Manic Typist

Re: Bard villain/mastermind: how? Motivation- disillusionment. His friends were all killed in some adventure, and he's seen the same happen to many other good people (he does collect stories, after all). Now he wants to punish all of those who stood by, or perhaps he even wants to undo all of creation because he has seen all the suffering that exists.

Re: Order of the Stick Seeker as in the Seeker, from Wizard's First Rule/Law? Forget the series name. And, uh, I don't understand the anger, at least as it pertains specifically to the Worfing.... (I can understand, albeit disagree with, a general dislike of the Tropes site).

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. .....Wait, why were you watching them sleep? Is she normally obsessed with a ketchup bottle?

Re: Order of the Stick He's probably the most evil individual we've seen. Maybe. Yes, definitely. Even more than Xykon, mostly because Xykon has simply left the normal world of morality behind.

Re: Order of the Stick New one up.... and I think it's an appropriate example for Xavier of when a session turns "dark."

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. *Scratches head* Huh. Learn something new every day I guess.

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Well, can you at least tell me if watching pornography openly on your computer while at work is part and parcel of the job, or just something that for some reason doesn't get you fired?!?

Re: Quote of the Week From My Life. Bunneh.....where do you work???

Re: The Cage Opens I didn't like the "wolves" among sheep description because, well, we aren't wolves. If it really is post-scarcity, the amount of violence present in humanity will drop significantly. I'm talking in a "whole new understanding of the human species" sort of drop; even religious or "fear the other" motivations for conflict would be severely weakened since they ultimately also go to economic/resource roots.

Re: The Cage Opens There are lots of indirect ways of inflicting violence upon others, and there are more kinds of violence than just the breaking of bodies or ending of lives with direct physical confrontation. So I'd find a galaxy full of naive aliens to strain my suspension of disbelief.

Re: Order of the Stick Upon revision, yes, it does appear that those are not, in fact, amulets. Still a lot of resources.

Re: Bushido Hero I agree. That was the point I was trying to make. It's something that was invented centuries later in another land to describe the not well documented beliefs of a different culture, which itself had internal variations. So, just do what you want with it.

Re: Order of the Stick Agreed, good catch Lucius.

Re: Order of the Stick Man, look at the amount of resources they had to dedicate to that search (all the magic items for the underwater search is the most egregious example). Also, is there a hobgoblin stuck in that net? If so, that's just cold....

Re: Terraforming Terminology Exterminate the indigenous population. ...what?

Re: The Treasure Thread Can someone rep The Weapon for me?

Re: Bushido Hero Bushido is a concept which changes drastically based upon time and context. So, you can sort of do whatever you want with it from a story perspective... Historically, there are criticisms of the 47 Ronin in that there actions weren't in accord with Bushido. Long analysis made short, some argue that if they were truly adhering to the (as then conceptualized) standards of Bushido because they waited in order to ensure success, whereas many interpreted the requirement is that they immediately attack; victory is irrelevant. Also, waiting and asking for permission to commit seppuku after their attack instead of just doing it.

Re: Why is Speed so unpopular? The argument that HERO Speed makes things too predictable are ludicrious, especially when compared to other systems that use intiative. It is far less so than those systems. In HERO there are tons of actions and circumstances that can alter the order in which actions are taken and aren't much of a hassle, whereas the same can't be said of those systems (d20 etc).

Re: What Can We Do To Serve HERO? Probably complete "game" books under the HERO umbrella would be the best, as already suggested. Has everything prebuilt in there, people just slap modules together to make the characters they want, no character creation rules (but all the necessary combat rules), setting information, plot seeds, go.'

Re: Help me populate a dying space colony Flirting or other distractions, anyone?

Re: Help me populate a dying space colony It would be quite interesting if the overlays could be programmed to depict different outfits to different people at the same time....

Re: Afterlife based upon world geography I like that, nice.

Re: Help me populate a dying space colony Interesting. Not sure what that last bit is about....

Re: HERO System Tips, Tricks, and Advice Regarding the marked meterstick- Same as the AoE templates, plus you might need two if you're swapping between 5E and 6E...

Re: Character Creation Session report No problem with "automation" PCs whatsoever.