BlueCloud2k2

Re: Icons - The Costume and Superpowers Store

This whole thread reminds me of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season Two, Halloween - Where the Chaos Mage Ethan Rayne turns everyone into their costumes on Halloween. And you would not beleive how much Fan Fiction that one single episode generated... sheesh

Re: Teen superhumans but no adult ones

The one time I did something like this' date=' it wasn't that having superpowers guaranteed an early death, there just came a point where using the powers put too much wear on the body. (You had mostly teens, because they bounced back better. Kind of the way some gymnastics careers end at 20.) The warning signs were pretty clear, though, so the answer was to just stop using the powers. This had the advantage of giving me a couple of mentor characters with "one last shot" in them. (Part of the heroic arc is losing your mentor, after all.)[/quote']

 

 

This makes me think of the Movie, The Covenant.... not a bad movie. I can easily see it being adapted for HERO...

 

This has inspired me for my own campaign. I though plan to have teens maintaining their powers into adulthood. I can see the campaign a few years down the road, where the powered teen are now adults dealing with their own kids with powers.

 

It also inspired me for a wicked END Reserve. The reserve has about 84-85 points of END that do not recover. Each points of END represents a year of life and is used to power a single powerful attack. So every time the character uses this power attack, he shortens his life span. If the END the reserve ever reach zero the character dies, as he no longer has any more years to live. Also each year he lives also reduces the reserve by one. Of course an interesting pot hook may be a search to refresh his years to live.

 

Ditto The Covenant...

Re: A Body for Every Occasion

As I understand it' date=' you have to build each character individually. So, assuming your campaign guidelines are 150base+150 disadvantage points, each character should be built to the same guidelines. The disadvantages of the Brick no longer apply when he switches to the Telepath.[/quote']

 

Concur.

 

And according to FRED pg 138 "The Player must have a complete character sheet for each form. Forms may have different abilities, personalities, or Disadvantages that the true from or each other, if the player so desires..."

Re: How would YOU apply this attack?

In 5Er' date=' if both maneuvers have DCV bonuses, only the lowest applies (thus the +1 in this case). Any OCV and DCV penalties are cumulative.[/quote']

 

Domo Aragato!

 

I only have Revised, so I don't know the text from just 5E.

....

Sorry for the incorrect info before, but my 5E-fu is rusty, been playing 6E for half a year.

 

No Worries.

 

two weapon attacks require a full phase

 

I wouldn't run it any other way... too much time playing DnD I guess

Besides, considering Martial Manuevers are a 1/2 phase action, two in one phase screams "Full Phase Action!!!"

 

And I've had a love/hate relationship with Autofire for HtH combat ever since I started playing HERO back in 2000.

Re: The City of ????

This sounds a lot like Star City' date=' the setting for [i']Necessary Evil[/i]...

Color me confused... Never heard of it... what RPG system is it for?

Re: How would YOU apply this attack?

Total DCV: 3 (half of [5 +1 for the Offensive Strike])

OCV: 7 - 2 (2 attacks) - 2 (cumulative OCV penalties for the two maneuvers) = 3 OCV with each attack. Once he misses, he misses with any remaining attacks.

Sweep Maneuver (5Er, p397)

 

The damage numbers are correct for 5Er.

And here I was certain I had the CV's correct. At least I had the damages correct.

I don't have 5Er, just Fred. So either I'm reading it wrong or they changed something cuz according to Fred pg 51 anyone with Two Weapon Fighting ignores the first -2 penalty for using Sweep (which means the first attack with each hand is unmodified for Sweeping). And on Page 263 it says the -2 penalty only applies to each attack after the first, and adjustments to OCV from Martial Manuevers are not cumulative, they apply only to the individual attacks.

So is it a version change or did I misread something (and please bear with me, I haven't had access to my HERO books for the past 4 1/2 years and have been playing nothing but DnD 3.5 *shudder*)

Re: The City of ???? Mk 2

clsage - not a bad idea concerning the orgin of the city. Could be something left behind by the Progenitors or the Empyreans.

I was thinking more along the lines of this:

Re: The City of ????

More and more I'm liking Avalon D.C.

*consulting the great god Google...*

Okay good. There isn't an Avalon, New Hampshire.

Now then. Sports teams. Any thoughts? I may scratch a couple of sports depending on feedback.

Re: How would YOU apply this attack?

