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  2. How To: The Bejing Cocktail from "Crank"

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    Re: How To: The Bejing Cocktail from "Crank"

     

    I was wondering this toxin would work in Hero. IIRC' date=' the effects of the poison can be staved off by keeping yourself hyped up on adrenaline, heart beating fast, elevated body tempature, etc. Would be be just role playing or a requirment to spend so much Endurance per time invertval or start ot take damage or something else?[/quote']

     

    I haven't seen the movie, but one time in Batman and the Outsiders someone gave Batman some poison like that. (It also made him hallucinate, so the Outsiders pretended to be his parents and Joe Chill to make him freak out and run around...it was kind of mean of them, actually.)

  3. THE ULTIMATE MENTALIST -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    To always get a certain effect from a Mental Power, simply add the effect modifier as an Adder. For example, suppose my mentalist has a Mind Control in which the target always remembers his actions and thinks they're natural. He can't "turn off" this effect; it's always there. Currently the character would just buy +6d6 of Mind Control with a Limitation Only To Make Target Always Remember His Actions And Think They Are Natural (-1/2). With my rule, this would be a simple +20 point Adder. And this could be done with anything, including the current Mandatory Effect Limitation on 5ER page 121. It's a rule I used back with 3rd Ed characters, and with great success; it simplifies a lot of powers with this kind of effect.

     

    Not only is this Damn Cool, it's also almost the exact same cost if you want to use the Standard Effect Rule.

  4. Casual Survey: Age of players and Hero's utility vs. other games

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    Re: Casual Survey: Age of players and Hero's utility vs. other games

     

    35 until October, started playing Hero back in '85 as Champions. It's probably my favourite crunchy generic game (I also like GURPS), but I also play a couple of light games (a fair bit of Fudge and some Risus) -- I go back and forth between them.

     

    With 5th and some of the options, I'd use Hero for almost anything, if I had the time and players who would put up with it. I've even recently gotten my 13 year old son and his friend into it (I think they like Fudge better, though).

  5. Sci-Fi Game or Porno Flick?

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    Actually I used to buy albums based almost exclusively on name and cover, which explains why I have so much heavy metal, I suppose....

     

    I did that for a while (although I'd also factor in song titles). Only twice did I get an album I wouldn't listen to again, and most of the time they turned out pretty good.

     

    I think you'd get pretty hosed if you tried that with RPGs, though, unless you really like d20.

  6. Where's Amelia Earhart?

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    For a fun fictional look at where she might have ended up, check out Max Allan Collins' book Flying Blind (a Nate Heller book, any of which are great modern day "pulp hero" style books, although a lot of them are on the late side for pulp).

  8. Best Section Header *Ever*

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    Thank you for that information. My post was actually a reference to a children's book called "Animalia" which I just realised that people outside Australia might not have seen. It is a delightful illustrated alphabet with animals for each letter (hence "Yodelling yaks in yachts") by Graham Base. The way he does the letter "X" is clever !

     

    Animalia (and Graeme Base in general) rocks. We had it out from the library so many times that it was easier just to buy it, and I think we've read almost all his other books except the first one (although IIRC there's a picture of that one under "G" in Animalia.)

  10. Just testing interest:Would you would you be interested in this game?

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    Re: Just testing interest:Would you would you be interested in this game?

     

    The game would be a generational game spanning over a century. It would begin in the Victorian Era with the players portraying heroic characters of the time' date=' perhaps with some low level powers much like the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It would progress over time with PCs playing the descendants or inheritors of their previous PCs abilities, or even completely new character in different eras of Superheroes. Pulp Mystery Men, Golden Age War World 2 Nazi busters, etc. with a overarching metaplot that could take them into a Star Spanning Galactic Champions setting.[/quote']

     

    That'd be cool. Reminds me a bit of "troupe" games which I read about in Pyramid.

  11. Sexuality and the Silver Age

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    Okay' date=' forgive me for having to ask, but what does this mean? I'm unfamiliar with the terminology (at least as it's being used here -- I have a beard, but I doubt that's what's being talked about here. ;) )[/quote']

     

    A pretend girlfriend/wife so that people won't realize he's gay.

  12. "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question)

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    Re: "Ya better talk Oculon, or you'll get the spike!" (A Super law question)

     

    Thanks for the answers folks, now let me ask a different question?

     

    Suppose it's 1950 or so, heroes only showing up in the 30's. The criminal is a woman who is executed by the chair and her heart does indeed stop. But she comes back to life about 5 minutes later, charged with energy from the chair and now bursting with super powers.

     

    Okay, yeah, that was really detailed, but go with it please. ;)

     

    If she was declared dead, but comes back to life, has she managed to "fulfill her debt"?

     

    Hmm, sounds like someone's been playing Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich.

  16. Young Nerd Outreach Program

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    The way to do it is to have your own kids, then teach them to love RPGs. My oldest son already loves RPGs (he does like Clix and cards, too, and we got him Heroscape for Christmas), the two younger daughters have played a time or two, and when the last one is born in July she can run the baby PC.

  20. Support for Low Level Supers style Dark Champions

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    Re: Support for Low Level Supers style Dark Champions

     

    The Batman is pretty good ... kind of dark in some ways and does a great job of reinvisioning the core characters ... mind you it's not B:TAS' date=' but it's still pretty damn good :D[/quote']

     

    Best thing about it is the theme song, by The Edge.

     

    EDIT: The show's good too, but the theme song is really good.

  21. Looking for the product

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    Well, I didn't know of such a beastie, so I just made one for 'ya. :)

    Hope this helps. :)

     

    That rocks pretty hard! (Personally, I'd probably find it quicker just to do the math in my head or with a calculator than do two lookups on the giant table, but for people who want it, can't argue with that level of completeness and speed of assistance!)

  23. Psychic Wars

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    Re: Psychic Wars

     

    Steven Gould's novel Jumper is an example of a kid in the "real world" who learns to teleport. There's also Alan Dean Foster's Slipt, about an old guy with kind of a TK attack that wrecks things (his granddaughter (or maybe niece, I don't remember) has limited telepathy, too).

  25. Henchmen Hero

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    Re: Henchmen Hero

     

    1. The Strong One: This character is immensely strong, far beyond what is normal for his/her race. The reasons for this are unclear, but the effects are extraordinary and definitely beyond the abilities of normal men.

     

    The reason is that they fell in a cauldron of strength potion as a baby.

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