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Re: Hero System is Just Alright With Me Boy Shrike for a guy who likes the System "as it is" you sure had alot to say about changes... Well thought out and put together changes to boot... Sounds like your alot less happy about the system that you say. Also please guys this is a thread about how much we like Hero the way it is... We have TONS of other threads devoted to Ripping it to shreds, so let's just keep the talk here about what we like about Hero OK? I LOVE Hero the way it is... I'd give it a 95%+ rating... True nothing is perfect, but for the past 23 years I have found no other system that suits my needs for any setting & alows me such freedom in crossing genres so fluidly (Something I'm very fond of) Another aspect of the Hero System I enjoy (and I KNOW I'm not the only one) is the ability to build ANYTHING with Hero... I did this the otherday while givign the Females in my life grief while they watch a 'Chick-Flick' as I was building NPC for my GateCrashers game. I kept modling the things done in the movie (13 going on 30) Running in Heels: +3 Pen Skill Levels only to offset the Pen from Improper footgear. Or Environmental Movement: High Heels WC

Re: GateCrasher Hero Well Thanx Aylwin for keeping up with it ... I think the game is going well also... and I have been told by a few of the players that they are really enjoying it. If you happen to move down to AZ I'll have a spot saved for you in whatever game I'm running @ the time. (Although a spot on the couch is not a certanty ;-) ) Anyone else out there?? I'm still working on ideas for the next world the GateCrashers will travel to next. The Players have asked for a worlds based on Res Evil, Mad Max, & Underworld. Does anyone have any other sugestions. Once I have a few really good ideas, I'll do a rough outline of them and maybe we can have a vote as to where they go next. WC

Re: GateCrasher Hero OK it's next time We played again last night, and things went well. The PC decided that Nukor (the Uti's Tribal warlord) had to go... They figured that he'd make a play for the Chieftency once the PCs left. So at another feat to celebrate a successful hunt, they planed for David (Vanguard on these boards) who had been matted to Shara to call Nukor out, but the Tribal Warrior played right into their hands, and challenged David for Shara. The two men stepped to the center of the platform, knives drawn... The fight was close, as both combatants were evenly matched... Nukor had a point of Spd advantage, but David had the training and with his LR he had the Dex advantage. With about 5 turns of deft strikes, blocks & counterstrikes the two of them were beginning to wear each other down. Then as David scored a lucky blow, slashing across Nukor's throat, the Drums sounded... The Slatha were coming!! (The Slatha are 7' tall man-eating Lizard/Dino Men, that dominate the Human Tribes and annually take 'Tribute' in the form of people to use as food) The PCs quickly abandoned the 1-on-1 fight (as did the Tribe) to find out what was going on, and surmised that Nukor & his father (the Tribal Shaman Hukor) must have been behind the Slatha's early arrival. But since the Chief feels it's his duty to go to 'Speak' with the Slatha... Coop (the PC team leader) Said "No they will just kill you!" and lept over the Rail, and charged the Slatha... Next time... the Slatha Battle!! WC (Is anyone reading this... Does anyone care?)

Re: GateCrasher Hero GateCrashing – Zorandar OK now that the PCs have been on world for a few days they have begun to explore their surroundings. Having seen what they think is evidence of the 1st team to breech the Gate, north of the (I’m using the adventure from “Lands of Mystery†and the PC are in the Lost City of Koram) They battled Raptors, learned the fate of the 1st team (Slatha), Rescued the Native Princess (Shara of the Uti), journeyed to her Village (battling 2 ft long Spiders on their way), Had a feast in their honor and joined into an alliance between the two tribes, the Uti & the Balkadari (the Fire-magic-strangers) as the PCs are called by the Uti. Over all it was a good run… plenty of action (a real close fight with the Spiders) and some fun political wrangling with the natives including a ‘Marriage’ of one of the PCs to the Uti Princess. Next time they will have to settle some difficulties in the tribe and quell an ambitious Warrior who wants control of the Uti. Until next time… WC

Re: Sell me on DC I'll Second that... Storn this Cover is Fantastic I really think it's the perfect cover to show the 5th Ed version of DC is not just street level Supers like in 4th... Harbinger now looks less Superpowered and more of a Heroic levle of a character... GREAT job!! OH yeah - and as for DC... it is the Best book I've seen since FREd came out Steve you ROCK (I think I said this before, but when it comes to DC... it's worth Repeating) WC

