GM wanted for system superhero game set in sexual aftermath

[keyotess]

How many EP would 2 PP..is it 10 like the old books?

Looks like you get 5 EP for each 1 PP you spend.

[Skynet]

How many EP would 2 PP..is it 10 like the old books?

5 Equipment Points per rank, so 2 Power Points will become 10 Equipment Points.

[TFcommando]

I set aside 1 Eq pt aside for the base.

Oh, if we are an established group, do we need a name?

If we go with an Avengers connection, it could be Avengers Team 4 or 5 or Avengers Team Gamma or Delta, figuring that with a national network of teams, New York would be the first and it'd go out from there, so the western ones have higher numbers/letters.

  I need to do a second draft, but i'll be sure and make some gear p oitns availalbe! 

  We might want some other gear points--like advanced cell phones for our hero IDs or just comunicators.

I thought of that this morning too.  1 rank of equipment gives you 5 points of equipment.  Use one to get a comlink or two for a smartphone and then donate the rest to the base fund.  I just revised Sexy Morphing Armor Character so she can contribute.  If there's enough extra points, it can go to a team car!

We should probably think of how our characters related to each other, and maybe some canon heroes (or villains!) on other teams, before the incident to make for good contrast after.

[keyotess]

If we go with an Avengers connection, it could be Avengers Team 4 or 5 or Avengers Team Gamma or Delta, figuring that with a national network of teams, New York would be the first and it'd go out from there, so the western ones have higher numbers/letters.

Hmm....how about Avengers Southwest?

I thought of that this morning too.  1 rank of equipment gives you 5 points of equipment.  Use one to get a comlink or two for a smartphone and then donate the rest to the base fund.  I just revised Sexy Morphing Armor Character so she can contribute.  If there's enough extra points, it can go to a team car!

I actually got a 2 point freed up for Equipment for Altima, although her name is a work in progress.  And bought a cell phone that can act as a computer and camera.

We should probably think of how our characters related to each other, and maybe some canon heroes (or villains!) on other teams, before the incident to make for good contrast after.

That is an excellent idea!  Need to work on her personality and maybe a bit of general background. :)

[Jovialtraveler]

Question, can All-Out Attack allow the attack+effect formula to go beyond two times the power level? It seems like it should, but doesn’t explicitly say so

[Skynet]

Apologies, but due to biting off more than I can chew (in regards to games and energy levels) I may have to sit this one out. Best wishes on a successful campaign to the rest of you!

[TFcommando]

Question, can All-Out Attack allow the attack+effect formula to go beyond two times the power level? It seems like it should, but doesn’t explicitly say so

Yes, it does, keeping in mind that you don't more than double your attack value using it (not likely with attack value, comes up more with the damage-shifting advantages). 

[TFcommando]

Since no one has a canon character, how about canon connections?

Callie has a John Constantine figure responsible for her gender change.  It could BE Constantine or another member of the Trenchcoat Brigade.  For a deep cut, Ambrose Bierce is a DC Universe occult character (See Phil Foglio's Stanley and His Monster) who was always being mistaken FOR Constantine. 

I went with Daibuster for a name, and a Japanese ancestry (A bit cliche to have an Asian tech expert, I know...).  She might be close to Batgirl, if they were attending the same college (Maybe Batgirl took a semester or two outside of Gotham!) or the Wasp, who would have tried to pull her out of her shell if they were on the same Avengers team.  Perhaps Phantom Lady, who is is pretty exhibitionistic  and might have been an inadvertent role model.

[Muse]

  Awesome image TF. 

[Callie Del Noire]

I like it..

As for the event.. maybe some radical mage was trying to ‘purify’ Las Vegas and we messed it up.. or he was trying to spread the Vegas outlook and we messed it up

[Muse]

  *peeks*  Which event? 

[Callie Del Noire]

  *peeks*  Which event?

You know the one that starts the ‘sexual aftermath’ we are all dealing with

[TFcommando]

Autocad wanted a mad science villain behind the event, "better living through chemistry" and all.

[Callie Del Noire]

Autocad wanted a mad science villain behind the event, "better living through chemistry" and all.

That could work.. just anxious to get started and we seem..stuck.

[Jovialtraveler]

Drowning in choice, but I can almost taste the sweet sweet air of a satisfactory character.
In other notes, is immortality 1 with the limited flaw being “Takes twice as long to recover” Okay? Wanna go for a resurrecting every full moon kinda deal.

[Autocad]

Purely for flavor? I don't plan on any PC deaths.

[Jovialtraveler]

Pretty much, yeah. Just like “yeah supposedly the spirit of the guy I’m getting my powers from will resurrect me every full moon in case I die. Not in a hurry to test that, though.”

And now I’m mad that Athletics and acrobatics overlap so much, and the benefits they provide are relatively minor compared to similar powers.

[TFcommando]

Pretty much, yeah. Just like “yeah supposedly the spirit of the guy I’m getting my powers from will resurrect me every full moon in case I die. Not in a hurry to test that, though.”

And now I’m mad that Athletics and acrobatics overlap so much, and the benefits they provide are relatively minor compared to similar powers.

You could take Immortality with Source (Full moon) from Regeneration for -1 per rank.  The Diehard advantage might fit too, you automatically stabilize when you're into death saves.  It is quite hard to get killed in M&M, especially accidentally. 

Acrobatics and Athletics do overlap a lot and powers can duplicate and exceed what they provide.  Agile Feint is a big reason to have Acrobatics, for a non-social way to feint and trick, but you can manage without taking both skills quite easily.

[Jovialtraveler]

Kinda feels like they should be one skill with different facets controlled by Strength and Agility, ya know?

[TFcommando]

There are some advantages added in later that let you switch up stats for some effects.  Speed of Thought lets you use Intellect for initiative instead of Agility.  “Deft” lets you use Agility as the base for Athletics, handy for martial artists who can easily have 10 Agility.

[keyotess]

Advantages and disadvantages to just about every decision! :)

[Muse]

J.T., there is--IIRC--a disadvantage where you need to make a skill roll when you use a power, and depending on how well you do on that roll, you get that PL of the power. 

So, for example, you might take, (2pts) Leaping (Requires an Athetics roll.) IV. 

As i pointed out, that would only cost you two points, and when you actualy use the power you roll athletics and have to get--erm?--14?  19? 

On one of those numbers you get the full distance of a leap 4.  If you get two lower, you only get the distance of leaping 2.  Etc. 
 

[Jovialtraveler]

Yeah, that’s what I’m doing. Buying up the powers that Athletics should function as as powers with the check required drawback. About the only thing Athletics does better than a power is granting speed on the cheap... which just reflects badly on the Speed power if anything.

[Jovialtraveler]

I think I’m gonna call it quits. Sorry guys. Planning has been hella fun though

[Callie Del Noire]

I think I’m gonna call it quits. Sorry guys. Planning has been hella fun though

If we did eventually get things started would you be interested?