A Little Theme Music: Silverbolt

[Bob Schroeck]

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Damn. Worst we ever had was the guy with the Agility of 93, and the character that had over 13,000 hit points because all he had were heightened stats.

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Yeek. That's... that's... I don't know what that is. Yeek.
Of course, once you start getting up into that "hit me with a planet, I don't mind" territory, we start saying the character has the "heightened hit points" power. Also good for indexing on the combat table. "What's your defense?" "Heightened hit points." "Ah. Right."

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Of course, we bent that system over backwards.

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No. You think?

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The first of those two, Nighthawk, who also had the superspeed power (forget the name)

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Heightened Speed.

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had this annoying tendency to use the velocity damage table to kill people with quarters flung at Mach 2.

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We had a villain with something similar. He had the power to impart a straight-line velocity to anything he could touch, including himself (he could fly, in jerks and stops and long drooping arcs). It was actually momentum he could impart, and it was a constant -- so the lighter something was, the faster it went. He wore a bandolier and belt full of fishing sinkers and flicked them off at something above mach 1 whenever he got annoyed at someone...

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.