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My immediate thought was that the courts seem likely to exonerate the hero. This is a ploy by friendly law-enforcement folk to flush out the villain. When the villain doubles down (see what I did there?) and commits another crime, the real hero turns up to capture him. It is classic four colour stuff, enough that friendly heroes may not be able to know whether their team-mate or the villain is victorious... Doc

Yeah, this comes under the banner of looking at the effect you are looking for. Knockback is an adjunct of damage. Damage powers have a primary purpose of doing damage. It is "odd" to use a power in which you limit away it's primary purpose. As GB suggests, a movement power, usable as an attack, provides the primary purpose of movement. Movement, usable as an attack, can be extremely effective unless you properly define it and think about how targets might resist. In this case, I think you are already there. Choose a movement power, apply UAA, then indicate what resists that movement. You can simply indicate that everything that defends against KB defends against your attack. If your attack moves someone 12m, that gets reduced by density increase, clinging, bracing, etc. I would allow a -1/2 limitation of (reduced by 2D6m) to provide the same variability of KB. Doc

Family in Kent sing song about coronavirus concerns... https://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/familys-viral-les-mis-lockdown-success-224818/ Worth watching just for the kids bickering at the start

Both of the scream early eighties.

Thinking about it, Israel by Siouxsie and the Banshees would be a good call...

Hmm. Not hugely 007, but I always thought Blue Monday by New Order would have worked well.

The shortest Duke post, EVER!!!

Duke, this is a totally political thing and, as it gets more serious, will become more political. I think you are too late to find anything politics-free. Doc

So many good films. I thought it might be useful to leaven out the testosterone heavy fare in front of us with two alternative suggestions. Gregory's Girl (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0082477/) Bend it like Beckham (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0286499/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0) Doc PS: if you are going to watch Gregory's Girl, then do it in the original Scottish accents, not the dubbed for the US market version...

Marcus are you talking about yourself or LL??! I classed holding onto someone else's butt as the wild times in my life...

I am in the happy position if having a job that is not going to vanish. A guaranteed income makes everything else much easier. That job is, unfortunately, also pretty much doable from home, so much of my time will be in the study, working. If I dig out time it will be playing Red Dead Redemption, Destiny, virtual golf etc on the Xbox. My quarantine plan is to put together a Skelton of a game powered by HERO, to send to Jason. (You will all appreciate that this is a fever dream, unlikely to ever happen...) Doc

The frustrating thing is that he has the media reach to do good at this time but squanders that... 😞

Ooh! The Guardian goes to town on why Trump is possibly the worst president the US could have had during Covid-19... https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/27/trump-narcissism-american-blood-coronavirus?__twitter_impression=true

And the secretary of state for health AND the chief medical officer. 🙂 You think it is something to do with standing together at all those press conferences?! 😄 Doc

I fully endorse the fact that triggers can (and should) be well-policed. My response was pointing out that GB was suggesting it was entirely possible RAW to create a fight ending power on a low number of points by abusing trigger. I do not think ANYONE was suggesting such a construct SHOULD be allowed. Doc

Question is, what do you think trigger is doing in that build? Immediate reset, immediate fire, immediate reset, etc. That is what I imagine is happening...

I would say my no conscious control, charges would continue in much the same way, and they don't need persistent either. So my 18 point power is pretty cheap compared to your 50 point monster. 🙂

British people all over the country have just gone out and clapped the NHS. Will put a video on YouTube and link here what my street looked like. Doc Well, I ballsed that up, finger over camera on phone, lots of clapping, no video. 😞 Am sure there will be lots of coverage from UK media outlets. Twitter has lots of examples, folk better than me at using their phone!: https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/ClapforNHS?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc^tfw

Hmm. My recollection was that he said a prediction of 400,000 deaths "was not absurd" if the government stuck to its mitigation strategy rather than actively seeking to shut it down. He has now, like a good scientist, revised his estimates in light of new data. I would stick with the problem that the media is there to make money, not to educate or inform. If they achieve all three then it is a happy coincidence. Trust the scientists when they are talking science, when they stray from science they are just another opinion. Doc

21 year old woman with no underlying health conditions dies from coronavirus https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-52041709

As it turns out, it was the audiobook that is free to download. Possibly better? https://craphound.com/podcast/2020/03/13/the-masque-of-the-red-death/

Cory Doctorow wrote a modern take on that story and his publishers have made it free to download (on Cory's request). I will see if I can find a link...

OK. MY classic default benchmarks. 😁

smoelf, you should dial it all back. Buy the first edition Fantasy Hero pdf from the store and see if you can run that. It IS a complete game and was written to be played from that one book. Ignore the 6E right now. Fantasy HERO is easy to get your head round. In fact, ignore that, buy Justice Inc, my favourite of the complete games. It is a simple task to play some pulp. When you have played that a few times and gotten your head round the basics in there, the 6E books then just open up the opportunities to do more, or add to what you have been doing. You've gotta get your toes wet but you should not need to go out your depth to do that. Not now all those PDFs are just sitting there... Doc

It was helped by the fact that girls in Nashville were FASCINATED by my accent. I was exotic and I got WAY more attention than I ever did back home. Gives a place a kind of shine in the memory. 🙂