TechnoGothic

great stuff Aroo.... You just helped me out tremendiously indeed, with all the work youve put into this... That and i'm still new to Hero doesnt help me out trying to figure these things out as quickly as you guys can. But from seeing this, it shows me, how things can be done right...and accurately... i was working on the Psi-Corp idea, and boy was i not figuring these things out, like you did... i'm starting to believe Hero is too cruchy for me....alot of work when creating characters, ect...but After Character creation, things are easy

only if you could hve infinit BEER, using this lophole i can picture it now... A gaming group drinking, and the the group *mouth* yells out "Out of Beer again, man. Who want to make a Beer run ?" The Gamer ho own the house anwers " Beer run ? Dude, who need to run outfor beer anymore." Walk over a microave looking device without a door. Hepushes a button,and say to it "Budwiser, Cold, 6-pack." Thn it just appear there., e grabs the new 6 pack, and handsto the mouth. The mouth's jaw drops in amazment. The house owner says "Dude, your drooling on my shag carpet, stop it." :D :D

i believe the "charge never recovers" would mean, even if bought with points, once used, they are gone. Better get some money to buy more in-game.

i've found it easier to convert RIFTs to Fuzion or Action, then to Hero itself... Fuzion has some Rifts like stats - Kills = MDC, HIts = SDC+HP and with games like BGC2032, it helps make the Powerarmor conversion faster... Then you just take Fuzion, which can be easily converted over to Hero, and convert it... The main beef i have with Palladium's system nowadays, is the Exp Levels, and % for Skills, and level up stuff...The Rest of Palladium's system is easy to learn and enjoy the game. If Palladium was to change over to a system like Fuzion or Action, i'd be happy indeed. But Hero gets too crunchy adding in this and subracting this, instead of having things simplified for convience. As i said, my beef with Rifts deals with the exp/levels/skills parts of their system, not the rest. Though the Rifts Attributes section could use an overhaul too, but its not the headach aspect of the system. As for game balance...i enjoy No Game balance myself, systems which force game balance upon the system itself, just isnt filling a needed nitch...Is Hero5th Game balanced, Yes and No...its all depends on the gaming group, and story needs doesnt it. Rifts is more like Real Life, in that all things isnt fair, or balanced...ok, i'll stop.

agreed, this will work great.

thanks steve...

dont know if this is what you mean by military, but i saw a Few B5 books today in Bares&Nobles, and Books a Million, about the Shadow War, and Ranger Quests and the like... you might want to check for them..

Well, what races are in the Main Setting book for the Fantasy Hero's genre..??

my upcoming game is basicly a Sci-Fi Fantasy like setting, where there is no magic, only science, and super-science beyond what most races know of. Fantasy Races have become Alien Races with their own worlds. Why do we know of them ? they have visited us in the past, is why. So Star Hero itself, might actuallt help with Science istead of no magic parts...

Now i'd love to see this in a game, or in real life anyday...

Yah Hyper-Sub-space in my games work like B5 for the most part. Its a place that needs highly trained indivuals to navigate through. looking through the book again, there is alot of info about Hyper-space, and Hyper-space drives/pilots info in the book...but its scattered about here and there.

i use Hard science like found in B5 the tv series for the Most part. Spin to create gravity, unless Highly advanced. and part Farescape...Where i just wing it, and stay to the players, how do you know if they can or cant do this... Of course, i love Advanced Species, who find the concept of a DVD/VHS players a mind boggling experiance, and think TV shows are all True Stories...

Humans, aka terrans Mainly because, i only have the Star Hero book But i'm going to design my own races anyways. I'm going to have a Big troll-like race which i'm going to call the Ettins. I though about about a a Race from Hyper/sub-space called the Jinn *looks like the Wishmaster Jinn btw...* which will have Very high tech, even by our standards today would be *magic* like. I thought about introducing other races, lossely based on Fantasy Monsters...But they will be Aliens, and not magical in the least. Very Evolved, or highly Geneticly enhanced beings using science. Of course, i will magic totally orginal Alien Races too...

Universal Translators can be found on pages 52-53 in Star Hero. The Universal Transation Matrix ... During First Contacts, before the Characters themselves talk to them, ask the race for Language samples for download. Once downloaded, the matrix will understand it, and you'll understand them. OR Just dont roll, instead assume it works, unless a Plot Device say it might not, then roll for each scene. As the each scene passes, work a few words in that does get translated, building up to the full translated language. OR Just assume Most aliens/humans know a common language for them to understand for ease of play. Star Hero goes into depth about these issues...

Free PDFs of the Deckplans would be great. i know, My friends and I would love to have Deckplans for all those starships. Heck Even i'd even pay $5 for DPFs on the Deckplans for the ships, just to have them on my computer, and be able to print them out as i need them. Now, if the ever did a actual Book with Deckplans, i'd love to have inside art covering various rooms that would be important. Bridge, Engineering, Med-labs, sample Crew Quaters, Dinning areas, Workout rooms, and the like, Hallways would always be welcomed, specially if each species has differant tastes in decorating the insides of their starships, ect...I'd pay $20-30 for a book that indepthed...

I Know some of you guys have thought about this. Have anyone already done so ? How did it turn out ? I thought about basing a RACE off of the Stargate race called Unas, the First Ones. Your basic Ettin/Troll like alien race On a side-note, does Hero already have a race like this *trollish* in another book, maybe Beastary or Fantasy ??

i did them up for Fuzion and Action, but i'll have to get abit more into Hero's rules to do them justice with Hero. But is it me, or is the New writters just Trying to ignore Old plots, and rushed the new Commonwealth into being too fast, and has already turned into a corrupt government. at least Tyr leveled the Playing field and his enemies at the End of the Season.

i plan on buying it when i can manage o find the time for some new books to read