Ben Seeman
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Originally posted by Just A Guy Name
One of General Winter's powers is Telekinesis: (Ice/Snow).
Exactly.
As I was writing Firewing's story I needed something dramatic to end the fight besides Firewing just unloading with his AoE fireball. Since General Winter can a) create ice and snow and,
TK ice and snow, it made sense to me that he could create ice from the water below (or even without the water at all, but icicles flying out of the water just seemed too cool to not write) and then hurl it at Firewing. His TK could surely splinter chunks of ice into any shape he wanted, including razor sharp shards.Of all of the Showdowns that I have written, this one was the toughest, not because of lack of imagination or "cool things to write about", but because I only had 525 words to do it in. Give me unlimited words and that fight would STILL be going on. Good match up.
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Krikakik: "I think we should let them board us and then take them out in hand-to-hand combat."
Sampson: "Okay, we're going to do that."
Jeddah: "Why?"
Sampson: "Cuz the Fex said so."
Cayley: "Okay, calm down. Take a deep breath and think about what you just said."
Krikakik, a diplomat, is notorious for coming up with completely outrageous and ridiculous courses of action. No one ever listens to him... well, usually.
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Originally posted by tengu
How long will the playtest period be, and how long will the manuscript be available?
Read Steve's first post again.
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General Choas
Brigadier Bomber
Brigadier Boxer
The Red, White and Blue Hope
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No problem. Good stuff, Storn.
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The minis are now available for download in the Free Stuff section.
Dynamo you can remove them from your server now to clear up drive space.
If you want to add to the current PDF just send it my way and I'll gladly post it. -
A change in policy has made it possible for us to start selling our books one month after they are first available to retailers. So, you can now buy The Ultimate Vehicle , Terran Empire and Millennium City from us directly.
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Re: Package Deals
Originally posted by MarkusDarkPlease excuse this newbie question but it is something that has always had my brain go a lil' wonky and I will fully admit I have not delved into the rulebook for the answer.
I have a package deal that costs 5 points
The package deal gives me 50 points of skills, etc. and 30 points of disadvantages (don't worry if the points don't equal the package deal, it is just numbers for help).
The character guidelines is 200 + 100 points of Disads
I build my character with 195 points + 100 points of Disads
Do I then add the package deal for 5 points and everything is just fine?
It costs me only 5 points but I get 50 points worth of stuff, putting me over the 200 limit and my disads go up to 130.
In your example, the cost of the package deal would actually be 20 points (powers/skills/etc - disads). You would have 50 less points to spend (since you bought what was in the package deal) and would have to come up with 30 points less of disads.
In your case, you would need another 150 of powers, etc. and another 70 of disads. The package deal does not give you any point discounts, simply "things that you MUST buy".
Unless I'm missing something... which could definitely be the case
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From our Tuesday night Star Hero game, one player was trying to haggle down the price of new clothing. The other player, getting tired of the process, said...
"I have High Society, so pay the full price."
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Actually...
I use the names of the people who send me SPAM. Hopefully no one in my games will recognize them.
I can see it now...
ME (as NPC): Hello, my name is Brett Goodall.
PLAYER: Didn't you send me a Viagra ad yesterday? STOP!
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The title pretty much says it all. If you haven't had a chance to pick up this rockin' book yet, you can now get it from us.
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The title pretty much says it all. If you haven't had a chance to pick up this rockin' book yet, you can now get it from us.
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The "Steve Long needs to get a life..." thread was deleted because of improper language. Please keep it clean, folks.
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Originally posted by Storn
Oh... I wasn't offended at all. I just want a chance to show my color too.
Ben, I'll take you up on that. Leave Thorn there.... I think that was colored just fine... I can get you all of Eurostar in color... that sound good?
Bring it on, Storn. The more the merrier.
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Storn,
If you want to send in colored versions of your art to replace any that Nate has done, please do so.
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Awesome page.
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Not a problem. I'm glad that this thing is finally taken care of.
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Originally posted by Steve Long
It's in the errata, or will be shortly.
I have just posted it.
