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I know the topic must have been settled by now. What are the game effects of a fire arrow? I mean a standard arrow wrapped in an oiled cloth and set aflame. Thanks, -AA
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I want to allow the players to come up with their own spells, but I would like some input as to what limitations they must all have. at first I was going to do a multipower, but I can see that getting out of hand. here are the limits Im looking at, any suggestions would be appreciated: gestures, incantations, concentration (1/2 DCV), expendable focus (components), requires skill roll, side effect (varies on element & spell), cannot cast if wearing metal armor (restricts movement), must be associated with caster's element (fire, water, darkness, death, etc... requires caster to have KS: Magic Element), extra time, full phase (-4 1/4) if there is a way to re…
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As the subject line says, got some sample Psionic Powers up. http://www.killershrike.com/FantasyHERO/GreyHEROContent/Powers/Psionic/Psionics.asp
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Corruption?
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I thought that I would throw this one out to see what folks thought. The bad guys in my fantasy game are a version of undead ghoulie/vamp type things that can corrupt with their touch...They are "infected" with Undead'ness and can spread it. The common folk call them by dozens of different names but Malagant and Enwrathi are the two most common. They are keeping with the notion "Do not stare to long into the abyss, lest the abyss stare back into you." Jhoren looked into the great hall. Bodies lie broken amid the furniture, bodies of his friends. Nervously he wiped the sweat from his hands. The creature was down here somewhere. The warrior chucked when he had…
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I don't know if this has been a topic already. But i was comparing the old FH to the FREd FH and I noticed that while many races still get a boost to some attributes, none of them have penalties anymore. So, I was curious how most people handled Char Maxs in their games.
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Need some help designing my world
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My Fantasy Hero world has an archipelago called the Chaoslands, a land where magic has become extremely erratic. Mages who are not used to manipulating the mana in this area find their powers very unpredictable. Their spells are just as likely to fail, manifest more or less powerful, or have a completely unexpected effect. Any suggestions on simulating this effect?
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I wanted to create a thread where people could post magic items they create for Fantasy Hero. They may be your favorite magic items other RPGs converted to Hero, or better yet one of your own design. Mike
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Some types of FH magic give a x5 modifier for points spent on spells. other slist only a x3. And others have no modifiers at all -- a point is a point mo matter what you spend it on. This leads me to the conclsuion thtat a tool is being provided to balance the relative power of magic ic a campaign. So you could in theory have: No adjutsment: magic is weak, difficult and not alwasys worth the trouble. You have to spend a lot fo REAL points to get much in the way of power. A fireball may be beyond most 75+75 point characters. x2: magic is somewhat more potent, but not powerful enough to be a major factor in most camapigns. Few will bother to learn spells of a…
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Armor Belt Submitted By: D. Michael Basinger, dbasinge@speakeasy.net Suggested Item Category: Armor Effect: changes belt to armor Target/Area Affected: Personal Duration: Permenant Range: Personal END Cost: 0 Description: This magical belt can transform the wearers clothes to armor and back as a zero phase action. Game Information: Cost Power END 5 Chainmail Armor: Armor (7 PD/7 ED) (21 Active Points); Independent (-2), OIF (Armor; -1/2), Mass (Half Mass; -1/2), STR Mininmum (10; -1/2) 5 Cloth to Chain: Cosmetic Transform 2d6 (Transform clothes to chainmail armor and back), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (15 Active Points); Independent …
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I have a Character that specialises in Elemental Magic. So I made these little Elemental Minnions for him to summon on casual occasiions like getting fire wood and setting up camp. Would you allow them for a player? He is a 150 point character so he is not allowed to have followers or summons that are higher than his own point value. What do you think would you allow it, would you change it, or would you leave it? Invisable Servent Player: Robert Towell Val Char Cost 5 STR -5 10 DEX 0 10 CON 0 8 BODY -4 5 INT -5 0 EGO 0 10 PRE 0 0 COM -5 1/6 PD 0 2/7 ED 0 2 SPD 0 3 REC 0 20 END 0 16 STUN 0 0" RUN-122" SWIM00" …
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Another one sent to me - short and amusing.http://www.geocities.com/teo592/quiz/dragon.html A SILVER Dragon Lies Beneath! My inner dragon is to dragons what the Ranger is to humans. I possess considerable intelligence and self-confidence. I live by my own code of ethics and I stick to it at all times. Click the image to try the Inner Dragon Online Quiz for yourself. Hope that last takes - I'll try it and see. - Kewl - it did.Anybody else bored and interested?
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New Magic Thread
by Guest ahah_sef- 13 replies
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Ok so if we can't get some of the old contributers, how about some new ones? If anybody out there has any magic items, spells, potions, scrolls, etc... please post them, it could be a great resource for all of us if we share! I'll start posting some of mine!
