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Sidetrack

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  1. This is an NPC and will stretch the rules but I want it justifiable as possible One of the character's powers is to summon advanced alien engineers that have, related to slightly varying skillsets, Transform: devices or components into advanced alien devices or materials; (permanent, but cannot be repaired once broken, except by the alien.) The character has paid for: 8x small VPPs of advanced devices for his own use, points of advanced tech installed in his base and vehicle, and a Wealth perk to represent financial gain, BUT he can still hand out these devices to others, and he has the potential to accumulate over time more wonderful tech powers than he has paid for. What is your feel for the balance of Permanent devices that is irreparable once damaged. The devices themselves are very durable.
  2. Re: AoE Damage Sink defensive power A fair assessment and I shouldn't have too much trouble getting my own approval, but I'm looking for something workable in a broader sense. I'm looking for a character that can do amazing things with earth and stone but not much to people (say turning them into lightning rods) and looking for input on a questionable topic. The AoEs could certainly be drained beforehand with the fx of passing the additional damage harmlessly into the earth (of course the bomber would know about it then), but I'm looking for something that fits character concept and is more of an 'oh crud!' last ditch effort, hence "How to Build?". "Impossible, it doesn't work like that in the Hero world, avoid that like the plague" is something I'm fine with, but not yet convinced.
  3. Re: AoE Damage Sink defensive power Well, a shaped charge on the side of a bridge beam would normally direct the force into tearing it apart, if I unshaped it it would make a big boom exploding out into the air and cause much less damage to the beam. A shaped charge in a claymore mine throws all kinds of nasty stuff through the "this side front", take out the confining structure and it explodes up down sideways and backwards doing less damage overall. Put a bullet in a gun and the barrel and expanding gas force the bullet out at high velocity, throw the bullet in the fire and the heavy bullet stays put and the deformed cartridge might hit somebody hard enough to leave a bruise. The in game effect of unshaping a charge would be, I hope, to reduce the amount of damage the AoE burst does to the area it would usually affect.
  4. Re: AoE Damage Sink defensive power OK then guys, I want the earth to eat up damage from an area effect, a bomb, a fireball, a grenade, a huge fist slammed into the ground... how would you do it?
  5. Re: AoE Damage Sink defensive power Well, I suppose there's more than one way to skin a fireball, that sounds like the quintessential magical type and maybe that effect just doesn't match. I'm thinking more along the lines of unshaping a shaped charge,
  6. Re: AoE Damage Sink defensive power OK, I have a hero with earth/stone and related desolidification powers and I have this idea for an effect that he can dissipate AoE damage directed at the ground... or is that a mechanic? I have an idea that might get me there but I suppose I'm wildly missing your point?
  7. Re: AoE Damage Sink defensive power Instead of of having fire reflecting off of and rolling along the ground, some of it is dissipated downward, so you end up with a less intense fireball. Less of a hemisphere and more of a sphere, or less of a circular effect and more of a hemisphere
  8. The effect I'm looking for is this: the hero aborts to a power that desolidifies the earth under an AoE to the attack damage, doubling the volume/area affected and halving the damage, assuming the FX of the AoE match up. The nearest I've been able to come is this: 36 Physical+Energy Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50%, Ranged (+1/2), Usable Nearby (+3/4), Grantor pays END (134 Active Points); Side Effects, occurs automatically (affects character and recipients; Surrounding Earth provides no cover; -0), Only vs. AoE groundburst Uncommon attack (-3/4), Instant (-1/2), Only on earth/stone (-1/2), Requires A Roll (Block roll; -1/2), Nonpersistent (-1/4), Costs Half Endurance (-1/4) or 16 Resistant Protection (10 PD/10 ED) Ranged (+1/2), Usable Nearby (+3/4), Grantor pays END (67 Active Points); Side Effects, occurs automatically (affects character and recipients; Surrounding Earth provides no cover; -0), Only vs. AoE groundburst Uncommon attack (-3/4), Only up to Half of Damage (-1/2), Instant (-1/2), Only on earth/stone (-1/2), Requires A Roll (Block roll; -1/2), Nonpersistent (-1/4), Costs Half Endurance (-1/4) Is that going to function the way I'm expecting?
