Agent Escafarc

Originally posted by Thirdbase

No. Chucking was listed in the Powers section of the FAQ.

Heretic! There is never just one way in HERO:)

Originally posted by The Monster

Wait! I thought Chucking was a skill not a Power! Otherwise all my Overall Skill Levels won't work and I'll be useless!

This is the HERO system you can build Chucking as a Skill, Martial Manuever, Power, Vehicle/Follower, or Disavantage:D all you need is the right tools;)

What I realy want to know is what realy happen to Richie's older brother? Would that be a Mystery Chuck and how many points is that worth?

So how many DCs could he up his chucking by pushing:p

Originally posted by Trebuchet

What exactly are they considering HERO to be cheating in regard to? If they say having a superior game system is somehow "cheating", then I guess they've got us cold.

They were claiming we were stuffing the ballet box by getting non-gamers to vote.

What drives me nuts is that this argument between HERO Fans and HERO Haters has been going on almost 20 years:(

Originally posted by Redmenace

This is just an oppinion, but the unknown quality of the character seems to generate a lot of his mystique. When you quantify him with a backstory it diminishes him to "just" another bad guy.

 

Too bad Marvel forgot this about Wolverine:( that and the over-exsposure of the X-Men in general.

Originally posted by Tom Carman

The version in Star HERO (not called a "phaser" of course, that would be copyright infringement) came in at a whopping 480 REAL points, with a 315-pt reserve and 1000 Boostable Charges. It has multiple stun and blast settings (single-target and radius), heat rocks, and two disintegrate modes. You could stun people all day with it, but the disintegration settings chewed through the charges real fast.

The only thing missing was the self-destuct slot.

Try prunes:p

Count 1 vote posted for Hero!

Only if they are members of the International Union of Chuckers:p

Would you consider Stan Lee a DNPC, Psychological Limitation, or a Watched?

I would go with Cosmetic Transform (blank paper to work of art) RSR(KS/PS:Comic Book Artist)

Originally posted by SCUBA Hero

I'm on the road right now, so all this is from memory:

 

The original Fantasy Hero also had a Destroy effect (don't remember the mechanics).

 

And the original Magic Items had a 'Shield of Destruction' using that effect.

 

Anyone closer to a book care to elaborate?

Destroy

This Effect removes some of the target's Characteristic for some time, until he recovers it through natural healing or from a Restore spell. The cost is 15 Character Points times the cost multiple of the Characteristic to be destroyed;...

Re: Ahh the same problem I have always had.

Originally posted by Herolover

4) Limited gun. The problem here is you have to come up with why the gun is limited and why no one is using other guns. The best reason I like is that the setting has just come out from under a time period of "the long night" where technology went backwards and it is just now coming back up. You can say guns are rare.

 

This worked for Battletech with it's lack of fire and forget weapons, smart weapons, and no indirect fire.

Not a Disavantage but once had a character who created Teleport Gates but only in Earth's magnetic field(-1/4 limitation on all powers). First adventure had the group teleported to a spaceship in deep space. Seeing as the character had never been off planet, didn't know that he was powerless. The first time that the main villian's thugs showed up he jumped in front and tried to deflect/reflect 12x 2d6 RKA w/Autofire. Needless to say I spent the rest of the night playing video games:(

Originally posted by Lord Liaden

I admit to being a little confused about this. Maybe I'm interpreting the Skill vs Skill rules incorrectly, but as I read them (both in FREd p. 27 and BBB p. 17) one person gets to roll first to succeed, then a subsequent opposing person makes an appropriate roll to try to overcome the effects of the first roll. Every 1 that the first person makes his roll by counts as a penalty to the second person's opposing roll, but that second person is still left with one number to match or exceed in order to win. In other words: "Do, or do not; there is no tie."

 

Have I been doing this wrong all these years?

I hope not. This is the way we have always done it. And after rereading the above pages it's the right way.

Originally posted by Crusader108

Give them long pointy ears and they could be Elvish Impersonators.

Unglued is my alltime favorite set of Magic: The Gathering cards

I wouldn't allow it except at the 8- skill level and for no more than 1-2 skills.

Originally posted by Blue

That's hermit humor for ya. Get's a distinctive reaction on an 8 or less.

 

I figured "total life support" pretty much encompassed everything listed, but then I don't think I've bothered to read it in FREd.

Sacrilege! Thats sacrilege I say! Not bothered to have read FREd every word, cover to cover indeed. How are you as one of the 894* Aposles of THE MIGHTY ALL-USEFUL FRED to spread the word? That will be 10 Hail-Quantums and 5 All-Seekers for you.

* as of 7:27PM EST, 3/29/03

I have two "Empire" type books:

The Dark Wing by Walter H. Hunt has some interesting uses of mental powers and an interesting alien race.

The Deathstalker series by Simon Green is a very HIGH level universe.

Originally posted by Lord Liaden

The "Ultraverse" comics line (can't remember the publishing company, but Prime was their flagship character) used the term Ultra.

 

That was Malibu Comics bought out by Marvel then killed due to lack of imagination and poor buisness sense.

Originally posted by misterdeath

There are?! Damn it, I thought I checked all of those. Grrr.

 

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After further reveiw only DR Pain(Ringside Objects) and Wong Fei(Umbrella) don't have WF to match WE. I supose you could rule that these are clubs so don't need WF but I don't know if I would rule that way (especialy the umbrella)

OK I found the answer (UMA page 102) It says you must have both to use the maneuvers.

Originally posted by misterdeath

AFAIK, not usually. The two are/should be separate.

 

If you pay points for something, you can use it without weapon element or weapon familiarity.

 

If you want to know how to use a weapon, that you didn't pay points for, you have to have weapon familiarity (or take the -3 OCV penalty). If you want to use the weapon with your martial arts, you need to have the weapons element.

 

I suppose you could buy the WE without having the WF. You'd be able to use the maneuver to offset the -3 OCV penalty.

 

Weapon Elements are much more restrictive than Weapon Familiarities. You can buy Common Melee Weapons for two points, and know how to use everything, but getting Clubs, Blades, and Axes Weapon Elements costs three points, because you don't get groupings.

 

So, if you have a character with WF: Common Melee, and WE: Blades with his martial arts, and he disarms the Black Knight, he can pick up BKs sword and use it.

 

But, if you have your own sword, and no WF or WE, you can use your martial arts, because you get your points. If you disarm the BK, you don't get the full benefit of using his sword, because you don't have the skill. Too specialized I guess. "I'm really good with my sword, and no other."

 

D

I agree with you but the examples in NH have characters with weapons list under WEs that they don't have WF for.