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Mutants and Masterminds PbP: Hybrid World PL12
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Is anyone else fascinated with the power of Comprehend: Machines?

1) Wouldn't that make programming so much easier?

Me: Machine, compile the program.

Machine: I'm afraid I can't do that.

Me: WHY?

Machine: Because your ifthen spaghettification makes it look like it was programed by a 5 year old while watching Teletubbies.

Me: Oh, okay. Well, what would you suggest?

Like, make it as if every machine was run by ChatGPT. =]

2) If we're being attacked by aliens one can presume they'll use machines, so the ability to talk to them would be...fascinating.

Everyone: Well, we can't make heads or tails of their tech, but fortunately this recovered tech just told us that it's specifically built to destroy Gotham, so....
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Since we're winding down here, I thought this would be a good time to ask everyone's opinion on a big change they made from MM2 to MM3. (Again, I haven't played this a lot, so apologies if this is something that has already been decided by the community. =)

Specifically: What is now the point of Wealth?

In MM2, you could get a bunch of Wealth Rating, and then buy stuff. Okay, good. I understand this.

In MM3 all Stuff That Is Bought(tm) needs Equipment points. Alright. But then the Benefit: Wealth is...completely undefined? You can invest up to 5 points in it, but there seems to be some difference of opinion what exactly that 5 points gets you.

For other benefits, like Cipher, or Security Clearance, that's pretty well defined. But for a character that is wealthy, what does it seem reasonable that they are able to do, with game effect, that another character without it doesn't?

Thank you!!
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@Reckless: I have points allocated for a minion and/or sidekick. (I keep thinking of that bodyguard/secretary that Lex was always shown with in the cartoon.) Is it okay if I promise to have them fully stated out if selected? If I put all the polish on them that I'm thinking of but then I'm not picked that would just break my heart. ^_^

I used to think that people who made up descriptions and backstories for every little power on their character sheets were weird. I don't think that anymore.
This character is so speaking to me that I gave a name to what is in essence a 1-point alternate attack.

sniper rifle:

WHM-6R Warhammer gaussian sniper rifle. The true genius behind the Warhammer is not that it exists, it's the miniaturization that went into it's making. What used to take a battleship to carry has been made small enough to fit unnoticeably on a man-scale. The minimum barrel fires a 1-gram aluminum slug at near-light speeds, allowing for unerring accuracy on any target within a straight-line sight.
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ElbowtotheFace wrote:

just so I am clear, there are 4 of us making BatFamily-ish characters?

Critzible - Batgirl-ish
Philo - Nightwing-ish
Elbow - Red Hood-ish
Monkeygod - Damian-ish

It's the J.J. Gunn reboot!

I'll show myself out...
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GM SuperTumbler wrote:
Most of the facilities of Project Cadmus were destroyed in the battle that destroyed Metropolis, but key scientists survived deep in the sub-levels. After the battle, Stark (and Luthor?) saw to the recovery of the remains of the Alien and the mutant known as Phoenix. And tracing the Alien to his origins turned up a bio-pod that gave them access to technology that took years to reverse engineer. But now they are ready to reveal to the world the guardian they have created.

This shared backstory is ABSOLUTELY approved!

Lex Luthor thinks about his family.:

The whole thing started when Tony asked me to try and duplicate the Super Soldier serum. All things considered it was a reasonable request. Of course it would intertwine with my research on the Kryptonian DNA, but that came later.

In my pragmatic thinking my first issue was the delivery system. How could one get what one needed into a body in a form that could do what we needed it to do?

All manner of conventional, syringe-based delivery was too far off in our current technological base. I'd need something natural. And then, when I'd hit on something, I realized the method of delivery could -also- be the base for "cooking" the cocktail of DNA-manipulating material we'd need.

I quickly realized that a normally virulent poison would be an _excellent_ vehicle for cellular manipulation.

Things went quickly then, so when we were ready for human trials, of COURSE I selected my wonderful bride, Mrs. Mary Jane Luthor, as the test subject. I told her the spider bite would be painless. I lied.

It was only after, during the medical observation of the effects, that she told me she was pregnant.

When Kara was born blue, the doctors thought she was hypoxic. No, this was just one her...gifts.
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Oh my goodness this character will not get out of my head. Every little thing has him yacking away. Like this thing? We've got a solution to that.

Reckless wrote:
It is, but please do keep in mind this version is a mutant-hating/fearing guy and the relationship may not play well with other submissions, making it more difficult to be selected without a really good way to fit in the balance of getting along with both parties (this could easily be worked into a Complication.)

Lex Luthor shares a drink. And his feelings.:

"But aren't all mutants bad?" my companion asked. I loved questions like this from her. I lived for them. I thirsted for them.

"No, not at all my dear. I wrote about this in the New Gotham Medical Journal. There are two kinds of mutants in the current human genome. The first kind is Homo Superior, a new breed that is actually the next step in human evolution. And no, a Neanderthal such as myself need not fear them. Homo Sapiens was not aggressive towards the inferior races, they simply bred better than them. So extinction, if it comes, will be a most pleasurable experience. Indeed, you yourself are proof of this!

The second kind are Homo Inferior, and they are the death throws of a malignant strain, soon to be wiped out. We need not get into the arcane minutiae of the difference between the two, since we can so easily tell one from the other by their actions. The Superior, being of a greater intellect and emotional stability, will feel brotherhood with the Sapiens and will show this externally. The Inferior strain will of course show nothing but hostility, and can be dealt with accordingly. It's all really quite simple."

My companion nodded her beautiful head as she got up and got me another drink.

"Thank you, my daughter. I can't Imagine what I would do without you."
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GM SuperTumbler wrote:


** spoiler omitted **...

Looking good, GMST!

Hey, you know that I know that you know that I'm not as good at this system as you are (well, as most people are, but who's counting? =) so I just have a few honest questions that I'm sure are obvious to a person so august as thyself:

1) It looks like you have Flight twice? Once at rank 1?

2) What is the purpose of having Flight 12 and Speed 20? Wouldn't taking the 20 points from Speed and putting them into Flight get you to Flight 20 with 2 points left over?

3) What is untapped potential? That a different sourcebook, yeah?

Oh man this has a very guy-with-the-Big-S feel!

Thank you!
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GM SuperTumbler wrote:

I am working on a super clone submission. I am currently dealing with the complication that I don’t have electricity, so I’m not sure what the timeline is for submissions, but I might miss it.

Am I understanding the background correctly that there wasn’t really a Superman, Clark died before being established? Just trying to figure out backstory.

Oof. No electricity is tough.

I think I can field that question though. (I can neither confirm nor deny that I've memorized the Campaign tab. ^_^)

Campaign Tab wrote:
2008 Phoenix's bloodlust overtakes his already unstable mind as he seeks to eradicate the last of the Kree, consuming the city of Metropolis in the process. A young Clark Kent races from his relatively nearby home to face off against the older mutant. Their battle wipes out a good portion of the midwest and ends with both dead.
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Ha! I know! Awesome, right?

It's gonna take me awhile to get the math on this put oh man this SO needs to happen! =]
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"I...am Ironman."