  9. I intend to build a power that can TP large objects that are far away to the character. He has an appropriate targeting sense but the schtick is that he may get more than he bargained for and have to spend extra time and END on the transport. For example: he needs a bicycle so he pictures it in his mind, fires off his TP and linked Detect. Unknown to him, the bicycle that he detected is attached to a car rack, so he ends up TPing the bicycle AND the car AND the passengers which should nearly zap his endurance, tie him up for a Turn, and leave him in a pickle with the car owners. I'm sure I've missed it, but hunting through the manual and threads I haven't found the answer to: How do I purchase the increased Mass? I had assumed that I'd just buy up the TP adder to the appropriate maximum level, but Hero Designer shows a +1/4 advantage on the UAA advantage to Increase Max Weight x2.
  10. Re: Analyze Structure vs KS Architecture KS Architecture is fairly broad, I'd allow that it lets you know a little about a lot of aspects of the building including aesthetics and history. KS Structural Engineering or KS Building Construction/Demolition would be more apt to zero the character in on what's holding it up or how to bring it down. The character with KS Architecture might be less likely to be fooled by a facade though. Analyze would be another step up the ladder.
  11. Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See? With regard to that, I'm sure the Hawaiian mythos is much more accessible and identifiable in the states than many of the other aspects, but poly (many) is the active term. There is a lot of parallel evolution of similar deities across the Pacific islands, Hawaiian being only one facet of it. Tangaroa is very important in the Cooks, Tonga had many incarnations of Maui and his brothers and New Zealanders might click much more readily with the Maori take on things.
  12. Re: Hero System Vehicles: Sailing Ships Does HSVS have any write ups on the multi-hulled Polynesian Sailing vessels that were able to run circles around the visiting European ships?
  13. Re: Subsume Looking at 6th edition Usable Simultaneous base +1/2 -Grantor can take back and any time +1/4 -Grantor pays END -1/4 -Recipeint must remain close -1/2 all that adds up to a +0... can you even have a +0 naked advantage? If so it doesn't matter how many points you apply it to, 30 pts or 300, it'd still be (300(1+0)-300). As it sits I could build a Usable by others as a -1/4 limitation by eliminating the 'take back'. Would that give extra utility and points back? Doesn't seem quite right.
  14. Basically I've got a stretchy guy (pliable body) that I'd like to have the ability to wrap himself around another character and function as powered armor. He'd grant and put the lion's share of his powers under the control of the other. Quickly plugged it into Hero Designer and I come up with a +0 naked advantage, i.e. no cost. Subsume: Naked Advantage: Usable Simultaneously (up to 2 people at once; +0), Recipient must remain close to Grantor, Grantor can take back power at any time, Grantor pays the END whenever the power is used for up to X Active Points I guess that makes some sense as one character becomes significantly more powerful but the other loses independent action and both can still take damage. Can't help but think I'm missing something, and there's got to be some complications I'm not seeing.
  15. Re: Changing your Multipower IIRC the cost savings provided by a multipower is largely justified by having to be more strategic with the use and distribution of your various powers. Allowing more frequent switching sounds like an advantage that would have to be paid for, most obviously by purchasing said powers normally, not in a multipower.
  16. Re: How to Build a Grappling Hook Upon further reading, Swinging pretty much includes rope and grapple style wall scaling.
