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Along with all my other projects, I am going to be doing a 1 player Kazei 5 game from time to time. While the supplement and website have a great deal of info for major NPCs/Player examples there is not as much in the way of generic enemies. Smalltime gang members, corpo security and the like. I was hoping to avoid having to create all of that and so wanted to see if anyone had resources I could tap into for help.
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If you don't understand why this is a thank you, and you haven't checked it out already, please: So this one is actually finished! However, it's a bit niche, and out of respect for the fine people at HERO Games and those folks who publish RPG books, there are several references to other HERO Games materials (mostly Bestiaries and the like); it didn't feel right to include stuff that other people were selling, you know? A brief explanation: Chris Goodwin pitched an idea at me that tickled my fancy so thoroughly that I asked him how he planned to introduce the idea. He had hit upon the idea o…
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What mixed-genre premises would you find disturbing? Here's an example: "Mel Brooks and Akira Kurosawa collaborating on one movie." (Mixing Ninja Hero with extreme doses of comedy) Let's see what ideas you can come up with? Edit: This was just something that came to me totally at random.
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Has anyone adapted Hero System to do a modern era Zombie Apocalypse? How would you build the zombies, infection etc...?
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Any idea of how Jed and Jethro would stat out, Strength-wise, in the Hero System?
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I was cleaning and came across some of my old books and one was Champions New Millennium. Now as i was flipping through it,. I thought they had stats for Firefist in the book but I do not see them. have i gone blind and missed seeing them or am I remembering it showing up someplace else or am I completely wrong?
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Martial Hero 1 2 3 4 7
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Show us your martial arts articles, builds, heroes, finds, pics, villains, etc. Diamond Dragon Technique Cost Maneuver OCV DCV Notes 5 Diamond Dragon Technique -2 +1 1/2d6 HKA Wong Yan Lam 王隱林 was the son of a Shaolin Kung-Fu master known as Wong Ping. Wong Ping was something of a local legend, known as "the bronze foot", and was fond of demonstrating his kung-fu in public. Because of this he came to the attention of Sing Lung*. One day Sing Lung came down from the mountain and had an opportunity to observe Wong Ping's kung-fu. He was impressed by Wong Ping's skill and tried to tell him so but because Sing Lung's Chinese …
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How would you build a shotgun that exists in London 1886??? - Steampunk quirkiness is a bonus!
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The manuscript for Western Hero is at Hero HQ and being worked over, with a new cover being created for it. I don't know any realistic release date but I hope it will be out by Christmas. This is to be an official Hero Games product, not a Hall of Champions fan bit or self pub job like my other work. I have a few release ideas set up for it, when it hits the shelves including an adventure module. As I get more news and information I'll pass it along here. So stay tuned, pardner.
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I seem to recall a Vehicles book for 5th Edition that included a writeup for a mecha (the only one I ever recall seeing in an official Hero product, not surprising given that Steve Long reportedly disliked them), Now mecha are ridiculous as a weapons system, but keep showing up in popular culture anyway (you could say the Hulkbuster armor Iron Man used has some characteristics of a traditional mecha, and the Jaegers of Pacific Rim are classic examples in American popular culture). What I want to know is how a piloted mecha actually works in Hero.
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If I obtain enough players for a game set in the World of Remnant, based on the American made anime (some would say it not anime if it made in America) called RWBY. Most of the players I have gathered so far do not know the rules they just want to role play the characters (which would require initially for me to help build their characters). Was wondering if any one has done material for RWBY [url link appreciated] ,,, it would save me oodles of extra work,
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It is almost Halloween. I would like to hear about some frightening Hero System plots or stories from any genre plus any favorite rules for such things. Example: Sanity and effects it has in conveying the horror of the event or scene. Your description of a Frightening Hero System creature or your ideas for one. Maybe you have a thought or idea of a great Halloween adventure that we can all add our two cents to. here is mine to start. Coblynu, a Welsh word for Goblin. A short humanoid around 4 feet in height. Appears as an old man with oversized facial features like nose, eyebrows and ears and gnarled and knobby old knuckles. They ca…
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I was wondering if anyone has tried running a Gamma World HERO game since the original thread was archived.
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Hogan’s Heroes 1 2
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After reading through the Beverly Hillbillies thread in this forum, it got me to thinking about another fun series from decades ago, Hogan’s Heroes. I think it could probably be done pretty well with 175-point Heroic characters. Any thoughts on abilities? I’m thinking most of them had at least a die of Luck.
