John515

Go ahead. I dare you.

Re: Killing Charachters/Villians in your games. Do you do it? We nearly had a death yesterday in our game run by Argus of these very boards. Our resident Brick had a spot of bad luck and ended up at about -5 BODY. I fully expect it to happen to one of us sooner or later if we don't stop her again.......

Re: Review: The Ultimate Brick TUB is a really good book. Lots of good stuff. While there was a fair amount of material in it that had already been covered, I don't feel it was excessive. It helped to make the book better as whole and put various topics in the right context. It was unavoidable. The recycled artwork was a little bit of a bummer, but I also understand the realities of comissioning artwork-it ain't cheap. Thanks for keeping it reasonably priced, too. As far as the page count is concerned, I think it was adequate for the price. How much really needs to be said, anyway? TUMA needed the extra pages, because it covered a wider subject. I expect the TU Armor, and TU Energy Projector to be about the same size as TUB. Still well worth the money, though. As usual, the "fit and finish" is top-notch. I love the overall look and "feel" of the current HERO line. Keep up the good work! John Kohn http://www.superock.com

Re: We're Gonna Need Guns So long as the terms "clip" and "magazine" are properly used, as well as "automatic" and "semi-automatic", I'll be happy. (I seldom see these two terms consistently used properly in gaming supplements....) As far as ideas for guns and other toys: Check out the Kalashnikov site. They've got all kinds of neat stuff there. A write up for the M134 minigun, as depicted in the movie Predator, used by Jesse Ventura, baby! The ULTIMATE street sweeper! How about UAV's? There's some really cool stuff on the horizon with these little babies.....some of them are going to be VERY small More to follow....

Poor guy never seems to get a break. Did the actual character get beat up a lot in playtest or something? Just curious......

Re: Your Character's Greatest Fear? My GM reads the boards. I am not crazy enough to put my character's greatest fear(s) where he easily find them. However, being the novice hero he is, he would certainly be upset if he were to fail to live up to the standards set by the world's greatest heroes before him. The Imagineer very much wants to become of the history's greatest heroes......

The basic idea of the character is that he was near-obsessed with the supers world as a child and early adolescent. James collected piles upon piles of books, newspaper/magazine clippings, videos, and photos of both heroes and villians. About halfway through high school, he was witness to a large supers battle and moved in to get a better look. As the battle progressed he began to see that the heroes were getting the worse of it and their numbers began to dwindle. "I can believe he just didn't use his TK to hit him from behind with that dumpster like (hero) did last year!", he thought to himself. When that dumpster began to move on its own and clobbered one of the viillians, he knew something was different. "Coincidence. Someone is using their powers from behind cover". Someone was....... Before long, the street itself had reached up and encased one of the baddies and another fell unconcious after his flight just stopped working and he fell about 200 feet to the ground. This was enough to turn the tide of the battle and the heroes on the scene emerged victorious. As James left the scene, he began to wonder what else he was capable of. So he rode out to the outskirts of the city to test himself in solitude. Before long he began to see that he could do just about anything he could imagine, just like the supers! He could become a superhero and join the ranks of those he had admired for so many years. He knew that he had to prepare first, and develop the control and skills he needed to use his powers reliably. After finishing high school, he set out for the big city to begin his career as a superhero. My GM, Argus, has been good about keeping a balance as far as abuse of the pool. I am fully aware of the potential for abuse here, but I also don't want to harm a perfectly good game, so I police myself. Believe me, I've had my share of skill roll failures at inopportune times. The best one was the forgetting to buy down the END cost on an autofire attack I used. I blasted the villian (who stayed up, BTW), and I fell into a very deep sleep. Power Pools are very flexible....like rope, if you catch my drift.

A character can base a KS on INT for 3 charater points, giving a base (9+(INT/5)) roll. Each +1 to the skill roll costs +1 character point. - HERO 5th Edition HERO Designer calculated everything correctly.

thanks! there's a whole bunch of background stuff too that didn't come up. how do i post that?

One more time!!!!

Let's try this again.....

This my first attempt at posting a character. Hope it goes well: This is the character I am currently playing (first one since '89). I am open to suggestions/critcisms/comments. I value the community's input!

Nevermind.... 20"/PHASE with a 4 SPD = about 60mph That would be about right. My mistake!

20"/segment, 4 SPD = 80" turn(12 seconds) Seems a bit slow, to me. High end production model PWCs ("jetskis") routinely do 60-65 mph out of the box (despite what the speedometers read). Am I miscalculating something? Is acceleration taken into account (it takes about 4-8 seconds to hit top speed on a production boat under ideal conditions) I am assuming that by factoring in acceleration, less-than-ideal water conditions (chop), and typical operator error, one might arrive at that figure. Any thoughts, herophiles?

We all had much fun. An actual RP scenario that didn't automatically become a battle. I am proud of our group and how we all worked together to to solve the mystery. BTW, for those of you who are hesitant to game with women, get over it. My original plan, while it would probably have worked, wasn't nearly as good as the way an actual mother of two handled the situation. The scene really required a mother's touch.