Karmakaze

Re: Ctrl+V http://www.simonscat.com/thebox.html

Re: The cranky thread You know the thing I was so glad at being at GenCon instead of dealing with. I'm still dealing with it, and... *headdesk*

Re: power usable once per hour "Only out of combat" means that you can't do it during combat, not that the charges are recovered the second combat ends. It's "at least an hour," not "exactly an hour," right? Is there a limit on the time spent between transformations?

Re: Fanfic/short stories/ etc. Hm. You know, I'm not sure when blogs are activated. You can see some others here: http://www.herogames.com/forums/blog.php

Re: Domino costume From the pilot of Lois and Clark: [Martha and Clark finally pick a good disguise for Clark] Martha Kent: Well, one thing's for sure. Nobody's going to be looking at your face. Clark Kent: Mom! Martha Kent: [laughing] Well they don't call them tights for nothing!

Re: Domino costume From the pilot of Lois and Clark: [Martha and Clark finally pick a good disguise for Clark] Martha Kent: Well, one thing's for sure. Nobody's going to be looking at your face. Clark Kent: Mom! Martha Kent: [laughing] Well they don't call them tights for nothing!

Re: Modular Heroic Design There was something similar done for superheroes in one of the 5th ed books.

Re: Only Humans Need Apply: Campaigns with Just Humans It occurs to me that if you're running a campaign that allows magic-users, aren't mages demi-human in their own way? The sort of magic used in fantasy settings doesn't map well to real-world history and can easily generate cultures nothing like what we've actually seen.

Re: Only Humans Need Apply: Campaigns with Just Humans I don't think there's any problem with human only games. Just because D&D was a Tolkein homage doesn't mean every setting needs to be.

Re: Percy Jackson and the Olympians That and some of the changes killed the funny. Part of the tone of the books is the humor of modern interpretations of mythological constructs. I'd particularly liked the bit where It's the sort of thing that would be fun to carry over into the game world, as in American Gods.

Re: Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Re: Percy Jackson and the Olympians The setting stuff starts out mostly the same as the books, but the stuff about monsters is never made explicit, and the plot diverges more and more as the movie goes on. I'd go with a Distinctive Feature as well. A wizard did it.

Re: Expanding the War Machine I'm surprised not to see Warbird already mentioned. (presumably someone with more flight-themed abilities).

Re: Only in Hero ID

Re: Only in Hero ID For most concepts, I'd say the need to not use powers in civilian ID is covered by Secret ID and doesn't justify buying OIHID in addition. I could see doing a character with a psychological makeup where they only have the confidence to perform while masked, and that might count.

Re: Really, Hero Games? Two Rulebooks? On the other hand, the cost of entry to, say, Dungeons and Dragons 4th edition is in the same neighborhood (the dm's guide, players guide and monster manual run $35 apiece, making the three core D&D rulebooks come out a hair over $100). You may want to consider starting with the basic rules - they're only $20.

Re: Any good character sheets for use on computer? That track END, STUN, BODY, etc. I instituted a "no electronic devices" rule in the game I'm running now. Although, really, all I'd actually have to do is unplug the wireless router for a few hours. It seems that the siren song of internet surfing is where the real problem comes in. I've had a few good sessions as a player where I was able to do sidebar roleplaying via IM rather than having to talk across someone else having a scene. I also type game notes so I can post recaps, which helps keep focus on the game. So it's not the laptops per se that are the issue, necessarily. I haven't used herocentral.net, but it's designed for letting people run their campaigns online. It might also work as a supplement to an in-person game.

Re: New Gamers

Re: Why doesn't 6e use hexes as a unit of measurement? It's not a matter of visualization, though. It's a matter of simplifying the number of units required by the rules. 5e and previously, you had three interchangeable units, hexes, inches, and meters (1 hex=1 inch=2 meters). Since meters were the only one of those that is also a real-world measurement, that's what stuck. It's not that visualizing in chunks of x meters is necessarily easier than visualizing in chunks of 2x meters, but that it's simpler to work in one unit than converting between three units. (On a much less important note, it also removes the age old "wait, did you mean scale inches?" question...)

Re: Teen superhumans but no adult ones

Re: With Great Power... I was in a campaign once where we almost did something of the sort (it ended for unrelated reasons.) My character had started to experiment on herself, and I'd discussed with the GM that she'd slowly go mad with power and once we finished the plotline, I'd come in with a new character. He offered a villain bonus of about 3/4 our total point level.

Re: Presence power framework Not all of these are Batman appropriate, but there are power builds that can use presence as a special effect. Take the age-old pulp trope of the young woman hiking up her skirt to summon a taxi - Is it a Summon (with gestures, naturally)? A Contact (nearest taxi driver)? A special effect of an Area Knowledge roll? You can also build some of the Presence Attack effects as powers, to get a more reliable or granular effect: Take the ability to create a distraction by being the center of attention - Presence Attack? maybe. Or maybe it's a change environment with a penalty to everyone's PER roll.

Re: What Do You Do with a Dog in a Dungeon? If you stand just outside the door, your dog will wander around the shop picking things up and may drop them in the doorway. Then you can take them without the shopkeeper attacking you as a thief... {I can't be the only nethack player here, can I?}

Re: Public ID or Secret ID

The Jobs Of Yesteryear: Obsolete Occupations Need an occupation for one of your pulp characters? Here are some ideas. I'd heard of all the occupations except for Lector (Cigar makers in Florida and New York City would sometimes pool their wages to pay a "lector" to read newspapers or political tracts aloud to them while they worked.) Also interesting: