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I am not sure I understand what you are looking for? Condensed version: has anybody tweaked to powers list to make to only include more "realistic" powers? (Realistic in quotes, because this is, after all, a superhero game. But sometimes I like more realism. Having a healing factor and cl...

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I have allowed a mind bond (in the fantasy game) to allow knowledge of learned spell magic! But the limitation is amount of PPE the psychic has. It was an intersting way for the party to temporary have access to a spell of legend for a specific scenario. No... just NO. Magic spell casting isn't jus...

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Claws, fur, fangs, other minor adjustments to the body are possible (as mentioned in the power description) even without Mimic but any physical adjustments not possible for the Shapechanger power (like wings and extra limbs) only last as long as the mimicked powers are held, which would be the norma...

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One thing that breaks down is the fact that the +4/20 mph damage bonus is not listed in the Sonic Speed powers but is then added in for the Super Speed powers in the PU books - PalBooks REALLY needs to edit their durn books. Also, since Mach One is actually 767 mph, making Sonic Speed and Sonic Flig...

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totally, their only real asset is that they work together. Using anything as a weapon is okay and all, but 1D4 damage is the same as a fist, so how does it really matter? Actually, it's 1d6 for melee items, and that's for objects not considered weapons, like using rolls of quarters as fist loads (f...

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Thanks. :) I was wondering about that too. Now to figure out what the changes were between the original HU and TMNT and their revised editions I managed to snag Justice Machine at one point. It's not complete, but the GM section at the back includes: SPD attribute gave a bonus to dodge (in addition...

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Overpowered power? How about Mechano-Link? With the worlds' current level of dependence on all forms of tech in their life, this power makes you a virtual God. ... The weakness of ML is the range. If the computer is out of range, you can only manipulate like a normal user. That means you need an ac...

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Overpowered power? How about Mechano-Link? With the worlds' current level of dependence on all forms of tech in their life, this power makes you a virtual God. Every computer, lap top and cell phone is a slave to your will, allowing your mind unprecedented access to any and all forms of information...

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on an unrelated note, we let super energy expulsion do half damage to invulnerable creatures too, because ranged needs an option to work with too No... just, no. The SUPERNATURAL nature of the strength is what allows it to affect the Invulnerable character (my guess is it's based on the Silver-Age ...

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Overpowered power? How about Mechano-Link? With the worlds' current level of dependence on all forms of tech in their life, this power makes you a virtual God. Every computer, lap top and cell phone is a slave to your will, allowing your mind unprecedented access to any and all forms of information...

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There's a choke maneuver in the N&SS game that allows you to apply 1d6 damage per maintained choke attack on the target, DIRECT TO HIT POINTS (Which makes sense if you're trying to kill - maybe instead you could roll a percentile of Damage rolled [x5]% plus a certain base to render an opponent u...

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"Invincibility" or "Indestructibility"? if it's the later, it's in Rifter #12 pg 62. Which means it's not canon and will need GM approval, unless of course you are GM, but it pretty much looks the same as "Invulnerability + teh Cooler" with the very brief description o...

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Basically the classes in the book with access to energy weapons are, I believe: Aliens, Bionics, Hardware - Weapons and Analytical Genius, Robotics, and Special Training - Secret Agent. As noted above, the rarity of such items in a game you GM is up to you but the books were written in the early 80s...

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Well they're all level one and she had some REALLY bad rolls against a flying brick. Daniel Stoker By flying brick I'm guessing you mean "Dive-Bomber, Champion of Millions" and not a flying piece of mortar upside her head? That gives me a whole new power idea after the last few years: Mat...

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There is no need to modify the rules. HU2 has some of the best rules of all the Palladium games and does not need to be rewritten. Which is just a nice way to say that without the broken-ness of MDC, HU2nd is the least broken of PB's games and I wouldn't even say that - the BTS 2nd rules for skills...

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Meh, I know it's already listed, but just replace Evasion with a second entry for Side Step power from PU 2. I can't see it having been much different from that power anyways.

