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Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy Powers written out finally: Bowcaster: Ranged Killing Attack 2d6 30 pts, Variable advantage (+1), OAF (-1) 30 pts Gravity Gun: Telekinesis 40 str, 60 pts, Only to lift target straight up (-1), affects whole target (-1/4), Does not work against flying targets (-1), OAF (-1) 14 pts Gravity Shield: Missile deflection 20 pts OAF (-1) 10 pts Gravity Flight Pack: Flight 15" 30 pts, OAF (-1) 15 pts TK Enhancer: Aid to Telekinesis 3d6 30 pts, OAF (-1) 15 pts Hold Out Knife: Hand Killing Attack 1d6 15 pts, armor piercing (+1/2), OAF (-1) 11 pts Multitool: Dispel Locks 2d6 6pts, Dispel Technology any one power at a time (+1/4) 2d6 8 pts, Transform broken technology into working technology 2d6, 30 pts, No range (-1/2), gestures (-1/4) OAF (-1) 16 pts Universal Translator: Universal translator 20 pts OAF (-1). 10 pts Recorder/Encyclopedia: Eidetic memory 5 pts, KS: Everything 8- 3 pts OAF (-1) 4 pts Scanner: Nightvision 5 pts, N ray vision 10 pts, Detect Structural Make up discriminatory, analyze, 20 pts (OAF -1) 18 pts Mobile Forge: Transform broken, or partial, equipment into working equipment 5d6 60 points, Requires burning fuel (-½), Extra time (-½), gestures (-1/4), concentration (-½), OAF (-1) 16 pts Workshop: Extradimensional Movement to workshop 20 pts. OAF (-1) 10 pts

Re: Enterprise, Inc. Also you can have ships that can reach solar system space if you have two things. One is a genuis that can design spacecraft. The other is a transformer that can take those designs and build them. Robotic factories, teams of paranormals, so forth can fill the second slot. But I expect that eventually at least you could launch missions as far as Neptune within a year. CES

Re: Completely Undetectable Depends on the game, depends on the system. Let's say you have played as Eagle Eye in several long adventures with a npc or another pc. These characters have had to pass through several detection attempts by others, or yourself, to verify that they are the same person that arrived with you. Then that character badly hurt your pc in mid mission and revealed that he was really a shapeshifter that you had encountered earlier that had no way to prevent detection by your careful examination of his science or native skills and had been that way for say half your missions. He just learned how to be invisible to all attempts at detection somehow. Few people want to play in a game with a flimsy explanation like that. And some don't want to read about something like that when they have body of work that says no way. CES

Re: Enterprise, Inc. Mechanical cures for diseases would probably be allowable. Some treatments for cancer involve firing a beam of radiation into the tumor to kill it before it can spread. Improvements on equipment could result in a hand held device that irradiate the body with pinpoint accuracy. Tim had an article on tricorders that had just been invented that use a cell phone for imaging. Imagine a cell phone that could do that without having to dial out. Same for lasik eye surgery. Weapons of every kind would be improved. Robotics would be improved to match something like Patlabor where giant suits are used in place of cranes. They could be used for cars, airships, etc. Toxic waste could be recycled into something useful. I am sure that bunch of guys could use it for things like rocket fuel. Those are the first few ideas off the top of my head. CES

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Watched the second Karas movie. CES

Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy I'm good with this. I usually have combat stuff together and noncombat stuff together in groups. I still need to finish writeups for things. CES

Re: Superpet concept on the drawingboard: "Fuffy" The obvious thing is a kitten and a saber tooth. I'm sure there are combinations that spring to mind. CES

Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy I'll work on things. I admit I didn't think about entangling things instead of filling them full of holes. I'll get writeups for everything and then we can talk about what can be fixed to fit. CES

Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy I have been thinking about twelve powers to use for the pool. I just wanted to run the ideas by the group to see if I can get a better fit. 1) Gravity gun: Pistol based on floating city technology that lifts a target up and drops him. (Flight on others, only one direction, cuts off at end of movement.) 2) A mobile forge for equipment repair: A device that allows broken armor and weapons to be fixed as good as new (Transform, only on inanimate objects, only to repair.) 3) Multi tool: Basically the same thing as the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. (dispel locks, cutting tool, welder) 4) Universal translator: Same as the talent from the book. 5) Gravity pack: Either something like a jet pack, or a plain disk to put on things to allow them to fly. (Flight) 6) Recorder/encyclopedia: 7) Dimensional Room: A pocket space that I can use for a workshop. (edm only to same place, only exit where entered.) 8) Scanner: Enhanced senses built into an eyepiece or hand unit. 9) A bow caster: Rka with variable effects/advantages 10) A knife for simple cutting. 11) Some kind of protective gear like armor or blink teleportation. 12) maybe an enhancer like we have been talking about. CES

