bigbywolfe

I'm not sure what you're point about not seeing the gunman or the muzzle flash is. If someone walks up behind you and stabs you in the back you are at 1/2 DCV for being Surprised despite being hit with an OBVIOUS Accessible Focus. How is getting shot at by someone you didn't see any different? Powers being percievable doesn't mean everyone magically is aware of every attack before it hits them.

I'm not sure what you're point about not seeing the gunman or the muzzle flash is. If someone walks up behind you and stabs you in the back you are at 1/2 DCV for being Surprised despite being hit with an OBVIOUS Accessible Focus. How is getting shot at by someone you didn't see any different? Powers being percievable doesn't mean everyone magically is aware of every attack before it hits them.

Tanishq Abraham, Eleven Years Old, Graduates College
 
In the immortal words of Stan The Man--'Nuff Said.

Wrong place for politics.

Not gloating at all. The way you twist things to suit your agenda... *sigh* Happy with the win. THAT IS ALL. 
 
You just wanna suck the joy out of everything. 

Having the guidelines and limits is not the same thing as "you can only spend these XP on X or Y. I don't care that you've been studying Nuclear Astrophysics. You can't take it as a skill. Why? Because I said so!"

Well, here's my first contribution to this thread:
 
From last week’s Ghostbuster’s filler game.
 
Characters: (using first/nick names since I don’t recall all of the PCs names at the moment).
 
Me: Bumbling Crypto-zoologist determined to lead the way in the new field he calls Ecto-zoology. Defacto leader, not because of any leadership ability but because he has the money and bought into the Ghostbuster’s franchise. Has the unfortunate habit of trying to name and classify the specters that are currently attacking him.
 
Austen: 17 year old savant physicist with multiple Phds and a complete lack of social skills
 
Mike: Former infantryman hired as the team’s muscle. He has the unfortunate habit of being completely unconcerned with the collateral damage the particle beam weapons can produce.
 
Whitty: Former host of the worst “ghost hunters” type show to ever hit cable TV. It was so bad even the paranormal conspiracy theory nuts considered it a joke. Very charming and persuasive, and a bit of a skirt chaser, he is the teams spokesperson.
 
NPC Girl: Director of the local Historical Society in the small town where we are investigating the Pumpkin Jack urban legend and the disappearance of several young children. Very cute and has my character constantly bumbling over everything he says.
 
 
The quotes (mostly without context since they seem more humorous that way):
 
NPC Girl: Crypto-zoology? You mean like bigfoot?
 
Mike: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, whatever you want to call it. He has a dozen names, Skunk-ape, the Wedi, err Wundi, um…
 
Me: Wendigo. It’s called the Wendigo, which is not the same as the Sasquatch, and which I’ll never get to study since we’re no longer allowed in Canada!
 
NPC Girl: Wait, your team got kicked out of Canada?!
 
Whitty: There was an…incident…
 
Mike: Yeah, an “incident” with you and that Mountie’s daughter.
 
Whitty: Hey, they overreacted. That was blown way out of proportion just ‘cause we involved the horse.
 
Me: ANYWAY!….
 
 
 
Austen’s character wandered off in the woods following his PKE Meter and comes out near the high school football field where the cheerleaders are practicing. One particularly bubble headed cheerleader wanders over to see who the weird kid that just wandered out of the woods is. His PKE seems to indicate that the source of the reading are coming from the girls torso, so without so much as an introduction he says:
 
Austen: I need your shirt.
 
Cheerleader: Hi, I…What?
 
Austen: Your shirt, the energy readings are coming from your shirt. I need it.
 
Cheerleader (looking confused and a little scared): Energy, you mean like radiation or something?
*Being worried about the “radiation” she takes off her shirt and hands it to him, standing there awkwardly. Austen scans the shirt, which doesn’t give off any readings. He turns the scanner back to the girl and it immediately goes off again when aimed at her…upper torso.
 
Austen: Huh? I need your bra.
 
Cheerleader (now looking really nervous and a little angry): What?!
 
Austen: It’s not your shirt; it must be coming from your bra…
*At this point the girl’s football player boyfriend comes up from behind looking really pissed off. The Jock starts yelling something along the lines of “what the hell’s going on” as he shoves Austen from behind, startling the small nerd who accidentally discharges his handheld positively charged slime thrower…all over the Jock.
Jock: What the @#$%, I’m gonna kick your @#$%ing %$#@!
*He takes a swing at Austen, slips in the slime and ends up flat on his back. Austen is saved by Mike and the coach before he can get beaten to a pulp.
 
