The glossary defines what a free action is. This does not mean that other things which have some of the same properties are also free actions. Free actions are those which are explicitly said to be so in the PAC. It appears that Poison and Probability Control are not free actions, for example, because the PAC doesn't say that they are. Nor is use of the Top Cow team ability.

Andrew

Actually, it has been ruled (unless it has changed since I last looked, lots of stuff going down today) that the avengers, etc free moves are usable as the free move in the taxi scenario. JLA flash can even make a hypersonic attack (moving, not stationary) w/ his free move w/ the new rules as the HSS is considered a free move.

It can still cause damage, you MC saturn girl who MC's eclipso, (SG takes 1 click damage for 100+ points) Eclipso MC's Despero (1 damage +100) not as good but still not terrible.

Question regarding Mind Control.

Does this mean that you can mind control the same character multiple times a turn? ie. I have Brainiac 13, The Key and Circe. Circe MC's Nightwing, has him attack Robin who was standing beside him. Nightwing doesn't get an action token. Now The Key MC's Nightwing to attack poor Robin again. No action token placed. Braniac 13 MC's Nightwing so he acts a third time, no action token placed.

Or is the rule no one can act more than once in the same turn going to come into play there? Seems to me it's making MC less effective. So MC doesn't cause damage on a critical, it doesn't cause pushing damage, it doesn't stop the MCed character from retalliating (since he can act fine on his own turn), and the Mind Controler still takes damage if the target has a point cost higher than 99 points. Ouch...

Hopefully under the new rules a person with two tokens can still be MC. Otherwise MC is suddenly a weak power. Particularly for those who are just MCers and nothing else (Mad Hatter, Puppet Master, Saturn Girl, Prof X, etc..) At least Brianiac 13, The Key, and Circle have other powers or actual damage stats so they can do something outside of MC.

Not the case. Team abilities that allow for non-allotment move actions are not free actions, nor were they even tentatively ruled that way. You may be mistaking the ruling that Flash's moving HSS attack can be attributed to the JLA ability and not require an action from your allotment, but otherwise I don't know where this is coming from.

Actually, there is a rule that says you can only affect 1 target per lighting bolt. In other words, I would expect that, barring that, you would be able to do what you mentioned (poor Robin).

Anyone know of any contrary rulings?

mbdeyes: That sounds correct to me.

By the way, can you give me the name/issue of the comic that your signature is from (with the Poison Ivy controlled Supes)

It was the actual Batman title, earlier this year, written by Jeff Leob, and drawn by Jim Lee (both incredible, worth getting the ENTIRE Hush story arc).

The main battle happens in issue 612, but you will want to look at 611 for background. I have all the issues (with the exception of the Sept issue, for obvious reasons) starting with this team's first in 608. The Sept one is the last one in the story arc (also last one for this team for a while).

If you're familiar with the Batman history/mythos, you might be interested to know that issue 617 (July issue) ended with the once dead Jason Todd (2nd Robin) all grown up and back from the dead at the end of the issue. It resolved itself nicely in this months issue, which I just got today.

er... Why is it that Running Shot and RCE don't work together?

because RCE is a Power Action, and Running Shot says you can only make a Ranged Combat Action.

Running Shot says you can move and make a range attack as a free action.

nope, read it. It says "Ranged Combat Action". You cannot take a Power Action in the middle of another Power Action, ever, period.