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  1. For those that don't regularly visit the Hero main page: http://www.herogames.com/home.htm
  2. Re: The cranky thread Oh, I get the cranky too. I get crankier, and my head feels like it is splitting open.
  3. Re: A Thread for Random Musings A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
  4. Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore My problem with BLTs is that they have lettuce and tomatoes on them. Well, and in this case Mayo.
  5. Re: The cranky thread No, but it is used to treat pulmonary hypertension. Though it is called Revatio when used for that. A few years back one of my officemates at the time (a nurse dealing with pulmonary hypertension patients) went round and round with an insurance company. Revatio only comes in certain doses, whereas Viagra (exact same medication) comes in a wider variety of doses. It was much easier for this particular patient to get the correct dose using Viagra instead of Revatio. The insurance company however only covered Revatio, and not Viagra. Even though they are the same exact drug, made by the same company. I believe she eventually got through to the insurance company on it and the patient got what she needed.
  6. Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore All good points. I was just answering the "what does it do that my hands can't" part. Whether it is worth it or not is obviously a personal choice. Were I to get something like this, I'd use it to bulk make a lot of patties (possibly with different fillings) and then freeze them for later use. And by consistency I was more thinking of consistent quality (no leaks in the pocket, etc) rather than making sure they all looked the same.
  7. Re: Foods for those that just don't care anymore Do the job quickly and consistently.
  8. Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Naw, I just like the weather.
  9. Re: Brittlizing an Engine Well put. It is important to keep in mind that the Hero System isn't intended to be a reality simulator. It is an RPG geared towards representing Heroic Fiction.
  10. Re: Brittlizing an Engine No, having a 0 PD means that any attack that does at least one BODY will do BODY to the object. Someone with a 5 STR could punch an object with a 0 PD and have a 1 in 6 chance of doing no BODY to it. To argue that forces that don't do at least 1 BODY worth of damage will do BODY damage to objects with 0 PD is silly imo.
  11. Re: Brittlizing an Engine Oh, and of note as I missed this before: The write ups of vehicles and guns are absolutely a campaign setting issue. The writeups that are included in the rules are examples of vehicles and weapons that can be built using the rules. A battle axe doing 2d6KA with a standard Stun multiple and a Strength minimum of 13 isn't an integral part of the rules. It is just an example of how a battle axe can be built, and specifically how one is built at the power level used in at least most of the settings that the folx at Hero write. If you want to say that in your campaigns internal combustion engines do damage to themselves just by running, but that normally the PD or ED of the engine stops that damage from actually doing any BODY to the engine, that is certainly up to you. But it isn't part of the rules as written.
  12. Re: GM conundrum - CSLs You seem to have some pretty significant misunderstandings about how the Hero System works. Your characteristics don't start at 0. You have to take a specific number of Complications, but that doesn't change depending on the number of points you spend on a single power. Also of note, most of us trying to help you out here are actually quite familiar with not just the Hero System in general but specifically 6th edition. Several of us were on the advisory committee that Steve set up to bounce rules ideas off of. So rather than assuming that since we are disagreeing with you that we haven't read the rules and don't know what we are talking about, you might want to consider the idea that you might actually be mistaken and actually listen to what we have to say.
  13. Re: Brittlizing an Engine Determining the effect of things like this is what Refs are for.
  14. Re: Longest Running Thread EVER Of that I have no doubt.
  15. Re: Longest Running Thread EVER We're getting a bit wider variety of temps, but there is a chance that San Fran will be getting snow for the first time since the 70s.
  16. Re: GM conundrum - CSLs What part of the Basic Rules do you think invalidates Hugh's example? And of note, the Basic Rules are a subset of the 6th Edition Hero rules. Volume 1 (Character Creation) and Volume 2 (Combat and Adventuring) are the core rules.
  17. Re: Brittlizing an Engine And if you are the Ref and wish to declare that in your world a car engine does {x} amount of damage to itself by simply being used, that is entirely up to you. However short of such a declaration simply draining the PD and/or ED from something doesn't make it start taking damage. Which goes back to one of the fundamental parts of Hero that even veterans can lose track of sometimes. In Hero you are buying discrete mechanics. When you buy a 12d6 Blast, you are buying a way of doing damage to a single target. The fact that the SFX are of a jet of flame doesn't change that, and even though a number of other effects of being hit by a jet of flame might make sense logically (being blinded by the light, having your belongings/clothing set on fire, etc), you don't get those effects unless either you buy it as part of your power or the target has taken it as a complication. And if you want to delve into things that would make sense from a real world POV, freezing objects to the point of making them brittle actually can permanently weaken them. So it would make just as much sense to say that something drained in that fashion permanently loses some amount of its PD and/or ED as it would to say that it should start to take damage simply from being used while it has reduced PD and/or ED. Giving either or both of those effects to objects that you feel it would make sense for as part of the implied "real {x}" complication that real things have would be perfectly reasonable. But it certainly isn't part of the RAW.
  18. Re: Longest Running Thread EVER In general if cheaters were smart they would just redirect the energy they waste in trying to find ways to cheat into, you know, learning the topic at hand.
  19. Re: My character building technique (How to build Hero System Characters) Yup, it is equally possible to have bad/unreasonable players. As a player I never assume that the options available to me are all of the options available in the entire universe. If I'm playing in a campaign that centers on a crack military unit, I realize that while I'm restricted to playing a military character that there are in fact non-military people in the world. Same with any other kind of campaign. The guidelines the Ref hands out as to what kind of character you can play aren't necessarily restrictions as to what can exist in the universe, but are frequently at least in part a measure of what kind of campaign they want to run. Not being allowed to build a wizard character doesn't necessarily mean that magic doesn't exist in the world. It just means that the PC's don't get to have it, at least to start with. But there is a big difference between the players finding out that the world is different than they thought it was (magic really does work, the Illuminati really does exist, whatever) and being told to create characters in a world where for instance there is magic, and then being transported to an alternate reality where magic doesn't work for the rest of the campaign.
  20. Re: Order of the Stick No reason for it not to. Or at least no more reason for it not to than for a gasoline powered craft. The hydrogen filled the gas bags used for lift, not the passenger area.
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