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  1. 5th edition FAQ still available?

    in HERO System Discussion

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    Hi all,

    I'm an old member of these boards, and I haven't been around for a while. My group is picking up the Champions books again, but we are not upgrading to 6th ed. So, I'm wondering if the old 5th ed FAQ is around somewhere, so I can look something up. Can anyone provide a link? I've look in the Hero Resources document. Thanks,

     

    Constantine

  2. Best Graphic Novels to Inspire a Campaign?

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    Re: Best Graphic Novels to Inspire a Campaign?

     

    OK, I like the darker stuff, so if you ever wanna take a walk on the dark side...

     

    Sleeper - omfg I loved this series, at least the first season. Great book about an undercover operative who gets abandoned in the field.

     

    Wanted - when the villians finally decided they'd had enough of the heroes, and ganged up long enough to rule the world....

     

    Authority - the book has become crap, but the first few books I thought were great. Get the first collection.

     

    Oh, and I second the nominations of Kingdom Come, Rising Stars, and Punisher! :thumbup:

  4. AOE Hand Attack

    in HERO System Discussion

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    I don't have a book in front of me, and I was just reading the Indirect attack and blocking question posed to Steve, and I had a thought. Can Area of Effect Hand Attack be blocked if you are not adjacent to the attacking character, but are in the area of effect? And, if it is possible, would said block spoil the entire attack, or would just the blocker be unaffected?

  5. WWYCD: Where brave men (and women) are needed

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    Re: WWYCD: Where brave men (and women) are needed

     

    Battery - Would stay. He's been through something like this before, and spent years fighting a similar war. He'll fight this one, too, and hope something comes up/happens later that he can get home.

     

    Damnation - Depends on what the boss says, and the rest of the team wants to to. We've already dealt with Destroyer in our world, and if they wanna stay here and deal with this one too, so be it. After all, no one escapes Damnation....

     

    Lightshow - She's too young and too new to the hero game to do something like this. She leaves.

  6. Secret IDs: In or Out?

    in Champions

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    Re: Secret IDs: In or Out? (Off Topic)

     

    You should take The Joker off your list.

     

    The Joker is obsessed with Batman. He is NOT interested in Bruce Wayne or anything having to do with him. He has, in fact, killed people before FOR trying to take Batman's mask OFF.

     

    It really depends on the psychology of the psychopath. And the problem is that many supervillains are psychopathic. The problem is, the psychopath focuses on the hero and his iconic persona rather than the person under it. If the psychopath tries to find out who the hero REALLY is, then he's not a psychopath anymore, really.

     

    How can you take Joker off the list? Look what happened to Barbara Gordon in the Killing Joke, that was only kind of associated with Batman, as far as anyone knew. Then there is what happened to Robin...

  8. Sleeper

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: Sleeper

     

    Yes. I loved this comic. I'm sad its over. I think I started a thread about it on the NGD a while back. The setting would make for an excellent higher powered Dark Champions game. I adopting elements of the story into my Aberrant Hero game. I especially liked.

    On another note, any ideas on how to build the main characters power?

  9. Anita Blake Vampire hunter

    in Dark Champions

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    Re: Anita Blake Vampire hunter

     

    I heard it argued years ago this had happened with the first triumvirate. LKH had written herself into a corner with no where to go. Looking at wikipedia, I see she's now in a second triumvirate, has gained a new werebeast lover(s?), and otherwise is going in circles plot-wise. Power-wise she's just going up and up....

     

    Sounds a little like Dragonball.... :P

     

    Its not THAT bad... ;)

     

    Anyway, I really loved the first couple of books, but the series has been going downhill ever since Obsidian Butterfly. Now, I don't mind a little sex in my writing, but when sex substitutes for plot, I'm unhappy. I still buy the books, mostly because I just want to see where she is taking the character, but I keep hoping that we'll get back to the mystery stories eventually. I've even written her and her fan club with such a request (not that I expect anything to come of it).

    And yes, the Harry Dresden books are very good. I have a hard time not reading the whole thing in one sitting. I just started reading the series and I'm through book 5. Warning, very addictive, but fun!

