bigbywolfe

Re: Section 8 & the Ward This may seem cliché, but when you said Multiple Personality Disorder the first thing I thought was Duplication. What’s more awkward than someone literally arguing with themselves out loud? How about the argument becoming a fist fight…with yourself!

Re: Favorite 60-point Power Construction Not sure if this is built correctly, but I saw something like this suggested once, and it almost makes the 60 point limit (err, after Limitations, that is)... Protection from harm: (Total: 80 Active Cost, 62 Real Cost) Aid PD 2d6 (standard effect: 6 points) (20 Active Points); Linked (ED; -1/2), Activation Roll 15- (-1/4) (Real Cost: 11) plus Aid ED 2d6 (standard effect: 6 points) (20 Active Points); Linked (PD; -1/2), Activation Roll 15- (-1/4) (Real Cost: 11) plus Minor Transform 4d6 (standard effect: 12 points) (DEF into rDEF, Standard Healing Fade Time.) (Real Cost: 40)

Re: Favorite 60-point Power Construction Those who oppose me are weaklings: Drain STR 1d6+1 (standard effect: 4 points), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Sticky (+1/2), Cumulative (56 points; +1 1/4), Area Of Effect (16" Radius; +1 1/2) (58 Active Points); Window Of Opportunity (once per Month; window remains open for 1 Day; -2), Visible (Glowing Aura; -1/4) This one's fun for villains. Of course, you can change or get rid of the Window of Opportunity.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Got him for ya.

Re: Close Your Nose Unlike you and Sean, I have to breath out constantly to prevent water going up my nose when underwater. (Yes, I'm a horrible diver). But then again, I may not be "average" either. My sense of taste and smell are also very strongly linked (perhaps more so than normal) and I frequently smell things as I breathe through my mouth and worse, taste things that I smell. I would pay one point for "close my nose". But that's just me personally.

Re: Mechanic Definitions: Power Target/Range Self is specifically listed in both the Type (EDIT: I meant to say Target) and Range section of 5ER. The 4 ranges in the book are usually considered Self, No Range (there is a difference), Standard Range (on which Range Based on Strength is a Limitation), and Line of Sight. I'm really not sure where you found an Unlimited Range? Or are you suggesting this as a new definition?

Re: Perks and negative cost No. If the base would "equal negative points" then it should be a Disadvantage in and of itself, not get you extra points to spend above and beyond what everyone else gets.

Re: Perks and negative cost GA: Agreed.

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread I think it's more of a megaphone, but I haven't read the character description in a while.

Re: Heros Haitian character power creation help Hyper-Man: Wouldn't Selective cover that?

Re: Heros Haitian character power creation help At first glance it looks fine. Should be interesting to play.

Re: Your Definition Of A Super Hero? I'm pretty sure Batman killed at least a couple people in the early Detective Comics, back when they were still mostly "Pulp" and "Superhero" wasn't really a defined genre. They've probably ret-conned that time period of his early days though...

Re: Perks and negative cost Lisa, the same could be said to you, since we are not going to persuade him.

Re: Perks and negative cost My argument had nothing to do with “the rules say so”. The GM set’s the point level of a game, not the rules. This seems like it could be used to surpass the GMs point setting and get yourself extra disads for free. You may argue that the GM may not allow it, but if he does that gives “crappy base guy” an advantage over everyone else simply because their character concept doesn’t include having a crappy base. It belongs in the Disad section, or else it’s unfair for anyone who doesn’t want to deal with a ridiculously horrible place of operation.

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Re: Perks and negative cost Taking "negative points" rather than a disad, would allow you to still have your full amount of disadvantages, and as such, surpass the starting point value of the game. I see this as a problem.

Re: Perks and negative cost I don't read "excluding points recieved from disads" as "subtracting points recieved from disads". The fact that you are adding more disads than paid points is questionable in and of itself (I wouldn't allow 25/125 point character), but that's a different matter.

Re: Super Shield What if it said "kinetic energy caused by impact" or "kinetic energy applied against the curved side of the shield"? It may not be "realistic" but most characters are not if you look at the genre.

Re: Perks and negative cost But when they "are figured into their cost" they are not subtracted.

Re: Super Shield Yeah, but bipedal or not, trying to trip Hulk would probably rip your leg off. It's a 4 year old trying to trip a 350 pound Sumo wrestler, times 4 (at least).

Re: Your Definition Of A Super Hero? What's that from?

Re: Poison's Champions Art Thread If anyone is curious, here is KO’s character sheet. http://www.herogames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1742374&postcount=15 I like the ink Poison, thanks again.

Re: Ubo So did I, it's one of those things that is hard to find using the glossary, or whatever that big list of stuff and the pages they're on at the back of the book is called...

Re: Ubo Differing Modifiers: FRED Page 276, in the Usable On Others section of the Power Modifiers section of Chapter One.

Re: Your Definition Of A Super Hero? The comparison between Superman and a police officer risking his life in the line of duty is completely unfair. You are comparing apples to oranges, trying to discredit a fictional character by comparing him to a real life individual. The options you give are basically to discredit the accomplishments and risks of a real, live person or to discredit an iconic symbol that is supposed to represent everything the real, live person is. As far as your definition of “hero” goes, you seem to imply that someone can only be heroic if they are risking their lives. I believe there are many types of heroes. I mean, is someone who spends their entire lives helping others- maybe working with abused children, or supplying relief aid to third world countries- really less heroic than someone who pulled a child out of the way of a speeding car because they just happened to be at the right place at the right time? Are paramedics who save lives everyday not heroic simply because they live in a small city where their lives are not generally at risk while they do so? What a hero is, is extremely subjective, even more so in the real world than in fiction. In fiction, we generally have a good idea of the motivations behind a protagonist’s actions. In real life, we have no such magical insight into the thoughts and motivations of those we, as society, deem “heroes”. Is the cop that died trying to save a hostage still a hero, even though, unbeknownst to the public, he was an alcoholic who beat his wife almost every week? All we have to go on in the real world is the actions we can perceive, and of course, any real police officer, fireman, relief worker, et cetera, is “more heroic” than any fictional character. Is this because the fictional character is not heroic? No. It’s because they are fictional. “They” are not taking any risk, because they are not real. It’s not comparable. As far as superheroes go, who would you find more heroic than Superman? I mean, you can say Blue Beetle risks his life more often because he’s not as powerful as Superman, but is that true? Blue Beetle doesn’t usually face villains that have the capacity to destroy the entire Earth. Superman does. You want self-sacrifice? Supes gave Batman the only known physical substance that can kill him, to safeguard against him going bad or being mind controlled. How many other super heroes have gone to a team mate and said, “here, if I ever go bad, this is how you can kill me to make sure I don’t hurt anyone,”? It’s like preparatory self sacrifice. Using your standard, no “superhero” is heroic, because even if they die they always get brought back, even if it’s decades later by a hack writer who couldn’t come up with something original. Batman got his back broken, TWICE. Is he more heroic than Superman, who “died”. Supes faced an opponent who took out the entire Justice League, (okay, so it was a crappy version of the JLA, I mean, what was Blue Beetle or the Green Lantern reject going to do against Doomsday, but still…) and proceeded to fight until they had beaten each other to "death". True, neither of them actually “died” but that’s the genre, not the “characters” fault. By your own definition the risk of the loss of your own life is part of what qualifies a “hero,” yet you insist that Superman isn’t a hero, even though he risks certain death more times a year than most real policemen do in their entire careers? (Not sure if I should even use that example, comparing comics to RL just seems irreverent…but you get my point) It makes no sense.