I've a similar problem with a Character I'm building. Please bear in mind I'm playing 5th Ed

Character STR 15, Dex 15

Weapons: Two Short Swords 1d6+1 HKA, AP

Martial Manuevers - Martial Disarm, Martial Block, Martial Strike, Offensive Strike, Defensive Strike

CSL: +2 HtH

Skills: Two-weapon fighting

Talents: Ambidexterity

Normally he would get a Two attacks at OCV 7, DCV 3; 2d6 AP.

I get that even though he has 15 STR, he only adds +2 DC AP to each Sword. But what about the Martial Manuevers? And do I add both STR and Martial Manuever to the Weapon Damage, or is it One or the Other? The Martial Arts section of combat just says "When a character uses a Martial Maneuver with a weapon, substitute the weapons's damage for "STR" listed in the Damage/Effects Column, and consider any added damage as added Damage Classes, not added d6's"

So, for example my character was in melee with two individuals and wanted to attack one with a Martial Strike and the Other with an Offensive Strike, is the following correct?

Total DCV: 3 (Half of 5 plus +1 from the Offensive Strike)

Thug A - Martial Strike OCV 7 ; 2.5 d6 HKA AP (4 DC AP Sword, +2 DC AP STR, +2 DC Manuver)

Thug B - Offensive Strike OCV 5 ; 3d6+1 HKA AP (4 DC AP Sword, +2 DC AP STR, +4 DC Manuver)

Re: The City of ????

I really like Avalon...you have no idea. Alternatively' date=' it's a bit overdone but you could go with Atlantis. If it were in the Pacific I would suggest R'lyeh, but no one would EVER name a city that. And even if they did no one would ever go live there....[/quote']

 

Yeah, R'lyeh is a bit odd (where did you get it?). And there is already an Atlantis in CU. Avalon is one I already thought of, but it brings to mind the whole image of England, King Arthur, the KotRT, Camelot, etc... and I'm pretty sure the Brittish would be pretty pissed at us Yanks for calling our mysterious Isle Avalon.

 

And if there was a Super-Team in Avalon called the Knights or Knights of Avalon, the New KotRT might get a little testy.

 

And my wife just referred to it as Sim-City.

 

Anyhoo, Avalon is on the name block. any other sugguestions?

 

I think I'm swiping this for my campaign, BTW. It adds another mystery on top of the whole, "Why did all these people suddenly become metahumans for no reason?" thing.

 

I'm glad I could inspire you.

The City of ???? Mk 2

In 2003, 10 miles off of the coast of New Hampshire, an island appeared over night. On the island was a city complete in every way - except for it was unoccupied What's more, the city was more advanced than anything ever seen by man outside of Super-Level technology. All of the systems needed to operate a city were present: water, heating/cooling, electricity, sewage, public transport, roads, even a working Fusion Power plant whose energy output was 10 times what was needed to power the city.

In addition to all of this there were factories filled with configurable machinary to mass-produce nearly anything anybody could want. The health-care facilities were decades beyond what anyone had. And finally, each of the apartments and houses in the city had limited food-produciton systems.

After 5 years of research, the US Government had decided to open the city to the public as a Government District (just like Washington DC). An interim civic government was established, and free elections are planned for 2012. The major office buildings and produciton sites were auctioned off to various corporations and the houses were awarded by national lottery.

The city has the following amenities:

A Football stadium, Soccer stadium, Hockey stadium, Basket Ball stadium, and a Baseball stadium.

A fusion reactor (fuel source: heavy water)

A Heavy-Water extractor

A Water-treatment plant (to recycle sewage into water with minimal waste)

A De-salinization Plant (to turn sea-water into usable water; also feeds the heavy water extractor)

A fully functional Subway and Monorail system.

An international airport.

A Sea-port

A Zoo

A Museum

A bridge to the mainland (an add-on by the US Gov't)

The city itself is the size of New York. An estimated 12 Million Americans already live there, and the city is only ¾ occupied. Just as in Millenium City, self-driving cars are the standard.

The primary industries available are:

Reverse Engineering of the Technologies

Manufacturing

Maintenance

Education

Civil Jobs (administrators, trash-men, etc)

Law Enforcement

Corporate Jobs (Multiple start-up firms have their corporate headquarters in the City of ????)

What I need help figuring out is the following:

- The Name of the City

- The Name of the City's sports teams (I myself am not familiar with the rules/regulations of professional sports, but if someone establishes a new team able to become part of the Pro Leagues?)

