Ya, it's by being a donor. The breakdown is something like this:

$10 annually=Bronze donor-no special perks
$20 annually=silver donor-custom title
$30 annually=Gold Donor-Custom Avatar
$40 annually=Platinum Donor-no extra perks
$50+(?) annually=Diamond donor-no extra perks


As for how: there is a link in the top right of any page under the search box. The donation is done through PayPal.

what does the money go to, exactly?

well, you should be. i usually trust you amongst few other HCR hermits (myself included)

Most likely to extra bandwith or something of that sort...

YEAH! you said it Sir Lancelot! (hey...about Guenevire...howe is she...you know.... ) J/K

Lancelot: you're not the first to say so. Unfortunately, life prevents me from running tourneys and all that other stuff you have to do to become a judge.

As to where the money goes, as far as I know, it goes to bandwidth and computer upgrades and all those things that keep a website going.

Yeah! And the funny thing is that the current ruling was once the genrally accepted ruling based on that PAC text and it was 'corrected' to any roll on either turn in the FAQ! I totally agree that we simply don't have an explicit instruction for what to do in this situation anymore.

The question is where the presumption lies - with old rulings or working out the internal logic of the new mechanics from scratch. It could go either way, but I recognize that there is a simplicity to dropping everything that didn't make the changeover.

In some cases, however, the presumption must be in favor of the old ruling - Beginning of turn timing, for example. The old verbage was anachronism:

Powers and abilities that go into effect “at the beginning of your turn” are resolved in the order determined by the player whose turn it is. Powers and abilities that may be used “once during your turn” may be included in this step.

And so it is not included - Those "once during your turn" powers are now Free Actions and presumably are governed by the rule that Free actions can happen at any time during your turn. But the FAQ hasn't explicitly that free actions can occur before "beginning of your turn" type powers like Poison and Leadership. Are we to s#### the spirit of the old ruling and just presume that 'beginning' means 'beginning' and that's that?

Again, I think that it would not be such a bad thing if the ruling at issue were intended (Outwit v. Willpower) to be reversed. And your argument does make more sense that the old ruling. It just seems a little less messy to me. *shrug*

Oh yeah - ironically, I'm not a Judge either - I was just deactivated due to inactivity. I'm not sure why my title still says Judge - the last time my status was deactivated (beginning of the year) HCRealms instantly changed it. hmm.

Kid Zemo

ohmigod its the judge! Scatter! oh, whew, not a judge.

I see your point. This is how I feal:

Free actions can be used at anytime as outlined by the specific powers. Outwit states that it can be used "once during your turn". The "begining of your turn" is still a part of your turn, so Outwit can be used during the "begining of your turn".

True, there is nothing that states what order events happen at the begining of a turn, or who determines the order. As such, it is up to the individual judges ruling as to how these events are determined. I would guess that most judges would fall back on the old FAQ and have the current player decide the order, but as of right now, he is not required to.

I'm definetly on the willpower is in effect at the end of the action, as push clicking is the last thing to be done, and is not dealt until after the damage resolves on the Bat.
Of course, I know a few people who think having me on their side of a debate almost garauntee's them losing, I do tend to be right with a little more frequency lately.

So yea, Deathstroke takes no push click.

The consenses everyone has come to are pretty much the current state of the issue. By using strictly the rules that currently apply to the game, Deathstroke should not take pushing damage. If applying the intent of the ruling from the earlier system, and not allowing Deathstroke to benefit from the sudden reemergence of his Willpower, he will take that click. There is not explicit answer to the problem.

In the case of beginning-of-turn timing, there really is no layout on how to treat the problem. In that case, a Judge's choices resolve, essentially, to either anarchy or the old rules. Honestly, though, the lack of any pattern to follow in that case means that the Judge must either opt randomly or, recalling the old entry, have the players abide by the old stipulations. In this case, of course, the old stipulations are within the bounds of the Judge's options, of course, as no matter what he must make some ruling, and that is as valid as any. He is not forced to, but it serves to provide a viable framework he can then pass on to his players, and it has been at some point proven useful.

In this case, we do not have quite that same situation. As was said, the rules as they are do outline an answer. The Judge no longer chooses between anarchy and old references, but between old and new, in that respect. PL's point about reinterpretations of unchanged wordings is valid, and so similar wordings do not guarantee that the rule means the same thing with everything else that has changed. And it should be noted that in cases of early rules questions, issues where a Judge was not sure if the rulebook should be interpreted entirely literally were often greeted with a friendly "it works as it reads." As in this case, we have a valid reading, I would recommend following that reading unless you hear something directly different, and rather recent.

So for now, let's have Deathstroke undamaged.

Herocomplex has spoken! Hear one, hear all!

Of course you could always follow a different (and often under-used) section of the rulebook:

Nothing like a simple way to get back to playing the game instead of arguing translations.

I like that method myself tyroclix, unfortunately, most of my players won't settle for it. They need exact translation or rules adjucation.

But it is in the rule book and it is official. Even says so in the description "In ALL such instances..."

All it takes is for two people to agree they both disagree.

See even the biggest rules lawyer should be able to agree on that