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Re: CONGRATULATIONS DURIN ! SA's BACK !!

 

Originally posted by TheQuestionMan

It's good to see San Angelo : City of HEROes back where it belongs and back in production . My only complaint with SA:CoHs was I discovered it so late . (well that and Denizens of SA) .

 

My one and only request for the best Superhero Supplement of all time is (drum roll please ..........) MAPS,maps , maps , maps , and more maps of the city , of the community , of city blocks , and maps of buildings . (oh city skyline for MAPS)

 

Thank you DURIN

 

And make mine a HERO by DoJ .

I too am a lover of maps. I use ProFantasy's CC2 and I'll will endeavor to provide as much as I can as well as clean up some of the existing maps. Would a San Angelo City map book be something that you would be interested in?

Originally posted by Ghost who Walks

I would like to see more of an update of the current material, perhaps with a few years pasing. That would alllow the older stuff to still be used.

I am doing exactly that.

 

Originally posted by Ghost who Walks

The sample Heroes (in the original book) could easily be replaced. Ideally, with a couple of teams of heroes, at various levels of power. A street level team, West Coast Avengers styel team (West Coast Champions!) and a secretive vigilante team (possibly based around a metahumam family)

Yes, I have had some of these same thoughts...

 

Originally posted by Ghost who Walks

More development of the mystical stuff, San Angelo is about the only HERO supplement that gives some examples of it that aren't Demons from dimension X.

*shhh* don't tell anyone, but...

 

Originally posted by Ghost who Walks

The personalities mentioned throughout the book were another of its great features. Keep as much of that as you can.

You bet I will! That was something that really attracted me to the material as well.

 

Originally posted by Ghost who Walks

The History of San Angelo was great, one of its best features. It allowed setting scenarios in the past, and tying them into the present (again, great for mystical stuff)

You are very insightful...

 

Originally posted by Ghost who Walks

You will probably want to integrate the corporations metioned in the original San Angelo book, with some of the new 5th edition corporations.

I'm not sure which 5th edition corporations you are referring to. I'm assuming that you are speaking of DoJ material? SA is a different world setting, but there will be suggestions for GMs to use to incorporate/replace both worlds' material.

 

I have never been bound by source material. As a GM, I mix and match material as I see fit, but as the developer of the SA line I will have to stay within its boundries, but you shouldn't let that hinder you and your own creativity.

Originally posted by Agent X

My advice is to not to try to "balance" all the characters. I've looked at San Angelo briefly and got the impression of a general sameness toward character construction and concept.

 

Go for broke. Try to make interesting characters and backgrounds. Don't think of them as "a typical brick/blaster/etc." to fill in a slot. I sometimes hear concerns from designers about NPC competition with PCs but I really don't think most gamers get offended when someone creates interesting, vibrant characters. Most of the Champions supplements that people bring up that are character driven seem to be popular because they are interesting characters instead of cookie cutter characters.

You need to read the books more thoroughly I think. You would be very impressed with Enemies of San Angelo. I think it is exactly what you are looking for.

Originally posted by Monolith

Congrats on moving up the food chain!

 

My only real concern about San Angelo is when will we be seeing new material? Yes, I know you have Dragon's Gate coming out, and then a redo of San Angelo, but many of us already have those products. I think it would be far more beneficial to see some new ideas coming out for San Angelo fairly soon. While I really like the SA books, I really have no desire to rebuy material I already have just to get a dozen or two updated characters. I would much rather buy something unique.

 

And I am not just picking on SA here. I have the same gripe about the DOJ material at times as well. Rehashing and redoing is fine, but most of the time you need brand new material to rewet the appetite.

Thank you.

I am already working on the 2nd edition.

Your concerns and feelings are the same as mine. As a long time GM and gamer I understand what you are saying, and believe me, you won't be disappointed.

Originally posted by D-Man

what sort of products will you produce for the city? just neighborhood books? or, villian books as well? or, adventure books?

Lets just say that the line as whole will grow, and it will grow in good ways. You are just going to have to wait and see, but as a fellow gamer I can promise that you'll be very happy.

Re: Something different...

 

Originally posted by Storn

I had to convert a screen photo of my S.O.'s work place into line art. The screen photo was blurring too much when being printed on pourous material like cardboard boxes.

 

Just thought i would drop it here too, just in case Supervillains and Heroes need to tussle it up in Main Street, Small Town, USA.

