Simon

You need to give Java access to whatever directory you’ve put HD in.

2 hours ago, Pariah said:

Trivia question I saw this morning: Can you name the four major North American professional sports teams named after bears? 

Took me a bit for the fourth (had to look up the definition to be sure)...

 

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1. It's +2 DCs.  The following is the definition from the template:

<MANEUVER DISPLAY="Basic Strike" DEFENSE="NORMAL" DOESDAMAGE="Yes" DOESKNOCKBACK="Yes"  DOESBODY="Yes" DURATION="INSTANT" TARGET="DCV" USESEND="Yes" KILLING="No" ADDSTR="Y"  ACTIVECOST="15" CATEGORY="Hand To Hand" OCV="1" DCV="0" BASECOST="3" PHASE="1/2"  EFFECT="[NORMALDC] Strike" DC="2" WEAPONEFFECT="Weapon [WEAPONDC] Strike" > </MANEUVER>

2. It has the same DC bonus as Martial Strike with a smaller CV bonus.

3. If you follow the rules outlined in UMA to build a martial maneuver, you'll find the cost works out to 3 points (similar to the cost for Martial Strike working out to 4 points).

4. That is the cost listed for Basic Strike in the rules.

There are no official rules regarding damage to a body beyond the point of death, which leaves the matter up to the GM to decide based on the nature of the regeneration ability and the campaign in general. If the character is able to regenerate from a fine pink mist, then tracking Body damage beyond the point of death may make sense -- treat the dead body as any other object and work from there.  

RTF is a fairly archaic format…you may need to convert the images to bmp for sizing attributes to apply (though I am by no means versed in the format specs)

Yes.

I have no issue with anyone taking a stab at any mods that they're interested in -- that's why the source code for HD is offered.

Integrating any modifications into the main application codebase would be dependent on the nature of the mods themselves and (particularly) how they would impact ongoing maintenance and updates.

See 6E1, page 127 for details on Constant Attack Powers and 6E1, page 128 for a discussion on Persistent Powers.

Might want to correct that - they voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry.

5 hours ago, csyphrett said:

Rumor is someone tried to kidnap/carjack Biden's granddaughter. He escaped the secret service trying to punch holes through him.

CES

Not the place for rumors....and definitely not the place for known-false rumors.

She was not in the car and was not [edit]directly[/edit] targeted in any way. It was an unmarked Secret Service vehicle which three people were observed attempting to break into...in an area that has seen a 100% rise in car thefts over the past year.

The Javadoc is freely available in the downloads section. Making full sense/use of it would benefit from having the source code, but it's not required.

HD's Javadoc would be the best resource for that -- any empty getter method on the currently active object can be called through the ATTRIBUTE_VALUE container.

You can get at the END explicitly through the ATTRIBUTE_VALUE container -- e.g.
 

<!--ATTRIBUTE_VALUE-->getEndUsage<!--/ATTRIBUTE_VALUE-->

The charges formatting is part of the HERO System writers' guidelines output...it comes along for the ride with the default getColumn3Output() method (which POWER_END is a shortcut to).

Your best bet for that would be through scripting in your chosen output format (e.g. JavaScript for an HTML export format).

A look into why everyone loses their mind over Halloween here (one of the largest nighttime parades in the country):
 

4 minutes ago, Gauntlet said:

What exactly is a Pierogi?

Apart from delicious, an Eastern European filled dumpling. Typically savory, though not always.

4 minutes ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

I mean, I literally posted that yesterday.

I know, but no one seems to be paying attention.

OK...I've been trying to ignore this, but I can't anymore.

1. A character can allocate points in their Multipower once per Phase.

2. Allocating points in an MP is a Zero Phase action.  It can be performed at the beginning of a character's Phase, or after a Half Phase Action, but not after making an Attack.

I'll save my thoughts on how badly "Attack Action doesn't end a character's Phase" breaks other rules and dynamics in the HERO System...

Details are always helpful.

Have you read through the instructions on the download page? What happens when you double-click on HD6.jar?  

5 minutes ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

Boba MacFett?

Paz McViszla.

Or, given the tartan, Paz Ramsay...but that doesn't have the same ring

Folks are starting to lose sight of the rules of this thread (@Twilight). Consider this a warning.

Just now, unclevlad said:

 

Simon, your Snopes article is dated November 1st....2000.

 

CRT posted one from 2018.

 

 

Yes, and it continues the same hysteria as all previous, because people seem to enjoy gravitating to unsubstantiated "urban legends" and respond to events as if they were true.

I would also comment on Fox News as a reliable source, but that belongs in another thread.

1 minute ago, Cygnia said:

There are two cases that come to mind with the pearl-clutching about doctored candy.

 

1964: Helen Pfiel

 

1974: Ronald Clark O’Bryan

 

No drugs, just out and out poison (though Pfiel claims hers was a 'joke', O'Bryan did it for the insurance on his own child)

Both mentioned specifically in the Snopes article.

Pfiel - she distributed inedible (and non-wanted) items, including rat poison "buttons".  Clearly marked as such...and she told those she was giving the items to what they were. She was charged, plead guilty, etc.

O'Bryan - didn't distribute to kids other than his own.  While horrific, his case wasn't about some crackpot distributing tainted Halloween candy - it was about a crackpot looking to kill his own son and collect insurance (using Halloween as a backdrop/scapegoat).