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    Amorkca got a reaction from Duke Bushido in Origins, practice, and recaps   
    Really enjoying your story Duke!!
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    Amorkca got a reaction from Mark Rand in The Light-Fingered Lady   
    Would heroes who use the Bar set aside time to deal with the lawlessness so it doesn't move?
     
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    Amorkca got a reaction from Khymeria in The Light-Fingered Lady   
    Would heroes who use the Bar set aside time to deal with the lawlessness so it doesn't move?
     
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    Amorkca reacted to Tom Cowan in Armor Piercing vs Penetrating   
    Here is a nice one for penetration.  How long can you stand that 'imp' that can 'sing' polka music at 150 dB?
    Mental Illusions 1d6, Invisible Power Effects (Invisible to Mental Group; +1/4), Penetrating (+1/2), Constant (+1/2), Cumulative (384 points; +2) (21 Active Points)
    so evil, and cheep
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    Amorkca reacted to Susano in Strike Force Organizations   
    I intend to present all of the additional information Aaron had in his notes, as well as full-updated character sheets.
     
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    Amorkca got a reaction from Khymeria in Forgotten Organizations   
    Nooooooo
     
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    Amorkca got a reaction from Ndreare in HERO System Mobile   
    Can I take a randomly generated character and export it back to Hero Designer?
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    Amorkca got a reaction from Lord Liaden in Question for Canadians: Where could one put a Fictional City in CU Canada ?   
    I took the supplement Meriquai Falls (available here in the store) and placed it in Saskatchewan, between Regina (Capital) and Saskatoon.
     
     
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    Amorkca got a reaction from Hermit in Question for Canadians: Where could one put a Fictional City in CU Canada ?   
    I took the supplement Meriquai Falls (available here in the store) and placed it in Saskatchewan, between Regina (Capital) and Saskatoon.
     
     
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    Amorkca reacted to Scott Ruggels in Cardboard Heroes for Champions?!? Does anyone have these?   
    I know Dennis a little.  For the 40th Anniversary at Steve Petersen’s house, he brought photos and a portfolio of his work.  All of the cardboard heroes were generated new because they needed front and back views.  The colors were P. H. Martin’s vibrant watercolors.  They were done 150% scale and reduced for printing.  They were originally made for Steve Jackson’s The Fantasy Trip, but Aaron convinced Steve to make sets for Champions.  
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    Amorkca reacted to Ninja-Bear in Sell Me on Heroes In A Hurry   
    I’m going to ask for it for Father’s Day.
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    Amorkca reacted to Chris Goodwin in Is it possible Hero Games could support the Open RPG Creative (ORC) License in some way?   
    I'm aware Hero Games will likely never release any part of the HERO System under any kind of open license, and I'm okay with that.  But, is there any way Hero Games could support the effort by Paizo, Kobold Press, and others, with the ORC?  
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    Amorkca reacted to Lawnmower Boy in Company on the drawing board: Locke & Keyes Secure Storage   
    The storage unit was a blast from the past. To her left, Abbie could see their old Candyland game, perched on the top of a crammed, opened packing box. Ahead against the metal wall, behind the old treadmill, was that big painting of Gramps and Gram that they were going to have in the living room when they had a real house again.
     
    It was like a nostalgia blast, but that didn't change the fact that Abbie couldn't see the chemical toilet from their old camper that Dad positively swore he'd left from when he was living in the unit during the pandemic. That was Dad.
     
    Abbie looked at Mom, who bit her lip. "Looks like we're going to have to go down to the Wendy's at the corner."
     
    Connor picked right up at that. "Can I get a flurry?"
     
    "Don't be dumb, Connor," Abbie said. 
     
    "Abbie, Connor . . . We have a budget. We'll have breakfast at the apartment after we pick up the keys tomorrow morning." She paused. "Tell you what. I'll text Mr. Mueller and remind him he still owes us the deposit for the old place. If he puts the money in my account, we can all have something at Wendy's." 
     
    Yeah, Abbie thought. That's not in the budget 'cuz, like, no-one thought Mr. Mueller was going to pay the deposit back. "Let's go," Abbie said. "I need to pee." Which she didn't, but Connor probably did, and they needed to get on with it. 
     
