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So a twofer today Gods of Neutrality God of the Sky: Lord of the sun. The one who gives warmth. The drought lord. Mountains (any other ideas?), Name : Kogano Holy Symbol: Sun symbol Professions: ?????, Clothing: Robes or coats coloured yellow Weapons: Bows are sacred, and thus preferred. Education: Any the interest them, as long as they devote themselves to it at the time Spells: warmth, light, blindness, thirst, dessication Magic Items: Robes of warmth, orbs of light, Goddess of the Night Sky: Lady of the Stars, the navigator, Patroness of sailors, desert travellers. T…
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How does this sound for a Lovecraft's/Dunsany's Dreamlands-style campaign? SETTING: The Waking World is the modern world of 1985. You are all teenagers (12-14) in a sleepy, rural New England town. CHARACTERS: Player characters are built on 25 points, plus up to 15 points in Complications. Waking World characters are subject to Characteristic Maxima as shown on 6E1 50, except that STR, CON, and BODY max out at 15 (because you're young teenagers), and INT, EGO, and PRE max out at 25 (because you're Lovecraftian teenagers). Waking world characters have the following powers for free: The Dream World is the Dreamlands of Lovecraft and Dun…
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I've been looking at Swords and Sorcery settings. Naturally I included the official Hero setting. It didn't really inspire me. Some of the rules stuff, like the magic system has potential, but the setting itself seems rather blah. What do other people think? Has anyone used it? What changes could be made, or is it better just to ignore it and use something else?
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God of Knowledge, learning, tactics, logistics, Healers, cooking Name : Readaer Holy Symbol: Book or Scroll Professions: teachers, scribes, sages, physicians, Clothing: No official outfits other than the Holy Symbol Weapons: Any weapon suitable to their profession, but staves and swords are favoured Education: Any the interest them, as long as they devote themselves to it at the time Spells: Speed Reading, Healing (they are closest to a traditional healer type), Magic Items: glasses of translation, bags of preservation, Blankets of warmth, Charms vs diseases,
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Onto the Goddess of Justice Using Scott Ruggels' previous post as some inspiration Goddess of Justice: The balancer, the goddess of just endings. Goddess of vengeance. the goddess of honour, (any other ideas?) Feuds? Perseverance? Retribution Name : Ariadne Holy Symbol: Balance with feather on one side Professions: Judges, administration, ????? Clothing: Any clothing but when in an official capacity, must be wearing their holy symbol and a sash of office. Weapons: Any weapon, but small easily concealed ones are prefered Education: Law, bureaucracy, theology, any specializations they prefer Spells: d…
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Does anyone know where on the site submission guidelines are at? I sent two admin e-mails but havn't heard back. Figured they might either be too busy to respond or might be an old address. I thought maybe you guys in the general forums would know where it's at. Thanks in advance.
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I posted about divine magic system, now I want some possible spells. These should not be the mobile artillery that arcane mages are, more buff and sustain types. Also I am a proponent that differing deities will have differing abilities. So first up: God of Commerce: Also the traveler, the explorer, of keeping your word, oaths (for good or ill). The god of the legal cheat. The collector, the god of wonder and exuberance! Master of language. (any other ideas?) PS feel free to suggest a name for him as well!
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Rolemaster had Laen Atlantis has Orichalcum Guild Wars 2 has Deldrimore Steel and Amalgamated Gems My point is that these different sources had some sort of magical material. Now why am I asking about them? Well in most (not all) Fantasy Hero settings, magic items are Independent (What the GM givith, the GM can taketh away) But if you craft your own item, well you pay for it out of your hard earned Character Points. Which can hurt if the item ever gets lost or destroyed. So do you ever have those magical materials which if used in the creation of a magic item will supply "X" points to the real cost? For example in the B…
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After some thought I decided I wanted some type of clerical/divine magic. And not wanting to re invent the wheel, I thought the Metier style that I am using for Arcane magic could serve as a framework for Divine magic. SO: Mandatory is RSR at (-1/2) and Must serve deity's plans (-1/2) Required Advantages: Difficult to Dispel x4 (+1/2) Required Limitations: Incantations (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4) Restricted Advantages: IPE (+1/4), Red. End (+1/4) Restricted Limitations: Side Effects (-1/4), Reduced By Range (-1/4) All Clerics will have a Mana Pool (End Batt w/ Rec) that will power all spells. Out of power means that god's…
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This spell lets you do two things, depending on the distance between the caster and the subject (living or non-living thing): if the subject is more than a kilometer or so away, you can sense the general direction and rough distance to it. You can get all fancy with a compass if you want -- "the target is roughly 15 kilometers away in an East-Northeast direction" -- but you couldn't Target the subject. if the subject is less than a kilometer or so away, you can see it and its immediate surroundings. Still can't Target it, but at least now you can say it's the Duchess who has the Princess kidnapped, not the Duke. Now One sounds like a Detect, maybe w…
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I'm trying to figure out how to do this effect in HERO, and would appreciate the help of the Assembly. This is specifically for Illusion spells, but any thoughts about doing it for other types of spells are appreciated. When you have enough experience (high enough skill level) and power (big enough Multipower pool), you can try to "take control of another illusionist's spell", letting you make it do what you want. I've seen writeups in Champions Powers for using Mind Control to simulate "controlling" simple devices (effective INT is Active Points/5; this is covered in more depth in APG 72-73), and I could go that route. But I wondered if there was already some…
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Has anybody play tested anything other than the suggestions in FH, HSEG etc for the above? If so, how did they pan out?
