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  1. Consider me chiming. Very Chiming. I go back to the original release of FH, and I'd love to see this effort support it. I'll shout as loud as I can. What's the best way for me to contribute? (Aside from sarcasm and run-on commentary?)
  2. By the sound of this, might it support Fantasy HERO as well?
  3. I'm the GM, actually. I'm hoping to give my Players some options. Just trying to think about the proper mechanics/effects when they inevitably give up a great hew and cry. A Barrier to prevent teleportation, flight to avoid being "flown," and perhaps Resistant Power Defense to prevent changes to one's density state. I was just hoping there was a more generic defense against such things that I'd missed. Few things in HERO have no defense.
  4. Say I want to avoid being teleported, turned desolid, or made to fly off a cliff. A bad guy has used a power UAA on me. What defends me from such a vile act?
  5. Jkeown

    Chain Attacks

    I like Boost for this. I can see it twisted a bit for a given weird villain and a strange minion with a clunky box featuring a huge potentiometer, leads plugged into the bad guy. "JUICE ME, ALTAR-BOY! I SHALL SMITE THESE FOOLS!". Then a sphere of crimson energy blasts outward from Bishop Badass to lay the heroes low! Boosted Blast, AoE, etc. I think the dastardly Bishop would have to hold an action until the vile Altar-Boy took his action. But that makes it tactical for me, doesn't it?
  6. Jkeown

    Chain Attacks

    I think the target's Defenses would act against each blast from each ganger, yes?
  7. Jkeown

