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Re: When you hear Urban Fantasy...

While certainly Fantasy, and mostly in Urban settings (though not always), generally Urban Fantasy is referring to Fantasy elements (magic, faerie, etc) in a modern urban setting, not just an urban one. I'm pretty sure that is the take on it that Hero games will be using.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love Brust's stuff. It just isn't what the term is usually used to mean.

Simon R Green, Tim Powers, Neil Gaiman, Sussanah Clarke, Steven Brust's Agyar and the like then?

Re: Arabian Hero

A little help:

 

A Ghul

http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptionscreatures/myth/ghul.html

 

A Jinn

http://surbrook.devermore.net/adaptionscreatures/myth/jinn.html

To quote Homestarrunner.com

"404ED!"

Re: CHAR: Big Barda

After working on it for two days, I get a Mother Box as 500 points.

 

Which would be a follower that cost 100 points.

 

Which is exactly what Enforcer84 came up with when he handwaved it.

 

Color me impressed.

Are you going to show us your write up?

Re: Fantasy Zero

Calib

Val Char Cost

24 STR 3

14 DEX 12

13 CON 6

10 BODY

10 INT

10 EGO

10 PRE

12 COM 1

5 PD

3 ED

3 SPD 6

8 REC

26 END

30 STUN

6" RUN

2" SWIM

4 1/2" LEAP

Cost: 28

Cost Power END

3 Unbelievably good at not falling: Flight 2" (4 AP) Only In Contact With A Surface (-1/4) 1

2 Cats and Calib always land on their feet: Gliding 2"

7 big boned, but not that fit: +11 STR (11 AP) Increased Endurance Cost (2x END -1/2) added to Primary VAL 4

Cost: 12

Cost Skill

2 WF: Common Melee Weapons

1 TF: Small Rowed Boats

3 Acrobatics 12-

1 Streetwise 8-

1 Concealment 8-

Cost: 8

Cost Talent

2 Environmental Movement: the swamp lands

Cost: 2

Total Cost: 50

Val Disadvantages

5 Reputation: Known Brigand, Sometimes (8-)

10 Rivalry: Raymond King of Traffickers, Romantic, Rival is Significantly More Powerful, Seek to Outdo, Embarrass, or Humiliate Rival, Rival Unaware of Rivalry

15 Hunted: Lord Trell's men, More Powerful, 11- (Frequently), Harshly Punish, Lim Geo Area

10 Physical Lim: Fine motor skills disabiltiy, dex -1 on appropriate tasks, Frequently, Slightly Impairing

10 Psych Lim: Problem with authority, Common, Moderate

Disad Points: 50

Calib's Da was a poacher, that's what the Lord Trell's man said when he hung him for killing the tapir that had attacked the families two goats. Sure, Da had eaten it, as had the rest of the family. Why waste good meat?

After Da went, it was harder for Ma, Calib, and the twins to survive. Calib was too untrained and clumsy to be able to the things Da did, and the twins were useless at anything but the simplest of tasks. The families hut grew shabbier and shabbier, until one night, during a particularly violent storm, the hut blew in on itself. The next morning, Calib was sent out into the swamp with the wood harvest men. They had told his mother that if he helped them bring in the wood for a week, they'd help build their family a home and let them stay in the drying shed. To Calib's Ma, it was a wonderful deal.

Everything was going as right for Calib as could be expected, considering he was homeless. He had a meal with the wood harvesters, he found his task of dragging the heavy logs off to the settlement to be easy, and therefore tolerable. He was also glad that his mother was happy that they weren't getting rained on. Of course, things never really stay good, do they?

The wood harvesters had stopped for a smoko, an extra snack and a puff or two of the good stuff. Calib, not having any food, or any inclination to smoke, went off exploring, scrambling up and along the trees like he was some sort of ape man. That's when he spotted the corpse, floating in one of the boggy ponds that are created in low tide. He went down to investigate, or take a gander, as Da would've said.

The body was pretty ripe, and there wasn't much to look at, but it did have a nice belt with a brass buckle in the shape of a turtle, and the best bit- There was a little pouch attached and inside, there was a real iron knife on it that wasn't even a bit rusty! Why waste good stuff?

Unsurprisingly, Calibs new belt and fine knife didn't go unnoticed, and one day, two young men, and The Lord Trell's Squire rode into the settlement.

Apparently, a large young man had been seen wearing a merchant families belt, they were here to hang him.

It's been two years since Calib slipped into the bayou, to live off the land. After six months he was briefly taken in by a bunch of river pirates, but he had to leave this new home after their bandit leader, Ray, thought that he was sleeping with his son. Which was definitely not true, Calib was too busy with Ray's wife to even think about that.

