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    bluesguy reacted to HeroGM in cheatsheet   
    File as a jpg. Formatted as 11x8.5
     
    I included a table of file types, extensions and what pages they are discussed in the HD manual.

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    bluesguy got a reaction from Pariah in Why the V’hanian Empire Makes the Champions Setting Cosmic Horror   
    The idea of Holy is that God's "otherness" is so pure and otherworldly causes mortals to be overwhelmed leading to the feelings of fear.  The disciple Peter has a fear reaction to Jesus at one point in the New Testament (Luke 5:1-9).
     
    I suspect that people meet Istvatha V'han have a similar reaction because she is so otherworldliness (lives in a multiverse and can time travel).
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    bluesguy reacted to Lord Liaden in 7 Horsemen of Apocalypse   
    Well, the Seven Horsemen were never referred to as "of the Apocalypse." Yes, they did include War, Famine, Plague, and Death, but their creator and leader was Fear, Destruction was the most powerful, and Fear's henchman Dread was an entirely different class of entity. More isn't necessarily better, but greater diversity can be a tactical advantage.
     
    I've long been struck by the realization that that adventure would be easy to fit into the current official Champions Universe. Fear's power derives from a potent mystic artifact called the Worm Scepter, which he also used to grant the other Horsemen their powers. That artifact was a remnant of Lovecraftian "Old Ones" who sought to colonize the Earth. In the CU the alien Elder Worm actually did colonize and rule antidiluvian Earth. They used blended magic and science like these Old Ones, and kept slave races and engineered monsters, to which the Black Death could easily belong.
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Amorkca in Atlas (re) Unleashed   
    I am using Atlas Unleashed.  I have tweaked it for my purposes.  I will provide an update after I finish the initial run.  I suspect that the players will encounter them multiple times.
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    bluesguy reacted to Ninja-Bear in If Champions never existed, what superhero RPG would you have played (or be playing today)?   
    I’m not sure what game but I’d have more money! 😂
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Christopher R Taylor in Hell Bomb power idea   
    I have a plot hook like that in my current game.  I just hand wave it.
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    bluesguy reacted to steriaca in Superheroing in the V'hanian Empire   
    The government always changing their collective minds about a project, I'm guessing. 
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    bluesguy reacted to Lord Liaden in Superheroing in the V'hanian Empire   
    If you believe there's no challenge in a government-backed project, I'm guessing you never worked for the government.
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    bluesguy reacted to LoneWolf in Hell Bomb power idea   
    If this is a plot hook don’t bother writing it up.   Not everything in the game needs to be written up, especially if the Heroes are not supposed to be able to prevent it especially if it is a onetime thing.  
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Khymeria in 2022 Q2 Notes From The Publisher   
    A new Patreon to support - please take my money 😀
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    bluesguy reacted to Duke Bushido in RPG Creator was a neo-Nazi   
    Not sure why, but this entire thread reminds me of an old comic- I wish I could remember where I saw it, but I truly can't.  I was a kid then, and didnt get it.
     
    A WW2 soldier pulls down a Nazi flag from some place he and his soldiers have won a victory.  He folds up the flag, more as a "never forget" thing- it wasn't a drawn out respectful folding, but a gathering in / rolling up of a large bunch of fabric.  He comes home and sticks it in a trunk with other wartime items and outs it in the attic (barn?  I dont remember).
     
    Time passes.  His now-grown son is clesning out the house, finds the flag, hangs it up outside, and starts saluting it- the high-hand salute we associate with Nazis.
     
    There are No word balloons, so we are left to figure out what happened.
     
    Did son learn it from Dad?  Dad seemed relieved to have defeated the Nazis, and took the flag as a trophy and a reminder- more like a "never forget" sort of thing.
     
    Is son saluting because he found it in dad's stuff, and thinks it is something dad would be proud of?  Has the world changed so much that nazis are again in the open and he went looking specifically for the flag?
     
    We will never know, as the comic never explained itself.
     
    M.A.R. Barker is dead.  Like the comic, we will get no words to explain this.  We won't even get actions after the discovery.
     
    Was this extremely intelligent and educated non-Aryan man a Nazi?  Was he a white supremacist?
     
    All we know is that he did this under a psedludonym, and was so proud of it that he spent his entire life not talking about it, so far as I can find.
     
