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That is so honestly true!! LOL

The game went well! Unfortunately, we lost about 2 hours trying to get Foundry to cooperate and get things set up, but they enjoyed the game, and were pleasantly surprised by how flexible Hero was compared to D&D, and they were able to do stuff without having to come up with crazy house rules and such. We are going to finish next Saturday, so I have a week to try to get Foundry to work better - if I can. Just wanted to give all of you a huge THANK YOU! for the scenario and character recommendations and such. It really helped a lot.

The game went well! Unfortunately, we lost about 2 hours trying to get Foundry to cooperate and get things set up, but they enjoyed the game, and were pleasantly surprised by how flexible Hero was compared to D&D, and they were able to do stuff without having to come up with crazy house rules and such. We are going to finish next Saturday, so I have a week to try to get Foundry to work better - if I can. Just wanted to give all of you a huge THANK YOU! for the scenario and character recommendations and such. It really helped a lot.

The game went well! Unfortunately, we lost about 2 hours trying to get Foundry to cooperate and get things set up, but they enjoyed the game, and were pleasantly surprised by how flexible Hero was compared to D&D, and they were able to do stuff without having to come up with crazy house rules and such. We are going to finish next Saturday, so I have a week to try to get Foundry to work better - if I can. Just wanted to give all of you a huge THANK YOU! for the scenario and character recommendations and such. It really helped a lot.

Squirrel Girl's character sheet is on Mike Surbrook's site.

Hey all. New to Foundry, but using Version 2 or the Module. I'm a little lost in Foundry, but starting to figure stuff out like rolling and what the various tools do. I was also able to upload an HDC to the module and it created a basic characters sheet, but didn't have any of the powers. A bit more serious is there doesn't appear to be a way to see more than 3 lines at the bottom. So I can only see 3 skills for example. I'm assuming that is a bug, but it could also just be me not knowing how to use it yet. Any chance someone might be able to show me around it a bit? Would love to use it for a game this Saturday to teach my son and his friends how to play.

Excellent suggestions, LL! Much appreciated. It has been ages since I gamed, so thank you for the reminder about Surbrook's Stuff. Indeed that is a great source. I may just run with Raven as is. Honestly, this is just a one-shot and if they like it then my son will start an actual campaign, so spending time bringing everything into alignment with 6e, would be overkill I think. I just want them to all have some fun and see that Hero is nothing to be afraid of.

For She-Hulk, my suggestion would be to base the character on the Experienced version of the "Jade Fury Brute" from Book of Templates I, but strip out all the rage-based Power upgrades, and adjust Skills to reflect Jen Walters' legal background.
 
For Raven, I recommend starting with this Fifth Edition write-up based on the animated Teen Titans series, from the great Surbrook's Stuff website (very worth exploring by any Herophile who hasn't yet).
 
Obviously, both of these options will require more effort than the Book of Templates to prepare for the players.

Just remember:
 
The easiest way to put together a four-hour session is to plan a thirty-minute one. 
 
 

Squirrel Girl couldn't beat Thanos on 4000 points, except by writer fiat.
 
 
 
Well, since you have many, I'll start with a list of all the Champions adventures in DH:
 
 
VIPER'S FOLDING NEST: VIPER has discovered the technology for the highly sought "teleport escape." But the technology did not come alone, and its price is perhaps too high even for VIPER... DH 1, PAGE 48

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR: AQUARIUS : An ice-themed Champions adventure, just the perfect thing for such cold weather. DH 7, PAGE 26

INFECTIOUS ENTHUSIASM: This complete adventure even includes the heroes, and is suitable to run as a convention game for beginners to Champions. DH 9, PAGE 34

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR: GEMINI: Super-villains on sale - buy one, get one free. Oh, wait, those villains are actually evil opposites of your heroes…DH 10, PAGE 21

UNEARTHED MECHANA: Villainous toys aren’t the only opponents in this adventure for a team of standard Champions superheroes. DH 12, PAGE 41

YOUR HOROSCOPE FOR: SCORPIO: Giant scorpions terrorize the city, but who is the all-American couple that keeps turning up along with them? DH 17, PAGE 22

FORCED EVOLUTION: A madman is threatening to turn the entire city into animal-men under his control. Can the city's Vindicators team stop him? DH 17, PAGE 28

AND THERE WAS BLOOD EVERYWHERE!: A giant blur on the satellite photo of Africa leads to unthinkable horrors for your Champions team. DH 24, PAGE 12

