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9 hours ago, Elrikk said:
The way I read it though, if it was in AOE it would automatically work every every segment correct?
Not exactly.
It will work each time someone enters the Area of Effect. If someone enters and sticks around, they also take damage every time the attacker has a phase.
So if I am SPD 4 and cast Wall of Fire at Segment 1 (saved a phase from last turn) and a ninja enters the fiery wall on segment 1, and another ninja enters on segment 2, and so on, all Turn, my Area of Effect may POTENTIALLY do damage every segment. But if I cast it on Captain Oblivious and he just stands there for a turn, he only takes damage on Segment 1 (when cast) and again on segments 3, 6, 9 and 12 (my phases with a SPD of 4.)
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary says Captain Oblivious is really no-selling that Wall of Fire
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As far as "realism" goes, people with more experience of violence than I have, have praised Hero mechanics for simulating the way a mortally wounded person can keep on acting and moving, right up to point they fall over dead.
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary says in other words, it's not just "cinematic" reality...
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On 10/24/2019 at 10:24 AM, Tywyll said:
One of my players is buying a Wolf as a follower and wants to eventually bulk it up. He asked me what the NCM was for the wolf and I was like...um...
Any thoughts on how to handle it?
Yes.
Doubling the cost of Characteristics past some arbitrary limit is and always has been a bad idea. Abandon it. Not just for wolves, but for all characters.
Set whatever absolute limits you like for wolves, Ogres, Pixies, and Humans. If you don't want a Human with a STR of 30, a player shouldn't be able to get that just for spending 10 extra points. Conversely if you feel the character's background justifies STR 23, there's no reason to charge 3 extra points for that. If it doesn't break the game at a cost of16, it won't break at a cost of 13.
Lucius Alexander
If a palindromedary will break your game, it will break your game no matter what point value you put on it....
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4 hours ago, Tywyll said:
Doesn't uncontrolled require you spend a bunch of end up front to keep it running? I'd rather use lingering (I think) to avoid that.
Also, what are the mechanics of a character entering the hex? Does the creating player roll an attack? Do we use common sense and just say the character gets hit?
I'm not sure what you mean by "use lingering."
And the hex of fire does damage to anyone on entering, and each time the caster's phase comes around.
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary suggests reading the rulebook and asks what rulebook you have?
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3 hours ago, Tywyll said:
Now,how do I do a hex that is on fire and hurts people who enter it?
Wall of Fire: (Total: 45 Active Cost, 7 Real Cost) Blast 4d6, Area Of Effect (1m Radius; +1/4), Constant (+1/2), Uncontrolled (+1/2) (45 Active Points); Costs END To Maintain (Half END Cost; -1/4), Incantations (-1/4), Gestures (-1/4), Extra Time (Full Phase, Only to Activate, -1/4), Nonpersistent (-1/4) (Real Cost: 7)
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary says that's not hard.
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Final Highlight:
Five miles meandering with a mazy motionThrough wood and dale the sacred river ran,Then reached the caverns measureless to man,And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;Despite the words of the poet, the Sunless Sea is not truly lifeless, although it is not exactly teeming with a diversity of life forms. All sea life native here has transparent soft tissues, and those who shone a lantern beam into the water and spied what seemed mere skeletal fish swimming, assumed the Sea to be home to undead animated by some foul necromancy. Contrary to that superstition this is the Sunless Sea into which Alph the Sacred River runs, and water from here is Holy Water, useful to disrupt necromantic energies and damage undead.
Mythic Monster:
A damsel with a dulcimerIn a vision once I saw:It was an Abyssinian maidAnd on her dulcimer she played,Singing of Mount Abora.Could I revive within meHer symphony and song,To such a deep delight ’twould win me,That with music loud and long,I would build that dome in air,That sunny dome! those caves of ice!And all who heard should see them there,And all should cry, Beware! Beware!The final defense of the Ancestral Voices is called The Muse, or The Damsel with a Dulimer. Appearing as a lovely maiden the Muse will so enrapture an adventurer that they offer no resistance when led away to be fed on honeydew and milk, and installed as the latest Prophet of the Ancestral Voices.
The poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Additional text by
Lucius Alexander
Assisted by a palindromedary
- Lawnmower Boy, Cancer and Old Man
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6 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:
A: There is only one thing Google doesn't know about me, and it would be difficult were it to be discovered.
Q: So how, or better yet, why, have you managed to keep your wife from learning about the existence of Google?
A: Neither have they
Lucius Alexander
Did the palindromedary eat my tagline?
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On 10/14/2019 at 6:56 PM, Michael Hopcroft said:
Q: And how do you play Mad Libs again?
A: That's the most obscure crossword puzzle I've ever seen in my life. I wonder if it's even meant to be solved!
4 hours ago, Asperion said:Q: What is the meaning of this? Is there anyone who can speak Sumarian?
A: Your supply will be unlimited*
*until they run out.
Q: I love this crossword puzzle, can I get more like it?
A: That depends. How well do you speak Sumerian?
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary doesn't think we're supposed to be this coherent....
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4 minutes ago, Pariah said:
Kind of like Zathras?
Not much. More like "Bob" or "Otto."
Or even
Lucius (or) Alexander
But not like a palindromedary
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11 hours ago, Christougher said:
No no no, he must be a ship captain. Groj Sale, remember?
I can have both. There can be more than one Orc named Groj. Groj can be a very old traditional and still popular name among Orcs.
Lucius Alexander
Palindromedaries prefer names like Bob and Otto.
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12 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said:
That’s a fair point. Then I would just ignore the RAW on assigning penalties on active points with Power Skill.
I am willing to ignore RAW when I have to. In this case, I can get what I want within Rules as Written so I don't have to ignore them.
Lucius Alexander
I am willing to use a palindromedary outside a tagline, but I usually have no need to.
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5 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said:
I would think that if you bought Activation roll, you wouldn’t need Power skill roll. As that would be redundant.
Having a Power Skill is useful for things like cantrips (minor manifestations or "stunts" that don't justify being bought as outright Powers.)
Lucius Alexander
Power Skill: Palindromedary Rider
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2 minutes ago, Christopher R Taylor said:
You can isolate the Requires Skill Roll from the active cost, its just worth less of a limitation then.
In FIFTH edition.
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary points out that I have effectively done that in Sixth by putting the Limitation on the Mana pool - it's less of a limitation, and the Active Points of the spell are irrelevant (unless they get so massive the Active Points of END required goes up significantly)
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21 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said:
Lucius I believe in 6th to do what you want, you just pick the appropriate Act level and then all spells will turn on at that skill roll.
Sure if I wanted to I could buy the Power Skill up to 12 and buy all the spells with an Activation roll of 12.
Then I spend 2 XP to raise the Power Skill and have to recalculate all my spells with an Activation roll of 13.
Lucius Alexander
the palindromedary says Lucius would rather just buy up the Power Skill and all the spells improve automatically
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9 hours ago, Tywyll said:
That sounds good. Would there be penalties to that attack since the target is behind you?
That's up to whoever is running the game, but I wouldn't think so. This is a power specifically designed to work on someone behind you
Lucius Alexander
And thus useless to a palindromedary
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Tail: (Total: 5 Active Cost, 5 Real Cost) Trigger (Activating the Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action, Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action to reset; Trigger condition: Someone behind you; +1/2) (5 Active Points) applied to STR (Real Cost: 5)
Note, the actual cost depends on what your STR is.
Lucius Alexander
No one is behind the palindromedary. Ever.
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I like the idea of requiring a Skill Roll for magic.
I HATE the way in 6th edition there is a mandatory penalty to the roll based on Active Points. First, because it can mean a spellcaster has a different activation roll for every spell, and I think it's simpler to have one roll for most or all spells; and second, because that penalty can so easily become crippling, leading to a spellcaster with a really neat interesting spell that in practice will never ever work because it takes a 5 or less roll.
