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And it will continue to be a big deal because A) many the people who take it seriously have largely forgotten about it and 2) most of the rest never acknowledged that it was real in the first place.

For 6e, the Advanced Player's Guide (pp 188-190) has the chase rules that appeared in the 4e and 5e core rulebooks.
 
For vehicle chases, my favorite HERO chase rules are in Danger International (pp 84-85). This optional chase system offers a risk/reward system where in the driver can choose to take greater risks in return for a greater chance of achieving their objective.

First, we need to take the game design kit that is Hero and use it to make actual games that people can play.
 
Then, those games need support.  In the 21st century, Adventures are essential to game sales. The Adventure Path model has  proven itself.
 
To reach the mass market, the game has to reach beyond grognard gamers who will invest the time to build their own game world and design their own scenarios to time-pressured people with family and work responsibilities that limit their leisure time available to devote to the games.

It really does come down to experience, a sort of feel for what will work and what won't in a campaign.  Games like D&D its pretty easy with levels etc but Hero is more complex and variable.

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Active Points are not a reliable measure of actual power though they can be used as a general guideline. When speaking of limits, DC's are the best indicator in this case. As noted in the OP, you can generate an attack of 12+ DC's without any Power or Characteristic exceeding 20 Active Points quite easily.
 
So set your campaign at X DC's and don't worry about Active Points per se.  
 

The review I read of Champions that spurred me to actually buy the game mentioned STN/BOD prominently, pointing out that it was routine for fights to end in KO, but possible for a character to be conscious & dying - quite impossible in the D&D of the day.
 
Once I saw it, I was taken both with the way phases felt like panels straight from a comic book (or story board), and with the way the SPD chart let some characters be much faster than others without overwhelmingly tilting combat in their favor. 
 
(and, of course, by the system of Powers & Special Effects... and adv/lim & disad)
 
That other games don't have such features is just a testament to the dysfunction of the RPG market, where the only game you really compete against is D&D, and you can't be part of the market if you're too different from D&D...😞

I'm grateful to be old enough that there was no Internet when I was young(er) and stupid(er) where I could thoughtlessly post every insensitive and stupid comment I made, so they could go on forever, and be thrown in my face decades later, presented as the sum total of my character.

Below is the link to my contribution to the "Third Edition Renaissance" that consists of various characters converted from 5th and 6th Edition to a more simplified format using 3rd Edition as the base. The following is a list of Hero Designer files and the asterisk (*) indicates that there is a character write-up included. If the interest is strong enough, I will convert more.
 
Third Edition Renaissance
 
Enjoy! 😉
 
Alexis Adakai* (Modern adventurer/explorer)
Aquaman with Hook
Aquaman (Classic)
Batgirl (Barbara Wilson from Batman & Robin film)
Batman*
Batwoman (Carrie Kelley)
Beast*
Black Canary
Blue Beetle
Booster Gold
Captain America*
Captain Atom
Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)
Colossus
Cyclops
Firebrand*
Iron Man*
Kristina Harker (Supporting cast)
Superman*
Wonder Woman* (Modern)
Wonder Woman* (Classic)
Yankee Girl*

I mean, it bothers me because literally everyone is fooling themselves at thinking they are making "the correct financial decision for their retirement" by supporting these policies.  Retiring is hard when your grocery bill is higher than rent.........

It's not the ramifications for climate change that bother me so much as the reasoning that regulatory agencies have no authority to do anything.  I reckon the FDA is up next.

"The Constitution is totally a suicide pact!"

...and I just checked the voter registry here in OH to see if I was listed.  We just had an election back in May, voted with no issue...
 
...I've been removed.

It's been disappointing to see right wing media successfully direct the narrative to the irrelevant grabbing-the-wheel story.  The man knowingly directed armed insurrectionists to attack the capitol and clearly intended to lead them himself.  That almost certainly counts as levying war against the United States.  It absolutely counts as seditious conspiracy, and you can tack on any number of obstruction charges for the witness intimidation attempts that happened on Monday.  It's not a smoking gun, it's a smoking arsenal.

Well, Pariah, I'm following your lead and am simplifying my previous 5th and 6th Edition write-ups to 3rd Edition. I really miss the simplicity also, coupled with nostalgia, and is much easier to introduce new players (I recently posted about the topic). Here are a few samples of what I've started, and will post the Hero Designer and Excel files in the downloads section once I'm done. 🙂
Superman.pdf Firebrand.pdf WonderWoman_Modern.pdf

Since some of the other classic games have gotten premium reprints in recent years, I've dreamed of having the option of buying a reprinted 4e Champions BBB hardcover that's not from page scans (other than of the artwork) but from a modern recreation of the original layout -- with all errata integrated.
 
