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Re: How do i start my story? Allow me to suggest 8 Campaign Starter Tips and 6 Tips On How To Bring Disparate Characters Together

Some great tips I recently discovered the following site. There are a lot of great role playing tips there including ideas for creating tension and scaring PCs. Roleplaying Tips Here are specific tips: Scaring Players Tension More tension

I would suggest allowing Regeneration at 1 per Day. You may also consider allowing Damage Reduction 25%. Call it "Bruiser".

If this has been addressed already, please just point me in the right direction. Is there anything to stop everyone and their uncle from using a half move to step from in front of an opponent to behind an opponent and 'attacking from behind'? This is total cheese and I am hoping there is something more substantial to stop it than just crying foul. Since changing facing is a 0 Phase action, does that mean the defender can simply turn to face the attacker? Does that mean the only way to really 'attack from behind' is for the defender to fail to perceive the attacker and not turn to face him or her?

I am considering running an Espionage campaign and am having difficulty decided what Point Total I should set for characters. I want the campaign to be highly cinematic ala James Bond with perhaps a little less focus on gadgets. What would you suggest?

Check out Fantasy Hero 5th Edition Fantasy Hero provides several ways for balancing armor. While all of the suggestions provided there are intriguing I have been hesitant to adopt any of them. I believe in my next campaign I will make armor expensive (probably x2 cost) and keep track of damage it takes. This will add more paperwork but may deter reliance on armor if it is constantly having to be repaired/replaced.

There are 12 models, 4 of which the audience have seen.

I was, at first, unhappy with all the changes that were made from the original. However, the more I thought about it the more I realized they needed to make changes. Would we have really wanted to see the original series with new actors and better special effects? That being said, the one change I am displeased with is making cylons look like humans. To me this just seems like a rip off of Invasion of the Body Snatchers and a bit too cliche for my taste.

It is built with Healing (Regeneration). What is it you want to change?

Without doing a lot of math I do not know if this would be any cheaper, but it is another way to go. Shape Shift and Shrinking in an EC. Shrinking since the form can be less than Human size. Then use a VPP to simulate the powers of the animal in question. Since the form can only be 'normal animals' you may find that most of their powers can be classified into tighter groups. With enough tweaking you might even be able to put animal powers into 4 or 5 groups and then even put them in another EC or Multipower and be able to add your limitations to bring the cost down even further.

I have tried to create a fantasy world a couple of times now and I always get bogged down in the details. I have also tried only creating the town the PCs started in and make it up as I go along approach. Unfortunately the campaign expanded much quicker than I anticipated and I received a lot of pressure from the group to fill in more details. The campaign ceased to be fun. I suggest you find some happy middle ground. Fill in the details locally and have some outlines for the rest of the world. Adding all the detail and flavor can be fun, but the players will not care about the detail you have provided. Only the detail you forgot.

I am in the pro-PDF group. I have not purchased SOB or the Resource Kit only because money has been a little tight lately. You guys are putting out too many high quality products these days to keep up. Quit it!

Can you take a recovery so that your END Reserve recovers or is the Post 12 the only way for an END Reserve to recover END?

Just in case someone else reads this looking for online stores... http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6330

No one expects the roman inquisition!

In llama's opinion, there are huge differences between Hero and G.U.R.P.S. However, they are certainly more alike than either is to D20.

"Frailty" anyone?

Can llama say "BODY Drain?".

I like house rule 2. I may use it. I have no problem with "vehicles have their own SPD, drivers must match that SPD" rule. Just if you are going to do that, give vehicles a SPD of 2 and adjust movement appropriately. I can see giving a higher speed for high performance vehicles but I think most should have the same SPD as the average person. But what the hell does a llama know? Thanks for verifying my math, Geoff. I will have to modify the galleon for my Pirate campaign.

I humbly ask that one of my fellow anally retentive Hero fans checks my math on the Galleon listed in the TUV. As listed it has a SPD 3 and Swimming 3"/6" This makes me wonder if average sailors have to have a SPD 3 to keep up or do they just let the ship run wild on the extra Segment...but that is for another thread. On page 55 of TUV: 1 nautical mile per hour = 926" per hour. On page 232 of the rule book: Each Turn = 12 seconds. That would mean 5 Turns/Minute and 300 Turns/Hour. 926"/hour divided by 300 Turns/Hour would mean 1 nautical mile per hour is roughly 3.09"/Turn. Assuming NCM 6" x 3 SPD = 18"/Turn. 18"/Turn divided by 3.09"/Turn = 5.83 knots. I seem to recall that even the big, fat, slow galleons could manage about 10 knots. Where did I screw up?

I have an excel file that generates 20 random male and female names along with a psychological trait. It makes creating interesting NPCs on the fly a breeze.

I use G.U.R.P.S. Special Ops for building my special forces packages. Your basic grunt would only carry a M16A2 unless he had SAW (Squad Automatic Weapon) duty. Officers carry a pistol, probably the Beretta until they catch up with civilian law enforcement and switch to the Glock.

I could have sworn I had seen this idea addressed before, but now I can not find it. Honest, I did check the FAQ and did a search. Please don't beat me if this is listed somewhere else. Can you put a Limitation on an Advantage? Can I create a sword that is Armor Piercing but has an Activation roll on just the Armor Piercing?

Thanks for the input! Llama likes the idea of using Orginization Contact as well as the house rules for Universal Translater and Skill Enhancers. Llama would never allow a 6 point VPP in his campaigns. Why would anyone buy any language when for a few points more could know any language at any one time?

9th-Level Sorcerer and Wizard Spells Llama would think that Wish would prove a bit more difficult to convert.