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Re: Ares Saves the World!

Cheta: Huh?

All other characters: Well played, Aries, well played.

Dolphin and Iron Will would quickly point out he said "explosions" and "weapons," this would not affect power plants or research reactors.

Re: Fort Knox Has Been Robbed

Dolphin: Guys, it's pretty metal. What's the problem? Was it being used as collateral on the national debt? I thought that was backed only by the "full faith and credit" stuff like the currency. If it's an emergency I can bring you a couple shipwreck's worth, but it's going to be mostly in the form of 500 year old coins, numismatic value going to be several times the weight of the gold.

Re: Magically Returning Sword - Should this be a Focus or Not

It's not a Focus. The defining characteristic of a Focus is that it can be taken away. If the character can be disarmed temporarily' date=' the Power might be Restrainable.[/quote']

+1, and repped.

 

Restrainable FTW.

Re: Incarnation Awareness

Contacts is an interesting way to model the effect. I think I'd require the PC to get some means of communicating with their temporal contacts (Limited Transdimensional Telepathy or Mind Link) and count then as Spirit Contacts. Retrocognition is pretty good too but I think it might model classical "past life flashbacks" more than this particular ability. Luck might represent a less conscious version of this ability: your past selves are aware of your existence and sometimes do stuff for you.

 

Being occasionally asked to do favors for your future (or even past) selves could be a Disadvantage or just the price of doing business across time like that.

Seems to me to be the way to go. You've got half a dozen or so NPC's who can sometimes do you favors.

Re: Incarnation Awareness

Contacts.

Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy!

Whatever one thinks of the claim that Neanderthals were vegetarians,* the notion that they were

"probably" vegetarians misunderstands the received scientific view.

 

 

*Exceedingly unlikely would cover it for me. The Neanderthals roamed a subarctic tundra. There was winter there, and although I am not a botanist, it is my understanding that plants don't grow very well in the winter. So unless Neanderthal had an unsuspected ability to digest browse, the inference is that they were big game hunters.

Was it subartic tundra at the time, and did they live there year round or migrate?

Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy!

"Beef Jerky" is linked in your post - I was hoping it was going to be a youtube "messing with Sasquatch" video.

"Shopping Link Added by SkimWords" WTF?

Re: How do you feel about House Rules?

Possibly - Because that's what McCoy was referencing in his post about originally not getting it - Stunned has nothing to do with Stun (Characteristic), everything to do with Stun Damage. Which are different.

 

We have:

Your Stun Characteristic

How much Stun you have

Your Maximum Stun

Stun Damage done

Stun Damage taken

Are you Stunned?

 

One word, many variances. I can see how "Con Stunned" can come about in that environment.

Yeah, you want to avoid being stunned, you buy more CON, not more STUN.

Having played since 2nd edition and also having looked over the rules from 2nd edition and 3rd edition today. Being Stunned was always called being Stunned.

Did not mean to imply (nor do I believe I did) that I had seen that in the rules. It was used by the GM at my very first game, understood instantly, and clarified in my mind something that had not been clear to me from reading the rules.

Re: How do you feel about House Rules?

Did getting Stunned work differently back in that edition? Because it has a lot to do with STUN now...

Have they changed it that much? IIRC (books are currently packed away) how much STUN your character had determined if they were Knocked Out or not, but not if they were stunned. They could be stunned but not KO'ed, KO'ed but not stunned, both, or (the usual condition) neither.

Re: How do you feel about House Rules?

When I asked whether anyone knew where "CON-Stunned" came from' date=' I didn't mean I don't understand what people mean by it, or that I can't guess why someone might coin the term. I meant does anyone know literally [b']where[/b] it came from. Like, did the players in the original Guardians campaign use it, and therefore it spread as the game spread, etc.?

Don't know, do know I heard it in the first Champions game I played (2nd ed, believe it was 1982). It made a lot more sense to me than when I read over the rules several times and stunned had nothing to do with STUN. Now I call stunned "dazed," and for many years in FTF games referred to a character having their bell rung.

Re: How do you feel about House Rules?

What's RAW stand for? I presume it has been introduced with 6E?

From context I assumed Rules As Written.

Re: How do you feel about House Rules?

I have an "unpublished" house rule: an attempt to save a wounded person's life, even by a character with no paramedic or similar skill, is always successful. PC's should not die from an above average damage roll, and attempts to save wounded hostages or bystanders should be rewarded with success. So when someone announces their character is attempting to apply direct pressure to the spurting artery and picks up the dice, I'm thinking "Please don't roll an 18! Please don't roll an 18!"

Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See?

Thanks for the updates.

Re: Disintegration Setting on Retro Ray Gun

In the absence of anything more elegant' date=' I decided to go with two separate slots to represent the disintegration setting on the retro ray gun. The first is a vanilla 4d6 killing attack with no knock back that does not work vs. force fields. The second is 2m of tunneling through up to 16 pd material that is usable on others and ranged with a 0 pt limitation that it only creates the tunnel and does not provide for movement.[/quote']

Sounds good to me.

Re: For whom the (dinner) bell tolls...

Dolphin doesn't need to eat, but when he does its vegan.

