bionacle hero..hmmm

**grymlocke** · Apr 27th, '03, 09:55 PM

I was watching the old idiot box (ie, TV) the other day and a commercial came on for those bionacle toys....the robots, masks, matanui, a bio of their world, I'm sure you've seen them.....and got to thinking campaign idea....

PC's are IA robots built by alien race (human?) and set to work terra-forming a world...in the process, a silicone-based life form is disturbed that respons to this invasion by taking over hosts to fight (the masks).

no off-world aid (communication cut, forgotten about, etc...), limited resourses (most of world is still wild, just a few major urban centers and outposts)....

hostile alien animals, villianious(?) alien mind set on revenge, isolated location (far distant alien world), wild and urban with little if any 'middle' enviroments....

any thoughts?

ok, I know this is a rambling post, think of it as thinking out loud, brainstorming....

**Arthur** · Apr 28th, '03, 08:21 AM

What in the world does "bionacle" mean?

**grymlocke** · Apr 28th, '03, 07:46 PM

Originally posted by Arthur
What in the world does "bionacle" mean?

beats me....i don't have any of the toys, comics or what ever its based on....just a commercial i saw that planted the seeds of an idea.

prob. a stoopid idea anyway.....

**csyphrett** · Apr 29th, '03, 06:36 AM

Have you tried their web site at Bionicle.com (sp)?
CES

**Syberdwarf2** · Apr 29th, '03, 06:48 AM

Actually, the Bionicle idea seems like a pretty cool one. Being as how I'm pushing thirty, I'm a little too old to have been playing with legos (but pretending to be a superhero with a bunch of other people on the weekends is okay right?)...

That being said, the more I checked out the website, the more do-able it seems.

try this link...
http://www.lego.com/eng/bionicle/default.asp

**Chuk** · Apr 29th, '03, 01:52 PM

My son has a bunch of Bionicle stuff, and we've definitely toyed with the idea. (pun intended)

I'd probably use a lighter system, like Fudge, just because it'd be a lot quicker to make up the stats.

**grymlocke** · Apr 29th, '03, 09:59 PM

there's a website?.....

if people think it a do-able idea, then i'll put some work into it and see what happens.....and i'm 40 also, I still watch cartoons (anime mostly), play rpg's (since d&d was a white box) and champions had a grey cover (i still have those micro-D6's too...) and I sit infront of a computer drawing techinical pictures thinking about how (if I where a mastermind villian) to take over the world........

....to prove my mousey worth.....(its a pinky & the brain thing)

thanks, i'll post what I do.....

**Syberdwarf2** · Apr 30th, '03, 02:29 AM

Originally posted by grymlocke
there's a website?.....

....to prove my mousey worth.....(its a pinky & the brain thing)

So what're we gonna do tonight, Brain?
Same thing we do every night, Pinky..........TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!

What's wrong with gaming at an age that doesn't end with the suffix "teen"? Myself I'm pushing thirty, still watch cartoons, I probably play more with my kids toys than I do my own, and don't plan to stop playing until they can pry FREd from my cold, dead fingers....

**grymlocke** · Apr 30th, '03, 09:43 PM

Originally posted by Syberdwarf2
So what're we gonna do tonight, Brain?
Same thing we do every night, Pinky..........TRY TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!

and don't plan to stop... until they can pry FREd from my cold, dead fingers....

you should see the junk that migrated into my cubicle.....talk about toys...

anyway, I looked at the website, played the game a bit.....looks like it could translate into a campaign with little more that building the creatures, but the infor----almost directly, i think

**Nolgroth** · Apr 30th, '03, 10:09 PM

Why doesn't it surprise me that the people here seem a little older than the D20 crowd?

**grymlocke** · May 1st, '03, 09:44 PM

Originally posted by nolgroth
Why doesn't it surprise me that the people here seem a little older than the D20 crowd?

i've been playing for a very long time, (since '79) and have given most systems a shot over the years....dnd in all editions, aftermath, space opera, gamma world, MERP, Marrow Project...etc...

for me, the appeal of hero....its a more 'mature' system than the d20, no 'classes' to pigeon -hole a player into, no artificial ranking system that does little more than play into the munchkin/ power-gamer /lawer hands....hero, requires forethought in adventure and character creations, as a result, a certain depth is created that is lacking in other systems. Also, DnD (as an example) began as a WARGAME !!! a tabletop, minis game that branched into an rpg, (i was around then, and played it, remmember 'chainmail'? little grey spiral-bound book?) it (DnD) still retains those elements....that find it, kill it, take its teasure while chanting 'ECKS-PEE', ECKS-PEE' feel..... most following rpg's borrowed from the DnD model, hero from the beginning (I had the blue box, with the GREY champions book & microdice) 'felt' different, still does and probably always will.....a feel of sophistication

did that make sense?

**Nolgroth** · May 1st, '03, 11:22 PM

Sure did grymlocke. My first experience with HERO was with 4th Edition. While I have enjoyed my other role-playing experiences, HERO was the best system I have ever played with. It takes a lot of patience and imagination to tailor to a specific need, but I thought that this hobby was all about imagination. Well, these last couple of messages have completely deviated from the thread. Sorry guys and gals.

**Killer Shrike** · May 1st, '03, 11:55 PM

ITs cool. Of course, you are both in Sac. You could get together and talk about it in person. See? The Internet: All about bringing people closer together.