Other Genres
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Society is operating normally. Then something (you define) happens and things start to come apart. This will be the period of transition that is normally jumped over in those post apocalyptic stories. Many people will be killed by this transition (along with other animals and plants), but many will survive. Society itself will be transformed in MANY fundamental aspects as transportation, commerce, communication, government, medical, etc all break down. Exactly what causes this apocalypse? What percentage of the population survive? How can they make a living in this new society? What is the new society like? How long will it take for things to get resettled into wh…
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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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Games of FEAR 1 2
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What games have you played in the past that were truly creepy and could even bring about a little fun fear into you?
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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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Hey there, I am trying to hook my kids on the Hero System and have decided to run three linked adventures in my own setting based on Lockwood and Co. I was curious if anyone else has done work on this kind of setting. Thanks!
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Hello Hero System Community. Starting a new High Fantasy/Steampunk campaing tomorrow. Out of the blue, while transfering character from Hero Designer to Roll20, the Ranged Martial Maneuver: Distance Shot appeared in my Roll20 character sheet. Maneuver Phase Pts OCV DCV Rng Damage/Effect Distance Shot 1+1 5 +0 -2 +6 Strike; +1 Segment We do not understand (GM and me) the Phase 1+1 for this Ranged Martial Maneuvers (MA p. 6). This maneuver take 1 phase + 1 phase? 1 phase +1 segment? Its no big deal, I just never saw this duration description P…
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While the ideas are still percolating, I am working on the games for next year's GenCon. I am, at least, getting enough of a start to lay down some ideas and get things started while I have time before school starts up again. You know that meme where they talk about how conquistadors were around the same time as samurai, the Aztec Empire, knights with swords, early smoothbore guns, etc? I'm doing that (meme attached). I am tinkering with the idea that I will bring them all together (and work them into the GenCon Universe by having them all abducted by the aliens I have been using for the past few years). Think of the Cowboys vs Aliens vibe. But it …
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Hey everyone! I'm always on the lookout for new and exciting genres to explore, and I thought it would be great to hear about some of your favorite "other genres" that don't quite fit into the typical categories. Personally, I've been really into interactive fiction and text-based adventure games lately. I love how they challenge me to use my imagination and think outside the box, and the fact that they don't rely on fancy graphics or flashy animations makes them all the more impressive. What about you? Do you have a favorite "other genre" that you think more people should know about? Maybe you're into puzzle games, educationa…
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Western Hero Campaign: Alternative History: Begin Year 1870Abraham Lincoln assassination in 1863 led to a Confederate Victory.The USA continues it's path of industrialization as the CSA continues to be largely driven by an agricultural/slave owning society.The Branson Hart Trade Treaty of 1864 allows commerce with tariffs collected upon it's cheap transport to the Gulf of Mexico. The Indian Territories remain in dispute as does the western terriories. A particular movement, The Ghost Warriors, created by a Northern Coalition led by Sitting Bull and the Indingenous Peoples maintain much of the Dakotas.Their treaties, recognized by both USA and CSA powers slow the western p…
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Hello Herodom! For those that have used it, what is your opinion of the Shock & Stress system in Horror Hero? Do you think there's a better way of approaching such concepts in 6th ed?
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So I've started a campaign with my home group that takes players from low-powered near normal Victorian heroes through the Golden Age and on to the Iron age. Power levels increase each time and they can create characters with connections to what has come before or something entirely new. It is something of an exercise in collaborative world-building. To start they created 225/50 heroes with normal characteristic maxima. The setting is London in the late 1880s/early 1890s. Victorian Heroes Everyman Skills - I used the list out of 6e Skills with just a couple of changes. Home City Knowledge 8- Native Language Idiomatic w/Literacy Profession or Tra…
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As I've been reading the 6th ed rulebook getting ready for my game, I see a few requirements that players need: In order to run Bioware (not any old cyberware), they need the Bioware Compatible talent (p.11). In order to run cyberware needs a Cyberbrain (p.10). Cyberbrains replace EGO, OMCV, and DMCV with their own stats and are independent of the character (p.41). In order to show this correctly, I think a character has to sell their EGO (etc) back to 0, then buy a cyberbrain. However, the NPCs in the book don't always seem to jive with that. Examples: Agrees: Replicates (p.205) <They have -2 EGO (p.75) but shouldn't the Cyberbrain not refle…
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https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/dungeons-dragons-free-streaming-fast-channel-eone-launch-1235609856/ I could see myself running this channel 24 hours a day. Of course, part of that is that my streaming service disconnects from my TV every time I turn it off so that I have to leave the TV running. But the rest of it is that I totally will be watching this.
