CourtFool

Re: Unofficial Welcome Mat (For New Members) Welcome Housecat of Fiosachd. Remember, there is a strict 'no eating other board members' rule enforced. Just sayin' 'cause we have some small furry critters amongst us.

Re: Get your Background Skills here Essentially, a cost break for buying more background skills. The more skills you buy, the cheaper they are.

Get your Background Skills here Exactly why I am planning on using Skill Multipliers from The Ultimate Skill in my next campaign and forcing the players to take 10-15 points worth of Background Skills.

Re: Speedster Area Attack How about Area of Effect (Any Area, Selective) and Must Make a Half Move? I know realistically, it should be a Full Move but generally you are not suppose to get a Full Move and attack.

Re: Enforcer84's Occasional HERO Content Depository I will have to do something about that.

Re: test. Ignore it? He don't know us vewy well, do he? Hell let's rep him for it!

Re: old general army I would probably just go with PS: Army General and KS: Darklord's Army just to keep things simple.

Re: Questions On Expert Breaking my own rule, I would even consider allowing them for Contacts.

Re: Questions On Expert Personally, I would allow both. I would allow both on the same character. I would not extend either of them to any Martial Arts. I only apply Expert to Background Skills.

Re: Enforcer84's Occasional HERO Content Depository You game too? How long has this thread been here? I thought they kept you locked up in NGD.

Re: Regrettable Disads

Re: Hero's game design secrecy I knew the system was corrupt!

Re: Penalty Skill Levels for non-combat Skills One of the reasons I really like Penalty Skill Levels; they do not increase your chance of success above your skill. I see them as a way to slow down the skill level arms race. I do not have Valdorian Age (yet) and had never thought about using them for Active Point penalties for Requires Skill Roll. Another excellent example. Although, it would probably be cheaper to buy RSR with no Active Point penalty. I do not know if Valdorian Age allows that.

Re: Hero's game design secrecy

Did someone say pirate minis? What are you using?

Re: Penalty Skill Levels for non-combat Skills I knew buying you as a Contact would pay off.

Oops That is what I get for not reading books cover to cover.

Re: Furious Counterstrike Steel Resolve - Ablative Armor + Limited Power & Side Effect? Furious Counterstrike - Combat Skill Levels?

Re: Hero's game design secrecy Tag! You're it.

Re: Musing on D&D spellcasting conversion Man you are quick. Once again, thank you for your insight. I will just have to mark Trigger as a Stop Sign Advantage and keep a closer eye on them. I do think this opens up the Ultra Slot issue in a good way.

I believe it was The Ultimate Skill that suggested Penalty Skill Levels could be used for more than just combat skills. While I really like this idea, I have a hard time thinking of good examples. vs. Taking Less Time Than Base vs. Not Having Appropriate Tools vs. Different Race (for PRE based Skills) Would you please offer more suggestions?

Re: System Conversions I find there is a lot of setting material that I like out there. However, I find I dislike most of the mechanics out there. I have not found any settings that could not be divorced from their mechanics. Of course, I have not looked at a lot of narrative games. I suppose you could argue BESM, Prose Descriptive Quality (PDQ) and Spirit of the Century, but I see those as competing mechanics that I would use rather than Hero. Not as systems I would attempt to convert to Hero.

Re: Trust me, I'm an Expert.... Wouldn't this thread fit better in one of the genre groups? I am not sure if this is a Champions, Dark Champions or Martial Arts campaign.

Re: Hero's game design secrecy

Re: Musing on D&D spellcasting conversion I never paid much attention to Trigger before. It seems like it could be even more abusive than Delayed Effect in the context of my previous post. Is there anything stopping me from loading Concentration (0 DCV, -½), Increased END (END x3, -1), Extra Time (1 Minute, -1½), Gestures (-¼) and Incantations (-¼) on a power, then adding Trigger (Activating the Trigger is an Action that takes no time, Trigger resets automatically, immediately after it activates)? If I understand correctly, I would not need to recast the spell ever so I would increase Increased END and Extra Time. Trigger also looks like a good way around the problem of Ultra slots in a Multipower with Offensive and Defensive powers.