The game was Fourth Edition Champions, the GM was a first-timer, the setting was San Antonio, Texas - our home town. The characters were Magnus, Master of Magnetism (modeled on Magneto), The Saint, Psychic Extraordinaire (brain scanning the planet was the least of his abilities), and Leda Pavlov aka Swanmay, a deaf lab assistant in a blue leotard, with improbable sonic powers. The biggest of these was the Swan Song, purchased for poetic appropriateness and loaded with so many disadvantages that 300d6 of damage (that is not a typo, don't edit it) cost 5 points. The primary disadvantage was that it would go off uncontrollably within a narrow radius when she was dying, and only when she was absolutely, positively, definitively dying. Otherwise, she could fly, had a minor energy blast, lots of