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Re: How Do I: Weapons with -OCV Fantasy HERO (p.177) recommends using Side Effect.

Re: The things I've learned playing a munchkin Speaking of cheating... If you're going to cheat, it's helpful to start by pretending to botch a relatively unimportant roll; your subsequent "luck" will be more believable if you don't appear to be "lucky" all the time.

Re: Lack of Fully Developed Worlds There were some Dragonlance games as well.

Re: Tacky, tacky, tacky !!!! An evil Elvis fan?

The tables in Villainy Amok often make note of a "benchmark character." How do I best decide who the benchmark character is - e.g., should I generally use the PC whose powers are the most similar to the intended villain's?

Re: Hero System women are all insanely attractive I've been told I look a lot like the video game character Solid Snake. Though my hair's a little different and I'm not in the best shape right now.

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal Yeah. I liked the idea so I built it this way, is all. My idea would be a bit much, but I'm particular to: MegaScale AoE Transform (texts and memories about Catholic doctrine into updated versions). This one probably wouldn't be Limited to Catholics, though it can be.

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal For the pope as arbiter of divine will: Papal Infallibility: Detect Correct Answer To Questions About Catholic Doctrine at +5 to PER Roll, Discriminatory, Analyze. Assuming an Int 13-15 pope, that gives him an 18- PER Roll, though for perfect infallibility, using the "Absolute Effect" rule from Fantasy HERO is advisable.

Re: Stat Inflation You said you increased the cost of STR in your campaign, so it shouldn't be too cheap for you any more...? If someone else doesn't do that even though STR is too cheap for them, well yeah - of course that's a problem with STR, rather than with applying Limitations to it.

Re: Stat Inflation Also an option for such characters: +STR; Only To Meet Min STR Of [swords or whatever].

Let's say I have something like: Major Transform (living creatures into [whatever]), Area of Effect (e.g., Radius or 1 Hex with MegaScale). How do I build this power to enable it to affect creatures in several buildings at once (or in several rooms/floors of the same building separated by walls/doors)? There's Indirect but if I read it correctly, it just changes where the power comes from, meaning it can hit targets inside one building but not in several buildings at once (assuming there are walls/closed doors between them). I think adding Autofire is an option, but IMO that'd get a bit complicated for bigger powers. I also looked at Penetrating, but it seems it wouldn't help here... At least, I think so. So how do I Transform the inhabitants of a small town (or whatever), apart from making them go outside first? I'm not that experienced in using HERO, so it's possible I'm missing something but in any case, I'm not sure how to go about this. Any help would be very cool.

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Re: Drizzt & Artemis Entreri Oh, and the previous Drizzt write-up I saw on these boards is here. The main thread's is in the general forum, but a search for "Drizzt" in this forum turned up the thread in this forum that links to it, so I found it.

Re: Drizzt & Artemis Entreri

Re: Drizzt & Artemis Entreri I recall a Drizzt write-up in this forum, long ago. A search should turn it up, though.

Re: YOU KNOW THE d20 WELL HAS RUN DRY WHEN...

Re: Hero System Guru in 20 days or less. Create two characters in the system you're trying to learn and let them beat each other up. Just expand on this basic principle and it'll take you anywhere. Well, anywhere that's combat-related, anyway.

Re: YOU KNOW THE d20 WELL HAS RUN DRY WHEN... Heh. Do a Google search for "Book of Erotic Fantasy." (Not completely work-safe, I suppose, BTW.) And yes, I believe at least one of the people responsible is a former WotC employee. Note: I haven't read it, so I can't comment on content, but it sure seems to spark off a lot of near-flame wars when it's discussed on the interent.

Re: What's the most ridiculous PC you've ever been subjected to? A character based on Silent Bob. Quite possibly even named "Silent Bob." With jedi powers. He even had a lightsaber. In Vampire: The Masquerade.

Re: YOU KNOW THE d20 WELL HAS RUN DRY WHEN... These days, they might well join up with existing d20 companies instead of founding their own. The companies they'd join likely have been started by other former WotC employees, mind.

Re: Character: Bêlit

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Re: Exalted HERO There've been a few threads about that over the time... For example, here.

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Re: Character: Duncan MacLeod Very cool write-up. I like it. BTW, I'd suggest increasing the Maximum Effect of the Aid - otherwise, he can get only 6 points total no matter how many other Immortals he kills...