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Ben 10 season three. Have to get season four. ces

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Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy I was thinking about a booster for my own telekinesis that I could just hand over to others who also had telekinesis. + X to TK, wearer must already have TK OAF. CES

Re: Help with TK user I don't know. I'm not a good mathmathican. Eyeballing this without worrying about points, having the extra limbs and stretching with invisible power effects is the same as having telekinesis as far as I can see. If it was me building this character, I would have either one or the other because having them both spreads things out too far. CES

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Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy I guess the tardis is out for vehicles. Too bad healing is out, I wouldn't have minded being the medic. We have three close in fighters and a flying psychic, right? I guess I can stand back and be the buffer/sniper blaster/support if that role isn't filled. Now that the character is approved, I will work on a list of powers and builds to run by you. Also a background that fits everything. CES

Re: Help with TK user What kind of help do you need, Q? It seems to me that all of these effects can be bought as powers through your invisible limbs and stretching. I mean if it was me, I would just say stretching, extra limbs, multipowers linked to limbs, especially if all your powers have invisible power effects. CES

Re: A New Dawn. 'Post-Apocalyptic' Fantasy moved four of the DCVs to a tk shield bought a tk slam and climbing and breakfall. I kept the powers separate because I didn't know if I could put them in a multipower or not. CES Real Name: Deson Peere Hair/Eye Color: brown, brown Place of Birth: Kmer Date of Birth: 25 years ago Height/Mass: 5'8", 125 pounds Cost Characteristic Value 5 STR 15 30 DEX 20 10 CON 15 10 BODY 15 15 INT 25 10 EGO 15 2 PRE 12 1 COM 12 PD 3 ED 3 10 SPD 4 REC 6 END 30 STUN 29 OCV: 6 DCV: 6 OECV: 5 DECV: 5 Phases: 3,6,9,12 Cost Powers and Talents (END) Telekinesis: 20 str, Physical manifestation (robotic floating hands, -1/2) 20 pts Telekinetic Shield: + 4 DCVs 20 points, physical manifestation (shield like hands, -1/2) 13 pts Telekinetic Palm: 3d6 Energy blast physical manifestation (striking telekinetic hand -1/2) 10 pts Detect Machinery, 5 pts Bag of tricks 60 + 30 pts VPP (90 pts) VPP Powers Can Be Changed Only In Given Circumstance (Requires a Technomancy Roll, may require extra time; -1/2), Limited Class Of Powers Available Limited (Only Mystical Technology. Only from the associated list.; -1/2), Conditional Power Requires 6 hours work and an Inventor Roll to create a new power (-1/4); all slots OAF (-1) 22 pts Cost Skills 3 Analyze Machinery 14- 2 Animal Handler 11- 3 Technomancy 14- 3 Paramedic 14- 2 Survival 14- 2 Navigation 14- 3 Systems operations 14- 3 Mechanics 14- 3 AK: The world 14- 3 PS: The Sciences 14- 3 PS: Magic 14- 3 Inventor 14- 3 KS: The Magic World 14- 3 KS: The Monster World 14- 2 Weaponsmith 14- 6 WF: Common Melee weapons, small arms, missile weapons 10 TF: animals, wheeled vehicles, balloons/zeppelins, rafts, small and large rowed boats, small wind powered boats, hang gliding. 3 Combat driving 12- 3 Combat piloting 12- 0 Language: Kmer (native) 14- 3 Language: Pidgen 14- 3 Climbing 13- 3 Breakfall 13- 15 + 3 DCV 100 Points Disadvantages 20 pts Subject to orders from New Dawn 15 pts Rivalry with other Technomages 15 pts Psych Lim: Likes to fiddle with unknown technology 10 pts Watched by New Dawn 8- 20 pts Hunted by New Dawn's enemies 8- 10 pts DF: Mystic Aura 10 pts Hunted by Scavengers 8- CHA Cost = 93 Total Powers Cost = 70 Total Skills Cost = 87 Total Cost = _____250_____________

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it... Emerald Hell by Tom Piccirilli: Hellboy takes a trip down to Georgia to alligator wrestle. CES

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? My friend, my wife, and I went to see Water World together at the theater. They could not stop the wisecracking from beginning to end. I haven't seen Private Ryan but I had heard it was based on real events. CES

