tetsujin28

Re: Fantasy Hero Exalted Yeah, I felt the same way. That's why I came up with the conversion in the first place. Unfortunately, my current gaming group really, really doesn't 'get' Hero, so I ended up putting Exalted Hero on indefinite hold. But who knows, maybe someday I'll get the thing going, again.

Re: Adult themes in gaming, a rant of sorts

Re: Adult themes in gaming, a rant of sorts Oh, please. And self-justifying, too. Please do.

Re: Adult themes in gaming, a rant of sorts What hooey

Re: Glorantha Hero Since I'm not fond of "new model" Glorantha, the stuff in this thread fills me with joy. I ran Glorantha Hero a long time ago (c. 1989-91), and these guys were real heroes: 100 + 100 disads. Worked great.

Re: Does wearing armor need a skill ? Great. More rules. Just what Hero needs...

Re: WHy does everything have to be by the rules?

Re: Cultural Superstitions and Forgotten Practices Archers used to patrol the ancient Japanese royal court and twang their bowstrings, the theory being that they were shooting demons.

Re: How would you modify humans I would only modify stats if it actually made a difference, e.g. people from low-grav planets or the like. Otherwise, I'd use cultural packages.

Re: The Valdorian Age Finally...real fantasy!

Re: Elric at the End of Time Those kinds of characters are much better suited to a game such as Amber or Nobilis, rather than Hero.

Re: Where are the low fantasy worlds? My games are for the most part low magic, my conversion of Exalted being the exception.

Re: Meters or yards or feet? Worked just fine for Runequest Anyways, I just use paces, instead, since that was a much more common system. If I really feel like going crazy, I do some research about whatever period my game's about, and use those standards.

Re: Fantasy RENAISSANCE hero? I might be trying to run a Solomon Kane-style Hero game in the summer.

Re: Speed in FH

Re: Speed in FH I ditched both SPD and the chart long ago for non-superhero games.

Another one for the Convenant books. What a waste of time. Mercedes Lackey Storm Constantine Shannara And here's one that hasn't been mentioned: The Hildebrandt Bros. Urshurak, a complete load of hooey.

I hate accounting. I prefer a wealth-level system like that in d20Modern or Exalted (which themselves are descendents of the status system in Swordbearer).

Absofrickinlutely NOT! PuffyAmiYumi will control the world.

I got to see PuffyAmiYumi open for the B-52s in San Francisco. They rawk!

Mike and I have been friends for a long time. I met his brother, Dave, in college back in '83 or so.

I'm guessing that you were in Mike Harris' game?

There has always been the problem in Hero that nothing can be "perfect" or immune. The closest you can get is to establish a defense level, X, and say that nothing in the campaign can exceed X.

Game and gameworld feel are very important to me. Some systems just are part of the ambience that's being attempted. Not having an Essence mechanic, separate from END, wouldn't feel right to me. And like I said, adding an END Reserve would just complicate things for the players. As for the anima banner, well, that's the way I like it. Even charms that do not create a visible effect can add to the character's anima. Again, it's a simplicity thing.

The reason I set it up as Dist. Feat. is that it does cause extreme reactions. Being a Solar Exalted is tantamount to a death sentence in the Realm (hence the Hunted), and causes fear whether you want it to or not. I suppose it could be written up as a PRE attack, No Conscious Control, Aided by every power you use, but that could get messy. It was just easier to make it a DF.