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Appearance: Calib looks brawny and overly muscled, like they forced a gorilla to have good posture and a couple of back waxes.

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The gliding and the flight represent how incredibly good Calib is at climbing things.

The fine motor skills disability, shows just how uncoordinated he is at anything like writing, needlework, butchering, fancy sword work, stuff like that.

Re: Challenge Lists

Small Pox

Floatsam

toddler

butcher

Re: Fantasy Zero

Yes!

Exactly that sort of thing!

 

I love "The Black Thing" btw.

Wish I had thought of something similar back then.

Ah well, it was my first ever experience with the Hero system.

 

I ended up playing a runaway stableboy.

thanks, though, thinking about it, it's not kosher as it's built on more points than he is. I don't know, I'm kind of interested in making some more of these, so, I'm going to umm, hijack your thread for a bit.

Re: Fantasy Zero

Player:

Val Char Cost

13 STR 3

13 DEX 9

13 CON 6

10 BODY

10 INT

10 EGO

10 PRE

10 COM

3 PD

3 ED

4 SPD 17

6 REC

26 END

24 STUN

6" RUN

2" SWIM

2 1/2" LEAP

Cost: 35

Cost Power END

5 bird brain: Mind Link (10 AP); Limited to Carrion birds; -1)

Cost: 5

Cost Skill

1 PS: Subsistance farming 8-

4 Survival (Temperate/Subtropics) 12-

1 Paramedics 8-

1 Concealment 8-

Cost: 7

Cost Perk

3 Follower- The black thing (15 Base, 20 Disads)

Cost: 3

Total Cost: 50

Val Disads

15 Social Lim: Runaway Serf, Occasionally (8-), Severe

15 Hunted: Lord Trell's men, More Powerful, 11- (Frequently), Harshly Punish, Limited Geographical Area (Lord Trell's lands)

10 Destitute

10 Psych Lim: Must find out and complete his mission, Common, Moderate

Disadvantage Points: 50

THE BLACK THING

Player:

Val Char Cost

3 STR -7

20 DEX 30

3 CON -14

3 BODY -14

13 INT 3

13 EGO 6

5 PRE -5

2 COM -4

1 PD

1 ED

4 SPD 10

2 REC

6 END

7 STUN

0" RUN -12

1" SWIM -1

0 1/2" LEAP

Characteristics Cost: -8

Cost Power END

15 flight: Multipower, 15-point reserve

1u 1) Flight 5" (Improved Noncombat Movement (x4)) (15 AP) 1

1u 2) Teleportation 7" (14 AP); Must Pass Through Intervening Space (-1/4) 1

1u 3) Gliding 5" (Noncombat Movement (x8)) (15 AP)

8 Claws and beak: Killing Attack - HTH 1/2d6 (plus STR) (vs. ED) (10 AP); Red Pen (-1/4) 1

10 Mind Link (Runaway Alan; Psychic Bond)

Cost: 36

Cost Skill

3 Concealment 12-

3 Tracking 12-

3 Lockpicking 13-

3 Stealth 13-

Cost: 12

Total Character Cost: 40

Val Disadvantages

20 Physical Limitation: Bird, All the Time, Greatly Impairing

5 Rivalry: Normal Crows in the area, Rival Less Powerful, Seek to Harm or Kill Rival, Rival Aware

Disadvantage Points: 25

Base Points: 15

Small Alan woke up in the usual way, listening to his bird friends yammering. They kept on noisely talking all morning. Suddenly they stopped, the reason: a big black bird, not unlike a raven or crow, had swooped down and landed at Alan's feet. Alan was not frightened, after all, had not that God that the priest was always talking about used birds as his messengers? The Big Black Thing talked to him and told him things, and explained the world to Alan. He also asked Alan to come with him, and help him to achieve what ever it was that the Big Black Thing needed to do. So, Alan dropped waited until night and slipped out the door, telling his pop that he needed to urinate, or "piss" as they said in the day.

It's been two and a half years of rough living and small Alan, now big and a runaway, has still not completed his task, aparantly he has started though, not that he can tell the difference. The Big Black Thing doesn't mind the slow pace though, theres still plenty of time and much carrion to eat.

This sort of thing?

Re: UNTIL Uniforms - Now I know why they BUG me so much.

Now now' date=' let's not post in anger. Many of us on these boards were agitated after watching Starship Troopers. I suggest you enjoy a bottle of YooHoo and wait for the rage to pass. Try not to dwell on how a movie with giant bugs, boobies, and the legendary NPH could paradoxically suck AND blow.[/quote']

Fine, i'm leaving, you don't have to be a jerk about it.

