Ok...need a ruling clarification. Someone with Super Strength picks up an object. On the next turn, he wants to drop the object. He still has Super Strength and no one is near him...he just wants to drop it in a space next to him and move on with his life. I ruled that it was a move action to pick it up, move action to drop it. Was I correct? Once someone picks up an object, to they have to hold onto it until they use it or lose SS?

Thanks!

Right they either have to use it (throw it out something; i.e. wall, or a figure, or he loses SS or has SS outwitted), you cant just drop it (could be wrong on that though, just the way i have been told)

Sniksder's right. Use it, lose it, or get it outwitted

Otherwise, you're stuck carrying that forklift.

My understanding is that your can't voluntarily drop an object. You can of course just chuck it at someone.

you can't enen outwit someone with an object say's so in the faq's even though noone asked

From the FAQ:

If a character with Super Strength is carrying an object, that character's Super Strength power is not optional (it cannot voluntarily be "turned off," but it may still be outwitted).

Of course...that ruling's obvious....
it's common sense!

I still haven't been able to put my car keys down since I picked 'em up last Tuesday.
My roommate's stuck reading "The Dark Knight Returns" because he can't throw the copy at anybody in range.
My mom, of course, is still clinging tightly to a pot and a saucepan from 1987.

Like people can just put something down when they pick it up, or something....
I mean, really.

it is a stupid rule...but were stcuk with it til someone realizes it and changes it.

I think the rule is there to prevent the Vision (or other SS flyers ) from air lifting She Hulk etc. and handing off a dumpster to her. That's a whol lotta hurt with a 15" range.

Actually... the rule is to keep people from setting up 'trains' involving stealth characters and mobile hindering terrain shields...

Imagine... lets see... U Elektra moves to stand on an object, She-Hulk slides up behind her. Okay... both are untargetable, unless you can get a better line of fine, but say that puts you into the range of some other nasty shooter. Okay, no biggie... until she hulk picks up the object moves it forward, sets it down again. Elektra follows and jumps on the object again... and since she didn't start her action in HT, she gets full move range.

Of course you can play around it... but still... that, I believe, was the intention of the 'no drop' rule.

Actually... the rule is to keep people from setting up 'trains' involving stealth characters and mobile hindering terrain shields...

Imagine... lets see... U Elektra moves to stand on an object, She-Hulk slides up behind her. Okay... both are untargetable, unless you can get a better line of fine, but say that puts you into the range of some other nasty shooter. Okay, no biggie... until she hulk picks up the object moves it forward, sets it down again. Elektra follows and jumps on the object again... and since she didn't start her action in HT, she gets full move range.

Of course you can play around it... but still... that, I believe, was the intention of the 'no drop' rule.

Actually... the rule is to keep people from setting up 'trains' involving stealth characters and mobile hindering terrain shields...

Imagine... lets see... U Elektra moves to stand on an object, She-Hulk slides up behind her. Okay... both are untargetable, unless you can get a better line of fine, but say that puts you into the range of some other nasty shooter. Okay, no biggie... until she hulk picks up the object moves it forward, sets it down again. Elektra follows and jumps on the object again... and since she didn't start her action in HT, she gets full move range.

Of course you can play around it... but still... that, I believe, was the intention of the 'no drop' rule.

...and it's impossible to make mobile terrain for stealth with, say, TK. Right? Right? Oh, right. Yep, another rule that makes no sense.

(odd... I replied to this thread, clearly saw that my reply was saved, and now it's gone. What with all the double and triple posts lately, there are some funny things going on at HCRealms.)

The "moving terrain" argument kinda loses some validity when you consider you can do the exact same thing with a TKer.

I'm willing to bet the *real* reason you can't drop an object is simply because they didn't write that in the rules, and there's been an overly literal interpretation of the rules. See RCE and defensive powers, Perplex not ending when you lose the power, and a myriad other weird rulings.

(OK, that's truly bizarre. My original message reappeared, but now both have disappeared from my view. Something funky is going on. Please ignore my ranting.)