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Like Rock Jock, I would use a different power that is closer in mechanics than flavour - I was thinking APS: Force Field because of the ability to alter their shape and also throw blasts from their own body - this could be flavoured as the character 'rebuilding' their body blocks in different shape ...

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Personally I think the Matter Expulsion powers need to be modified to have the armor unavailable for a length of time after it is destroyed or takes damage to allow it to be regenerated similar to APS powers. I don't disagree with you what so ever. I'm just pointing out RAW. Which is another 'stran...

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Caught between the unbreakable skin of the Invulnerable character and the mystically enhanced force of the SNPS, the weapon would likely snap / break under the force of the blow(s). The Mystical nature of the imparted PS does not get passed onto weapons, possibly with the exception of Bio Aura, sinc...

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Better Idea: How much does a 5ft x 5ft x 2ft section of silver weigh? No where in the create wall section does it specify it MUST be made on the ground, instead of, say, 8ft in the air (for 2nd level character), above the head of a werewolf or other silver vulnerable creature - and how much damage w...

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Okay, so Mechano-Link is the ultimate Hacking Ability I get that. But: Mechano-Iink allows those who possess it to completely ignore passive security and automated active security (such as search programs and simple attack AI like automated weapon programs). The only obstacle to this kind of hacker...

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taalismn wrote:The Manhunter supplement had matrans as a spacecraft equipment option; pg. 168.

Yeah, but that one's WAAAAAAAAAAAY off the official canon path...

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Daniel Stoker wrote:Well what do you expect we don't have official rules for HU Vampires yet.

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True, but I sure would like to see how they write his "Upward Tree-Cleaving Axe Power-Attack"...

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Someone asked this less than three weeks ago, here:
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Due to the superlative quality <cough>Sarcasm<cough> of Pal Books writing, it is somewhat murky as to how fast Immortals normally heal, but given the text in the book, I take it to mean that barring Grievous Injury that sends them into a regenerative coma and, for a set period of time after they awa...

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Knuckle Dusters This minor power allows the possessor to generate a coating of various materials over their hands both for offensive and defensive purposes. Protection: The character receives +20 SDC +3/level of experience protection to their hands and can strike even metal/stone surfaces without h...

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Boxing glove:a variation of adhesion-you can form boxing gloves out of loose stones or other loose & hard materials. It has 1d12 sdc or mdc in campaigns have such a System in place. It’s a minor power of course. I had one thought on how this power might be usable and useful, especially in certa...

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Hey- first new power here for a WHILE- let me know what you think, a rather minor but potentially useful power, I think. Atmospheric Filtration (Minor) This power creates a field around the possessor that both filters out any negative chemical or environmental factors and also provides unimpeded sig...

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Pre SOT4 and RUE, all Cyber Knights were considered Major Psychics so I would guess that the three extra Psi powers cause him to get bumped up to Master level, still in the Main Book (Original) it doesn't mention extra ISP per level for extra Psi so he got 1d6. Non-Mystery solved. PS: Why your insis...

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Kevin addresses this more than once. He envisions HU as a lower powered super's game. A 'Thinking man's game'. The restrictions are in place to partially neuter power levels. (The power levels being pretty lowish to start with.) And that comment by KS has always irked me... HE can't play a high-pow...

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As for children. They're covered in one of the books, but I forget where, but then I don't play children as player chars. Not my thing. Didn’t Beyond the Supernatural have a normal person class with normal skills you could roll on? I think they had rules for kids. I think I used them once for some ...

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I always thought it hilarious that Breux wrote that section in HU2nd and in the process invalidated one of Kev's own Previously-Published characters - Glaciator from 1st ed. VU, who has APS:Ice and Growth...

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jaymz wrote:You cant properly make spiderman either....or batman.

Just poor facsimiles.
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Also, the argument is easily made that comics over the last 50-70 years have only been able to re-create poor facsimiles of those two characters, let alone the REALLY big power and problematic characters...

