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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cyronax" data-source="post: 5410191" data-attributes="member: 822">Well your baseline for Tony Stark (edit) "is accurate" (/edit) for some segments of IM's history. To name some outliers (includes mild spoilers):- His alcohol problem had little to do with his armor -- but more just his lifestyle and personality. - He also had business problems a lot that were due in part to his very armored creations. In some stories the fact that he has to destroy his own tech (or his own mind) is another facet to fail-rebuild-succeed. - Also, since the 2004(ish) and then until the end of Secret Invasion (end of 2008), Tony got arguably his most major power upgrade. His armor essentially became an at-will inherent power that had passive and active modes (and it hid beneath his skin). He also became a complete cybernetic being and could control satellites and other globailized infrastructure. His intelligence and consciousness also expanded. Even with this powerset though, he was usually the 'first man down,' due to some newly emerging/crowning villain (i.e. the arc Secret Invasion).Even though he accrued godlike powers through his tech, a bigger badder god came along and neutralized him for the encounter (always outside of his solo series). (Thor, Sentry, the Collective, etc.)His most recent quest was undoing all the damage that he had caused due to his arrogant use of omni-tech. ---------To bring this back to a super-hero rpg/tech discussion. I think its well within the DM's purview to limit some types of tech, even simple everyday tech. Suppose you're hero is fighting a villain in a big mall. Can the hero magically find industrial strength rope in a Lady's Clothes store? Maybe ... but nonsensically. In my mind it'd make more sense for the DM to say, "Well .... rope .... you can't find enough here in the lingerie section, you might want to run out of this store and try to make it to the hardware store X distance away."</blockquote>

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