  17. Re: A specific spell system... How about 0 REC and some type of an Aid to fill the END Reserve? Aid END Reserve 1d6, Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect only affects the environment near the character; +0) (6 Active Points); Conditional Power Power does not work in Uncommon Circumstances (Requires nearby vegetation; -1/4)
  18. Re: How to Build a Grappling Hook My take would be: Stretching, OAF (grappling hook and line), charges (1, recoverable), etc... which would let you make an attack roll to grab/hook a target at range. SFX of the hook and rope are pretty straightforward but allow for creative uses. I'd probably just let you to swing with an appropriate skill roll unless it was going to be used more than occasionally, which would require something like: Swinging, up to 8m, skill/dex roll, charges (1, recoverable), OAF, etc ... . An appropriate successful attack would give you a climbing bonus, but no reason extra climbing couldn't be bought with the hook. That's the mechanic that fits the concept in my head.
  19. Re: The Darkness They are getting longer here in the southern hemisphere, it's summer time.
  20. Re: Help Poplulate: Pirate Ship edition The Spaniard carpenter. One of the only non-fighting men aboard, his youthful looks belie the knowledge and skill with which he keeps the ship patched together and working. That skill is what holds him as a prized crew member even though he refuses to take the life of another. This fact isn't well known and isn't talked about, not in his presence anyway. Though he does show an unnatural aversion to blood, he has been known to set a confrontation to rights with a blow from a mallet. During a raid or once ashore he'll disappear into the wilds unless there's some duty to be attended to on the ship. They say that past captains have sent out men to try and follow him, but none has ever returned. Somehow he's always back aboard before the ship sets sail. Aboard, he keeps to his workshop and considers it his private cabin, a luxury enjoyed by none other than the captain. Scuttlebutt has it that he performs rituals in there and has the finger of a saint in a jar. The shop does contain some religious icons, some of the crew like to claim that he once served as a priest with Ponce de Leon on an expedition, this is ridiculous because anyone that had would dead of old age twice over by now. The Spaniard doesn't confirm or deny any rumors, in fact he barely speaks. He communicates what he needs to with grunts. He's often heard muttering under his breath in Spanish, it sounds like prayers and scriptures.
  21. Re: Funny locations for a Dark Champions game? Stephen King is probably the master of the creepy small town Americana scenario, though it tends towards the supernatural. I'm having fun with south seas island settings. All kinds of things happen out where people don't think they'll draw a lot of attention.
  22. Re: Susano's Song-Based DC NPCs The drummer boy from Dire Straits' The Man's too Strong would make a good villain. Picture an ex military leader, charismatic and persuasive to the point of mind control. Flush with misappropriated cash, a fanatical army at his command and his own compound I'm just an aging drummer boy PS Musician And in the wars I used to play Combat Skill Levels; Tactics And I've called the tune Military Rank To many a torture session Interrogation Now they say I am a war criminal Distinctive Features And I'm fading away Age Reduced CHR Father please hear my confession Social Lim: Publicly Religious I have legalised robbery Bureaucratics; Perks: Govt official, Low Justice Called it belief +PRE; Charm I have run with the money Security Systems (evading) I have hid like a thief Stealth and Concealment I have re-written history KS: History; Oratory With my armies of my crooks Followers Invented memories Persuasion; Mind Control I did burn all the books Suppress KS And I can still hear his laughter perk: connected And I can still hear his song Psych Lim Haunted The man's too big The man's too strong Hunted by The Man Well I have tried to be meek And I have tried to be mild Psych Lim: Agressive But I spat like a woman And I sulked like a child I have lived behind walls Base That have made me alone Striven for peace Which I never have known Soc Limitation: Warrior And I can still hear his laughter And I can still hear his song The man's too big The man's too strong Well the sun rose on the courtyard And they all did hear him say You always was a Judas Negative Reputation But I got you anyway You may have got your silver Perk: Wealthy But I swear upon my life Your sister gave me diamonds And I gave them to your wife Rivalry: Romantic ' Oh Father please help me For I have done wrong The man's too big The man's too strong
  23. Re: Help Me Populate A Creepy Island Oddly enough the creepy islands that I used as a basis has an airline that just put their WWII era DC-3 back into service just before I left. Cruise ships aren't that creepy, but the zombies that wander off of them and into port send a chill up my spine.
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