Sketchpad

I was considering AOE Selective Radius and AOE 1 Hex. If I go the Autofire route, I'll add in Concentrated Sprayfire.
 
 
 
Ah! Good call. I looked through the Time Powers section, which wasn't quite what I was after.
 
 
 

You should be able to load them via Prefab>Load Prefab. They'll appear on the appropriate tab with the Prefab subtab.

Isn't this basically the Speed Zone abilities as seen in The Ultimate Speedster (p. 251) for 5th ed? 

Isn't this basically the Speed Zone abilities as seen in The Ultimate Speedster (p. 251) for 5th ed? 

Isn't this basically the Speed Zone abilities as seen in The Ultimate Speedster (p. 251) for 5th ed? 

I used to in the pre-5th days. My 3rd and 4th ed campaigns almost exclusively used villains from the various supplements for more than a decade. 5th ed started changing that as I began using more and more of my own NPCs. Nowadays I pretty much use my own only... with some inspired by the old characters, and some that have been used in other systems for the past 30+ years.

I sat down earlier today and redid this a little bit.
 

 
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7-23-26-3-14-18-17-8.

You probably don't want to have PCs that have all their abilities purchased with this limitation; they'd essentially be useless outside of their region.  I would probably allow few powers bought this way to represent that a given character would be more formidable on his home turf.
 
For example, if I were building Daredevil as the regional defender of Hell's Kitchen, I would buy most of his abilities without the limitation.  And then buy some ocv/dcv, levels with perception, or danger sense that only worked in that region to represent that he is in-tune with that environment.  That way if the adventure happens outside of his region the character can still participate.
 
Of course villains and NPCs can be built to serve the needs of the story.

Thank you!
 
Every time this subject comes up, I point that out as a problem-- even after a single recovery, an opponent can slap them right back to sleep (which is hilarious, by the way) any time they start to stir.
 
And when you are asleep, you really have nothing to do but take recoveries, right?  So when do you wake up?  Positive STUN?  "Post Twelve, adventurers!  Wakey, wakey!  Hands off Snakey!"
 
Or do we concoct some sort of delayed autofire or Trigger to keep them out for a bit?  And there is still the damage problem:  "well, I just took a nap, so I am ludicrously low on hit points for the next xouole od hours..."
 
I tried EGO drain a couple of times, but similar issues: everyone wakes up as more or less zombies, vulnerable to any command (which is also hilarious, but not in the visceral slap-them-back-to-sleep kind of way that "drain damage-soaking characteristics" produces.
 
Eventually, I settled on Sleep spells as very specific Mind Control spells, with modifiers to the breakout rolls and possible ligering effects (groggy for two phases; 1/2 CV, -2 to PER, -2 to Dec Rolls- whatever) as appropriate to the individual spell (basic Sleep spells usually last for a specific brief period and upon waking, the victim is very much aware that he was affectes by a sleep spell, etc-  lots of imperfections in the spell make it affordable and provides some utility without making it a walk-through-the-snoring-army" kind of thing.  In all cases, taking any damage will immediately break the spell (I learned that one after running with a brand new player to a newish group: our dedicated sorcerer came from a deeply murder-hobo group that had fizzled out after their GM moved and no one else wanted to run.  (Which I totally get!  If I knew ahead of time that I had to spend hours a week building something that my players would burn to the ground, i'd be hard-pressed to volunteer for the position myself.)
 
 
 
 

I'm away from my books at the moment, but do Resource points work the same way as equipment meaning you'd be limited to the sorts of things anybody could reasonably buy in a setting? Because, if so, it might help to think about how you envision the setting, marcusxbaer. If it makes sense to you that a given thing from Gadgets and Gear would be available for anybody with the right access to buy then it would be valid for your Resource points. This way you can adapt the rules to different settings as needs be.
 
Hope I've understood the question correctly, and apologies if not!

