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Here are Blitz's powers: MOVEMENT POWERS: Basic Hyperrunning: Flight 30" x8 NCM, Variable Advantages (+1 Advantages, +2), Reduced Endurance (0 END, +1/2), Only In Contact With a Surface (-1/4) Overdrive Hyperrunning: Flight 20", MegaScale (1" = 1km, +1/4), Reduced Endurance (1/2 END, +1/4), Only In Contact With a Surface (-1/4) Slip Slide, I'm Not There!: Teleportation 10", Position Shift (+5), Must Pass Through Intervening Space (-1/4) Walls Are No Obstacle: Desolidification (affected By Air-, Sonic- and Vibration-Based Attacks) SPEED STUNTS: Blizzard Of Punches: HA +5d, Autofire (+5 shots, +1/2)HtH Attack (-1/2), All Attacks Must Be At Same Target (-1/4) Chop Gun Barrels In Half: HKA 1 1/2d, Penetrating (+1/2) Dizzying Spin: Drain DEX 4d Phasing Grip: HKA 1 1/2d, Penetrating (+1/2), No STR Bonus (-1/2), No Knockback (-1/4) Sonic Boom Fingersnaps: EB 4d, NND (Def is Life Support: Safe in High Pressure/Solid Ear Coverings), No Range (-1/2), Gestures (-1/4) Tidied My Room Already: Change Environment 8", Variable Effects (+1/2) What I need to do now is get this into two multipowers. I figure the one for the Movement Powers would have a 70pt reserve and the one for the Speed Stunts would have a 40 pt reserve. What I need help with is distinguishing between multi and ultra slots. Help, please.

Re: The latest bit of BattleTech TRO infamy So how does a MechWarrior take down a BattleTech quietly?

Re: Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens "Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper,"

Re: S&S in Renaissance Florence PBEM? I mean, if I got everything together?

Re: Concubine Seeks New Position

Re: S&S in Renaissance Florence Thanks for the input, guys. Unfortunately, it was only a idea, since I'm not a GM and even if I was, I have no players. I have both Ultimate Martial Artist and Ultimate Mystic and was fascinated to learn that there were European martial arts other than the treatises on sword fighting. I see that Kampfringen has been linked with Kabbalism . . . I have heard of Solomon Kane, even though I've only read one of the stories. I think he's a really fascinating character.

Here's something that I've been toying with for a while now: a martial arts/S&S campaign set in Renaissance Florence. At least, that's where it would start. The Medici would make a great Patron, a terrifying Hunted and you can just bet that if sorcery really existed, they have their hands in that, as well.

Re: The latest bit of BattleTech TRO infamy Well, I just hope Simon Pegg never finds out . . .

Re: Concubine Seeks New Position Paris Hilton is the world's biggest skank. An inordinately rich skank. But still a skank.

Re: Concubine Seeks New Position Hmmm . . . GURPS has a skill called erotic art. Says it's appropriate for this kind of character. It's essentially an umbrella term for all the job-specific skills a courtesan would be expected to know. Inara Serra from Firefly is a good source of inspiration. Her training as a high-class courtesan gave her some unexpected skills, like being good with knots and espionage. I wouldn't have been surprised to see her have some form or martial arts. Plus, in the Serenity movie, she used a gun. And she had her own shuttlecraft. O'course - 3 is a former slave, and Inara was a freewoman.

Re: Pulparize It! I believe so. There's a couple of lines in "Thunderball" which bear this out. The owner of the health spa James Bond has been sent to by M looks him over and says: "My, you do seem to have been in the wars, Mr Bond." "A near miss, during the war." Bond replies. (This is probably not a direct quote. I haven't read the books for ages.) Plus, there's plenty of references to his time in the RNVR and he is referred to Commander Bond enough times. Plus Ian Fleming was a member of the RNVR during WWII and he created the Special intelligence Unit, later called 30 Commando (Special Engineering Unit) and finally 30 Assault Unit, which functioned as a technical intelligence gathering unit.

Re: Character: Dr. Frasier Crane

Re: Looking for a good name Hmm, in German that would actually come out as Herr Doktor Unmoglisch (immoglisch is German for impossible).

Re: Pulparize It! James Bond now fights Nazis. All the rest is pretty much the same. You could even introduce Bolshevik agents. You'd have to go back to having a male M though. The Walther PPK would have to go, too. It didn't reach Britain until after WWII. The 4 1/2 litre Bentley is good for the period though.

