Ninja-Bear

Whether 125 points is viable depends on the rest of the world.  If a typical Commoner has stats of 8 across the board, using the sellback to buy a few skills or "higher than 8s", and the City Guard is largely the same, but bumped up to STR 12, CON 12, 4 OCV and DCV and is Proficient with a spear or a sword, it seems like a 125-point PC would be pretty powerful.
 
If the average Bar Tough has STR 18, CON 15, DEX 15, OCV 6, DCV 6, SPD 4, 8 PD and ED, 30 STUN, 12  BOD and 7 REC, and he backs down or runs away if faced with a single member of the City Guard, the 125 point PCs seem pretty pathetic.

I would use a complication "Holographic Being" which would cover what happens if the "bee" is damaged or shut down, as well as the things he wouldn't be able to do. I don't see a need for Desolid based on what I've seen in the Trek shows. Mostly KS/PS skills, with Regeneration/Immortality so long as the programming remains intact. That said, a potential second complication "Subject to Programming" or even a vulnerability "Computer Effects" may also come into play.

I rarely try to convert rules. I'll steal cool rules. I use "Hero Points" in my game. Fate was a system that was way too loosy goosy for me, but I loved that players could interact with a scene by spending Fate. I allow my players to do this now. 

I'd expand IHA's scope to anyone who has natural superpowers (that aren't temporarily induced by drugs or whatever) and just run with it. They want to save the world of "normal" human beings from all the "freaks" that seem to be coming out of the woodwork.

One thing though, this will be interesting. If the OGL does what people say it will, then how much push back will One D&D face? Will it make One D&D flop? Does D&D have enough fan loyalists to make it still marketable? Or will enough of the base be soured by this big business and turn away? hasboro may have over estimated gamers loyalty to the brand. All I can say is “time will tell”.

It's a portal to a parallel Earth that fell victim to a nuclear holocaust. Bring your hazmat suit!

Some of the older villains books would use that kind of shorthand. Like "Use X's character sheet, with these psych limits and change this or that skill or power." Where they direct the GM to simply swap out a couple things about an existing character. Really not a bad way to do things to save time. The game is more about the special effects and RP than the exact mechanic.

Forgot to mention that in The Watchers of the Dragon, there is an arena of Fire.

Forgot to mention that in The Watchers of the Dragon, there is an arena of Fire.

It took many years of nagging and a few threats of legal action to get paid for the "Mystic" trilogy. (And since I wrote far more than contracted, DOJ effectively got a free book.) To be fair, it took DOJ so long because they weren't being paid by distributors.
 
At one point they offered me partial  payment in product or office furniture. My father, who ran several small businesses in his lifetime, was not impressed.
 
The bulk of payment came only when Cryptic bought out DOJ.
 
For my Digital Hero articles presenting the Dark Champions hero Repairman and villain Bloodmoney, I gave up and said I'd accept payment in kind -- a CD-ROM of the complete run of Digital Hero, to that point.
 
Dean Shomshak

I was compensated for my article on Prof. Muerte in DH, but I heard that at least one of the artists for it was not paid. That ended his association with Hero Games, which was a loss all around.
 

I was going to go that route. However could this be where Firewing got his powers?

Work these guys in...

I’m with Duke. This seems like a neat power that isn’t too overly powerful. And like Duke, yeah you could twist this eventually into a powerful corner but should you be afraid to use it for a remote possibility?

Well if that isn’t a reason to rob old tombs!

That’s why you hire retainers. 😁Lest that’s what the OSR blogs suggest they always did.

Off in my campaign's background is a government hero who wears powered armor with cold-projection weapons. The government of Taiwan built the powered armor using salvaged Monad tech, and armed it with reconditioned weapons captured from the villain Baron Frost. his code name translates as "Ice Machine." Only after he was publicly announced did anyone notice that this is... not as impressive in English as it is in Chinese.
 
Still, the guy is better off than the Eritrean super-soldier with non-ranged powers of psychic disruption, whose name can be translated as "Bad Touch."
 
What? 
 
Dean Shomshak

I modified (but never used) El Muerto Obscuro into Ice Wolf. A ninja that can form solid ice weapons. So no nunchuks. He was based on my son’s Halloween costume of the same name. The costume came with a ice staff. At the time Hero was at 4th ed. so the weapons were OIF. You could break them or Disarm him but he could reform them.

So Zslane I’m waiting on your great sci fi rpg.

That’s why you hire retainers. 😁Lest that’s what the OSR blogs suggest they always did.

One of the Champions Online player community, who goes by "jaazaniah1," posited a most intriguing character concept, "Synthoid Sorcerer." I'll let him explain it:
 
First, the SG I belong to (Project Attalus) is basically just all my heroes and the concept I have for the robot magic user is that two of its members, Dr. Harlem (think African-American Tony Stark) and Sultanus the Crimson Sorcerer (think a stage magician who is really Dr. Strange) had a debate about whether magical abilities (not someone wielding an object imbued with magical properties) were a result of nature or nurture (i.e. inherent to organic life, or something that could be learned, whether the practitioner was organic or not) and set out to test this (if an elevator lifts Thor's hammer is it worthy of his power?).
 
So, Dr. Harlem created a robot with real sentience and Sultanus set out to teach it magic. Synthoid Sorcerer thus studied magic (i.e. he posses no magical talismans or the like) and has mastered all the technical aspects of spell casting (and more quickly than any human could, since he has a computer mind). I.e. he adopts the right postures, makes the right hand movements, says the right words and has the correct mental state that any human mage would adopt. One might say that the only difference is that he has no soul (or does he ?), and so can not be tempted by the dark side. Technically he knows the difference, and since he was built and taught by heroes his natural leanings are toward the light, though he is guided also by a sort of cold, calculating machine logic.
 
So, he is a science/magic experiment by two human authorities in their respective fields. Some wonder, given the greater than human speed at which he can learn and act, if he might someday supersede all human magicians.
 
The question that Dr. H and Sultanus wrestle with is, indeed, whether magic is like Chess or Go, something that a machine can learn and master by being able to calculate quickly vast numbers of possible outcomes, or is there something more intuitive, even spiritual to magic? Can an object with no soul be a sorcerer? Or, is it a mix of both, can a machine learn the basics of magic (e.g. its grammar) and eventually come to be able to grasp its deepest intricacies (e.g. can it write great literature), or will an AI always be no more than some "hedge wizard"? Even if the latter, since Synthoid Sorcerer is self aware, does it have the capacity to evolve itself and develop those higher capacities? Only time, and level 40, can say for sure!
 

That’s why you hire retainers. 😁Lest that’s what the OSR blogs suggest they always did.