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Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... . . . they get a major injury by stubbing their toe. . . . they cannot get out of an entangle made of styrofoam. . . . a computer made in 1980 has better stats than anyone in the (or the entire) team. . . . a snail can run faster than the team speedster.

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... . . . They have trouble with auto-install programs . . . Using a telephone is considered high technology . . . Going to get the mail exhausts them - and the mailbox is attached to the house!! . . . They need someone to explain what book they just read - it was a Dr. Suess book!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: We just got attacked by this strange stew. What will we do? A: One of the Tatas.

Re: The Unbalancer The answer to this is quite simple: We were meeting in her house at the time. One of the rules that she used was her way all the time [a real power gamer - who had a 99% success rate - even if the roll is 5- on 3d6 & was able to roll a 1 on 3d6!] We tried several different tricks to control her but eventually the group collapsed. Anyway I was not talking about the problem player but the character that she played (that was made worse by her attitude). I am curious to hear about characters and character concepts that people find troublesome to the long term balance of their campaign, not problem players.

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Re: The Unbalancer Here is a good example from a campaign that I played in some time ago. Another player wanted to (in DnD) play a new race that she said was one of the oldest races in the world - a fire elf. She wanted the character to have extreme abilities that greatly exceeded the level that she was at. When the GM tried to make the character come into the realm of what is possible at that level, she refused to work with the GM. This elf would possess the ability to walk through 2000 degree fire with no problem speak every language out there (even those that have not been seen in centuries), able to wield any weapon in existence, and anything else that she wanted it to possess. All this at level one! With this character around why have the other PCs? The GM tried allowing the character to have proficiency with one (maybe two) weapons, a total of two common languages, fire proof equivalent to a fireman's suit, and limit the player's ability to add on the fly. Any thing else that she wanted could be worked up to as she progressed in levels. Since the player fought the GM, she ended up killing the campaign totally (and the group). In the same campaign I wanted to play a draconian. I wanted him to possess strength, natural armor, flight, and everything else that a full (centuries old) dragon would possess. The GM said that I cannot be that powerful at level one, but I can develop up to it as I gain experience. We agreed that I will possess upper human strength, natural armor equivalent to leather armor, natural claws equivalent to a short sword, and the ability to glide. I would be able to develop up to the desired levels as I gained XP. I went with this thinking that it will give the character something to work for as he develops.

In this thread I got thinking about different concepts that tend to bring problems to a campaign. These characters tend to develop abilities in some manner that they will eventually take the center stage of the campaign regardless of the power level used and other tricks that are used to control that ability. I would like to hear from everyone how they feel on this and how they have dealt with this problem.

Re: Petrification Power Thanks for all the great suggestions. While this has been helpful, the original concept that I had was for a time master who froze the time around someone, no actual transformation - hense the part about no physical component. It seems as though most people agree that the entangle route works best. However if anyone wants to post other suggestions on how to make it work (or possibly a name) I would like to hear it.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why does you Escalade look like a Mini? A: The ragtime drams.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What is a purple dinosaur doing in Mayberry? A: rehtegot taerg era ew.

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Re: Answers & Questions Q: What it the only fly that tastes like olives? A: Welcome to Bumbler's Anonymous.

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... Since this thread has been derailed, lets carry it a little further - The concept that I have always have had the most trouble with was not the mentalist since there are several inbuilt controls that balance them with other archetypes. However the cosmic controller has very true balances so they can very quickly knock the game out of balance and become the master of anything that he tries. This is because has will (almost) always possess a VPP with few limits so anything that whatever he wants to do he can get some form of modification for. If challenging a brick, boost his strength and defenses, a mentalist will grant mental defense and psi-attacks, a blaster will use appropriate counter-measures. This makes him to be greater than the typical jack-of-all-trades. Lets see anyone prove me wrong on the observation.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: You have just filled the Sear's Tower with cat litter. What were you trying to do? A: Weapons of Mass Blarney

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What is the latest news from This Old House? A: And when we connect the quantum rectifier with the neural by-pass system, the subject will pontify the lesser roots of positive integers while driving the polaris axis.

I have been wondering how to build a power that will instantly petrify a person. As the name suggests, it will cause the target to totally freeze in place where they are at the time that they are successfully hit by the attacker. I have thought of using either the mental paralysis power and simply defining it as petrification or a Drain: Speed but was wondering if there is anyway that would be more cost efficient since the character will be built on 350 points. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What is human greed, Alex? A: Groogier and groogier everyone.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Did you hear about the guy that was found dead covered in chocolate-vanilla frosting? A: The new long life - at one hour.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What makes the new Death-Lite so special? A: The Cardissian Chronicles.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Why are you trying to make the Earth Cake? A: the Times of Galifray.

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Can you hear me now? A: The Cybertron Times.

Re: Your PCs might be Underpowered if... Behold - the mighty pen!

Re: Answers & Questions Q: Frank, why do you have that mob attacking you? A: Long ago in the neighbor's house. . .

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