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Per the Advanced Player's Handbook under the Force Field power description:
QuoteAdvanced Player's Book, page 83
What occurs with a failing force field depends on its type. A personal force field shuts off, and the excess damage is taken by the user, including any effects from the battle effects table. The failure of a projected force field results in the force field coming down, but those insid
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QuoteNightmask
for example if you accept the rule Super-Skrull can't stack his force field with his natural body armor yet Susan Storm can project her Force Field over the Thing and he'd get the benefit of both just fine.
That technically does not happen. The way projected force fields work according to the rules as written, if damage exceeds a force field's rank the force field collapses but t
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I would also suggest that there might be additional factors involved other than choice. For example, let's say you have a breast plate that grants RM (30) protection and chain mail that provides GD (10) protection. Clearly, on its face value, the breast plate is the better armor. But what if an enemy gets a bullseye result and aims for one of the unprotected spots? The chain mail covers a lot
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How were your Resources? If you had some to spare, you could always have traded some ranks to boost your initial powers total.
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QuoteNightmask
QuoteBWS2KWhich makes sense. It just so happens that this particular character rolled only a single Power and that was taken up by the skeletal perk, so they had no Powers, but we worked through it. Thanks again, all!
He shouldn't be using up any power slots on perks, they're inherent to the power category. It would be pointless to have bonuses for a particular power category th
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It's a small bonus because it's just a quirk of the body type. If you want more power, you gotta get it in the form of powers.
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QuoteTaskmasterXI haven't been able to generate the type of error you received when trying to save the file, but I did get one when trying to save to a path without a file name and then the program crashed. That should definitely be fixed and a browse feature would useful.
It's interesting to note that when I got that error, the program did not crash on me.
It kept running fine otherwise after I
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QuoteThrudjelmer
Since your program is self-contained that would make it difficult for use to customize without having access to the code... But would it be possible to have it load powers and talents (separately) from an outside source in the form of a text file? Then just add sample text files to the zip file that people can use to either add their own additional entries or as a template to wri
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So here's my thoughts on what this program needs:
Some kind of prompt when more input is needed before being able to continue. For example, if Physical Form is Induced Mutant you get a +1CS bonus to one Ability rank. You cannot roll for powers until that +1 is assigned. So maybe highlight those buttons (maybe turn them yellow or the text red) when you need to choose that. When I got through rolli
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QuoteUsername
Five years later from my last post in the thread, we're still running the same game. Players fluctuate, but the setting goes on. We've even had some other Judges run games in the setting. But, we've really deviated. All of the original characters are in their 30s or older by now and younger heroes are starting to come onto the scene. I think we're going to area situation in a few ye
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QuoteTaskmasterX
Hi all! MSH has been one of my favorite RPGs and I always wanted a detailed character generator that would allow you to create characters using the rules and powers from the UPB. I learned a bit of Visual Basic and after many hours and thousands of lines of code, I was able to come up with something fairly close. This is my first foray into creating a full-fledged program and it
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QuoteDead SidekickWe've seen Cap use his shield as an umbrella in an avalanche of heavy rocks, take a whack from Thor's hammer or the Hulk's fist and Cap plant his feet to stop a speeding truck and Cap remains standing. That thing doesn't obey the laws of physics at all...
I don't recall seeing him use it to stop a speeding truck, but...
Advanced Player's Book stats for a van give it Good Speed
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QuoteAdvanced Player's Book, page 31
Shielding: This tactic involves putting something between the target and the attacker, usually an inanimate abject but sometimes, in the case of hero leaping into the fray to stop an attack on another individual, a character himself.
In the first case, the hero may decide to use something as a shield as an initial action or as a changed action after initiativ
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Masque also transformed Callisto's arms into the mass of tentacles that she has now to torment her.
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I think that the write up for the Ronnie Raymond version works fine. The limitation states that he suffers a -2CS to FEAT rolls when not able to communicate with someone who knows chemistry. Obviously that's a bit broad and should be limited specifically to certain power FEATs... and having Stein in his brain effectively allowed him to ignore the limitation most of the time. But it's a good li
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No, a Popularity FEAT is on target with the spirit of the rules.
QuoteAdvanced Player's Book, page 17
A Popularity FEAT is used whenever you want to get something from someone else. This may be borrowing a car from a friend, getting a hot tip from a police sergeant, finagling a favor from a newspaper columnist, or prying information from a stoolie, as well as getting special equipment from the g
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QuoteDead Sidekick
My homebrew Universal Chart (see sig) has negative rank columns on down to where even rolling 100 would be a miss
I do something similar in my homebrew without actually changing the chart. At Shift-0, if there are still negative column shift modifiers, they are applied to the color result of the roll. At Shift-0 with -3CS, the result will be shifted down to a White FEAT even
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Perfectly valid interpretation. I think maybe ECM is a little too specific a name and their should be a better, more generic term that covers the non-electronic application of this kind of effect.
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QuoteDead Sidekick
I think it's easier to "add grit" / be a bastard GM (lol) by piling on the appropriate difficulty column shift modifiers from the basic rules.
Agreed. I'm not a fan of the expanded ranks because I see them as an unnecessary addition when the GM already has the tools to make things tougher (or easier) on players.
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QuoteDead SidekickHow's everyone been doing?
I'm still alive... so I guess I could complain about that. Not as much as some other people, though.
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Also remember that ECM can go into superhuman territory... for example, Iron Man using readings taken of Spider-Man when he wore the red & gold armor Stark created for him after Peter switched sides in the first Civil War to find a way to baffle his Spider-Sense and create false positives, rendering the power temporarily useless. I'd call tricking a superhuman sense with technological ECM st
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Welcome to the forum!
All of those characters make me think of Butterball.
He may not have been one of the greats, but he has heart and character.
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Against living beings, use their Endurance rank instead of material strength.
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Yeah, that's what the article linked in the original post tells us.
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Quotebarna10it'll be hard to thin of it as not an attempt to recapture some previous glory.
TSR: We used to own D&D!
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I mean, technically not the original TSR that owned AD&D and the MSH system... but they are connected and are producing new RPGs.
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QuoteG.A.W.
who wins in a fight using the advanced marvel superheroes rpg game mechanics--
Elizabeth Taylor ( the movie actress ) vs. Tina Turner ( singer ) --- both in their physical prime.
who wins?
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QuoteG.A.W.Does WIZARDS OF THE COAST own the FASERIP system?
Wizards of the Coast bought TSR and everything they owned. They do own FASERIP system created in the Marvel Super Heroes RPG. However, they do not have the licensing for the Marvel characters that made that system popular, and they seem committed to their D&D rules system (whatever flavor of the month is at the time)... currently
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