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Re: Hero like Box (obscure Alpha Flight hero)? Well, not via remote anyways. Obviously it could be taken over since it hosted Langowski's soul for a while.

Re: Hero like Box (obscure Alpha Flight hero)? Box operator doesn't actually become the box. He just has a doorless entry method. Also, anyone can use the box if it's empty. Also, if someone steals the body while the Hero is sleeping, he's SOL. Why not? In this case that's likely since Bochs' manual dexterity was probably much better out of armor, but what's your reasoning here about more than one robot body and skills and power loss? So the rules say, but they're appropriate to an extent. They'd be even more appropriate if making the early Box, which was piloted by remote control. Either way the build I made last night doesn't use any automaton-specific stuff. Sure it is. Hero must break on average 8 hours a day for sleep, and for 3 meals, and for numerous bathroom breaks. Which forces the question, should we have "call of nature" rules in Hero? The Multiform rules have me stumped. What's the tradeoff of being able to spend 80 points to get a 450 point form?

Re: Hero like Box (obscure Alpha Flight hero)? What kind of disadvantage would "can't sleep, eat, or crap while in robot body" be?

Re: Hero like Box (obscure Alpha Flight hero)? Multiform is looking more and more like what I'll use, with an OIF. Thing I'm wondering about is damage carrying over, how much of an advantage would it be to except our Box from this, keeping in mind that the robot body will retain damage even if the hero phases out and back in (and that maybe some damage, especially mental stress and general fatigue, should carry over)? Also, how would I build the fact that the robot body has no self-healing abilities and must be repaired? I think the rest I'll take from the automaton rules.

Re: Hero like Box (obscure Alpha Flight hero)? Ah, okay, duh. Handn't considered the frequency part. Guess I should've cracked the book first? I was trying to figure out how to have the Phys. Lim. only affect him out of hero ID... Hmm, not bad on the limbs suggestion Bloodstone.

Re: How to create power: flight via temporary energy platform If it's standard practice to use summon for vehicles and other objects, then I stand corrected about needing a new power, since that pretty much does the trick.

Okay, so I'm really lazy, and I might start leaning on this forum like a crutch. Sue me. How about a guy who's a double amputee, otherwise normal human confined to a wheelchair, but he builds himself a robot body that he can enter and fight crime with? Also, how would the HS handle the distinction between a hero like this who entered the robot "normally" (like Titanium Man) and someone like Box, who "phased" into his robot? Is the distinction important? I suppose not but maybe someone has something on that.

Re: Marvel's Rogue Sorry if this has been suggested, but I read a few replies and thought that one good way to offset Rogues great power is to recreate her reasons for not liking to use it. Maybe run the risk of keeping disadvantages permanently, especially psych lims. Also, keep in mind she runs the risk of "berserk," that is the absorbed persona could take over. This could be simulated in degrees, with stronger, more alien or evil personas causing a drop in her effectiveness. Maybe a permanent tally of all absorptions, sort of like a sanity score in CoC, and once she reaches a certain point she's permanently cuckoo. The truth is Rogue didn't use her power casually, at least not when I was reading X-Men, not by a long shot. She only used them when necessary. That said, she was overpowered.

In Hero 4th, linked is a -1/2 lim. What if you want to create not just a power that can't be used without another power, but two powers that must be used together? I'm making a character with desolid and invisibility, but who can only use them together. Also, wondering how "swimming" through the ground works - should I just buy swimming and link it too?

Re: How to create power: flight via temporary energy platform Wow, lots of replies! I guess I need to upgrade, 4th edition (hero system) doesn't even have Physical Manifestation if memory serves. I like some of the ideas, but it seems that what's really needed (for force constructs) is either a new power, or a specific framework to make VPPs work right for the force construct application. Just my two cents.

Say, like if the Green Lantern created a platform to carry himself and others. It's a focus, because it can be destroyed, but it only lasts as long as he wants it to so the only inconvenience would be making a new one. In general, how are "energy constructs" handled?

Re: HTML Hero "Save as" doesn't work, at least not for me with Firefox 1.5.

