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There's some other stuff, but I need to vamoose.

Still waiting eagerly for stories.

Also not related to min-maxxing, but could you tell me some more of your or your players' memorable tales? I'm in the mood for a homebrew superhero adventure

By the way, how often does 'inspiration' see use in the campaigns you run?[br][br]I mean, how often have we seen some villain drawing upon a secret source of power or running around with an X ability or having some unnatural influence or using some KUH-RAAAAAZY device and the whole plot is the heroe...

Other than extended reach and elongation (coupled with flavour text alteration), melee attacks are pretty solidly melee range. [br][br]You can't use the progression extra on them?[br][br]Well, I can see why, though. If you're meleeing someone and they have to use move actions to melee you back then...

Virgileso, I'm still wondering why you're down on autofire.[br][br]It's expensive as hell, but also extremely devastating when it works--and it's not too hard to get it to work. I mean, you have surprise attacks, ultimate effort, hero points, so-on.[br][br] The extended reach power feat for melee at...

I'm just going through some of the sourcebooks, but it seems like sticking Ultimate Effort + Luck Control on Nullify completely screws like 95% of the villains.

Actually, the stuff (feats) I'm wondering why more people don't have are the following:[br][br]Second Chance[br]Redirect[br]Eidectic Memory (if you use knowledge skills)[br]Grappling Finesse[br]Improved Critical[br]Diehard (for lethal campaigns)[br]Blindfight[br]Evasion x 2 for characters on the tou...

However, you can put the feat into the array itself, so when you switch the array the feat can be switched along with it. [br][br]Why would they do that? Isn't the cost-savings the same?[br][br]Anyway, how you would you manipulate the array, anyway? Like how would it look like for someone who had a...

Ohhhhh yeeeeahhh...[br][br]Yet another question.[br][br]For non-powered feats that apply to a specific attack mode (such as specialization, critical strike, etc.), can you apply them to an array?[br][br]For example, I have device (blast) with (snare) as an AP of blast; can I put attack specializatio...

In Exalted, one of the powers is called 'Principle of Motion', which is a fancy way of them saying that they can perform several activities simultaneously.[br][br]How would this work for a character in a written/comic medium? What ways could they abuse it? I keep thinking of something like them bein...

Fortunately, I don't see that problem in the current Democratic frontrunners. I may not like them, I may not agree with them, but I don't see them as being insanely radical and potentially dangerous like ... well that Not Gore Guy in 2000. [br][br]According to Frank, Obama has a high chance of gett...

Dodd is too valuable a legislator

Dodd for new Senate majority leader in '09. Or right now.

Fuck Reid and Pelosi for taking impeachment off the table.

I don't know how broken this is... but it certainly seems it. [br][br]Not being able to use extra effort really hurts.[br][br]Let me repeat that. NOT BEING ABLE TO USE EXTRA EFFORT REALLY, REALLY HURTS.[br][br]If the DM gave me the option of 10 pp in exchange for not using extra effort ever, I woul...

So, Iowa. A red state.

Hillary, who came in third place of the democratic runners, got more votes than any two GOP contenders combined.

I wish we had a malicious snicker smilie. Serves you right, you jerks.

Not to make light of the tragedy or anything or to put a spin on some of the shady bullshit that sometimes goes, but DAMN that country is hardcore about their election.

Makes me wish we Americans could've stirred up similar outrage in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Oh, well.

The biggest problem with powergaming in M&M, however, is the dreaded DM veto hammer.[br][br]You have to constantly play a game of cat and mouse with the DM if you want to min-max. Obvious cheese like duplication and summon might as well not even be in the game for you. It's like trying to play a...

I have played it before, and while I enjoyed it, the "your bonus cannot go above X" turns the game into a weird sort of "find the other way to win" game. You basically look for ways to be outright immune to attacks (take a Con penalty so that you can put more ranks into Invulner...

Is there a reason why people who have the ability to generate electricity send it through the air rather than through the ground, even if it's rock?

Huckabee is catching fire like crazy.

While his religious insanity drives me to distraction, it's extremely funny watching Wall Street and the pundits explode over the momentum he's gathering.

Serves you right, you jerks.

Anyone else feel really, really ill right now?

Head hurts... should've taken break from CNN...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------[br][br]The moral of the story is that economists are like astologers. They are forced to tell the aristocrats that the omens are good and that their lives will be long and powerful. [br][br]So how do we get out of this...

Our view of history is as equally shaded by their followers as their enemies.

I noticed lately that John Madison and Thomas Jefferson are being viewed in a much more negative light by contemporaries while Alexander Hamilton's star has been nudged up.

Bizarre.

Does THOMAS FUCKING PAINE count as a founding father?

If not, he should. That Sunshine Patriot was some serious shiz. Kept the Continental army together during Trenton and Princeton. Oh, and Common Sense ruled.

If I can't nominate THOMAS FUCKING PAINE, can I throw up John Adams, too?

Well, in your opinion which one of the Founding fathers do you admire/think had good ideas/yadda yadda?

On one hand, he had an extremely progressive view of race relations in his day despite some demonstratable hypocrisy. A lot of his economic views were visionary.

On the other hand, the government he supported would practically be a monarchy.

Thoughts?