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An archetype which I don't think has seen much play in Palladium is someone whose research translates into combat bonuses. I’ve wondered if — just like the Ancient Master simply gets a minor power to set them apart from other Special Training types, the way the Super Sleuth can get some psionic abi...

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As far as I can tell, Adapt To Environment’s #1 ability (breathing in atmospheres where the air is bad, after slipping into a coma for a while first) isn’t as good as Space Native’s ability to just go without air; and its #2 ability (inhaling smoke or poison gas or sleeping gas and suffering penalti...

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Animal Abilities -The bonuses you get seem right in the tier of minor super-powers. I figure it's only a major power because it's supposed to be character-concept defining, the way most major powers are. The major ‘reptile’ power got me raising an eyebrow: you get to move faster, but not as fast as...

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EliBenedict wrote:They’re still vulnerable to disease, drugs and poison, but because of Zombie Flesh and Invulnerability, those all have one quarter the effect.

So the only thing left that can really hurt them is

Negate Super Abilities?

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Enough permanent effects, met with even a small population which proffers PPE, can allow the creation of ICBMs Not what you were going for, but a tangent comes to mind: so long as all the necessary parts are there, Reconstruction allows one to either repair or build “any kind of machine or device w...

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Transmutation, Divine Aura, and Grant Powers is a path to cash, sure. Have you ever tried Grant powers, Regeneration, and a flight power? You're the healbot for the muggles on your team, sure, but you also make BANK selling flying outings to corporate bigshots with more money than brains, or saving...

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Transmutation, Divine Aura, and Grant Powers is a path to cash, sure. Have you ever tried Grant powers, Regeneration, and a flight power? You're the healbot for the muggles on your team, sure, but you also make BANK selling flying outings to corporate bigshots with more money than brains, or saving...

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Says it right there in the title, folks. This thread is for the most OP, Stupidly munchkin, obscenely powerful, and still technically book legal toons ever dreamed of. A munchkinny idea I’ve considered for a while: maybe a Mega-Hero Immortal, but what’s key is that he’s Imbued with Transmutation. S...

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Defensive Will?

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1. Pause Ind. &/or veh.: some body else could climb upon the pause stuff/people. But not the power's user. They are using up their concentration holding the effect. How do you figure? Maintaining the power uses up not all of the character’s attacks/actions each round, but all but one of the cha...

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It would be nice if you give a book page citation, or give a clue like 'thing power' or 'this spell'when you ask about something.So everyone is looking at the same page....literally. Yes, that’s why the thread title is “Question about Pause Temporal Flow”. And there are several books in the HU Game...

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drewkitty ~..~ wrote:It would be nice if you give a book page citation, or give a clue like 'thing power' or 'this spell'when you ask about something.So everyone is looking at the same page....literally.

Yes, that’s why the thread title is “Question about Pause Temporal Flow”.

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Temporal Slip mentions that the world around the character gets “frozen in place,” such that a bird will “hang in mid-flight” — but immediately specifies that the character can, for example, “set traps” (which I’d figured means that stuff can be moved around) and “open doors” (which, as far as I can...

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So in my game I'm working on an NPC to not be an antagonist, but to be a thorn in their side, someone who's also working on the case but has contempt for the group and can end up hindering or helping them depending on what they need to help move the story along or slow them down. I figured I'd see ...

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Not sure what the PCs have on tap, or what they’re investigating, but here’s an ideal set-up for “someone who's also working on the case but has contempt for the group and can end up hindering or helping them depending on what they need to help move the story along or slow them down” : imagine there...

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I considered the portals power but rejected it because it would mean that the AI/DG was stealing/installing tech into its new body other than the basics. I liked Glistam’s idea of going the ‘Artificial Life Form/Robot’ route — such that the Mechano-Link, and the Gateways, could simply be what that ...

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After having a body made in a high tech facility and downloaded itself into it. I’d suggested a ‘Mechano-Link’ investigator who’s big on teleconferencing and never really needs to leave her base of operations, but you now have me thinking of an off-the-wall twist: let’s say that she maintains anoth...

