She should have used makeup to fill in the 4 is what's wrong with it.
You're the one that wants wardrobe malfunctions and boob windows. :|
It's not that Violet is necessarily ashamed of her body (she's not), or a prude (also not), it's that that costume is ridiculous and is a walking wedgie. I could have said "90's Psylocke," but she's never been on the Fantastic Four...
Really, Violet's not going to get upset if her costume fails, but thus far she's generally gone out in full-coverage outfits to help disguise her overall frame and build.
You do realize they were aiming these comics at the time at 13yo boys right?
Strangely enough, Marvel swears they're aiming their primary market at people born in the Gen-X range. I don't believe them, mind you.
She should have used makeup to fill in the 4 is what's wrong with it.
I swear, I think Morrison-Era Emma Frost designed that one. But then, Emma's costume during that period had full-coverage bottoms, so...
Personally, I like the new trend of using realistic type uniforms, they still show off forms (both male and female) but without getting porny about it.
If you've ever seen the original Black Widow costume, it was fishnets, heels, a mini-skirt, a cleavage tube top and an eye mask.
Her gray suit and black suite are much better, especially after the movies came out.
BTW: No discussing Infinity War here until everyone in the RP has seen it. I saw it yesterday, awesome...
I'd have to see examples, really; I've not done many comic books in my life. I do know that I really like wonderwoman in pants, and that's apparently a thing that people have a thing against.
It's not that we dislike Wonder Woman in pants. It's that the proposed costume for an early production of a Wonder Woman show had pants that were high-gloss vinyl and made her look like she stepped out of the 1970's show "Electra Woman and Dyna Girl."
And not in a good way.
Adrianne Palicki as Wonder Woman in a bad Wonder Woman costume was not a good Wonder Woman In Pants attempt.
On the other hand there are good ways to do it.
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Yeah, this is more what I had in mind for wonder woman in pants. And I dig it. Same for your link!
So, Avengers too. I read a review that described Marvel doing many different
Genre, and this Avengers is a Shakespearean tragedy.
I’ve always preferred more realistic costumes.
Cheers
Yes, that's an apt description. Thor Ragnarok was a Comedy, Black Panther was a transition to adulthood (shattered illusions of childhood).
Oh, if anyone's interested, I'm doing a thing over here.
Good for you!
Such Faux Pas! Opening a RECRUITMENT thread with NO RECRUITING. :O
Such Faux Pas! Opening a RECRUITMENT thread with NO RECRUITING. :O
It was either that or go straight to a discussion thread without context, and we wouldn't give people the ability to observe character creation. :)
So yay, I just had to withdraw from two games.
Why do I keep running into GMs who sneak nerf your characters after months of gameplay?
Start playing Wyrwood (Construct).
First 6 months are dungeon dives, but only 4-5 days in game.
Finally get to the kingdom building portion of Kingmaker (Oleg's). Say my character is going to use some of the 1500 gp worth of clockwork we salvaged from dungeon to fix a catapult. Told it takes 3 days. Ask if that's 3 human days and 1 construct day, or 3 construct days and 9 human days.
Get told :
A) YOu can't do mundane crafting more than 8 hours cause it will 'break the game'
B) You can't do mundane crafting for 8 hours and kingdom building for 8 hours because it will 'break the game'
C) You can't do ANYTHING with the extra 16 hours except read books or walk around not doing anything because ti will 'break the game'.
This at level 3, and 6 months into the game. Not told up front.
Withdraw from game.
Withdraw from Rise of the Runelords game because same GM and I don't play with GM's who stealth nerf players without warning when they never intended to allow something in the first place. If I'd been warned it might be nerfed, or was going to be nerfed, I'd either have not played or done a different character. The big beef I have is effing not warning and just nerfing with out being up front about it. It's bad GMing.
If the GM isn't going to let your Construct do what Constructs are specifically allowed to do in the rules, they shouldn't have allowed Constructs in the first place.
That's not cool, I'm sad you had to deal with that.