    A minute later, they were staring at a blank wall where there was supposed to be a door out of the storage unit building at the bottom of the stairwell outside their unit. Weird. It's not like it was a complicated building, just a big old stack of a building laid out like a big "B," just like the Projects their cousin,  Bessie, lived in.
     
    Connor, who had gone down the stairs two flights ahead of them and was already back on the floor with the unit, above them, "scouting," shouted down. "This is the wrong stairwell. There's another one right after it."
     
    This doesn't make sense, Abbie thought to herself, as she walked down the second stairwell, right after the first. But whether or not it made sense, there was a street level door, and so they walked out of it. Into a night that was a lot colder than they remembered.
     
    And different. Across the narrow parking lot, through a chain link fence and up a slight slope, traffic whizzed through the drizzly night on an eight lane Interstate that Abbie didn't remember from when they drove to the unit. There was no Interstate a block over from Terminal! Was there? Not the kind of thing you'd forget, and, more importantly, now she did need to pee, and there was no Wendy's in sight. 
     
    "We must be turned around," Mom said, sounding very sure of herself the way grown-ups got when you just knew they were wrong. But that didn't change the fact that they needed to walk around the building so that they could see where they'd come in off Terminal Avenue and get to the Wendy's.
     
    Except when they cleared the corner of the building, there was no exit onto Terminal, no Wendy's at the corner. What there was, was a bigger parking lot fronting a lot of other storage buildings that definitely hadn't been there when the Uber dropped them off. And beyond that there was a skiff of trees and a fence, and in front of them an elevated roadway above eight tracks of railroad that definitely hadn't been there before. 
     
    Mom went into the front office to talk to the super-creepy security guard, but he made her buzz in alone, leaving Abbie and Connor to huddle against the cold.
     
    "What's the Chronopolis and Erewhon Road?" Connor asked. It sounded like a railroad, and a train was just starting up below them. Squinting, Abbie read the words off the  livery on a container unit. The next one said "Piper & Norton," and that didn't ring a bell, either. 
     
    Mom came out of the office. "The guard says that there's a 7-11 just across the bridge. And he says to make sure that we go back into the right unit when we get back, and block the storage unit door from the inside. And that maybe the stairwell will work in the morning."
     
    Abbie looked back through the window into the security kiosk. The guard looked back at her. Did he have fangs? "Isn't he supposed to stop people from staying in the units? That's what Dad says."
     
    "I don't want to stay here overnight," Connor yelled. 
     
    Her Mom sighed. "Maybe the 7-11 will have the number for a shelter or something. There's got to be something in this city."
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    Amorkca reacted to Lawnmower Boy in Company on the drawing board: Locke & Keyes Secure Storage   
    The site operator suddenly looked very nervous as he stared at the phone being held out to him. Morning Glory could have that effect on people when she turned serious. "So the fisheye camera at the end of the hall picked up them up when they left the elevator. As you see, they walk down to their storage unit, key the door, and enter. I understand that you have no coverage of the unit itself, but we should see them leave, because they're not there now. Now, here. See this black line in the middle of the image?'
     
    "The system can be a bit tricky to use." the manager started. "I've never seen anything like that, though." On the one hand, Sapper thought, he might be lying. On the other, he'd better not. Mundane people did not get away with lying to Morning Glory.
     
    "Oh, I completely understand. I'm so grateful that you took the time to download this record and send it to us. But if you'll look at the timestamp, it changes on either side of the line. That's an edit of--" Morning Glory paused, brought the phone to her face to theatrically peer at it for a moment-- "Twenty minutes. And that's it. A single mother and two kids. Missing, according to our information. I'm sure that Locke and Keyes corporate is eager to resolve this." 
     
    The site manager blanched, and didn't say anything.
     
    "If you know who might have tampered with this recording while extracting it," Morning Glory prompted, "This would be a good time to clear the air." But no air was going to be cleared, it seemed.
     
    His boss, Sapper thought to himself. It was his boss that faked the tape.
     
    Tag, meanwhile, continued to rifle through the typical household furnishings and assorted random boxes that filled the storage unit less than a quarter of the way. It was a bit sad, thought Sapper. Hey, Candyland. I used to play that with my niece! "Toilet," Tag announced. 
     