TSUNAMI: This Champions adventure sets your heroes against a group of villains planning to destroy the city in a gigantic wave. DH 27, PAGE 30

PROJECT: PREDATOR : Amnesiac mutants try to escape their captors and remain free in this mutants-on-the-run convention game. DH 29, PAGE 23

MURDER ON MONSTER ISLAND : Giant monsters of the world have been shipped off to Monster Island, under the supervision of Bureau 17. DH 32, PAGE 31

THROUGH A MIRROR DARKLY: The real Champions have been replaced by their evil counterparts. Your team of heroes is sent to the rescue. DH 38, PAGE 28

WAR OF THE WORLDS: CHAMPIONS : It’s 1902, and the Martians have invaded. Your steampunk superheroes are the last hope of humanity! DH 39, PAGE 34

CHAINS OF DOOM: Nazi gold, alchemy, legendary dwarves, occult schoolgirls, the mafia... What more could a Champions adventure need? DH 40, PAGE 20
 
 
Of that group, my top recommendations for your purpose would be "Infectious Enthusiasm" (just substitute your group's PCs for the included pregens) and "Unearthed Mechana," but most would be suitable. "And There Was Blood Everywhere!" is probably too mature and gruesome. "Project Predator," "Murder on Monster Island," and "War of the Worlds: Champions" are likely too setting-specific.

Mercurial Speedster in Book of Templates II is a good representation of 400 point speedster and how an irritable scion of the master of magnetism might look.
Intangible Teenager in Book of Templates I will give you Kitty. Combine with the Dragon Familiar for 400 point total and that is a pet dragon.
Arachnid Guy in Book of Templates I will give you a feel for a certain Congenial Local Webhead on 400 or 500 points. 
Acrobatic Ape Man in Book of Templates I is a take on one of my favorite comic characters, the furry blue or not yet furry blue guy. 
But, I will see what I come up with for Squirrel Girl. I don't know if she can beat Thanos on 400 but we shall see. 

Hey all, it has been ages since I posted here, kind of dropped out of the roleplaying scene due to life and other hobbies, but I'm hoping you all can help me out. My son wants to introduce his friends to Hero System to show them that there is more than just class-based systems like D&D available and how Hero can do anything. He is going to use pre-generated heroes for them to play from the Book of Templates, but doesn't know what to run as a one shot to introduce them to the system. He is new to GMing Hero as well, but has played with me GMing so knows the general gist of how it works. He doesn't want to go overboard with this one shot because he wants it to go relatively fast and be somewhat easy to work through the mechanics. I tossed around some ideas, but I haven't come up with anything I would consider solid. My best thought was grab an Enemies group out of one of the books and do the stereotypical bank robbery scenario.
 
I'll add that they will be playing remotely over the Internet, so they have to work around those aspects too.

It used to be offered for free on the Hero Games website, and thanks to the Internet Archive Wayback Machine, you can still download it: https://web.archive.org/web/20070401234700/http://www.herogames.com/FreeStuff/mods.htm
 
If you'd be willing to spend a small amount of money ($2.50 US), there are several Champions adventures in Digital Hero written for convention games, which would fit your situation very well. Most of them include NPCs, character artwork and maps. I'll offer suggestions if you're interested.

Do that. I will mock these up just for kicks no matter what. 

REALLY!?! That is really awesome of you. Thank you. Yeah there was a request for Squirrel Girl, Agent Coulson, and I think the Question. I had suggested that they think of comic/movie characters they are familiar with so that they would have a good launching pad for knowing what they could do even if all the scary numbers don't make sense. LOL I'll ask him what they will be using. I know for sure they use Discord in some capacity, but not sure if they use it for gaming per specifically. I'll get back to you.
I saw a mention of it being added to the "Free Stuff" section, but went I went to the store I didn't see it, so perhaps it is in a different place, or I missed it when searching?

Someone wrote a Viper scenario "Build a Better you.". It is totally usable as a four-hour session; I used it as an underpinning (combined it with a different into that I posted here called the Boneyard Scenario, then tossed in two or three other bits and a red herring and turned it into a campaign for the youth group that lasted an entire school year, so I am going to say that it is pretty flexible. 
 
 

Hey, I wrote the Book of Templates and this is pretty much the reason why, so new players could latch on. If they are using something like Roll20 I have tokens I colored from a lot of older products and happy to help them out however I can. I play on Discord and Roll20 since pandemic and The Island of Dr. Destroyer is a pretty good “get the group together adventure” but not a one-shot. Do you have any older products? I might have updated them for my game. Are they using Book of Templates I or II or both? If one of them want a character that isn’t listed let me know, I will build them one.  

