Gary Miles

You want them to look like money flowing into your bank account.

I found these at the local Comic store. They are metal,  about 40mm tall, and these are two of the three boxes. They cost me about $12 per box, so they weren't a painful expense.  IF one feels ambitions you could drop them in paint remover, clean, re-prime, and paint to your own heroes."

 
 
As to their use, for any sort of tactical combat game, which Champions is one of them, I find Maps and miniatures mandatory, because it allows everyone to agree on the same  terrain, and can plan their moves. It also keeps people more involved, planning out their next moves.  We didn't build a lot of terrain features, but drew the terrain out on 25mm Hex Chessex Maps, using  Stadtler Wasserlosich pens to  line out what the terrain was for the night, and using matchbox cars and 1/72 scale model kits of vehicles if available (because supers toss cars).   Now granted, I came into this hobby, from tabletop war games, so I am used to reading the maps and boards, because "Theater of The Mind", doesn't always do it for me. But having the maps helps in my experience, to give people more tactical  options. Hope this helps.

 

What Capitol Police looked like during the Black Lives Matter protest.
 

I said to my daughter, "I wonder how many of them will get arrested" and she scoffed, "None, they're white.  White people don't get arrested."

And as I posted before, how or why did the Dems fail to work their magic fraud down the ballot to produce a Blue Wave in Congress and state houses? The Conspiracy is always omnipotent where it needs to be, but childishly idiotic where it needs to be.
 
Dean Shomshak

Very surprised no-one mentioned "The Phantom", with Billy Zane. Excellent pulp story played straight... which might be why it didn't do very well at the box office.  It included a LOT of the lore of the Ghost Who Walks:  the skull signet ring, that leaves an indelible brand; the father-to-son tradition of the mantle of the Phantom; Skull Island itself, complete with natives who call the Phantom "Ghost Who Walks", and "Uncle Walker"... just like in the newspapers!
 
The movie presented a pulpy-good story that ranged from pre-WWII New York to Skull Island in the South Pacific.  There was the requisite diabolical villain (industrialist and pre-war ally of the Germans), who off-handedly blinds a treacherous underling with a gimmicked microscope), and a henchwoman in black leather (a sadistic lady pilot played by, I believe, a young Catherine Zeta Jones).  And the hero is noble, a little bit mysterious and splendidly, athletically two-fisted (Billy Zane did his own stunts).  There's also a love interest, because there always has to be in the pulps, but tellingly, I don't remember anything about her... except that her father was, I think, a newspaper magnate, and she worked for him as a reporter.
 
And they all played it straight! (Perhaps too straight, in the case of The Phantom's pale-purple bodysuit... which was, I think, taken from the look of his costume in the earliest days of colour newsprint.)  It's a movie I liked a lot, and it's one I actually bought on videocassette (lo these many years ago).

I love using the islands of the South Pacific for pulp games.  Only Angles Have Wings is one of my favorites to crib flavor bits from.

I don't know if it has been shown where you are but "Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries" is worth a look (set in Melbourne, Australia in the 1920's) is another good Pulp crime detective show.

Has "Cast A Deadly Spell" been mentioned ? Horror/detective with a hero named Phil Lovecraft in a world where magic works, what's not to like ?

I posted a link to this on this thread a while back, but as that link is now moribund I guess it bears repeating: Flash Gordon The Greatest Adventure of All is an animated movie created by Filmation in 1979, which was the basis for their watered-down NBC Saturday-morning cartoon series. The movie itself was finally shown in its entirety on prime-time television in 1982.
 
This is one of the most faithful adaptations of the style and characters of the original comic strips ever committed to film, much more mature than the series version. The voice acting is top-notch, and the animation is high quality and ground-breaking for the era.
 
A VHS version of the movie has been uploaded to some websites in the past, but this upload is reportedly from a rare laserdisc rip and is of higher quality.

In my opinion, players optimizing their character points (using characteristic break-points, rare Limitations, etc.) isn't necessarily breaking the system, and it doesn't stop them from also being good roleplayers.  I say "necessarily" because there are obviously instances where things can get abusive, and it's up to the GM to disallow them.  But buying your DEX at 18 instead of 17 or Spidey's webshooters as an IIF?  Pffft.  No big deal there, at least to me.
 
I'll also say that, as GM, I practice the "good for the goose, good for the gander" method of character generation.  If you as a player want to have a potentially abusive construction and I as GM decide to allow it, you shouldn't be surprised if the bad guys end up doing the same, or at least similarly.  And vice versa -- if as GM I take advantage of a quirk in the rules, I can't stop the players from doing the same.  This has kept me from doing many things that could be seen as powergaming, and IMO has also helped keep my players in check because I've explained that philosophy to them.
 
