Recent content by Umbran

Mod Note: Gentlepeople, Both of you probably ought to reconsider this head-butting behavior before one of you says something truly regrettable.

Mod Note: You are correct, in that the burden of proof does lie with the person making the claim. You are incorrect, in that the burden to not be a jerk about it lies with you. So, please see to your burden going forward. Thanks.

With respect, Danny, that sounds hyperbolic. Like, I don't believe you, or anyone else on this board, has actually played ALL GENRES of RPG, like, ever, much less done it all in one single system. In raising the question of your accuracy about your own achievement there, you also raise the...

RPGs, obviously... In college, I played a lot of cards: Cribbage, Spades, and Hearts were mainstays. In grad school, there were some computer games - Warcraft (not WoW - I'm talking the RTS games), Starcraft, and Diablo. But, since I no longer live with a bunch of bachelor nerds, I don't...

Wyrmwood made a version numbered thus: 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,5,6,15,16,17,18,18,19,19,20,20,20. Another pattern I have seen has 1,1,1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,20,20,20. One can imagine others. A bit of a web search can probably find you makers.

Some folks make "high variance" d20s. The average roll is still a 10.5, but the numbers on the die are skewed to give high and low results. They might serve your idea here.

Emergency response is, thankfully, a well-documented set of fields. We train people to do it all the time. So, our perspective hero can get that training, too. You got to firefighting school. You train to be an EMT. Now, not only do you know the basics of what to do, you know the language...

Or a Gattaca-style scrubdown. Maybe bathe in fusion flame every morning, or something. We can guess about sweat - in humans, sweat is first and foremost about temperature regulation. If Supes needed to sweat to keep from overheating, he'd be vulnerable to heat and dehydration, not just...

Yeah, that's a tidbit there. Morrus has stipulated that you have powers. He didn't stipulate that anyone else does. So, it becomes easy to get your community's support to help protect your identity. Your job isn't to beat people up and get in fights that cause major property damage - your...

Yes. For one thing, searching the blood supply for a single person you aren't absolutely sure gives blood is not a cost effective way of finding their genetics. For another thing, if the guy's skin is knife- or bullet-proof, dollars to donuts he can't and won't give blood - needles won't...

Yeah, the loss of blood donations would be a bigger security risk than anyone you'd stop with the information. In the US, you get a genetic sample taken if you are arrested for a federal crime. Many states have laws for collection of genetic samples on arrest for certain crimes. Most states...

I think reaching into the deep cuts of 80+ years of comics continuity and claiming all of it is more commenting on how comics are written than investigating the question. Though, the point that the powerset matters is still there. If you have invisibility, teleportation, or shapeshifting...

Having donated blood does not put your genetics into a searchable registry from which authorities or super-rich villains can identify you based on a sample found in the field.

Thank you all for your thoughts. I appreciate them. So, what else might I mention here? A few thoughts. First: Some of you may have heard of the Kübler-Ross "Stages of grief" thing. It's pretty bogus. The stages only broadly characterize some common classes of emotions you can see in a...

Well, before Max and Holly team up, he doesn't really care where her body is - she's beneath his notice, and so not a priority. After they team up, all the kids are in his head - and none of them other than Holly has any connection to Max to know who Max was, or where her body was.