Re: Magistracy:Origins Richard Mays looked around, wondering how he had gotten into this mess. He should have walked the other way. Now he was committed to doing something against someone who could throw a car with ease. And why was he the champion? That didn't feel right at all. "I don't want any trouble." Mays held up his hands. "The police will be here to take you in any minute. Why don't we settle down to wait for the nice policemen to take you to the hospital?" "I have been sent to settle a long established feud." The Visitor's voice cut through Mays's head. "If you are the champion, ripping out your heart is the proof I need that I have completed the mission." "What if I'm not this champion?" Mays grimaced at the thought of having his heart ripped out of his chest. "Then I can rip out your heart for personal enjoyment." The Visitor smiled as the black light poured from his eyes. "I'll pass." Mays shook his head. This was kind of like the bullying he remembered when he was a kid. First they talked tough, then they tried to demonstrate how tough. The two of them were still in the talking tough stage, and he didn't like it. He didn't have the knack for it. "I like my heart where it is." The Visitor flew forward, hand reaching for Mays's chest. Once he dug his fingers in, he could rip out whatever engine was in there. He saw the move to the left just before he flew into a parked car. "You can always say you couldn't find this champion." Mays tried not to think about the massive dent in the Chrysler. That could have been him. "Tell them they sent you to the wrong planet." "I think we're beyond that." The Visitor slapped some dust off his robe. "You are the one I have been sent to find." "Let's say for argument's sake I am the champion." Mays quoted the word champion with his fingers. "What if I don't want to fight? I can just walk away anytime I want." "Then I continue with what I'm doing until I am bored." The Visitor picked up the bent Chrysler, tossing it up and down with one hand. "That might take a while." Mays stepped back. Usually the villain chucked the car and then tried to use it as a screen. Of course he was a whole lot faster than what he used to be. Could he dodge a flying car at close range? The Visitor threw the car like a boomerang, the unnatural v of it spinning in the air as it rolled toward Mays. He leaped after it in a trail of black sparks. The two movements were so fast it looked like a piece of stop motion photography. Mays jumped forward, swinging a right hand as hard as he could. That seemed to be the only thing he could do. The champion caught the improvised weapon, trying not to freeze at the realization that he was stronger than a hundred men without going to a gym. His arm continued the forward motion. That slung the car back at the Visitor. The black garbed alien seemed to be taken back by the metal bearing down on him. He raised an arm and punched through the automobile. A human hand grabbed his wrist while another pulled his hood down in the way of his searing glare. "Release me!" The Visitor reached up with his free hand to knock the grip away from his cowl. "I got the picture now." Mays released his grip on his enemy's arm. "You want to decide if humanity is fit to be asked to join your union. So you test some random guy off the street to see how he acts. You make some noise and see who shows up. Your methods blow." "How do you know that?" The Visitor paused, unsure for the first time since they met. "Your guys screwed up back at headquarters." Mays shook his head. "They changed the conditions from what you're used to." "I don't believe you." The Visitor looked up at the sky as if seeking answers. "Why don't you go home and check it out?" Mays pointed up in the air. "I'll still be here when you get back. I'll even give you an address you can meet me at for the rematch." "Why would you do that?" The Visitor crossed his arms. "Eventually humanity is going to be out there with you guys someday." Mays shrugged. "There's nothing anyone could do to stop that short of destroying the planet. I don't see anything wrong with an observer watching our progress as we work our way up to that level. Trial by combat should be the last thing you try. Give us the chance." "All right." The Visitor pulled what looked like a remote control from his belt. "I'll be waiting to rip your heart out if you ever get that far." He pressed a button and vanished in a beam of sparks ascending to the heavens. Mays looked up at the sky, imagining the things he had seen and doing them himself. He smiled. "We're coming for you, buddy."

Re: What Have You Watched Recently? Hudson Hawk wasn't a Die Hard or a Unbreakable but it was way better than Ishtar and Waterworld. It was oscar material compared to either of those two movies. CES

Re: Dragonia Sir Donald didn't feel comfortable with only one monk as an assistant and hired a monster trapper named Coop Cooper to go with them back to Windy Mountain. A demonstration of the trapper's skill does not go well, but Sir Donald asked him to come along anyway. The three get supplies and head for the monster infested mountains. As the trio make their way through the crevices toward Windy Mountain, they are heard and spotted by Spike Birds. A strafing run and several exchanges of fire by the combatants lead to all of the sentries being knocked out and falling to their dooms. The rest of the monsters were alerted by the combat. They arrived to start blasting at the three adventurers. The knight and his assistants rushed into a cave. They kept running as the monsters blasted the front wall over the door. Half the mountain seemed to be coming down. The men rushed to the back of the cavern, escaping the landslide. Sir Donald lit a torch for light, but quickly noticed that a fresh breeze was coming into the cave from somewhere. He followed the wind until he found a crack in the rear wall. He dug through and found a carved hangar with the missing plane in it. The repair marks on the back matched the damage he had done earlier so he knew it was the same plane. Cooper trapped Flames when Sir Donald went aboard the plane to look around. Steam Men activated, shooting Ichigo the monk. The trapper tied him up also as the mechanical men went aboard the plane. Donald broke out the window and jumped down to the floor. The robot squad shot him in the back, knocking him down long enough to be tied up. Donald decided to get Cooper to gloat while he worked on the elastic ties with his energy dagger. He learned that Cooper belonged to a group that wanted to cause problems, and planned to keep sending him back to his last sanctuary until he could no longer be regenerated. Cooper planned to attach himself to any party Donald put together until the job was done. Hopefully by that time, other efforts would lead to war between the bordering nations. Donald cut himself free, boarding the plane. He is wounded, waiting to try and destroy the steam men with his available abilities.