- Ideas of where the Island came from (I kinda-sorta have an idea, but haven't decided yet. Additional ideas can be used as conspiracy theories/urban legends)

Any flaws/holes you can think of.

Any other comments or sugguestions?

Edit: Mark 3 of the City can be found here: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/79422-The-City-of?p=2014226#post2014226

In 2003, 10 miles off of the coast of New Hampshire, an island appeared over night. On the island was a city complete in every way - except for it was unoccupied What's more, the city was more advanced than anything ever seen by man outside of Super-Level technology. All of the systems needed to operate a city were present: water, heating/cooling, electricity, sewage, public transport, roads, even a working Fusion Power plant whose energy output was 10 times what was needed to power the city.

In addition to all of this there were factories filled with configurable machinary to mass-produce nearly anything anybody could want. The health-care facilities were decades beyond what anyone had. And finally, each of the apartments and houses in the city had limited food-produciton systems.

After 5 years of research, the US Government had decided to open the city to the public as a Government District (just like Washington DC). An interim civic government was established, and free elections are planned for 2012. The major office buildings and produciton sites were auctioned off to various corporations and the houses were awarded by national lottery.

The city has the following amenities:

A Football stadium, Soccer stadium, Hockey stadium, Basket Ball stadium, and a Baseball stadium.

A fusion reactor (fuel source: heavy water)

A Heavy-Water extractor

A Water-treatment plant (to recycle sewage into water with minimal waste)

A De-salinization Plant (to turn sea-water into usable water; also feeds the heavy water extractor)

A fully functional Subway and Monorail system.

An international airport.

A Sea-port

A Zoo

A Museum

A bridge to the mainland (an add-on by the US Gov't)

The city itself is the size of New York. An estimated 12 Million Americans already live there, and the city is only ¾ occupied. Just as in Millenium City, self-driving cars are the standard.

The primary industries available are:

Reverse Engineering of the Technologies

Manufacturing

Maintenance

Education

Civil Jobs (administrators, trash-men, etc)

Law Enforcement

Corporate Jobs (Multiple start-up firms have their corporate headquarters in the City of ????)

What I need help figuring out is the following:

- The Name of the City

- The Name of the City's sports teams (I myself am not familiar with the rules/regulations of professional sports, but if someone establishes a new team able to become part of the Pro Leagues?)

- Ideas of where the Island came from (I already have an idea, but haven't decided yet. Additional ideas can be used as conspiracy theories/urban legends)

Any flaws/holes you can think of.

Here is the actual origin of the city:

Any other comments or sugguestions?

Has anyone done any HERO conversions of John Ringo's Into the Looking Glass series? I would be really interested to see what people came up with for the Dreen, Adar, and Hexosehr... especially after the last book (Claws that Catch).

And yes, Mr. Ringo does in fact use that Acronym for the Blade's designation.

Re: Icons - The Costume and Superpowers Store

Sounds like something you would call "The Vigilante Loophole" or something...

"I think I'll take this one."

"Ah yes, 'The Saint.' This particular outfit come with... conditions."

"Conditions?"

"Yes. You must pay for it by stealing from the criminal and corrupt and giving all of the proceeds to those whom need it - charities, churches, orphanages, and such."

"Why not call it the Robin Hood?"

"Too cliche."

"Gotcha."

Re: How to build: Aliens

You may want to look the Star HERO forum for "xenomorphs." Here're the threads I found yesterday:

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/78549-I-love-me-some-xenomorphs

and through that I found this:

http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptationscreatures/movies/alien.html

Hope this helps some. Though I wonder if anyone has noticed that the variant of ALIEN that pops out of some poor soul's chest is based upon the species of the intial host (Alien 3, AvP: Requiem - even though the Preda-Alien was rediculously over-powered IMHO)

Re: Must have books

Sounds interesting....I'm looking forward to any details you care to post...

 

If I remember I'll send you PM when I do finally get around to posting that thread.

Re: Must have books

Depending on your level of realism I would suggest getting a history book and atlas of the campaign city if you're going to hold it in a real city. Google is also handy for finding bits of flavor text. Say one of the characters has a favorite bar' date=' well you can give the bar a real name and have pictures. I did this in my Dark Champions campaign and I think people noticed the effort.[/quote']

 

That was Plan B. Plan A was that sometime in 2003 an island with a complete city just popped up off the coast of Delaware, and after giving the island a complete look-over, the US Gov't decided to make it a District like Washington DC and raise capital by selling entire buildings to private firms/consortiums. Still working out the details, will most likely post a new thread dedicated to the concept once I have time to actually sit down and flesh it out.