 

For the record, this is Quinn's Essentials in a 1840s (I think, pretty damn close) hotel building. My girl friend, Susanne, is the head designer of the Interior Design dept. (That is Designer, she has a degree... not decorator!). It is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Yup, Ypsilanti... settled by Capt. Ypsilanti, a greek sea commander who made a fortune in loot fighting the Turks in the 1820s. Died in the 1840s fighting the Turks again in that later confrontation. Ain't History fun?

I think I've seen that building, or something similar. I used to live in Ypsilanti right by the big central park. We actually lived above a BBQ place in a strip mall. I can't remember the names of the streets though. I was too young. I'll have to ask my mom where that was exactly.

Just thought I would point out a general announcement:

 

New Developer Announced

 

Hey that's me!

 

So does anyone have any comments, questions or concerns that they would like to send my way regarding the San Angelo line?

Originally posted by Wildcat

OK I'll make it 3... You stuff is really Clean and Crisp Mangog... Something I can't seem to get in mine Great work keep it up

 

Question for the masses out there. I've just recently remade some old Champions characters from the Coriolis Effect, and also did the pics (well scanned and colored actualy) and I was wondering 2 things... would anyone like to see them, and would it be apropriate to post those here since I didn't draw them.

 

WC

I would love to see them!

Originally posted by lemming

Actually Durnin, your photoshop work isn't bad.

Practice, Practice, practice.

Thanks for the compliment. Now all I need to practice is time, time, time

Originally posted by Blue

http://home.earthlink.net/~webstudio/id33.html

Nice site Blue. Do you have an exterior pic of the House of Rain? That would be cool to see I would think. Even a cutaway of the elevation would be cool.

Have you created a map of Lazerus? It sounds huge.

 

Anyway, I don't want to divert the thread so... The covers are very cool. I wish I had someone in my group or even myself that was artistic enough to do something like that.

Here is a good writeup of Cheerleader Martial Arts from EZ Hero I think:

Cheerleading

Cheerleading is a modern American martial art involving kicks, twirls, and pompoms. A very active martial art, the practitioner is in nearly constant motion when in combat. This martial art relies on surprise, motion, and feints (via pompom-covered hands). Cheerleading is a constantly evolving martial art, as its practitioners develop new moves or refine the old ones at the start of each sports season.

Famous characters using this martial art include Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and… well… that’s pretty much it. It’s intended as a humorous style, but it can be used seriously as a way to flesh out a non-combative character. It can also be defined as a dance style, for characters that cheerleading wouldn’t be appropriate for.

Maneuver Pts OCV DCV Effect

Cut ______3_ _+1 _+0 STR +2d6 Strike

Cartwheel 4 __— __+5 Dodge, Abort

Chastity _4 __+0 _+0 +15 STR to Escape

Flip _____4 __+2 _+2 Block, Abort

Kick _____4 __+0 _+2 STR +2d6

Rah ______5 __+1 _+3 STR Strike

Squat ____3 __+0 _+1 STR+v/5, Target Falls

Skills

Acrobatics

Acting

Breakfall

KS: Cheerleading

Oratory

Seduction

Elements

Weapons +0 Use Art Barehanded (default)

+1 Use Art with Baton/Pole

+1 Use Art with Pompom

Disadvantages

Style -10

Originally posted by Wildcat

Thanx Durnin

 

Actualy No it's not suposed to be faces or anything just the folds in the cloak not being 100% finished in Photoshop yet. But since you mentioned Faces... I'm very unhappy with Epoch's face, and did a bit of work (in Photoshop) to attempt to fix it.

What do you guys think?

WC

Ah, I see. I think it is a curse of mine to see faces everywhere. I had a very tramatic experience as a child thanks to my uncle and an extremely scary holloween mask and I think it affected me in a very odd way.

Anyway, as for Epoch's face it seems somewhat long. Sort of a Jay Leno long, but with less chin . Other than that I can't nit pick too much as I don't have the artistic talent to stand on.

Wildcat,

I like the little subtle things you add just as much as the overall drawings. Such as the different signature backgrounds, and are those faces in Epoch's cloak?

Re: Another one I just colored...

 

Originally posted by Magmarock

Ok. I'm a little bummed out because everytime I do a picture in Photoshop, then save it to Jpg, it comes out all dithered and messed up. Then I have to go in a smooth everthing out and clean it up... does anyone have an idea on why the change from PSD to JPG is so damaging to my pics?

Try saving as a PNG. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.

