Determining Mass Rank

[terrestrialboy]

Is there a quick and easy way to figure out the mass rank of an object? If it's in the book, I'm drawing a blank.

Say a strong character wants to lift up a motorcycle. What mass rank is that? Sure, I can look up the weight of a motorcycle on the interwebs, but that's kind of annoying in the middle of a game, and I can't take something arbitrary like the Toughness rank of the object, because that's way off.

So, is there a method to figuring out the mass rank of an object for the purposes of lifting the thing off the ground, and eventually chucking it at your enemy?

[Murkglow]

If you don't know the weight (and don't want to look it up) then there isn't anything like that that I am aware of. I would recommend just making it up to what you feel is "close enough" then or spending some time when you're not playing to look up a few things and write their weight down then guess an items weight based off similar object's weights.

[terrestrialboy]

Well, I got a bug up my butt and did some research. Using the table that was in M&M 2E, I made one for M&M 3E. I'd like people to check my math ...

M&M 3E Mass Rank Benchmarks

[Dark Koala]

A very nice chart, and you found some good examples for each category. Nice work. You might want to consider posting this in the Fan Resources forum.

[Murkglow]

I agree it's quite nice.

[terrestrialboy]

My math was slightly wrong in a few places ... and I went all OCD on it and expanded it to a bunch of other examples as well. Man, distance is a bitch. I'll post it there.

Thanks, all!

M&M 3E Ranks Benchmarks

[Flying Cobra]

some errors-

pretty sure even the heaviest Blue Whale isn't anywhere near 400k tons...
Weight of the Blast Impact of a small asteroid? ????
Saturn V Rocket = 3.5K tons

[hero4hire]

Lifting str for M&M3e is exactly the same as Str in the old DC/MEGS game and Champions str if you multiply by 5.

If you have either or both of those games you are all set.

[Unka Josh]

pretty sure even the heaviest Blue Whale isn't anywhere near 400k tons...

No,the record-holder is 177 Metric Tons.

[terrestrialboy]

Whoops. I'll fix that ...

[gamemaster72]

My math was slightly wrong in a few places ... and I went all OCD on it and expanded it to a bunch of other examples as well. Man, distance is a bitch. I'll post it there.

Thanks, all!

M&M 3E Ranks Benchmarks

Wow, you did a great job on this. Great, useful real world examples. I'm going to use this as a reference for my own game. Thanks for going "all OCD on it"!

[terrestrialboy]

I've also been trying to figure out how conditions recover. There's no good spot in the book that really tells you how one condition recovers into another. So I spent some time, and came up with this chart:

Conditions Recovery Worksheet

I don't know if it's entirely correct, but it's the best I can do with the book. If I've missed something, or there's an error, please let me know.

[gamemaster72]

I've also been trying to figure out how conditions recover. There's no good spot in the book that really tells you how one condition recovers into another. So I spent some time, and came up with this chart:

Conditions Recovery Worksheet

I don't know if it's entirely correct, but it's the best I can do with the book. If I've missed something, or there's an error, please let me know.

Well, you're a busy beaver, aren't you? There's an old topic called "Disasters" that I recently resurrected. I'd love to see what you could do with that.

[terrestrialboy]

No guarantees, but when time allows, I will see what I can come up with.

In the meantime, I've got a convention to organize.

[gamemaster72]

Ok, cool beans. Hope everything goes well.