    "I'm sorry, Tagline?" Morning Glory was one hundred percent doing her team leader  thing, now.
     
    "My . . . informants said that there was supposed to be a toilet in here. Looks like it was removed for some reason, and someone forgot to put it back. They went looking for a washroom."
     
    Sapper was in charge of the team's big dumb muscle, not deep thought and twelve-dimensional chess, but he wasn't so dumb that he hadn't noticed Tag referring to his ex and two kids, or how tight money was for them in this rental market. Informants, right. He could also hear the guilt in Tag's voice. This probably explained why there'd been a portable toilet in the garden shed back at base for the last year. And if Sapper hadn't taken charge of landscaping, Tag might have noticed by now. Guilt for everybody!
     
    "Nothing in the building," Groundstar announced. "My drones see a Wendy's just down the street on Terminal, closest public facility. But I'm accessing payment records and cams, no sign of the party from last night. If they left the building, they didn't make it to the restaurant." 
     
    "They didn't have a key!" the manager blurted.
     
    "I'm sorry," Morning Glory said. "I don't understand."
     
    "With just an access card, visitors can't stop the elevator at ground level. They  have to go in and out via the parkade. It's for security. But if you wanted to go to the Wendy's it would be easier to exit the building on the ground level, which is down the stairs, which are right over here." As he spoke, the manager backed out of the storage room and walked a few paces down the hall towards the big, brightly lit sign that said "Stairs," edging noticeably aside as he went past the door marked "Premium Unit." 
     
    Only Sapper's Horse Sense(tm) was screaming at him that something was very, very wrong with that door. Sapper wasn't born yesterday. (In fact, Sapper was born on February 29th, 1992. It was a thing.) So he formed a billhook out of his Shaping Force and got ready to drag the manager out of the way of whatever tentacle or tendril (after hanging around with Morning Glory for three years, Sapper was always up for a tendril) was about to jump out of the "Premium" storage area. Speaking of things Sapper had learned through his colleagues, Groundstar loved jump scares.
     
    It wasn't a tentacle, though, but rather a . . . towel? A long, flowing, slightly raggy piece of cloth, anyway. Sapper was not, however, quite fast enough to do the rescuing, as Morning Glory  blazed past him and dragged the manager out of the way. Great. She'd be hell coming down in the morning. Sapper reshaped his billhook into a halberd, his favourite solution to all of life's difficulties, and also opportunities, and moved towards the door, slashing the towel as he did so. A stinking, dirty, smelly, cloud of dust filled the hallway as he came even with the door, which had stopped being a door, and was suddenly a blank slab of darkness in which an ancient castle, lit by stars and a gibbous moon, loomed across a lifeless, dark landscape. And an army of animated skeletons, flashes of ivory bone showing through the tears and tatters of what had once been richly embroidered robes, heavy with dust that sat strangely on the rags, which, come to think of it, sat strangely on the skeletal frames of their wearers. Was there even air on the other side of the door? And, if there wasn't, what was keeping the vacuum from pulling them in? And, more to the point, what kind of things would anyone want to store in a "Premium Unit" like that?
     
    As if in telepathic response to Sapper's thoughts, the head of an honest-to-gosh dragon poked above the parapets of the castle. "Ghostbusters, Sapper muttered."
     
    "What?" asked Geostar.
     
    "Staypuft," Tag answered, obviously following Sapper's chain of thought a bit more closely. "Don't think about the Staypuft Man. Distract yourself by doing something. Like beating up a dragon until it gives my ..the kids back."
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    Amorkca reacted to assault in Castle of Gallon   
    Interesting. So at one point, the small castle of Gallon was the centre of a kingdom large enough to have at least one Count subordinate to it.
     
    It's still powerful enough to have waged a multi-year war.
     
