Can Fundamental rules be changed?

[Querysphinx]

Is there any way to put house rules into Hero Designer?

Specifically: I made a house rule. I did away with PD ED and Killing attacks. I replaced them with STUN Defense and BODY Defense, and a "Killing" advantage.

STUN defense defends, sensibly enough, against STUN damage. It is a figured stat with a base value of STR+CON/10. Additional STUN Def costs 1 point per 1 Def.

BODY defense defends, sensibly enough, against BODY damage. It is a figured stat with a base value of 1+ (STR+CON/20). Additional BODY Def costs 2 points per 1 Def.

This means that for 5 points, a character can buy 3 STN Def and 1 BDY Def, which is, on average, enough to stop the BDY of a 1D6 Punch, while letting .5 STN through.

IMO, this compares favorably to buying 3 PD & ED for 6 points, which will always stop a 1D6 punch or EB and will let .5 STN through.

I also use a "killing" advantage. This +1/2 advantage means that the attack is designed to kill living things. Every BDY done by this attack that gets past the target's defenses is doubled (i.e. subtract defenses and then double the remainder), making these attacks far more lethal than their "normal" counterparts.

This system is sort of an ongoing playtest, but it's worked out well so far.

Is there any way to put this into Hero Designer?

[ghost-angel]

You can create a Template with the added Characteristics. It's in the manual.

[Lucius]

You can create a Template with the added Characteristics. It's in the manual.

There's a manual?

Lucius Alexander

Did the palindromedary eat it?

[ghost-angel]

Yes, RJ Currie spent a good deal of time on it, and did an excellent job with it.

Download the Installer, comes with it.

[rjcurrie]

To be completely honest, I don't quite think a template will do it. It would handle replacing the PD and ED characteristics with the new ones; however, as far as I can tell, things like Force Fields and Armor would still be trying to add to PD and ED.

[Querysphinx]

Yes, RJ Currie spent a good deal of time on it, and did an excellent job with it.

Download the Installer, comes with it.

Interesting. I didn't know it had a manual. I downloaded the file, so I must have downloaded the installer, but I can't seem to find it. Do you know its file name?

[Hyper-Man]

Interesting. I didn't know it had a manual. I downloaded the file, so I must have downloaded the installer, but I can't seem to find it. Do you know its file name?

It's in the same directory as the HDv3.jar file.
It's called HDDocs.pdf

[Querysphinx]

It's in the same directory as the HDv3.jar file.
It's called HDDocs.pdf

Thank you.

[rjcurrie]

If the manual is in the same directory as the program (which it should be if you used the installer), it can be launched by selecting "View Documentation" from the Help menu.

[Querysphinx]

Okay guys. Thanks for all the help so far. Yay!

Thanks to ya'll, I figured out how to make templates, and I managed to Replace PD and ED with SD and BD. Now I'm looking at all the other defensive powers (Armor, Force Field, Force Wall, Combat Luck.) and I can't seem to figure how them to get to add to the new stats instead of the old ones. Is this possible, or do I need to make some sort of substitute powers?