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I would think so. Would it also take a Half Phase action to pull it back out?

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We've got a date with Destiny, and it looks like she ordered the lobster.

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Exoplanets

Well, that's mostly what I mean, but honestly, Republicans RINO or otherwise haven't walked the 'limited government' walk in a very long time. True conservatives have no place in either major party right now.

I love Real Genius..."In the immortal words of Socrates: I drank what?" Just finished bingeing the current season of The Expanse. Next will be Preacher, as soon as I get a couple more episodes stacked up.

Yeah, they say they do. They also claim to revere the concept of limited government. Until they're in charge of it.

The People's Front of Judea!

Does it have to be a switch? I figure the half-DCV for being prone represents the fact that you're less maneuverable, you can't dodge like you could standing up. That doesn't change based on the location of the attacker. It seems to me the minuses for range or cover or circumstances are applied to the attacker's chance to hit, not the target's chance to avoid it. Two different things.

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Now that you mention it, that may be part of the reason I can't stand it. But only part.

Wow, I had forgotten the Xanth series. I don't think I made it that far. I enjoyed the first few but beyond that it got to be a chore.

I loathe anime and manga and any permutation thereof, it's all terrible.

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When the team benefactor asks for a favor, say "No".

This is the way I was originally viewing it, that calling a Naked Advantage a distinct power was just for bookkeeping purposes, and that functionally it was modifying the base power. I thought one of the purposes of a Naked Advantage applied to a single power was so you didn't have to use it every time, like you would a normal Advantage. And maybe that's where my logic problem is entering the picture, I have to stop thinking that an NA modifies the base power. I haven't decided what we'll do with the build yet, I was leaning toward Multipower slots instead of Naked Advantages but after this discussion part of me wants to give it a try and see how it goes. I've been planning to run the team against a version of themselves from an evil alternate universe (yes, they will all have goatees, even the females), so maybe I'll build the evil version of this character with whatever method he doesn't use, as a sort of comparison. Thanks for all the replies, I'm glad I asked the question.

It's a character he drew up under 5e, but it hasn't been played in about 10 years, so we're upgrading it to 5eR. The Indirect is bought as "Any Origin, Any Direction". Multiple attacks was one of the points he brought up when we were discussing this, that if he used Naked Advantages he wouldn't be able to fire two blasts simultaneously, whereas with his original build, he could. If we look at it like Surrealone suggests, adding a Naked Advantage to an EB is the same thing as using two distinct EBs: the APs are considered separately. So there's no reason he couldn't use the base EB and both the Indirect and 2x Knockback all at once, it's the same as firing three EBs at a time, which he could do if he bought them separately (unless they're ultra-slots in a Multipower). I have to get it through my head that the NA isn't modifying the base power, it's creating a brand-new one.

One of my players is updating a character he hasn't played in awhile and he had a question or two about Naked Advantages that I couldn't easily answer. He originally had purchased three different EBs (this is 5th Ed Rev): one unmodified 15d6 EB (75 Active Points); one 9d6 EB w/Indirect (79 Active Points); one 8d6 EB w/Double Knockback (70 Active Points). I suggested he buy just the one unmodified EB, and then two Naked Modifiers, one Indirect and one 2x KB. However... If the Indirect Naked Advantage is bought for up to 75 AP of the EB, that alone is 56 Active Points. That means when he's using the EB with Indirect, he's throwing a 131 Active Point Power, right? Since the EB that's being modified is already at the campaign limit (75 Active Points, although I did grant an exception for the Indirect one), then there's no way for him to use Naked Advantages with this power that doesn't exceed the limit, is that correct? Even if we purchase the Naked Advantage to apply to less than the full amount of the EB, the total for the base Power and the NA will still exceed 75 Active Points. Or, since Naked Advantages are considered separate, unique powers, are we only supposed to consider the points of the NA and not the base power when it comes to Active Points limits? I've been playing this game a long time and I still get confused sometimes...

It's a bit of an exaggeration, but my players have adopted a new one. "Every new NPC is either secretly a supervillain or will become one."

Until recently I had a similar situation with a PC. She had five vials of a serum that she injected which granted her 5 minutes of powers such as Density Increase and additional STR. I don't have her in front of me, but I recall the Limitations Focus (for the vials), Continuing Charges - 5 Minutes, and OIHID. Apparently it was a technically illegal build, but we both understood how it worked, and it didn't seem overpowering. I took full advantage of those Limitations during gameplay, so she earned those points. She has since saved up enough points to make those powers permanent, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. That's the best time to find out you've got a bad build, after you've ditched it!

That's a good point. I helped them to avoid any obviously bad purchases when they were first starting out as HERO players, and they're to the point now where they know what they're doing. So we've never had a situation where a player realized after a couple of sessions that their design isn't working. For newcomers to HERO, I probably would allow them to rework a build if it became obvious early on that the character isn't working the way he or she wanted.