Re: XM8 Assualt Rifle. Vanguard - Sorry I didn't catch this B4, but I think the STR min should be lower... 15 is prety high, from what I read the XM8 should have less of a kisk to it than the M16A2, and IIRC it's STR min is 12 (??) in any event it's very unlikely that the standard US military personel will have a 15 STR... I know I don't have one, and I think that if I could handel a M16 than the XM8 should be relatively similar. On the Multi-power aspect of it... Hmmm I think I agree with you that it seems a bit clunky... Maybe if it were reduced to a standard RKA, and then the dif advan that each configuation gave were just treated as Advantages with their own Limitations... Don't have any books or HD with me at this time, so it's just an idea right now. In any even I think that so pic of this Bad Boy is in need so that other can fully enjoy this weapon that your trying to show them. & a Link as well: http://www.strategypage.com/gallery/default.asp?target=XM8_Rifle.htm WC

Re: GateCrasher Hero Yesterday was a busy day @ work so I didn't post on this thread. On Wed I started the PCs on their 1st world through the Gate. It's a 'Lost World' setting, and I'm using the 1985 Hero book Lands of Mystery (Thanx Lord Laiden ) This world will have the genre staples - Dinosaurs, a Native Princess, Neanderthal men, warring Native tribes and of course Evil Lizard men. The PCs found themselves in an ancient 'Temple' full of Gates... a sort of Gate 'hub' if you will. The PCs made great progress, but didn't really venture out of the temple too much... They explored the 1st level, ran into some Raptors, and dispatched them quickly (good thing too, because the 1 Character who was hit, took 5 body to the arm - OUCH! They had one foraging trip to gather supplies to build a makeshift barricade for the opening into the Gate Room, to keep any other predator out. They discovered a room full of scrolls, that they think might be addresses for the gates, but as of this time they aren’t sure, still have plenty of work to do... They also found what seems to be a control room for the all the Gates... It was on the 2nd level, and overlooked the Gate Room, through some kinda transparent stone (well it looked like stone from the other side.) They did learn that the activation device (DHD for you SG1 fans) was missing an important piece that they needed to locate before they could dial any other gate. They also (from a perch high atop the temple) think they have located evedence of the former team to have used the gate... But they have yet to investigate that... perhaps next Wed. OK so I put out to Herodom: Any sugestions?? Anything for a 'Lost World' adventure, or possible further worlds for them to go to... those of you who have already posted in this thread, your ideas have been helpful in sparking my own... so I give you a big Thanx WC

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Re: GateCrasher Hero Good Morning Herodom, OK we had our BIG firefight on the deserted Oil-rig. All I can se is WOW it was sure fun to run a heroic battle... I had gotten so use to the Champions level of combat... where 1 turn takes like 3hrs. Well The PCs have entered the Gate and come Wed they will learn where they ended up. The Game went very smoothly and the only snag we ran into was the Def of the Armor the PCs/NPCs were each wearing. Those listed in the DC book seemed to be a bit sturdier than I realized (no to mention the Def of the Attack shopper I pitted against them) The 2 Teams join as one when forced to deal with a 3rd far superior force. And opted to use the Gate as their means of escape (all perfectly to plan… not that the Players didn’t know this, but were willing to play along to move the game forward.) In any event 2 NPCs (red shirts) were killed and a PC nearly lost a leg (we’ll see if the good Dr will be able to save the leg) Next up… Lands of Mystery!!! WC

Re: GateCrasher Hero They does sound very cool. I like taking real Normals and throwing them into the fire to see what happend. However, part of the reason we moved to this Heroic level game was to really get that Cinamatic feel, that DC was presenting. So for this game all the characters have some prety kewl abilities & SuperSkills so it'll be like a Woo movie in some regards... lots of gunplay, epic adventures, crazy stunts, fantastic worlds... In any event I'll look up Fringeworthy when I get home... Thanx WC

Re: GateCrasher Hero OK that does Sound more familier... although I'm no big Anime fan... I like it just don't follow it... but the Gate Keepers does sound like somehting I've seen in passing. So G... What do you think of GateCrashers as a RP game setting?