  11. CHAR: Wonder Woman

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    Re: CHAR: Wonder Woman

     

    I don't read a lot of WW, but I happened to read the OMAC project and noticed two things I thought I'd comment on:

    She seems to have some sort of ability to control birds. Lots of birds at once. She distracts Superman with a flock of birds.

    And, the razor tiara needs to be beefier. She cuts Superman with it, and does enough damage that he stops and puts his hands to his throat where he was hit. So, it needs to be able to hurt Superman. Maybe you are calling the tiara magical, so it bypasses some of his defenses....

  13. Beacon

    in HERO System Discussion

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    Re: Beacon

     

    I almost always achieve this effect with a combination of Cosmetic Transform (sometimes with IPE, effects are invisible), and Detect. It's how I write up Spiderman's tracking bugs, that chemical spray that makes you glow in UV light and Tag body spray.

     

    I wouldn't mind using some kind of PER Modifier UAA. I'm not too sure how to cost it though. Would you buy it with the same cost as a PER Bonus then apply the UAA and other applicible Advantages (such as Ranged)? Seems like it would be really cheap, and maybe too cheap, for something that only affects a single sense. I wouldn't want to charge more though, in case you wanted an effect that did affect all senses.

     

    Careful, DR. We almost kind of agreed on something there.... :D

     

    Merry Christmas!

  19. Teleport catcher

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    Re: Teleport catcher

     

    All movement can be used to cause extra damage except teleport' date=' so I think that is the balance[/quote']

     

    They used to have those nasty rules about materializing inside someone, either via desolid or teleport. Don't know if they still do....

  20. Teleport catcher

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    Re: Teleport catcher

     

    ...or :sneaky: you could use the teleporter's own power to put them in a trap!

     

    Daeudi_451 has already suggested mind control, but what about a simple Images power - basically you are not trying to force them to TP into the trap (that may well take a lot of power) you are fooling them into thinking they are TPing whether they want to go, but are IN FACT mistaken. You could do it with mental illusions, but that does seem like a sledgehammer approach: I like images, which has the advantage of already being area effect - just build it to effect the telport targetting sense!

     

    I like this thought, but (you knew it was coming) would this stop someone from teleporting to a location paid for with the teleport power, since they don't have to "see" either of these areas. Maybe mental illusions would have to be used here along with a fixed location, UAA! Would you need UAA? If you had a fixed location in your teleport, I might let you substitute it for someone elses with mental illusions...

  21. Trigger

    in HERO System 6th Edition Rules Questions

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    Hi Steve,

    I don't know if you've been following our discussion in the Teleport Catcher thread, but its brought up some interesting points, and I thought I'd bring a few of them to you. Does the event specified in the trigger advantage need to be perceived by the person with the triggered power, or is the trigger advantage itself able to perceive its conditions, or something else I haven't thought of? Also, can a triggered power stop an instantanous power from happening, ie can you set on a supress of teleportation a trigger of "when someone is about to teleport" or even, "when someone has activated the teleport power" and have it stop said teleport?

  23. Teleport catcher

    in HERO System Discussion

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    Re: Teleport catcher

     

    Nah, we trace back their IP connection, hunt them down and wall them up in a cellar somewhere for having the temerity to horn in on our private club.

     

    Or possibly teleport them into space....

     

    LOL. But I must spread more rep before giving it to you again... :(

  24. Teleport catcher

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    Re: Teleport catcher

     

    The build I described has the desired effect without any significant questionable rules issues; other builds involving Adjustment Powers' date=' maneuvers, Str, etc. all seem to require a lot of interpretation on the GM's part. Remember that it is effect that should determine the build, not SFX; Triggers are essentially instantaneous, so I think the question of whether the target appears for an instant at the destination or is, "grabbed out of the ether," is a rather minor SFX issue.[/quote']

     

    It may be a matter of symantics, but your build, while perhaps more by the book, doesn't do what the orignal poster wants the power to do. Perhaps what the poster actually wants is impossible to do in the system, so we go to the next best thing. Your build teleports someone who just teleported to you, provided they landed in the AOE. Its a good build, but just not really what they wanted.

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