Simon

I'd suggest familiarizing yourself with the rules regarding Charges. Particularly Continuing Charges - the concept does not apply to an Instant ability.

Likely missing that you can only apply Continuing Charges to a Constant (or better) ability...if you apply Charges to an Instant Power, Continuing (and the Fuel options) will not be available.

Also note that, like the Highlander, there can be only one (such container).

Slight trick: you need to pair it with <!--IF_IMAGE--> ... <!--/IF_IMAGE--> IF_NO_IMAGE is only processed during the handling of that tag (or the straight IMAGE tag)

<!--IF_IMAGE--> image stuff goes here <!--/IF_IMAGE--> <!--IF_NO_IMAGE--> no image available stuff goes here <!--IF_NO_IMAGE-->

No, as it's not about the size of the issue - this continues to be a site for a roleplaying game.

While there's not much that can be done unless the sharing becomes widespread, I suspect the obvious statement is that no, you should not give copies of the PDFs to other people (be they players in your game or otherwise).

call the overloaded singleton getter: com.hero.HeroDesigner.getInstance(true); That'll give you an instance of HD without a GUI constructed. From there you can call the non-GUI methods as normal (loading characters, exporting, etc.). Most of the methods you'd be calling will be in the HeroDesigner class itself. You'd be refactoring more than you think -- the HDC files are only half of the story. They have the build information (how many levels, what options are selected, etc.) but the rules are contained in the template -- you need to combine the two to get at a full character (determining costs for abilities, etc.). And that wouldn't take into account the...idiosyncrasies in display, layout, and cross-ability interaction that need code to handle.

The answer is mostly no -- HD can be run without a UI, but that needs to be done programmatically (i.e. a separate Java application can create an instance of HD without any graphics, intended for creating exports of character files)

One of the more sobering pieces I've seen was a climate scientist being interviewed some months back, saying that it's not a matter of _if_ Florida will be lost, it's a matter of how quickly -- how much warning/time we'll have to move the population of an entire state.

Unsolicited information: pay attention to what type of test you're taking. PCR tests (or PCR-equivalent NAAT tests) can return positive results for up to 90 days from infection -- they don't really represent transmissibility. Antigen tests are less accurate than PCR, but better for determining if you're infectious. Again, the above is unsolicited info that you likely already know...just posting it because I wasn't fully up to speed on that when I had it over the holidays (likely stayed in full isolation a bit long as a result).

FTFY

The name field is always optional...and the export tag always requires the surrounding IFNAME container.

Same way you see Tasha doing it for the overall Compound Power: <!--IFNAME--> ... <!--NAME--> ... <!--/IFNAME-->

In a word: no. In more words: 1. Make a separate "character" to use as a scratch pad 2. Use the Equipment tab 3. Use a List on the Powers tab with a x0 Cost Multiplier Any/all of these methods will allow you to cut and paste Powers.

A little bit of troubleshooting in advance for folks to follow up on this post: If you double-click on HD6.jar and nothing happens (specifically, you don't see the loading splash for HD), then .jar file associations on your system are not properly setup. If you haven't installed Java on your system yet, go to www.java.com and click on the big red button to install Java. If you have Java installed and are not seeing anything happen when double-clicking HD6.jar, then Google "jarfix" to find a small executable that will correct the .jar file associations on your system for you. If you double-click on HD6.jar and see the loading splash for HD, but it stops at "loading plugins" then you're running HD from a directory that you don't have full access to. There're some technical details about how the startup process works, but the long and short of it is that HD needs to be in a directory that both your account and Java have full read/write access to (Windows UAC in particular gets a bit hungup about C:\Program Files and similar directories) -- move HD to your Desktop or Documents folder and run from there, if only to verify that the issue is fixed (you can always move it afterwards).

Very glad to hear that she's on the mend.

Aw...you had me curious what you were doing...

Where (and when) did you get your copy of HD? That error would occur if HD were compiled to a higher version level than Java 8 (which has major version 52). While I do run a higher major version of Java, HD is compiled specifically to be compatible with Java 8. Checking the latest build verifies this: javap -classpath ./HD6.jar -verbose com.hero.HeroDesigner | grep "major" major version: 52

They would have to be alternating between Blocking and Striking -- aborting one Action to Block, then on their next available Action (after the aborted one) Striking. Each time they struck a character with Damage Shield, they would take the damage as appropriate, regardless of whether the character Blocked the attack or if the attack hit. From 6E1:

Run HD from a directory that you have full access/rights to.

The closest you'd get would be a note within the download page for that product (indicating the last update date/time)...but it's moot as the PDFs don't generally get updated barring issues with the original upload (e.g. missing section or whatever). Changing the PDF to take into account errata requires going back through layout and editing phases, which rarely (if ever) happens outside of major version updates.

Read the manual...page 27 (Multipowers) to be specific.

Waste of perfectly good lightening, if you ask me.

First day out of self-isolation. Never got much worse than a middling head cold...and I apparently isolated well enough that my wife never caught it (she's been testing throughout -- all negative). Thank you vaccines and booster for what seems to have been a very mild case. Apart from 10 days of enforced boredom (where I never left the bedroom), not too bad....and the enforced boredom was likely something that I kind of needed...