Tell me about it. I have no problem with a GM not wanting constructs in the game. I have a problem with the GM allowing them in and then 3 levels in saying they can't be constructs. Especially since he nerfed a healing spell at level 1 (after the game started, and after I'd submitted him with the spell in question) so I had no way to heal without spending 25 GP on demon blood.
Neither is really mindblowing. I'm still annoyed at the cylinder/diamonds one, though, as it doesn't explain it, adequately, and I always wondered exactly what they looked like to make it do that.
I keep thinking I'm going to get tired of superhero movies.
Then they do stuff like put out Black Panther.
Then they do stuff like put out Infinity War.
Then I think, ok, well, Marvel keeps knocking it out of the park. I think I'll give up on anything Marvel Studios doesn't put out.
Then Fox puts out Deadpool 2, and I think, ok, so I'll give up on the DC movies, and watch all the Marvel origin movies.
And then Sony does Venom without Spiderman, and I feel like I have whiplash, and I guess now I'm down to : I will watch the Marvel Origin stuff that is NOT put out by Sony Pictures.
I think that's safe.
But on the other hand, Sony gave us Spider-Man Homecoming - which, granted, is a Columbia/Marvel Studios joint, and that explains why it's so good - which doesn't suck.
Yep, but that one is not put out by Sony, since Marvel really made it and Sony just distributed it. Basically, if Sony makes it, it usually is substandard.
Just saw I screwed up my post it's supposed to say 'be sure to land as soon as you spot something' sorry about that
Is there a way to model a selective AoE that does smaller nonselective AoEs where they hit, like a missile lock-on sort of thing?
2 ways :
Autofire (x5, x10, etc), AOE-Hex, No Range Mod, combined with Combat Skill Levels (Only to increase Auto-Fire), combined with the multiple target rules. Basically spread the missiles out over 5 or 10 hexes in a small area.
Alternately, Area of Effect-Any, increase or decrease the area.
The difference being that Autofire lets you hit the same person more than once, AoE-Any doesn't. The autofire skill levels just lets more hit, doesn't contribute to critical hit chance, etc.
So, without the Autofire, overlapping 'missile splosions' wouldn't hit the same person twice?
Would you use trigger to set up something like cluster bombs, where something explodes, then explodes again a little outwards? The idea in this case being something like one of those fireworks that explodes all pretty, then has multiple detonations after it goes off for more pretty
AoE-Any can be made into any contiguous shape (figure 8, square, circle, anything you could draw with an etch-a-sketch) however, you can't loop it over itself and get a 'double hit' on a hex.
Autofire up you could, you just lose one round per hex even if you don't fire at it, when moving between target hexes.
No, you'd just set up an explosion and have the special effect be that it's a cluster bomb. You're overthinking it. :P
But what if I wanted delayed blasts that are smaller? Just a 'continuous' effect probably covers that and you just treat it as a special effect that it's multiple smaller explosions that overlap for the same effect?
Autofire is definitely cool for SRM/LRMs, then. Cause it's totally feasible that you'd be spraying the space between targets if you did the 'sweeping' thing.
Autofire is -really- hurt by defenses, though, as a result, yeah? Since you have to pay for autofire and then that's basically distributing your damage among multiple hits instead of one bigger hit for less overall damage, comparatively, meaning Autofire is bad v. Bricks?
If you want one big blast in the middle, and smaller damage outside it, you do a compound power, an explosion (8d6) with a charge (say 8 or 4 or whatever) combined with an explosion (3d6) (with extra diameter to match the bigger) with extended time charge (so it lasts a whole turn). That gives you one big explosion followed by 3-4 secondary explosions over a turn in the same area.
You can expend the charges if you want, but you don't have to. You just have to reduce your autofire by 1 for each hex. So 4 on target A, -1 for hex 1, -1 for hex 2, 2 on target B, -1 for hex 3, 1 on target C. That's 10 Autofire rounds, but you'd need to hit the DC 3 hex by 20 to get all 10 off. But you could only use 7 charges.