    Chain Attacks

    I have an interesting idea. In my game there are meta-gangers; low-end, low-life, low-brow, streetkind who have minor superpowers. There are beaters, blasters, cutters and psykers. One type of blaster can hit his fellow blaster to boost his power, up to two more can fire beams at him for extra boost. I think I can do this with Requires Multiple Users (-1/4 or more), but is it more tactically fun for the players to actually require the other blasters to use Aid? Or, third possibility, conditional power Must Have Other Blasters Within 3 Meters (-1) to add more dice to the attack. The whole notion is to give the player an option to pick targets and judge the risk of hitting the blasters or focus on the 500-point Bad Guy. They should also have the choice of dispelling the extra beams. I'm leaning toward Aid at the moment. Your thoughts are appreciated.
  8. Here are some notes I've prepared (sort of) for the third arc of Crisis Patrol. Very sketchy at this point. This is a mess, but maybe it gives you an idea of what I'm going to attempt starting on January 2nd, 2022. The in-game date is December 26th, 2037 (55 years to the day after my first DnD game). The Death of a Hero Foreshadowing: A Giant Big Robot is on day 178 of his mysterious run of just standing in a field outside Marshalltown, Iowa. An alien probe is discovered in Central Indiana, and Richard Dyck has donate a huge sum of money to repair the Ukifah Heep Memorial Bridge. Doctor Hibernia Nycto robbed a bank. A strange explosion is seen in the direction of Centaurus (which is probably Nebulax destroying a planet). Summary: The PCs gather to honor Blackstar. Later on... the grave of the decedent is desecrated and the body stolen. Ryder Solomon is using his/her DNA to create a Super Soldier formula similar to Jenovaline from 13 years ago. The material is unstable due to decay, and the powers granted to the users are random. The Funeral Blackstar (Gordon Evermore) is dead, his fans and fellow Metas gather to pay tribute one last time. After the ceremony, his long-time nemesis, Doctor Brainstem, turns himself in at the funeral as an homage to his enemy. He wears a power-nullifying collar provided by the fine folks at P.E.R.I.L., the Premiere Evil Research Initiative at Lansdowne. This probably goes very badly, but with a bit of luck, Doctor Brainstem lives through the process. The Metas gathered include 3 or four others who were close to Blackstar, but not Prime or Exile, as they are way too powerful and would overshadow the PCs. This could cause a derailment as the PCs chase down PERIL. Let them take it apart and find a Lithium Alpha Shunt with a manufacturing code and serial number. This can lead them to Platt Electric Supply at 1125 Shelley St, Springfield, OR 97477. The shunts have been purchased on-line by a guy named Perry Strickland (1507 Johnson Street, Garner, NC 27529). He installs the shunts on carbon fiber loops and ships them to another tinkerer (Aileen Acosta of 2786 Rainy Day Drive, Franklin, MD 02038) who fits the loop with a Ramesh Particle Generator, who then ships it to a medical equipment firm (First State Manufacturing at 301 SE 4th St, Milford, DE 19963). The folks at that place have no idea what the devices are. They install all the plastic outer bits and install the battery (9 volt if they ask). These are shipped to Inova Louden Hospital in Lansdowne, VA for final assembly and distribution. If the PCs shut down P.E.R.I.L., only 14 more villains will have P.E.R.I.L. technology (effectively all of them). An outraged populous Many people feel Doctor Brainstem is up to something, and demand that he be held responsible for Blackstar’s demise. Nothing could be further from the truth. He respects Blackstar and has turned himself in with genuine intent. He’s done with villainy. Origin Stories Need to work a few of these into the story. Train Wreck During the transport, a train is derailed by a vengeful William Turner. Turner will survive the attack and might find his mental blocks falling away allowing his old personality, that of Corruptus, to resurface. The train had tanks of Eastman Chemicals substances. This will mutate one PC, possibly more. Truck Accident A truck carrying some of Mutant Master’s Pixie Dust Empowerator™ in pressurized tanks is wrecked by Dragon Spectre (who goes Desolid as the impact occurs) into the transport. Supervillain Attack A bad guy attacks the transport, their weird powers giving the player character powers unknown (not really). Mutant Master Gift Mutant Master’s Malicious Minion, Minerva Margolis, delivers a quantity of Pixie Dust Empowerator™. Escort Duty The heroes are tasked with escorting the evil Doctor to Lockdown. The route is compromised by a victim of the doctor. Thereafter trouble predictably arrives in the form of vigilantes, past victims, and one or two proper heroes with revenge on their mind. The PC heroes and the Notable Normals in the group will be accompanied by Falcon Dangerous and Bob Violence Angry Victims – Normal folks who wish to take revenge on the Bad Doctor. · Glenna Isibeal Poole – Revenge for her sister · Aggie Ericson – Payback for time served · Irvine Keen – Framed and defamed · Zaiden Myers – Business destroyed · William Turner – Formerly the super villain Corruptus, he was striped of his powers by means of mental blocks placed by Brainstem. If he has so much as a glimpse of the doctor, the blocks will begin to fall away and Corruptus will rise again. Air Pirates – They want Nullifiers to assist with defeating heroes by shutting down their powers. Dragon Spectre – His son was ordered to walk off a cliff by Doctor Brainstem. Lil’ Cobalt – Captain Cobalt’s daughter seeks justice for her mother. Her father has no idea she’s up to something. And now the News Retropolis’s favorite anchorman Ryder Solomon has stolen Blackstar’s DNA well prior to the funeral. Bombshell used her pheromone powers on the morgue technician to secure the DNA sample. The theft of the body is a distraction. Solomon hired Black Diamond, Aversion, and MC WMD to take the body one rainy night. Retropolis Law Enforcement and Doctor Retropolis himself) are covering up the theft. Villains Arise! His old enemies start pulling heists and re-starting failed plots. Create a list of bad guys and their petty plans, all of them have opposed Blackstar in the past. One plot involves Blackstar’s (former DNPC) widow, Trinidad Torres, a social organizer in Los Angeles. Blood-Girl suspects that Trinidad knows her that her husband is actually alive and where Blackstar is hiding. Trinidad says her husband is very definitely dead. “Then,” she asks, “why is the grave empty?” Blood-Girl is EXPENDABLE. She’s hurt a lot of folks, and will fight like a banshee, almost ensuring her demise. How the PCs learn of this encounter, and whether they get to confront her is an open question. Cryomaniac and the Snowbunnies Cryomaniac has decided on a grand heist wherein he incases a bank in a huge block of ice. The whole place is crawling with Snowbunny Super Agents armed with Cryoblasters. Cryomaniac is wearing an Aegis Mind Torc crafted by P.E.R.I.L. This is a clue to a greater plot (The Great Super Villain Contest). It provides him with 15 Resistant Mental Defense. Because the the Great Super Villain Contest pits various bad guys against random supers, he’s paid a huge sum to get the device to put him on better footing against PCs like Mind War. (P.E.R.I.L. is