HERO Designer
General discussions of the HERO Designer character creation software.
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Hi, I'm new to the Champions format and I bought the Character Designer to help me with the process and I was having a hard time finding out how to export my character onto a sheet. Also where do you place your file for your character sheets as I can't seem to find the image I saved for mine. Thanks to all who reply ahead of time.
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I am running a game over discord with a few friends. I bought the Hero Designer and the Combat Manager to make life easier. I have found templates with .XML documents that claim they were made in Hero Designer. Is there a way that I can import these and use them in the combat manager for NPCs. I am going to be making all the PCs by hand, but I would like to avoid making a dozen or more NPCs if I can avoid it.
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I couldn’t find a relevant post, but I apologize if this has already been discussed in another thread. According to my understanding of he math for calculating the Real Cost of a power, the formula is as follow: Active Cost / (1 + total value of limitations). Example: Resistant Energy Reduction, Base cost 30 Always On, limitation, -1/2 cost Should the math not work out as (30/(1 - 0.5))=15? Hero Designer has it coming out as (30/(1 - 0.5))=20 and I find myself very confused. Other examples for the same power/base cost: + 0.5 advantage = 37 - 0.5 limitation = 24 - 1.0 limitation = 15 The math …
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So, since .hdc files are stored as XML, I was examining a few with a text editor to get a little more under-the-hood insight. I noticed many element attributes directly related to controls & toggles in the software UI, but a few that stumped me. Particularly, seems like these two appear in every list item (characteristic, skill, perk, power, disadvantage, etc.) but don't seem to relate to any software interface or feature: GRAPHIC="Burst" COLOR="255 255 255". ...that suggest some kind of white burst... somewhere? I'm using a pretty dated version, Hero Designer 6 build 20120127. Maybe those tags had been introduced into the file fo…
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Anyone else having a problem with most export files where the skill names are not appearing? just the rolls with no indication of the skill?
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Hi, i bought the Hero Designer earlier today and when receiving the confirmation email it says that you can find all downloads under the "manage purchases" section of the website but when clicking the link it gives me a 404 stating that the page no longer exists. I wanted to know if anyone else has had this problem and if they know the solution or if there is another section on this site that would allow me to download the file.
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My Hero Designer dates from 2015. Have there been any improvements to Hero Designer since then that are significant enough to warrant me purchasing it again, so as to download the latest version?
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I recently bought and installed Hero Designer. When I open a new character and select Sixth Edition superheroic, it defaults to 250 points + 100 points in Complications. It should be 325 points + 75 points in complications, right? What am I missing?
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I am doing a space game that will have skill groups for players to buy as part of building their profession on a spaceship. They are all sort of custom skills like Zero G Operation, Astrogation, etc. I would like to have them preloaded into Hero Designer for my players to just buy them. I am not sure how to do such a thing and if it would be more appropriate to put them into a Template or a Prefab? Any assistance is appreciated. :)
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I'm trying to build a power with continuing charges, but when I open the charges limitation, I can't find an option to make the charges continuing. How does one add this particular modifier?
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This may be an old issue, as my Hero Designer is not new, but the DefaultPrintTemplate.hde used to export to HTML is displaying the flight speed of a character as a total of two separate multipower slots, when in fact the character can only fly with one or the other. The multipower is not large enough to permit both at once. Ishtar Ninurte.pdf
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Just emailed my GM my 5E character and his copy of HD didn't have access to the advanced Combat Skill Levels options (such as 6pt ones from Ultimate Skill). As such, it showed errors in my build. But his copy of HD (2015) is later than mine (2013). Did these get removed? He just has the standard block of options from 5rEd.
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Is there any way of exceeding the CHA limit in 5e (I see there's a tab for 6e)? Example would be having a CHA of 1000. Edit: I've tried setting the CHA to 999 and in the Powers tab having that CHA with +1. However, this always resets the CHA to 10.
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I recently started to have a problem with HD freezing up on me. I can open HD just fine (along with any character file I created) but as soon as I attempt to edit a character, it locks up. When I attempt anything, I only get the dreaded "ding" sound. I can't even get out of HD unless I go to the task manager and use the end task button (while highlighting Java). I've tried a couple of things; updating to the most current HD file and install the latest version of Java, which turns out I had already done some time ago. This is a recent problem so I'm not sure if it is Java. The most recent thing I have done was purchase the Champions Powers HD pack.…
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The title bar shows the character name and file name...but not the file path. The title bar's fairly long; it'd be nice to be able to see the full path. And if there isn't enough room...the build number, in my experience, isn't on the title bar that often, it'll be in the Help/About displays. Speaking of that...in the About....the last copyright date's 2006? This is according to the 20200102 build....
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Howdy, I bought the Champions Powers Character Pack and I can't load/install it because there is no file extension. I have perused the HD documentation and not found anything enlightening. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you solve the problem? I'm not a computer wiz, but I can follow directions. The problem is that I can't seem to find any directions on how to run this product. Thanks for your time. Cheers, Brian
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Howdy! Is there a way to expand the Computer Programming or Systems Operation skill like they talk about in Hero Skills?
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Ok, I'm trying to start HD6 and its not working (I get the "choose an app to open the file" window), I downloaded jarfix and when I run it it say I have no current Java Runtime Environment. I downloaded the most recent JRE and installed it then restarted my computer, still jarfix says I don't have a current JRE. Anyone have this problem before? If so, how do I fix it? Thanks.
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Just in case, does anyone know if "floor", "round" or "int" functionality is available in the Math tag?
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I use Hero for the Fantasy hero portion, would Hero Designer be a big improvement for my group?
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Hello, Probably a simple question I am just not finding in hero designer...but how do you input a multipower framework. I have a player who wants to use a very watered down Vision knock-off and his main powers should be part of a multipower. What I am about ready to do for this character is use a template that has multipowers already and just overwrite and save as a new character. Is that the only way to get multipowers in HD6?
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I'm adding Growth to a character and I noticed that there are no options for totals. I want to add the characteristics bumps, but they are not adding in. I can see it for other powers and it works fine with those. Any idea why Growth is missing the option? Running HD6 build 20140223. Maybe I need an update? Thanks!
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Sorry if this has been addressed before. I'm running HD on my Windows 10 laptop. The app opens just fine, but the screen resolution makes everything tiny and unreadable. How do I get HD to run in a different resolution? I've tried compatibility settings but so far no luck. Thanks!
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Hi, I want to remove "Delayed Effect" as a Modifier in Hero Designer. How can I do that when editing the XML? I could copy all Modifiers over from the main template and remove that one, but that seems very heavy handed; I hope there is something more elegant. Thanks,
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One day I will actually see what HERO Designer looks like.... I can't get my HD6.jar file to open with anything but Adobe Acrobat. It won't give me options outside the Microsoft App Store and of course Java won't be there. I have attempted to hit a YouTube tutorial on opening .jar files with Java in Windows 10 and every step looks like I will have to educate myself about elements of programming that I have never had to use. I will do so, I suppose, but if anyone knows some kind of user-friendly way to manage this, I would much appreciate the help. EDIT: Apparently "Jarfix" was the magic bullet I needed. I believe it is alread…
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