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Hiya all, I just picked up HeartQuest and upon first look through, it looks like a pretty good book. It got me thinking about the anime genre, and was curious if anyone out there uses the Hero system to RP in anime? I know that Guardians of Order has an anime game (Big Eyes, Small Mouth), but have not tried it yet. Polaris
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Hi Folks: I am currently putting together a larger than life spy action game for convention play called The Team From H.E.R.O, and have been trying to decide how to handle gadgets. One piece of equipment that I think the team should have are very sophisticated short range radios that are hard to detect. This allows players to share information without a whole lot of risk. As for other gadgets, I can see four ways of handling it: 1) Assign each character specific gadgets on their character sheets. 2) Offer the characters a list of specific gadgets they can choose from. 3) Let each character loosely describe the one or two gadgets their chara…
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Hey. I am thinking about trying to run an Alternate History game based very loosely upon the French and Indian War in early America. Something along the lines of the Last of the Mohicans movie with some "other" material thrown in. I am wondering if anyone knows of any internet resources that would come in handy?
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If you haven't heard of this movie, it's about people who have the power to steal luck, either by touching someone or taking a photo of them. They compete against each other in clandestine games of chance, some of which are extremely dangerous and high stakes. Here's a trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/lions_gate/intacto.html I was thinking of different ways this power could be done in Hero and this is what I came up with: Luck Stealing: Transfer Luck 4d6 (target's luck to character's luck), Can Transfer Maximum of 40 points, (AP 68); (RC 68). This would be the simplest way to do it, but you have to talk your GM into allowing Luck to be drained …
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BOLTWORM Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 43 STR 33 18- Lift 9600 kg; 8 1/2d6 HTH Damage 4 DEX -18 10- OCV: 1 / DCV: 1 30 CON 40 15- 26 BODY 32 14- 8 INT -2 10- PER Roll 10- 14 EGO 8 12- ECV: 5 23 PRE 13 14- PRE Attack: 4 1/2d6 10 COM 0 11- 9 PD 0 Total: 16 PD (7 rPD) 12 ED 6 Total: 19 ED (7 rED) 3 SPD 16 Phases: 4, 8, 12 15 REC 0 60 END 0 65 STUN 2 Total Characteristics Cost: 130 Movement: Running: 4" / 8" Leaping: 0" / 0" Swimming: 0" / 0" Cost Powers & Skills 30 Sheet Lightning Multipower: 45-Point Pool, All: Only in Hot/Dry Environments (-1/4), Reduced By Range (-1/4) 3 1) u Stun: EB 9d6; Stun Only (-0), Only in Hot/Dry Environments (-1/4), Reduced By Range (-1…
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For all of you who are savvy with both Vampire and HERO, how would you tailor HERO for Vampire: The Masquerade?
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For all of you who like the Exalted setting but want to "HEROize" it, what suggestions would you have for emulating Exalted using HERO?
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Project hack is a story told over a series of different mediums, It starts in Hack/Sign (showing on the cartoon network) continues in the Playstation games Hack/Infection through a total of 4 games, 2 OVA and one manga series (so far) The short version is a set of players of an MMORPG are investigating events where players go into coma's while playing said game (the game is called "The World" and is lously based off Everquest) Now..the question: How would you do this in a hero game format? Most action takes place online (as the characters search "THE WORLD" for clues as to whats going on) but also offline as the events in the world are effecting compute…
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Deadlands Hero 1 2
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Two questions in one thread. One, I would like to add the chip system of Deadlands to Champions, but am unsure how to translate it. Two, anyone done a conversion of Deadlands to Hero? Thanks, Boz
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I just saw an anime movie I had purchased, but had not watched for a while. Why on Earth was i foolish enough to put off wtaching Voices of a Distant Star? This movie, which was done by a very small crew, is utterly inredible. In one sense, it's a story fo a mecha pilot and the boy she left behind 9and it does have some incredible battle seuqences), but on the other hand it's a wrenching story of the effects of relativity on a relationship. Advanced cellphones can send messages light-years into space, but they can only travel at the speed of light so a message can take years top get from Sirius to Earth. Not to mention the necha are very cool -- especially the c…
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Cthulu Hero
by Guest Confusinator- 20 replies
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Anyone have a link for Call of Cthulu conversions to Hero?
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I watched The Howling DVD the other night and it still looks good compared to CGI. What struck me was that I never before noticed the scathing satire in it. Its main target was late ‘70s to early ‘80s self-help gurus and the fad theory that most mental illness was caused by repressed impulses. The Colony was for werewolves in therapy! In the commentary, the writer and director said they were using the werewolves as a metaphor for what happens when no impulses are kept in check. They also said they hated the smiley-face sticker, which is why they had Quist (Robert Picardo) mark his territory with it. Now I have to think about how to draw adventure ideas out o…
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I haven;t decided on things like power and technologylevel, whether there will be magic, etc., but I just got a weird idea. Can you imagine a game world in which the USa had been dissolved and each of the 50 states was in indpeendnent country? This would probably only happen if technology, transportation and communications had broken down to the point that such a large country could no lger be held together. And the sytats would not remain independent long if the saem phenomenon had not happened in the rest of the world. Transportation would be animal-profelled, sailing ships, and the like. Weapons might be the remnants of the weapons that exist today utnil the ammun…
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So I am a big fan of the Cyberpunk Genre... How would you recommend handling cybernetics. Are they focuses (probably IIF or OIF)? Just powers? Not quite sure how to do it. Thanks, Jonathan. PS: Do any of you know of any recent cyberpunk style novels you would recommend?