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Daniel Stoker wrote:How would you get both the Psionics and the Major power?

Option 65-76 for an Experiment, or 66-75 for a Mutant (and as far as I can tell, an Alien — if not an Experiment or a Mutant — can go with 86-90 on the Number and Category of Super Abilities table).

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An idea I’d mentioned in another thread, but it could have a really messed-up appropriateness here: imagine a psionic super who has Clairvoyance and/or Precognition, explaining why they can keep being the iconic right person in the right place at the right time even when there are no clues and no ti...

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So in my game I'm working on an NPC to not be an antagonist, but to be a thorn in their side, someone who's also working on the case but has contempt for the group and can end up hindering or helping them depending on what they need to help move the story along or slow them down. Depending on the g...

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Yes, the agents sports identity is a complete alias, backstopped with professional status, affiliations, and rankings. Personally, I would stay away from professional sports teams and go with individualized sporting events, say professional triathlete. It would be pretty hard to backstop ones cover...

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Returning to this for a moment: Gem Powers (with the quirk of keeping her gems housed in Legos) plus, say, Invulnerability (so she’ll have an always-on defense, not just varying powerups) and maybe Negate Super Abilities or Pause Temporal Flow (so she can toss stuff in the general direction of a spe...

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Like Rock Jock, I would use a different power that is closer in mechanics than flavour - I was thinking APS: Force Field because of the ability to alter their shape and also throw blasts from their own body - this could be flavoured as the character 'rebuilding' their body blocks in different shape...

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So, after running across a simply terrible Lord of the Rings Meme I decided in my next game one of the throw away villains I need to make is Lego Lass. My first thought was APS Plastic and then give her some sort of matter expulsion so she can throw out legos to torment the speedster of the group, ...

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ManDrakeTWise wrote:But it strikes me as odd that there wasn't a superpower for that in the HU universe. Did I miss something somewhere?

Flesh Works, in Powers Unlimited 3.

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1. Anyone can play a character how they like, but I particularly talking about about certain templates. 2. Well, no. He doesn't, except in really old comics. Things that cause him problems are so far above regular crooks it isn't funny. Bane, Ra's Al Ghul being two notables. I already mentioned the...

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These posts have always been about templates, or OOC. At no point have I mentioned how a character was being played, so where you got that idea I have no idea, heck you even quoted me saying Crazy OOC and Genius in my previous posts when referring to the Joker. I didn’t miss that you said it; it’s ...

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Lets not under sell either the Penguin, or the Joker. Neither are just this, or just that. Trying to say so is being massively disingenuous. Both are criminal masterminds, and the Joker is utterly psychotic that you could easily also give him the Crazy template too. ...so what? Seems to me that bei...

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Lets not under sell either the Penguin, or the Joker. Neither are just this, or just that. Trying to say so is being massively disingenuous. Both are criminal masterminds, and the Joker is utterly psychotic that you could easily also give him the Crazy template too. ...so what? Seems to me that bei...

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I disagree on one front. in his own comic, a good stage mage would work with Batman. Bats would win of course, but it'd be a good villain archetype. Heck, in Batman’s own title, isn’t his archenemy a makeup-and-disguise expert with a knack for showmanship and a knowledge of chemistry? (And second p...

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the stage mage is a tough sell, I admit, its great for a Leverage/heist/covert/social kinda game, but even on its best day its not going to handle the Hulk. You know, arguably the only smart tactic for any Special Training type in that kind of situation would involve Leverage/heist/covert/social st...

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With ExMA she would be able to bull her way through a crowd and people would like her for it....(at the extreme end of the spectrum). Or she might end up as the 'face man' of the group. handling interactions with the public Oh, sure, there’s tons of options if she feels like proactively putting in ...

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We'll see how well she does when caught between the Space Nazi's fighting the Magic Nazi's! Daniel Stoker Okay, yeah. Magic. Maybe I spoke too soon. It looks like she could still toss in an ace-up-the-sleeve minor power; since she’s already going with one power that increases Mental Affinity, addin...