located in Lansdowne, VA, hidden under Inova Loudoun Hospital. High-tech shipments aren’t seen as out of place on the docks. P.E.R.I.L. controls the shipping and receiving process with several carefully-placed agents.) PERIL derailment 2.0: The process of building the mental defense torc is similar to that of the nullifying collar. Aaron Draven receives packages every Thursday containing 20 Wide-Band Crystal Controllers. He doesn’t know where they come from. He does know that someone is watching him and his mother (remotely), and that they’ve promised to hurt the kind old woman in very creative ways unless he assembles the controllers to their specifications and mails them out no later than that next Saturday to a home address (552 E Greenlawn Ave, Lansing, Michigan 48910). There, 50-year old Emily Jean Jamison attaches a phasic shield buffer to the collar. They are paying her vast sums of money through a fake lottery she won some 6 years ago. She sends these assemblies to Colin Turner (2396 Edington Drive, Norcross, GA 30092), who puts on the plastic bits and inserts 2 AA batteries. He then ships the almost finished items to Inova. Jurassic in the Park Eli "Jurassic" Parker gets involved! Dinosaurs rampage down the street when [Some Hero to be named later] is known to be away at O’Neil One. Normally they would oppose each other… but Eli is playing The Great Super Villain Contest and wants the prize badly. He calls up a few tyrannosaurs and a pack of raptors to bring a hero out to play. He is also geared up with a P.E.R.I.L. Mind Torc. The plot thickens. The Dastards Come Out to Play The Dastards, once beaten single-handedly by Blackstar, decide to wreck everyone. They start with another of Blackstar’s enemies, The PCs happen upon the last moments of the battle between The Guard New York and the Dastards. The Guard is laid out at the bottom of craters, half-way in a glass window, knocked out in the bushes, smoldering, and barely standing, fists tired but ready. The Guard New York Captain Cobalt is drained of END, he stands ready to go hand to hand. He’s upset by whatever happened to Lil’ Cobalt and distracted. Leading his team into a trap, the Guard’s failure will weigh heavily upon him. Zargoon is reduced to a big purple puddle. Outlander is stuck in a window, having been rendered unconscious while trying to Tele-Dodge a fist. House Call is laid out in a smoking crater. The Electric Ninja is knocked out in some bushes near the center of Columbus Circle; thus she must pause in her quest to find the villain that stole most of her costume. Jenovaline Mk II After some time, bad guys start showing up with Blackstar’s powers. One can blast foes with the blackblast, another becomes huge and utterly dark, mimicking Blackstar’s incredible strength, yet another can draw the darkness from a soul and use it in mysterious ways. One can summon up the black force field and the last one can use Blackstar’s tendrils of night. Now known as the Children of Blackstar, they take to the skies and start evil of their own. Blokade - Force Fields & Flight Blackblast - Blast & Flight Tendril - Tentacles & Flight Spirit - Desol & Flight Kwik - Speed & More Speed Alpha Dog - Growth, Strength & Flight Fallout When Ryder is exposed, expect Retropolis to explode into riots, protests and general civic craziness. Afterward, aliens kidnap a small Ohio town.
  9. I'd like to run a natural disaster like a hurricane. They've got to be more than Darkness and Telekinesis, right?
  10. Edited to remove clues from players!
  11. I completely agree! When I describe it as such... I might have to explain to my players what I mean by it. Perhaps I tell them up front that I'll be describing things dramatically instead of with mechanical terms. Might preserve the Comic Feels.
  12. Not even GMs can justify that in a 4-color Bronze Age campaign. At least, I hope it stays Bronze age.
  13. As originally conceived, it would drain the "Technology" special effect. However, when I look at the cost of such a power (50 points per die!), using Dodge to simulate is probably best. Also, maybe who cares about the cost? He's a villain, and I don't think villains should worry about points too much. They have their hands full coming up with ridiculous plots to keep the heroes busy while maintaining an active work/life balance. They've got a lot going on and should unplug for a bit and just kick around the lair. (I think I just found another hook for this guy's character.) Destroy Technology: Drain Tech-based Powers 6d6, Tech Powers (+1/2), Expanded Effect (All Tech-Based Powers) (+3 1/2) (300 Active Points); One Use At A Time (-1), Requires A Roll (Corrosion Power roll; -1/2), Lockout (-1/2) Real Cost: 100
  14. Thanks for the options. I guess I was trying to fit too close to his whole "de-buff" concept.
  15. Here's a cool visual. The gadgeteer Inventory throws a grenade at the vile villain Rust. Rust is aware of the attack. He aborts to Drain, reducing the grenade to inert ash before it strikes him. I think it falls under this bit from 6E2 23. How would you react, especially if I narrated it accurately? Because he Aborted, he loses his next phase. Or... should he have to use Drain before Inventory ever throws the damn thing? "Use of any other Maneuver, activation/use of any other Power, or performing any other Action deemed by the GM to be primarily for purposes of defending or protecting the character." Keep in mind that I am Forever GM of my group.
  16. She's both. Actually.... Hunted always sort of implies imprisonment, death or a form of oversight... Demon Ex-Girlfriend seems to have been overlooked. As for the setting... I have some notes... 531 pages of notes. I might punch them up a bit and toss them at you. Good chunks of it were written before I found my voice. That is to say, dreadfully boring.
  17. Commons just people who developed near (evolved from or adapted to) the strange energies of the Maelstrom. Those that adapt best become Abyssal Lords or even Demon Princes. They live right up against the thing. having shapeshifting helps to survive in such a place. Making them mundane was purposeful... maybe some day a whole campaign can be played in Methiax, by players who are willing to take the risks of living in a world the love child of Game of Thrones and Othello, with Palpatine, Caligula, and Dick Cheney in charge. Oorava was written very quickly a number of years ago as a Hunted for a Fantasy HERO character to be vexed by. This is why the text becomes personal, employing you instead of some generic term. I imagined all of those busy, hot, single moms up at Castleton Square talking hurriedly on some bleeding-edge smartphone she'll discard a year from now, getting the Beamer repaired, working on a plastic surgery appointment to get the "girls" lifted, Monday's social media presentation, and her bastard child's day care situation while trying to buy scarves. I'm not a fan of "Hunted by Orcs." That's boring... While "Hunted by the Demon Princess of Lust" defines a character. Justifies the Striking Appearance he paid for and keeps him up at night, too. Thus are heroes born and stories spun. As for FH1e... I'm still playing that setting. Expanded it to an entire world. Over the decades, it's gone from standard fantasy to a steampunk wonderland. Gonna name a city in the far east of Serantia Alcamtar. Mostly Drakine out that way... Drakine and very large birds.
  18. Version 1.0.0

