HERO Designer
General discussions of the HERO Designer character creation software.
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Hi, Potentially silly question. Using HD for the first time, having been a pen and paper player many years ago. Starting to create a character, and I notice that complication points are not being subtracted. Am I doing something wrong?
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In the past I was able to buy a bunch of Hero Designer prefabricated stuff. I went online to see if I could find the Champions pre-fabs. (The book called Champions, not Champions Complete). But I could not find anything except the basic hero designer software in the store. Are prefabs sold through somewhere else then?
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Where in Hero Designer would I find skill enhancers such as Jack-of-All-Trades or Well-Connected? I'm not seeing them on the either the Skills or the Talents tabs.
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The Updates are located on the same page you probably downloaded your initial version of Hero Designer. You may want to check once in awhile to see if a new version has been uploaded. The most current version is March, 2022. From the upper main menu go to Store and Manage Purchases. From there scroll down until you see Hero Designer as a purchase (or even Hero Designer Source). You will find a .zip file at the bottom. The date will be attached so you may see what the last update was. From there you should just have to unzip the files into whatever Directory you currently have Hero Designer. If you are install…
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I have HD3 from when I was active in Hero System when all the store and purchases where still online. I noticed there is no version number on the current HD for sale in the store. Is there a summary of the differences between the two somewhere? I was not sure if it was worth paying for the new program, or is it basically the same?
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When playing around as part of another thread, I never noticed before (probably because I don't mess with VPPs often. The Real Cost for the power is at 0 in the Power pane. While I know it should be 0 in the VPP List, there is no indication of what's actually being spent and if it goes over, only when you exit and it gives the error of 'Real Cost for XXXX exceeds....Item will be placed outside of Pool's Sample Power list." Can that be changed to show the Real Cost inside the Power write-up?
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Just a quick play around with something for Easter. Going back and going down the list on some of the tags and double checking that I know what I think I know Not perfect, not great and other ways to do it. Was just playing with different things and seeing how they exported. With things like Hero Designer, I honestly believe you should play with all the tags, rather you use them or not to make sure you're getting what you think you are. You may expect X and you end up with XY. Happy Easter all.
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Is there an easy way to do multi-column tables by dividing the output? for example something like this:
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I don't know if this is HD or Java, but here's the situation on Windows 10: 1) no issues with HD version 20210804 (immediately prior version) 2) I've used HD version 20220312 the past couple of months without issue, but loaded it today (Saturday) for the first time in a few weeks, and I think maybe Java updated once during that time. 3) Issue - I load any hero, go to Skills tab, click on a skill, and then either click edit button at bottom, or right-click on the skill and select edit - then HD main window loses focus (as it should), but no edit window shows up anywhere. When this first happened, I used task manager to end th…
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cheatsheet
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I made a quick and dirty cheatsheet last night. Not pretty or professional but works. If anyone is interested I'll put it on the downloads.
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6E2 183 says computers don't come with standard senses for free, "they have to be hooked into sensory systems (like the security cameras at a base, or the sensors on a starship) to give them the ability to perceive, or the builder has to buy the Computer specific Senses (see 6E1 209 for costs)." I cannot find "standard senses" in the enhanced senses powers directory in Hero Designer. Are we forced to use customer powers for this, or is there a way to add/remove standard senses that I'm not finding? Thanks!
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Can some one provide me with a list of all the major Hero Designer file extensions used within the program and what they are for? For example .hdc are character file .hdp are prefabs etc. Thanks
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I can't find any options to enable scaling for the application which means in my case the app is painfully small unless I manually drop my resolution down to 1080p or less. Is their a way to enable scaling on a windows 10 PC?
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Hi all, I bought my version of Hero Designer back in 2017 it is version 6, but since then have there been any updates or reason to buy it again. I have been away for a little while health reasons and am just getting back into Hero and if it is worth updating I will do so. For example I saw one of the programmers talking about adding I think it was Divination, but it may have been something else. Look forward to hearing from youi. Regards, Larry
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I purchased a Windows 11 machine last month. I tried running HD6 on it and, even after getting Java 8 (update 311), it will not launch. Any advice?
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I'm playing around at the moment for the most part with some things. Here is what I have so far for APG1 and Ultimate Skill. You will probably want to go in and edit a few things before you plug them into Hero Designer. 20220417_UltimateSkills.hdt 20220417_APG.hdt
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I Like 6E HTM: Tasha's Ultimate Character Sheet as it works very nicely for Characters. But Bases and Vehiles not have Martial Arts and stuff so was wondering what a good template to download for everything else. Suggestions?
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Team: I have had my Hero Designer install run w/o issue on Ubuntu 18.04, with Java 8 default install. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, HD stopped working altogether. Looking into it, the default-jre was set to the current 11.x, so I changed it back to Java 8 (1.8.0.xxxx), which is the correct version. After setting the executable bit--got changed for some reason to not an executable--and with the default to Java 8, I now get the startup splashscreen; however, it gets stuck on "Loading Plugins"...I wanted to troubleshoot this further, and logging from the system or HD app would help. I will check dependencies for Java 8, but does anyone have the actual locat…
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So I am starting up Champions after many years of not having done it and I would like to use the characters and stuff from Champions 5th edition. I did get the pdf but I did not see any HD files for this book in the Hero Games Store. Does anyone know where I can get this?
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Has anyone figured out how to put this inside Designer?
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Hi All, I wonder if there is an export format for skill type? That is, intellect, agility, combat, etc? I can't seem to find what I need from the docs or available HDE files. But perhaps I'm just missing it? Thank you, ViG
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So I am creating a flying brick in Hero Designer. I've got Characteristics and Skills pretty much squared away, but am hitting a wall in regards to powers. Now, the power that I'm wanting to recreate in Hero Designer is listed as follows on Page 252 of Champions 6th Edition: 25 Super Tough Body: Resistant (+1/2) for 25 PD/25 ED Now, both of my flying brick's regular defenses come out to 28 PD/28 ED, and I'm wanting to convert 25 of those points to resistant defense without adding extra to the normal PD and ED. The main problem I'm facing is that Characteristics as Powers (which is what this would be defined as) only seem to allow one …
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How do I add a Computer (AI) to an existing character (6e) in Hero Designer?????
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Is this a limitation that will need to be implemented via Limited Power? Or am I just missing the option somewhere? I looked in several types of charged powers in an MP, the Limitations and Unavailable Limitations tabs but did not see it. - E
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So I'm designing a character that could be used as a get away driver. So I did give her combat piloting which says that you can have one free familiarity of any vehicles that moves in three dimensions. But when I'm putting in her TF skills in HD it doesn't take that into account so how should I address this to keep track on how many points I have spend on character skills?
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