BasilDrag

Horror Hero has a section of pulp-era horror.

The wait for Star Hero I got the BBB not long after it came out, and immediately signed up for Adventurers Club. At that point, AC had ads for Star Hero. I tried to get it; I tried every bleeding way possible to get it. It was out of print, sold out, and gone. I waiting all through the "BBB era" for a reprint or a new edition, or something. It never happened. Then I hear about 5th ed. "Darn," I said to myself, "more waiting for Star Hero---I mean, they're going to do Champions first, and then Fantasy Hero--oh, and Dark Champs, 'cause Long is one of the owners. And then they'll do.... And so, no Star Hero." I was utterly bummed; I wasn't even sure Star Hero would get done at all. So, what happens? Champions, then Ninja and Star Heroes almost together. Surprised the heck out of me. Pleased, but surprised.

Ah. Yeah, that's a vehicle. OK, I'd forgotten it was being moved around.

Re: How to make a "sick" attack. Depends on exactly what you're trying to do. Hurt the target: NND (leave at STUN only, probably). Slow up the target: SPD or DEX Drain. Decrease target's combat effectiveness: DEX Drain, or perhaps negative OCV with Usable as Attack. Weaken the target: STR Drain. Poison the target: CON (or other) Drain, perhaps with Gradual Effect. Give the target a disease: Transform, or Drain(s) with Gradual Effect. Of course, there are other ways to get these effects (these are what occured off the top of my head). Then again, perhaps you had something else in mind?

Re: Re: What defines extreme or not? 5th ed., p202: >In the case of Powers intended to benefit >the target (such as Healing or Aid), >characters can define a Side Effect as affecting >the target. {emphasis added} So, your second reduction to the Limitation doesn't apply General point: since the shock-rod as described doesn't have Activation or RSR, it should have the "x2 value --- Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used". For a 45 Active Point Power, with the Side Effect equaling the Power, this is either 1) -1.75 (-.5 x 2 less .25) or 2) -1 ((-.5 less .25) x 2)

Re: Re: Driving at a distance Is that one of the free downloads from Digital Hero? (I hope, I hope, I hope)

Re: Re: Re: Re: Watched vs. Social Limitation From Star Hero: >10 Hunted: Imperial Security Police 8- (Mo > Pow, NCI, Watching) Yeah, it's a standard cop's Watched---Mo Pow, NCI, 8- -- As so as I complain, the boards start working right. ::sigh::

I remember Wall Around a Star. Not impressed. IIRC, it wasn't really steered, which bring up the question of whether it was a vehicle, or a base that someone sent zooming off.

Re: Re: Re: Coming Soon: Real-world Robot Soldiers Ah, but the site says: >"Ultimately, we want to have multiple robots under >the control of a single soldier," said Chuck >Shoemaker, unmanned ground vehicle project manager >at the Aberdeen lab. > "The soldier will remain in a protected environment, >while the robots maneuver out in the hazardous >environment before the soldier gets involved. Robots >are sacrificial [sic] -- people are not." LOL. True. -- Let's see: I just posted, so it's time to login again. Anybody gonna fix these bleedin' boards?

Re: Re: Watched vs. Social Limitation Star Hero, p.306-307, has a NPC (Major Allyssa Barth) who is a honest, by-the-book cop, who has both Watched and Subject to Orders. IME, all cops are Watched (by their superiors, the Internal Affairs Office, etc.) as well as Subject to Orders. The same is true of DAs, some military, etc. It is not always necessary for active, specific suspicion to occur for someone to be Watched. Throughout the Law Enforcement, Intelligence and Military communities (and perhaps others) there is a level of institutional 'suspicion' that results in members of those communities being Watched. Now, what roll that Watched has is another matter....

Re: tk question 5th Ed., p.147: "Telekinesis can move an object a number of inches per Phase equal to the number of inches which the Telekinetic could throw an object with a Running Throw." Now, if the person has STR 25, and 6 points of "Strength" in his TK, which should you use, 25 or 6? An exacting reading of the above sentence would say 25, but I believe the intention is to use TK STR, or in this example, 6.

Re: hows this speedster look? You have: >Vulnerability: Cold attacks, Common, Vulnerability >Multiplier (2x STUN) in there twice.

Re: Coming Soon: Real-world Robot Soldiers The site says: >The Searcher will be a small, portable reconnaissance robot designed to explore >buildings, tunnels and caves for mines, bombs and hostile humans. It will be able to climb >stairs, open doors and detonate booby traps. It should be operational in two to seven >years. Don't Bomb Disposal Units of major police forces have this already? Isn't this a boondoggle?

BTW, anyone who wants a chart for converting 3G3 DVs to Hero System average damage, take a look at my work at http://users.aol.com/basildrag. It's a rather large table, but it should help my fellow 3G3 users.

A) There is no reason to believe Steve Long et al. were using "tons" as anything but a unit of mass. a "ton" in the sense you refer to is one cubic meter (because one cubic meter of water masses on "metric ton"---properly, a megagram) C) Further, the "tons" you refer to do not measure the overall volume of the hull, but rather the volume (of water) displaced when the ship is carrying its maximum safe load. D) there are a number of "tons" used to refer to the size of a ship, only one of which has to do with it's displaced volume E) As a counter example, consider Traveller, where a ship's "ton" in 14 cubic meters (because liquid hydrogen masses about 1 megagram per 14 cubic meters)

Except that a "hex" of area is the area of a hex 2m from side to side, or 2*sqrt(3) square meters. So it's (657*2) * (164*2) / (2*sqrt(3)) = 124,417 hexes in area, or almost exactly 135 points No, no, no, no. You add all the areas, then look that up on the chart. 124,417 * 246 = 30,606,582, which is closest to 195 points. Or, you could say each doubling of area adds ~7.5 points, and 246 decks is ~8 doublings, for +6 points.

Having double checked the site, I must stand (1) corrected. :/ (1) Stand in the corner, that is.

Re: Re: Re: Newpaper For Writers Block Sounds like Tabloid! for the old Amazing Engine game system. Now there was a wild and wacky game.

Re: Just asking for a few references... A few notes: First, black powder has less expansion than modern powder, so it should give projectiles less velocity (all other things being equal). Second, Greg Porter made an error in the formula for muzzle energy. It should be: energy in Joules = projectile mass in grams x (muzzle velocity in m/s)^2 / 2000 Third, if you really want to increase the damage from black powder weapons, in the formula for Damage Value (DV), drop the division by projectile diameter (in More Guns, Porter goes into this, referring to it as the Energy Damamge Value, or EDV). Or, follow the conversion (to Hero System) for melee weapons: add 5 DV before converting.

As you say, the first way requires more writing up and so on. It is, however, in accord with the rules as written, though you have to make sure the requirement is told to all the players. The second way is simpler, but requires a House Rule. The problem with House Rules is making sure everyone knows about them. Your call.

{This is also in response to cboscari} I've got "Guns! Guns! Guns!" 3rd edition (aka 3G3), and the companion book "More Guns!" because I'm not that much of a gun person either. Using the sited webpage, and those books, it looks like the 500 S&W is in the .50AE/.454 Casull range. BTW, what's shown on the webpage is not a revolver, but a single-shot bolt-action handgun. Most really, really powerful handguns are single-shot bolt-actions. Someone pointed out a written-up character with .5oAE's; I'd use them for the 500 S&W. It doesn't look like there'd be enough difference to matter, in game-rules terms.

Major Purchase Better than 4th Ed.'s Bestiary?!?? I *love* 4th Ed Bestiary. If 5th Ed.'s is better, I'm gonna *have* to get it. Oh dear, there goes the budget!