Hey all, it has been ages since I posted here, kind of dropped out of the roleplaying scene due to life and other hobbies, but I'm hoping you all can help me out. My son wants to introduce his friends to Hero System to show them that there is more than just class-based systems like D&D available and how Hero can do anything. He is going to use pre-generated heroes for them to play from the Book of Templates, but doesn't know what to run as a one shot to introduce them to the system. He is new to GMing Hero as well, but has played with me GMing so knows the general gist of how it works. He doesn't want to go overboard with this one shot because he wants it to go relatively fast and be somewhat easy to work through the mechanics. I tossed around some ideas, but I haven't come up with anything I would consider solid. My best thought was grab an Enemies group out of one of the books and do the stereotypical bank robbery scenario.
 
I'll add that they will be playing remotely over the Internet, so they have to work around those aspects too.

It was written for 6th edition, however with relatively minor changes it will support preceding editions. 
 
The quickest way mechanically would be to convert the character in hero designer to 6th using the following page.

https://ttsheromod.mywikis.net/wiki/Converting_5th_to_6th

 

With regard to the Mini-Hud update .. it is a component from another mod that I put into mine. 
Click the power button in front of it
and then look in the top right hand corner of the window that pops out
click on the cog and follow the instructions it shows

 
With regard to 5e, it is not the primary thrust of my work. There is an 5e version of the exporter that is behind the development of the 6e version.
 
https://github.com/Brennall/tts-hero-mod/blob/master/JsonExporter5th.hde
 
Please note the 5e exporter is not actively supported. 
 

Hello @Simon would it be possible to get skill base characteristic added as a tag for the exporter please: -
 
<!--BASE_CHARACTERISTIC--> 
 
Which would return the characteristic used as the base for the skill (e.g. STR, INT, DEX etc) or if none used then "GENERAL".
 
This will enable me to annotate base skill on the character sheet if the player is affected by Drain etc :-
 
Acrobatics 8- (DEX)
Science Physics 11- (GENERAL)
Science Chemistry 14- (INT)

 

Just in case you would thinks have not been moving forward ... 
 

Hello @Simon would it be possible to get skill proficiency and familiarity added as tags for the exporter please: -
 
<!--IS_PROFICIENCY--> 
<!--IS_FAMILIARITY-->
 
So I can add things to the end of the description on export such as: -

Acrobatics 8- (familiarity)
Deduction 10- (proficiency)
 

@Territan I suggest linking in this thread for latest information
 
The mod is already released in Beta and active with over 1000 subscribers to date.
 
If you wish to help out with the mod and the work to move it to full release join use on the Discord here: -
 
https://discord.gg/HcUJvJH
 
Please msg me on the discord if you need any help.
 
To see what the latest changes and tutorials you can find and subscribe to them here: -
 
 
 
Enjoy!

As we approaching the release of the Mod I thought breaking off a new topic focused on the Mod itself would be wise.

Here is an update on the current benefits of the Hero System Mod for Tabletop Simulator.
 
Import from Hero Designer
 
Onscreen Combat Record with sections for: -
Primary and Secondary stats Movement types Distance/range finder Ability to alter stats Skills list Maneuvers/ Martial arts list Locational hits Quick dice roller Custom Dice Roll list with roll editor.  
Where possible all of the above allow the "Click to roll" Dice rolls and modifiers for: -
Stat rolls Skill Rolls To hit rolls Manoeuvres Normal Damage Killing Damage  
Onscreen Combat Turn manager
Keeping track of turns, segments and phases for all participants. Displays Speed, dexterity and future phases for all participants. Allows the Gm to activate, hold and abort phases for all participants  Logging all combat activities and times. Can hold a full or half phase till it is activated. Add or remove combatants Display a visual turn track of the next 12 segments including post segment 12 Free floating windows for the combat manager and combat records enable players to focus on the action. Gm can have up to 16 active combat records at any time. Each combat record can be used to run multiple characters (mooks)
General benefits
3d environment with lighting Lots of models and easy to make your own  Supports “flat” figures so any digital assets in Roll20 can be moved. Support for maps from any digital source Hex grid in game over any map Can be scaled to meet your needs Pdf support so you can bring in manuals or character sheets (or just use them in the real world)
Voice support in game or via discord