Agent X

I am E-Commerce Impaired. It's a superstition of mine, I think.

Dude! You are mighty when you can measure actual people's strength in Hero stats from memory. Just for the sake of balance, close FRED and move away from the book for say, 5 minutes. Everybody needs a break once in a while.

I am sure that somebody out there will try to build it on 250, whoops! make that 350 points.

Helium - the power to make children and some adults laugh.

Re: Speed - Roll d12's That is a really cool idea.

I LOVE VOICE. I just haven't used them yet. I had a great idea for VOICE once. I was going to have a Chinese Superteam, the Heroes, and VOICE fight over the Panchen Lama. It was inspired by the Chinese kidnapping of the Panchen Lama and the installation of their own choice of Panchen Lama. I was stunned that the Chinese would so baldly hurt a little boy for their political purposes. Sadly, I had to move away for awhile.

Wow! How many points for that Teleport?

I think one of the problems is that there seemed to be an obvious effort to make the Champions be a "standard" representation of each archetype. They come off forced and "vanilla." I have no intention of ever using them in my campaigns. But I still think Kinetic should have won. The "brilliant" tactic of fooling the other guy to run over a cliff was just lame and unbelievable.

I used to enjoy the occasional story with Hydra or AIM or the Hive. The thing I remember about those stories is they always included a guest star superhero in the comic or a supervillain that was being used or using the villainous organization.

Great! But I want to see the schematic.

Hey Aroooo, since you're going to all this work, why not run a PBEM game on B5? Looks like you would do a great job.

Well, that means it should be a month before it gets to my area.

Just require any Desolid power to make Magical Attacks its weakness.

Is anybody else pretty much bored with the Established Organizations in Champions? Primus, Demon, Viper, Genocide, and Raven just don't do it for me. The approach to organizations has suffered from serious flaws as far as I'm concerned. Primus is just been so exploited there's nothing to it anymore. I think one weakness of Primus is that it is using Supersoldiers who all look roughly the same. Primus lacks variety and variety is what Superheroes are all about. All the villain organizations (except maybe Raven and that's just because I've ignored them so long I don't remember much) suffer from extremely wierd compositions of leadership. I don't know. I am interested in Superheroes and Supervillains - not Viper Agent Bob, Chuck, Daryl, and Winnifred. The supervillains in these organizations have a few gems but most just lack any appeal. Often, the best supervillains in these organizations don't even feel like they fit in with the organization.

Einsteinium - Really smart guy. Horribly unscientific, I know.

That has been the most satisfying approach for me as well.

How is relative speed handled anyway? Do ships just routinely fight at noncombat speeds? In science fiction, it's not unheard of for ships moving at FTL speeds with incredible ranged attacks to duke it out without slowing down. This is one of those things that has always concerned me with Hero.

Ah, Mark V, my favorite. I never could understand why they acted like the later armors were improvements when the technology they used to explain the Mark V armor would have to be vastly superior to some of the later concepts.

I think I'm going to write up a ship for your consideration. May take me a day or two.

Let me get some sleep and I will tell you a little about one of my campaigns.

Re: Ah, Star Fleet Battles... that brings back memories... Yeah, it was fun until you met the guy who had memorized 700 pages of rules and learned to play with a guy who won a Gold Hat, until the guy with a Gold Hat refused to play with anymore because he started winning. Then it became a living nightmare. Scary Flashback! It really wouldn't be hard to design a simulated SFB with Hero. Make the vehicles have movement that costs endurance and force walls and ranged attacks that are all on the same endurance reserve. Then make sure the endurance reserve has a huge recovery. The endurance reserve (warp engines) is a bulky immobile focus and their might be sets of them - lowering the value of the focus. This is not a cost effective way to design a starship in hero but it could be a great deal of fun to play that way.

Hey, what's your favorite type of pizza?

Re: Re: Lemme tell you a story... Power Man and Iron Fist can take Hawk and Dove anyday of the week! Oh, wrong thread... carry on.

As a player who has had to duke it out and negotiate with Cobalt Commando, I would have to put him down as my favorite Brick - that I don't play.

Re: Re: If they use the same crew for SpiderMan I like the "feel" of the Green Goblin Armor in Spiderman. I think Iron Man's Armor can be done. If there is a problem, I think it will be the helmet. I always thought the helmet was a little too form-fitting to be realistic in the comics - but it sure looked cool!