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I think that is one of the more unrealistic aspects of comics, but one that we can't really get rid of. In the real world, insanity pleas are rarely used, at least not successfully. The Joker would be tried, convicted and probably put to death, or at least put in a real prison with guards that keep ...

BillionSix

I could totally see some Coalition officers making the same conclusion:

http://youtu.be/q3JKcExmQlA

Brian

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Yeah, there was a lot of argument along the lines of "Why would anyone want to take the Hardware type, when the Natural Genius does everything better?"
So, my guess is they made it a Mega-Hero to address that. Like it's like the Hardware but advance slower.

BillionSix

Also, there is a SCRET: http://www.scret.org/

BillionSix

I always liked the Psi-Warrior. You could say that he or she was training in a monastery in the Himalayas or something.

BillionSix

Basic rundown:
My review of Palladium Games in general: Mostly positive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgVqurKQl3s

My review of Heroes Unlimited: Vaguely negative. My review of Century Station: Mega-Hooray-Positive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXY0dUyqqao

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The way I see it is this. There are many women that I have known in my life that are very attractive. Even beautiful. But they don't generate an instant, primal reaction in people that see them. So I would view them as maybe 13 to 15 P.B. Once you get to 16 or 17, you get women who are usually selec...

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Gazirra wrote:How hot? Well, barring extenuating circumstances, I'd say about 98.6 Fahrenheit

http://instantrimshot.com/classic/?sound=rimshot

BillionSix

You know, when I read the thread title the first thing that popped into my head was:
She is a streetwalker. She sells herself for money. But she uses that money to fund her technological research, and use her high-tech creations to fight evil!
She is.... Science Ho!!

BillionSix

I don't know if I am allowed to pimp other games, but I think BASH! Ultimate Edition is pretty cool. It has a mechanic to allow characters of differing power levels on the same team, or the Angel Summoner/BMX Bandit problem, as I call it.

Brian

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37%- Nothing appears to happen. The character seems to NOT change from their Facade into their Morphus with any obvious indication. All normal Bonuses from changing still apply. "OK, let's gear up, people." (the other NightBanes transform, one seems to have missed the queue. After a short...

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I thought the Psi-Warrior from Psyscape would be a good HU character. Maybe he was trained in some monastery in the Andes or something.

The Psi-Ghost would also be kinda cool.

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Since it was randomly skipped... 25% - A silk top hat. The Morphus is a top hat. If placed atop a pate, the body attached to the head in question turns into a large green frog in a tuxedo with a cane, whenever the word 'hello' is spoken, in any context, the person wearing the hat immediately begins...

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Well, making up a "super city" is almost traditional. Marvel didn't do it, but DC has Metropolis, Gotham City and others. I believe Century Station was following that tradition. I honestly think Century Station is one of the cooler settings out there.

BillionSix

Yep. That was the comic.

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I've never liked the idea that if superhumans appeared, then 100% of humanity would go into a sobbing frenzy until they were all dead. If all superhumans were born mutants, then maybe I could understand the master race/pod person fear. If a lot of superhumans were created by freak nuclear mishaps, o...

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So you are basically admitting this to be a conversion, which is against the policies of this board? Tell you what. I'll remove it. I don't have any problem with you posting stuff, just be careful that you don't go violating policies which might get the topic closed. The idea of a Wierdness Magnet ...

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The problem with skills is that there isn't a set definition of how to use them. I think that if you have a skill, you should be able to do routine things with it, and you should only need to roll it when there is some uncertainty, or at least drama, in rolling. Like if you have the Auto Mechanics s...

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Okay, here's a new one. It's not so much a type of bad GM as a type that can be applied to both players and GMs. I call it: The Burn Victim. This is someone who was burned by a bad style of play or GM in the past and is now obsessed with it, to the point where he can't enjoy the game at all. As soon...

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What if the person being 'scanned' speaks a different language? Don't we all think in our native language? If so, is the telepath able to understand the foreign language? Where normal people might have difficulty controlling their minds, some O.C.C.'s out there are trained for mental control and/or...

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That's an odd thing, and put some odd ideas in my head. Most of the time, if you are trying not to think of purple elephants, you can't help but think of purple elephants. The mind doesn't process negatives like that as well. But in a world where telepathy is a real thing and should be defended agai...

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there are references in the batman mythos that also places New Orleans only a days drive from gotham... and with the new mythos references to swamp marshes surrounding the 5 islands of gotham... that would place gotham in the southern states. Great. Now I am picturing the Batman talking in a southe...

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there are references in the batman mythos that also places New Orleans only a days drive from gotham... and with the new mythos references to swamp marshes surrounding the 5 islands of gotham... that would place gotham in the southern states. Great. Now I am picturing the Batman talking in a southe...

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For me it was always east coast too. Sort of a "Super powered Sister City" to NYC, or for me, Boston. Though it'd work just as well in the great lakes region. but Billion hit it right on the head, it's 100% an analog of Metropolis. (( Gotham was clearly NYC, while Metropolis was more 'gen...

BillionSix

Century Station is supposed to be the HU equivalent of Metropolis or Gotham City. A fictional city which has no fixed location.
So, you can just leave it vague.
Despite the spanish names, I always imagined it being on the east coast.

