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Re: Herophile Fantasy art

Re: Herophile Fantasy art Well... I'll check my Runtime and see what I have... I do have an Arabian type figure... hmmm... the 2headed critter might be tricky. We shall see... gimme a day to hammer it out...

Re: Herophile Fantasy art Here's another one... hopefully a better one... that Demon is hard to pose sometimes... he kept intersecting the windows...

Re: Herophile Fantasy art How's this? Call it a Christmas Present... Any changes? Like... oh... your name? Different font? Something less misogynistic? Whatever you like.

Re: Herophile Fantasy art Which concept? The notebook cover? DO IT! We should all have cool artwork to inspire the players! Do you have photoshop? Do you need assistance of any sort? I'm currently laying out the pages for Caleon (it will wiegh in at about 200 pages, I'm hoping) and I know nothing about layout... so I might be awhile... But I could send you the .psd's .... Ooh... look for another post soon...

Re: Herophile Fantasy art Nice Poser work, as usual! Here's the cover to the Caleon Campaign Notebooks my players will be receiving soon! The Green Haired Fellow is a Vug (or Troll) the large grey gentleman is a Jhuniz (or Ogre) and the young lady is Arela "RavynShadoe Dethgayte" Kinivan, a follower of the Chaos Lord Arkoon.

See... there are a lot of great Pulp resources out there, and I don't have time to run a campaign for each one, so the following idea seems to have taken root to solve the problem. Cast of Characters: The Usual Suspects, my Fantasy Hero Group (Dawn, Jeff Jr, Brian, Dan, Laura, Bridget, Nathan.... no problem there) PCs: 150 pt characters (75 + 75 most likely) Setting: Different each week. Same Cast, Different Film (Like A Fish Called Wanda and Savage Creatures) Dawn's Amazon and Brian's Two-Fisted Hero would be the same, but the conditions of their lives would be different, allowing me to run Solar Smith one week, then Dordogne Zodiac the next...

So... Its known that I play waaaay too much World of Warcraft, but the game has given me a few ideas. In the game, we can acquire (through luck and skill) Sets of armor that provide a special bonus if all the pieces are worn at once. Can a be purchased as several foci under the "Arrangement" rules? As in some kind of mythical "Must Have All Armor Pieces to Function" limitation? I see it as a separate power bought as a whole other construct from the individual bits. Say, the helm and the chestplate have certain powers, but the two worn together do a third, unique function. Is there a better way to create this effect? I personally think this is the simplest method.

Re: Manless I have 16 human "races" in my Caleon and Exodus games... and in my (never completed) Galactice Empire game, Humanity was long extinct, and I still used them as the baseline. The PC races were all quite odd, just to prevent folks from playing a Guys In Suits campaign.

My son is insisting on a continuance of my WH40K work. I have weapons, some package deals and some ideas... but little inspiration. I was thinking of waiting until WarGear came out to finish this monster, but tell me... how popular would this be? I've counted about 50 vehicles that need stats... Though most of them are (for example) a Chimera with a dozen weapon load outs... so that speeds things up.... I guess I just need focus. What would YOU do with a subfolder in HERO Designer called "M41"?

This week, we had our 40th Anniversary, celebrating it by having a big "Convention-like" show catered by Subway with Smead, Sanford, 3M and all the other big office products manufacturers supplying prizes and stuff. One way to get prizes was to win in a trivia contest that I had to MC. About 500 customers showed up. I've never ran a game for "mundanes" before, let alone 500 of them. I didn't prepare one single joke or routine. I just just waited for my first round of contestants and found myself in Game Master Mode. Turns out, the improv skills one learns in Fantasy Hero can be used in social situations. Who knew? 22 years I've been GMing, and never tried to apply that skill in public. It will not be the last. A woman from a local TV station was in the audience. Right there in the middle of the show, I asked her for a job. She laughed and said she'd look into a gig for me. And I'll owe it all to HERO if it comes true!

Re: "Stances" for magic wielders I like it... I was working on something like this using Aid a while back. I do not believe, however, you can apply limitations to 3pt levels... Tho I could be mistaken.

Re: An Experiement! I have 3 so far... they are nothing like one another... very cool. Someone has used Caleon as a reference, others not so much, but that is entirely optional. What counts is where the points go...

Re: An Experiement! Okay... to clarify... I'm doing an article to show the variability of FH characters. Sorry I wasn't more detailed earlier. I was at work when the idea struck me. Small town (or farm) girl goes to the big city... decides to go adventuring. What does that mean to you? Once I've got 10 characters, I'll write it up and post it at my website. Thanks in advance...

Do not post the results of this experiment here. Email them to me. Your assignment: Tharla grew up a normal young woman. Never attracted to combat, she has learned swords and wheellock pistols as a requirement for survival. Now living in the big city, she plans on doing some delving. She trains and studies for 6 months.. and then, thinking herself ready... goes off adventuring. 75 base+75 disads. Caleon setting, if you like... Mail me the character at jephkay@sbcglobal.net

More Planets, More History... More Later. http://www.geocities.com/jephkay@sbcglobal.net/exodusindex.htm

Re: Chickens? I swear I'm gonna put the words "In Caleon" on a key here somewhere... In Caleon, we ride big chickens. http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=33108&highlight=wazzan they could be beefed up... they aren't quite Titanis but they 'll do in a pinch.

Re: Herophile Fantasy art What model is that bird? IT MUST BE MINE!!!

I was just reading this story over on LiveScience: http://www.livescience.com/environment/wolf_ecosystem_041209.html It got me to thinking about my Monsters article(s). I came up with this food chain, to simulate the relationship between a number of critters. Should things ever go this far? Certainly, according to the chart, if one of these things vanished, you'd have a population problem elsewhere... That could be an adventure in itself...

Re: Why no heavy cavalry? In Caleon we don't have heavy cav because the giant, flightless birds that knights ride don't like cannon going off in their faces. So, mounted troops, and for that matter, all the others, stick to the forests and rocky terrain where the big stompy steam-powered monsters can't go. They do look cool, running through the forests, though... So it's a balanced trade off... you get the awesome mecha visual, and the giant bird skirmishing through the forest visual... Caleon should be a movie...

Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon...

Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon...

Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon...

Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the Dungeon...

My girlfriend, Dawn, says she's not a good party leader, and hates it when she's left to lead things. Last night we were missing the Swordmaster, the Chaos Mage and the Social Guy. Then the Sneaky Type had to get to work, he left and she was leader. You could see her hatin' it the whole time. Bad guys sent Ceramites, only 3 of them, and the party (what was left of them) decided to pursue, to backtrack the Vile Pottery and learn what they could. They head off into the Undercity. I'm hoping they enjoy the Tower's Dungeon. Its a cool little place right under the Noble Quarter in Chalkcliff. Undead, Oozes and farther down, old Dharzooni Automatons. Well, they get there and discover a magically-intelligent door that explains what it saw earlier in the day. Dawn smiled. "Cool. Now we know where they came from, we can go home." The party agreed. They left the Undercity... They didn't go straight home... but THEY LEFT MY DUNGEON UNEXPLORED!! How dare they use their freakin' brains and realize they couldn't win it and leave...