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Re: Watchmen: A GM's tale...or why we set campaign limits I actually played in a Con game where one of the players brought his own character; his version of Night Owl...his tagline was "I am the Night Owl, I never sleep" and he bought "Life Support: Doesn't need to sleep"....... other than that, he was a gadgeteer just like in the GN. We find inspiration from source materials, but don't make it "just like" the source material. In our Fantasy Hero campaign, we used a magic system similar to Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time where our magic users were called "Channelers"...but, unlike Jordan's, Males weren't nuts from channeling the male side of things, there was no female/male side of the Source...there was just the Source. You randomly rolled up what flows you were proficient at, then designed your "weaves" based on that.

Re: Help me get into Bricks. Nice.....I like it alot. Nice way to tie her to the Gov so she can be part of a Team later on, or doesn't get sued for collateral damage in the course of her duties. One of our GM's has us buy the Perk :Government Licensed Hero to avoid being sued for damage. Trust me Granite needs all the liability he can manage.

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Re: Am I crazy (Cyber Hero) I used to own said Cyber Hero book, and it was for 4th ed.

Re: inventor skill - what's the point? Like has been mentioned...think Mr. Fantastic or Forge from the X-Men. I had a player who had a power armor character who had a high INT and used a stun ray......but he had inventor skill and invented our underwater Base and other things we needed.

Re: Intutitive Aptitude High INT which will lead to a high PER roll. Skill levels for INT based skills. My namesake, Boomer, has a high INT and he's the Demo guy/Hacker for the Confederation Marine Unit he's attached to. My skill rolls with complimentary skill added in plus skill modifiers are in the 19- 20- range. He rarely screws up.

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing Look don't take the Dude's Thing...I mean it really ties the whole room together.....

Re: Money in Fantasy Setting We had a cost list for items like that in our campaign world. Of course in our campaign world magic items were rare......a disguise ring was one of the more powerful items we found.....so to get a weapon that did more damage or gave you more OCV we used a quality scale....poor, normal, fine, exquisite, etc. The better the quality, the higher the bonus. Just say you found some mithril or other fine metal ore and wanted a sword made, you'd have to save up the cash...about 250-500 gp, and find someone that could manufacture it. We also used a system of extra xp called Brownie Points. Brownie Points could only be used to get Perks, etc in the game, not for upgrading your character. So if you had the Brownie, had the cash and could find someone to turn that Ore into an exquisite quality weapon you were in the money.

Re: Kill the Dude with the Thing That is priceless....thanks for the laugh...

Re: Would you ever allow a Large character as a PC? In our Fantasy Hero campaign we had Half-Giant characters, Minotaurs (we had a whole campaign hook based on a Minotaur Paladin being corrupted by a Demoness), Draconians (7' 7" tall at most) and Ogier (yes our Fantasy Hero campaign was heavily influenced by Robert Jordan).

Re: Help with a character build Most "utility belts" examples I've seen are built as an MPP......or a VPP....I like the suggestion from Blue....that would work well.

Re: Newbie questions on Single Use Items Yeah...what LL said....welcome to the Hero System. Some of these folks on here have mighty Hero-Fu.

Re: What source material informs your fantasy gaming? Our Fantasy Hero campaign was inspired by Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series.

Re: Please Help: I need a name for my character http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidhe#The_s.C3.ADdhe:_abodes_of_the_aes_s.C3.ADdhe The Sidhe are the Fey Folk of Celtic Mythos.....here's lots of info. Being a Dresden Files fan I'd say go with Maeb (Queen of the Fairies)....I believe that's the spelling....

Re: Less Educated What they said.....Psych Lim: Fish out of water.....my Alien Power Suit hero Aurora is that way. She is intelligent but socially inept as she isn't Human and is still learning about Human Culture. One of the two Team Leaders of the Group shows great affection for her, has the hots for this Blue Alien chick basically, but she doesn't/can't reciprocate because she doesn't understand "Love". I'd say you have a similar situation here. The character is basically a toddler socially compared to the rest.