pbemguy

I can't be the only one who still uses pencil and paper? Like, no matter what edition, I still sit down with a piece of paper, a calculator, and the book. Does anyone else do this?
 
Well, these days I usually use Notepad and a PDF of the rules--usually it's 5e, but I have 3-6 as pdf files. And I have the Calculator open. I tried Heromaker but I really have always been in love with the pencil-and-paper method. I run mostly play-by-email games now--a lot!--but to me, the pencil/paper part of it is almost sacred. I find it *so* relaxing to work through the character creation "manually" I guess you'd call it.
 
Am I the only one?  (I have no problem with the software. But to me it's like, honestly, a microwave dinner compared to cooking it yourself. Like, I'd use the software in a pinch but it's not something I'd enjoy. Which is no offense, I think the software is well made.)
 
I guess I want to get a feel for how many people still do pencil and paper...?

Okay, that... is actually kind of cool.

I'm with you.

Entangle is ordinarily an Instant Power with continuing effect, so the Entangle would remain even when the points are switched elsewhere, unless the Entangle is built to require some kind of maintenance through END cost or otherwise. 

Thank you.
 
Prehaps we should have a page dedicated to common abbreviations defined, like OAF, OIAID, OCV, etc...
 
Might make the wiki newcomer friendly. 

And it was an excellent wiki. 

Same advice from me. If you enjoy what is coming in, then screw de rules, I've got green hair.
I believe this wiki will eventually boil down to what you experienced, except most of the material will come from me.

When I'm being paid to do something, I deliver what the customer wants. Otherwise I do what I want, for my own reasons and enjoyment...if other people like what I've done and find value in it, that's a happy coincidence. 
 
So, my advice to you is to do what you enjoy doing. 
 
 
As it happens, I hosted a FantasyHero wiki for a handful of years and ultimately shuttered it despite the platform having accumulated a fair amount of content. The main reason was, while a few people did put up some content, the majority of the material came from me and at a certain point it stopped making sense to me to continue to host a platform for collaboration when almost no one was actually using it to collaborate. Hopefully you'll have a better experience. 

I'm tinkering with some of my characters in regards to 6th. I may toss some at the wiki when I'm satisfied with them. Main issue would be imaging them.

I don't know much about the Wiki, actually. I'm just hoping against hope Surbrook's Stuff gets a new server or something similar emerges -- curated databases of created material for Hero including media adaptations.
 
I've already mentioned this to the pbemguy, but a little context on my signature quote that started this whole mess: before 6e came out, there was a thread about possible ad taglines for the new edition. Hence the quote, which was inspired by the ignored message at the end of all Oregon Lottery commercials of the time. 6e was not even out yet at the time, and was obviously a major topic of discussion -- most of which has since been lost. Many of the tweaks -- especially the elimination of Figured Characteristics and of the Comliness (COM) attribute -- were controversial, and while it was never at the point of an "edition war" there were people who continued to play 5e. I don't get to play any edition as much as I would like.
 
Now all six editions plus the two Complete editions are readily available online, and Hero just launched a Community Content program. Some would say the current creative state of the RPG field has passed crunchy systems like Hero by, but there is still a thirst for superhero-genre roleplaying and few games have ever done that genre better than Hero.

Just posted Lady Heart up. She needs the proper image and the copyright message up. But I am terrible at such things.

I don't think the Forum is the best indicator, given most posters were Hero fans first and Forum users afterwards.  It will have a lot greater percentage population familiar with older editions.
 
The difference between any two Hero editions is minimal compared to the shifts between 1/2e, 3e, 4e and 5e D&D.  IMO, at the 3e planning stage, the D&D designers decided to change "edition" to "new game iteration".  Even the most substantive changes in Hero are minor tweaks by comparison.

Let the people write in whatever edition they feel comfortably in. Then encourage them to upgrade or downgrade the character as they see fit, when they see fit. They still play with the BBB? Then there you go.

I'm not familiar with 6e. I can wade through Champions Complete and put together a character. But I don't have any innate feel for how that character would stack up against any other character, whether over-powered, under-powered, or just right. And honestly, I don't have much interest in wading through 6e products to try to make those comparisons. I don't have 6e books so I'd have to comb through the forums there then try to figure out whether the character I'm reading is supposed to be over-powered, under-powered, or just right and then guess whether the author succeeded in her attempt.
 