I ran Delta Green in 1999-2002 but under Hero. The way I did it was to treat SAN loss like a Mental Transformation. When you reached Transformation pips equal to (IIRC) 2xEGO you gained a 10pt Psychological Disadvantage (that you of course received no points back for). This then scaled up to a 20pt psychological at 4xEGO, and “0 SAN” at 6xEGO. 
If you gained too many transform points at one time (at least 5pts I think?) you also got temporary effects - fight or flight type reactions/emotional shutdown.  
You needed therapy to remove the transformation points - they would not heal with time - and therapy gradually reduced less and less the more you used it. 

I have checked and checked the rules for the sanity clause, but I don't believe he exists.

Second Chance TV Series
 
"It follows the life of Jimmy Pritchard, a 75-year-old former King County, Washington sheriff who was morally corrupt and later disgraced and forced to retire. After he is killed in a robbery at his son's home, Pritchard is brought back to life in the improved body of a younger man by billionaire tech-genius twins Mary and Otto Goodwin. However, despite having a new life and a chance to relive his life and find a new purpose, the temptations that led to his career being tarnished continue to haunt him."
 
This could be a character in Champions or Dark Champions.  He even had his own "Batmobile"--a 1971 Buick Riviera "Boattail."  
 

 
An excellent machine for any Seventies-era PI or rogue cop.

Remember that the OP wants to simulate a popular Shonen anime. Low powered supers are the floor here. Most of the characters can be well rounded versions of themselves at 250-300 points but if they all want to be close to the main characters then they will need more. He could start them at 200 and then give experience at a higher rate than is normal in Hero also. 
 
 

Created two new (and related) talents for Fantasy Here which would work for both 5th Edition and 6th Edition, and I am checking to see what others think of it. The following are the talents:
 
Armor Mastery I
Armor (4 PD/4 ED) (12 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), Must be Aware of Attack (-1/2), Restrainable (-1/2), Only Half as Much as Worn Armor (-1/2), Not verse Critical Hit (-1/4), Not verse AE (-1/4))
3 Points
 
Armor Mastery II
Hardened (+1/4) for up to 36 Active Points of Worn Armor (9 Active Points); OIF (-1/2), Must be Aware of Attack (-1/2), Restrainable (-1/2), Not verse Critical Hit (-1/4), Not verse AE (-1/4)
3 Points
 
This talent is for characters who are masters at wearing armor, shifting in such ways where attacks hit the best defended portions of the armor. Each can only be purchased once of course, and Armor Mastery I must be purchased before Armor Mastery II. Attached is a Prefab file for it. Please let me know what you think.
 
Armor Mastery.hdp

Yes, it did have Sanity rules. They're the Shock and Stress rules that Sketchpad started the thread to ask about.

I believe the suplilment Horror Hero for 4ed had Sanity rules. It also was the first place to see Spirit rules.

Obviously without posting from a soon to be released book here I can't show you my work, but you nailed it. Two different powers to give to a monster or situation or scene. One is a Transform and the other is a Drain, which makes you more and more susceptible over time as you slowly lose your willpower and mind. It's why I love the Hero System, the answer is probably there. The only thing I changed was shifting "Turning Undead" from PRE (as it is represented in Fantasy Hero) to EGO, but that is a different topic altogether and for setting reasons.

I think the first thing I would want to understand would be the purpose of the sanity and shock stuff and, given that the system is chock full of tools, I would be looking to the existing kit before adding anything new.
 
For instance, in Cthulhu the big thing is that you slowly go mad, you accumulate strange tics and phobias until you cannot function.
 
Now that sounds to me like picking up complications in-game.  We have mechanics to do that.  We might call it Transform and Pow Def in the toolkit, but it would be trivial to label things Horror and Resilience.
 
In HERO the options are great, you can add physical complication, psychological ones, dependencies, social complications and reputations and everything us already costed out.
 
The big difference is that the purpose of the Transform is vague, or random, and you might be counting up potential before applying rather than counting down.
 