Originally posted by Mark Rand

Thanks for the suggestion, Blue. For some reason, it didn't work. On my machine, print screen (prt scr) shares a key with sysrq, and print screen's the one above the line.

Any suggestions?

The System Request (SysRq) is activated on most laptops by holding the Function (Fn) key and pressing it. The default for that button is the PrntScrn functionality. As stated previously, pressing it by itself copies the entire screen as an image to the Windows Clipboard. Pressing it with the Alt key held down copies the active window as an image to the clipboard. In both cases simply open any graphic program you have and either press Ctrl+V (hold down the ctrl key and press 'v') or go to the Edit menu and select Paste or if your program has it click the paste button.

Your screen capture should now be sitting in the current document window.

FYI, this has been a standard since the Windows 95 days, and works in every version of Windows since then.

neither

 

Originally posted by Sketchpad

I'm curious about something ... why does some art show up on the boards, while other art is just a link? Is it a format problem? Or a size problem?

It isn't a problem at all. It is the poster. If they don't include the image in the HTML of the post it won't show up in the post.

Re: Attempted and failed again...

 

Originally posted by Magmarock

Oh wait! It worked! I had to press "Ctrl" "Alt" and "Print Scrn" and then I copied into Photo shop. I'll post a pic after I crop it.

I'm glad I could of service... It is odd that you had to press all three... I'll shall check this tomorrow when I get into work (I'm a network administrator/ former IT teacher). I'm just glad it is working for you now.

Re: Thanks

 

Originally posted by Magmarock

Thanks for the kind words about my art, guys.

 

As for the other issue, I've been playing around some more with the Heromachine and I have tried all the various options suggested without any results.::SNIP::

Could it be that you are not pasting the image into an image editor?

Try this:

1) create an image in Hero Machine

2) Press Print Screen

3) Open Photoshop and start a new blank image

4) Either go to Edit--> Paste or press Ctrl+V

 

That should paste the image into the new canvas and allow you to crop the image as desired.

Originally posted by Starlord

As I said earlier, I get mine with Print-Screen, however that doesn't seem to work for Magmarock either.

 

*Note that I don't use ctrl+alt+print screen. With most newer computer that I'm familiar with, you should just have to press the Print-Screen button only. I've done it on 2 of my friend's machines, and they have completely different computers from mine.

I would like to add just one thing to what Starlord has said. He is correct the Print Screen will capture the entire screen. However, if you want to capture the current active window you can press Alt+Print Screen. I use that when I want to capture dialog boxes or the like.

Originally posted by dei1c3

Does anyone know a good place online to order plastic stands for paper miniatures?

 

Thanks.

 

Chris

Steve Jackson Games has them in bulk and in different colors.

Re: Magmarock

 

Originally posted by Magmarock

I sure wish I knew how to set these up like the others, so you wouldn't have to click on the link...

1) Make a post, and attach the picture

2) Click on the link to the picture

3) Copy the URL from the new window that opens with the picture.

4) Edit your post by typing in <img src=" than paste the URL from step 3, and then type ">

5) Submit the edit.

 

There you have it.

Originally posted by DoctorItron

Ditto on the cardstock working well.

 

/begin run-on sentence/

Since most of us are probably printing these on an inkjet, and many printer inks smudge when they get wet, and many gamers have soda and other foods around the table, it's probably best to seal the surface so you don't have to print and cut a new set of maps for every game session.

/end/

 

After cutting, try spreading them face up on cardboard or newspapers, then spray with clearcoat. Laminating is always an option, but it will be a lot tougher to trim all the maps to size.

Another very interesting sidenote would be that if you use a plastic cover, laminate, etc. you can draw right on the surface usually with a dry erase or wet erase marker depending on the type of plastic.

Originally posted by Pattern Ghost

Since all of the characters are copyrighted (and at least in some cases if not all, trademarked), the short answer is no. Of course, you can do a google image search and turn up plenty of pics to use how you see fit.

That's a good point. I should have thought of that. I think it's because they are so common they seem to be public. I'll see if I can wrangle up some good pics to put in the HDC files. Thanks for that legal refresher.

Since the characters are being posted does anyone have some good quality pictures of the various characters that could be posted as well?

FYI

 

I just thought it might be worth mentioning for folks that are planning on doing USPD submissions AND have HeroDesigner that there is a Character Template and Export Template available in the HD FreeStuff section that might make the process a little easier, and it even exports in the "official" format Steve wants.

If you use it please do me a favor, and let me know what you think, and if there are any problems.