Re: real pulp heroes: Jim Corbett I think the BBC did a drama about this chap a couple of years back. Jason Flemying played the "young" Jim Corbett and Geoffrey Palmer played him as an old man/Jim Corbett's ghost. I think Jason Flemyng would make a good action hero - if you're in the mood for a more cerebral character.

Re: Non Cliche Supernatural Professions I really like the Dealer in Rare Books/Antiquities idea. However, it needn't be occult/new age/mind-body-spirit books. How about rare first editions or other books that are incredibly hard to find. How he finds this stuff should be worth a few plot hooks, eh?

Re: Stalking a superhero. Slightly off topic but . . . I recall a story when Judge Dredd had a stalker. She wound up setting up a slide on the (I think) top floor of an old folks home and conning the eldsters to "play" on it, all so Judge Dredd would turn up and arrest her. O'course, this being Judge Dredd, she's damn lucky he doesn't just shoot her and he certainly can't (won't) return her affections. I can see how a scenario like this could be infuriating, amusing and exasperating, all in equal measure. And any competent psychiatrist will tell you that the last thing that the stalkee should do is encourage his(her) stalker.

Re: Looking for a good name Basil Expedition? ROTFLMAO Dr Richard Penrose? a fusion of Richard Dawkins and Roger Penrose, both famous English scientists (or resident in England, Dawkins was born in Kenya). or Richard Feynmann or Richard Leakey, most famous for his conservation work in Kenya and his book "Origins" about the origins of the human species. Or Morris is a good name for a scientist. Dr Roger Morris, maybe.

Re: Don't touch the cat Or you could have the cat represent a kaiju or something . . .

Re: Bullet TIme! Thank you for your timely response, CrossHair Collie . . . So . . . summat like this maybe: . . . Chop Gun Barrels In Half: HKA 1 1/2d, Penetrating (+1/2) (33 points)? I made it a 1 1/2d HKA to guarantee getting past the gun's 4 DEF (as listed in Ultimate Brick) and 'cos I thought an HKA 2d would be too expensive. (I always abbreviate d6 down to d, 'cos there's no need to distinguish between any others - and it's what GURPS does) (Please don't ban me for liking GURPS)

Re: Strike Force I've just tried to buy this, but it was listed as "currently unavailable. We don't know when this item will be back in stock". Bugger.

I'm building a speedster based off Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash. According to "Secret Origins of the JLA" he was doing bullet time stunts 50+ years before the Wachowski brothers even thought of the Matrix and one panel as him using his superspeed to chop through gun barrels. So, I was wondering how to best represent this. Could you fold this into a Variable Advantages adder on his Flight or would you have to create a framework to put such stunts in?

Re: How to build your own Iron Man suit — for real I've been obsessing over real powered armour suits for quite a while now. I was grinning like a fool all through the "Iron Man" movie because it looked like the comic had come to life. It is now officially my favourite comic book movie. :D I really liked the Iron Monger suit as well - Iron Man done as a gundam. I'm developing a character called Rebecca Westmeyer who sets up a company specialising in robotics/cybernetics and armour specifically to develop a powered armour suit like the Iron Man suit. Now - has anybody built a weapon systems that can be incorporated? Say a laser-directed shoulder mounted plasma arc slaved to one's head movements? Mike O'Dwyer's MetalStorm technology would be useful as well. I saw a drawing of a suit once with twin cold-launched SAMs mounted in a backpack. THAT would rock. Risking a slapping - check out the Tau Empire Codex from Warhammer 40K. The Tau have some very cool stuff that can serve as source material.

Re: Defending the Earth: Giant Asteroid The Centurions don't have the power to stop this thing by themselves. However, they would want to punish whoever sent it here. The ideal solution would be to knock it off/alter its course so that it misses. Attaching solar sails to guide it away would be one solution, a rocket motor (a VERY big one) bolted on to push it aside would be another. For those going with the nuclear option, the preferred option would be to detonate a warhead in the hundred-plus megaton range beside the asteroid so the shockwave knocks it off course. The earlier you catch it, of course, the smaller course correction you need.

Re: The Worst character in comics Not the worst character by far, but I've never been keen on the Vision, but that's just a matter of his beetroot red face, costume and the fact that his "secret identity" (at least in Avengers: Clear & Present Dangers) looked like a '30 matinee idol. I've got nothing against the actual character as such. However, Lobo has got to make the list of my Top 10 least favourite characters. I see he's also encountered Judge Dredd on his travels - shame Dredd didn't slam him into a cube. Seems the best place for him. Superman afraid of this chump? Never gonna happen.