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If you are playing in a Heroic game where equipment is free the HKA means you can do the damage of short sword with your bare hands (2d6+1 with a 20 STR). Pretty impressive. The Naked Advantage on the other hand can turn any weapon you pick up into an Armor Piercing weapon. If you are a battle axe swinging barbarian that could easily have you dishing out 3-4d6 of armor piercing Killing Damage for 15 points. Seems pretty different to me.

But in most of his examples the booby trap is not an explosion/AoE, it's things like a taser shock if you actually touch the arrow or a puff of gas that may or may not be AoE.

When they open the Arc in Raiders they don't release some vile creature that has to be banished or physically killed. The ghostly figures are just the special effect that if you look at the arc's contents you die. I don't really see that as equivalent to Lovecraftian horrors, which tend to stick around and kill indiscriminately.

Sorry about the wait, I was being indecisive between several options. Round 6 – The Color of Victory General "Thunderbolt" Ross, the Red Hulk 3 bonus points if the pick is selected within 24 hours 3 bonus points if the character has never died* (Ross faked his death so he couldn't be linked to Red-Hulk, but the general world, and readers, thought he was dead for a while) 1 bonus point if the color is not green 2 bonus point if the character was created after 1986 (Ross himself predates 1986, but Red Hulk came about in 2008. Not sure if that counts or not.) Total: 4-8

Round 5 - Heavy Equipment Shayera Hol, aka Hawkgirl/Hawkwoman 3 bonus points if the pick is selected within 24 hours 1 bonus point if the character chosen is female 2 bonus points if character did not create focus 3 bonus points if the focus is not unique (Nth Metal weapons are not unique, especially on Thanagar, but they aren't ubiquitous on Earth, so not sure if that counts or not) Total: 6-9 PS: Still working out my round 6 pick, but I'll have it up tonight for sure.

I'm not familiar with the character,are her guns custom made or special somehow? Why are the not "non unique"?

"Ok, so the books says that for very 10 Active points in a power you pay 1 END, regardless of using normal or noncombat move. So a character with 30 Active points of movement power + 10 points for X8 would pay on 3 END not 4. Got it!" Nope, you don't quite got it. You just described a 40 Active Point power so it would cost 4 END regardless of whether you were using normal or noncombat movement. Likewise, if your movement power has Advantages those Advantages increase the Active Points and AP is what END cost is based on.

Juggernaut was on my short list for round 5. Research time...

I think you mean Iron Age, unless you classify the ages MUCH differently than usual.

Bump. If you don't have time to do the work would you forward the maps to me? Or just post the files as is and someone else can clean them up?

My Round 4- Playing both sides pick is: Teth-Adam, better known as Black Adam 3 bonus points if the pick is selected within 24 hours 1 bonus point if the character chosen is non-white (he was supposed to be ancient Egyptian but usually looks pretty white, so not sure if this counts.) 2 bonus points for characters that started as heroes (while his first published appearance is as a villain, his origin is that of a hero and due to time travel story archs it's not just back story, we've seen his original hero self. Again, not sure if that counts or not.) 2 bonus point if the character is currently a criminal (while he was an "anti-hero" for quite a while, as far as I can tell he is a villain since the new 52 started.) Total 5-8

Round 4 pick up shortly

Round 3 Pick: Sunspot 3 bonus points if the pick is selected within 24 hours 3 bonus points if the character has never died* 1 bonus point if the character chosen is non-white (does not apply to non-humans) 4 bonus points if the character has never starred in their own solo ONGOING title or MINISERIES 2 bonus points if the character is otherwise human (mutant or meta) Total 13 points

Doomsday is a clone. If clones are eligible for the "born this way" round that may effect my pick, I assumed they'd be considered like robots and constructs as created beings.

Question about round 4. Does it count if the character started as a hero and turned villain in their backstory, or do they have to have been a published hero first to qualify for the bonus points?

That's not remotely what she said. It looks like you are just trying to be inflammatory at this point.

I think it's important to not that it's note a "Ranged Disarm" which is a specific Martial Art Maneuver that must be purchased. It's using the Disarm Maneuver, which is a general maneuver that anyone can use, with a Ranged Attack. You don't have to buy anything special to do this.

From Fantasy Hero Complete pg 174-175: Generally I would consider -2 the minimum penalty on a ranged Disarm unless the object was unusually large or difficult to hold on to for some reason. A handgun would probably a -3 or 4 depending on size, though it's really up to the GM. Being consistent in what penalty you apply is more important than what number you use.

She-hulk was a probably on my list too, I was between her and Thing for my first pick and decided to go with my super soldier (and the associated bonus points) with the Stan Lee round.

Pick 2: Keen Marlow, AKA Destroyer Published in 1941 by Timely Comics. "The artist co-creator is uncertain: the story penciler-inker was Jack Binder, but the cover artist, who may have drawn the character first, was Alex Schomburg." This spy turned Super Soldier may not have had the benefit of Vita-Rays, but with his enhanced physical abilities, inhuman looking mask and skull motif, and superb hand to hand fighting and marksmanship the Destroyer reeked havoc on the Nazi regime along side Sub-Mariner, Captain America, and the Human Torch.

I'll try to get my second pick in shortly.

First Pick: Benjamin J. Grimm, The Ever-Lovin' Blue-Eyed Thing Team Name: It's Clobbering Team!

The biggest change for you will probably be the lack of Figured Characteristics. Characters are completely free-form unless something in the setting restricts them. Hero System us a generic system and there are no class based limitations on what you can buy built into the system, but there often are such limitations built into a setting. Most D&D stuff can be translated fairly easily, though cost and utility don't always match up across systems. For example, any Feat based on Attacks of Opportunity will be pricey to build since Hero does not have AoO as a default mechanic and you would be building a Power or Naked Power Advantage with a price Trigger Advantage to simulate acting when you normally could not (unless the GM institutes some kind of AoO as part of the setting).

Your GM is blatantly wrong. You don't need Transform to cut someone in half. In fact, the rules state you should not use Transform to do what other Powers already do, so it is arguably against the rules to us Transform to kill someone because that is what Killing attacks are for.

I love Stan, but he often doesn't actually speak for Marvel and it's not uncommon for what he says to not match current continuity. Miss/Captain Marvel has been at a higher Strength Class than Shulkie for a long time, and I doubt his statement is based on the fairly recent changes to She-Hulk upping her power level and adding rage strength to her.