Pogo

Re: Worst comic book superfight ever

This is just another example of the two-sheet rule. Always more powerful in their solo books' date=' Bats was forced to use the weaker write-up as soon as the rest of the team showed...he didn't stand a chance.[/quote']

 

I think it's a different two-sheet rule. The writer was two sheets to the wind when he wrote it. The editor was probably three sheets to the wind when it crossed his table.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous)

Undying thread HERO

Re: WWYCD: Hero with "Questionable" Political Views

My character Vector would work with them while constantly making fun of them.

And they'd start getting tensor and tensor . . .

Re: Wow....that is a useless power for sure....

Maybe not a useless power if you're in a Tales of the Floating Vagabond campaign, but otherwise not terribly useful:

http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=060722

Re: Top Five vs The Unknown Menace!

I think Pogo almost got it right there. Except I'd have included destroyer Duck and (almost without saying) Howard the Duck instead of Daffy and Donald. Wolverine is a given though.

OK, now I'm scared

I didn't know who Destroyer Duck was, and I thought about Howard, but Daffy has to be there to drive Wolverine nuts. "Slash me again. I love the smell of adamantium. And cigars. Slash me!" They were made for each other.

To kind of answer the question more seriously:

1) Doctor Doom

2) Lex Luthor

3) Juggernaut

4) Dormannu (sp?)

5) Darkseid

The biggest problem with this group is keeping them from cutting a deal with the menace.

Re: Top Five vs The Unknown Menace!

1) Daffy Duck

2) Donald Duck

3) Duckman

4) Darkwing Duck

5) Wolverine

Re: Wow....that is a useless power for sure....

Absorption, 3d6 to Aid

Aid 3d6 to absorption

Not the most useful power suite around.

Re: Random SF Science Questions

That turns out not to be the case. The good doctor did address the problem of steam.

 

from http://www.projectrho.com/rocket/rocket3l.html

 

Originally Posted by Dr. Schilling

The plasma clears away easily in that time frame; debris is the real issue, and the driving force between the 5 microsecond pulse rate. That allows roughly 90% of the debris to clear the beam path, assuming a 1mm beam and instantaneous 1J pulses. 1 joule every 5 microseconds is optimal against soft tissue, other materials will want different pulse trains.

 

Darn, missed that. Oops. Thanks for pointing it out for me. I'd like to see his reasoning for the debris clearance time though. I think he may be overestimating the speed with which stuff moves, but it's nearly a decade since I worked with laser vaporization, so my memory is probably playing tricks on me (that and I was aiming at something not very flesh-like).

A potentially nasty problem with laser weapons is if you know the frequency and there is a commonly available gas which absorbs there, your opponents with the slug-throwers have a one way shield, so choose your frequency carefully. To take a silly example, no one will build a deadly fluorine excimer weapon lasing at 157 nm for use on earth. Both water vapor and oxygen absorb strongly at these wavelengths, so the range would be very, very limited.

Re: Random SF Science Questions

Bright enough light hurts people! A really bright focused light is called a LASER.

The light does not have to be focused, though it often is. The light is coherent and monochromatic. This means that the crests and troughs of the waves line up with each other and that the light is all the same frequency (there's actually a spread of frequencies, but it's small).

- How much power would you need, in hard science terms, to create an actual, functional, energy weapon?

Nyrath has already provided a link. One problem mentioned by Dr. Schilling in that link is more general. Lasers produce a plasma when they start to vaporize things, and plasmas can act as mirrors, sending the photons away from their intended target, so you really want to pulse the light. It is probably true that the steam from a human body will scatter even more light, and that's why the good doctor left this out.

Re: What power would you buy (with a twist)

Here are a few many new parents would like:

Detect meaning of crying/babble (10 pts) children only (-1/2) 7 pts.

Extra limbs. I think six will be enough, usually.

1d6 cosmetic transform, taste of food/medicine (heck, I'd settle for transform taste of Zantac into H2O right now)

Clairvoyance, only to know when child will need a bottle or a diaper change.

2d6 minor transform: dirty diaper to clean diaper. If your child's diaper has more than one body, or has power defense, I Don't Want To Know.

