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Re: Pool like effect without a pool

Why can't you do it with VARIABLE POWER POOL with the limit of 1/day only and Only from pregenerated list of spells ?

Re: Teleport as a defensive move

Some time ago I gave Cheshire Cat a very similar ability, I called it Micro-teleporting. I used Force Field, but now I might consider Combat Luck or even DESOLIDIFICATION.

That way the attack hits the lined up opponent as you want, or at least gets you out of harms way. Have fun with it !!!

Re: New Density Question

Why not TRANSFORMATION ?

Re: Points Equality

So far as I know HERO is the only system where everyone is (points) equal.

I've seen DC comics RPG give out random creation points for diffferent backgrounds. Marvel stats and powers aren't always equal among characters, neither is Villians and Vigilantes.

With experienced players variable starting values would work just fine as it takes some skill to handle such diversity beginners should start off equal to prevent problems later.

Re: "All or Nothing" Power Limitation.....

I asked the same question awhile ago, the answer HERODOM sent me was

(-1/4) Lim.

Re: help! multipower at random?

Would the idea of ACTIVATION roll (say 15 or less) with the SIDE EFFECT that if the roll fails you get a result negative to what you were trying to get.

EX; HEAL the villians, RKA your friends

Re: Doing your own calendar: is it worth it?

It can be, I built a calendar of my own for a setting. I made up names for; each day of the week, each month of the year, and each holiday.

Re: Do you think these are legitimate Power Builds

Why not Mental Illusions? Major changes +10 mod (cause STUN)

This only requires EGO+20 to be effective, 9d6 would do that nicely

You did mention FOOLING people into thinking they have been hit so thats why I thought Mental Illusions.

Most of the powers allow you to use less then full power if desired. Now I wondered about Shrink and Growth. What if you cant stop at 30 feet say but have to use Full power all the time?

With the Ultimate Energy Projector project coming along I was wondering, Shapeshift allows you to take on the form of any type of matter-wood, stone etc. But what about ENERGY? Electricity, Fire, Magnetism, etc

Without using Transform or Shapeshift how would you build this??

Re: Transform ?

Why not MIND CONTROL (based on Transform) ? It seems less complicated, and a cool effect.

Re: i Can't Die! No matter How Much I want To!

Is there some reason why HEALING with the Adder Resurrection wouldn't work?

No matter how ' death' occurs the character comes back again and again.

He cannot die permanently, like in Highlander the immortals die but come back.

I'm surpized that no one has thought of this yet today. Which super beings do you most associate with being UNLUCKY ? This cannot be someone already written-up in Enemies etc. Example: I always though that Apache Chief from Challenge of the Superfriends was Unlucky, he got knocked out of hero form (ie Stunned at least) so easily it was pathetic.

So who do you think is Unlucky?

Re: Your occupation, please.

How about;

Orthodox Rabbi

Gym teacher

Lawyer

Yes you read the title correctly. We have to be fair here, if there are novice superheroes then there must be novice supervillians...

Maybe the villian forgets to wear gloves leaving fingerprints at the crime scene. He hasn't chosen a name yet.."I AM POWER-GUY" ? What do you guys think?

There are many monsters from myth etc that can use seemingly different attacks in 1 phase like Beholders. One of my players asked about this and here's where I am on this;

+ SPEED only for mutiple attacks (cannot use phase to do anything but attack and must hold phase until 1 segment before you normally would react)

Re: Please help... Name My Superhero Group! (in-game contest)

I always enjoyed groups with numbers in their name, especially if the number doesn't fit some times (like the 3 heroes at the end of Displaced Paranormals 7)

I see you have 6; Super-6, Supreme-6, S.I.X. (and people can try to guess what it means...)

Re: Endurance Reserves

Does being knocked out affect an Endurance Reserve ?

No, the endurance is still there HOWEVER to use a power in the Reserve requires the users constant attention (being knocked out stops you from using powers in the Reserve.)

Re: Force Fields

Aside from a FF with PD and no ED on top of a FF with ED but no PD,I wonder if you mean something like;

Force Field (vs Fire based attacks only) on top of say Force Field (vs sonics) could easily both be used at the same time without stacking.

Re: BOECV Question

Let me see if I understand your question; You want to use a power with Based on ECV on an object with no ECV /Ego. Other powers based on ECV affect a mind, the mind of a target, you aren't attacking this objects mind but it's Phsyical body and for some reason you use ECV.

This is common enough in certain backgrounds I was wondering how you would create it- Physical Limitation + Social Limit ?

Re: Failure and the PCs

Of course a PC can fail,either by bad rolls or incompetence.

If a player were to do something so extreme as to end the game

(as you say) then I figure it was time for an "out"

Time Travel, say a group from the future goes back in time and they try

to correct what the PC's did/didn't do in a session. "Dream Sequence" is another good "out" , if PC's fail no big loss-it was only a dream.

Re: Supress & Dispel: How effective?

I am GMing a PC who is a "witch-hunter", this character has Suppress:Magic

to get past magical traps etc. 10d6 Suppress With the power limitation Only vs Magic (-1/2) it is effective enough to Suppress most 30pt defences (which is the powerful level of the game -> Standard power level)

I'd suggest that any Drain, Suppress etc be built with some limitation such as this not only to ensure effectiveness but to keep it from being too powerful.

With a Friday the 13th just past and Halloween coming up soon I

thought it would be nice to see if anyone ever had an adventure centered

on these themes.

I once did an adventure where the players went to a world where

it was ALWAYS Halloween (Halloween Forever I called it) The players

had to find a way of defeating MISTER BIG UGLY AND SCARY in order

to free the people trapped in that world.

I was wondering how everyone out there handled this question.

Do you only allow PC's to spend EXP on things they used/learned during an adventure?

How about "free time" either during or between adventures, for working on

spending EXP? (Example: being in a cluttered room and trying to learn how to "bounce" your EB- combat levels)