If I'm using in contact with Cerebro and I pick, say Cyclops, to PB somebody, but Cyclops is adjacent to an opposing character, would I be able to make a ranged attack from Cyk's square?

On the other end, if X is based by an opposing character, can he still draw LOF from and make a ranged attack from another character?

I don't know.

Yes

No

http://www.hcrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=310317

ThanxPix.

I read over that thread a few times, but I didn't see this specific one addressed. Maybe the wording is just throwing me off.

To expand Moom's answers

If Prof X is drawing LOF from Cyke's square, he is just drawing LOF. Nothing in making a ranged attack is stopped by being adjacent to the LOF source
The Prof still has to obey the other restriction of ranged attacks, no enemy adjacent (unless he had sharpshooter)
Note that, although Cyke has sharpshooter, Prof X cannot use that to his advantage to make a ranged attack through Cyke as the Prof can only use the character as a source for his LOF

You thanked him, but it sounds like you're still confused or don't accept the answer.

Breaking it down....Professor X is the one making the attack. He is only in one spot...where he actually is sitting in his starting area. He is NOT considered to be Cyclops. He is NOT considered to be in Cyclops' square.

Anything at all requiring adjacency (or line of fire back to Chuck) goes from where Chuck is.

If you want to Enhance the damage, the Enhancer needs to be next to the actual Chuck.

If you want to PC the attack roll, you need to draw LoF to the actual Chuck and be within 10 squares of the actual Chuck.

If you want to inyuk chuk, then you have to wait until they make Apache Chief.

If you want to stop him from making a ranged attack, you have to be next to the actual Chuck.

Just ask yourself: Could Professor X use his power to attack that character from his own square, if he had LOF and an unlimited range value?

If the answer's yes, then he can make the attack through the friendly character.

If it's no, then he can't.

If you can't draw a LOF from the friendly character's square to the target, then you shouldn't have asked yourself the question in the first place.

This is the Q&A you would want to focus on. The underlined sentence seems to answer your question.

And if you want to know how much wood a wood chuck could chuck, beyond needing the judge's permission to use a custom figure, Chuck does not have super strength or telekinesis so he cannot chuck any wood

I recommend printing out his final word and keeping it with your tome of Heroclix rules.

When you use him, you want to play him correctly.

If you face him, your opponent his probably going to try to psychic blast you from behind through Nightcrawler after you base the professor.

Keep in mind that prof x has to use one of his powers to perform the attack (ie. psychic blast)so he cannot bust stealth even if the friendly he's shooting through is based to the opposing stealther. This one seems to come up frequently in our play group.

This made me actually LOL.
This did, too!
"Hey you dang wood chucks! Quit chuckin' my wood!"

Hmm...I just had an interesting visual of Chuck picking up Mjolnir and tossing a Dumpster through Cyclops's eyes.

By the way...I want to point out that the above was simply a funny observation, but it wouldn't work.

Even if Chuck does manage to acquire Super Strength he could not throw objects through the other guy.

1) Most likely, as would be the case with Mjolnir, Super Strength is not HIS power, so he couldn't use it through another guy.

2) Even if he did manage to POSSESS Super Strength, it still wouldn't work. When you throw an object, you are not using Super Strength.

HA HA HA HA HA... breathe, breathe, HA HA HA HA

The fact that you know this will come up and that you had best correct it before someone thinks that an offhand joke is rules gospel is freaking funny!