I think that the target for impact would be when Horror exceeded EGO (minus the number of existing complications).  You might have, or build up, a defence to these things but that could be eroded by knowledge of Mythos.
 
We do often leap to additional systems rather than adapting what we have.
 
Doc
 

Maybe CON would be a better defense against Stress, but you need something of that kind in a horror setting.  I cannot remember the system that was used in Champions 3D in the horror dimension, but that seemed effective.
 
If I was to build something from scratch it would be something along the lines of presence attacks that cause Long Term END style effects on combat, skill, and characteristic rolls.  So each time you face something supernatural, impossible, or horrendous, you suffer a presence attack, and depending on how badly it hits, you suffer an increasing cumulative penalty, and duration.  So an attack equal to presence = one turn of effect, PRE+10 = until end of combat, etc.
 
I had a "coolness under fire" rule for my Vietnam campaign where the characters would suffer a presence attack in combat because they are just not ready for it.  Once they faced combat once, they could spend XPs on a 1-point familiarity that removes the shock unless something really overwhelming happens like being in the middle of a bombing or artillery strike.

I used a sanity system Cthulhu influenced heavily in the soon to be released Hero Games supplement Gaslight: Heroic Investigations In Victorian London that was featured on the Patreon when it was launched (if you were a Patreon member go glance at it).  It allows for madness to occur, and then slow healing to occur naturally or faster with an alienist, or some other conditions. I used it the mechanics also in some supers testing in the madness dimension style stuff but you want to scale up the points a bit especially if a lot of defense is in play but it works for that as well. 

IIRC back in the early 2000s, Steve Long created a 44-page free PDF, The Hero System Genre By Genre, which discussed the conventions of a number of different game genres, and how to model them in Hero System (5E at the time), including a number of sample characters for several genres. One of them was horror, for which he proposed a new Sanity (SAN) stat. The following is quoted from p. 43:
 
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To represent the long-term problems caused by stress and sustained fear, many Horror Hero GMs come up with a new Figured Characteristic to represent a character’s capacity to withstand the effects of horror. For example, you might create a Sanity (SAN) Figured Characteristic, derived from EGO + (PRE/2) + (CON/2). Characters lose Sanity like they lose STUN, but only from effects that are particularly terrifying, gruesome, or disturbing — the GM assigns a “Sanity Damage” rating (in d6) to each such phenomena. If a character drops to 0 SAN, he snaps and becomes completely insane (and an NPC under the GM’s control) until he recovers his wits. Characters may regain lost SAN with REC, just like STUN, but do not get Post-Segment 12 Recoveries and can only make SAN Recoveries when they are in calming, non-stressful, non-frightening situations (i.e., rarely in the middle of a scenario, but only between adventures). Many other versions of SAN (or the like) are possible; each GM sets it up to represent the feelings of horror he most wants to simulate.
 

I am not ignoring the questions; I swear.  I had to leqve work early becauae the wife reported a water geyser in the front yard.  At my age, digging up waterlines and pine roots doesnt go as effortlessly as it once did_  eight hours later, the repairs are made and the pard is more-or-less intact.
 
I am going to bed.
 
I will get badk to you, though; I promise it.
 
 
 
 

Hello Herodom! For those that have used it, what is your opinion of the Shock & Stress system in Horror Hero? Do you think there's a better way of approaching such concepts in 6th ed? 

Hmm... I would think creating a SAN stat that works a bit like Mental STUN would be more along the Call of Cthulhu lines. I believe I've seen a few other folks try that in HERO a few years (decades?) back. 
 
 
 
I would think that EGO would be better to defend against Fear-Based PRE Attacks. 
 
EGO Damage is an interesting idea. Would you basically use it akin to BODY? 
 
Not sure if I agree on INT damage. 
 
I think in the long run, I was interpreting the rules less like CoC's SAN, and more like lasting Fear, particularly the section on situational PRE-Attacks.