Re: GateCrasher Hero Yes indeed we did start last night. and I was very pleased with the way things went. And ad VG said the personalities of the PCs may cause some friction... It was planed this way. (WHAT A GM WHO WANTS PC FRICTION?!?!? ) Yes I purposely wanted to show some real friction to start, but will give the 2 teams a reason to work together... a common foe. I really want the feel of coming together for reason that will become clear as the game goes on. and since as everyone can see my players read this thread I can give too much way, so just wait till after the Sat game... Things should be on fire (literally) by then -Evil GM Smirk-

Re: GateCrasher Hero I never heard of an Anime, but as was pointed out there is a Game out there... and if IRC Wizard Publishing once released a comic by that name as well. WC

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Re: Superhero Images WOW Acroyear That's some good stuff... and I can totaly see the old school influence. I once had a lot of Original art all done on charactersheets from the early 80s - 90s But alass all that was lost in a bitter, messy divorce... Oh how I mourn for all my old gamming stuff. OK Anyway - Some of those pics are FANTASTIC... the rest are GREAT!! I'm at work right now but as soon as I get home... I'll be using some of these as insperation, & others as it for characters in my Champions game (when ever I get back to it) Right now my Gaming Group & I have voted to shift to Heroic (using Dark Champions) in a Stargate like game I'm calling GateCrashers. Blue - Great Stuff too... I'm Always ammazed at how prolific you are... I wishe I could produce quality pics as easily as you do... But no when I want to Draw I take forever... I hope to be drawing again soon... it's been almost a year since my last pic WC

Re: Favorite Abuses I once had a PC do this to me, and now I'm much better at spotting these type of things. He had an Earth Elemental character with the following powers (no all of thim are listed just the ones relevent to this post) Tunneling - Closed behind Usable as an attack @ Range Detect anyone/thing on the surface of the ground As a sense, Ranged, Targeting, Discrimintory LS: Breath underground So I bet you can all see where this was heading... But on his hand writen Char sheet it wasn't so obvious with them all spaced out... Yeah he sunk into the ground, then startign pulling Agents under the ground about 3" then lft them there. Eash Phase he would nab another one... with NO chance of ever beening seen let alone targeted & attacked. & even if they did somehow find him he was protected by 3" of ground... Not an easy thing to blast through in 1 hit before he'd just move. He used that once... But I still use the Story as what NOT to do. WC

Re: Help!!! Looking for a Copy of Lands of Mystery I Got It!! Wow talk about almost INSTANT gratification... I started this thread on Thursday afternoon last week, and by Monday I had the book in my hands. No that's what I call a working network of Hero fans helping one another out. My Thanx to Lord Liaden & Titan Games WC Oh and a Big Thanx to my Pal Vanguard who loaned me the $$ until payday.

Re: GateCrasher Hero Acctualy this was a PBEM game I ran back in 1998, and I'm just now bringing it to a face to face setting. http://www.energy-blast.com I followed that Link and it looks like their game was originaly published back in 1992, but I had never heard of it until just now . In any case I'm sticking with the name. It's a Found Artifact, just like in SG-1 and won'tbe able to be Duplicated, however since the Gates are Point to point... not linked to a 3D spot... They will be findign more gates, and might try to move them. The Gate had just been found... it will remail simi-Secret to start, but as you point out the Level of industrial espionage, will eventualy leak the secret to the general public. And in a climat like I'm tring to create someone will want to govern it... OK Exploit it. This is what I was looking for... I hadn't even thought of it... But your right I need to address this. You see before the game had progressed that far in the PBEM the game died... so I never made it that far. I think that I'll have them take considerable power, but the Gates themselves draw upon GeoThermal energy whne properly grounded. But if for instance one was in a building or even on the moon, then the powering of it would certainly come into play. Thanx It has to be shut off... just like on SG-1 That sounds cool - I might have to hunt that down... I was already thiniing that the Mega Corps would be taking the 'Strip Mining' appraoch to other worlds. Thanx for you input, it was well thought out, and caused me to re-examine some things. Thanx again WC

Re: Help!!! Looking for a Copy of Lands of Mystery Well I got my Confirmation today that 'Lands of Mystery' will be shipped out to me Tomorrow Yippy