My solution is to create a "Mana Pool" END Reserve and put the Required Roll on the END in the reserve, not the spell itself. To cast a spell you still need to make the roll, but the roll penalty is based on the Active Cost of the END, which is negligable.
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary goes for a swim in a mana pool
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1 hour ago, death tribble said:
I've updated post 2 withe the rosters wit the exception of Lucius where I am querying a couple of the selections.
the highlight needs expansion
And a decree is not an Architect goal nor is a pleasure dome.
I know that you are working from the poem but it needs tweeking.
If you say that the goal of the architect was to create a pleasure dome but Khan changed his mind and thus alterations were made that would be valid.
Expanding on the Highlight:"But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slantedDown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e’er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover!And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,A mighty fountain momently was forced:"Let me know if that's not enough expansion.As for the architects goal: Yes, Kubla Khan changed his mind. What started as a pleasure dome became a shrine to the Ancestral Voices.Now for more picks:another highlight:"So twice five miles of fertile groundWith walls and towers were girdled round;"The first obstacle facing adventurers is the walls and towers, or more precisely, the devotees of the Ancestral Voices who garrison and patrol them. Religious pilgrims are also found in this section, but they generally don't fight - they will, however, loudly alert the guards if they see an adventurer trying to sneak into the forbidden grounds.
A third highlight:
"And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;"Incense harvested here is widely held to have occult properties. Obviously, the guardians of the place take a dim view of those who attempt to harvest their own rather than paying the rather extremely high price for official, approved incense.And a fourth highlight:"It was a miracle of rare device,A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"Xanadu's cave of ice are a unique wonder. Legend says there is a safe path through them to the deep romantic chasm which slants down a green hill athwart a cedarn cover but many adventurers have ended in the icy, crushing grip of the caverns' Ice Golems. Other legends say that there are other rare devices of forgotten technology or obscure thaumaturgy concealed in the caves of ice.I believe I have one more highlight and a mythic monster coming, but I am not able to pick them yet.Lucius AlexanderIt was a miracle overlooked for being so commonplace, a palindromedary in a tagline -
7 hours ago, death tribble said:
If you had posted every day 9 choices. But Ill post an update over the weekend which we are not selecting but catch up choices are available.
By my count I have made six choices.
Remaining to choose are four highlights and a mythic monster.
I can make 3 choices over the weekend.
Lucius Alexander
In a tagline did Lucius Alexander a palindromedary decree
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A Highlight:
A savage place! As holy and enchaunted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
And a reason to go there:
By woman wailing for her demon lover!
Women go in hope of winning a demon lover. Men go in hopes of learning the diabolical secrets of demonic seduction.
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary asks how far behind we are now?
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On 9/22/2019 at 9:58 AM, death tribble said:
Here's what you'll need in your labyrinth.Location, Location, Location. Where is the labyrinth?
In Xanadu Where Alph the sacred river ran.
Who is in charge?
Ancestral voices prophesying war!
If anybody runs the place, it's the Voices - "Ancestral Voices" insist many who have visited. Kublai Khan is of course long gone, but is often assumed to have joined the Ancestral Voices. It is not known if the tendency of those who hear, to obey, is a matter of intimidation or some enchantment at work.
Goals of the architect. Simply: why was the place built in the first place?
A stately pleasure dome decree.
Who Built it. This isn't the patron or the project manager; those folks don't do the actual excavation or construction. Needed here is the identity of the person who supervised the construction on the site,
Kublai Khan oversaw it personally
and the nature of the labor that went into the construction. That latter could be legions of nameless human (or not human) slaves, hordes of fanatically devoted followers,
Why not both?
Lucius Alexander
And a compliant palindromedary
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Attacking 'from behind'
in HERO System Discussion
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When a player moves their character around to get behind another character, either the player of that second character, or the Game Operations Director if it's an NPC, should reach out their dominant hand, grasp the figure between thumb and forefinger, rotate the figure until it faces the one who just moved, and say "Ok, he turns to face you."
Problem solved.
Lucius Alexander
The palindromedary has no behind to get