 

And thanks for the sugguestions. My aquisition list is now:

 

CU: NotW

5th Ed Beastiary

The Book of the Machine

The Book of the Destroyer

Villainy Amok

VIPER: Coils of the Serpent

DEMON: Servents of Darkness

CKC

UNTIL Super Powers Data Base

 

So many books, so little cash. *sigh*

Okay, I've been out of the loop for a while (my last Champs game was back in 2004) and I haven't been keeping up on current gaming events.

For runnning a 5th Ed CU campaign, what books are absolutely critical?

I currently have HERO System 5th Ed, CHAMPIONS Genre Book and CU. I've already heard about CU: News of the World. Any other recommendations?

I don't know what city I want use as a playground, er, setting. So I don't know if I want to track down Millenium City or not...

Re: Random Subplots

Seconded. This is the kind of useful little thing that makes life a lot easier for a GM.

It helps to make a break from the tired old "Oh, I just rolled your 8- Hunted. Smash-man just kicks in your kitchen wall & wants to go ten rounds with you."

And the fact that there is a Media Coverage table helps with fallout from the adventures themselves. The last campaign I ran (a while back I'm ashamed to admit) I would write up short ariticals about what the public knew and spin it either positively or negatively. This could potentially do half of the work for me in that regard.

And as for using it for Hunteds and DNPC's, rolling on the chart each time for each Hunted/DNPC that shows up will definitely provide some options - especially when one character has both his DNPC and his Hunter show up in the same adventure. I can easily see romantic DNCP's briefly dating the Hunter or the Hunter somehow finds the link between the DNPC his quarry and kidnapping said DNPC. Cliche, but if it aint broke why fix it?

Re: Any voip/skype super games? at all?

I've looked up skype and it looks handy. I could possibly be willing to run/play a game that was run on skype, but can you do conference calls over skype? and how would you handle dice rolls?

The only problem I'd have is I don't have a mic for my notebook.

Kytanos, feel free to shoot me an email if you don't want to tie up the message board. Just put HERO in the subject header so it gets sorted into the right folder. you may reach me at hvm2k2@live.com

Re: Random Subplots

I think your subplot generator is very well thought out. And it can be used for out-of-game story threading. I definitely plan on using this.

Should you decide to "beta" the PDF by adding basic instructions and your usage examples, I would be very interested in downloading that version as well. I also think you should put your name on it. Credit should go where credit is due.

And maybe Steve and the others will put this in the 6e version of the genre book for Champions.

Props

I'm in the process of setting up a Champions campaign, and am trying to figure out what City to use as a playground... er... location for my campaign to take place. Then it hit me harder than Grond's fists at full rage: make something up.

So here's an idea for those who are interested to share feedback (positive or negative):

In 2003, 10 miles off of the coast of Delaware and Island suddenly appeared. It wasn't there one day, and the next it was. The island was approximately 300 square miles in area and occupied by a sizable city. The city was unoccupied, had no markings or signs of any sort, and was devoid of machinery. All of the buildings in the city were empty shells - they had elevator shafts, ventilation systems, plumbing, etc - but not the machines/equipment needed to regulate said systems.

After much study (I'm thinking 5 years) by the U.S.A. the city was opened up to the public for habitation. To help bolster the economy and raise revenue for the Middle-East conflicts, The US Gov't bid out most of the buildings to private interests and established a temporary civic government with the plan that by November 2 2012 free elections would take place.

Ideas I'm currently looking for are:

What should the name of the city be?

What state would the city belong to, or would it be considered a District akin to Washington DC?

Where the City came from (mainly looking for ideas to help flesh-out what I have planned).

Any other realistic concearns (obvious flaws in my idea).

Your feedback is appreciated

Re: The Warlord's Other Hobby...

You could "borrow" from Robotech/Macross Saga: An alien vessel teleports into a mountain side, causing a Mass Energy Event (nuclear-level explosion without radiation).

Then throw in a little Stargate Universe as the ship teleports away while the PC's, Warlord, UNTIL, VIPER and who-ever else you want to add are trapped on board. Those onboard the derelict are seperated or forced into cooperation to survive - either way, the PC's need to find the Bridge and turn the ship around. Hazards include failing life support, diminished fuel cells, extensive damage throughout the ship, and maybe throw in the Xenovores for smiles and grins. That would give you a lasting campaign to play with.