I'd recommend letting people post anything out of any edition, just label it accurately. Once the wiki gets a large amount of content so that it is a useful reference for people to browse through, we could ask for volunteers to update the existing characters to 5e or 6e as appropriate.
 
I would also recommend allowing people to post stubs, reserving a character or organization name until the author has the time to post and flesh out her idea. And requesting that other people not touch a stub until the author completes her work. Maybe date the stub when it is created and let the stub exist for at least 6 months without the author finishing it up or at least making major progress.
 
I've got some ideas that I'd like to write up. But since the wiki started, I've had a kid come down with COVID-19, my wife in and out of the hospital twice, thrown my back out so that it's painful to stand or sit, and we've hit politics season (my personal SuperBowl).
 
I've been lucky to make it to the grocery store, my doctor appointments, the pharmacy, and to get the dishes washed once in a while. I'm not keeping up with the laundry at all. So it's difficult to amp myself up to doing anything creative, even with ideas rolling around in my head.

I don't have a solid answer, but there is a sharp divide between 1st through 5th edition and 6th edition. 
I don't think the polls as written here are really a reliable indicator because you get a lot of "I picked X because Y but I really would have preferred Z".  I play more D&D 5th than anything right now, but it is my least favorite RPG. 
 
I didn't see any navigation tabs, drop-downs or well anything navigation so I don't really know what you are trying to do.  But if it is intended to be something like the Forgotten Realms wiki, once you add something like their "Portals" to organize it a bit you may see some more participation.  Maybe add some templates for things like NPC's, Vehicles, Equipment and so on so things are standardized.  
 
But as for edition, my question is why are you worrying about whether it is in 6th or another version?  The flavor text/descriptive section doesn't care about edition.  Just provide a template for each version and require the files to contain their version in the file name.  Instead of "Mister Wicked" name they file "Mister Wicked [6ed]". 
Then encourage people to just submit stuff.  If I am a 5thR player and I see that the Villain I want is written for 6th, it will encourage me to make a 5thR conversion and post that one. 
Just a thought.
 
 

Surveys here have pretty consistently shown 5e with a lower player base than either 4th or 6th.  My guess is that the people who were dissatisfied with 4e moved to 5e when it came out, and then a number of them moved to 6e, while a number of other new players have joined.  
 
I'd say leave it at 6e.  If people want it in other editions, it's not that hard to translate.

Funny, because I get the opposite reaction from the quote.
 
It's for *entertainment*.  Enjoy playing with it.

I developed an ersatz set of Avengers once for a different game system
 
Quicksilver Girl:  An artificially intelligent mass of nanotechnology with stretching and shapeshifting powers which prefers to turn into a young woman when not in combat.  Superhumanly strong.  Also able to control computers.  Created to spy on the Squad by an enemy she decided she liked them and joined the team.  
 
Kid Chaos:  Quicksilver Girl's boyfriend he has luck themed powers as in he can give people and things crippling bad luck and he's quite lucky himself.   
 
Able Archer II:  Gimmick archer.  Legacy hero his father was an assassin who became a vigilante after he lost his CIA job in the wake of the end of the Cold War.   Able II carried on the name but developed gimmick arrows so he could be less lethal in in his crime fighting.     
 
Solar Max:  After a weird solar flare left him the sole survivor of a solar observatory in space, Max found his own body generating an increasing energy buildup and had to build a suit of powered armour with himself as the power source to bleed off the energy before he exploded.  
 
Gossamer Wing:  A literal fairy Gossamer can grow to human size.  She can also sing sonic attacks.  
 
Spriggan:  Gossamer Wing's sometime boyfriend, he can grow from dwarf sized to a super-strong giant.  
 
Valiant:  Another legacy hero, his father, Legend, is centuries old.  Both are vulnerable to the philosopher's stone/red mercury that originally gave Legend his powers.  They are bog standard flying bricks.  
 
I never thought of a good shadow for Captain America.  
 
 

I have an idea that takes the Avengers prompt one step further. I want to base this team on the Avengers but flip the genders of the team and shove in some JLA references. (By the way, could we use "The Guardians" as a team name? That would be a nice hat tip.)
 