BillionSix

Okay, so you are running a game. You've got your laptop set up, and windows open to the following sites, ready to simply click a button. When a player makes a joke, you press: m When something dramatic and surprising happens, you press: m When a player fails humiliatingly at something, you press: m ...

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Don't ignore the possibility of made-up metals, like Unobtanium or Wonderflonium.

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Far too powerful?? Only if you think the Stage Magician is too. Agreed. They may not be 100% balanced, but if you are, y'know, actually fighting supervillains, you want the guy with superpowers, intense martial arts training, or failing that, the tech guy who starts with swag that you can use in an...

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I like the idea of playing a female character, in theory, because female heroes are cool. This is why people like Charlie's Angels. But, in reality, sitting at a table across from dudes who can see that I am male puts a crimp on it. I do enjoy playing female characters in a chat-room style game, onl...

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The thing I think was cool about the original swimsuit issue was not the cheesecake, (though that was nice), but the fact that it was an art showcase.
I wouldn't mind having more of that, with perhaps a different theme now and then.

Brian

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I like the idea of swimsuit issues, but The Rifter is a quarterly magazine, and one issue in four is too much. If it were a monthly magazine, it would be different, a fun break from the normal routine. So I didn't mind the first swimsuit issue. It was cool. Maybe as a downloadable thing. Like a .5 t...

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CoalitionMerc wrote:Ok so i was wondering how does a character switch Hand to Hand styles? lets say from Basic to expert? and how does it switch?

Officially, you don't. You improve at the one you have. I haven't even really seen any house rules for it.

Brian

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I have to admit, when I first saw the change from "all orphans" to "no, they were regular people" I was thrown too. It changed the flavor of it a lot. But then I realized that it's not a minor change done for no reason. The idea of Nightbane always being orphans or foundlings is ...

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I've always been under the impression that Mega-Heroes don't have secret identities as they are the upper echelon of heroes and are always in the public eye. Everyone knows who they are, so having a secret civilian identity might not make too much sense. Then again, there is that certain red and bl...

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I've always been under the impression that Mega-Heroes don't have secret identities as they are the upper echelon of heroes and are always in the public eye. Everyone knows who they are, so having a secret civilian identity might not make too much sense. Then again, there is that certain red and bl...

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In Armageddon Unlimited there is a new class that is basically like a Demon Slayer. Rather reminiscent of Buffy in style, or at least the art evokes that image in my mind.

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Can characters come back from the dead? Sure!

Should there be rules for it? No.

It's like the Dim Mak ability in Ninjas and Superspies. There's no cure for it.
Can you find one? Sure. But making a rule for it makes it less scary.

It's best to assume that if you die, you stay dead.

BillionSix

So I have to ask: What things have your players done - good, bad, ugly, stupid, etc. - that have made you, as a GM, literally have a jaw drop. Something so unbelievable that up til that moment you had never had that happen before. I had a "fellow" player rape a zombie. Rape a zombie . The...

BillionSix

Reminds me of this:

http://www.applegeeks.com/comics/viewco ... ?issue=289

BillionSix

duck-foot wrote:
Overkill wrote:I know what I DON'T want to see. Any more APS powers.

c'mon APS: hair
who wouldnt want that

Or APS: Cream o' Wheat!

BillionSix

And that would be why I called it abuse . True, but it is written down. Which means the desperate little munchkin can't read the article and say, "Wahh! You have to met have everything I want!" Well, he can, but the article specifically says the GM can say no to it. So, it's only a proble...

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Although it can be abused. Make a Super Invention character from Powers Unlimited Two. Give them a Hardware learning package (this is an option for that character-and it's not even a mega-hero!). Then give them something like a Robotics budget as a dual class mega-hero. Build the super invention in...

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what is a mega ability? I think he means Mega-Powers, those little bonuses you get for being a Mega-Hero, like Immortal, or Impervious to Disease. A lot of the new Mega-Powers are specific to certain hero types. Like the Stage Magician getting access to Trickster Magic or Ludicrous Magic. The Dual ...

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I've never understood why, in a world that has super-powered experiment-created beings, mutants, aliens, wizards, and even gods... why were mutants singled out for hatred? I'd choose aliens before I'd choose mutants. At least they came from human stock, right? Or robots? They don't even have souls....

BillionSix

Probably not what you are looking for, but maybe a Glitter Girl? Boom Guns are pretty big.

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To answer your question of how to get them together in the first adventure, it's been my experience that those stories don't work as well as you'd think. Either one person decides to play his character "realistically" i.e. like a jerk, and says, "I don't think I want to join. I am a l...

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I know in the real world you'd be twice as likely to have a heart attack... Yeah, but you'd have a backup to carry the load if it happened. Seriously, I think saying "I have two hearts" is more like flavor text than anything else. You can take something like Extraordinary Physical Enduran...

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...............................................................The Butterfly Effect........................................................... snip [/quote] Interesting idea. I've heard similar ideas before. The problem is, if you posit that supers have been around since, say, the 30s or earlier, t...

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If you decide to use the "standard" Palladium vampire concept, you could easily use the Wompyr from Nightbane, since HU is a relatively low-magic world, at least compared to Rifts. In fact, a Wompyr might be a good PC idea, sort of a conflicted hero.

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A lot of people don't realize this, but the original version of Rifts World Book 4: Africa had five horsemen in it.
War, Pestilence, Famine, Death, and Yo Mama!

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