Recent content by TedJMill

To cover things like the Spirit Bomb, how about some sort of rule that allows a power's rank to go beyond the character's PL if it has Flaws beyond what's needed to reduce the cost to 1/rank? If you're PL 10, your normal attacks are limited to 10 ranks, but an attack with several levels of Slow...

Actually, what Loki revealed was that the Germans created the Norse gods by using necromancy: the concentrated death energy of the millions slaughtered in the Holocaust. He waited to reveal this to the American soldiers until after they were captured and to be executed, and thus couldn't report...

If it's not a common enough problem to count as a normal Flaw or Weakness, I guess just note it down as a special effect, like a sonic attack not working in vacuum. A GM could occasionally set up a situation where Havok is cut off from cosmic rays, and decide his power degrades as he uses up...

It looks like it would be good for anime with very high power individuals, the sort who consider energy blasts a martial arts technique. You can give a character a basic attack, and then take alternate attack techniques as power stunts; I could see running good Ranma or Dragon Ball fights with...

It's simple enough to change that within the d20 system. Mutants and Masterminds has an optional rule that makes rolling a 1 an automatic failure, and rolling a 20 an automatic success, regardless of bonuses or penalties.

I just found this board, so I'm looking through discussions from a while ago. It would be the first, you'd do the same damage as with just strength, but there would be situations you'd use improvised weapons beyond mere flavor: If the target has an energy field, it will damage the improvised...

Those things involve deliberately killing a helpless target. If you want to do that, you don't need to bother with Transform; it's cheaper to just buy Paralysis (or some other power that temporarily incapacitates someone) and cut the victim's throat while they're standing there. While if you...

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Super-Speed and Time Control are expensive powers with a wide variety of effects categories. The powers added as stunts fall under the secondary effects rule (p.95). For example, Time Control already includes the Slow power as an attack, so Time Freeze is just an alternate form of attack...