Superheroes of The Trust OOC Thread (Accepting Alts)

[Fangor the Fierce]

Using Leadership is a standard action, so it can be used 1/round.

so, with having only a standard action left after a move action, I could essentially use Leadership as that standard action, then use Extra Effort for another effect that same round? I am not going to do that, as I don't want to change his actions. I simply want to be better prepared for next time.

 

[Elric]

With Leadership, and ability to use HP to improve an allies condition, how many HP can be used per round? Would he have been able to expend another HP on the round to grant the unconscious hero to be awakened? It never really states how many different HP can be used on a single round, only that they can not be stacked to improve one instance of the Extra Effort and such.

Leadership being a standard action isn't the most relevant factor.

Basically, you can spend as many hero points as you want in a round but you can only spend 1 hero point on each function of hero points.

So you can only use "Improved Roll" once a round (that's a personal round, from your init count on one round to the next, btw). You can only use "Dodge" once a round. And so on.

And if you've taken a feat (or power) that lets hero points have some additional effect that they don't normally have (e.g., Nitro's Ultimate Toughness Save feat), you're limited to spending 1 HP a round on that function as well. But if you've taken Leadership and Ultimate Toughness, you could use both in a round, and Improved Roll, and Dodge, and so on (if you had a lot of HP).

Additionally, as a separate rule, you can only use Extra Effort once in a round, period.

 

[kirinke]

If Wren can get to them in time and heal Hope enough so that she can act, she will use a Hero Point to break the wards that keep them from teleporting, probably in a rather spectacular way. Either that, or use a hero point to stop the reactor meltdown.

Think of her ability to control/create ice, basically she's slowing down the atoms in the atmosphere, taking away heat etc. She's essentially super-freezing the reactor so that it becomes innert at the atomic level. Hence the Hero point usage. If she has to, she'll use both hero points she earned to do this.

 

[Fangor the Fierce]

If Wren can get to them in time and heal Hope enough so that she can act, she will use a Hero Point to break the wards that keep them from teleporting, probably in a rather spectacular way. Either that, or use a hero point to stop the reactor meltdown.

Think of her ability to control/create ice, basically she's slowing down the atoms in the atmosphere, taking away heat etc. She's essentially super-freezing the reactor so that it becomes innert at the atomic level. Hence the Hero point usage. If she has to, she'll use both hero points she earned to do this.

If allowed to use Hero Point to get you back to stable, then I would do it.

 

[DM_Matt]

If Wren can get to them in time and heal Hope enough so that she can act, she will use a Hero Point to break the wards that keep them from teleporting, probably in a rather spectacular way. Either that, or use a hero point to stop the reactor meltdown.

Think of her ability to control/create ice, basically she's slowing down the atoms in the atmosphere, taking away heat etc. She's essentially super-freezing the reactor so that it becomes innert at the atomic level. Hence the Hero point usage. If she has to, she'll use both hero points she earned to do this.

She'd need to use the HP to get an immediate recovery check. Besides, even if she could stunt that ability, shed need to go there, get through the locked door, make a check, and meanwhile the super who set the thing to melt down is right there and might get mad.

 

[kirinke]

Alright then, if Wren can stabalize her (she'll use one of her hero points to help with that), then she'll use her other hero point to break the wards blocking their ability to teleport in that spectacular manner I suggested earlier and afterwards promptly pass out again. That'll let either Wren or Viridian Teleport them out to safety.

Teamwork.... It's all about teamwork.

 

[Victim]

If Wren's teleport to the plane works (since wards don't block teleporting within the ward, only through it), then we don't really need to do much. Get to the plane. The plane flies away. We escape.

Of course, we might want to do something about the other super that's screwing with the reactor. Depending on how long we have until the reactor goes into meltdown, we may get the chance - even if we withdraw to the jet for healing. We could go for the capture (tough against someone with phasing), or try to set up Viridian taking off some of her hair. Then we could track her back to her base and such.

 

[DM_Matt]

If Wren's teleport to the plane works (since wards don't block teleporting within the ward, only through it), then we don't really need to do much. Get to the plane. The plane flies away. We escape.

Of course, we might want to do something about the other super that's screwing with the reactor. Depending on how long we have until the reactor goes into meltdown, we may get the chance - even if we withdraw to the jet for healing. We could go for the capture (tough against someone with phasing), or try to set up Viridian taking off some of her hair. Then we could track her back to her base and such.

If Wren wants to use Leadership to downgrade Nightweaver's Exhaustion to fatigue, he can, if you want to get back the person best equipped to do that, since that other super is sitting in a shadowy room lit largely by the flaming robot and very dim lights.

 

[kirinke]

Remember, Hope also picked up bits of spider webbing and other stuff from the conference room, including bits and peices belonging to their erstwhile host. Once she recovers and is back at the base, they can do a reading off it.... Maybe

 

[Shayuri]

Since the immediate battle is over or close to over, I want to make a couple of suggestion/requests before we dive once more into the maw of battle.

First, and I fully recognize I'm as guilty of this as anyone, I'd like to suggest we cut down on the OOC chatter in the IC forum. I apologize for the part I've played in such posts in the past, but it -reeeeally- makes trying to follow the flow of combat a chore to have to go back page after page and pick out the posts where actions are being described from the sea of questions, comments, clarifications and so on that really belong in this thread, not the IC.

Second, it would be a nice touch to have a more round by round approach than the current somewhat freewheeling style. It was really hard for me to follow the order of events this last battle, which in turn made it hard to work with the other characters. I noted this wasn't just me either. Many posts had PC's trying to do the same thing, and winding up undercutting each other...the result was a fair amount of wasted efforts and not as much getting done as could have been. Maybe having a standard format that lists the initiative order and the current position in the initative order each time you update, GM? Something like:

Init 20 - Evil Troll God
Init 17 - Gunther the Panther Lord
Init 14 - Kurt Smashsteel - Hero at Large
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Now on init 12 - Indigo, the Sidekick
Init 6 - The Legion of Nameless Minions

This would mean that the first three listed characters had been updated in a previous post, while the current post was updating Indigo, and possibly the Minions too.

Specifics could vary, of course...but some kind of system would make keeping things clear during the long and complex battles of M&M a lot easier.

I think having these two things implemented would also help cut down on the confusing redacted or retconned action posts, where someone tries to do something which then turns out not to be possible or valid, and then has to post another action. I did this myself with that attempt to use an illusion. Ideally, the way I'd do it next time is submit my intended action (because I had a question in my mind about it or how it'd work) in the OOC forum...we'd work it out there, then I'd post my final action in the IC forum. Result: An easy to follow chain of action and effects.

Thoughts?