As to rare Limitations, well, it's the GM's job that those come into play an appropriate amount of the time, even if that means tweaking things to make that happen.  In my recently-ended campaign, the team mentalist (male player, female character) had about 90% of her powers bought as two different "Unified Powers" - one for psionics (Telepathy, Mental Illusion, etc.) and one for telekinetics (defenses, flight, etc.).  During play, that Limitation came into play only once that I recall, and the player started to object when all of the character's psionic powers began to go away just because someone was draining Telepathy.  When I pointed out that in three years of play, this was the first time that had come into play and he knew what Unified Power did when he chose to use it, he sat back and took his lumps.
 
Using Spidey's webshooters as an example, I recall at least one time where some brick-type grabbed his wrists and squeezed, breaking his webshooters.  Well, that's the price you pay for having them as an IIF.  Similarly, even if you have a ton of Charges, well, guess what, you put those on Clips, and sometimes cross-town webswinging followed by happening upon a crime in progress is going to result in you running out of web fluid in your current Clip at an inopportune time.  Seen that happen many times in Spider-Man comics.
 
As to your specific example, I'd say that if you're trying to avoid the invisibility's "fringe" by using Stretching... well, as soon as your arm (or reach weapon, or whatever) comes within 2m of them, they know where you are (with a normal PER roll) and can attack you.  Period.  You can say, "They know where my *weapon* is, not me" all you want, but it doesn't take a tactical genius to figure out where you're standing based upon your weapon's position and orientation.  Sorry, bucko, them's the breaks.  (And my apologies in advance if all of that has nothing to do with your example and I was jumping to conclusions.  This is just my opinion as a frequent GM.) 

I think as a general statement that yes it is bad. By that I mean people should be building to their concept, not to the point breaks or such. In your exact example of buying DEX at 18 instead of 17 because the breakpoint is at 18 is a perfect example of this. A character "shouldn't" be buying DEX or any other stat at the break points, or at higher point levels, if it isn't part of their concept/build. If the (starting) character should only have a 12 DEX then the player should buy it at 12, not 16, 17, or especially 18 because of the break point. 
 
The chart in the main book pretty much shows what the stats are equal to IRL, with 20 being pretty much MAX human. Someone with a STR above 15 is about the same as an Olympic weight-lifter. At STR 20 they are one of the strongest humans on the planet. A DEX of 18 would make them one of the quickest, most "reactiony" people on the planet. Maybe only a few thousand people on the planet would have DEX that high. 
 
Yet how many characters are built with DEX and STR (especially STR) or INT or any other stat way higher then their concept really should have it? Almost all, because STATS are cheap to buy and the break points are good because they effect skill rolls. It is cheaper to throw a few extra points on to PRE or INT or DEX to reach the break point and get a bunch of skills at +1 then it would be to buy skill levels for all those skills. 
 
So as a general principal, then yes, gaming the system that way is "bad" because it is not building to the character concept. 
 
But of course, character concept can change, "yes my guy is a super-smart scientist, but he also works out 2 times a day so he has a 18 STR, and is just natural charismatic, so he has a 18 PRE, and he is strong-willed so he has a 20 EGO, and always had great reflexes from playing video games as a kid, so he also (justifiably) has a DEX of 18 and is a long distance runner so he has an 18 CON as well." So , see, his concept is perfectly consistent with having high STATS. 
 
Or the concept is that the character was one of those "golden boys/girls" who got straight A's in school, was captain of the football team, class president and... and... and...
 
So since "concept" can be anything the player wants it to be then they can always "justify" having their stats at whatever they want, so in that case "gaming" the system isn't bad, because they are building to concept. And that goes for every character, including the ones in he official books, or at a table anywhere in the world. 
 
So I guess, "philosophically" it is bad, but in practice it isn't because your character can be any concept you like. 
 

Adventurers Club had 27 issues from the original Hero through the ICE days.

I think it's important for everyone (maybe Steve Long most of all) to consider just how unusual that Q&A Forum is.  I don't believe that even the biggest players, like D&D or Pathfinder, make their top staff available to answer any and every rules question someone wants to post.  Those games have a lot more resources backing them than Hero does.
 
This is not "something Hero has to do to be in the game", it is a value-added which exceeds the norm - maybe someone else is aware of some other games that do this, but I doubt there are many, even if there are some.
 
It was only notable by its absence because we have been spoiled by its presence.

