Thanks for the vote of confidence, Norm. I don't know if I am 100% comfortable with the idea of my posts having any more "weight" than anyone else's (I've been wrong plenty of times in the past and I am sure I will be again in the future), but it is still spiffy to have the RA say something that nice.

Badges? BADGES!?! WE DON'T NEED NO STINKIN' BADGES!!!

You don't... but we do. A guy waving a gun around who has a badge has authority to subdue people, not just intimidation!

I have a badger... you think I can use it the same way? :D

Depends on your medical coverage...

And on how, exactly, you were planning on using the badge/r.

After all, it is kind of hard to just wear a badger on your shirt for ID purposes (though, I suppose it would ID you as "That Guy With A Badger Hanging From His Shirt"), but if meant to use it as an intimidation tactic, yeah, a badger could be pretty intimidating.

"I prefer to go naked before wearing fur"

mmm to avoid the fury of peta fans its better to wear the badger (alive of course) in our shoulder with a clarification note explaining that no badger were hurt while judging the Heroclix event.
And naked of course...

I have one that came up while I was building a team

Vampirism on Cr Deathstroke.

Now that I have all the relevant rules, here is my question.

Would Deathstroke heal for each opposing figure he damaged, or would he only heal one for the attack?

I think it would be one for each damage because of the way Steal Energy is worded "Each time an opposing character takes damage".

What do you think? What is the official stance (Would this be a Crisis question or a HoT question?)

As you have noted...


... using Steal Energy via Vampirism would allow Deathstroke to heal 1 click for each character damaged with Master Tactician.

Barring future clarification to the definition of Steal Energy (or Master Tactician) this is a pretty brutal combo.

Now add MoE to it

Already under consideration here, sir

mine is here
http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=266536

Just let us/me know what you need and we'll accommodate it. The blog is a good place to report things; but we can make it so that you can operate all rules feedback if you want. Like I've said before; I hope you'll use us as a resource ... and we'll help in any way we can.

Dig the orange!?

OK, I'm going to post a few comments and questions here and see if the RA will actually answer them here in this thread...

Couple things that came up in the past few tournaments that I went to where this guy keeps disagreeing with me on how it's ruled and unfortunately the player's guide at times is not much help as it doesn't go into specific details on these subjects.

Misconception #1: I successfully Mind Control my opponent's Malekith and the first thing I do is turn off his Shape Change and Mystics Team Ability. My opponent thinks canceling powers is an action and that should end my Mind Control immediately. I explain to him, no, canceling a power is not an action (not a free action or any action), it is just something you declare and can do at any time. Who is correct?

Misconception #2: I finish my MC action on Malekith and attack somebody with him. Now Malekith is back on my opponent's side. I continue with my turn and declare an attack on Malekith with my Thor (for example). My opponent wants to roll for shape change and also make me take Mystic damage if I hit, but I tell him no, I turned Shape Change & Mystics off and those powers and team abilities remain off for the remainder of the turn, and I even show him where it says this on page 15 (for powers) & 16 (for abilities) in the rulebook. He says no, it's different for Mind Control and those powers and abilities should come back on immediately when I regain control of Malekith. Who is correct?

Misconception #3: This came up in a different tourney. Someone was using SI Doom's "Powerless" special power to turn off all the powers of his opponent's guy and then he damaged that guy who's powers changed completely. The opponent (same guy from #1 & #2) claimed the powers changed so they should not be outwitted any more. The other guy said they continue to remain outwitted even if the powers change. They asked me and I said, the powers remain countered. The opposing player still disagreed with me and I said that it was in the player's guide. The problem was, when I was challenged to show it in the player's guide there is no specific ruling on this under the #040 Doom part in Section 3. After the tournament, I did some digging by searching on the forums and discovered the ruling is actually under #009 Emperor Joker for his "Joker Makes the Rules" power. The problem is if you did not know to look there you never would have known how to back up your statement. I think these kind of rulings need to be repeated in all sections that apply so you can easily look up the figure in question and find a consistent ruling.

This looks like precisely the kind of situation that Norm appointed his deputies for. Just saying.
You are correct.
I think you are correct. If you are not, I am sure Harpua will let you know.
That wasn't a question.
But a little more serious: if every figure with a certain power is to get its own clarification that will make the Player's guide even bigger... It's big enough as it is right now, IMO.

The only thing wrong with all of that is that you canceled Shape Change.
Shape Change is not an optional power, so it cannot be canceled.
Replace that with, say, Super Senses, and you are completely correct.


The only exception made is highlighted above.

The canceled powers return only when the MC begins, but even those are only returned for the duration of the MC.

If you cancel something (which is actually allowed to be canceled ) on the figure, then it stays off until the end of the current turn.