Yes, Autofire is bad vs bricks, unless you have double knockback or penetrating or something.
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2 things :
1) GM was waiting to see if anyone did anything, if not, can I assume you keep going the same direction?
2) In case you are interested, since you obviously now know the system
3) Sorry if I'm kind of hit or miss this week. Had a holiday, had sleeping issues over it, got RIF'd first thing Tuesday morning, wife is out of town at a funeral, and finally realized how much I'd grown to hate my job when I felt relief at getting RIF'd rather than being upset. So in a weird place.
Sorry(?) for your job loss. Maybe it'll wind up helping with the stress and sleeplessness, though.
Pulse has nothing to do besides walking. She doesn't really have anything she can do to test what's going on, I think. Maybe a deduction roll from someone, now that we know Pulse is having weird symptoms?
Condolences and congratulations on the RIF. I was in the same place after I got let go from Yahoo. I was upset that I got let go after being told on the previous Friday "no one in this department got let go," but I was relieved, because the job was literally driving me crazy.
Take some time to yourself, and get your head together. Then go back in fighting!
Sorry to hear things are going south, hope things end up going your way.
Thanks for the good thoughts all.
I'll move us forward again after Blaze has a chance to respond to everyone's questions.
Would it be reasonable to have Aegis power up during the countdown? She had metal skin up but wasn't at full density so I'll need a halfphase if she needs to power up now
Does Dex loss affect my speed?
The book says that if it were a direct drain on my speed, it would need 10 CP worth of drain to affect speed at all, but I'm not sure that applies to dex. If it does, that hurts :(
If it swallows me, does it get a hex longer?
If it does, I'm outta there SO FAST.
1) What did you fixt?
2) Yes, Blazikin gave you sufficient warning to dense up.
Adjustment Powers that affect Primary Characteristics have no effect on Figured Characteristics, but do affect abilities calculated from Primary Characteristics (such as the lifting capacity of and damage caused by STR, a character’s Combat Value derived from DEX, and so forth).
3) So no, doesn't affect speed, but does affect OCV/DCV, skill checks, etc...
4) No, it just get's a Pulse shaped bulge in it's length.
1) What did you fixt?
Your combat map link is borked
Doh, fixed.
Bad joke based on the roll sorry wasn't all there last night.
Could Violet do a mindscan to find Pulse and do we all need to make the perception or just one of us?
Each person has to make the perception, however, if someone higher in the init order makes it first and attacks, that gives those lower in the order a +2 to their perception to notice it.
Yes, Violet could do a mind scan to find her, and tell everyone where she is. That would give people a +1 on perception to find the snake.
What is Pulse incapable of doing right now?
Or, put a better way, what are the exact effects that I should know as the player of the character in order to make informed decisions?
Pulse is blind (I'm assuming you want to keep the acid out of your eyes), she's 'grabbed' by the internal muscles of the snake. So she can squirm, but I think the snakes casual strength is more than hers, so even moving a hand or something is going to be difficult.
She can still mentally talk to others (once she's no longer con stunned!), and she can use any special abilities or powers that aren't 'restrainable'. Basically, she can try to blast the thing from inside, but that's about it. Note, she can't recover endurance until she's able to breath, so whatever endurance she has is what she's got to work with. Same for stun, she can't recover stun until she can breath.
Ah, right, constun.
Pretty sure Pulse is dead
Pretty sure Pulse is dead
Maybe it's a trained snake and it's going to take her back to base and spit her up on command?
Well, I mean... if it rolls like that last roll, she's basically doomed :P On the other hand, if she were still using her forcefield, she'd -definitely- be dead, as it'd have been knocked off and her recovering from constun would have left her vulnerable to it doing it again, with no armor.
Someone having to roll 8- on their first roll to do anything about it sucks something fierce, too. :(
With luck, I stimulated its gag reflex. I thought about trying to blind it... but with being so far away, making something LOUD happen seemed better than making it run slower.