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Re: Hero Character Portfolio -- What Do *You* Want To See? That is exactly what I meant Killer Shrike. Sorry if I wasn't clearer. G

Re: Hero Character Portfolio -- What Do *You* Want To See? Being a fan of Hero Designer I would have to say that I would not buy this product. BUT if it came with a disk of of pictures done by the excellent artists of Herodom in jpeg/gif format sized to 240x348 then I would buy it in a minute. As for extra fields for background, Life Questions and such, sounds like a great little add on for Hero Designer. G

Re: Natural Healer Thanks for all your help. But stupid @$$ player decided to change his concept. But Still Thanks for the comments. G

I have a player who wants have a healing field around him that would work similar to a hospital stay (ie. reducing the time by half to get a recovery). You could say that the character has a very healthy aura, and as such others get the benefit of him be around. Now I was thinking of using Change Enviroment but I don't know if that quite would be the way to do it. Any Suggestions? Also is there a way to make something like Change Enviroment so that it would move with ya? G

Re: Active Defense Rolls Thanks so far for ideas. I for one like the fact of NO Active Defense Rolls pretty much for the reason stated. But these are die-hard GURPS fan and it is not easy. Wish me luck. G

Re: Introduction Greetings and Have fun. G

I am currently getting people who are GURPS fan into Hero. Their major problem is that HERO has no Active Defense Roll. How would you defend Hero having no such roll? G

Re: What superhero character concepts are you tired of seeing? CrosshairCollie, the thing is the some of so called Anime cliche doesn't always fit every Anime. For instance IIRC, no one Lain or Boogie Pop Phatom (but blood does flow) ever squirt blood out of their nose after seeing a pretty girl. That whole gag is more approiate for comedic animes and not realistic ones. Sometime Anime fans (or fans in general) can get fixated on a few aspect of an anime and assume it to reflect the whole. As for power level, no one in a standard Champion game will be as powerful as the man of steel, but may expect their character to do the same kind of things. So I see that complaint can be laid against both Anime and Western Comic Clones. But I do see your point. If someone wants to play Magic Ribbon Yumi and is willing to put up with the fact that she lives lets say in the Champion Universe, no problem. But if she also wants the evil Queen Cabbage around trying to absorb all of the love from the world, then she wants to play a version of Sailor Moon and would be happiest there. But I am not going to change the Champion Universe just to allow this new power Villian. G "Dr. Destroyer, fail me one more time and I will destroy you," sneered Queen Cabbage. "I will destroy Magic Ribbon Yumi and her Defenders of Love, this time my Queen. My plans to harness the love of Millennium City are foolproof" replied the Doctor.

Re: What superhero character concepts are you tired of seeing? Look at it this way, the Anime craze is beginning to wane and with it characters based on them. On one hand a direct ripoff of Goku (Which is based on the Chinese Classic; Into the West) is annoying but being inspired and creating a new character with Goku as a base is cool. I can say that is also true of American comic heroes. But lest we forget, RPGing is a chance though make believe play to live our dreams. We all at sometime in our lives have wanted to play our favourite TV,Comic, Movie or Anime Character, and tabletop RPGing gives us that chance. G

Re: Things a wise super hero should NEVER say Why would I need Pd/ED/armour, I will rely on my speed...... G

Re: What character concepts make you cringe? Well the campaign was suppose to be dark and omnious (a war between beings that gave birth to our concept of Angels and Demons). Also this particular player love creating characters just to annoy the other players (And he did want to talk in the squeaky voice). Oh well not going let this become rant against a player (even if I haven't seen him in years (and maybe I am remembering it worse then what it was)). G

Re: What character concepts make you cringe? The worse character I have ever had someone present to me was a humanoid butterfly from another dimension for a super game. Not mention this character also had a VPP and talked in a high pitch squeal. Suffice to say I said no. G

Re: What have you used Hero for? I have used it to run; Space Supers (Using the Champion Universe) Fantasy and a campaign I called Secret Super (basically a low power super campaign in whcih the common person does not know of the existance of Supers) G

First off let me say that Sengoku by Gold Rush is a better product for monster of Japan then GURPS (still like their world books though but Gold Rush is better when it comes to Japan (Ps. Just Love their Ninja Books)). Now Looking at my library, I have Japanese Tales from Royall Tyler that have some stories of oni, water spirits, fox spirits, dragons and ghost, Davis's Myths and Legend of Japan, The Japanese Fairy Book and Supernatural and Mysterious Japan by Caitlin Ross. The last one has a slight new ageish approach but does include both ancient tales and some modern ghosts. Also I have copy of Hearn's In Ghostly Japan. If any outakes from any of these books would help, just let me know Susano and I will scan section for reference. G

I have to say I don't like the +1/2 Affect Desolid either. Okay a sword that slays Ghost (no problem (+1/4)), a gun that dispatches Phased N-Raiders from the N-Dimension (no problem (works on the right frequency)(+1/4)). But an attack that affects both (+1/2)? Problem. G

Yes Zornwil if someone mind control a team-mate then the person would be in the clear. But the question is how often does that comes up in a camapign? If every campaign has a person mind contolling team-mates, then everybody would be taking this. No the abusive side of this power is in my opinion is not that the attack can't hurt you but depending on the sfx team-mates can shoot/cut right through you to get at the enemy. Ha I have Mr. Paragon held captive and if you do not want him hurt you will..... Hey you can't shoot my hostage.... Hey that hurt!!!!!!! Of course the reason this power exist in games like Champions of Norrath is so you won't hurt your friend by accident. But in RL gaming you should be able to aim your shots/swing without hurting your friends. G I personally think it is a funny power but would not allow it as I have stated it.

That is easy Trebuchet. If he backstab his team-mate then they are no longer team-mates or friends. At this point their powers would affect him normally. Now if one of his team-mate decide to betray him, his power still will not protect him, since he and the subject are longer friends. G

That is why I ask if it was silly or not. But thinking about it, one way is if the person who has it, knows the team tactics in such a way that he nevers puts himself in danger of getting attacked. This version might requires a skill roll. The other way is that he aquired a blessing from some celestial being such that he can never be harmed by a friend/team-mate (But there is always betrayal...). Can anyone think of any other. G

Desolidificaton with the limitation Only vs. Team-mates attacks;) G Thought of this while playing Champions of Norrath

Good point that Monolith. Thanx G

I could see it filling a whole book too. As for the article, I thought it was a nice starting point for an Anime campaign. Just noticed that Asian Bestiary is on the schedule for 2005 (Yea!). G

Given that a cone is 3D, would making it into a fan (ie, only having 2 dimensions) be worthy of any discount (let's say an extra -1/4 limitation)? G

Oops forgot that one. Hmm now who did write Ninja Hero........ G

Check out Susano's translation at his website.... http://surbrook.devermore.net/index/ His Article on Anime in Digital Hero #8 or his book Kazei 5. G

I would say being a thief requires you to buy KS: Thief to know secrets if in a guild or at the oustide to know the slang. As for PS, I would say drop it and go with Lock Picking, Streetwise and any other skills based on the genre you playing in. I can't right off hand even say what having PS: Thief would do for ya if you have all the other needful skills to be one. G