I'm just getting home, after a 15 hour shift, so I still need to check my email. Once I get some sleep, I'll reply.

BTW, what year is it in the game?
I'm wondering if Lorenzo would have GPS and something like an iPhone for web-browsing in the van.

The Cougar wrote on Apr 12^th, 2010 at 8:16pm:

Very good. Thank you!

Cool bike!

Hi,
My friends call me Zeus. I have been playing RPG's since before D&D. We played Chainmail. I played V&V when it first came out and my friends eventually switched to Champions. I am a stay at home dad,with 2 teenagers at home. I was a zookeeper for 20 years and am now on disability. I have instilled in my oldest child a love of comics and role playing. I have little to no experience with blogs,but can learn. I am hoping this will give me opportunities to help create a good story. I enjoy what I have seen so far. Hope my character gets the ok.  Thanks for the time guys

So, is the plan to do individual pics, then a group pic?  This is too cool!

Oh baby.

Cool, your own calogne... did you get royalties?

what's the word on a new skill system? You are going to use something similar to D20 system? Last D20  I played D&D 3.5 should I break the book out and renew myself with the feats and skills?

I got sidetracked, and then started procrastinating, so I haven't gotten around to working out all the details. 

As of right now, I'm keeping the groups separate, but yes they will meet up. After that, it'll be up to you guys to figure out if you want to combine into a larger group. Talk about it and see what works best for everyone.

I only mention it because you've menioned not having access to the V&V books.

Inventing points don't generally work that way. Inventing points generally are used to solve puzzles, construct devices in order to accomplish a particular task or supplement your powers. Rule of thumb seems to be an an invention should be no more powerful than 1/4 of a regular power.

For said Invention to have a chance of success a number of things must fall into place. A) You have to have spent the time to do the research needed for the Invention, B) You have to have the required skill to Invent "it" in the first place, then C) You need to have the resources/wealth to acquire the materials needed to build the Invention, and finally D) A successful Invention Roll based on your Intelligence has to be passed.

Like I said, I only mention it because you seemed to be mistaking Invention Points with the Hero Points characters use in Champions to acquire more powers, skills etc.

If I mistook or interpretted anything incorrectly I wholeheartedly apologize, just trying to help with how the regular rules work. As always each GM has their own tweaks, and I admit total ignorance of Dom's style or methods on the subject.

Okay, here's a quick clarification. As per the "standard" V&V rules, Inventing Points can be used to invent devices, solve puzzles, have brilliant idea (you figure out how to use the alien device), etc. You want to whip up a bio-scanner that lets you detect the use of a specific type of bio-reading, you burn an inventing point.

While I'm thinking about it, I'll allow you guys to "pool" inventing points for things like special features in a HQ complex, or vehicle. So, you might want to start looking at that, as hanging out at the local burger joint, or BSI office, is only going to work for so long (hint, hint).

In Empire City I award Hero Points for really good role playing, characters doing something particularly inventive, etc. They can be used for things that only happen in comics, movies, TV, books, etc.

Example 1: Let's say Sixgun has a snowball's chance in hell of shooting a laser pistol out of Dr. Roboto's hand, before he turns Polly Purheart, Sixgun's one true love, into a pile of ash. He spends his hero point to ensure he makes that shot.

Example 2: Roustabout is tangling with Kickboxer on the roof a 10 story apartment building, when Kickboxer lands a solid kick to R's chest, sending him tumbling over the edge and strait toward the sidewalk below. Roustabout spends his hero point to allow him to grab hold of window ledge, saving himself from what could have been a debilitating injury. 

You need to think before you burn a hero point, as odds are pretty good I'm only going to give out 1 per an adventure, so use them sparingly.

We need to try to keep side conversations in a OOC thread so as not to clutter the In-Game Thread... just a suggestion.

In answer to your question... admittedly I may have worded Shawn's/Thunderbolts private musing improperly.  Thunderbolt views it as a procedural issue.  MCU cannot 'legally' allow a civilian, non-police officer - detective {no matter how skilled or powerful} access to their investigation files.  THEY are the trained professionals and it would look bad on them if anyone - metahuman or mundane was allowed to assist in a ongoing investigation and muffed up the case by not following proper law-enforcement procedure, not being a licensed policeman with the authority to enforce laws and or compromising recovered evidence so it was non-admissible in court.  Police officers go to school to learn all this stuff... to allow a untrained civi to 'help-out' would jeopardize anything they uncovered pertaining to the case... a sharp lawyer could have even an iron-clad case thrown out of court over such issues!

BUT... BSI has the authority to dully deputize a matahuman 'consultant' and use their abilities in solving a case.  Even IF MCU wanted Thunderbolt's help they could not agree to it... it's not in their authority to do so.  But BSI can.

With Shawn's extensive understanding of how Law-Enforcement works {his father being once a very good Police detective}... he went straight to the people who could accept his help and or point him to the MCU officers on the case with a BSI liaison in tow bringing him in as an 'expert consultant' by BSI's standards to assist on the case.

Hope that answers your question?

By the way... I edited my last post... Lord Inar... forgot to ask Diesel if he had called Stalker.  Just trying to get everyone in on the RP!

Dom love how you're reacting on the fly to Rampart's weakness. Jon and I just thought it a timely way in the progression of the story for Jason to discover his sensitivity ... and bamf, you dovetail it into another mystery.

Kudos

I haven't but... its probably the GENCON blues... everyone else seems to be going EXCEPT ME'..and I live in Indianapolis! {sigh!}

I'm sure he's fine.  He often gets tied up for stretches, working massive hours with hardly time to sleep in-between.