Joe Walsh

I agree, filling in the details of life on Tatooine is the most interesting thing about The Book of Boba Fett. The central story is a snooze so far.
 

Who'da thunk something that grew out of slave patrols would be bad? 🤷‍♂️

I tried M&M too.  I tried hard.  And a lot of that effort was because it looked like a superhero game.  The other was the M&M playable setting. Not just a setting encyclopedia plus villain pre-gens.  But a thought out new player entrance to their setting adventure/campaign.  Multiple sequential adventures to allow players to be heroes and GMs to get a taste of what a superheroic campaign feels like. 
 
My M&M game never got off the ground.  I just never connected with that condition system.  Super battles were just meh in comparison with a Champions battle.  I didn't get anything that resembled the satisfaction you get when a good hit sends someone through the wall.
 
Just one "condition" replacing another.
 
But boy howdy that setting and those book just POP superheroes.
 
 
 
 
While I don't think I have ever made it halfway through one of the CR play throughs, I cannot deny the popularity.  But I do think the CR portion is in response to D&Ds popularity, not the driver.
 
We've beaten the idea to death.   But Champions needs to take their existing encyclopedia and Bestiary/Villainiary and use them to build a playable setting.  Meaning dust off the reference textbooks and write a campaign book. 
 
M&M includes a great introduction campaign in the rulebook that serves two purposes.  How to play and a method to introduce new PCs into a campaign. 
 
My own Fantasy Hero (5thR) project is intended to be a way to introduce players into a small digestible campaign where they can experience the system in play and how things work.  Some century I hope to finish it. 

A friend who is a big star wars and specifically Mandalorians says the thing he likes the best about this and the other series is the expansion of the races (Jawas and Tuskan Raiders, for instance). He also says they seem to be, bit by bit, retconning the last 3 movies out of existence.

Been watching.  Unfortunately, by far the best episode so far was the one without Boba Fett in it.

Ever since I started playing Champions back with 2e, I and everyone I knew looked to the Enemies books to serve as creative examples of how to use the powers, modifiers, and frameworks. In my view this was far better than a reference tome full of examples (or examples crammed in the margins of the main rulebook) because villains--as well as NPC heroes/teams, organizations with super agents, etc.--provided much-needed context for the presented power builds. Too often when players and GMs see Sample Powers presented without context, they tend to treat them like pre-designed D&D spells that they use, unchanged, as though ordering from a menu.

They're not sending us their best. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

Don't forget the robbery civil forfeiture.

Heh, Hero was so far ahead of its time there's no difference.
 
Not entirely joking.  Like, 4e D&D was the most flexible, most-nearly-balanced, version of D&D ever, and it did it by dipping it's toes in powers with special effects. 
 
I suppose it's also worth noting that 5e D&D achieved great success by reaching all the way back to its earlier forms and ditching all the best stuff from 3e & 4e.

I agree with Mr. P.  This has gone FAR beyond "socially acceptable" in that crowd.  Unless, LL, you specifically refer to the "we'll be there Monday with guns" part;  that's harder to read.  
 
Oh, BTW:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/virginia-school-board-gun-threat-face-mask-dispute/
 
She has been saying, oh, I misspoke, I didn't mean, you know, GUNS, guns...yeah, right.
 
And hey, even if threatening violence isn't the norm...we have to add "yet" to that.  There's just far, far too much  instigation going on, so "socially acceptable" is still much too mild.  It's well past that, even limiting it to the notion of using violence.  

Not just socially acceptable, it's become a badge of honor among certain factions.

It's a meh issue for me. 
Hero is not an RPG. 
It is a system to build a custom RPG.
Every single incarnation from 1st through 6th has had "broken" or "incorrectly costed" something.  
Even the concept of "balanced" RPG is ludicrous. 
 
While some people looks at 6th as having "fixed" issues. 
Other people think that 6th just "broke" many of the central reasons that made Hero good in the first place.  
I'm one of the people that saw 6th as a revision that eliminated many of the core reasons that brought me to Champions (Hero) in the first place while hamfistedly "breaking" it.
 
But I am aware that 6th has it's cult following  
All hail the Great Sixth'thulhu

 
In the end Hero in all it's forms is a game that you do not let anyone "build a PC at home and show up to play".  At least if they are not someone that you have been gaming for years and understand intimately the parameters of the campaign.  
 
Hero cannot be "fixed" or "balanced" by the rules. 
That must be done by each GM as they build their world. 
I am positive that 99% of the posters on this board could build a character that will "break" any campaign if they have free access to the core rulebook and intent.  
 
IMO 6th Edition is every bit as "broken" as 5thR was.  It is just which flavor of "broken" do you prefer. 
 