Hello All, I'm going to be starting a new game now that I have Dark Champions in my grubby little hands. The game will be called GateCrashers. It will be a heroic level Hero game set in the very near future, and will be (as you can assume from the name) based a lot on Stargate SG-1, with a bit of Sliders & Cyber-Tech tossed in. I’m opting to change the basic premise of the working of the Stargate so that instead of an exact location in space, the Stargate coordinates are to a specific Gate. And that the gates aren’t just on other planets in our universe, but can (and will) lead to other dimensions. Thus allowing me to expose the PCs to a wider variety of worlds, Vampires/Horror, Lost world/Dinosaurs, High Tech, Fantasy, Post apocalyptic, Etc… World Background: The year is 2010. The world is similar to this one, except that technologically it is about 15 years more advanced. World wide privately owned companies hold more sway over not only day to day activities, but over world politics as well (Think of a world that might lead to the world set up in a Cyberpunk setting). Due to this increase in power there are now more Corporations, and some have developed into what have become known as Mega-Corporations. The world still consists of the same governmental structure, The US, UK, Russia, China etc… but certain things are vastly different, and tensions between these Mega-Corps have lead to some very unstable times. Conflict, Civil unrest & Terrorism is rampant and the problem is only growing. The people of the world are turning to the Mega-Corps for protection, opting for a reduced level of freedom in exchange for increased security, by working for the Corporations. With world politics more influenced by these Mega-Corps, and in some places smaller countries are totally owned/controlled by them. The UN, once concerned with more maintaining peace & humanitarian concerns, has now become mired in economic/trade matters and is in essence nothing more than a puppet of the Global League of Corporation (GLOC). The GLOC is a council originally made up of representatives of the Mega-Corps, but now a concern unto themselves. Countries that oppose GLOC & it’s policies will always find the UN breathing down their neck. As of 2009 the US has just barely fended off massive trade restrictions & embargoes, imposed by GLOC that could have severely weakened the country more than it already was. This was accomplished by the President agreeing to pass laws favorable to these Mega-Corps, and by signing a treaty promising to fully back the UN in it's military operations. Most Mega-Corps are now even beginning to create entire armies loyal to nothing but their Corporations interests. As well as communities solely for their employees with all laws determined and upheld by the Corps themselves. With these corporations respecting no national boundaries or borders, the race for the world’s resources is on and is fueling fierce competition among the Mega-Corps. Many ‘Corporate Wars’ have been fought over mining rights, trade routes, copyright infringements & other concerns. Recently with most of the world’s resources either claimed by one Corp or another, the search for other sources has intensified. Crossfire Inc has obtained the rights to the first mining colony on the moon; it will be finished in 2011, and is expected to bring Crossfire incredible gains across the board. This was only made possible by Crossfire's bailout/buyout of NASA back in 2008, which gave the company a huge boost in it’s research & development department where it pertained to the Aerospace industry. This mining of the moon represents a huge advantage for Crossfire Inc., one that the other Mega-Corps are looking to close in on. As a result, no less than a dozen other companies have launched similar projects aimed at claiming rights to other sections of the Moon, Mars, & even the Main Asteroid Belt. As it stands now, not even the GLOC has any power over these areas, and the Corporations are eager to explore the possibilities of such a freeform business environment. I figured that I’d put this out to you guys and see if anyone out there had any ideas, suggestions, comments or anything. This forum is so FULL of useful ideas that it would be silly of me not to tap into it. Thanx WC

Re: Help!!! Looking for a Copy of Lands of Mystery All I can say is HERO FANS ARE THE BEST!!! I just place my Order... :Boy I'm so excited... I remember buying this back in 85 brandnew... Gee it's like being a kid again!! Thanx a bunch WC

Attention Herodom!!! Due to RL circumstances I lost my copy of Lands of Mystery (you know that GREAT Aaron Alston Pulp-Era Lost world supplement) a few years ago. I am about to start up a game that DESPERATLY needs me to get my hands on that book again!!! Does anyone know where I can get a copy? I've checked the used bookstores, E-bay & did a google search all to no result. So I'm calling upon the resources of Herodom to help a fellow Old timer regain a wonderful book. WC

Re: Gun Charts

Anyone else notice that there's no Autofire listing for the Exotic ammunitions in the Gun charts? (Or at least I can't find them).

Re: What is old is new again? I'm just going to say that I agree with both Vanguard & L-Liaden. The new Dark Champions is Way more than the old Dark champions ever was... and that saying alot since I LOVED that book back in the day. If you into any type of Modern-era RPing... then this is a Def MUST HAVE for your Hero colection. WC