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Old 04-07-2021, 11:19 AM   #13
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Default Re: [Supers] A More Scientific Golden Age

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What you are calling Speed Tricks seems to be an Accessibility, perhaps worth -10%.
It is accessibility, I just didn't think it needed to be more than -5%. Do you think it needs to be higher?

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Can he swim super fast? I'm envisioning his churning through the water like a paddlewheeler.
He's not exactly a skilled swimmer, having never needed to, so he doesn't have the advantage. A player could justify buying it, though.

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I don't recall seeing the expression "running shoes" even as late as the 1960s; in the 1930s I think they would be called "tennis shoes" or "track shoes."
Yeah, probably. He calls them running shoes because they're better for running than the shoes he wore before.
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