HeroGM

In something like d20 it works, most of the time. Personally I give everyone an amount of time to do their action. The only person who should be going "um..I'm...um..." is the first person in combat order. While everyone else is going you need to be looking at your #s, checking your powers/spells, etc. If you don't have an idea when I get to you it's a held action, next person. If you still have no idea, you've lost it. Mean? Possibly - why should I allow players to waste mine and the other players time with it. Me: "Ok Keith, you're first to act. Do you want a min to consider options? Or would you like to hold and come back?" K: "I'll use my Pulsor blast against the first agent to the left" ( so we figure range mod, attack roll, dmg, knock back...a good 5-15min depending (??)) Me: Ok David, what are you doing?😧 D : "Um...wait..uh..let me check something...um, ok I'll do a move through and..." (10 min of him checking what a move thru does...).... And yeah, nor everyone knows the rules, starting players, etc etc...I can be lenient. You add all those "um..uh (book check)..well I think I can still cast Fireball..no wait..." and it kills the flow as well as time.

Htmlbook is exactly that's a set of role declarations in html tags to say what it is...this section is a chapter, etc. It's so PrinceXML and other html2pdf parsers can use it. The main issue is it uses @page which only chrome seems to fully recognize. (sighs)

In Hero when I've done it it's slowed things down, in rule systems where it was written to be that it's worked about the same as Hero. And I simply explained the mechanic. Real life had nothing to do with it.

@Spencei I can understand that. I haven't really looked at 2e. 1st did have a nice way of dealing with hench folk though.

John Byrne did two (well read one) issue of Alpha Flight that took place in 1880s Alberta (have to relook) that would make a good weird west campaign - and the idea of his Great Beasts as well as Shaman and Talisman would ALMOST fit.

I've been trying to do one using htmlbook, only issues is it only works in chrome for the time being.

Now the question to ask is are they the same book but a different vendor? I don't know if Amazon itself does pod

From the lowest people say "I'm doing this" up to the fastest; that way the fastest can judge what the slowest are doing. Dex 10: I'm pulling my pulsor pistol and firing at the strongest character. Dex 20: I'm going to do a move and try a disarm of the dex10 guy. Then everyone from highest to lowest actually makes thier rolls.

I would love to see a Silver and Iron age set for Champions - on the ground of Strike Force where it shows the genre and how to adapt Hero to it (and not the other way around). Several things I'd enjoy seeing even if it broke some things into multiple books.

I'm getting over the term of 1988 being a time period. I need my cane.

Same here. My nosiness MUST know dangit....TELL US TELL US!

What is this multiclass you mention? Never heard of it. 🤔

Look at 7th Sea

I saw CNM as "Image". I had no issue making characters though a little one dimensional since normally the Hero powers were really there. Th idea of a universal plug and play system is nice, heck we play Hero - the problem was like the WinModem. More fiddle to get it to work. I remember one big issue with CNM is it had v5 on the front so many thought it was 5th Edition. Next year (83-23) will be my 40 years of playing Hero, IN July as well.

That explains Champions:NM

Talents and skills are the big thing between editions earlier than fourth. I've done Golden Age 4th for 6th with little changes. As for Fantasy/DnD, I use the 4th Ed conversion notes for anything pre 3.5.

No, U-Haul is mine. Just like I get Zirchers game books when his wife finally kills him.

We will need your home address along with a U-Haul for all your game books....

My @$$hole cousins have the few solid 6e books, but heck - I can't even get my dad's ashes from them much less my books

Nm, Brain was off

Found this in my files.

Hi, I'm Worf, a Klingon warrior. Let me prove how tough the alien of the week is by being stomped into the bulkhead

Oh I have no issue with the character personally as it shows the times he was created in. He just needed something that fit him, like Worf.

The books they go with. Galactic Champions is 5th, so the character pack will be, Champions beyond is 6th. IIRC they're sold under the editions they belong to next to their books.

Rabid koala ate him. It was aweful. Funeral was nice, crocodile Dundee and Kangaroo jack came. The Irwin's translated for them.