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No, rebrought those already, still don't want the hardback vol1. I know Waco is a small town really but this is crazy. Pelts you with D6

I pelt the unbelievers with D6 until they convert.

While I brought it years ago, I had to reboot it because of circumstances. The Fuzion and 4e are basically free as long as you had the initial program.

So when I got out of prison and even before I picked up some hero books. While at a half-way house my parole officer revoked me. The owners refused to give me belongings to a friend citing "rent due" even though they hoarded my money in their bank account. So all books, clothes, family photos from prison or brought after disappeared. The point. Going to the LGS here I see some used Hero books...APG 1 & 2. After I pay and have lunch I really look and guess what!! They had been sitting there for 6-7 years. The store had 4 more Hero books and after looking at my store purchases I'm laying odds they were mine too.

There's a 1-per-day charge as suggested by @Killer Shrike I need to find my notes and see if he mentions any of this or not

Agreed - Dump as many points as possible into those.

Correct @SCUBA Hero. I am slowly helping a friend with porting D&D to Hero (yes I know about KillerShrike's website and we are using it). The idea behind the spell system, to start, is you either get that spell, or you don't. There is no option of 'well, if it's NOT slotted you can cast it from scratch'. It COULD be tossed in. The way it's going so far is this. We are using the Known World / Mystara as a common ground. The bulk of the nations use the commons type of spell casting. The two big magic ones (Glantri and Alphatia) use it as an 'elementary school level; of casting. As you get outside that known area into other Cultures, Races and such we introduce new ideas into it; both original and from other source books. [The WHY of it is this. I know Hero, she doesn't. She has known D&D since 3rd Edition and OSR material. I know D&D back to 1982 so it's common ground for us both to start from.]

For those who know, Alter Ego Software closed shop. They took everything off Drivethrurpg and everything. You may still get updates if you have MetaCreator, but support is minimal.

Just looking for confirmation on an answer I probably already know. On Delayed Effect you have the option of casting it beforehand OR just using it as normal regardless. So even if you "baked" it into a spell system the Mage could cast it regardless of saved slots.

While it may not be what you want there is this: https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/296383

Just put back in the Figured Characteristics...

One thing to remember too is pushing.

(sighs) I'll probably get hate for it. I see it as a point sink honestly. EVERY spell has to have it. It's capped at INT/x or EGO/x and if you want more you have to pay more for it, ON every spell. IF I use it I use it as a Naked Advantage with a higher AP cap (so if a 40ap game, I'll give it 60 or 80) and build a Talent: Magic ability off of it.

In most material they say "consider X when a person is buying Y because Z may over balance the game", especially in books like Ninja Hero / Hero System Martial Arts. So why not official it's like anything else and needs to be compared to the rest of the material in the game in my opinion.

Thank you Scott. I'm about to head to bed so will look in the morning. And thank you all for keeping this civil. It's helped a lot.

Brett Booth --

I was gli g through KillerShrike's stuff today. I agree the RsR should be used to learn the spell, casting is automatic I'd like to see magic based on language as well. The long dead Nithian (Egyptian) magic is rarer because so few can translate the scrolls left behind.

Alston's Hollow World for D&D played with the idea that magic was harder to learn, cultures were "locked" and didn't evolve, and a lot of surface magic was unusable.

Me personally I would buy it as two-three tiers of a power. Say 10d6 total. 6d6 normal, with the next two as 2x End and then the last two as doing body DMG. The player should be made aware thenpoints are going into a "sink" that if they don't use it they're just wasting the points. I keep going back and thinking about "Gotham" from the Batman New 52 era of books (and his sister Gotham Girl). Using their powers were slowly killing them/driving them crazy. The more they used the faster it killed them. He used his to near-Superman levels and died from them.

Different cultures along the way. Modes of company, say an Arabian type caravan in one adventure while a "gypsy" style wagon train the next.

Was I suggesting the screen cap for her game or was I illustrating what I was talking about? I merely said "side effects". No argument about how it might be done in anyone's campaign.

Could go either way. As posted it seemed like a better limitation then a custom one. How they approach it and what curve they give us up to them. It may or may not be that last die.

This one? 4th Edition Champion's aka The Big Blue Book

High Fantasy, Mystara / BECMI world converted over with some other ideas tossed in. Just playing a few different things and curious what others did.

Side Effect.