 

Almost all, if not all, of the Skills that are in 4th, 5th and 6th editions existed in 3rd edition.  I know this for a fact because I compiled a spreadsheet about it.  Granted, they existed across multiple books, but in the games I was in back then, we assumed that any skills that were appropriate to the setting would be available in whichever game we were playing.  One major exception to that was Martial Arts in Fantasy Hero; we didn't seem to want to go there except in the Bushido Hero game.  

No argument with that. DeSantis, Abbot and their ilk are clearly working an angle they believe will benefit them. What I was saying is that these policies aren't arising out of any grass-roots swell of outrage. Polls consistently show the majority of Americans are more liberal and more progressive than most of the conservative stances being advocated today. These measures are being driven from the top down, exacerbating existing differences in opinion to create perceived conditions they can rationalize as a justification to seize power.

Also, death is not the only significant potential outcome from catching COVID. Its symptoms can persist for months, even in young healthy people, impairing their functioning. The virus can also have permanent effects on not only the lungs but other organs, including heart, kidneys, brain, and nervous system, leading to chronic breathing difficulties, heart disease, kidney failure, even paralysis.
 
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/coronavirus/in-depth/coronavirus-long-term-effects/art-20490351

Covid is singled out because it is ten times as contagious as the flu and infinitely more contagious than accidents or heart disease.

Felt kind of blah last night, and caught "Never Surrender" on Amazon, last night, which was a documentary on the making of "Galaxy Quest'.  Now I want to watch "Galaxy Quest" again.
 
 After that I watched "The Grand Budapest Hotel".  I enjoyed the film, due to the clever and quick editing, and the peculiar take on the Remnants of the Austro Hungarian Empire, visually.  Great, if stylized performances, and it a nice story within a story. However, watching it on Amazon, "with commercials",  was an unfortunately unpleasant  experience, and reminded me why I ditched broadcast Television, and regular cable, and never bothered to subscribe to Hulu.  The movie I would reccomend, but "with Commercials", I would most definitely, not. ( I would rather pay for the movies, than watch commercials).

I would say that this is accurate, as at the time Champions was  a large percentage of the games being run at Gencon through the 90's. It was ubiquitous at the time. BBBs were in tall stacks at the Hero booth that sold out over those weekends, and there was "The Hero Auxiliary", running the organized convention games at Gencon.  Those were the days.

I recently watched a fun YouTube documentary on the black Lamborghini Countach from the first Canonball Run movie. Lots of fun facts about the real Canonball rallies held by Brock Yates in the 1970s, and of course, the car itself and its history.

I get what Steve Long was going for: here's everything you'll ever need for any conceivable kind of game.  Fine, its the Big Book of Hero that has all the stuff, maybe you want to play a Gambler Hero game where people need those gambling skills, sure.

But that should be reflected in genre books and campaign settings: fewer skills listed because fewer are needed for this setting.

This is one of my biggest complaint about editions after 4th, where skills became a vicious point sink, because of the specialization.  1st Edition: Physician 14 or less.  3rd Edition: Medic : 11 or less, Surgeon 11or less. 4th Edition  Medic 11 or less, Pharmacology 11 or less, Surgeon 11 or less.  6th Edition: General Medicine 8 or less Pharmacology 8 or less. Trauma medicine 11 or less, Thoracic Surgery 11 or less, Cardio Vascular Catheterization 11 or less, Teamwork 13 or less.  It gets expensive.  It's that specialization that just became a point sink, and detracted from the  feeling of "Competence" that player characters had in previous editions. There is I think too much detail past 4th edition. and separating figured characteristics was not friendly to new players. THe figured demopnstrated to them what was important in the gem, which was CON, STR, and DEX. Without that, a lot of folks end up unintentionally building glass cannons.

I started with 1st, with the typewriter-looking font, but by the time I got to play it, 2nd was out, then 3rd by the time I got to play in regular games.
By then, GMs I gamed with were mixing skills &c from the other Hero games as well, and it was messy.
 
4e, the BBB, feels like the definitive edition that brought it all together.
 
But even with the BBB, it seemed like skills were getting out of hand, and it was taking far too many points to just be generally competent at whatever throwaway background or secret id you might have.
5th seemed even worse that way,  what I've seen of 6th looks to be far beyond the pale.
 
Sometimes I think even the small handful of skills in 1st would be preferable.

Don't get me wrong, D&D is still not a very good system.  Its mostly handwaving still, it still uses single die resolution, it still relies mostly on HPs and AC, and so on.  But its much more flexible, smart, and better than it used to be.
 
And as a bit of a chef, I have tried dozens of ways to try to make brussels sprouts edible but they're terrible no matter what you do.  You can at best make them less terrible.