Duke Bushido

Still playing _mostly_ 2e. I've found that those concepts are mostly found on purpose in attempts to stump the game. Still happens in newer editions, too. Hence, the Trifecta of Cobble: T-form, EDM, and Desolid.

Careful End management was one of the cornerstones of the earlier editions. It want until 4e that END stopped being the major defining trait for combat. Not only did 4e cut the END cost for using a power completely in half, it cut the cost of Red END down below half. I liked the self-capping power levels that END forced in older editions. Why have a power so strong it would leave you gasping for breath if you used it twice? It even sort of encouraged that one-shot all-or-nothing power, without it really upsetting balance: "I can use this, or I can escape, but I can't do both...."

Thanks, gents.

It's not so much that I mind working in some animation. For example, I'm pretty sure Ironman didn't actually fly. But when the entire movie is animation, wrapped around a couple of actors-- it just loses something. It becomes much, much more difficult for me to suspend disbelief. Wonder Woman crushed me: it was absolutely incredible (thoroughly loved it) right up until the climax, where she spends twenty minutes fighting the wind in a valiant struggle to kill an animation. Extremely unsatisfying. Again, maybe it's just me. But I actually _am_ an expert in what I enjoy and what I don't enjoy, so I can say with some authority that watching real characters beat up cartoon characters just leaves cold and annoyed. (same problem with Justice League, now that I think about it, and that Batman/Superman movie. Both far more enjoyable than I expected, right up until the climax when they attacked giant cartoon characters. And who decided to model Steppenwolf on Bull from Night Court?)

If we're still doing spoilers here, I'd like to put up one I wish someone had spoiled for me: The movie is a cartoon. I didn't bother stopwarching it, but I feel confident in saying the scenes without CGI could possibly take as much as twenty minutes total screen time. The scenes with no or barely any live action couldn't compress into an hour. The rest of the movie is technically a mixture, but the animation overwhelms most of anything else. Strangely, I think I would have enjoyed it more as a straight-up cartoon. I _hated_ Roger Rabbit. Am I movie critic? No. But should my opinion carry sway and clout because I know what's good and what's not? Again; no. Am I going to belabor the point that most of the people who went to see seem to enjoy it, or tell them that they are wrong with eighty-five movie citations and a laundry list of comments pulled from other web sites? You bet your sweet bippy I'm not. I just wanted to caution anyone else who might be put off by that cartoon with a couple of people in it kind of thing.

Thanks, Bolo. Evidently more than one person has figured this trick out. I don't know if chalk would work here in the US: the foreman would look, and think "send a crew out here to hose that off." and go back to whatever shovel he leans on during the rest of the day.

Under 4e, I know there were plans for a Cyber HERO supplemental source book. Anyone who has read 4e Cyber HERO will understand the need. However, I don't think one was ever published. Does anyone know for certain if it ever saw the light of day? Thanks either way. Duke

It's early January, and it's eighty-two degrees with 90 percent humidity. The sun is a white-hot dagger in the eyes if you look anywhere but down. Concrete and black asphalt both are mirrors of heat and light, and colors barely discernable through agonizing glare. I think you may have cause and effect reversed. Duke

Speedo dragon.

According to some news article I read a while ba k (if I remember what city it was, I will try to edit it in here), it happens much faster if you spray paint fluorescent penises around the pothole.

Ah; I see. Had to walk out on that one after fifteen minutes (I don't know who invented autocorrect, but he need to turn back to just spell check! Three times--count them: Three time! - this phone turned that into "fiftie Innuits!". Is "fiftie" even a word?!) At any rate, the artistic "shaky cam" technique had bot me and my wife looking for a place to barf. And the accompanying headache lasted for hours. I still had it the next morning. Hated it for her: she wanted to see the movie. It was a minor blessing for me: given the choice of watching it or having a nauseous headache, I much preferred the headache.

*ahem* Traveller*coughcoughcough*

Starlord: I just want to be clear: I gave that post a hearty laugh, but it was more "laughing with you" than laughing at you. " Think of as a" laughing near you. " Duke

I don't disagree with you. In fact, I find you're lack of open quote- label-close quote structure to be far less adversarial in terms of making a statement. All I was stating in my reply was essentially "since you don't want an argument, consider not including argumentative structure in your comments as a means of helping you maintain peace."

Why? That looks like planted pines. Put a house in there somewhere, and it's where I live.

