Kitsune9tails

Unleash your ideas! What might you buy every week or month or whatever if it were available (and appropriately priced)?

- A token that allowed me to Respec power sets on a character.

- A temp power that let me take a non-VIP along into VIP-exclusive content.

- A temp power that functioned like Long-Range Teleport, but with a 'vehicle' animation/effect (van, hot rod, rune gate, roadster, flying saucer, Sentai motorcycle, etc): a duplicate of this power should also be available as an Invention.

- A partial respec; something that let me drag an empty slot from one power to a power with less than five slots.

- An IO crafting table.

...anything you have been thinking, "...why don't they have this yet?"

I counter your post with my own! *clang*

Understandable, but my understanding is that AE notwithstanding, critters don't have to follow the same rules we do for hp and similar.

But it's no biggie either way.

MoM lets you start with 8. You would probably need a very handpicked and well built 8 to succeed with that few, though.

Come to Beta and test it out! I am usually on Beta waiting for a chance to run it between 6pm and 7pm Mountain time, Mon-Fri.

It needs tweaks, but it's not going to get the right ones without testing.

Just a nitpick. NPCs have always been able to outlevel the players, although level 50 is the top level of the game.

It has always bothered me to encounter level 54 critters when I can only reach level 50, but I understood it from a mechanics viewpoint.

Now that critters can be level shifted, it seems better to cap them at level 50 and use level shifts to get them to whatever power level they need to be challenging.

Possible, but doing either of those kind of deflates the point of having a level shift in the first place.

Anyone know why foes are ranging up to 54, instead of 50 +whatever?

It is notable that Blade was devoid of any Marvel Universe continuity. In print, I think the continuity worked against the Blade character. Dracula has been around for a long time in Marvel Comics and has even had his own successful title, so it may have been hard to create a jumping on point that both print and movie fans could bind to.

For another thing, in his own movie universe, Blade can be the end-all, be-all bad mothershutyourmouth. Not as much in a universe populated with the likes of Iron Man and Doctor Strange.

I think a movie Marvel Universe reboot of Blade with continuity could work, but the feel of the character and threats would be necessarily different.

On Ustream: Dark Astoria revamp into Incarnate Zone for Issue 22: Death Incarnate.

Not kidding.

Tangent:

The breakthrough comic-book movie that led directly to X-Men, IMHO was Blade.

Surely Scarlett Johansen's butt can be appreciated on an intellectual and aesthetic level.

Maybe there should be a college course...

You mistake my intent, young grasshopper.

I do not suggest that the changes to 4e were the correct way of doing things, rather the opposite.

I personally like 4e. I would like it more and play it more if it did not say, "Dungeons and Dragons" on the box. I call it 'The American Godzilla of rpgs'.

More resources, plox.

It's worth it.

I also beleive that an artist should follow their own vision and do what pleases them, not some hypothetical audience.

Unless the artist in question, for whatever commercial reasons, has already decided to attempt to appeal to a given audience. Then by all means, they should create a product designed to appeal to the audience they are courting.

I have no doubt that the people who work on, say, the Avengers comics are artists who want to do whatever makes Avengers stories great without restriction. But they are restricted; by the suits and the bean counters. The product is commercial by design. That's why characters can't stay dead. That's why we see Wolverine Proliferation and Massive Crossovers and all that. That's why a given writer can't just say, "here is where the story of the Avengers ends" or make any change to the comic that some other writer or editor can't come along and retcon with "Mephisto makes everyone forget."

In that particular environment (as opposed to say, independent comics or webcomics or fanfiction) it behooves you to have products for every audience that you can afford to produce for.

No one cares if creators of independent comics or webcomics stuff women in refrigerators, because they aren't shooting themselves in the foot by doing so.

In other news:

I think I have figured out the entire reason for WiR: it is performed instead of divorce. I'm (semi-) serious.

Doing arcs like these where our own characters go back and 'mend' these incidents would be cool.