So, at the lowest ranks, you don't bother worrying about food or water. It's just a given. You'd just focus on air and any usual endurance checks from not consuming water and food are just bypassed. After you get past the normal limitations, that's when you worry about food and water.

Under the Grubb rules, it seems that Life Support lasts power rank turns until you get to ShZ, when it becomes indefinite. That renders the power almost useless at typical levels. I've decided that for a non-combat power this is just too much hassle (besides, it's only important if the Judge has decided to kill the hero by environment), and have decided to simply set it up like Water Freedom, either you got it, or you don't.
Thank you, everyone, for trying to help resolve this.

P.S. The duration table in the magic rules gets REALLY generous.

To Mr. Dave E. Martin: (Thank you for your contributions to the Marvel Super Heroes role-playing game- I've been playing this since I was a teenager- I'm now 35, and love how the older version of games- MSHRPG are much more fun than the more recent ones; i.e. Margaret Weis’ version…)

(1): Do you think the extended ranks (Fantastic- Fn (35), Spectacular- Sp (45), Sensational- Sn (60), Awesome- Aw (90) ) could have been used to denote the differences in certain Marvel character stats? (For example- the Hulk and Thor both have Unearthly (100) Strength; would Awesome (90) have been a better fit for either the Hulk or Thor?)

My main question involves a character of mine that is an empathic vampire:

*The reason I'm asking this question is because Energy Conversion in the UPB only seem to list energies that can also be used as Energy Emission based powers.

My question is-
(1) Wouldn't emotions be considered a form of energy? (For example, one of my main characters is an Empathic Vampire- feeds off of emotions, and it is that emotional energy that helps sustain the loss of his stats at an hourly rate).

(2) Could he through Energy Conversion convert those negative emotional energies (he does his best to feed off of negative emotions as well as beings he would find to be "evil"- he can read auras) into positive healing energies? (Or would he need energy absorption as well in order to gain those negative energies in the first place? Would empathic vampirism be the means in which he “absorbs/feeds” into those energies?)

(My character also has Life Control Power: Biophysical Control- via Damage Transferral; he tries to "give back" to others despite his need to feed, and I thought why not put some of those negative energies to some good use- to convert it to positive energies to heal either himself, or others).

Thank you so much for any input you might have.



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With darkforce manipulation can I create a suit of armor that is also a gateway? If I could wouldn't all attacks just pass into the gateway?

Hi David, long time player first time caller. If I am building an armor suit, how do I outfit it with relatively mundane devices, like a flash light, police scanner, short wave radio, 38 in the glove box or a video camera? Are these simply things I buy with a resource FEAT and configure or do they cost me pts in creation.
Always wondered about that.

Thanks

I would have figured the flash light, police scanner, short wave radio and video camera would have been determined are character creation. A gun could be, too, unless you wanted a 38 specifically.

You're not looking to add anything fancy, so I'd just assume you bought the parts at the hardware store and worked them into your suit as you were building it. RileyV was right on the moolah.

Strictly preference question David: Super villain plans to take over and has a small army to terrorize people and slow down the heroes. Aesthetically, would you have lizard people armed with melee weapons, talking gorillas with guns or 50's style robots with vacuum cleaner arms and death rays?

Tigerfaced God Wrote:
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> Strictly preference question David: Super villain
> plans to take over and has a small army to
> terrorize people and slow down the heroes.
> Aesthetically, would you have lizard people armed
> with melee weapons, talking gorillas with guns or
> 50's style robots with vacuum cleaner arms and
> death rays?

All three are good, but for sheer mindnumbing shock and terror I'd go with Lizard People Armed with Melee Wepons.
Talking Gorillas with guns would make folks wonder if there was another PLANET OF THE APES sequel being shot.
The 50s style Roots armed with DeathRays....... Are you thinking of TARGET EARTH ? Good small-scale alien invasion flick from '54 starring the underappreciated Richard Denning and of course yet another appearance by Whit Bissell as a scientist !





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You got the robots dead on. Cardboard panted silver washing machine looking stuff, I was thinking specifically of the Mysterious Dr, Satan/Copperhead serials from the 30's, not even as cool as the Bela Lugosi movie/serials The Phantom Creeps. I love 30's sci-fi/horror.

For the apes I would shoot more for a Beasts of Berlin feel, but the Planet of the Apes would be pretty hard to shake.

Thanks for the input, big, crazy lizards with gladiator weapons it is.

Hello

How does regeneration work? With thr upb reduceing time. Is it just rank divided by ten a rd healed? Thank you for everyones time.

Gorger Wrote:
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> Hello
>
> How does regeneration work? With thr upb
> reduceing time. Is it just rank divided by ten a
> rd healed? Thank you for everyones time.

No, the rank number divides the normal time required to heal to get the faster rate. Normal healing is a daily/24hr recovery rate of Health, so you divide 24hrs by the Rank number of Regeneration to determine how quickly you gain health back. A high enough rank and you recover health in minutes rather than hours.

Hey

I was just wondering if you'd managed to find anything on Longevity yet?

