Star Hero
Science Fiction Roleplaying in the worlds of the future!
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Been playing for a zillion years, but never played > 450 level. Thinking about trying 650+ level, figured Starships and interplanetary travel was the best place to do it without getting Earth blown up every week. Assumed Star Hero was all about characters like Green Lantern and other spacefaring superdupertypes. But after a bit of poking, now wonder if it's more like "Traveller" - middle-powered agent-types with weaponry. Plan to buy the books once I know what I'm getting into. Can someone give me a quick overview and/or point me at some websites? Both types I mentioned would be helpful.
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A friend and I are putting together a short campaign that is going to take place completely on a starship in the middle of space. The premise is simple. The ship has suddenly stopped working including the fussion drive and communications. There is no contact with the bridge crew. Neither of us have ever built a starship before. What kind of rooms do starships have? Engine room, bridge, and crew quarters are the only things I can think of off the top of my head. Also what kind of systems to ships have? Weapons, Shields, Life Support, and Communications are on my list. Any other things missing from this list?
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Everything that's ever been said about Star Trek's Phasers suggests that they're among the most powerful hand weapons in science-fiction TV/movies--too powerful, I would think, for the comfort of a GameMaster. Has anyone ever built a Phaser in HERO System, from any of the series or movies? How many points did it come to? How do GameMasters handle players with that much power? What about some of the other Star Trek weapons, like Klingon Disruptors? Just as powerful, or not so much? Looking forward to reading the answers.
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I've got a link to some of the PCs from my TE game at my site. Feel free to peek at them, steal them, use them. The backgrounds are somewhat sparse, and yes, some of them have points wasted on 20th century things that I will pay them back for when the time comes. And yes, some of them have not-entirely-legal sets of disadvantages. I believe that the Hero rules are a tool, not a straitjacket. If you have questions drop 'em here, I'll see 'em. I've got writeups on paper for a typical TE Naval Security officer, and a typical TE starship gunner, and a typical TE starship pilot, but I haven't put them into HD yet. When I do I'll post 'em. jk
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I'm a little unclear on something said concerning the campaign sourcebooks for Star hero. There was mention of five eras, but I only counted four: Terran Empire(24-2700) Terran Federation(2700+) Xenovore Wars(24th century) interstellar Hero(pre-24th century) Was there something earlier or later than these eras? Or is "Galactic Champions" the 5th era?
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Has anyone done anything with the David Brin Startide/Uplift Universe?
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ugh, I can't delete!
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OK, folks, it’s time to get serious about the Origins Award write-in campaign that I’ve hinted at previously. To briefly recap, Hero Games products, including 5E, were completely shut out of the nominations for the 2002 Origins Awards, despite the high quality and importance of our 2002 releases. We want to correct this grievous oversight by mounting a write-in campaign. To succeed, we need YOUR help — and the help of anyone else you can recruit to vote on our behalf. If you’d like to know more, or would like to get directions on how to vote and other things you can do to help, please visit: http://herogame.dans.cust.servlets.net/news/newsWriteInCam…
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Question for you all about ships in star trek (assume the same as Enterprise-D How many shuttles do they carry? How many different types? How many shuttle bays how many can they launch at a time via a single bay
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What sort of PRE attack would you give this weapon: http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030315.html
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So, this last week the PCs, in trying to escape an Imperial Navy Peregrine-class Frigate, found themselves just 37,000km from the nearest terrestrial-sized planet and decided to disengage the safety interlocks and leap into hyperspace anyway -- they were pretty sure they'd be killed or captured if the Dauntless caught them, and weren't certain that they'd die if they jumped too close, so they went with that. Due to various issues, I handwaved their being successful in making the jump. But I'm trying to figure out a reasonable difficulty scale and sense of consequences for a misjump too close to a planetary mass. I tend to think something like: within geosynch…
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So, has anyone tried to do a Farscape HERO? I have the d20 version, but I was wondering if anyone has tried to do a HERO version. It is another one that I woud like to try, but probably will never have time.
