Lord of Fnord

So, as others have said, carry a "cover" commlink, PDA, etc, which is connected to wireless, but not to anything important on your body. It's not like you want to advertise your smartgun link while you're undercover, anyway.

Still, 4e is better about giving hackers toys to play with, including drones, etc, that HAVE to be run by wireless. Messing with comms is still a useful thing to do, especially on stealth missions where raising the alarm can cause a big problem.

I would say reduce the number, not eliminate entirely. Redside seems to be pretty good about this, IMO, so you can use that model.

Also, ditch "talk to XXXX Liason" missions. If you want them to give a spiel about PvP zones or Hazard Zones for the newbies, fine, but don't make people run over to them (often in a different zone) for no good reason.

Concur, although they seem to be getting better about this. Actually, I see know reason you shouldn't get a contact's phone after you simply accept the first mission from them.

I think that, as a guideline, missions should be in a same zone as the contact, but there are many good reasons to mix things up.

Harder, at a given level of strength; 2d10 is more damage than any ordinary weapon. Of course, getting hit by Thor's hammer hurts more than a monk's punch, because a) Thor is probably stronger, and b) The hammer is (very) magical.

This is really just more super-acrobatics/agility.

Every language? Or for that matter, it allows communicating with "any living creature" so things like animals are included, too.

Don't forget the resistance to non-magical weapons.

All my D&D books are packed away now, but as I recall a 20th Warlock would have some notable superpowers (flight, energy blasts, etc), too, as would anybody using Incarnum. Spellcasters are somewhat harder to classify, but the consensus at the Char. Op. board was that most primary spellcasters where more capable than an equivalently leveled and optimized Warlock.

Of course, some of the more extreme optimization results can go way up the scale; even ignoring Pun-Pun, there are a number of infinite damage tricks and other such things.

Because preventing "misses due to gravity and wind" was never part of the skill required to begin with?

A good argument for the police, where I can resign if conscience demands, over the army.

Still, I think the problem in Watchmen's Vietnam isn't the Comedian, it's Dr. Manhattan. He provides an "I Win" button for the United States, and power corrupts collectively as well as individually. The Comedian, despite being a dick, doesn't really do that. Also, Alan Moore thinks the United States is significantly more corrupt than I think it is, so in his mind the gap between reality and Watchmen is smaller than in mine.

If I ever actually find myself in a truly corrupt society, that would change my choices (or convince me to move); if I lived in Praetorian Earth, I would have fewer qualms about being a "vigilante" (fewer moral qualms anyway, I might be more afraid for my own skin). But I don't think the United States (or Canada or anywhere I know of in the EU) justifies violent defiance of the law. Even if I had the power to unmake current government institutions, and create new ones, I'm not confident I'd do a significantly better job to justify the violence and pain caused by the upheaval. In terms of reforming society, I suspect I could do a better job as Bruce Wayne (using money and influence) than Batman (using violence).

There's a reason I said I don't want to be Emperor of the World, even if I have the super-powers to demand it. Can you design institutions to prevent corruption, even among people on whom the institutions are forcibly imposed? Or do you simply plan to knock-off people who, in your sole opinion, are corrupt? How do you tell? You're not the only person in the world who dislikes corruption; if it were easy to unambiguously identify, it wouldn't exist.

If my powers can be reverse engineered to be granted to others, that opens a whole new can of worms, but that's not usually possible. And if it is, I'm probably going to go back to the "the patents are MINE" category.

If they want to use me for morally bankrupt black-ops, they'd be stupid. If I see something that really offends my conscience, I can always back out and/or go public; they can't easily pressure or "disappear" me like a normal operative, because I'm a super-hero. Also, I don't think that sort of thing goes on too often in real life (not that governments don't do shady or illegal things, but usually not in massive conspiracies). That sort of thing might make a good plot ("I'll play along until I can get the proof on my Bat-Camera").