Michael Hopcroft

What is the best way to create cheap stand-up cardboard miniatures customized to your particular character/vehicle. etc.? Preferably these would fit in a hex grid and be able to move properly during a game.

Moved from another category: When building a piloted mecha, and that mecha is unique to that particular pilot (that is, each pilot in the game has his own unique mecha), do you design the characters as Superheroes with mecha as Powers, or do you build them as Heroic characters and don't make them pay for their mecha? Also, if you are building a vehicle for a single player character and you are in a heroic campaign, is there any sort of limit on the number of points the vehicle can be built on, or is the vehicle completely independent of the character?

When building a piloted mecha, and that mecha is unique to that particular pilot (that is, each pilot in the game has his own unique mecha), do you design the characters as Superheroes with mecha as Powers, or do you build them as Heroic characters and don't make them pay for their mecha? Also, if you are building a vehicle for a single player character and you are in a heroic campaign, is there any sort of limit on the number of points the vehicle can be built on, or is the vehicle completely independent of the character?

Has anyone ever run a game set in the world of the anime Record of Lodoss Wars ? If any game setting is fantasy RPG personified it's Lodoss. The fact that it was actually inspired by someone's D&D game doesn't neccesarily mean you have to use D&D to play Lodoss. Anyone figured out how to handle characters like Parn, Deedlit, and Pirotess?

How hard is it to find and create a superhero concept that isn;t a "clone" of some existing superhero or supervillain? Have so many superheroes and supervillains been created in various medias and games that everything has already been done? Or is everything just a riff on some very old concepts?

I;'m not so sure about that. Vila has been known to carry quite a bit of discreet breaking-and-entering gear. "A Pilot can be easily found. A talented Thief is rare." -- Kerr Avon, "City at the Edge of the World" (Season 3, Episode 9)

If I were running a campaign based on Superdimensional Fortress Macross (don't use the "R" word around me!), would characters like Hikaru, Max and Roy Focker have to pay character points for their Veritech fighters (especially sinc e Hikaru and Max don't start out with them!)?

I;m fond of fantasy campaigns that are decidedly unbalanced. Where certain magic users are indomitably powerful forces, but they are balanced out by having their actions have larger than usual implications. We're talking mages who, after learning the right spell, can blow up a stone castle with one shot. What sort of threats are usually needed to provide challenges to these ultra-powerful characters? Even a dragon might not suffice. My best guess is that the use of powerful magic draws the attention of SOMETHING. Something malevolent, mischevious and extremely powerful.

Has anyone figured out good converstion forumalas between the Hero System and the D10 Tri-Stat system used in Guardians of Order's Silver Age Sentinels RPG? I figured with all the "friendly" rivalry going on between the two companies and their fans that someone would want to see what having a character like the Sentinel in your campaign would REALLY entail....

Is there anyone here who is really good at drawing superhero character portraits/images and willing to do so as a volunteer (just for practice)? I'm trying to figure out what some of my characters look like.

When I see Ultimate Vehicle at DunDraCon, I will be sorely torn. I wonder if I'll have enough money to buy it, but I will definitely WANT it. What all kinds of vehicles are included in this book, anyway, for those who have seen in? Supercars? Fighter jets? Transforming piloted robots? Space battlestations? Submarines that a superteam can ride to their undersea base?

Getting back to an old topic from the old boards here, but now that Star HERO is out (excellent book) has anyone thought of what would be required to campaign in the universe of the British TV classic Blakes 7 ? I know it;'s a fairly bleak universe, but it could also be a lot of fun with dry humor in the mix and some very cool characters (including a master villain with the highest COM in the galaxy).... "I never doubted your fanaticism. As far as I am concerned you can destory whatever you like. You can stir up a thousand revolutions. You can WADE in BLOOD up to your armpits. OH, and you can lead the rabble to victory -- whatever that may mean. Just so there's an end to it. When Star One is gone, it is finished, Blake! And I WANT IT FINISHED. I want it over and done with, I want to be free." -- Kerr Avon, "Star One" (Series 2, Episode 13)