Sad Puppies was not hilarious, it was reprehensible, and the furor certainly took away from the time of energy of people on all sides of the issue.

Corea made an ass out of himself on his website way before he started playing games with the Hugos.

Last I checked Both Game Kastle in Fremont CA, and Gator Games in San Mateo had the Hardcover in stock. They usually get stocked with other games because there's nothing on the spine to ID it as being Hero System compatable,

The MHI dice are just big D6's with the MHI Logo on one face. They are nowhere near as functional as the Blue and Black Hero System dice. Also the MHI dice are this shitty looking white and green speckle. UGLY. Probably should have sold my book to Half Price books. I don't think I opened it to look at it after I bought it. So Hero Games got my cash on that one, but I have never bought another book by Corea.

Gotta stop you there. He did a lot more than 'make a political comment'. Besides making numerous conspiracy theories himself about the 'lefties' being 'out to get him' and other tripe, he also organize the Sad Puppies. 
 
People's dislike for him wasn't because he 'made a comment'. 
 
 

That's exactly it. 

I imagine this was due to his actions as part of the "Sad Puppies" fiasco targeting the Hugo Awards in 2014. 

This was earlier (and a disaster: no one actually stopped buying the books (the novels) as far as I know.  There was massive outcry against him on social media, and a call for boycott, and you know slactivism:  the people who hung out online and patrolled each other's moral fiber and behavior boycotted.  No one else cared.  But for a period, he was a hated person, and those people who invested in his products were, for reasons I don't fathom, made to suffer for it.
 
I don't think people stop to consider who _actually_ suffers when someone is boycotted or shunned or anything like that.  As an example, should I chose to boycott all of ....  Damn.  I can't think of any actor by name.  Show how important they are to me, doesn't it?     Okay, let's say I choose to boycott that guy who made the last batman movie.  Do you think he gives a _crap_?  He's already got it made.  The only people suffering are those who worked their butts of to make the film:  five years from now, some guy says "pull together a film crew for this movie!" is going to follow it with "But not these guys; people hated the last movie they did."
 
 

More than that, she was known to fight for what she felt was right. In my college class, only maybe a handful in the thirty or so there can tell you the governing representatives of our own state. But I would say at least half know of, if not about Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I don't know how to impart on you how difficult that is, for some post highschool kids to be able to know and talk about a legal representative of the highest court in the land, and know, broadly, what she is standing for. She was prolific. Because of more than what she argued about, but because she would do what she felt was the right thing to do. Always.

I don't know how hard it is to let you know, but... If the average twenty year old knows of a Supreme Court Justice, their general stance, and what they are known for off the top of their head... That doesn't happen. People don't pay that much attention unless it is about something they care about. But from most I've heard and spoken with? She breached that. That is Astonishing. Even if they don't know them, they know of them and what they represent.

And another thing there. What she Represented? That didn't change. She did not become a Justice and suddenly sway with party lines from what I know of. She stayed true to what she felt she had to. And People knew that. You know how hard it is to find a political activist in power that stays true to character? That doesn't balk and go with what is wanted? She wanted to see the world a better place for everyone and did everything in her power to do so. That's commendable on it's own. The fact she often succeeded? Awe inspiring.

A fair point.
 
When Ruth Bader Ginsburg began her legal career, women were legally barred from many areas of American life and work. She decided to change ythat, and did. Of the six cases she argued before the Supreme Court, she won five. In brief, she argued that when the 14th Amendment speaks of laws applying equally to all persons, it means persons, not men.  Eventually she was made a judge, then a SC justice, where she piled up more achievements.
 
All the SCOTUS justices have had distinguished legal and judicial careers. Despite attempts by a few presidents, there are no outright dumb-ass political hacks on the court. But Ginsburg is in the much smaller set of whom it can be said that they changed the country, and for the better.
 
Dean Shomshak

Sadly, the greatest testament to her life and achievements is the speed with which her political adversaries wish to replace her.
 
 

Mitch McConnell is going to try to ram through another conservative justice confirmation before the election, in complete repudiation of his stand during President Obama's last year. Because principles aren't even a pretense any more.

the new T5 kickstarter had a -package of deckplans incluided that might prove useful
 
theres also a really sweet  book of deckplan geomorphs that is a **FREE** download, it says unofficial, but Marc Miller has approved it being distributed, it just cant be sold.
I was the one who took it to Marc for verification of permission, and can provide such if ever needed. its not my work, I just happen to talk to Marc a fair bit, usually by accident
http://travellerrpgblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-starship-geomorphs-book-if-finally.html. for scale reference 2 hero hexes=1 traveller square