Hyper-Man

Well, after 2 rounds of brain radiation treatments my hair has thinned out considerably, my sense of taste/smell has been reduced and my eyesight and hearing have been affected asymmetrically (music always sounds partly out of tune now).  Thankfully my 10 finger typing is getting closer to being back to normal.  I still can't drive though and with my cancer drug regimen I don't see returning to work anytime soon.  Luckily I had upped my short term disability to the max 26 weeks.  Coincidentally the end of which happens to be when the lease is up on my apartment meaning I will soon be moving back with Mom.  And that means if/when I return to my job it will be working remotely since her home is nearly 40 miles away.  Cancer sucks.
 

HM

I'm glad the treatments are working!
 
So, are you shooting for mentalist, or hoping a hyper-glandular response makes you into a brick, or what?

HM, I'm sorry to hear of the difficulties, both in terms of physical side effects as well as work/apartment related.  I hope the treatments are successful and that you're kicking cancer's a**.  (The disease, BTW, not the Hero Games board poster.)  And I hope the aforementioned difficulties are only temporary, and you're back to normal in no time.  (For a given level of "normal," that is -- this is the NGD after all.)
 
 
Dude, mentalists are evil.  I thought with a handle like "Hyper-Man" he'd go for speedster.  IIRC he wrote up a pretty kick-butt version of the Flash for 400 points.  And that way, his high-speed healing would keep future tumors from being able to form. 

Wasn't Hyper-Man a reality changer?

Sorry to learn that. Best of luck Hyper-Man

I didn't realize until you asked and I did a Google search that Hyper-Man was an actual DC comics character.  Apparently, he's basically a Superman analogue from another planet - same origin (infant sent from a dying planet to an Earth-like world with a yellow sun), same basic powers. 
 
I believe HM used Freakazoid! as his avatar for a while -- I think that character might have been a reality changer.  I know he was a sanity changer. 

Best Wishes, Hyper-man!

Sorry things suck, HM, but good to hear from you!

Aye.  Sucked when SCUBA Heroine was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, too.  We're still standing - glad to hear you are too.  

Not a great sign since every Trek series after TOS has needed two seasons to grow the beard.

It's great to hear from you again. Stay strong-- we're all pulling for you!

It is a blessing that you are still with us.

Wow. As a galactic defender, Vartox seems like a bit of an underachiever. Please do not take inspiration from the man who keeps losing the planet Valeron, Hyper-Man.  You raise the tone of the joint. 

Thanks for the kind words of encouragement everyone. Today is the first chance I have had to be in front of a full size keyboard in over a week and it feels good!
 
I had a reoccurance of Melanoma cancer... this time in my brain. Probably a lucky break since the symptoms presented like a stroke. They've cut out the big/easy piece and have just done a hires/3d MRI of my brain stem so they can target with radiation next week. The next big hurdle is the results a PET scan of eveything else in a couple of weeks.
 
I am much better than just few days ago. The fine motor dexterity and strength of my right hand is the biggest issue right now. Typing this was good exercise.
 
I know I am not a frequent contributor to this part of the forum but you guys always put a smile on my face.
 
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Be sure to have yourselves checked for skin cancer!!!
 

HM
 

Surely brain radiation will result in superpowers.  Could there be a more obvious origin story?

Cancer sucks, treatment for Cancer sucks, being over it is bliss. All my wishes for no. 3!

Welcome back. Welcome home.

I keep reading your handle as 1-up-us as in "one-up-us", which may be putting unreasonable pressure on you to perform but sounds way cooler in my head than lupus. In any case, welcome to the HERO-hood.

Hi.  Remember me?  I used to be very active on these boards some years ago.  I remember some of you.  Hi.  I've been away a long time, and haven't been Heroing or RPGing at all.  I don't have the group I used to have to play with.  Then t'other day, the thought occurred to me to look up something I wrote on these boards way back when.  And thoughts have been going through my head of my old fantasy campaign world.  I don't know if I'll resume my former activity level here, but maybe I'll at least stop in to keep up-to-date.  I have the 5th edition (FREd), but not the 6th, and many of the 5th edition books (and some earlier ones, too - 4th, 3rd).

 

If you were around when I last e-roamed these e-halls, you may remember my avatar.  I probably should change it, since it's source is no longer relevant.  But I'll keep it for now in case it jogs your memory.

 

How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)?

My parents came up with it, actually.

 

What was the first tabletop RPG you Played?  

Red Box DnD, like everyone else, followed quickly by 1st ed. AD&D.  It was the only game in town.

 

What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed?  

Module B1 - "In Search of the Unknown"  A rather generic title - couldn't any module be described the same way?  Was there ever a module called "The Place that We Already Know Everything About"?

 

What are you currently Playing/GMing?  

Not currently playing/GMing any RPGs, but if I could, I'd love to start GMing Fantasy Hero again, or playing Hero in nearly any genre.  I've been mostly playing board games recently, which I also greatly enjoy.

 

When did you start to play Hero?  

I guess it would have been 3rd ed. Champions in the early '80s.  Never went back to that previous system, except for a few isolated times when that's what they were playing, and it was deendee or nothing.

What a FUBAR!

Well, for anyone who grew up in the 70s (as Gygax and crew did), such a mixing of cultures had become a fixture of popular entertainment, and would have been thought of as pretty cool, not "odd":
 

I own pretty much everything that has been published by Hero Games over the past 36 years.

Once again from my real account:
 
@BDH: Sounds like a grand idea. I'd volunteer to host, but I recently moved out to Conifer. Love it out here, but might be too far to drive for most.
 
@Zane: if you know people in the area who play, maybe put me in touch with them?

I've just made some minor changes (I updated the html output in the Downloads section, added some flavor text to his Complications at the suggestion of forum member Durzan Malakim and added Homemade Weapons to his WF for pencils).  I have some ideas for Chapter 2 (Navy SEALS, Continental as an Organizational Contact, additional WF to cover Navy SEALS training) I am just not sure if it's worth making a new sheet or just a list of changes.  I'm also not sure if I have the energy to create all the new weapons he used in the same detail that I did for the first movie.
 
HM

I may as well wish for CC/FHC-compatible new editions of ICE's Shadow World, Cyberspace, and the old Campaign Classics titles. And more Campaign Classics! That'd be nice.
 
And then there's CC/FHC-compatible Horror Hero, Cyber Hero, and Western Hero. How about Super Agents? I'd like that as well.
 
Let's just say, go back through the 3e and 4e library and publish new editions of the stuff that never got a new edition, and keep it about the same size as the old one (don't supah-size it 5e/6e style).