Question about Absorption power. It states that the hero heals his power rank each time he is exposed to an energy. Is this correct or does it work more like the power from the Player's Book. If it works as written, Absorption of Electricity is awesome since one could just plug into a power outlet and repair at a hugely superior rate to anything else! Imagine if one had RM(26) Electricity Absorption and he plugged into a wall outlet (TY intesnity). He'd heal 26 points of damage per 10 seconds, as long as he was plugged in.

barna10 Wrote:
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> Question about Absorption power. It states that
> the hero heals his power rank each time he is
> exposed to an energy. Is this correct or does it
> work more like the power from the Player's Book.
> If it works as written, Absorption of Electricity
> is awesome since one could just plug into a power
> outlet and repair at a hugely superior rate to
> anything else! Imagine if one had RM(26)
> Electricity Absorption and he plugged into a wall
> outlet (TY intesnity). He'd heal 26 points of
> damage per 10 seconds, as long as he was plugged
> in.

It makes more sense to assume that someone missed that the text didn't say "up to" than it does to assume that you can absorb more energy than is available from the source, ja?

also (i thought) a round is roughly 6 secs...which seems like nitpicking, but -if your take on the way it works is correct- at 6 secs per round, in 30 secs you'd have two extra rounds and would absorb 130 health instead of 78.

Brotherless_one Wrote:

> It makes more sense to assume that someone missed
> that the text didn't say "up to" than it does to
> assume that you can absorb more energy than is
> available from the source, ja?
>
> also (i thought) a round is roughly 6 secs...which
> seems like nitpicking, but -if your take on the
> way it works is correct- at 6 secs per round, in
> 30 secs you'd have two extra rounds and would
> absorb 130 health instead of 78.

Correct, brainfarted on time.

I'd tend to agree with you, but I'd still like a definitive answer. Common sense is not always correct!

The text reads: "The hero gains a number of Health points equal his Power rank number each time he is hit by his specific form of absorbable energy."

If it was worded differently, I would think someone missed a word or to, but using the word "equal" seems to discount that. So, it's either really poorly worded, or the intent is much different than the Absorption power from the Advanced Player's Book.

barna10 Wrote:
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> Brotherless_one Wrote:
>
> > It makes more sense to assume that someone
> missed
> > that the text didn't say "up to" than it does
> to
> > assume that you can absorb more energy than is
> > available from the source, ja?
> >
> > also (i thought) a round is roughly 6
> secs...which
> > seems like nitpicking, but -if your take on the
> > way it works is correct- at 6 secs per round,
> in
> > 30 secs you'd have two extra rounds and would
> > absorb 130 health instead of 78.
>
> Correct, brainfarted on time.
>
> I'd tend to agree with you, but I'd still like a
> definitive answer. Common sense is not always
> correct!
>
> The text reads: "The hero gains a number of Health
> points equal his Power rank number each time he is
> hit by his specific form of absorbable energy."
>
> If it was worded differently, I would think
> someone missed a word or to, but using the word
> "equal" seems to discount that. So, it's either
> really poorly worded, or the intent is much
> different than the Absorption power from the
> Advanced Player's Book.

Go with poorly worded, no way David intended someone with Unearthly Absorption Power to gain 100 health from a Feeble rank attack.

Nightmask Wrote:

> Go with poorly worded, no way David intended
> someone with Unearthly Absorption Power to gain
> 100 health from a Feeble rank attack.


I would think so, just wanted to make sure before I edit the text.

We found the new reboot power for Wolverine. That's how he survived the nuclear explosion.

What reboot power does he have?

Being able to survive at the heart of a nuclear explosion by healing. It's more powerful than self-revival. Early wolverine couldn't do that. It's basically serial immortality-spontaneous creation.

So unkillable and deadly. That makes a great combo!!
So short of dispersing his molecules like the Beyonder or Molecue Man can, he goos to go

Yeah, at some point, he would have to go through another mutation...again.

Just chain him up and shoot him into space. It doesnt matter how fast you heal if you are off planet and in the void.
He could heal/regenerate forever as he drifts away with no way to get back and constantly sufficates/freezes. Just
plot a non-intersecting course and have Juggy toss him. While I used to be a Wolvie fan the over-hyped abomination
they have turned him into is yet another reason I dont read comics any more. Sorry, will stop venting now.

The sun could work, too.

So who actually owns the IP of the rasrip system?

"the IP of the rasrip system" ???

FASERIP
Most gaming companies register the system they use so it become Intellectual. Property. IP usually get renewed
Normally, the company owns such, but Marvel was a licensed product to TSR. So who owns it?

It possible that ownership has lapsed as well

If it hasn't lapsed, I'd guess Marvel owns it. However, they don't make any money on it anymore, so they might have let it go.

I wouldn't think Marvel owns it. It was created by TSR using characters licensed from Marvel. If anyone were to own the FASERIP system, I'd think it was Wizards of the Coast who bought TSR, but the sale may or may not covered all of their game properties. Maybe they did get it but ignored it because they couldn't get the licensed characters.