Quote from: RPGPundit;2677007. Hideous Appearance: The character's face is deformed, possibly causing him to wear a mask to cover it.  If uncovered, his Savvy is half the normal rating in all social situations; however, the character uses his full Savvy+2.

For those unfamiliar with the system in question, what does the part about using your full Savvy+2 mean?

Shit, you found a typo! It should say, "however, the character gets savvy+2 when attempting to intimidate".

I'll change it.

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Quote from: StormBringer;267763FASERIP Marvel wasn't much better, really.  You could come up with a really goofy array of powers.  On the upside, it did stretch your imagination tying them all together, which can be fun, too.

To be fair, this is what "Bonus Powers" (and the suggested related powers) were for--they just fudged the explanation horribly. The idea was that if you got, oh say Telepathy--you could pick up another related power easily.





Pundit:

Nice Chart, however, did I miss the "Hero may become sick and die when exposed to obscure Plotonium?" (There is one for negating powers, but Kryptonite does more than that to Superman..)

Quote from: Jackalope;267782Trying to justify a characters who has a gestalt form with limited magic spells, mutant wings, a flamethrower and the ability to cause plants to grow is almost impossible, and certainly can't be done elegantly or simply.

Blessed by a benevolent green dragon, which is the spirit of the forest. Don't know where the gestalt form would fit though.

Quote from: Silverlion;267851Pundit:

Nice Chart, however, did I miss the "Hero may become sick and die when exposed to obscure Plotonium?" (There is one for negating powers, but Kryptonite does more than that to Superman..)

Yes, that's true; I wasn't thinking of that one as very important since its a very particular case, but I guess you could add, to the one that "leaves you helpless when exposed to some kind of substance" that "At GM discretion prolonged exposure might kill".

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Quote from: StormBringer;267830I pointed out a similar issue with Cartoon Action Hour a thousand years ago when I wrote a review.  You could use a moderate number of points to gain an animal companion with a huge number of its own points to spend on things.  Such as...  its own animal companion with an ungodly number of points, and so on.  In short order, you would have every animal and vehicle on the planet under your control.

Naturally, any GM that isn't brain dead would put a stop to all that.  

I do know that Champion's had a great GM Advice section where they covered 'broken characters'... on of which used the exponential rule for 'grounds' for secret HQ's to 'own the world'... becoming the landlord of everyone.  There may be something about using the Dependent disadvantage to gain 'followers', where you do get points for it... and some dependents can be pretty badass by their own rights(* highly suspect statement. I know I've read at least one 'dependent' disadvantage in some game, possibly champions, where the dependent could be 'stronger' than the hero...).  However, by defintion, a Dependent is someone the PC's will need to get out of trouble on a regular basis.

A way of looking at it is 'Jimmy Olson can be considered the PC, with Superman the Dependent NPC. Every so often Jimmy's got to get Superman away from that god damn kryptonite everyone keeps exposing him too.'...

Sure, ordinarily Superman is more powerful that Jimmy Olson... but generally, Supe's doesn't solve Jimmy's adventures for him! (though to explain their relationship, perhaps each bought the other as a dependent...), if anything Jimmy's adventures are beneath Superman... but there's that blasted Kryponite thing again....

Its a bit wonky, but nothing in the Dependent writeup, that I recall, said that dependents were actually obliged to obey the hero.