Anyway, my proposed team:
 
a female archer
a female brick
a goddess (with a shield) *
a woman with power armor
a non-powered male superagent**
 
*This one will do triple duty: inspired by Captain America and Thor, with a dash of Wonder Woman
**Inspired by Black Widow, but with a dash of Nightwing/Batman

Hmmm.  For this team, how about the Knights Errant.  The building name's pretty open;  one can incorporate Tower, Castle, or Keep with whatever concept you like.  Castle and Keep might be off in Westchester or out on Long Island;  Tower can be Manhattan easily enough.
 
Some other team ideas...
 
--The Valkyries, an all-female, perhaps all-flyer team.  Their base might be the Valhalla Building.
--Daoine Sidhe, or Seelie Court...could raise some hackles in the game world, so I don't like it as the major team's name.  A central aspect?  Everyone has to either be gorgeous (I wouldn't require Striking Appearance but it'd help) or connect in some way to Celtic myth.  
--IIRC, in one of the superhero novel series, the major European team calls itself The Pantheon.  Kinda over the top but in an Avengers-style "world's mightiest heroes" mode, why not?
--Fire Watch?  The PR is kinda built in.  Avoids Watchmen and Night Watch, which I like but will have a fair bit of player baggage...not necessarily in-game, but metagame.  Note that this could be a very nice complementary team;  less about combat powers, more about detection/intel/tactics.  A similar vein...especially if these heroes aren't worried about small, local threats very much, might be High Watch.

I like "Second Chances" (s06e24). The concept blew my socks off when I first saw it and I still love it.
Commander Riker comes face to face with an exact duplicate of himself, created years earlier by a transporter phenomenon.
 
"Tin Man" (s03e20) is also one of my favorites:
Telepath Tam Elbrun (Harry Groener) joins the crew to investigate a bio ship detected near a star about to go supernova. As the crew investigates, the Romulans threaten the Enterprise and the creature, Gomtuu, and Elbrun boards it with Lt. Commander Data.
 
Honorable mention: "The Outrageous Okona" (s02e04) because of Billy Campbell (didja know he was in the running to play Riker?). And Teri Hatcher is also in it.
As the Federation starship Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, passes through the Coalition of Madena, it detects a small cargo ship, under manual control by its single occupant. The crew makes contact with the pilot, Captain Thadiun Okona (Billy Campbell), who requests help to repair a part on his ship. Captain Picard agrees, and the Enterprise tows Okona's ship while Okona is brought on board. The crew soon finds that Okona has taken a keen interest in the women on the ship, beginning with Transporter Chief Robinson (Teri Hatcher in an uncredited role) and is in no rush to effect repairs.
 
I also enjoy any Ensign Ro episode. I just really like her character.

This is how I see it:
 
We are building the wiki in 6e. I foresee a lot of 5e conversions--I still use 5e a lot. I see 4e as being big too--I love that book. I could be wrong, but I foresee less 3e and below conversions. (Don't hate me, I played all the versions, and I probably spent the most tabletop time in 3e.)
 
Champions Now, I'd love to see conversions to that. Fuzion...why not? I think this forum might not have a lot of Fuzion players but I absolutely would not block that. 
 
But I feel that--for the sake of propagating Champions--we have to keep 6e as the main, even though I personally play 5e more.

I'm with you.

I going to chuck in Encounter at Farpoint. Without this you don't get the rest and it has a McCoy cameo
A Matter of Honor which has Riker joining a Klingon ship
The Emissary with a shipload of Klingons coming out of suspended animation having to be brought back to life
Booby Trap wherein LaForge falls in love
Deja Q. Q is stripped of his powers
A Matter of Perspective. In which Riker is accused of murder. I like Rashamon stories
Sins of the Father. Was Worf's father a traitor ?
Sarek. Spock's father needs help
Reunion. Worf's lover returns
Galaxy's Child. An alien thinks the Enterprise is its mother
Identity Crisis. LaForge becomes an alien
The Drumhead. Are there traitors on the Enterprise
Darmok. Communication problems with an alien species
Ensign Ro. I like Michelle Forbes. Deal with it.
Unification. Spock and the Romulans
Conundrum. Suddenly the crew acquire a new officer 
Cause and Effect. A time loop episode
The Next Phase. Are LaForge and Ro dead ?
Time's Arrow. Guinan meets Picard for the first time.
Relics. Here comes Scotty
Birthright. Is Worf's father alive
Starship Mine. The ship gets a cleaning
Descent. Lore and the Borg
Gambit. Is Picard dead ?
Parallels. Worf is in alternate realities.
The Pegasus. Don't meddle with another races's technology it will go badly

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