Alibear

Re: Traveling in your typical modern day sewer: what rolls for illness?

People don't get sick walking through sewers. You can take a tour of Munich's sewers and as far as I'm aware nobody has died yet.

I think the only problem might be total immersion or contact with an open wound. Then, I'd use a modifyied con roll with appropriate modifiers for things like cleaning the wound afterward and getting it patched up. Perhaps a con roll, with paramedics as a complimentary roll. A small infection, perhaps -1 to dex or a stun or two loss(easily cleaned up with antibiotics) might be the end result of a failed roll.

Sensible precations would be a heavy factor in any decision to infect a PC (if I was GMing)

Re: A days journey

In the army you should be able to quickly traverse rough terrain with full gear and arrive fit enough to fight.

Stolen from wikiwotsit for British Comando Training Selection

The 30 miler. This is a 30 mile (48 km) march across upland Dartmoor, wearing full fighting order, and additional safety equipment carried by the recruit in a daysack. It must be completed in eight hours for recruits and seven hours for Royal Marine officers, who must also navigate the route themselves, rather than following a DS (a trained Royal Marine) with the rest of a syndicate and carry their own equipment.

I reckon 25km a day would be normal... but a fit man or small group of very, very fit men*, could cover double, triple or even quadruple that much as that and still arrive combat ready but not often.

*I'm thinking 15-18 Con range.

Re: Real Life into Hero.

Loads of nice thoughts, much what I thought myself.

One thing is clear; Grace Under Fire rules for normal people without combat training and actual experience in the field.

I just can't imagine having the cajones to 'set' and 'brace' when some buggers were opening up on me.

Re: Real Life into Hero.

Little finger sized hole. Dum Dum rounds don't mess up paper as spectacularly as they do meat.

Re: I remember when you could stop a train

Kid tried this in England last week. His puny 8 strength sadly didn't cut the mustard.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10920062

Re: Real Life into Hero.

Never shot a rifle either before. I had a bout 2 minutes of tuiton before getting let lose with the python. I have no small arms weapon familiarities whatsoever.

My hand eye coordination isn't that bad, I've trained MArts on and off for 20 years so could see myself with a 4 ocv, 5 if I was being generous and the GM wasn't too strict.

So I was at a shooting range last week shooting rifles and handguns and I got to wondering how to write it up in Hero.

Handgun on 25m range:

I was shooting a Colt Python (357 magnum with 6" barrell) our targets were 12" circles.

I was set and braced, basically had as much time as I wanted to fire. I hit the target twice with 5 bullets, 3 times in a row.

Now, I have never shot a handgun before so don't have a weapon fam and am trying to work out my OCV.

What is the dcv of a piece of foot wide paper at 25m? What is my OCV if I het the target 6 times from 15 shots?

That sounds like about an 8 or 9 or less to me?

Anyone want to do the Hero numbers?

Re: No more Figured Characteristics?!

Was designing a character on the fly the other night for a new player and he looked quite sweet for a 20 minute character until it was pointed out to me I hadn't purchased any OCV or DCV. Aargh.... back to the drawing board.

Re: Traps?

my apologies, that is exactly what I was looking for. I seemed to have somehow* missed 3 pages of examples. Sorry.

*it's 'cos you're thick, Al.

Re: Traps?

I had a look at that last night, Steve. There wasn't that much there well, nothing too specific.

Re: Traps?

While that looks very interesting and worth a punt I doubt if I'll be able to get it before Wednesday when we game next.

Any othre ideas? What are your favourite traps?

Re: Traps?

No idea what you are on about. Link?

So I'm planning on running my lads through a tomb laden with traps. Basically a pyramid full of traps and maybe some kind of monster.

The party have a trap specialist on board but want to get a good idea of how to make some traps and how he can spot them and disarm them. I want them to be realistic, mundane and probably be mechanical in nature.

What is the trap?

What sets it off?

How do you spot it?

Ho to disarm it?

If can't disarm it how to dodge it?

If the worst comes to the worst how much damage does it do?

Assuming this tomb is still used by people how do they get past the traps without making it obvious to othrs how to dodge them?

Re: Not D&D

For many societies religion and gods were a way to explain the universe. If we have magic to explain the unexplainable do we need gods?

Re: The ThunderCats Project

So who was there again?

Lion-o - Leader, nimble, sword

Panthro, Black dude, strong & tough, chain maybe?

Cheetara, fast chick, staff.

They had a cool tank and some little DNPC kittens and that's all I can remember.

Re: Dodging Fireballs

Of course I was thinking of AoE selective.

Re: Dodging Fireballs

You still have to be affected in an AOE attack. You have 3DCV iirc but can you not add to that?

Re: Artificial lifeforms

Chicken.

Re: 6th edition Min Str

I always assumed that an axe was double bladed so it could last twice as long in the forest before you had to stop and sharpen it

Re: Zones of Control in Hero

Sure, a GM can trump the rules.

I was juststating why I preferred the Duplication route as it is rules kosher.

Re: What books should I buy???

The Hero System Bestiary is one of the books apart from Fantasy Hero which sees the most use for me.

Re: If I had 500 slaves...

If I had five hundred slaves

And if I had five hundred more

I'd be the man who owned

a thousands slaves

that bow down to their lord

 

Dun-da-lun-da (Dun-da-lun-da)

Dun-da-lun-da (Dun-da-lun-da)

Dun-da-lun-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da

I Proclaim you are a very bad man.

Re: Look at this and build it (or just suggest stuff)

Hunted by Fletchers.

Re: Zones of Control in Hero

That's using a bazooka to swat a fly. I'd save Duplication for things like a hydra's heads' date=' where each limb can take independent action and be targeted separately; this is more of a modifier on the attacks your character is already making.[/quote']

 

If you buy this with a trigger you limit yourself to what you can do in response to someone running past you while in reality you could do whatever you pleased to them. Grab, throw, punch, slash, trip, cast a spell, throw a dagger etc.

Re: Total NEWB gushing over how amazing this forum is

5 points for interfering with yourself? I wonder what I spent my points on?