Re: The Worst character in comics Actually Neil Gaiman killed off the 70's Sandman, and turned Brute and Glob into villains. Robinson started the trend of rewriting characters to fit what he wanted so they might as well be new characters. I liked Firearm and Leave it to Chance, but thought Starman would have been better if Robinson had not rewrote every starman story to make them fit some kind of theme. Grant Morrison might have done well with Animal Man but he screwed the Doom Patrol. Moore and Busiek are the best writers on this list, and as far as superheroes go, I would take Busiek as the better writer. CES

Re: Magistracy:Origins Richard Mays stood on a street corner looking up at the sky. He thought he had spotted a glimmer in the sky that didn't move like any aircraft he had ever seen before. He wondered what it could be. A beam of light ripped down from beyond the clouds. It struck Mays, engulfing his body in liquid fire. He blinked out of existence for several seconds. Then the light withdrew to its point of origin. Rick wondered why he was on the pavement, looking up at the clear blue above. "What happened?" Fire burned through Mays's brain as he tried to think. The voices started then. They muttered about lost cats, rent payments, who shot JR. Taken by themselves, it would have been like overhearing a conversation on the bus. The problem was that each voice went on with another voice overlapping, then another, until all he could hear was a staticky buzz that resembled waves crashing into the shore. Mays staggered to his feet. Despite the constant talking in his skull, he felt stronger than he had ever felt before. Maybe he had suffered a stroke. It happened, even to people as young as he was. He should get an x-ray of his brain to make sure everything was still rolling along in there. Mays turned to his mental map of the city. He found the nearest hospital and realized it was blocks away. He started down the street, trying to ignore the shifting chorus as he walked. Everywhere he looked, a voice matched the person he looked at as they made their way along. Someone decided to try and rob him as he slowly worked his way along. Mays felt the thought a few moments before hands reached for his shoulders to push him down and rob him. He felt a small amount of surprise when he braced himself and the hands barely slid his feet along the ground. Mays didn't know if the surprise was his, or the mugger's. Mays turned, hooking his arm around the thin man trying to roll him. The man looked light, but he felt lighter than that. The mugger left the ground and hit the wall. He lay there looking up, arms and legs contracted to protect his body from kicks and punches. "I think you need to get in a program and get off the crack, Tyrone." Who was Tyrone? "Then decide what you want to do with your life. Otherwise I think you're going to wind up dead messing with the wrong guy. Do you want help?" "Get away from me!" Tyrone scrambled up and ran. "Get away from me." Mays watched him go, convinced that he could chase the thinner man down as easily as fish swam. Instead he stood there. He had rifled Tyrone's brain in a few seconds of contact. He decided that he really needed to get checked out. Something unexplainable was going on. A beam of light flashed down out of the clear sky. It caught his attention, reminding him of the other flash he had spotted before he had fainted. He decided that getting an exam could wait. Maybe his answers were wherever the beam had hit. Mays ran in that direction, amazed at how much faster he felt, how much easier it was to run along the sidewalk. He hopped over the hood of a slow moving car like a champion hurdler. That was the least of things as far as he was concerned. Panic drifted to his enhanced brain. He heard a scream. A car flew through the air. He saw it hit the front of a clothing store. He winced at the pain that cut across the rest of the chorus he felt moving in his brain. He didn't know what was going on, but someone had to stop it, and he felt like it was something he could handle thanks to whatever had been done to him. Mays paused when he saw a man dressed in black garments like something out of Star Wars. Black light burned from the man's eyes. He turned to face the New Yorker, his gaze igniting a lash of pain as the voices inside the changed man's skull competed with something else trying to get in. "You don't seem like a champion." The voice was part scratching on chalkboard, part exacting as a measured line. Most of it reverberated inside Mays's gray matter with his new mental radio. "I suppose killing you will be some kind of distraction as short as it will take." "I don't know what's going on." Mays looked around, glad to see that some of the bystanders were helping the wounded out of the battle zone. "I do know that you seem a little crazy, and someone has to do something to stop you. I guess that will be me unless you want to go back to where you came from right now." "Maybe you are the champion after all." The man smiled.