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New House Rule: Bonus XP's for Skill Checks
Something I will implement going forward.
Players will receive 1 Bonus XP for each successful point on a skill check.
Example
Sir Roland uses his Armorer Skill to fix the 6 points of ...

Started Mar 7th, 2015 at 3:30pm by THE ONI
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By: THE ONI
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Clinging Ice vs Armor, Invulnerability, etc.
Does an Ice attack build up ice if it hits Invulnerability that is greater than the damage caused?
For instance, 10 points of Ice damage against 20 points of invulnerability.  The Invulnerable gu...

Started Feb 25th, 2015 at 2:29pm by Phrennzy
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By: Klystron - Ex Member
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Blind fighting, or fighting an invisible opponet
If a person is fighting in the dark, OR fighting an opponent that they cannot see, and they don’t know where they are, then the to hit roll is on a d100 rather than a d20.
So if you are the Invis...

Started Feb 24th, 2015 at 6:28pm by John
18 3415 Last Post Feb 26th, 2015 at 8:01pm
By: AlabasterKnight
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Training Rooms and Experience Points
I notice in the Destroyers module that the villains have a training room that can provide robotic sparring partners, flamethrowers, guided missiles, etc. akin to the original Danger Room in the X-Mans...

Started Feb 17th, 2014 at 11:15pm by Baretta
16 3086 Last Post Feb 25th, 2015 at 10:47am
By: AlabasterKnight
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Catch a falling plane???
How would this work?

Scenario:  There is a falling plane weighing 2200 lbs (Dawn of DNA).  It's still in the air several miles up (or meters perhaps).  Either way it's beyond the range of ...

Started Aug 2nd, 2012 at 4:32am by SuperWannabe
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Bonus XP
The rule book notes that a GM might give out as much as 500 bonus Experience Points per session to a hero. What are your guidelines for giving out extra XP? I am interested in hearing others' approach...

Started Feb 12th, 2015 at 9:43pm by Baretta
7 1758 Last Post Feb 16th, 2015 at 10:55pm
By: AlabasterKnight
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Basic Characteristics, 9 Minimum
Here's an idea I've been considering for Player Characters.
When randomly generating a hero, roll 3d6 for each basic characteristic as usual. But any randomly generated score of 3-8 automatically...

Started Dec 12th, 2014 at 1:51am by polarboy
25 5127 Last Post Feb 16th, 2015 at 10:02pm
By: John
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Combat clock... thinking out loud.
Gonna make what I think are some reasonable assumptions here, but feedback is appreciated.
For the sake of a game that doesn't get bogged down by combat that never resolves, I was looking at "com...

Started Feb 15th, 2015 at 6:00pm by AlabasterKnight
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By: AlabasterKnight
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Knock Outs
Hello.  Time for me to pick your brains.
One thing that has always bothered me about the standard knockout rules is that it does not factor in the relative health (i.e.: hit points) or toughness ...

Started Jan 29th, 2015 at 1:26am by 80sGamerGeek
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By: John
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Nightmare V&V
This variation of the game works a lot like regular V&V, except that the super-powered community is rather debilitated. Mutations, cybernetics, and supernatural forces tend to be disproportionately di...

Started Jan 31st, 2015 at 10:17pm by Baretta
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By: Phrennzy
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Inspiration (replaces Inventing)
With much thanks to Dr. Mercury and all of those that contributed over the years to some of these ideas, this is what my players and I came up with during a brainstorming session last weekend:
[b]Inspiration.

Started May 1st, 2012 at 4:59pm by Majestic
11 2469 Last Post Jan 28th, 2015 at 7:35pm
By: Majestic
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Power Stunt Ideas
In the thread about replacing Inventing Points with Inspiration Points (and other places around these boards) "Power Stunts" are mentioned.
I'd like to hear what kind of power stunts you've all ...

Started Jan 21st, 2015 at 1:26am by Phrennzy
9 2098 Last Post Jan 23rd, 2015 at 3:11pm
By: Majestic
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missing rules? like devitalization ray
So devitalization ray is not on the attack chart.  i did a search here and found a single reference to it using the paralyzation ray chart.  Is that "from" somewhere?  I can't find reference in the ru...

Started Dec 25th, 2014 at 12:22pm by Necron69
3 1215 Last Post Jan 15th, 2015 at 2:00am
By: Ramble
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Discusion of rules.
  Some of the rules are a bit confusing.  I would like some imput in interperting them.   Like how do you do falling damage?  And how do you figure out how far a character can jump?

Started May 3rd, 2009 at 10:45pm by John
24 11623 Last Post Jan 6th, 2015 at 9:34pm
By: Klystron - Ex Member
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Average hit points of characters in your games?
Been redoing my house rules recently and it got me to wondering.  What kind of hit point ranges do your characters have?  Does this vary based on campaign level (street, world, cosmic)?

Started Jan 2nd, 2015 at 9:25pm by Imaginos
5 1351 Last Post Jan 6th, 2015 at 1:25pm
By: agent of fortune
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Hit Points vs Structural Points
For something to have a structural point, it most be a solid mass of something, with no moving parts, no complex systems, nothing that can be disturbed do to violent interaction.
A block of wood...

Started Nov 21st, 2014 at 6:04pm by John
18 3769 Last Post Jan 5th, 2015 at 6:14pm
By: Majestic
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Under rated and overlooked powers
An old gaming and life friend and I were discussing how some powers are overlooked, underrated, and sometimes dismissed as lame or hokey.
When you roll up random powers you have to figure out wh...

Started Dec 14th, 2014 at 9:57am by Detective27
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By: Detective27
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Heightened Charisma: It's A Power, Right??
So I was thinking of this as both a PC and a very rare GM. In John's game we do not use the same reaction table. It is modified as the Good/Evil makes no difference. Everyone reacts the same though t...

Started Aug 23rd, 2014 at 11:22am by THE ONI
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Heightened speed vs going fast.
In my new game, I have player who rolled random powers. He rolled heightened speed, flame powers, poison, power blast, non corprealness.
I made it all work together with some limitations.
...

Started Dec 11th, 2014 at 10:50pm by Detective27
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House Rule: Water Breathing with Swimming
Here's a house rule I wish I had thought of years ago.
Characters with Water Breathing (A or B) can move through water at superhuman speeds. In miles per hour, their swimming speeds equal their ...

Started Dec 11th, 2014 at 11:59pm by polarboy
14 2231 Last Post Dec 17th, 2014 at 8:53pm
By: Majestic
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