Later, when relaying this story to the team rest of the team,
Mike: So what you’re saying is, while looking at the shirtless cheerleader you shot goo all over the football player…
 
Austen: What?
 
Me: Can we get back on topic here?!
 
Austen (about 3 minutes later in the conversation): Oh, I get it. It was a penis joke.
 
Other 3: *group facepalm*
 
 
 
NPC Girl (flirting): So, have you studied the Loch Ness Monster?
 
Me: Um, actually we don’t like to use that term…
 
NPC Girl: What term?
 
Me: (launching into lecture mode): You see, Nessie is most likely a vegetarian and we believe her to be peaceful, tranquil creature. We try to avoid the “M word”, as it further propagates the negative stereotype that has… (Interrupted by Mike and Whitty simultaneously blowing raspberries).
(And yes, I stole that last bit from Marshal from ‘How I Met Your Mother’).
 
 
Me (looking at the PKE readings as we enter the woods): God I hope that’s some sort of portal or rip in the fabric of space and time and not just a single entity.
 
Austen: If it’s a portal who knows how many things are coming through. If it’s a single creature at least we can just deal with it.
 
Me: The last time we dealt with a single spector with reading this high I almost got eaten by a hotel!

I vote to extend things into next week rather than rush through matches this week.

I think most characters will be severely limited by having at most one RECovery worth of END to use after being Knocked Out.  They can easily Knock themselves Out again by just spending too much END and burning STUN as its replacement.
 
3e and 4e Champions were different.  5e & 5er show the change.
 
Champions 3e page 76 shows:
 
Hero System 4e page 161 shows:
 
5e page 274 and 5er page 412 both show:

Florida Man Attempts To Cash $368 Billion Check

And poor Jeff bought the blank check from someone named Tito.  Coincidence?  I think not!

I think the concept of the tutorial game is underutilized. There's a non-cynical answer to why video game tutorials have taken root, and it's that learning-by-doing is engaging. (I can get a bit tangent-y on this - my late academic mentor was big on researching video games - I will go on all day if not stopped.)
 
The new Star Wars game, by Fantasy Flight, Edge of the Empire? I picked up its beginners' box when that first hit market (it came with the funky dice) and wow was I impressed. It did a great job of introducing concepts in a fun, organic way, and teaching the mechanics of the game through play. I thought it was freaking fantastic. And it introduced concepts in a way that helped them stick.
 
In fact, I feel like every game could use such a product. If my current work goes well enough, I might try my hand at writing some, see if people like them.
 
But yeah, the point is that a lot of people really dig something different in the user interface of the game. One of my friends never puts anything down in shorthand - the numbers just live in his head, and it messes him up if he deals with the results and not the formulas. I tend to work in the opposite fashion.

Florida Man Attempts To Cash $368 Billion Check

And poor Jeff bought the blank check from someone named Tito.  Coincidence?  I think not!

Florida Man Attempts To Cash $368 Billion Check

And poor Jeff bought the blank check from someone named Tito.  Coincidence?  I think not!

Behold--The Mighty Stegasaurus!!!
 

No. No, they are not okay.
 
Lucius Alexander
 
A palindromedary is more than okay.

Well, the WITNESS product line had been out for years, then they announced the "Hunter" Model.   I never put it together that way. 
 
Actually, I may have inspired the hunter model with an Email to them a few years before they brought it out.   Almost exactly what I suggested, and I was focused on the 10mm cartridge...

The lli pika, China's "magic bunny".

You're slipping back into the "post link without a line of explanation" thing again.  For those wary of such things, it's a webcomic about risk assessment when it comes to dating someone you haven't met before.

Heroes had it almost right, but what it really should have said was
 
Kill an administrator. Save the world.
 
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Doesn't matter the size; nothing knows how to relax better than a cat.

Well, sorry dude, but nobody can help you.  When you basically come out and say that you don't consider 3 of the 4 movies "canon", and you changed a bunch of things you didn't like and rewrote some of the novels and edited some of the movies to be closer to your liking, then you are no longer dealing with the same "canon" that the rest of the universe is.  Do what you want, but nobody is going to see things the way you do.