Poison Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Hi everyone. This looks to be my first post on these forums. I used to play Champions back in the 80s. My wife and I started roleplaying superhero stuff around 6-8 months ago, and tried out the M&M system because she was used to D20 (D&D). I really didn't like the system compared to my experience with Champions a long time ago, so decided to make the switch over to Hero System v5. Just finished making her character and noticed things haven't changed much since way back in the 80's. I can't believe how this system has survived the test of time. I am excited to start playing. My wife is playing an electricity based blaster type character (named TAZER), who is the spokesperson for her superhero group (taking various skills like Persuasion, Oratory, Conversation, etc... We decided to change a few things when we converted her character over to Hero System, and she bugged me to draw her a fresh new costume, so I broke out my pencils... Here is what she looks like. I may ink and color this one for her so she can have a full color character sheet with her picture on it... She is one character of a 3 character superhero group. The others are named Salvage, and The Ghost. I will be drawing the other characters after I convert them, as I have time. I am hoping I did all the calculations right on her character, it's been a while... Anyways, this is my way of saying Hello Everyone!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Hello, and nicely drawn... Welcome back to the fold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... nice sketch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Nice costume, and midriff. Welcome back to the fold, Poison. (How many welcomes do you get with a handle like that, anyway?) Any questions you have, on HERO or any other subject, feel free to ask. This community is generally very friendly and helpful, not to mention garrulous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psybolt Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Welcome back. It's always good to have a new Champions player. The boards are extremely friendly here. Any questions you have... just ask. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadeFox Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Very well done indeed, one of the better styles I've seen. She has a 'realness' to her many superhero sketches lack. I would like very much if you were so inclined to add more of your sketches to share with us. Again, excellent work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brionl Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Have you got Hero Designer? I've found it very useful for making sure you did all the points right, and it always remembers the fiddly little details I forget. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted December 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Holy Cow! I leave for an hour, and I see a ton of replies already. This is a very active board!!! @everyone - Thanks for the welcome!!! And great comments! @brionl - Unfortunately I have an imac not a PC and I haven't seen this software for the imac. I would buy it in a second if it was ever 'ported to the imac. @radefox - Thanks! I have a bunch more sketches I could share, maybe I will start a thread for that and throw some in there. I am just an amateur artist who draws for fun and relieve stress. I've gone through many style changes over the years, and this seems to be the one I feel most comfortable with so far. I plan to draw the other characters in my campaign, as well as create villains and draw them as well. I think it adds a bit more realism when roleplaying if you have a sketch of what the villains look like instead of just a description. Maybe I will post the pictures and the character sheet of these villains for others to use if people want. @Lord Liaden - I go by other handles on different boards, but I figured being a Game Master I would use a villain name for a change. Thanks everyone for the warm welcome! I am very excited to get back into Champions and I hope to learn from you all and share more of my stuff with you all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
concord Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... @brionl - Unfortunately I have an imac not a PC and I haven't seen this software for the imac. I would buy it in a second if it was ever 'ported to the imac. Poison - If your imac can run the latest versions of Java then it can run Hero Designer as it is a Java application... It is very good for checking your math... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted December 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Is there a demo version you know of that I can try to see if it works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Hero Designer works just fine on a Mac - it's what I use. Anything on the planet that runs the full version of Java 5 can run Hero Designer 3. There is no demo version of the program. Welcome back to the fold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... You're a very talented artist. You could do well here with some commission work; there's a ton of people here (myself included) with no artistic ability. Welcome back to Hero. There's quite a few of us here who've been playing Champions/Hero since the early 80's, so you're among friends. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted December 7, 2008 Report Share Posted December 7, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Hero Designer works just fine on a Mac - it's what I use. Anything on the planet that runs the full version of Java 5 can run Hero Designer 3.Yes, I've even run it in Ubuntu Linux and I know there's a number of board members using it in other versions of Linux. Java 6 is better than Java 5 for running Hero Designer in my experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... WOW! Thanks guys! I bought the Hero Designer after what you said, and it works perfectly on the imac. I just whipped up my wife's character in it as a test. My calculations were actually out by 7 points. So I had to fiddle a bit with her characteristics, heh heh. Thanks so much! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thia Halmades Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... You've got something... on your face there... looks painful. You might wanna get that looked at. Anyway. I'm one of the 'new guys,' as I didn't touch Champions (because it was "super heroes") and then I broke d20 over my knee, and one of my friends said "We can use HERO." And I've been trapped here ever since. They won't let me out. Please. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME! I CAN'T ESCAPE!! YEAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperJerry Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... They won't let me out. Please. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME! I CAN'T ESCAPE!! YEAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! Let you out? Escape? It is far, FAR too late for that....MUAHAHAHAHAHA!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... I gave Mutants and Masterminds a solid effort. We played it for 6-8 months. I always hated the D20 system, and thought that version was as far away from D20 as you could probably get. However, a lot of commonly used powers were very vague in their explanation, and I hated the way knockback was calculated, as well as a few other nitpicky things. I've played many many many roleplaying games over the years (I've been playing RPGs since 1980), in various systems, and I have to say, I've never found a system that was better than Champions. My wife got into roleplaying about 10 years ago, starting with 2nd Edition D&D, and we moved into 3rd edition D20 as well as 3.5. It was a hard sell to get her to try Superhero roleplaying, as she really liked the Fantasy genre, but I convinced her, and a few of my friends joined as well, and now she likes the whole genre. This is a big "plus" for me, as I prefer the superhero genre to fantasy. I also like drawing it a lot more. I was ready to burn my M&M books after our last session tho. Some of the rules became too distracting to me as a GM, so it was time to move in my opinion, to a more superior system... There is my big story... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... You've got something... on your face there... looks painful. You might wanna get that looked at. Anyway. I'm one of the 'new guys,' as I didn't touch Champions (because it was "super heroes") and then I broke d20 over my knee, and one of my friends said "We can use HERO." And I've been trapped here ever since. They won't let me out. Please. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME! I CAN'T ESCAPE!! YEAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! *hands Thia his medication* Don't make me get the hose. I gave Mutants and Masterminds a solid effort. We played it for 6-8 months. I always hated the D20 system, and thought that version was as far away from D20 as you could probably get. However, a lot of commonly used powers were very vague in their explanation, and I hated the way knockback was calculated, as well as a few other nitpicky things. I've played many many many roleplaying games over the years (I've been playing RPGs since 1980), in various systems, and I have to say, I've never found a system that was better than Champions. My wife got into roleplaying about 10 years ago, starting with 2nd Edition D&D, and we moved into 3rd edition D20 as well as 3.5. It was a hard sell to get her to try Superhero roleplaying, as she really liked the Fantasy genre, but I convinced her, and a few of my friends joined as well, and now she likes the whole genre. This is a big "plus" for me, as I prefer the superhero genre to fantasy. I also like drawing it a lot more. I was ready to burn my M&M books after our last session tho. Some of the rules became too distracting to me as a GM, so it was time to move in my opinion, to a more superior system... There is my big story... Play Fantasy Hero - your wife gets Fantasy, you get the System. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poison Posted December 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... Play Fantasy Hero - your wife gets Fantasy' date=' you get the System. [/quote'] No worries, I am definitely hiding that little factoid from her... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba smith Posted December 8, 2008 Report Share Posted December 8, 2008 Re: New to Hero System - kind of... You've got something... on your face there... looks painful. You might wanna get that looked at. Anyway. I'm one of the 'new guys,' as I didn't touch Champions (because it was "super heroes") and then I broke d20 over my knee, and one of my friends said "We can use HERO." And I've been trapped here ever since. They won't let me out. Please. YOU HAVE TO HELP ME! I CAN'T ESCAPE!! YEAAAARRRGGHHHHHHHH!!!!! fo those who have that four color aversion, i' suggest dark champions for movie style action heroes or ninja hero for martial arts action Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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