Another 2000 Things I Am No Longer Allowed To Do In An RPG

[Mark Skarr]

389. Must not let the female ork work in the brothel.

390. The female ork may not base "Erotic Art" off of her "Forced Entry" skill.

390a. At least, not unless the subject is another ork or a troll.

[L.J.Steele]

CHAMPIONS

391. Not allowed to by Speed on charges.

392. Not allowed to buy an autofire NND
392a. Especially not with area of effect
392b. Especially if no one on the team has the defense

393. Not allowed to sky-write "Friends of Tacyon meet me at the Prudential Center" during the Great Supervillian Contest.
393a. Especially if Tacyon is a high value target in the GSC.
393b. Not allowed to complain when none of my team mates show up and I have to fight the responding villains alone.

394. Not allowed to have villain buy NND:Baby, defense is no code v. killing and throw babies (3d6 EB (Physical)) at heroes.

395. Not allowed to have villain have teleport power and have his PD defined as teleporting an NPC into the path of the hero's attack to absorb the damage.

[L.J.Steele]

Champions again

396. Not allowed to buy Instant Change: Useable on Others

[Emerald Cat]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

392. Not allowed to buy an autofire NND

For those of us unfamiliar with Champions what does NND stand for? No natural defense?

[Celti]

Originally Posted by Emerald Cat

For those of us unfamiliar with Champions what does NND stand for? No natural defense?

No Normal Defense. It allows damage from an ability to only be resisted by very rarely used defenses, but just having the defense makes you immune, as I understand it.

[L.J.Steele]

Originally Posted by Celti

No Normal Defense. It allows damage from an ability to only be resisted by very rarely used defenses, but just having the defense makes you immune, as I understand it.

Exactly -- normally the defense is something relatively inexpensive like Flash Defense, 10 points of life support (a gas mask), hardened defenses, and so on. Importantly, NNDs only do STUN damage, so they are good anti-mook weapons.

In this case, one of the PCs took an autofire NND, area of effect 1 hex, defense was hardened defenses. And a bunch of mooks were pig-piling our martial artist. So PC fired. AoE hex meant that the martial artist's huge dodge-equivalent didn't apply, and since his defense was not getting hit, he'd never invested in hardened defenses. Result -- mooks and martial artist took huge amounts of STUN damage and were out for the rest of the fight.

[Mark Skarr]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

392. Not allowed to buy an autofire NND

Don't forget that adding Autofire to an NND is an additional +1 advantage. Also, an Autofire on an AoE is another +1 advantage. It gets expensive fast! If you're really feeling cruel, and you can get GM approval, it's just another +1 advantage to add "Does Body."

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

394. Not allowed to have villain buy NND:Baby, defense is no code v. killing and throw babies (3d6 EB (Physical)) at heroes.

That's not a legal defense anyway. A Defense versus an NND must be that you have something, not the absence of something.

Originally Posted by FREd, pp. 265-266, 6th ed pp. 326-327

Examples of defenses usually considered inappropriate include a lack of anything (for example, “lack of Resistant Defenses,” “lack of Mental Defense,” or “not being a Dwarf ”), being a particular type of creature (“being a spellcaster,” “being a Martian”), a defined number of points of defense (for example, “10 or more points of Power Defense”), or having to make some sort of Skill Roll or other roll (either the character has the defense, or he doesn’t).

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

In this case, one of the PCs took an autofire NND, area of effect 1 hex, defense was hardened defenses. And a bunch of mooks were pig-piling our martial artist. So PC fired. AoE hex meant that the martial artist's huge dodge-equivalent didn't apply, and since his defense was not getting hit, he'd never invested in hardened defenses. Result -- mooks and martial artist took huge amounts of STUN damage and were out for the rest of the fight.

Clearly inadequate munchkin skills. The time I ran into it included the observation that

1. By the scatter rules, the maximum scatter of an area attack that missed was half the distance to the target (this may not be true in the current rules edition)
2. The target is 1 hex away.
3. My AoE is larger than 1 hex.
4. Therefore, every shot in my 40 shot autofire hits.
5. And, of course, immune to my own powers.

[L.J.Steele]

397. Not allowed to use Lightwalk to run up the swarm of bats to attack their vampire master.

[Phantasm]

Originally Posted by L.J.Steele

397. Not allowed to use Lightwalk to run up the swarm of bats to attack their vampire master.

That actually sounds awesome!

Especially if they're megabats with 5 foot wingspans. :)