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I don't know how full a pciture of a wordl you can get from three episodes of a techno-fantasy series, but over the last month I did get to see the frist three episodes of a new series called Full Metal Alchemist that looks like it has a very intguing premise. basically, in this world the preeminent form of magic is Alchemy, which has a strict set of rules. basically if you want to make something with Alchemy you have to trade value-for-value. the heroes are a pair of brothers who tried to ressurect their mother when children 9they were both extaordinarily gifted) and got it diisastrously wrong; the older brother lost onbe arm and one leg, the younger borther lost h…
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I was wondering if anyone had any idea on how to write up Kohaku, the angel heroine of CLAMP's classic manga Wish. Acutally, there are a lot of chaarcters in that series who would make interesting HERO characters, if unusual to deal with. After all, you wouldn;t expect Satan's eldest son to flee to Earth and adopt domesticity, or expect a pair of black cats to run into busty woman-demons who have several annoying habits. One could do a whole website or web-book based solely on characters from CLAMP's manga, andnot just those series that have been animated. The CLAMP School Detectives would interesting NPCs to encounter, as would any skilled Angelic layer player or a …
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you have 200pts + 150 disads make an anime martial artist representing yourself at a contest of champions. This could be a "magical child" version of yourself or a Street Fighteresque version. Have fun, play fair and Hadoken ASS!
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ANTON MERRIWEATHER (The Lord of Sleep) Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 13 STR 3 12- Lift 150 kg; 2 1/2d6 HTH Damage 16 DEX 18 12- OCV: 5 / DCV: 5 13 CON 6 12- 10 BODY 0 11- 15 INT 5 12- PER Roll 12- 18 EGO 16 13- ECV: 6 18 PRE 8 13- PRE Attack: 3 1/2d6 16 COM 3 12- 4 PD 1 Total: 4 PD 3 ED 0 Total: 3 ED 3 SPD 4 Phases: 4, 8, 12 6 REC 0 26 END 0 24 STUN 0 Total Characteristics Cost: 64 Movement: Running: 6" / 12" Swimming: 2" / 4" Cost Powers & Skills 10 Dread Curse Of Azathoth: Drain EGO 1d6, Ranged (+1/2); Incantations (-1/4), END 1 15 Shriveling: Drain BODY 1d6, Delayed Return Rate (points return at the rate of 5 per Day; +1 1/2 ), Ranged (+1/2); Extra Time (Ext…
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RYOKO MITSURUGI Val CHA Cost Roll Notes 15 STR 5 12- Lift 200 kg; 3d6 HTH Damage 24 DEX 42 14- OCV: 8 / DCV: 8 20 CON 20 13- 11 BODY 2 11- 10 INT 0 11- PER Roll 11- 18 EGO 16 13- ECV: 6 18 PRE 8 13- PRE Attack: 3 1/2d6 16 COM 3 12- 8 PD 5 Total: 8 PD (0 rPD) 8 ED 4 Total: 8 ED (0 rED) 5 SPD 16 Phases: 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 8 REC 0 40 END 0 30 STUN 1 Total Characteristics Cost: 122 Movement: Running: 8" / 16" Swimming: 2" / 4" Cost Powers & Skills Martial Arts: Kendo/Kenjutsu Maneuver OCV DCV Damage 5 All-Out Attack +1 -2 Weapon +2 DC Strike 4 Block +2 +2 Block, Abort 4 Disarm -1 +1 25 STR Disarm 4 Evade -- +5 Dodge versus All, Abort 4 Lightning Stroke +2 +0 Weapon…
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I was going through a bunch of my old Champions stuff last night and came across some files that I had printed on a campaign idea called Waylords. Does anyone remember this and is there anything else out there about it? Basically you could either add the Waylords as villians or make a full campaign about them. Their main ability was that they could access the Way, an extra-dimensional highway to any world. It was a very cool idea and very well written. If anyone knows anything more about it I would appreciate any info or websites. Thanks, Matthew
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Hey Mike, Somehow us diehard fans would really like to know how the Asian Beastary is coming along. Pretty please? Sugar, Spice, Everything Nice, and Indonesian Vampires?
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Someone suggested (on another Forum) the idea of "Reality TV Hero." It got me to thinking... how could some Reality TV concepts be applied to some of the more popular genres? Some ideas to get people started: The Amazing Race in the Galactic Federation. Trading Spaces between two superhero teams. Murder in Small Town X in a fantasy setting. Anyone else?
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At long last, it's here! Hero Designer 2.0 is now for sale in the Online Store! Designed specifically for the HERO System©, Hero Designer has an intuitive, easy-to-use interface and a powerful, template-driven structure that provide the flexibility and functionality you expect from a Hero product. Its features include: Hero System 5th Edition - Built from the ground up to fully implement and support the Hero System 5th Edition rules. Customizable Templates - Hierarchical structure for fast and easy character templates. Advanced Modifier Intelligence - Explanations for unavailable Power modifiers as well as the ability to override HERO System rules to …
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A while back I considered starting a game set in the Megatokyo webcomic universe. After re-reading the comics several time I concluded that some of the action is seen through a Calvin and Hobbes type of "reality filter" How would you handle this? A Psych Lim perhaps?
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did you see the December 2003 issue of "Handloader"?? THere is an article on the british .577 "manstopper" pistols. I have always liked the idea of them for a pulp era character. a 5 shot revolver firing a 450 grain (just over one ounce) bullet .61 Inches in diameter at 750 feet per second. Almost exactly 2 times as powerful as the .45 ACP. OK, I am a happy Gun Geek today.
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