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After going through the History of Aerelios to the present day, it is time to state the government. Now in the History, there was a time when Aerelios was split in two and under the control of two differing nations and having to answer to two different overlords. Thus two mayors. But as they had similar concerns from time to time, they co-operated when it came to emergency measures. I feel like this system has continued in a slightly different format to this day. Before it was Aerelios East and Aerelios West. Now Rather than east and west it is.... and I am stuck. Any suggestions?
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New to the site and my search method is failing. Has anyone done a conversion of D&D 5e classes, spells, anything... to Fantasy Hero?
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As Killer Shrike said: And so I present the History of Aerelios (Instalment One) Please feel free to add ideas. Basically I will be taking the timeline they have, condense it (Sorry but 6000 years and the nations have the same borders? And I thought the elves were unchanging!), add new nations, (Both in the Basin Area but also in the Northern Jungles and plains area, something other than here abide primitive tribesman we can enslave, because jungle nations do not exist)
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The passing of Scott Bennie has got me thinking about an equivalent to Villainy Amok for Fantasy Hero. For those unfamiliar with it, it takes a bunch of classic superhero plots, pulls them apart and shows how a GM can use them to make their own adventure. It also contains more or less ready to play examples. Appropriately, some of them could quite easily be used in a fantasy game, and the others could be tweaked into something suitable. But I'm on my phone so I can't really go into more detail. Anyway, a book of Fantasy plots could definitely work, and could either be run as a campaign or be used in bits.
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New Styles
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So as many of you know I am (slowly) working on my campaign. Mostly its an intellectual exercise, but if I ever use it, I want to make it work. So I am using a system of magic from Mr. Killer Shrike http://www.killershrike.com/FantasyHERO/HighFantasyHERO/MagicSystems/Metier.aspx Central to this system is the Styles that differentiate the different practitioners. On the Page he has five General Purpose styles. They are: Preciat Required Advantages: Reduced Endurance (0 Endurance; +1/2) Required Limitations: Incantations (-1/4), Side Effects (-1/4) Dosao Required Advantages: Reduced Endura…
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Picture a HUGE inland lake. It makes the Great Lakes seem small. 650 mi (1040 km) east west and varying from 125 mi (200 km) at its narrowest to 300 mi (450 km) at its widest. Basically it resembles an hourglass turned on its side. ALL the rivers flow into this lake (it basically is a huge basin) EXCEPT for one, that flows out at the top left corner. I would think that this river is Huge, basically a couple of miles from bank to bank. This river flows upward where it is joined 350 mi (560 km) by another river and both continue up to the northern jungles. Now my questions: 1) I think one Large City (Aerelios) should be at the mouth of the river. Sho…
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I'm looking at character creation now. Since fantasy, aside from Urban Fantasy, involves a world other than our own, a data dump is necessary. It should, however, be as short as possible. You can't really expect people to read your book before they can start playing. You can, in fact, cheat, by incorporating their character decisions into your world building. That can get out of hand though. For example, if a character is Hunted by Orcs, Orcs exist, and are a significant factor in the setting. But what if you don't want Orcs in the setting? Of course you can ban such an option in your data dump, but the problem is: what is a…
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I'm having a fantasy "thing" at the moment. It's got as far as considering alignment At the moment, there is Good (your side), Bad, and Neutral. As I've said, Good is your side. The things you do are in the interests of your community. If your god wants you to sacrifice your children, there is a good reason. Bad are on the other team. Neutral doesn't care about your stuff. You might be able to win them to your side, or they might join the other. Once they do that, they are no longer Neutral. Unless they change sides... Actually, that won't restore their Neutral status.
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Gods redone
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I was bouncing ideas for my campaign with a friend and he looked at the list of gods and made some suggestions, mostly that between the gods of Order and Chaos there will be some who are Neutral (sort of reminisiant of Dragon Lance or Turakian Age) But he agreed not to go good/neutral/evil. So I present to you my new modified list and ask for any suggestion / recommendations Gods of Order God of Commerce: Also the traveler, the explorer, of keeping your word, oaths (for good or ill). The god of the legal cheat. The collector, the god of wonder and exuberance! Master of language. (any other ideas?) thieves? generosity, the potlatch? Alcohol (d…
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So as to not derail this thread, let's start another one. As usual, people cannot come to an agreement on the subject - the hobbit. Are they miniihimans, dwarven offshoots, elvish subclass, something else? While I have my personal answer, I would like others to make their statement (and reasons) before I return. Now let all the arguments fly.
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This is a spin-off of a thread on the Champions board where elves came up. My own contribution was something to the effect of, I'm an un-fan of fantasy, especially games, where elves and the other Tolkienian, D&D-esque, races exist. And an observation that when a new fantasy game or setting comes out, there are those whose first question is, what are their elves like? But why does fantasy have to have elves? Or multiple races? (I have to admit: I use "elves" as a shorthand for "elves, dwarves, some sort of hobbit analog, probably orcs as well, possibly some number of others.") I can think of half a dozen fantasy series off the…
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I was going to go for a Hit Locations system, then I saw Savage Earth (Thanks LL) and he uses an Activation Roll system. So which do you guys use? Opinions and suggestions welcome!
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So I have decided to sit down and map out the town my Fantasy Hero game will operate out of. The adventure uses one of the standard Fantasy Anime tropes. Smaller cities and towns are spotted throughout the Kingdom. Each is an island of safety in a hostile wilderness. Monsters abound and “Dungeons”, from small randomly spawning ones to large semi-permanent warrens dot the world. The primary method to cull the threat is the Adventurers of the Guild. The local lord (Baron, Duke, Count, etc) may maintain troops to protect the town itself and the near hamlets, but the true deterrence are the Adventurers. Adventurers are the Fantasy equivalent of Su…
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