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With respect, Danny, that sounds hyperbolic. Like, I don't believe you, or anyone else on this board, has actually played ALL GENRES of RPG, like, ever, much less done it all in one single system. In raising the question of your accuracy about your own achievement there, you also raise the...

RPGs, obviously... In college, I played a lot of cards: Cribbage, Spades, and Hearts were mainstays. In grad school, there were some computer games - Warcraft (not WoW - I'm talking the RTS games), Starcraft, and Diablo. But, since I no longer live with a bunch of bachelor nerds, I don't...

Wyrmwood made a version numbered thus: 1,1,1,2,2,3,3,4,5,6,15,16,17,18,18,19,19,20,20,20. Another pattern I have seen has 1,1,1,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,20,20,20. One can imagine others. A bit of a web search can probably find you makers.

Some folks make "high variance" d20s. The average roll is still a 10.5, but the numbers on the die are skewed to give high and low results. They might serve your idea here.

Emergency response is, thankfully, a well-documented set of fields. We train people to do it all the time. So, our perspective hero can get that training, too. You got to firefighting school. You train to be an EMT. Now, not only do you know the basics of what to do, you know the language...

Or a Gattaca-style scrubdown. Maybe bathe in fusion flame every morning, or something. We can guess about sweat - in humans, sweat is first and foremost about temperature regulation. If Supes needed to sweat to keep from overheating, he'd be vulnerable to heat and dehydration, not just...

Yeah, that's a tidbit there. Morrus has stipulated that you have powers. He didn't stipulate that anyone else does. So, it becomes easy to get your community's support to help protect your identity. Your job isn't to beat people up and get in fights that cause major property damage - your...

Yes. For one thing, searching the blood supply for a single person you aren't absolutely sure gives blood is not a cost effective way of finding their genetics. For another thing, if the guy's skin is knife- or bullet-proof, dollars to donuts he can't and won't give blood - needles won't...

Yeah, the loss of blood donations would be a bigger security risk than anyone you'd stop with the information. In the US, you get a genetic sample taken if you are arrested for a federal crime. Many states have laws for collection of genetic samples on arrest for certain crimes. Most states...

I think reaching into the deep cuts of 80+ years of comics continuity and claiming all of it is more commenting on how comics are written than investigating the question. Though, the point that the powerset matters is still there. If you have invisibility, teleportation, or shapeshifting...

Having donated blood does not put your genetics into a searchable registry from which authorities or super-rich villains can identify you based on a sample found in the field.

Thank you all for your thoughts. I appreciate them. So, what else might I mention here? A few thoughts. First: Some of you may have heard of the Kübler-Ross "Stages of grief" thing. It's pretty bogus. The stages only broadly characterize some common classes of emotions you can see in a...

Well, before Max and Holly team up, he doesn't really care where her body is - she's beneath his notice, and so not a priority. After they team up, all the kids are in his head - and none of them other than Holly has any connection to Max to know who Max was, or where her body was.

That's probably exactly what's going to happen. Note that Will is really the only one who has dealt with his major fears. He's now the one on whom Vecna has little potential grip. Kali and Elle are walking into that fight with their baggage, but Will's discarded his. I expect that to be...

Also... there isn't much in the past of the show that tells us they are trying to subvert the genre. And so much death would be a subversion of genre.

A friend of mine (who was a gay kid in the '80s) has a two takes on it that makes some sense to me. 1) If you make every character decision based on the demographic the character represents, you don't get a character, you get tokenism. So, a well-done representation will have aspects that...

I think that's unlikely, if only because that'd be a pacing blunder. If you kill off a half-dozen protagonist-characters in two hours, you don't get a lot of emotional impact out of the deaths.

Remember that in a field battle, most of the people are not in that heavy plate armor. Swords are good for killing people in lesser armor. If your intent is to go after one of those human armadillos, an axe, mace, or hammer would be more appropriate, as any of them can deform the armor...

Swords built for that are generally not sharpened near the hilt.

Mod Note: It would be much better, rhetorically, if you didn't dismiss the person, and instead dealt with the logic of the position. And, as a side benefit, it'd probably not get reported and gain moderator attention.