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    This is the final preview for the Caleon Bestiary. I hope you enjoyed them.
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    This is the third Caleon Bestiary Preview. If interest exists, I'll finish the descriptive text and release the whole thing. There are a total of 4 previews.
  20. Version 1.0.0

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    This is the second Caleon Bestiary Preview (presented with apologies to Roger Zelazny). There are a total of 4 previews.
  21. Version 1.0.0

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    This is a preview of a much larger work called The Caleon Bestiary. If folks like it, I'll release the remaining creatures after completing the write ups. There are a total of 4 previews.
  22. More Previews: Idylls of the Mindless: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Arb5S34lAw6vhvcdOlZPUujoT9aEuw Creeping Death: https://1drv.ms/b/s!Arb5S34lAw6vhvdJmGF3y7FSWggpCA?e=8yXfnN
  23. Another Preview. Caleon Bestiary Abyssals.pdf
  24. Sample time! Only a few creatures... but maybe enough to get an idea. I'll work up another sample in the morning. Caution: Coarse language, functional sharp points and a brief discussion of breakfast food. Writing the flavor text whilst coming down from an anxiety attack (get therapy early, kids!) so if it sucks, remember that it was written whilst coming down from an anxiety attack and understand. If it's great, then remember that it was written whilst coming down from an anxiety attack, so it's even more impressive. https://1drv.ms/b/s!Arb5S34lAw6vhvcQhWS7cbGfHjHgAQ?e=G94xQD
  25. Thank you so very much! I'm working on expanding the Terribly Inconvenient Things Table into actual paragraphs. That table is actually me being lazy. That's not to mention that I'm also working on converting the Appendices into a PDF of their own. After all of this I HAVE TO get back to work on Pleet Roodlepleen's Intergalactic Bestiary. Maybe when this cat (Zard, Hero of Another Story) gets off my freaking arm... There is a temptation to just dump the whole thing as-is on you guys and expand upon it as questions are posed.... Oh... there is a corrected copy in the downloads section. I'm in an IT-adjacent career. My lack of attention to detail has nearly gotten me fired a few times. Fortunately, I have a startling excess of personality which my users love. That's not ego, that's from a job performance review.
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