Re: Help with npc statting

Sounds totally hot.

Re: When you hear Urban Fantasy...

what about Steven Brust's Taltos books?

Re: Help with npc statting

1 8- PS Christian comic maker

15 Disad: Bat Siht Crazy total all the time

Re: Help Me Populate A Creepy Hotel

John

 

Arrived in the hotel just a few days ago. Although he gives his name as John Smith he is quite obviously of Middle Eastern extraction, a heavily set man in his late middle age, with closely cropped dark hair. Thick stubble shows he is capable of growing a good beard but it looks recently shaved. He is currently more or less confined to a wheelchair, wearing a surgical neck brace, and is attended to every other day by a pair of unapproachable Americans who deflect any and all questions about the new guest other than to say he suffered a spinal injury and is recuperating.

 

John is obviously reluctant to talk to members of the hotel staff and pretty much abuses them until they leave his room on the odd occasion that there has been a need to take something to him when his carers aren't present.

Ahh, that is just so aweome! Sick and awesome.

Re: You practice what-o-mancy?

If Talismancy is about talismans' date=' what do you call magic based on the use of the Talis (fringed prayer shawl used by Jews)?[/quote']

Would that be the tallit? ou could call it Talitiomancy? It sounds "rightish"

Re: Immortality and progressive diseases

I'm just imagining someone whose entire body has become riddled with malignant cancer tumors. Ooh... Character idea!

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

i'm filming today! YEAH! Call is 2 oclock, I am so stoked, i love watching my stuff being done.

Re: Pulp Comic Books

All "kind of" Pulp

Planetary

Tom Strong

Girl Genius (which is available online, for free and 200% completely legal.)

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Gate of Ivory, Gate of Horn by Robert Holdstock, the latest in the Ryhope Wood series. This is the kind of book that people who like this kind of book will like, if you know what I mean.

 

Me, I loved it, especially the way it fills in the background of the Christopher Huxley character, so that you get to see him before he was a total bastiche.

 

cheers, Mark

I couldn't agree more.

You know; I ended up quoting from Mythago Wood's in a religious paper I took a year or two ago, it's got some really interesting stuff, and not just of the Joycian monomyth variety

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I read The Dragon and the George. It's about two people accidentally sent to an England where dragons and magic exist, and the guy ends up in a dragon's body. He has to defeat the Dark Powers to get his girlfriend back, and needs allies to do it.

 

I thought it was handled pretty realistically, and it was a neat story. I liked it. ^ v ^

Gordon R Dickson!

I loved those books. Especially one of the sequels, Dragon on the Border, it's still in my favorite fantasy books section of my bookcase, even though, you know, I haven't actually read it in a year or three.

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I just finished Wintersmith; it's the latest Tiffany Aching book by Terry Prattchet. All in all, a very entertaining read, and it's cool to see how he is slowly raising the reading age and contextuality with the rest of the Disk World. What a canny way to force kids onto the Disk.

in other news; Dzur, by Steven Brust still hasn't been released in my country, soon i'll give up and order online or something.

Re: A Thread for Random Musings

I'm working on a podcast atm, here's a brief snippet of what i've got atm. Feel free to critique if you so desire.

http://www.zshare.net/audio/survivorsguiltexcerpt02-mp3.html

Oh yeah, minor nsfw a I mention my anal cavity and what's lost in there for like 3 seconds.

Re: Steam Power in Fantasy

Very good - I stand corrected - and I thank you for refreshing my memory; but this changes the essential point that was being made' date=' how?[/quote']

who cares? it's interesting, and corrects a little bit of the misinformation cycle.

Re: Help needed: Sadistic "April Fool's" Jokes

Ok, so he's got this flower in his lapel right? And he shows it to a woman and squirts it on her, but it's not water... It's ink! So, she's all pissed off at him and is going yell at him... but she looks down and he's caused her to have a miscarriage.

Yeah, that's pretty sadistic, and rather sick.

I'm not a good person.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

The Hairbrush Song (Audio Adrenaline)

Re: Animation or Comics?

Whazt we are finally seeing with those DVD's is the western comics people getting in on the OVA market. Which, ofcourse, is wonderful.

Re: Susano's Arms and Armor Drawings

Yoink!

Re: Realistic daily provisions

We used them in Boy Scouts (one of the only times I actually came in direct contact with tampons in my youth, beyond seeing them in the bathroom at home)

 

They were called smudge-pots. The tampon worked as a wick for the kerosene (which was surprisingly hard to light when used as a camp fire accelerant, lighter fluid is much more inflamable)

 

TB

It really needs a wick or aeration, which is why it's excellent as a firebreathing liquid. I've accidently extinguished torches while adding kero.