5.) Yeah, it is an obvious 'Mary Sue' set up. I want to know how much your character's, whether Super Heroes or Star Heroes, would indulge in attempted Mary Sueing.

You were just stood there, at home/work/whatever minding your own business, when 'zzap!', all of a sudden, you were in a strange booth, stood next to a short-ish red head with nose ridges and a tall, freckly brunette. All of a sudden they draw some strange kind of pistols on you. They seem as puzzled as you are. "Kira to Security, send a team to transporter room 5." Yes, it's a transporter 'accident', thanks to our friendly neighbourhood Q. Course, since Sisko punched him, he's been reluctant to appear in person and is currently watching from, well, somewhere, and you won't even find out about him for a month. Meanwhile, when Jadzia Dax and Kira Nerys beamed back up from a Bajoran religious festival, you came with. If you protest innocence, and explain, they'll soon believe you, backed with some technobabble that you may or may not understand. You apparently have no way of getting to your home universe, but they have offered quarters, and even a position of responsibility on the ship if you show some prowess (that is 'skill' not 'powers'). The Bajorans seem friendly enough and the Starfleet officers are fascinated with your home universe. So WWYCD?

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Funnily enough, I recently played Fantasy Hero with a guy who was kind of irritating. He played a smarmy elf rogue, and hit on the mayor's slimmer daughter. My mage may be a pervert (he's a furry who uses the polymorph spell to spend most of his time in the shape of a fox, and chases after butterflies. It was a very characterful game.) but he knows when to back off. Since the Elf wasn't getting the hint to back off, I ducked around the door, excusing myself as though going to the bathroom, then cast a silent mage hand-ish spell to make the mayor's daughter feel like she'd just had her left breast groped. Since the Elf was sat on her left on the bench, she finally got the courage to slap him and have him thrown out of the Mayor's house. Then I stroll in, get told what a jerk my friend has been, apologise for the company that destiny has forced me to keep, and have a nice meal with a long conversation on romance and music with the Mayor's plumper daughter. And, as some of you might remember, my character has a 'thing' for the larger ladies. He was technically appointed Town Wizard, so he has an excuse to return regularly and see her, but he never made the mistake of bringing the Elf back. He plans to make her one of his wives next year, and she's quite understanding about the whole 'polygamy' thing.