If you are going to have conversion notes or "how to convert" type sections, there may be. Sorry, but I haven't researched that. If, however, there is no "how to do D&D in HERO, there shouldn't be. If you rename things a bit (fog of stench; reeking vapors- that Sorr of thing) and pitch it as Dungeon HERO or perhaps the Fantasy HERO old school companion- I would think you'd be safe. If, however, you are going to do it as a sellable, a bit of research into "parody" or "homage works" is likely cheap insurance.

Rapier: It's absolutely not my business, but think a out the amount of work you have in thus: what you have done already, and what you intend to do before you're finished. You have a source book, my friend. Wrap it up all nice and neat and do something great with it. Again, just a suggestion.

JINX!

Not if you leave the "" off of the word "terrorists" in the given context. Sorry; I appologize. Let me state this: It has been my personal--admittedly-limited, at least outside the one I ran for a couple of decades--experience with bulletin board style forums that putting a term or phrase that refers to a particular person, group, or activity inside of quotation marks is akin to the of-recent-years highly-derogatory 'air quoutes' used in a conversational setting. Essentially, it has become more-often-than-not an intentional trigger, akin to the "prove me wrong" sign some guy did that ended up getting memed into oblivion. In this case, those who champion the Rainbow guys see it as you replacing their name with the word terrorists, and that you used them to draw attention to the fact that you have done so. This isn't the only problem, though; such a trigger produces fire from both ends of the barrel: Those who are seriously opposed to the Rainbow guys (forgive me; I'm using a phone right now, and thus I cannot simply scroll up to read the actual name the group used without automatically posting this not-yet-finished reply) will see the quotations as an unveiled sarcastic dig specifically at those who oppose the Rainbow guys, and then make the short jump to the idea that you, if not one of them (and therefore evil in their eyes), are at least a vehement supporter of their activities. Crap on a crutch! I should have opened with the explanation first; it would make the opening comment more obvious as a suggestion than an insinuation. I deeply appologize to you and anyone following along. Again, I can't scroll up to fix it without posting it. :(. At any rate, I would--as a concerned acquaintance, and not just a busy-body, mind you-- suggest that if you are truly wanting to make a non-adbersarial comment, or at least hoping that a comment won't lead to political fallout, that in the future, consider leaving the quotation marks off of labels or socio-political trigger words. Again: no hostilities: I just appreciated the stated avoidance of a degrading the conversation enough that I wanted to share something that has worked really well for me for several years. Above all else, though: have fun. Duke

Did they do away with AOE: Any ?

And in the unique case of Billy Battalion, what good does it do to know that it is every person on earth who could potentially bear a nickname sort of similar to one derived from William? Well, not counting Doctor Destroyer, of course, who clearly has the resources and willpower to round up and exterminate all of them.

Think about it as being similar to diving for cover, except the cover is very far away and when you get there, the cover isn't actually there at all. Seriously though: As a mechanic, it is a way to dodge AOE attacks. They couldn't call it dive for cover, as that name was taken. Personally, I would have preferred modifying Dive for Cover, but I didn't write the book. Thus, we have Flying Dodge. As Dodge still leaves you in the same hex, of perhaps an adjacent one, depending on the narrative elements, it stinks against AOE powers. At its core, it is little more than "aborting to full move.". I've always allowed that, anyway, for myself-sacrificial heroic actions and to balance against AOE attacks, so I don't have a problem with that aspect of it. And frankly, I don't think many people really do. However, because it is a Dodge (or maybe because it's "martial" and people just demand that "martial" means "give some bonuses;" I neither know nor concern myself much with the martial arts mechanics as-written), it has typical Dodge bonuses. And again, I'm not really bothered by that, considering the reasons for which I traditionally allow "abort to full move.". But there don't seem to be any enforced CV penalties for the Full Move element, either, meaning it allows you to both abort to a full move without suffering CV penalties _and_ get some CV bonuese, too. This bugs some people. Oh, and unlike dive for cover, you retain your balance and footing. As far as real world effects: You hear something fall. Crap! It's a grenade! Quick! Turn around run behind that concrete wall! Does any of that help?

Congratulations!

Sweet. Best so far, Aldo. And bonus! It's like a slightly shuffled 2e sheet! (Sorry; personal favorite, there. ). Again, I take it as a given that the actual printed page / PDF page will be more... page-sized, and thus a bit easier to read.