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Sweep was introduced in the original Fantasy Hero, as one of the 3-point Weapon Maneuvers characters could purchase. In 4E Champions / HSR it became one of the optional combat maneuvers.

Regarding the flexibility of combat maneuvers in past editions: While acknowledging that it wasn't placed in the most helpful place in the 2nd edition rulebook, I do have to point out that even back then the Combat Maneuvers were intended to be more encompassing than their names might otherwise suggest: see "Special Effects" on page 47, the last 4 paragraphs. I won't present the full 4 paragraphs here, but sizeable excerpts which seem most relevant to the current discussion: (The last quoted example could be interpreted such that referees might allow use of the Martial Throw maneuver even to those who didn't purchase MA, but I'll just leave that as-is without further comment or speculation...) As a side note, 1E didn't include the "Special Effects" section, but the description of Energy Blast contains a reference to that missing section ("see section on Special Effects"), so it seems that it was at least intended to be included there. (And yes, intention and execution are two different things ) 3E relocated this material into the Combat chapter, in a subsection titled "Combat Special Effects" (p.74), and the equivalent in 4E Champions can be found on page 157.

Love that album, but had no idea until now that he made a German version!

The last edition (5.10, if I recall correctly) appears to still be generating a lot of errata. Unfortunately, as well, no one seems to have taken over on the validating and compiling of reported T5 errata since Don McKinney passed away.

I picked up PDFs of T5 when they had a Bundle of Holding deal a while ago. I can't say I've actually read through it all, but between reading some, doing a lot of browsing through, and then taking the ever-growing and not-uncommonly astounding errata reports on the CotI forums into consideration, I'm left with the impression that T5 is a bit of a hot mess. I suspect it's probably best as a source of ideas for tinkerers and house rulings.

Yup, Combat Skill Levels in 6E still allow them to be allocated to increase damage as well as OCV/DCV.

I know that this wasn't directed at me, but regardless: thank you! I've driven past this many times over the years and never knew what it was.

Saw Avatar: The Way of Water today. I enjoyed it, but felt that it should have pushed into new directions more than it did and not engage in as much apparent "we need to include this because the original had it too" as it did. Don't get me wrong, there are many other sequels which are far more guilty of that sort of thing than this one, but it was noticeable enough to me. Hopefully the subsequent films in the series really kick off into entirely new and different story dimensions.

1000x this!

Best wishes for him and his family - here's hoping for a swift and full recovery!

So does 3 Carlos = 1 giraffe? jinx!

Hope you feel better soon!

[emphasis mine] Oh yeah - it's just not Christmas to me without listening to Vince and the gang! On a different note, we finished watching 1899 last night, and now I can fully second Scott's earlier recommendation of this. It does take it's time to get started, but I think it's worth it.

If the caption was "Thanksgiving Food Shopping" then this would be my family to a T!

The smaller burgers need to have even smaller burgers and so on, so it's burgers all the way down!

(I really don't think my comments spoil anything at all, but I've hidden most of the below just to be on the safe side...) My wife and I have so far watched the first two episodes of this, and...

My condolences for your loss.

Based off that quote, it appears that you purchased the Champions genre book for 5th edition by Aaron Allston (your quote appears on page 63), which explains how to create a superhero game using the Hero System rules, but does not include those rules. You'll need to purchase the Hero System 5th edition Revised rulebook to get the actual game rules. I looked those up...they say 6th edition. How will that effect playing 5th edition? Will I need to convert something? I believe the 5th edition equivalent of Champions Powers is called the UNTIL Superpowers Database, and I think there are 2 volumes of that. Book of Templates is relatively new and I don't believe there was an equivalent for 5th edition (although I could be wrong).

The Watcher (Netflix): Started out promisingly, but my empathy/sympathy for the protagonist couple dropped sharply after the first few episodes, since by their own actions (and apparent lack of impulse control) they just made things worse for themselves. Although I read that this was planned as a one-and-done, it seems like a second season has been greenlit, but I'll give that a pass.

Yeah, politics can have that effect

Fingers crossed - hoping all turns out well, Pariah!

Definitely a cause for cheer! I'll say no more, as it would need to go into the "cranky" thread

Unless you have a group of players who are interested in the possibilities of being mutually unintelligible, establishing a common language is probably advisable. Even with a common tongue in place, though, a language chart can still be devised - not everyone in the world will necessarily speak the "common" language (or perhaps at least not to a high degree of fluency), and characters who invest in other languages can be given opportunities to use them in the form of NPCs who aren't proficient in "common", or who use a different language to try and maintain some privacy of communication within their group ("<hrz'ark fo karr>" "My colleague admires your devotion to the cause..." "Psst... actually, he said he thinks you are a weak-willed fool!"), etc.

Winnie the Pooh was banned? Oh bother! Even a bear of no brain knows that's just ridiculous! More like hairless apes of no brains... mutter... mutter...

Historically speaking, not just math errors, but typos, layout errors - the works. They certainly aren't unique in that regard, and I'm not knocking 'em (we're all just human), but both from using them back in the day and from re-reading the older editions (1st ed. through 3rd ed.) a few years ago it's apparent that the crew hadn't spent enough points on PS: Proofreading