    That's pretty much the kind of thing I'm looking for.
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    Amorkca reacted to Ninja-Bear in Running Viper’s Nest   
    I just ran a battle of 4 standard viper agents versus Powerhouse. And they were able to knock him out for a phase but luckily he was able to recover in time. Still I’m definitely going to reduce those agents to 6D6 EB. And not have them use Find Weakness.  
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    Amorkca reacted to Tom Cowan in Powerhouse 4th ed Villain   
    I have played in a game where VIPER made a lot of the villains.  They also only got one super out of 100-1,000 'tests' the rest... missing person.
    We got a tape of a nest leader saying 'So, Five Supers with only 2,500 dead from treatment Xz-123-a16-alpha.  So, the answer is, yes, we can create Super at will.  The next 'test' better work better.  How is Xz-123-b3 coming along?  You need to boost the power levels of our new Supers and get the cost down. If you can't cut the dose cost then work on cutting the death rate, and see if you can cut the rogue rate to. I hate to see us lose a Super that we made."
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    Amorkca reacted to Ninja-Bear in Powerhouse 4th ed Villain   
    @Lord Liadenyou know who stays with just the BBB? Poor ones. 😜
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    Amorkca reacted to Duke Bushido in Holiday-Themed CU Villains   
    Was working on a series of thematic adventures when the computer started to disagree with various websites (to include my G-drive, where last year's work is stored).
     
    The set up is "magic rock causes random havoc as it resurfaces across the best parts if the year."
     
    Short version?  Foxbat stole it because he needed a cool stone to use as the head of his walking stick to really sell himself as a revival preacher to ensure the success of his church scam.
     
    Magic rock creates lors and lots of zombies (this was the Halloween game).
     
    I had just started to write the nexr bit when I got locked out of G-drive (could I do it from my phone?  Sure; I can- and have-accessed it.  But look at my posts from this phone!  Can you imagine trying to write up lengrhy adventures like this?!)
     
    Anyway, we played that one on through Thanksgiving (so I will have to write that one later) and I decided to skip ahead to December.
     
    Without giving away too much about the adventure itself (I have heaed a rumor that one of my youth group players has been lurking here), the title of the adventure and the stones strange life-giving powers should tell you all that you want to know:
     
    "...Oh, Christmas Treant, oh Christmas Treant..."
     
     
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    Amorkca reacted to ccastan in Roll20 Project: End of Week Update #1   
    We are happy to let everyone know that the Roll20 Project's been submitted to Roll20 for review and approval and we should get a response within a week or two. Once that is done, assuming that we don't have to make any updates, the project will be ready to launch. 
     
    The Champions Complete Compendium package will be available for $29.99. Below we've included some additional information about it's content.
    Product Information
    The Champions Complete Bundle
    Includes everything new and experience players need:
    Champions Complete Compendium: The Core Rules for Champions Complete based on the Hero System 6E Rules Champions Begins: A set of quick-start rules and to help new players learn the system while playing. It includes a rebooted classic module, Viper's Nest. Champions Complete - Heroes and Villains: This Add-on includes the tokens and character sheets for the iconic Champions superhero team, and Villains included in the Champions Complete Core Rule Book. Compendium
    You can access the Compendium Book content in the in-app compendium, as well as on the Roll20 web compendium. Champions Begins
    This product module includes:
    The Player Book: Introduces players to the Champions Complete system The GM Book: Contains the classic reboot of the Viper's Nest Adventure and provides a progressive learn as you play style to get new GMs and players started with Champions Complete. Character Sheets and Tokens for 11 Pre-generated Characters. The Character Sheets content for each hero add additional information as new rules are introduced in each chapter. 21 Villain Character Sheets and Tokens to challenge your heroes through the Viper's Nest Adventure. 8 high quality maps and content tokens including Dynamic Maps for the VIPER Nest
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    Amorkca reacted to Duke Bushido in Supers Image game   
    I wont say you learn to like it, and you get used to it sounds too jaded, but I have buried all four grandparents, one father in law, one foster father, three uncles, a first wife, a dozen friends, two brothers and two children.
     
    It will never not be awful, but there is a point at which you just accept that the misery is normal.
     
     
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    Amorkca reacted to Chris Goodwin in Mental power   
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    Amorkca reacted to Simon in Elemental Control   
    May want to look under the Power Frameworks menu at the top of the Powers tab.
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    Amorkca reacted to HeroGM in Easter Playing & Beyond   
    Still playing around with formatting HTML and other stuff. Nothing serious yet.
     

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    Amorkca reacted to Joe Walsh in 2022 Q2 Notes From The Publisher   
    It's so great that one month later the Patreon is up to 46 members!
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