Re: Suggest a Name?

Epicycle (I think I just suggested the worst name yet)

Yetzirah

The Scholar

Re: What I Learned from "What I Learned" threads

I could say I rep people with good ASCII art and I'd suddenly find myself surrounded by ASCII artists I'm certain.

You know what they say, ascii and ye shall receiivii

Re: Lost and Found super-ads

Found: one bouncing body part. If you are the owner, please come get it out of my ear.

Re: A Not-So-Random Power

Autofire with swords.

Healing (simplified version), requires concentration.

1d6 cumulative transform: nonworking mechanical object into working mechanical object.

Re: Character Curveballs

A friend created The Solipsist, a master of ego, PD, and ED drains. He convinced his opponents they didn't really exist. His defences had the SFX that what didn't exist couldn't hurt him, including his opponents. Never give a philosophy major a character sheet at 2 AM.

Re: Funny game voices

Don't all good GM's do accents and voices? If not, how the hell do the players tell the different NPC's apart?

Well, my players keep coming back, so I guess I'm at least a passably good GM; however, my accents run from Southerner who lived in upstate NY for several years, to displaced Yankee living in the Southeast I will describe the NPC's accent, but my mimicry ability rounds up to zero assuming a very generous curve.

Re: The things I've learned playing a munchkin

Limitations which don't actually limit are the best policy

Re: The thing's I've learned playing a Brick...

I really need to get my mind out of the gutter....

Agreed. You're blocking my periscope!

[edit: whoops, clicked on the wrong spot. dang newfangled computer thingies]

Feigning an enraged over some slight in the first encounter may cause the villian to miscalucate in the second. Let them think you're a big, dumb, lug who can't take any teasing; however, this should usually be done only if the evildoer is obviously going to escape or is obviously about to be captured.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous)

Crotch rot HERO

Rules converted from FATAL, no doubt.

Digression HERO

HERO Expands Repeatedly Overandoveragain (not to be confused with GNU HERO)

HEROver the river and through the woods

Shallow end of the HERO pool

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous)

(sigh) Looking through this supplement I discovered why I have insomnia: evidently I sold back my "sheep" characteristic in order to have the points to buy "Diminished Sleep" but I didn't look carefully enough at the mandatory side effects...

It's time for a pen accident. Change Diminshed Sleep to Diminished Sheep, and you'll always have some to count. As a bonus, you can make change for a full sheep if necessary.

Pogo "Woolful insanity, 14-" Possum

[edit: I cn spel reel gud]

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous)

Recursion HERO, see also Recursion HERO

Re: Curve-balls and left-field stuff

Mana-Nymphs are formed at concentration of magic (mana-pools) and have the ability to aid wizards by allowing them to draw up the Mana-Nymph's mana reserves as if they were his own.

Please tell me I'm not the only one thinking the Irish version of this is Nymph O'mana.

Re: Wedding Bells for Dr. Anomaly

And to think...all it took to bring this about was the spectacular failure of the first test of a new device, getting shunted to a parallel world where Dr. Destroyer had taken over and the Millennium Knights were part of the resistance, accidentally bringing a horde of shadow demons back upon returning, and subsequently almost getting personality-consumed by one as it waged a gradual war of mental take-over without Dr. Anomaly even being aware of what was going on!

 

After all, isn't that the way everyone meets the perfect person and falls in love with them?

Well, when Pam and I first met, we tried to run swords through each other

I had not signed up for fencing to meet women, but it worked out OK.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

All from our Teen Champions game:

"A monk, a brick, and a necromancer walk into a bar..."

OK, I can see the brick doing this, but the necromancer should have thought to duck.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous)

I helped a guy named Peter Johnson the other day. He was a total prick

A friend worked for a consulting firm that was very rigid in its badge naming scheme. The badge was always:

First name

Middle Initial Last Name

Since my friend had no middle name, he was issued a middle initial of "N" for "No Middle Name" -- like I said, rigid. There was another employee there named [roughly] James Phillip Enis.

They relaxed the naming rule.