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I have completed and sent Western Hero to Hero Games to look over and build a cover for. Its a complete book with all you need to build characters and play the game (minus powers and modifiers etc, as not applicable in a heroic game) with a full campaign setting adapted from the original Western Hero 4th edition, plus tons of adventure ideas, campaign tips, background, maps, etc. Also, I have uploaded a file of The Greatest Guns Who Never Were, a file containing almost 50 fictional characters of western and western-inspired background from books, comics, movies, television, and radio, from Hopalong Cassidy to Mal Reynolds and all points in between. Its free …
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So Season III has wrapped up with Lady Pariah as the victor and Psybolt as the runner up. Congrats to both and an extra congrats to last season's second place finisher who managed to take it this season. But that now leaves us with some time to discuss what we thought of this season and desires for next season. In general I did miss some of the back and forth of a week long 1 on 1 but I do think the fact that things are different day by day is nice. Plus this does mean that the weekly win rate is less important and each individual day becomes more important. Likewise, I liked to some level the variety in the matches but I thought that with some limitations we found ou…
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... again. There are several older threads on it, but relatively few writeups of the Guyver units themselves (the Zoanoids are easier), and a couple I saw didn't do it for me. So, if you know the manga well (or the most recent anime series), will you help me build a Guyver character? I've been trying, but I'm not very good at building stuff yet. I can provide an extensively detailed list of capabilities. For those who don't know it, the basic idea is a biological suit of armor that transforms the wearer into a being of godlike power. I'd like to use HERO to do a Guyver-based game sometime, but it's trickier than I thought to get this right.
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Hi all. I’m prepping to begin a game featuring SCP critters. Has anyone done this and have any of templates I can get started with? BTW, if Brennell and any of the TTS users check this out, you’ve sold me on it and I’m trying to educate myself. I love it and hope to gain some competency in using the system. With this COVID world were in, I’m getting back into this and even after not playing in 25+ years, I love this system and what one can do with it. Keep up the work, folks! There’s others like me coming around.
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I have no idea where to put this, and "other genres" seems appropriate. No; I'm not looking to tear it apart or ask questions about it. I just wanted to say that I spent this afternoon reading it. Yeah; I'm probably the last guy to buy it (that's just the way it tends to go for me ), but I read it today-- the PDF, anyway. I intend to read it again when the printed book shows up. First: it took me far to long to make the connection between the Bill Keyes listed on the cover and our own Bill Keyes. That was humorously embarrassing. Second: I thoroughly enjoyed it. It was well-written, with an easy, comfortable writing style th…
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Sport Hero
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I'm not certain that anyone would WANT to simulate sports with the hero system but I do believe it very possible and have put thought into it. The core of Sport Hero is a form of Missile Deflection that is usable by everyman that only affects a 'ball'. This is a GM call as to what is a ball. Some grenades could be a ball and some sport plays could be considered combat in game terms. The best example is catching a baseball. The pitcher throws at his ocv and the catcher attempts to catch it with missile deflection. Then we can add the batter. He uses the bat to Reflect the ball. The real trick is for the system to determine where the ball lands. I've worked i…
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This is sort of a continuation to my wargaming Hero hack, where players trek along a hexcrawling map, with tactical combat taking place on hex sheets with dungeons/battlegrounds drawn on them. Nothing new under the sun, but having miniatures made me come up with all sorts of uses for them. Characters are made with Body becoming Hits (if converting), and weapon damages are transformed into damage points, where each die becomes equal to one Hit. Abilities like deadly blow will be gated behind character points and progression, or not allowed in the game at all, depending on genre and the thematic effect the game is going for. Magic and magic items can be more dea…
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One question...has anyone atempted to do a write up of the villian of the old 60's splater film The Wizard Of Gore? I myself would love to know exactly what you think of his powers, and the best way to write them up. His powers: 1) The ability to kill a person, then revive them so that thay have no memorie of the attack. Then, the victom falls apart again an hour later. 2) The ability to mass-hyponise his audeance, so all thay see is a series of bloodless magic tricks. This dose not appear to work aganst camras (but it does affect the camraman who are taking the images at the time). 3) The ability to cut his own head off without ill effect, then reatach i…
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Gang, I am launching a new Kickstarter in November that will be great for anyone playing tabletop games in the Old West. Sign up to be alerted to the launch and watch here for some renders and pictures of the stuff that will be available for your 3d printers or pre-printed by my team. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/blessedmachine/wild-west-hardware
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I was wondering which book would give me more of the material I would likely use for a hero system Exalted game, fantasy hero complete or champions complete? I'd really prefer to only have to get one or would it really matter? Just looking for any advice on which would be better for the project. Thanks
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The new Magically-Animated Bandages 3.0. Enjoy.
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