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Does anyone remember the OCV/DCV matrix that was a short cut for new players, and where it is located? I've been looking for it and can't seem to find it.
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What it says on the tin;-). I pretty much have everything else squared away but I'm not sure how to do the Pip-boy's mapping function and VATS. The core of it is as a wearable computer. VATS I was thinking some combination of CSLs usable by other (with an end reserve), but the mapping thing I'm not sure 'bump of direction' fits very well or if there is a better solution. Thoughts?
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A friend of mine was discussing a scenario he's working on which would include ninja (probably in a semi-comic way, but I'm not certain). Something be mentioned was the cliché of one ninja being almost unstoppable while a horde of them are individually rather hopeless weaklings, leading another friend in the discussion to point to The Conservation of Ninjutsu trope. And at that point the chat moved on to which system would handle it best and how. I suggested Hero, thinking offhand that a communal VPP might be possible: all the ninja can access it, but can only use points not currently being used by someone else, so more ninja means fewer points available to e…
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Someone suggested this on Twitter/YouTube. It's a site where you can look up Tanks/Aircraft/Naval Ships/Weapons etc by Era as well as by weapon I believe. Probably usable for Western and Pulp Hero along with Deark Champions. It boasts 5,500 entries. https://www.militaryfactory.com/
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Can anybody point me to any decent overhead Stagecoach plans that I could print out? 28-32 mm ideally.
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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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Standard times: Draw weapon - 1/2 Phase Cock a single action revolver - 1/2 Phase Fire - 1/2 Phase So, as most revolvers are single action, a character without Fast Draw skill cannot fire the same Phase as they draw and cock. That gives anyone with Fast Draw a huge advantage. (A double action revolver cocks and fires in the same 1/2 Phase Action.) Using the GM Permission note on p. 73, "a character can make a DEX or Fast Draw roll to cock a pistol taking zero phase, or to do so while on the move. A failed roll results in no special penalty, it just takes the usual Half Phase to cock." I'd allow a DEX roll at -3 (seems a…
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In the book, it says that "Selected from any number of pre-designed packages" and that replicants have models. But we have just the general template... How should I create those packages?
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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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Giant Steam engines, Aeronaught Gyrocopters, Zeppelins air craft carriers, men in three piece suits and women in old style long dresses where a scandal is showing too much ankle. What makes for a good Steam Punk Game and what rules capture the Zeitgeist of the books and stories of the genre. I read a book that explained why you could have some modern advances but still be Steam Punk. Essentially you accepted that physics as understood in the 19th century were real. Space was not empty but filled with a medium called the Ether and that is how gravity and light propagated. What we called atoms are not protons and neutrons orbited by electrons. Instead Atom…
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After digging around on the Wayback Machine and trawling through the forum here I’ve found enough information to interest me in The Kandris Seal from Hart-Felt Productions but not quite enough to answer a couple of questions about it. So: 1) Does anyone know a source for the free downloads (maps, character sheets etc) which used to be available from the now defunct Hart-Felt Productions website? The only file I could retrieve from the Wayback Machine was a PDF preview of the main book. 2) Does the supplement Steam, Savants and The Kandris Seal contain Hero stats? On balance I don’t think it does, but RPGgeek.com says otherwise. If not, do you think…
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