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...so, what’s she going with?

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One more variant: Force Aura is a showy way of getting durability and superstrength for someone who maybe zips around with some kind of sparkly Energy Flight instead of Wingless Flight — and maybe throw in Vocalization to loudly boost the awe/horror factor with a booming voice; you’re all about bein...

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Two more combos I thought had some interesting possibilities: start off with an ambidextrous-characteristic alien who has Wingless Flight and Invulnerability , to be fast and strong and durable, plus * Super Burrowing , for windmilling one’s fast-and-strong-and-durable limbs even through solid stone...

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who is super strong, fast, can fly, and durable For a bulletproof Space Native, you could get superstrength via the ‘broad-shouldered’ characteristic, plus speed via the Wingless Flight power, plus limitless durability against high-speed collisions via the Immune To High Speed Kinetic Attacks power...

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she's looking at playing a non-transforming Supes style character who is super strong, fast, can fly, and durable. We're going with max 5 minors or the 1 Major 3 minor You could cover that with Gem Powers, which can provide superstrength and flightspeed and invulnerability; the only problem is affo...

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she's looking at playing a non-transforming Supes style character who is super strong, fast, can fly, and durable. We're going with max 5 minors or the 1 Major 3 minor but clearly don't have to go with all those powers, I just want to have options for this first game. She wants to stay looking huma...

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Right now she was looking at Mutant, Alien, or Experiment. Heh. For a variant on an idea I’ve wanted to try for a while: start with a husky Mutant, using the broad-shouldered characteristic for superhuman strength, plus, say, extraordinary speed and wingless flight — and you can play around with th...

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So I'm running a game for first time Palladium Books and Heroes Unlimited players. They've done other systems before but never Palladium before so I'm helping them work out details and how to put together a character, so I'm going with them telling me the concept for what they want to play, then fi...

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Gotcha. (I’d wondered if Mimic could cover all the bases.)

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I'm helping them work out details and how to put together a character, so I'm going with them telling me the concept for what they want to play, then finding ways to make it happen. Well my one player is just frazzled by all the powers and combos and just can't make a decision, but she's looking at...

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You could do worse than Extraordinary Mental Affinity, Space Native, Wingless Flight, and Invulnerability (for superhuman feats of strength).

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Rogerd wrote:But the Super Sleuth shouldn't get psychic powers.

You get that it’s in there as a by-the-book option, right? That, when building a Super Sleuth, one can halve the character’s starting budget and remove a skill program to swap in four psionic powers?

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A twist on an old idea: Imbued, with, say, Extraordinary Intelligence and Mechano-Link, to be a ridiculously skilled gadgeteer — and, if you want, add Gem Powers from before, to craft items that can grant temporary powers, or maybe Transmutation to just get stuff that you need — but also add Divine ...

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You say the gear is for mainly one character, with limited use for others. How limited is the use you want? Are you thinking to equip other characters, or let a friend/partner get off a shot or two before the power runs out? This might sound strange, but what about using Gem Powers, or even Rifts S...

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No idea about drunken style. If you exclude the idea of weapon katas, which form then actually has the most martial arts powers to start out with? Looks like Tien Hsueh, but I’d say there’s an argument to be made for a tie with Tai Chi’s writeup in MYSTIC CHINA — well, unless a stylist is using one...

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So you are counting the weapon katas as martial arts powers? For the record, I’m not Mantisking — heck, if he were still posting here, I’d have a question for him about why he thinks Drunken Style should be exclusive — but (a) that’d presumably explain how he arrived at that number, and (b) as far ...

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How in the world do you get 33/36 Martial Arts Powers at Level 1? In Ninja's & Super Spies revised pg 98, 2nd column at the bottom of the page it says, "Martial Art Powers: Select One (1) Power from among Body Hardening Exercises or Martial Art Techniques. If desired, a Power can be traded...

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