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Re: Where is Hero? Gaaaaah, and I would be there right now if I hadn't been squarely hit by that money suck ray from outer space.

Re: the Superdie "Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter." Kidding aside, I love the idea of this. I bought a bunch of blank dice at MegaCon earlier this year and something like this would be a perfect use for them.

Re: Softcover?? When my sister was getting married two years ago I stopped into a gaming store in Charlotte, NC, where she lives, and saw Fantasy HERO on the shelf, next to the copy of FREd and Star HERO that I was there to buy. I'd look it up on the list of HERO Retailers but it's been revised to include nothing but one store in Vancouver, WA, which is kind of weird. I'm pretty sure it was Underground Games, and maybe they still have it and would be willing to ship it to you.

Re: Car Wars Hero Gosh, there's a blast from my distant past... thanks to this post, I feel like a teenager again, one who just came home from the local gaming store with his brand-new copy of Autoduel Champions!

Re: How to rescue civilians Oh, wow, does that make me feel like an old man. I loved that show when it was on... I thought it was hilarious. I was in my early teens. I saw a rerun of it not too long ago, and was horrified by how campy and corny it was.

Re: Soundtracks? Hey, head on over to http://www.freeplaymusic.com and go nuts! They've got music for every mood... even tv news theme music to play when the local anchorperson is announcing the latest heroic deeds of your PCs. Also, check out the album "Summon the Heroes," possibly available to borrow for free from your local public library.

Re: A Gentlemen’s Duel That was entertaining, but I think it would've been better if there'd been no dialogue, like in a lot of those Pixar shorts. Couldn't stand the Frenchman's dog, either. But I like the steampunk giant robots themselves.

Re: South American Supervillains The Bush Administration's favorite South American supervillain is Hugo Chavez, and his evil scheming henchman, Sean Penn. Mwa ha ha!

Re: HERO - Champions There's always the alternate settings available from 3rd party sites like http://www.blackwyrm.com.

Re: Logic v Balance They could call your character "Bunkerbuster."

Re: The Heart of Hero Another key element that I find in HERO System is that supplements provide, among other things, minor tweaks to the existing rules base to add flavor and detail to a campaign, rather than deluging it with entire new sets of rules that govern an entire race, class, or genre.

Re: Resisting Flight Using Flight as an attack is generally considered a munchkiny no-no. One it supposed to use TK instead.

Re: Looking for a pic I just did a Google Image search on "female rogue" and there were some decent drawings and such. You need a drawing or a photograph?

Re: [Twisted Game Concept] VG Supers Something kind of like that happened in the 80s cartoon Spider-man and his Amazing Friends, 2nd season, episode 7... "Videoman."

Re: Ghost in the Shell Cyberbrain. Mind Link seems to be the base power for something like that, and for hacking purposes I could see a skill bonus to computer-related skills. If the cyberbrain allows for direct interface with computers, then maybe some form of Telepathy or Mind Control that only works on AIs would make sense, perhaps linked to a Computer Programming skill roll.

Re: Friday the 13th:Jason The thing about Jason Voorhees is that he's not someone who can be beaten by direct physical violence. He has to be sort of tricked into dying. So I would think he'd have a ton of PD & ED and PD/ED DR, 75% or so. In the movies, I've seen him get shot up-close with a shotgun, fall down, lay there for a few seconds,and then get right back up, so I'm guessing he's got a ton of BODY and a massive REC, or else he's a complete automaton without STUN. He can't die, apparently, but he can go comatose for one reason or another, particularly if he's trapped underwater. He apparently needs contact with air to move around.

Re: Friday the 13th:Jason I remember in an issue of Adventurers Club in the 80s there was a Heroic-Level monster published named "Berserk," and he was meant to be a cinematic-style slasher flick monster. He even had what I recall to be one of the first-ever "superskills," Teleport defined as the ability to appear behind someone or to be waiting impossibly around the next corner.

Re: I have a setting, but not an adventure! Even if you've seen them before, see if your local public library has the movie Dreamscape available to borrow. Certainly if the PCs are government agents, you can take any standard espionage scenario and insert psi into it, most likely in place of technological snooping methods. Instead of wiretapping or eavesdropping, characters sniff each other out psionically. It should end with someone's head exploding like at the end of Scanners.

Re: [Question] C.I.A. Field Agents Are you looking for specific published characters, or just generic ones along those lines? What power level? Standard Heroic, Powerful Heroic? Whatever it takes?

Re: House rule I'm considering, Hit Location Dang, I wish the Search had been working the day I posted the original topic. Killer Shrike described himself as using the exact system I was proposing, and noted the lethal nature of it. I might take a close look at etherio's system as well for my next Heroic-level campaign.

I tried to search the forums for any mention of this house rule I'm considering, but the search system didn't seem to be working. I'll be amazed if anyone hasn't already proposed this. I was thinking of a house rule for a Heroic Level campaign where PCs can use the overage on their hit rolls on a one-to-one basis to modify their roll for Hit Location. So, example, Dick Dashingford, Private Eye, is punching at an assassin who is rushing at him with a machete. He needs to hit, so he doesn't call a location. He hits on a 13- and rolls a 8, succeeding by five. The GM calls for Dick for roll Hit Location, and Dick rolls a 10, hitting the guy in the Chest location. Not that helpful. But the GM rules that he can adjust his Hit Location roll up or down by up to five, the amount by which he made the roll. Dick adjusts it down to Hit Location 5, which the GM says is the attacker's chin. Would this rule be rankly abused all the time, or would this be a good way to introduce a more heroic tone? It's not often that a strong-jawed hero in a pulp novel punches a bad guy in the shoulder.

Re: Storn's Art & Characters thread. Hey, Storn, are you, by any chance, ever the guest host of a gaming podcast?

Re: Villain Team Name I'm going to have to go with Kramer's suggestion on Seinfeld, "Sons of Dad." Kind of a catch-all.

Hey, write this up as a Dark Champions gadget... http://www.wired.com/news/technology/autotech/0,72886-0.html It's an anti-theft device that fills an area (an office, a car, a truck) with fog and strobe light so that a thief can't see what he's doing. Watch the video and let's have a writeup of this gadget in HERO terms!

Re: El Santo cartoon preview (sigh) I should've taken that Spanish class when I had the chance.