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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-45166592 Ruby Rose is getting put through the wringer because some fans dont want her to play Batwoman. I watch her as Batwoman in a movie or show. People are going overboard imo.

I would like to add one more point to that. 8) No soap opera like story lines.

That cover is what brought Dark Champions into the mainstream and was an introduction to the hero system for many. Pure 90's badass goodness!

Good luck to you JmOz!

I recently picked up Villains codex from the pathfinder line because I am a lazy GM and wanted write up of villains I could just insert in my game without much work. Quite often the villians write up refered rules that were written up in books that I did not have. Several feats that were written up in their stat lines were taken from other books as well. And the feats and rules were not explained in the Villains codex. I pick up a hero games villain book the write ups are understandable just from reading straight. How ever the biggest advantage with Hero games is still this: Fire missile: 1d6 energy rka persistent. Lighting missile: 1d6 energy rka +2 stun Frost missile: 1d6 rka energy plus 2t6 cumulative speed drain Acid missile 1d6 rka energy double penetrating + 3 ocv to hit Flint missile 2d6 rka versus Physical defence Razor missile 1/2 d6 rka Armour Piercering versus Physical defense x2 endurance Each one of these simple write up powers have a diffrent game play "feel" for little cost work. Both when it came to come up with the idea and to actually write it up. Compare that to spells and feats in Pathfinder. I think you guys will see what I mean.

But killing damage is different game play wise from normal damage. It has different game play mechanics. Natural magical armour bonus and regular magical armour bonus to magical armour do the same thing mechanically speaking. Its just one example on how pathfinder gives less result for the same amount of work than the hero system does.

But hero splat books and power sets give you more bang for you story bucks. A whole lot more power concepts and ideas can be expressed much quicker. Further more if you know the Hero lanuage then you know exactly what a power does in game terms before you add the special effects. Limiting that problem where a single word can change the whole power/feat/spell like in pathfinder. "Oh it added natural armour, I thought it added just plain armour".

Oh yeah. And next up is: Evil Library.

Low level: A naive princess ran away with a actors troupe, unfortunaly they were goblins in disguise. She ran away when they tried to eat her and hid in an abandoned tower, barricading the door. Now she sits in a tower yelling for heroes to rescue her while a bunch of weirdly dressed goblins sits around the tower trying to negation for her to get down. "If you come down we only eat your arms" Mid Level: The party is approached by a lady in waiting who offer the adventures a sizable sum to help the princess win her true love. The king has declared that whom ever slays the huge dragon or other evil that terrorize the kingdom will get the princess hand in marriage. The princess wants to marry this other guy but even though he is really nice he is not capebale of killing a dragon. The plan is that the players pretend the kidnap the princess and then her chosen suitor will save her. After that he will certainly get her hand in marriage. The twist is that the Lady in waiting is a SPY working for another kingdom when the princess is taken to the agreed upon place the party will be ambushed by a special strike team consistent of soldiers and specialists from the other kingdom. High Level: Riots break out all over the kingdom as huge swats of men starts fighting each other to win the love of a beautiful princess that wanders across the land. The party is tasked to find and stop this chaos. The princess is a young godless of love, she dont understand how to interact with our world and does not realize the damage her divine being is doing to the families and hearts she comes across. She is invincible in combat for most mortal heroes and her beauty is impossible to withstand unless you dont like women.Not only that in her wake is not only chaos of men fighting each other over her but animals becomes huge and dangerous, plants become alive and starts eating people and so on. Further complicating things is that she is being tracked by the gods of evils most dangerous agents who have the right to kill her since she walks the mortal world before it is her time to do so. And they are eager to destroy this godling before she become a real threat. The agents are: a fallen angel dressed all in black robes with his white wings creating a sharp contrast, his face is pale white and twisted, his eyes black and gold and the white of the eye is pale blue. He fights with his magic bow and his book of stolen spells. An black horse, this ancient beast god have been depowered and bound into this form by the evil god or gods. Its rage is enormous and he blames mortals for turning their back on him and waking him enough so that the gods of evil could bind him. Its jagged mouth have sharp shark like teeth and both its mouth and eyes glows with red infernal light as this being can breath fire that does not damage to material things exept it makes the blood boil in mortals. A small brick like being made out of grey rubbery material. The upper side of the brick have a huge blue lipped mouth that constantly scream curses and eyes all over. It can take over mens minds and kill with a tought. A large stone like man made up by thousands of little rocks. His eyes gleam infernal red and he can shoot swarms of flint sharp rocks turning everyone of his victims to so much red mist.

Pathfinder is very complex and rules heavy game. It lack the flexibility of Hero games and its variety. Each spell is a new set of rules, skills take half an hour too look up and write up unless you know it from before. All classes got not only different skill pools but also different skills they favor so you can buy so and so of that skill and then so and so of that other skill. Expect players to start exploiting the rules at its very big difference between a tweaked out character and a story based character. The game is also level based so a twenty level halfling barbarian can in game terms take more beating that an elephant. The game gives a lot of opportunists for multi classing and thereby making varied characters but you need to be up in level to really start mixing and matching things efficiently and the combinations are often useless compared to just playing single class characters. Unless a player finds out a way to break the game with some overpowered combo but that creates its own problems. All in all its ok as a player if your GM dont know any better but as a GM its a lot of hard dull work for very little pay compared to other games.

Very nice pictures. You are really talented. Dont forget to put down the camera and enjoy the sights though.

I can forgive Rey being perfect and a bit bland. Because I like powerful and kind characters. But problem is that this series is becoming more and more like fan fiction inspired young adult books and movies directed at a female audience. So not only is she powerful as hell but every characters morality is put around how much or how little they like her. And her relationship with Finn is scrapped to instead focus on Adam Drivers character because in young adult books directed at women the heroine must be with the most powerful man and he must offcourse be good at heart even though he can be a bit rough around the edges. This is a bad fit for Adam Drivers character and Rey to be honest. If she is to have a boyfriend I would prefer it would not be a mass murdering psycho.

I know its true for me!

Yes.

A dnd cartoon reboot would probably go the way of the Thundercats roar reboot. More of a Steven Universe artstyle parody than dark and edgy I think.

How about adding +10HKA only vs creatures who dies if they loose their head or have heads, and only when you roll a natural 3?

Cool costume! You look like him.

Yes that is the one. But it was called something else over here. A fantastic comic. So much imagination and raw energy.

A panel form one of my favorite comics from when I was young.

From Nauroto to One piece. From Samurai X to Pokemon and from Fist of the North star to Berserk the characters and worlds in anime have lots and lots of original powersets and world rules. But they often also have somewhat an plausible feel, danger seems more real and threatening situations are explored more in detail, often quite extensive detail, giving anime and manga a different feel that western comics even though they have insane amounts of variety. I think that the only roleplaying game that can capture all these powers and stunts is the Hero system. Anything else will be bogged down by an increasing number of rules as in anime almost all combat ready characters have an special ability or two needing their own set of rules. I think Hero have a huge opportunity here where they can make source books for anime. Anime art commissions are also cheap as hell compared to everything else so it would be possible to put some cool anime art on the cover and in the book to draw in the kids. Make some kind of generic anime setting like One Piece or Nauruto. Filled with different factions and power sets who all come from one or two sources. Anotother option is "dark vampire hunting world" or just plain mecha. Thats just what I think though. I dont know if it would be a success but it sure seems popular. Any thoughts?