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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4795333" data-attributes="member: 19675">That's it entirely- its not the system, its my unfamiliarity.  I have years of experience (dating back to its release in the 1980s) constructing powers in HERO (my #1 system), and while I like M&M (my 2nd favorite system), I've never gotten to actually use it, so my grasp of the mechanics is incomplete.  I can design HERO PCs in my head; M&M will take some getting used to.I missed that!Still, I need to be familiar enough with the system to be able to aid some of the less experienced gamers in the group if they ask for help.  (Your build helps me in that respect.)Thanks!  That really does clear up some of my confusion and you're right, I could probably use him as is and everyone would get chills of awe!  You even nailed his psyche AND his increased size (I missed that).(Its PCs like this that get players salivating to play- in the HERO version, everyone wanted to tangle with the guy in the steam-powered battlesuit, even though he wasn't the BBEG.)Some questions:1) In the blasts, you have things marked "Alternate"- are those different ways of using the powers or just different ways of building the power?  IOW, does he have all of those capabilities within a given weapon, or just one?2) I guess I'm just not seeing it, but how did you address the "inaccuracy" issue in his Tesla weapons (if at all)?To clarify, Lightning is deucedly difficult to aim, so one of the ideas behind making it Autofire + Line AoE was that there would be bolts striking all over the place in there, and some people in the AoE might get struck multiple times while others might not be touched.  That was also why I was trying to see if there was a way to do random targeting within the AoE.  Its going to be an inherent and ongoing flaw in his weapon systems- as a master villain, I see him doing so much more, of course- so that its possible that a brave and lucky PC might be able to weather (*ahem*) his best attacks and defenses virtually unscathed and get to land that heroic blow that takes him down, or he somehow gets struck by his own invention's power, etc.BTW: if you (or anyone else in this thread) move to D/FW, drop me a line and I'll let you join!<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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