Re: HTML Hero Okay, now I remember. To save a character you have to click preview in HTML Hero, view the source of the preview page, and save it as an HTML file. To load a character you view the saved HTML file's source, click on load in HTML Hero, and paste the source into the form box.

Re: HTML Hero No, it's a web page (you can download it and use it locally) Hero template called "HTML Hero".

How do I save and reload characters? Please be specific. I can't get this function to work. I used to know how but it's been ages and I've forgotten.

Re: 2 4th Ed. Qs: CP "loans?"; Multipowers & advantages? 1) No, I don't mean interplayer loans, I mean just paying forward on future earnings of XP - loans from the GM from wherever XP come from. 2) Duh, my mistake.

1) any GMs ever engage in Char. Point loans? I was just thinking about Packages and how they can reflect instant decisions involving character points. Say a PC is invited to join the brotherhood of assassins, a position that involves neat new toys, but he has no XP to pay for the package. I was thinking a CP loan might be the way to handle this, the PC gets the package for "free" but has to pay it back with XP before anything else. 2) My reading of the rules is that for Multipower Slots, the power and the advantages are the only considerations when calculating maximum AP, which at a glance seems to make this an illegal character (the mind control power, for example), yes?

Re: Free Character Tools? Ghost Archer: that's what I tried first, not with FP but with some freebie HTML WYSIWYG editor. I didn't have good results so I gave up on that (couldn't change the format in ways I needed to, e.g., the indented lines for multipower slots).

Re: Free Character Tools? YW. Be careful with that thing (read the instructions), I lost about an hour last night, of course after my character was all done...

Re: Free Character Tools? I forgot HTMLHero, it seems to be doing a nice job of it. http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/9678/

Maybe a character template with fields I can edit that spits out something decent-looking like the characters at Lothlorien Academy? This notepad stuff is for the birds.

Re: Hello and question about powers and such I think my problem is I'm trying to wring high-powered characters out of a lower-powered point base. Guess I should save the stress and use a 375 point base.

Re: a Villian game Or a reverse Thunderbolts scenario, where players get a makeover and go undercover as villains in order to get deep inside the criminal underworld or whatever.

Re: a Villian game For my two cents, I like the middle of the road sort of take on the villainous campaign: profit-oriented (not necessarily talking money here), not evil, sociopathic, not psychopathic. The sort of villains who are far from above a good deed now and then. I'm thinking less "villain" and more "criminal," if that makes sense. As for villain groups and cohesion, let's remember the real world, where organized crime is hardly a fairy tale. I guess what I'm describing is more of a "neutral" campaign than anything else; the PCs are crooks but they can be good or bad. This is in a way a response to the ridiculous concept of "superheroic goodness" forwarded by comic books and exemplified in the Spiderman movies, a concept so rigid that Spidey can't even make an extra buck appearing on talk shows or bending iron bars at the local fair. I mean really, who in his right mind would put up with that? I wouldn't. I'd take care of me and mine first, and everyone else second, just like every other sane person on Earth. Sure, I'd help people when I could, I just wouldn't settle for eating out of a can. edit: also, I'm surprised no one mentioned the Thunderbolts angle; heroes by day who moonlight as villains to pay the bills.

Re: Hello and question about powers and such Okay, after reading the rules more closely (especially foci and charges) I realized that Jhamin and rjcurrie are right. So, I tried again: ~~~~ * "Formula" 2 continuous charges, last 24 hours each (+0), uncontrolled (+1/2); Independent (-2) +1 SPD (10 AP) * Regeneration: 1 BODY/turn (10 AP) * Elemental Control: 15 AP * +30 STR (30 AP) * +10 DEX (30 AP) * +15 CON (30 AP) * +15 BODY (30 AP) * ~~~~ Does that work? My guess is that Linked doesn't apply even though they are all linked. Thanks for the thread Haerandir, thanks for the idea Enamel, thanks for the suggestions Super Squirrel (funny that you mentioned two of the HS supplements I'm most interested in).