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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

Use a DM shield as a player. If the others can't see your dice, it dosen't matter how bad your character is

 

[Not me, I knew someone who actually did this. Sigh]

Re: Lack of Fully Developed Worlds

Forgotten Realms ... was used in all of the Gold Box games from SSI.

Re: Tacky, tacky, tacky !!!!

For that I'd need an Elvis fan and how many fans would make an evil version of him?

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

Heh. Nice' date=' except that I'm not so sure he [i']detects[/i] such an answer

I think it is more that it is true by virtue of him having said it. Maybe a MegaScaled, Area of Effect Mind Control that only works against those of Catholic and related faiths (-1/2, 'cause there are certainly plenty of 'em)?

Re: Challenge: "Pope" as a Package Deal

I think we are missing a few of his biggest bennies: His Pope-related Superpowers!

 

Papel Infallibility - The Pope CANNOT be wrong on matters of official doctrine. He declares something is religiously correct, and it is. Or, depending on how you look at it, any decision he makes on matters of faith will be nudged by God to be correct.

Seeing as Hero doesn't do absolutes well, this could get expensive.

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

Like STR isn't already too cheap...

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

Storn.

I like the STR Min on weapons. They represent the fact that you have to have a certain level of physical ability to weild a weapon WELL. It isn't saying that the average guy (STR 10) can't wield a great sword, but it is saying that avererage guy can't weild a great sword WELL.

 

You do know that if you use two hands to weild a one handed weapon the STR MIN is reduced right?

 

You are correct the average merc doen't have an 18 STR. So how come they can wield the sword so good? Combat Manuevers and Combat Skill Levels.

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.

Re: Character for Review - Avatar

"Ãœbergabe oder' date=' stirbt Ihre Wahl" (“Surrender or die, your choiceâ€)[/quote'] How about: "Ergib Dich oder stirb - Deine Entscheidung."

 

Just my 2 (Euro-) cents - YMMV, of course. Though in any case, "Ãœbergabe" can mean "surrender" mostly for certain military purposes, referring to the surrender of installations, settlements and such. It's also difficult to construct the sentence with it in German. Instead of it, I would use: "gib auf," "ergib Dich," or some such.

 

(I'm Austrian, BTW.)

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

All I can say is' date=' my character Drizz'tminster will blow this guy away... [/quote'] A D&D character of a slightly lower power level than his isn't too unlikely to do just that, IMO. Especially if he has player character equipment.

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...

"bare female nipples"? There goes the 1st edition MONSTER MANUAL' date=' and DETIES AND DEMIGODS. Oh, an some other AD&D modules who's exact names escape me.[/quote']And much more recently, the 3.5 Monster Manual (dryad) and IIRC something in d20 Past. Probably the siren.

For the curious, both books have art galleries containing all their pictures on the WotC site.

 

Not that WotC themselves are bound by this, AFAIK.

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...

Who else here thinks this would actually be a big seller?

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...

2. WotC lays off an employee and for the first time that individual DOESN'T turn around and start up a d20 publishing company of his own and compete. The d20 community is shaken to its core as to the implications.

Re: Character: Bêlit

(Yes I own GURPS Conan' date=' you want to make something of it;))[/quote'] Heh. IIRC, GURPS Conan was my first GURPS supplement.

Re: Higher-point-level Fantasy

The major FEEL difference between Fantasy Hero at high level and D&D at high level is hit points. A high level D&D character might very well have 100 hit points (in Hero a normal human has like 8-10 body' date=' in D&D a normal human has like 4-5 hit points), if you directly converted THAT aspect of the game you would end up with characters with 200 body.[/quote'] Right, I'd convert large hp amounts by giving the character Combat Luck and similar powers as well as a lot of Body.

 

Well, unless they're primarily based on something like race (e.g., tyrannosaurus).

Re: Exalted HERO

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

Re: Video Games

It just occurred to me that technically someone should be able to remove the mushroom or the fire flower with the write-up I have now. It's a bad simulation because you eat the mushroom once and the effect is permanent in the game. I'm not sure how you make a focus non-removable' date=' maybe an Always On limitation.[/quote'] Expendable Focus or maybe Charges.

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...