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Sadly I am now in Florida or I could be interested

Something that has always bugged me about Hero as it developed is that its almost but not QUITE regular in some of the overlapping powers. Force Fields and Armor *aught* to be the same thing, one bought uses end and one not, for instance, but in practice the numbers don't quite work out that way. I'd love to see someone take a step back from all the existing work and ask "how many of these powers are really other powers with advantages/limitations" and then re-calculate the numbers so it really all adds up.

Do the "complete" books really have all of the 2 core rule books in them? Because what I want to do is build my own setting. Since my primary thrust is Fantasy i think id go for FH complete instead, if its the same difference...

On closer look, even the damaged copies of vol 1 are marked as "unavailable".

All I could find on the online store were "damaged cover" copies. Im thinking about catching up and updating my FRED but Id really like nice printed copies of the new rules.

Re: 6E Rules changes confirmed so far To be most playable, I would suggest that a game system SHOULD front load the hard things to build time as much as possible. I'd go so far as to suggest as this might be one of the most important game-design failures of Hero in later revisions. The sheer mass of bookeeping required during play-time.

Re: 6E Rules changes confirmed so far I've only ever used the hit location chart for 'called shots' in heroic level games.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Glad you enjoyed it. Jonnathan Coultion is very much a folk/pop net phenomenon and one of my favorite new talents. You can hear more of his stuff at his website... (or on real Rhapsody if you subscribe.) http://www.jonathancoulton.com/store/downloads/ He's actually got a pretty big underground/folk rep already. He wrote an produced the "Code Monkey" song that was used as the theme for a TV show as well as the song at the end of Portal. Edit: P.S. Here's one of my absolute favorites... http://www.jonathancoulton.com/music/thingaweek/ReYourBrains.mp3

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares No

Re: Why are so many people upset that Cryptic is only using the Champions IP? Ignoring for a moment the question of right to use rules... (see Parker Bros. v. Anti Monpopoly. The upshot is that Copyright with regard to written works only covers text and artwork, not ideas, and rules systems are ideas. Trademark, often misunderstood, only cover your right not to have someone make your customers think they are you.) I'm not upset that they arent using HERO rules. I've just lost any interest in the project. Its like a Champions cartoon to me, and I wouldn't watch that, either. However I think they have made a big mistake in that the rules ARE of core interest to the Champions core audience.... and I'm not sure that they haven't just lost most of not all marketing value to the IP.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares SOunds exactly like what the Crytpic Champions game will be.... You just described the mindest of CoH players to a T. One of the reasons I burned out on the game...

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Hmm Elrond the elf. L Ron the Hubbard Who's the third?

Re: Need a reasonably well known charcter idea Oh and my write up of Jin is pretty basic. I had to turn it out quick and this is a 150 pt game. By the time I got done buying him Kinjitsu (sp?) with the Damage Shield option there wasn't a lot more to do beside a guess at stats, some Acrobatics, and PS:Cooking. (I have a vague memory that it came up in an episode that he is actually a fine cook...) Side note while researching I found out something I always wondered about-- what the hell does "Champloo" mean. Turns out its a corrupted transliteration of the original Japanese word in the title. Actually translated the title would be "Samurai Mix-up" or "Samurai Remix" which explains the record album image in the opening credits.

Re: Need a reasonably well known charcter idea Well, yes, I'm sure there are earlier examples... But I personally found Adric to sort of be the absolute essence of the problem. YMMV. for your enjoyment... a plot treatment someone once told me at a con.. Wesley Must Die: The transporter goes berserk creating duplicates of Wesley Crusher leading to an all out "phasers on kill" Wesley hunt.

Re: The book I want more then any other.... I think the sheer size of the rule makes it slower, at least for me. It used to be (back in the second edition days) there there were a pretty small handful of powers to know and then it was just "get creative with adv/lim." A lot more is cannonzied now, so that means there is a lot more cannon you need to reference.