Question about character stress limitations.

[MidnightBlue]

sometimes i just can't let fiction just be fun fiction.
have to remind myself to just have fun.

Ha! Right there with ya, buddy!

That's why my Star Trek game bombed...I just couldn't suspend "military reasoning" long enough to let the PC's (bridge crew) keep going to the surface to handle dangerous problems...at least not ALL of them ALL the time.

"Okay...we've got the Captain, 1st officer, 2nd officer...hmmm...pretty much the entire senior staff down here on the planet. Please tell me we didn't leave Skippy, Janitor 3rd Class in charge of the ship...again??? I'm still trying to get the dings out of the hull and reactor coolant out of the carpet!"



I just couldn't enjoy it, which meant the game wasn't going to be fun for any of us. So it got shelved.

But superpowers I can treat like magic. How does it work? It just does.

How does Superman fly? He has no means of propulsion that I've ever read about. Answer: He's Superman...it just works.

[Thunderstrike]

Of course The Sentry that fought the Hulk isn't the same guy as the datafile. (Okay, physically the same guy but the homless looking man in the book is a shadow of the real Sentry). This Sentry doesn't even have a Second Wind or Invulnerable SFX to show him just shrugging off the damage. So Shadowcat, who has been fighting evil in the past few years, should kick his ass. He looks like he would lose in a fight with a wino over some table scraps from a garbage can.

[Alric]

The same holds true for Superman lifting a jet. It should break in two, cracking where ever Supes is holding it because of all that weight being held up at such a small point of contact.

The most common "sciency" explanation is that Supes is actually using a form of Telekinesis which is lifting the entire object at once, so it won't collapse. Personally I don't worry about it to much, like when Wiley Coyote runs off the cliff and doesn't fall until he realizes there's no ground under him.

[MidnightBlue]

The same holds true for Superman lifting a jet. It should break in two, cracking where ever Supes is holding it because of all that weight being held up at such a small point of contact.

The most common "sciency" explanation is that Supes is actually using a form of Telekinesis which is lifting the entire object at once, so it won't collapse. Personally I don't worry about it to much, like when Wiley Coyote runs off the cliff and doesn't fall until he realizes there's no ground under him.

That was the Aberrant RPG's rational as well. Super-strong novas extended a subconscious quantum field (or something) around the object they were lifting, keeping real world physics from breaking it and allowing them to gain leverage even when the same physics would say it shouldn't be possible.

[pksullivan]

The same holds true for Superman lifting a jet. It should break in two, cracking where ever Supes is holding it because of all that weight being held up at such a small point of contact.

The most common "sciency" explanation is that Supes is actually using a form of Telekinesis which is lifting the entire object at once, so it won't collapse. Personally I don't worry about it to much, like when Wiley Coyote runs off the cliff and doesn't fall until he realizes there's no ground under him.

Isn't that the explanation of Superboy's powers? His powers, if I remember correctly, are classified as "tactile telekinetic" which means he can pick up enormous objects if he's touching them. It kind of looks like super strength in practice but conceivably he could stand on something with bare feet and move it around like a flying carpet.

It also means he can fly because he's touching himself. Hurr hurr. I'm twelve!

[MidnightBlue]

Isn't that the explanation of Superboy's powers? His powers, if I remember correctly, are classified as "tactile telekinetic" which means he can pick up enormous objects if he's touching them. It kind of looks like super strength in practice but conceivably he could stand on something with bare feet and move it around like a flying carpet.

It also means he can fly because he's touching himself. Hurr hurr. I'm twelve!

It was...though I think now his cloned Kryptonian DNA has surfaced...IF I'm remembering correctly.

One of the Supergirl's was also this way. The one during the Death of Superman period. She was a telekinetic whose powers manifested like super strength, flight, super durability, etc. Before she became an Earth Angel that is. You think I'm making this stuff up? I'm not that creative...

[pksullivan]

Isn't that the explanation of Superboy's powers? His powers, if I remember correctly, are classified as "tactile telekinetic" which means he can pick up enormous objects if he's touching them. It kind of looks like super strength in practice but conceivably he could stand on something with bare feet and move it around like a flying carpet.

It also means he can fly because he's touching himself. Hurr hurr. I'm twelve!

It was...though I think now his cloned Kryptonian DNA has surfaced...IF I'm remembering correctly.

One of the Supergirl's was also this way. The one during the Death of Superman period. She was a telekinetic whose powers manifested like super strength, flight, super durability, etc. Before she became an Earth Angel that is. You think I'm making this stuff up? I'm not that creative...

And this is why I stopped trying to defend superhero comics against the charge that they are just superpowered soap operas.

[Supplanter]

And this is why I stopped trying to defend superhero comics against the charge that they are just superpowered soap operas.

Whereas for me, my lifelong fondness for superhero comics made me realize I should stop looking down my nose at romance novels.


Jim