Captain_Photon

My favorite RPG table remains the Anguish Factor Equivalency chart in HOL: Human Occupied Landfill, which attempted to provide examples of how much certain amounts of damage would hurt, e.g., "17: Clipping Live Jumper Cables To Your Tongue".

The principle behind modern military recoilless rifles isn't really applicable to energy weapons. Those haven't got exhaust gases to work with. And it's a pretty flawed premise for an infantry weapon anyway, since they're lethal at both ends - not ideal.

Nope, it's catchable - you just can't land on it, which I remember being deeply disappointed by when I got my first flying character. You slide off and fall.

In fairness, McDonald's should be punished for discontinuing the McRib.

I'm with you on the other points, but if they're hidden from invites, surely the default interpretation is that they don't want them. I mean, last time I checked, that wasn't on by default.

OK, we totally need a War Mace skin that's a three-foot length of I-beam, slightly twisted at both ends, now.

Under the old Marvel Super Heroes RPG system, Spider-Man's Strength is Incredible, which, IIRC, signifies a lift (press) capacity in the 25-ton range. That's a hell of a lot stronger than any normal human being. Dude can throw a car. I dunno where your threshold is, but mine's somewhere below that.

Heck, if you wanna split that hair, nobody in City of Heroes is invulnerable, especially the characters with Invulnerability.

This assertion hurt Hulk's brain.

Dual. Dual Pistols.

Duel Pistols would only have one power, in which you walk 10 paces away from your target, turn around, and fire one hastily aimed shot at him, then have to stand there and take it when he returns fire, or else be branded an unmanly and honorless coward and have to flee the country. Which would be extremely clunky to implement and not very satisfying gameplay-wise, although, in fairness, the animations would be pretty subdued.

As for the idea itself, I like the underpinnings of it, but I don't really see how your second option differs from the other "multiple power sets on one character" concepts we've already been told can't/won't be done. Making powers cosmetically "skinnable", we've already got in some sets and I would love to see expanded to others. Expanding Energy Blast so that it has eyeblast action or comes out of a gun, for example, would be dope, as the young people say. Introducing the option to mess around with the numbers underneath? I don't see that flying.

Yup. My satellite provider ditched G4 a while back. I didn't notice my bill getting anything knocked off for that. I haven't sued them, though, because frankly I ought to have sent them a fruit basket for doing me the favor.

Or, to summarize it even more briefly, Lord Vader is altering the deal. Pray he doesn't alter it any further.

Sure she does. It's like Spider-Man. She has the proportionate strength of a plant. (Which are actually pretty badass if you wait around long enough. )

Alternately, it just says she does plant-based schemes. The Penguin often does bird-based schemes, but he doesn't have any bird-based powers. He doesn't have any powers at all, in fact. He's just an angry fat man in a suit - not that different from me at weddings, really.

Weren't you Done With This Thread (/ragequit) about two pages ago? Don't stick around on our account. Go back to muttering semi-audibly in the back corner of the bus shelter and leave the rest of us out of it.

Ah, the "that was not his knee" theory. Not entirely out of the question, I suppose, but still a bit of a stretch.

In-game, there's just not that much information available. Out-of-game, it goes something like:

Once upon a time, there was a deeply puzzling Special Event in which giant eyeballs roamed the streets of Paragon annihilating unsuspecting low-level heroes who were just trying to get their jobs done. Eventually this led up to the unveiling of a whole new zone called the Shadow Shard. For a while the Shadow Shard was being promoted as the Next Big Thing, and then, I dunno. Maybe the person primarily responsible for it left the company. That's always been my suspicion as to why pretty much the same thing happened to the Rogue Isles. SO at least they didn't charge us actual U.S. currency for the Shadow Shard.

(Well, that and, like the Shard, it turned out not many people were interested in playing in the Isles because it was visually dull and hard to get around, and the task forces were irritating. Oh snap.)

Nope. It's a reaction to the ejection of mass (i.e. the bullet and combustion waste gases) from the muzzle of the gun, in accordance with Newton's Third Law of Motion. It has nothing to do with the combustion of the gunpowder, except insofar as that's what produces the gas and propels the bullet. If it were something else doing the propelling - electromagnets, say, or compressed air - there would still be recoil. So-called "recoilless" weapons compensate for their recoil by directing the waste gases in the opposite direction, but physically speaking it's still there.

(This is also why e.g. firehoses and compressed air lines have recoil, sometimes quite a lot of recoil. Water, in particular, is quite dense and firehoses generally have a high flow rate, so the Newtonian forces involved can be considerable.)

The reason lasers don't have recoil is because photons, which are all that come out of lasers, don't have mass (in the classical sense). So theoretically, a directed energy weapon using something other than pure light, such as gas plasma, would. The quantity of mass involved in such a weapon's discharge would presumably be very small, but moving at an extremely high velocity, so the recoil could be perceptible, though I'm not about to go and do the math required to confirm or deny that.

Basically, though, the behavior exhibited by the Beam Rifle powers has nothing to do with science and everything to do with the fact that a whole generation of sci-fi art directors were raised on Ghostbusters, whose weapons' behavior was modeled on that of - coincidentally enough - firehoses. Proton accelerators don't really make cool twisty beams that can rip a hole in spacetime if they're crossed, but what they do really do isn't anywhere near as interesting-looking.

That's the funniest decision ever. "You know what people will really pay for? Arachnos Soldiers." That's like GM suddenly adding a surcharge for the radio in your new Chevy to receive AM stations.

I think the problem is, that would look cool against Council soldiers or Arachnos Wolf Spiders, but completely ridiculous vs. Hoverbots or Tarantulas. How do you punch a Banished Pantheon Spirit in the throat or kick a Nictus Dark Nova in the junk? The animators have to contend with these problems when they design any melee powers, but it must've been particularly tricky with something themed like Street Justice. I really feel for them. That must have been a long damn day at the office.

Do you know how much this thread fills me with rage? DO YOU??? YOU MADE ME AGREE WITH SAMUEL_TOW!!

Well, there are the ones in the Steampunk booster pack. They're a bit daft, though.

Apparently, enraged enough to resurrect it just to spend half an hour foaming and screaming at a bunch of people who were manifestly glad that it had died. So, uh, well done you, I suppose.