Agent X

July 9, 2009

Re: Sixth Edition Showcase #1: ACV And AVAD

I'm getting too old and too lazy to want to do a lot of retooling. The whole notion of adding more letters to short-hand tags like ECV turning into... whatever.

For me, there is that added hurdle beyond simply if I like the rules changes. It's also am I motivated to learn a substantial amount of new rules and new jargon. I dunno.

June 18, 2009

Re: How did you handle the change in the Champions Universe between the 4th Ed & 5th

I kept Bora and the Whip's Whip!

Basically, I didn't allow the 5th Edition Universe to get rid of any of the characters they killed off from the 4th Edition. If that meant a short explanation for what impact that had on continuity, so be it.

January 29, 2006

Re: CHAR: Thor. (Marvel Style)

I don't think it's fair to point out the greatest feat a character has ever performed and use that as a standard for the build. Thor may have "lifted a mountain" at some point in his career (I thought it was the Hulk who did that, though, and in the better-off-ignored Secret Wars no less), but he certainly doesn't use that kind of strength in 99.9% of his fights in the comics.

Just sayin'.

Thor definitely performs feats of strength far outstripping the OHOTMU routinely enough to laugh at the notion that there is some 100-200 ton barrier for him.

January 22, 2006

Re: Captain Average!!!

There's only one way to do this right. You have to list all the superheroes in order of most powerful to least powerful and find the middle.

What?

January 20, 2006

Re: SPD Standards

Well' date=' I knew I was making a smart aleck remark, but the question I asked was serious. Ultimately, I'm wondering what Spidy as actually done, and where if it matters, that leads some players into believing he needs an AE Selective attack. I don't really have the resources to run out and collect 20 years of back issues and they haven't put it in a trade paperpack that I know of.[/quote'] Check out The Essential Spider-Man vol. 1 and you can read the first few years of his stories in Amazing Fantasy and Amazing Spider-Man.

Peter Parker is a genius from the beginning. He also can sew.

He's the guy who comes up with web-shooters and the webbing that gets shot. Why? Because he sees a need for them... and he's in high school.

He's also gifted in biology, enough to help out Dr. Connors once in a while.

He's also mature enough to help pay the bills as a photographer.

And very early on, he's demonstrated the ability to run circles around the Fantastic Four if not actually defeat them.

That's what I can think of without looking anything up.

January 20, 2006

Re: SPD Standards

Everybody can pick their own Spiderman I suppose. No I haven't read them, I've only read bits and pieces of the Amazing Spiderman, watched the cartoon and seen the movies. While I know that's not everything Spiderman, I feel it's an accurate representation of who and what the character is.

So basically, you're saying that in the first few appearances of Spiderman, he went Death Blossom with the webshooters while moving and maintaining full defensive capability on a regular enough basis to warrent an AE Selective ability? Now I haven't read a lot of the comics, but I never saw anything like this or even anything that would even inspire it. I'm not saying it wasn't there, I'm just doubting.

No, that's not what I'm saying but you do get credit for making a smart aleck response if that is what you were hoping for.

January 19, 2006

Re: Has HERO achieved maximum desirable complexity?

I think one of the things that has added complexity is trying to make regeneration into an aid and the like. Sometimes special powers that are fairly narrowly defined increase playability rather than decrease it.

6th Edition should probably consider this and more attention to playability rather than one perspective on rules "consistency" should be the standard.

That I can build virtually anything with HERO with advantages and limitations doesn't mean that my goal is to have a long character sheet. For common power concepts there isn't any real reason to avoid having a special power - Instant Change, Regeneration, Damage Shield w/o the convolutions.

January 19, 2006

Re: SPD Standards

You are kidding right?

AE Selective webshooters? What ever happened to a simple use of Rapid Fire? And what Skills? The kid's, well a kid. He has a coupla Science Skills, Acrobatics, Stealth and Breakfall and PS: Photography. What else does he have? Really?

To clarify, I am starting starting character here. Not the god of all spidermen - red and blue icon he became in later comics. I'm talking the guy played by Toby McGuire in the recent films, the Spidy from the 80s cartoon. The Spiderman that everybody knows and will recognize.

Apparently you haven't read the first few appearances of Spider-Man or you are pretending they don't exist - I don't know which.

January 19, 2006

Re: Eating your lunch...

For what it's worth:

I thought that stan da ork's "filth" opinion was unnecessarily derogatory. But that's very much the exception around here, generally and for him in particular.

I thought that MitchellS's reaction to it was unnecessarily harsh. But that's very much the exception around here, generally and for him in particular.

I have seen fairly extreme reactions posted on these forums about some games, including HERO itself. But that's very much the exception around here, particularly in contrast to some other gaming forums that I visit, such as RPGnet.

I remember a few years back when a newcomer to HERO came onto the boards with the fervor of a new convert, praising HERO while contrasting it with D20 in pretty negative terms. A series of responding posters chided him (pretty calmly overall IMO) for running down another game and the people who played it, to the point where he protested that he was being persecuted for loving HERO. That's something I personally have yet to see on another gaming forum. (I could dig up the specific thread if anyone needs to see it.)

I've found the HERO online community to be generally calm, reasonable and open to dissenting opinions, as far as such communities go. There are certainly exceptions, but they're a long, long way from being the rule. I'm afraid I don't really see the benefit in generalizing about any of these communities based on a few aberrant examples.

I have to disagree with you conclusion concerning MitchellS. He has disparaged the HERO community consistently. This is nothing new. That it is part of a continuing trend is why I will report his post.

January 17, 2006

Re: I know this probably sounds psycotic, and it probably will be.

Why not buy 900 Presence with a big Images power and cheese limitations instead?

January 16, 2006

Re: Uberworld - a new Champions PBEM Universe

Looks like that snob who runs the Global Guardians has some competition.

Now, now: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Ask yourself, would Worldmaker really want to be called a snob? I bet you can figure out the answer.

January 15, 2006

Re: Is Hero too preditable?

Not using a bell curve for damage classes could be a bit problematic if you are using autofire attacks, rapid fire attacks, and the like.

There is a reason why I think any Munchkin worth his salt should understand the wonderful(?) exploits one can make of autofire 3 rkas.

January 15, 2006

Re: SPD Standards

You can build a version of Spider-Man that tries to get the spirit of the character on 350 points but you won't be building a character that comes very close to what Spider-Man can actually do.

Spider-Man's speed needs to be compared to other supers, not simply normals.

January 13, 2006