    I won't pretend there is some "other" beyond "yep.  Brown Nazi.  Happens more than you think."  But i won't pretend that there can be no reason other than he was a Nazi, either, simply because unlike Bledsaw 2 and 3, the Magats, and other alive and thriving, openly-nazi filth that oozes around today, there is no way to ask, to find a "why."
     
    I know good and well that while reading this some super-clever individual- a troll?  An SJW?  Maybe just a knee-jerk reactionist who knows he has a safe bet to demonstrate his moral superiority won't make it this far before posting "oh yeah?  What other kind if reason could there be, smart guy?"
     
    Let me cut that off right now by saying 'i have no idea.  I can't think of a single one.'
     
    What I can think of, though, is a long list of awful things I have done in the past as I grew to become,my own person-- Hell, I admitted right here on this board not too terribly long ago that I was raised _by_ and _to be_ a racist.  I am not now (thank you, Mr. T and my dear Siobhan.  Thank you both- one for opening my eyes and the other for knowing who I became instead of who I was).
     
    I can also think of a prerty lengthy list of truly awful things I have done to get by.  Did I ever tell you guys that in '79 I helped a small,motorcycle gang knock off a shipment of weed from a private air field in Liberty County?  That we made a crap ton of cash selling it to another "distributor?'  That this was how I met Pop?  He was an undercover narc- went by the name "Booger."  
     
    He rolled up right as we were closing the deal, accused me of setting up a double-cross and I got my a$$ beat bloody heading out the door.  Pop chased me outside with a pool cue.  When we got out, he grabbed me up, handed me a set of keys and said "they won't f%*!  with you on my bike, now get the f%×& out of here!"
     
    I stood there like a particulalry stupid post and he slapped me, shoved me toward his bike, and screamed some,obscenities.  I jumoed on and left while he fired a pistol behind me.
     
    I passed over a dozen State patrol cars as I roared away.
     
    Pop did a lot to change who I was, too.  See, he knew I was taking care of two of my younger siblings, my job had pushed me to part time, my brother J and sister S were staying with me to go to high school and college--  he knew I was in it because I needed money, bad.  We were going to lose our home, and they both had tuition coming up.
     
    So I helped devise a plan to knock off a drug shipment.  I helped find contacts to turn it to cash.
     
    I had no idea that we had gotten in the middle of a three year investigation that -  well, it doesn't matter.  I did it, and it is not even the worst thing I have ever done.
     
    I do _not_ tell you this because I am proud of it.  I am incredibly ashamed of a lot of things I have done to get by.
     
    I am not that person anymore.  If it wasn't for Pop deciding to spare me that one arrest, I couldn't have kept it hidden, and I could not have become the person I am today.
     
    Am I saying that Barker wasn't a raging Nazi at heart?  No.  What I _am_ saying is that the biggest differenve between me,and him right now is that I am still alive to give you the _whole_ story.  If I died yesterday and some,enterprising person got really lucky and found out about all this tomorrow, would the big reveal be "affable RPG grognard and all-purpose moron actually a drug runner!"?
     
    If it wasn't one in the moring and I wasnt positively _goofy_ with sleep deprivation, I probably wouldnt have bothered posting this at all.
     
    Good night.
     
     
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Hermit in Welcome to Hobbiton   
    In Nyonia, my campaign world, there is a race called Wangai.  They have some of the same stereotypes as Halflings/Hobbits but not all.  Because they are basically a peaceful folk they are very much tied to the goddess Peoni.  They also live next to another race (late-comers to the world) known as Koori (think of Vincent from Beauty & Beast TV show with Linda Hamilton).  When the Koori first appeared they thought of the Wangai food.
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    bluesguy reacted to LoneWolf in Hit locations OR Activation rolls   
    For Fantasy Hero we always use hit locations.  We also use the Impairing and Disabling rules which require the hit locations.  Since the hit location has higher stun multipliers it makes combat a little more dangerous which seems to fit a fantasy campaign better. 
     