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I'm thinking of running an online Slayers HERO game at HERO Central (just discoevered the site and it looks really cool -- wish I knew how to dveelop a site like that to run PBEM games of the Seraphim Guard line!) and I just realzied that before I seek out players I am going to need some help developing the grimoire. Slayers has a set list of spells that are commonly used in the series, with some impromptu magical effects, and I'd like my players to be able to choose from the established spelllist in addition to creating their own spells. I'm also trying to decide on the power level. Unless i simply want to use characters from the series, which would limit the size a…
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Here's one for the Slayers fans who play FH; if one of your players wanted to build something akin to Gourry's Hikari no Ken (Sword of Light), and he had enough points that woudd allow him to do it, how would you advise him to do it? The other question is whether you would let him, given that such a powerful single weapon might unbalance most campaigns even in High fantasy?(The only reason it doesn't unbalance Slayers campaigns is that the rest of the party has access to powers that are just as potent).
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I'm not totally certain that this is the right forum for this, but hopefully so; it looked like here or Other, and this seemed to more or less fit. If you don't have time to read the whole thing, it's OK if you just want to comment on some. I'm looking for advice on a fairly-new campaign that, as the title says, is Anime-based. It is loosely-sorta-inspired by the series YuYu Hakusho, but I'm not overly concerned about sticking to the materiel. Basically, anything you have comments or suggestions about, I'd be glad to hear. Also, I'm not too concerned with accuracy to the real world. So if you see stuff that stands out, feel free to point it out..but it's not a b…
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The Magic System has been detailed and a link is provided below. Magic System
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I get too many ideas. just now I got the idea for a fantasy world that in essentially the Age of enlightenment with magic. And sowrdsmen, instead of weilding mighty greatswords, weidl 'smallswords" and rapiers and gain their deadliness through phenomenal skill. I wonder if fencing would be the proper MA style for them to use, or whether fencing could be given magicla ssists 9drink this potion and gain enough of a DEX bonus for ten turns to raise your CV by two or three, then your DEX goes down by the same amount for the rest of the day as you exhuast yourself), how Enlgihtened wizards would function, whetehr magic would be forced to be sublte of whether more overt ef…
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Is Takofane from theTurakhan age or Valdorian age? Mike
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Afreet Val Char Cost 18 STR 8 18 DEX 24 15 CON 10 20 BODY 20 10 INT 0 10 EGO 0 16 PRE 6 16 COM 3 4/13 PD 0 4 ED 1 4 SPD 12 7 REC 0 40 END 5 40 STUN 3 6" RUN02" SWIM03 1/2" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 92Cost Power END 20 Fire Shield: HKA 1d6 (1d6+1 w/STR), Damage Shield (Offensive; +3/4), Continuous (+1) (41 Active Points); Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Cosmetic Transform to horribly burned person; -1) 18 Gunfire: RKA 1d6, Uncontrolled (+1/2), Continuous (+1) (37 Active Points); OAF (Gun; -1) 19 Burnout: RKA 3d6, Explosion (+1/2) (67 Active Points); 1 Charge (-2), No Range (-1/…
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Here's my first draft of a standard baseline Lizard Man warrior write-up for my Grey Hero campaign:http://www.hierax.com/hero/fantasy/grey/monster/lizard_man.pdfI'd appreciate any feedback, critique, suggestions, etc... than anyone may have.Lizard Man Val Char Cost 13 STR 3 11 DEX 3 13 CON 6 12 BODY 4 8 INT -2 8 EGO -4 10 PRE 0 6 COM -2 4 PD 1 4 ED 1 2 SPD 0 6 REC 0 26 END 0 32 STUN 6 3" RUN-66" SWIM04 1/2" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 10Cost Power END 5 Scaly Skin (and subdermal Osteoscutes): Damage Resistance (4 PD/4 ED), Inherent (+1/4) (5 Active Points) 27 Fangs: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1d6 (1d6+1 w/STR), Inheren…
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The nice folks at DOJ let me post 3 or 4 images per book. I happened to do the MMM art in color, because I think it translates into gray scale with lots of subltle tones. Also known as "happy accidents". So, now that MMM is out, I thought I would share with y'all what the color art looks like.
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I'm gonna post a beastie in the next message, a large hulking creature that recharges its END reserve by draining the BODY of its victims. I want to add one more attack or defense power, but I'd like comments on the basic creature and the Soul Burner powerplant it uses. This guy was built some time ago, and now that his creator is dead, he seeks to understand his existance and create, maybe, an army of necromechanical critters to serve as his buffer against a cruel and intolerant world. He knows he's evil, but he sees the rest of the world as much worse than he is. Kinda like a Frankenstein's Monster, without the little girl and the flowers. So what kinda sp…
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i'm starting to convert my previous fantasy campaigns to hero 5th. what are some of your favorite ways to use our ultimate gamers toolkit to give your characters attack and parry skills with their weapons. the most interesting seems to be based on designing off of the martial arts skill, but also the most time consuming. i know i could buy fantasy hero, but i want to try and stick with the 5th edition black book for rules and all my original rule/source books for the particular details.
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A while back I started a superpowered wish fullfillment thread. Make yourself as a superheroic character with 350 pts. it didn't fly. So, because I lack the sense to quit while I am behind, make yourself as a fantasy character. 75+75 pts Any fantasy setting you want (but if its Sci Fi i have one started at the Star Hero boards)
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It seems to me it should be possible to, without adding additional rules, create a magic system that imitates Ars Magica's in Hero; I think it might not even be all that difficult. However, rather than immediately set out to re-invent the wheel I thought I would check here to see if anyone has already done this, or at least has some ideas on how it can be done.
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