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with zombie flesh, any damage covered by the power is cosmetic. damage that isn't is healed at the higher rate.

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EM and sonic energy should be part of the power, cold can go either way, and kinetic should never be part of the power for balance reasons.

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i'd definitely take the demon's deal over the deevil's. they may be jerks, but you know how big a jerk they are, and in what ways.

edit: this of course takes into account that the deal offered is a reasonable one, and not something like giving up my free will and such.

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i don't know why it wouldn't work exactly the same on them as it would on any other damaging source.

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yeah, some games/systems/publishers have odd ideas about what is out of hand in these situations. if you've played a few Whitewolf games, you start to notice that they have a deep, firmly held belief that flight is the most powerful ability ever, so getting it must be suitably difficult/impossible. ...

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seems like a pretty good idea to me. they could be very flavorful in the HU setting.

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as i always ignore the rule against two transformations at once, i tend to say i would allow it.

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i really dig your idea, and tend to agree that it's got that sweet spot power level, but i'm obligated to say THUNDER... THUNDER... THUNDER... THUNDERCATS, HOOOOOO!!!

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i think the specific magic items in armageddon unlimited do a pretty good job of showing what a magic object *could* be like. the mask of mendo is one of my favorite things in that entire book.

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not all supers are supernatural. even among those that make use of specific supernatural powers(listed above), only mega-heroes and some of those from the immortal class are actually considered creatures of magic.

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so far as i remember, things that may normally be weak to holy water are simply weak to water in general in most PB games(vampires, for example), so it seems kind of moot to me.

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i start with the as-written class, then alter whatever i feel needs altering. the power limitations are always the first thing to go.

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as well, you can use existing power categories and give them a magical twist. magical supersoldiers, experiments, even mutants that were changed by mystical energies. Heroes Of The Megaverse, the heroes unlimited sourcebook disguised as a phase world sourcebook, has the option to be empowered by a m...

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it's really up to you what his character would actually be. i would prefer a mutant relative, but that's just me. as for powers, horror factor would fit his frightful presence, and instead of enhanced leaping, you could go with either Enlarge Body Parts or even Dwarfing for a more toned down leaping...

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There might be some solid argument against this working. I think someone was talking about this before. If you throw a baseball with enough force to go 60 mph and then the baseball suddenly doubles in weight, how fast would it be going, 45mph. I'm sure someone on here knows the physics formula for ...

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As far as the sonic super density, I'd let it do the amazing damage listed above but the strike roll would be without bonuses unless your name is samus and you morph into a perfect sphere. I don't have the book with me but does super density make you indestructable? I'd think you would take at leas...

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i rather like most of the book, aside from a few powers. i'm really curious what the life-drain/expulsion power looked like before it got hamstringed into oblivion.

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As far as the sonic super density, I'd let it do the amazing damage listed above but the strike roll would be without bonuses unless your name is samus and you morph into a perfect sphere. I don't have the book with me but does super density make you indestructable? I'd think you would take at leas...

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i've never, ever, made a conversion as 1-100 in all my years of playing. i've always gone straight across or with the specific guidelines set up in the specific entry, such as heroes of the megaverse, where just about each power has its own conversion method listed.

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our group has always played it as every attack.

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ah, thank you very much. now that it's thursday, i'm just about to get it, but i appreciate the information.

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could someone give a semi-detailed rundown of how the heroic hellion works? i'm really curious, and my copy hasn't shown up at my comic book store yet.

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seems reasonable to me. it already has a decent chance of simply not working.

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to be honest, that's exactly why i haven't responded until now; the power is made so poorly that it actively punishes the player that takes it worse than the actual target, and i simply can't get beyond that to discuss the mechanical ins and outs of it.

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I had some notes for a "Rider" power category once. I don't know what happened to them, but the basic gist was that it was the Rider's "Steed" that had the power, but would follow the riders command. All the Steeds had varied intelligence and appearance, but I had a few basic ca...

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i have before; it's neat for a smaller brick that isn't super-duper tiny. you start out at 4.5 feet tall, then progress until you're normal height, and eventually end up around where giant normally begins. when i did it, i made both permanent.

