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[m-danson.livejournal.com]

SEND ME YOUR CHARACTER SHEETS VIA EMAIL... A.S.A.P. Merci!!

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[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Sssssh, ya don't have to yell! I'll send it tonight or tomorrow morning.

Redistributing the points from the things you nixed (SPD 4 and the Mafia boss contact) and a couple of other things works for me... boosted DEX to 20 (because nothing else is DEX), added a 10-point Universal SL, and fiddled with contacts a bit. I kept the 2-weapon skill cuz it's neat and suts the character concept. If you've seen the movie The Usual Suspects, you'll have an idea of the kind of gun-fu I have in mind.

Btw, on reading up on combat, a Very Cool Thing caught my eye: Bounce. This requires use of a CSL (which my USL can stand for), and lets one hit a target by a ricochet. Just so you know that I may well want to use this (it's one heck of a surprise to get shot while behind cover!)

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

I had a small panic before my coffee kicked in this morning... I realized that it was THIS weekend my game was supposed to start. My brain had arbitrarily moved it to the indeterminate time called "LATER".

What speed does 20 dex give you?

I'll think about Bounce... I'll have to read up on it.

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ah yes. Much like my homily/reflection, which I have thought about, but not yet written.

20 DEX gives SPD 3 "straight up" without spending extra points on SPD. There are 3 reasons to go from (DEX 18 + 2 points into SPD) to DEX 20: extra OCV, extra DCV, and extra 2 initiative.

There are probably ways to make Bounce more realistic than the system default, if you believe it necessary.

[m-danson.livejournal.com]

Dex sounds okay then. I'll still have to read Bounce but it is sounding reasonable so far. What pages of what book?

[ironphoenix.livejournal.com]

It's in the main HERO Book, not sure of the pages (it's too heavy to tote to work), but it will certainly have an index entry. It's around the combat maneuvers section along with rapid fire etc.

[dracodraconis.livejournal.com]

There should be a more complete descripton of this in the Combat book. I seem to recall reading about it.