Dr Archeville

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A second rank of Precise Shot completely negates the penalty for the Elusive Target feat. So, yeah, they'd be in the same boat as someone without Elusive Target.

On a tangentially related note (not enough to warrant a new thread, I'd think): the History Channel's getting in on the Bat-action with Batman Unmasked: The Psychology of the Dark Knight (click link for showtimes).

Added Neurologic and Physicist. Removed Ronin & Sen. We still remain at 26 Active PC Heroes vs. 13 Active PC Villains!

The Scientist's powers now total 39pp, since the Subtle feat was added to the MWV itself.

So Dryad's not going to be reforming?

Looks good to me. Here's a second approval!

zzzzz... zzz.... zzzZZZzzz.... Actually, just yesterday I'd re-started some discussion on this ;)

I don't think it was "two weeks after approved" so much as "two weeks since their last post anywhere on the board."

*points to sign saying "Do Not Poke Da Refs"* If you want the Vest itself to be Subtle, that needs to be on the Device power itself, not 'in' the powers the Device grants. There are two fairly minor changes I'd like to see on the char sheet. First is to list the Save DCs for his attacks. Something like "Punch, +2 melee, Toughness DC 20 [damage]" and "Tranq Gun, +3 Range, Fort DC 13 [stun]". This helps the Refs out quite a bit when running combats. Second (more a pet peeve of mine) is to alphabetize & use proper terminology for things, specifically the effects from the Monkey Wrangler Vest. I'd like to see it look a bit more like this: Device 8 (hard to lose, Monkey Wrangler Vest): Enhanced Attack 3, Enhanced Defense 3, Enhanced Feats 4 (Accurate Attack, Improved Initiative 2, Power Attack), Flight 3, Force Field 3, Super-Strength 7. As I've said before, this is going to be a very tough character to play, but if you're up for it, I'll look forward to seeing him in action.

"Science!" he says, sounding somewhat like Magnus Pyke. "Specifically, hypermathematics to create multidimensional tesseracts, allowing zhe interior of mein home to be bigger zhan zhe exterior. Like zhat box on zhat British science fiction programme, Doktor Wer." Archeville gives a brief tour of the place, showing that dozens of rooms are contained within his home. Most seem fairly average, the type of room anyone might see in the home of a moderately affluent tech-centric person who favors function over form, the only oddity being that there are so many of them. A few, though, stand out. A few are oriented sideways or even upside down, something the host attributes to "localized electromagnogravitic fluctuations" or "rounding off the decimals in the equations too soon." One has a large window looking out to a thick and rich forest, the sort that shouldn't be within miles of Hanover. As they move throughout Archeville's home, the heroes slowly become aware of a "being watched" feeling, and of movements seen from just out the corner of their eyes. Just as someone begins to ask Archeville about the phenomenon, something looking like a large metallic rat scurries by, clearly seen by all.

Sounds like a good compromise.

So, having Know (whatever) could give a +2 synergy bonus on bluff checks to send a message to someone, if they have ranks in the same Know skills? Would someone listening in need to have ranks in the Know skill to use Sense Motive to intercept/decode the message? Would not having any ranks impose a -2 synergy penalty (for not knowing the lingo, though someone skilled enough can still pick up the gist from body posture and tone of voice and etc.)?

Or Jack LaLanne, and you can do it for about 30. Starting at age 40. ;)

Essentially, yes. The core book says Blindsight is a 4 rank Super-Sense, and explicity says that it is Accurate but not Acute (accurate enough to use it as a targeting sense/to know if something's in front of you, but not acute enough to discern colors). The "Sense Types" section at the beginning of the Powers chapter also gives some examples of blindsight: sonar (auditory sense), radar (radio sense), and mental and tactile versions of it. Ultimate Power goes into a bit more detail. It defines Radar as an Accurate Radius Ranged Radio Sense, Sonar as Accurate Ultrasonic Hearing (and Hearing Senses already have Ranged and Radius), Spatial Awareness as an Accurate Radius Ranged Mental Sense, and Tremorsense as an Accurate Ranged Tactile Sense (and Tactile Senses are already Radius).

One other minor nitpick, her two super-senses should be listed as such. So something like Super-Senses 5 (danger sense [mental], spatial awareness [accurate radius ranged mental sense])

From Scientific American. Article here (it's just over three pages long). There is some truly impressive research and attention to detail in that article.

Did I mention an exterior window? If so, mea culpa! I figured they would be deep inside and with no window to the outside, which if why I had the vines coming out of sink drains (up through sewers) and from the bits of Dryad on the table. *edits post*

Thevshi, Velocity's 3rd rank of Attractive has been okayed, but there are two minor conditions/provisos. 1) You have made mention in the past that folks don't acknowledge that Velocity is Attractive. The best way to solve this is to occasionally bing up the fact in game posts (IC or OOC) that she is remarkably Attractive. This will be especially helpful to new players/characters, who probably haven't read your character sheet and so have no idea how Attractive she is. 2) You want her to be "movie star good looking". This is fine, too, but some Refs feel Attractive 3 is the utmost amount of Attractive a person can have without invoking powers (like Student Body and the folks from Time of Vengeance who were made supernaturally/infernally enticing). Therefore, she cannot have any more Attractive unless she's got a seriously good involves-a-story reasoning for it. Which isn't really so big a restriction, since she couldn't have any more Attractive anyway for another 2 PLs due to skill rank caps.

Ah, well, I would've seen that if the feats were listed alphabetically ;)

"Plans meticulously" sounds like she'd be a good candidate to have the Master Plan feat.

How's the new one coming? Or do you still want to keep working on Diana?

That'd just put him to Str 23/+6 -- the modifier would remain the same. You sure you want to do this?

Archeville leads Captain Wonder -- and Gossamer and Rusty, if they wish to come along -- to his home in Hanover, midway between the Hanover Institute of Technology and the Albright Institute. He suggests they fly over, offering (with a bit of nervousness in his voice) to carry Gossamer. The trip is short, and soon the heroes are in front of what appears to be a completely ordinary light gray one-story housing unit, the sort that's sprung up all over Hanover in the past few years, surrounded by a small but well-manicured lawn. A cobblestone walkway leads from the sidewalk to the front door, flanked by an octet of decorative lawn gnomes. (Captain Wonder could swear their eyes shone bright red for a moment... but surely that was just a trick of the light, right?) Thick white curtains block all view through the windows and a dark gray mailbox seemed bolted to the house near the front door. Archeville stood on the doormat and opened the glass storm door to get to the main front door, opening it with -- to the surprise of some -- an ordinary-looking silvery key. He then turned back to face the others, hunching a bit. "I bid you velcome to mein sanctum," he intoned with a wicked lil' chuckle. "Enter freely und of your own vill." Looking in, it was instantly apparent that the house's outer appearance was very deceiving. The inside was quite nicely decorated, with beautifully stained wood paneling along the walls and a tiled floor depicting an odd mandala-like design. Three hallways lead off from the entryway, left, right, and straight ahead, and a sparkling chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The ceiling which was far too high for the building, based on the exterior dimensions. Come to think of it, the entryway alone seemed big enough to take up half the house.... "So, anyvon hungry? Thirsty?"

Oh, Doc A would so want in on that ;)