"I'm a Gamer, and HERO 6 Was MY Idea"

[James Gillen]

Post here if you had an idea for 6th Edition that Steve either already proposed in the original notes for 6E Discussion, or if that idea ended up in the final game once you proposed it.

In my case I can think of the Charm Skill, which basically takes the place of Seduction, only without the implied emphasis on sexual conquests. In a D&D-to-HERO 5th conversion I ran, one of my players thought that the Seduction skill would represent her character's ability to win people over, but at the same time she didn't see herself as getting sexually involved with anybody. Since there were games like TORG that had a more generically-applicable "Charm" skill, I had proposed that something similar would work for the new edition. I can't remember if I was responding to one of Steve's posts when I mentioned that case, but I do remember having the idea before 6th Edition was proposed.

JG

[lemming]

No Figured Characteristics was something I supported a long time ago, but I know I wasn't the only one.

[Hugh Neilson]

I had posted a few comments on reducing the cost of STUN, END and REC prior to 6e, I suppose.

Are there any really unique ideas? A lot of 6e was likely someone's house rule at one time or another. So were prior edition changes, I expect.

[Chris Goodwin]

Mental Combat Value was mine.

Est Totus Meus Mendum.

Edit: Oh, and I pushed for the removal of Independent.

[Matt Holck]

I was all ready to take away independent items so any character that wanted to could get them in my game.

My players had a song once that went
Brick, Brick, Brick, Brick
I think the no figured characteristics may increase variation in build.

[McCoy]

Regeneration's back.

7e, Instant Change!

[Sean Waters]

My contribution was suggesting that it be split into two books with a pagecount of 464 on the first one. I didn't specify the pagecount for the second book, so I guess Steve must have come up with that on his own.

[Steve Long]

Sorry, but I'm shutting this down, right now.

To be crystal-clear: very, very few ideas in 6E came solely from one person. Good ideas rarely arise in a vacuum, and like any other small fan community the HERO System fanbase has a lot of cross-pollenation of ideas. On that basis alone, and aside from the fact that y'all don't have access to my full notes and ideas on any given subject, it's generally incorrect for anyone to claim sole credit for any given idea.

To take the example that started the thread: I'm pretty sure that many people had thoughts about changing "Seduction" to "Charm." The first person I remember specifically making that suggestion to me was Dave Mattingly, though I don't remember if it was several years ago or even further back during the 5E discussions before DOJ even existed.