    The special hit locations also give some good tactical options.  
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    bluesguy got a reaction from DShomshak in The Valdorian Age - Good, Bad or Meh?   
    I have used the Valdorian Age for a campaign.  The low magic and limited number of "monsters" created an interesting campaign.  The players spent most of their time dealing with political intrigue, running an inn, dealing with bandits, prejudice (people in VA really hate other races - one player was playing a dwarf), crimes (including a serial killer), romance, and growing threat from a necromancer.  Most of the source material is built around Elweir.  However there is enough material for the rest of the world for a GM to fill in the gaps.
     
    My old campaign can be found on the Obsidian Portal
     
    I also ran a very short lived Harn Campaign using Hero.  It was short lived because we moved before it really got going.  Harn has an insane amount of background material.
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Steve in The Valdorian Age - Good, Bad or Meh?   
    I have used the Valdorian Age for a campaign.  The low magic and limited number of "monsters" created an interesting campaign.  The players spent most of their time dealing with political intrigue, running an inn, dealing with bandits, prejudice (people in VA really hate other races - one player was playing a dwarf), crimes (including a serial killer), romance, and growing threat from a necromancer.  Most of the source material is built around Elweir.  However there is enough material for the rest of the world for a GM to fill in the gaps.
     
    My old campaign can be found on the Obsidian Portal
     
    I also ran a very short lived Harn Campaign using Hero.  It was short lived because we moved before it really got going.  Harn has an insane amount of background material.
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Lord Liaden in The Valdorian Age - Good, Bad or Meh?   
    I have used the Valdorian Age for a campaign.  The low magic and limited number of "monsters" created an interesting campaign.  The players spent most of their time dealing with political intrigue, running an inn, dealing with bandits, prejudice (people in VA really hate other races - one player was playing a dwarf), crimes (including a serial killer), romance, and growing threat from a necromancer.  Most of the source material is built around Elweir.  However there is enough material for the rest of the world for a GM to fill in the gaps.
     
    My old campaign can be found on the Obsidian Portal
     
    I also ran a very short lived Harn Campaign using Hero.  It was short lived because we moved before it really got going.  Harn has an insane amount of background material.
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    bluesguy got a reaction from assault in The Valdorian Age - Good, Bad or Meh?   
    I have used the Valdorian Age for a campaign.  The low magic and limited number of "monsters" created an interesting campaign.  The players spent most of their time dealing with political intrigue, running an inn, dealing with bandits, prejudice (people in VA really hate other races - one player was playing a dwarf), crimes (including a serial killer), romance, and growing threat from a necromancer.  Most of the source material is built around Elweir.  However there is enough material for the rest of the world for a GM to fill in the gaps.
     
    My old campaign can be found on the Obsidian Portal
     
    I also ran a very short lived Harn Campaign using Hero.  It was short lived because we moved before it really got going.  Harn has an insane amount of background material.
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Setherak in Hero Games 2022 Update   
    Please Tabletop Simulator...
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    bluesguy got a reaction from Amorkca in Hero Games 2022 Update   
    Please Tabletop Simulator...
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    bluesguy reacted to death tribble in I need a name for my supervillain mafia   
    Something innocuous
     
    The Business
    The Organisation
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    bluesguy reacted to Cygnia in I need a name for my supervillain mafia   
    Amway!
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    bluesguy reacted to HeroGM in YouTube videos   
    This gentleman has several videos for Hero Designer going over the basics of using Hero Designer. Fantasy characters, alien races, magic items, etc. All material is for 5th Edition Hero System.
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    bluesguy reacted to Scott Ruggels in Hero Games 2022 Update   
    Personally, I am thinking that the Chimera project is not a wise expenditure of funds, when what Champions, or any of the sub rules need is something "big", that has almost a campaign sized adventure, a spray of adventure seeds, and a stack of written up villains, and monsters, for the adventure. Duke Bushido had something like this with an adventure  in one of the threads here.  What needs to be done is to produce more adventures with villains, and equipment.  We can't assume that all the GMs are Home Brewers like they have in the past. Because it's in the past, it's not in the way GMs do things now.
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    bluesguy reacted to Guzalot in Hero Games 2022 Update   
    Are there any plans to make the HERO rules available for virtual table tops?
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    bluesguy reacted to Steve in Hero Games 2022 Update   
    I'm looking forward to Hero Games starting a Patreon account and plan to join it as a supporter, and I'm especially excited to hear about the Martial World supplement.
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