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Just curious if any of you Star Trek fans know how fast a Warp is, and if it's a linear exelleration (Warp 2 is twice as fast as Warp 1). Mightybec
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Has anyone seen a write-up for Powered Armor and/or Mecha for Hero5? I'm new to the game as well as this board. If so could you point me in the direction? I know the book gives a brief example of Powered Armor, but it's just way to simple for what I'm looking for. If no one can reference me, does anyone have some advice? I looked at the Vehicle Construction and I'm thinking of using a slight varient of that. Basically figuring out the abilities individually and then having characters buy their PA's stat by stat. I'm kinda looking for a Bubble GUm Crisis (Fusion) type Powered Armor System. Any help or suggestions will be useful Thanks in Advance, …
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Will any of the new, upcoming, Star Hero books feature any sample ship write-ups? My only let down for Star Hero was a lack of examples. I had never played in a Star Hero game before and felt ill equipped to use it at this time because of this lack of write-ups.
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Getting back to an old topic from the old boards here, but now that Star HERO is out (excellent book) has anyone thought of what would be required to campaign in the universe of the British TV classic Blakes 7 ? I know it;'s a fairly bleak universe, but it could also be a lot of fun with dry humor in the mix and some very cool characters (including a master villain with the highest COM in the galaxy).... "I never doubted your fanaticism. As far as I am concerned you can destory whatever you like. You can stir up a thousand revolutions. You can WADE in BLOOD up to your armpits. OH, and you can lead the rabble to victory -- whatever that may mean. Just so there's …
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Back in the day, I used to play Gamma World, Traveller, and Star Frontiers. I was also a Champions fan somewhere about 1983-86. I'd like to get back into gaming, particularly Sci-Fi, that being my favorite genre. I've never seen Star Hero, would some of you long time players offer up how Star Hero expands on Fred? Are you satisfied with it? What makes it worth buying? What do you wish were included but is not? Are there good supplements for it? If I try it, is there a campaign or setting that I might look at to get things launched? Thanks in advance.
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It's all abou the sfx... and that's an excelent one.
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Would DOJ be willing to make a electronic copy of the galactic map on Terran Empire pg. 75 avilible for download? Thanks, Mike
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One of the things I loved about 2300AD was its list of near stars, and coordinate information. I discovered that Andy Brick transcribed that list into a file available from his 2300AD web site. I also took note of his comments that some stars in that list were fictional, and that the data didn't mesh with real data from, say, the Gliese catalog (Gliese 2). Also, since the time GDW made that list, Gliese 3 has come out. So I've merged some of the data from those sources together as a new Near Star List (Big HTML document!)
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Well I have to say Hero did it again. Terran Empire every bit as good as Star Hero. The write ups for the races were awesome (I wish they were longer but the book would have to be 800 pages) and the art is top notch. I have to say I'm really happy with the Star Hero line of books. IMO they have been better than the Champions books, and this is coming from a guy who has never used Hero System for anything but Campions except for online games.
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I was wondering what people had to say about trying to run Rebellion-era Terran Empire campaigns in the age of Sigismund and the period with the Epire teetering on collapse. I always wondered why the Torgons of Xenovores didn;t sieze on the oppotunity to wipe out those pesky humans and take all their worlds while they were fighting among themselves....
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Though it's not in production yet, Plustech has developed a multilegged walking forestry mech for low-impact logging operations or use on steep terrain. There's even some videos of it in action at http://www.plustech.fi/Walking1.html . Shouldn't be too hard to write it up as a vehicle. With another 19 centuries or so of development i can readily imagine a top speed that's greater than a few miles an hour. -m[arcuS]
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Would it be possible from someone to post the table of contents for Terran Empire? Legally, I mean. I'm interesting the book, but I would like a rough overview of what's in it. Steve, is that possible?
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Terran Empire is the simply the best "Source/World" book I've seen in I don't know when! I wasn't even considering running a StarHERO game let alone running a out of the box campaign. But I was so inspired by TE that I'm shelving my FantasyHero campaign to work on this Great Job to all who worked on TE!!! p.s. now go out and top it:D
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