It would require paying someone for data entry, copy editing, and layout, at the least.
 
Last time I knew anything about those costs was in the mid-90s. Does anyone have an idea of what getting such a project ready for printing would cost these days?
 
It would be so great to have the BBB (and ideally all the 2e and 3e games) available again as though they were brand new, not just for those of us who use them regularly, but for people who fondly remember them and any gamers who may prefer the approach of an older edition. It would also possibly raise HERO's profile a bit in the wider gaming community.
 
I can dream, anyway.😁

Well, there is the soap opera element of comics, a team book is often focussed on the personal dynamics of the team with each other and organisations.  I think HERO was ahead of its time with this stuff but games like Masks and other narrative systems bake it into the system rather than the added on complications HERO uses.
 
I also like the RYG system of Sentinels that mean some of the more potent powers don't become available until health is low.  It shows how comic book characters don't often reach for the big guns first thing in a fight.
 
Spectaculars leans heavily into the flavour of the powers rather than the nuts and bolts.  It sets up scenes with different objectives rather than focussing on taking the opponent STUN to below zero.
 
Lots of gameplay stuff that bake in genre emulation.  Doesn't mean you cannot do that stuff in HERO but the game doesn't push you into them.
 
I find, in HERO, players often fall into playing the numbers rather than playing their powers.  These games incentivise players to think about their powers, to engage with the broader NPC cast and to think more broadly than just fighting the villains.

I almost agree with you.  But it is character creation that has been reviewed, deconstructed, balanced etc etc etc.  The game system itself is pretty much the same skeleton it was way back in the 1980s.
 
I love HERO, I think in these terms but I am seduced by the clever ways other games have of emulating comics in ways poor old 20th century HERO cannot.  There are dimensions that it does not address.
 
I am in the games powered by HERO camp, so I think each and every one of these games could innovate with the game system to achieve desirable genre emulation.  As long as every game had a designers booklet (freely available online or sold as a Designer's Insight booklet) to show how the toolbox was used, bent and added to, it fits with the HERO philosophy and folk like us could open up the bonnet, rip out a few bits, bend a few more, IF WE WANTED TO, to achieve good games at the table.

I think if you use the label "social combat," for a system focused more on interaction and less on combat, you've already lost. 😏
 
But,  if you do think about scenes in genre fiction that you might consider a "social check" or "social contest," chances are pretty good they're character development, exposition,  forseshadowing, or some sort of drama/suspense based on the viewer knowing something one or more of the characters involved doesn't (or vice versa).

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That was the great thing about the 4e BBB: you could run the game with just that book. Some of us did that for many many sessions. The BBB had not only the rules, but how to run a superhero RPG, a multipart adventure, a goodly number of hero and villain pregens, and a good amount of info on Viper.

But sane Americans are outnumbered by simple folk who only care about their pocketbooks, exemplified by the woman interviewed on ATC who said Democrats were wasting time with the Jan. 6 commission hearings instead of doing something to lower food and gas prices.
 
So, the midterms will be a landslide for Republicans. At which point, expect a blizzard of highly publicized "investigations" of the Biden administration, and likely a few impeachments. And an interview with a co-founder of the Lincoln Project offered an even more horrific possibility: House Speaker Donald Trump. Because nothing in the Constitution says the Speaker must be a member of the House.
 
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Tories lose two by-elections in Britain
Tiverton and Honiton
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Wakefield
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On other boards, I've seen quite a few former fans attest that they stopped playing HERO System at some point because the game's presentation was becoming the opposite of what they wanted.
 
HERO fan that I am, even I would never hand anyone I've ever known 5e or 6e -- or even my own favored edition, 4e. None of those books presents a game. They present a toolkit, from which a game can be assembled. Most people aren't interested in doing that, and even if they were, they don't have time for it.
 
Instead I'd go with Champions Complete, which is the closest thing to 1e/2e/3e's presentation that there's been in a long, long time. Plus it's a current product that gets support.
 
That said, there's nothing wrong with using 3e if that's what your situation calls for. I use plenty of older RPGs because they still work best for me and my group.