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You cant properly make spiderman either....or batman. Just poor facsimiles. . Well, you could SORTA make Spidey- Superhuman PS of like 70, Extraordinary PP, Healing Factor (They have often mentioned in comics how much quicker he recovers when he has his powers), Danger Sense, Adhesion - hell I gues...

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Wow... huoserules that make no sense and GM doesn't seem solid on the basic rules - like Parry.

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I know I'm like ten years late to this discussion. I'm surprised at how many people feel a nuke is unsurvivable in a setting like HU or Rifts. The entry for Invulnerability directly addresses this: "Certain extreme situations like ground zero at a nuclear explosion or Super Nova, and fiery ree...

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Pepsi Jedi wrote:Nuke damage is.. 'Total' Roll a new char.

This.

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Simplest Answer? Matter Expulsion: Crystal was the first power of the type and was introduced in Mutant Underground. My guess is that Carmen liked the power but wanted to put his own spin on it so he removed the Spd and PP bonuses and then added the melee weapon aspect of the power because he felt i...

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So, in your game 50-100 years in the future, in a world with super-powered people and the occasional super-battle, you plan on having your city still be recognizably the same? How will you account for that sort of social and technological stagnation and miraculously still intact architecture? *look...

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So, in your game 50-100 years in the future, in a world with super-powered people and the occasional super-battle, you plan on having your city still be recognizably the same? How will you account for that sort of social and technological stagnation and miraculously still intact architecture?

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I just re-checked the book and the character was the brainchild of Jim Steranko, the artist responsible for the cover, and was supposedly at the time coming out in some form, somewhere other than just on the cover of the book - no idea if it ever did.

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In the power it says you absorb the entire kinetic attack and do not get knocked back. However then they have the Attacker roll damage. I think you should absorb the entire Normal Damage that the attack would have done. If it is 6d6, you would absorb 36 points. Why? Because you are also absorbing t...

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Use the Alien Power Category to sneak your favorite rifts cheese, let's say Amaki now choose Experiment and add more cheese for a Titan Juicer. So your Amaki Titan Juicer, thousands of sdc, hundreds of hitpoints, Supernatural Strength and half damage from all nonmagic/psionic attacks. Legal Alien E...

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Given that Immortality counts as 2 Mega Powers while Undead (not Vampire, Say652) counts as 2 Mega Powers and 1 Achilles Heel, I'm inclined to say that 2 is generally the most allowed for the average Mega Hero. As for balancing Mega Powers with Achilles Heels... this is generally an accepted practi...

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Just wondering in your game world do you have the main stay comics (and comic book movies) exist, ie can you PC's go to see batman v superman etc or do you not have that stuff around so players can make "the batman" etc. In my world DC comics are around as comic books but marvel is not as...

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Greetings fellow Heroes Unlimited Gamers! Today I would like to ask you good people on some clarifications Regarding Multiple Dodge . Okay so from Ninjas & Superspies it says: Multiple Dodge is the ability to Dodge all incoming attacks, no matter where they're coming from. In other words, it's ...

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Well there is money for the license. They have announced they are not planning to reprint all the setting info and have advised people to buy the books by Palladium for that. For example the Glitter Boy preview they posted does not have as much detail in its stats (size, weight, etc.) as you find i...

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I love the art. I wish PB could do the same. Black and white is all good but the color illustrations just make it more dynamic to me at least. The color art is nice but it adds both time and cost palladium has done a good job keeping the price of even big supplements to super reasonable levels. A l...

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I don't see that anyone has mentioned it yet, but it sure seems like a Minor Hero with Gateways could be ludicrously effective. Not a bad power at all, but takes a lot of planning. Definitely want to get yourself arrested for some minor offense so that you can later open portals to a holding cell i...

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Also, the "life force" isn't "drained". The body dies, but the spirit lives on. It's anew body and one's endurance is in no way tied to one' spirit. Except that it SPECIFICALLY states in the power description that the life force IS weakened every time the character is reborn- th...

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