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you can play it any way you want, really. i made a character with it once that simply looked like himself, but with zero shadow present on his body or the ground next to him.

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i wouldn't have a problem with it. if it became clear that it was somehow overly powerful, i might have you forgo the ranged weapon portion of the power, but i don't think it would go that far. besides, Manifest Power Weapon is practically built for extreme customization.

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alter physical structure of limb: tentacles would be a good place to start. write it up somewhere between that and the multiple limbs suggestion above, and perhaps make it a monstrous form feature of its own. if it comes out too beefy, you could write it so that it overwrites the basic claws that co...

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the thought came to me in the shower, and i'm liking it a lot as i think about it. basically, the power would be exactly the same as its source, but would only work with robots. i feel it's a different enough concept from powers like machine merge and the like because of its fairly specific and dist...

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i personally have done exactly this in the past. mine was endoskeletal replacement, but instead of the usual servos and such, each and every one of his bones were surgically removed and covered with powerful runes. afterwards, he received runes on his legs that granted him further increases to his ...

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which are all stated as being part of the character's intense training, though.

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i personally have done exactly this in the past. mine was endoskeletal replacement, but instead of the usual servos and such, each and every one of his bones were surgically removed and covered with powerful runes. afterwards, he received runes on his legs that granted him further increases to his j...

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in addition to the above, the rifter 37 has specific rules for mega-hunter/vigilantes, which i feel were very well made.

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Iczer, would face plant be able to attach a face to another person without that person's knowledge, or does a person always know that they are being subjected to the power?

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the arm is, in fact, less capable than the character himself. the character in question started out his hero career as a physical training character, but after a very nasty gunning down, was taken against his will by a less-than-nice organization and converted to a supersoldier. this did not please ...

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i actually have an idea that fits in with this already. would a basic, partially bionic arm that fires off as a grappling hook count as two selections in this case?

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beyond the already mentioned stuff above, negative matter and gravity waves seem like good choices to keep the horde away. if it affects them, perhaps vertigo field. APS shadow or light would both keep the zombies off of you and make you immune to zombification, if i remember correctly. a huge chunk...

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it goes both ways, so that borg would more than likely be MDC after travelling to phase world. well, the borg parts, at least.

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according to the game itself, ALL mdc structures, weapons and creatures revert to sdc outside mdc environments. if you'd like to do otherwise, of course you can, but the game itself makes a universal change in those stats.

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Max™ wrote:Super Inventions, Supersoldiers, Weapons Training, then Immortals.

Love PU2, the cover is getting loose from being open so long.

the last couple pages keep trying to fall out of mine, i imagine from being stuck on the supersoldier section for so long.

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i tend to go for grand character ideas, which often translates into grand character classes: empowered, pu2 supersoldiers, and eugenics.

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unless stated otherwise, which only happens once in the book, i treat all of the powers as majors.

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the powers bestowed by the book of heroes need not make sense to you or me; only the book itself would know.

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in your opinion, would a character with the major power Sub Zero be able to mask themselves, and perhaps others, from sensors that rely on heat signatures and such? if so, how difficult would you expect it to be? for example, could they simply use their aura of not-thawing to achieve the effect, or ...

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i'm brainstorming some ideas for tech that utilizes a super-advanced form of self-powering , but i'm having trouble thinking of more applications than crank-charged basic energy weapons; does anyone have any suggestions, from the simple to the wildly complicated, on ways to expand this idea? i'd lik...

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sadly, that's about all i have on them; i lost some files somehow when i switched over to Ubuntu a few months back.

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most ideas i have for hardware have to do with nonstandard rounds for shotguns and grenade launchers. the most creative two that i've come up with serve similar purposes, but in different ways: a backwards facing remote control electronic camera round that adheres to the surface it's fired at, with ...

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macksting wrote:Ironically, I love deconstructions yet, were I to run a supers game, I'd try very hard to be faithful to genre conventions.
I really have no idea why that is.

probably because deconstructions, while neat, make for very boring gameplay.

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i tend to draw more from the classic Image titles: WildC.A.T.S., stormwatch, gen13, Invincible, so on and so forth.

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