Iron Will a hypoallergenic concentrated liquid nutritional supplement.

Cheeta is a jock, and a speedster. His favorite food is seconds.

Snow Leopard considers all vegetables a garnish.

Millennium prefers organic food, but is not strict about it.

Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy!

I hadn't looked at Shapeshift as an option, I'll have to check it out when I get home.

 

 

 

I considered the "Ninja Turtle" special e.g. trench coat and fedora conceals all, but I do rather like that approach.

 

 

 

We hadn't discussed it, but I'm curious to see where you're going with this

I've been working on and off on a NPC that I want to be ambiguous. Could be a Sasquatch, could be a Neanderthal. Neanderthals were probably vegetarians, jury's out on Sasquatch (some people insist they are herbivorous, but some stories include things like stealing salmon from nets).

Re: The Red Queen Effect and Superhumans

As the quote at the begining of the movie says, a willingness to share the planet is not a defining characteristic of humanity. In Real Life there is one and only one living species in genus Homo.

On Earth 616 there are six species of genus Homo, or more likely six subspecies of H. sapiens as I believe they have all proven cross-fertile with H. sapiens sapiens; Atlantians, Deviants, Eternals, Inhumans, and Mutants.

So on Earth 616 super powers have been part of the environment as long as anatomically modern humans. But obviously the other subspecies have not bred as quickly as H. sapiens sapiens. For example, every Inhuman alive lives in a single city. For various reasons, I believe the non-mainstream humans number in the millions, and that all of them together never had more than 10% the ecological footprint of H. sapiens sapiens.

There is also the question of if mutants are a separate subspecies, or if in mutants the X-factor has been expressed, while in mainstream humans it remains latent. Look at Moondragon. She has telepathy, telekinesis, and levitation without being a mutant. The line between mutant and mainstream human seems to vary with the sensitivity of the mutant-detector in use.

In addition to all that, both in rel life and presumably on Earth 616 H. sapiens sapiens seems to be causing an extinction event on the magnitude of those more usually associated with a comet impacting the planet. Some species are keeping up (roaches, the common cold), others are becoming extinct (sabertooth tigers, smallpox).

Re: He's not Bigfoot! He's just a really tall, hairy guy!

Just make the distinctive features easily concealed. As long as he's wearing shoes and human clothes, he can pass as a harry, bearded mountain man. It's when his shirt gets torn off and he takes off his shoes that he becomes obviously a Sasquatch.

Is the character vegetarian by any chance?

Re: Always knows a name

Sounds like it would be fun to role play.

GM: OK, you're trying to sneak into the castle through the kitchens. Roll to open the gate on the tradsmen's entrance.

(Player playing the Rogue rolls dice.)

GM: Good enough. The gate is well maintained, and quietly opens onto a small courtyard. You see and smell a garbage pit, you see no guards.

Team Leader: They would not have left this unguarded. It's a trap. Taking a closer look at the garbage pit. (rolls dice)

GM: Something in the garbage pit moved. Something big.

TL: What is that thing?

Character Who Always Knows A Name: An Otyugh.

TL: What's an otyugh?

CWAKAN: That thing.

TL: How do we kill it quietly?

CWAKAN: Haven't the foggiest.

Rogue: What say we back out quietly, I'll re-lock the gate, and tomorrow we go to the Temple of Knowledge and consult their otyugh expert?

CWAKAN: That would be Norton.

Rogue: Or we could feed him to the otyugh.

Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See?

Assyro-Babylonian and Sumerian both at the top of the list, along with Canaanite and Persian. Plenty of sources on Egyptian. For some reason, I was never able to make it through Gilgamesh. Then I got it on audiobook, and the light came on. It was not written to be read, it was written to be heard! I've listened to it over and over, with tantalizing glimpses of the mythos. Also running across tantalizing hints of the polytheism that Judaism, Christianity, and Islam displaced. Few popular references on this subject, and I haven't been passionate enough to track down the titles and arrange an inter-library loan.

Re: MYTHIC HERO: What Do *You* Want To See?

I still want this in some format, especially the Middle Eastern chapters. This is still near the top of my "When I hit the Powerball" list!

Re: More space news!

Storm in Saturn

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Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters?

It would be slightly better' date=' but still creepy. Replace women with children and if you still feel that it's not creepy then I MAY be over reacting somewhat.[/quote']

I should have stayed out of this. My reaction to the OP was that this was more sad than villainous, displaying his masturbation aids in public. As described, this is closer to slash fan fiction than rape. Do you have this same reaction to pornographic fanfic?

Re: Who you include in your Magical Harem of Fictional Characters?

My point is that the Villain is summoning People who are Fictional Characters on our world. They are still Flesh and blood people' date=' just taken from their home dimension or created whole cloth by the guy's spell.[/quote']

I see a real difference between "taken from their home dimension" and "created whole cloth by the guy's spell." One we are talking people with an independent existence, the other it is basically his imaginary friends made visible, sophisticated puppets. Would it reassure you if a mentalist teammate announced the were automatons with no EGO / mind for them to get a target lock on?

Re: In The Cards

Sorry. This one is another entry for the 'flip the table' files.

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