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Tekno
Player: Ben Seeman
10" RUN82" SWIM04" LEAP1Characteristics Cost: 129Val Char Cost 15 STR 5 20 DEX 30 18 CON 16 13 BODY 6 17 INT 7 12 EGO 4 15 PRE 5 20 COM 5 30 PD 3 30 ED 3 5 SPD 20 9 REC 4 36 END 0 42 STUN 12
Powers Cost: 138Cost Power END 30 Mesh Suit: Armor (12 PD/12 ED), Hardened (+1/4) (45 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) (added to Primary Value) 12 Light Suit Battery: Endurance Reserve (60 END, 12 REC) (18 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) 40 Light Suit Multipower: Multipower, 60-point reserve, all slots: (60 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) 4u 1) Light Blast: EB 12d6 (vs. ED) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve) 6 4u 2) Hyper Light Beam: EB 6d6 (vs. ED), No Normal Defense (ED Force Field) (Standard; +1) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve) 6 3u 3) Hard Light Beam: RKA 3d6 -1 (vs. ED), Penetrating (+1/2) (60 Active Points); Beam (-1/4) (uses END Reserve) 6 4u 4) Strobe Light: Drain 4d6: DEX, Ranged (+1/2) (60 Active Points) (uses END Reserve) 6 21 Flight Lights: Flight 16" (32 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) (uses END Reserve) 3 15 Light Field: Force Field (12 PD/11 ED) (23 Active Points); OIF (-1/2) (uses END Reserve) (added to Primary Value) 2 Light Shades, all slots: OAF (-1) 3 1) Dark Lense: Flash Defense (7 points) (Sight Group) (7 Active Points) 2 2) IR Lense: Infrared Perception (5 Active Points)
Martial Arts Cost: 11Cost Martial Arts Maneuver Glow Stick Arts 1 1) Weapon Element: Glow Sticks 3 2) Legsweep: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, -1 DCV, Weapon +1 DC Strike, Target Falls 4 3) Martial Disarm: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, +1 DCV, Disarm; +10 STR to Disarm roll 3 4) Takedown: 1/2 Phase, +1 OCV, +1 DCV, Weapon Strike; Target Falls
Skills Cost: 57Cost Skill 5 Breakfall 14- 7 Electronics 14- 5 Disguise 13- 7 Inventor 14- 3 Acting 12- 5 PS: Lighting Technician (INT-based) 14- 4 AK: Millennium City 13- 3 SS: Optics (INT-based) 12- 3 SS: Electrical Engineering (INT-based) 12- 15 +5 with Light Suit Multipower
Perks Cost: 12Cost Perk 7 Contact (Cuddy Brinkston, bartender at Skids Night Club) (Contact has significant Contacts of his own, Contact limited by identity (Brian Sinclair only), Very Good relationship with Contact) 14- 5 Money: Well Off
Talents Cost: 12Cost Talent 4 Double Jointed 8 Lightning Reflexes: +5 DEX to act first with All Actions Total Character Cost: 359
Val Disadvantages 10 Social Limitation: Secret ID (Occasionally; Major) 20 Psychological Limitation: Code vs. Killing (Common; Total) 15 Psychological Limitation: Over Confident (Common; Strong) 15 Psychological Limitation: Paranoid (Common; Strong) 10 Rivalry: Professional and Romantic (Lyna Devereux; Rival is As Powerful; Seek to Outdo, Embarrass, or Humiliate Rival; Rival Aware of Rivalry) 20 Hunted: VIPER 8- (Mo Pow; Harshly Punish; Extensive Non-Combat Influence) 20 Dependent NPC: Jenna Sinclair 11- (Normal; Unaware of character's adventuring career/Secret ID) 15 Enraged: Jenna is in Danger (Uncommon), go 11-, recover 11- 20 Vulnerability: 2x STUN Fire or Heat Based Attacks (Common) 5 Unluck: 1d6 Disadvantage Points: 150
Base Points: 200
Experience Required: 9
Total Experience Available: 9
Experience Unspent: 0
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This is me attesting.
They were cool.
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Originally posted by Hermit
Well, most folks you can only beat black and blue, but Chameleons are more versetile, you can beat them mauve, vermillion, badge... there's just so many options.
Well, yeah, but what does that have to do with whether or not Alibear is in the book or not? And what does the Caped one have to do with it? And why is he being left to blame for something that is not his fault?
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Originally posted by Alibear
Hey Keith,
I'm supposed to be in there somewhere, could you look me up and see if I am or do I need to go round and pummel the Caped Chameleon some.
Unleash the Tartan terror. Mwuhahaha!!!!
Why would you need to pummel the Caped Chameleon? He had absolutely nothing to do with the production of that book except for playtesting.
TK ice and snow, it made sense to me that he could create ice from the water below (or even without the water at all, but icicles flying out of the water just seemed too cool to not write) and then hurl it at Firewing. His TK could surely splinter chunks of ice into any shape he wanted, including razor sharp shards.
If you want to add to the current PDF just send it my way and I'll gladly post it.
I'm sorry if I missed it, but I can't find Hero System 5th edition...
in HERO System Discussion
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It's not necessarily a matter of small print runs...
It's been a while since our last reprint of FREd so availability is limited at this point to waht the distributors have in their warehouses and what the retailers have on the shelves.
The Resource Kit is out of print and there is no plan for a reprint due to the extremely pricey cost per unit.