Wile_e01

Re: Bow & Arrows separately.

A couple of quibbles, sorry. Shouldn't the added damage from the bows have Reduced Endurance: 0 END, and because of some of the advantages on the arrows shouldn't the arrow builds include enough of an NPA version of those advantages to cover the added damage from the bow?

 

Edit: btw - your mother said to wash behind your ears and eat more vegetables.

This brings up an interesting balance question since the average bow wielder takes time to fire and arrow and the concentration limitation puts that person at 1/2 DCV too, should it also cost END. In contrast the sword wielder doesn't get a1/2 DCV or extra time penalty but has the END cost to contend with. Thoughts?

Re: Multiform & Point Balancing: What am I missing?

It would be really easy to come up with a way to balance any of the uses of such powers. Limit the number of such followers, Vehicles, multiforms a character has access to. or put a charges limitation on it limit the amount of switching that can be done.

Re: I finished reading 5th Edition, Revised

I would have to agree with the decision you made. it seemed right.

Hey Steve thanks in advance. I have a character that has bought the Rapid archery variant on pg 107 in FH. He also has several martial maneuvers including far shot, trained shot and offensive shot. Can i use both of these as one attack with a bow?

Re: Sending spell

i also came up with an idea to do it as a summon with an invisible messenger that was really quick. although i'm not sure if that's cheezing the rules. it would be a good way to keep the active points down and still be able to get a message to the recipient and get a reply back. Thoughts?

Re: Sending spell

All great ideas. Thanks to everyone for helping me with some different angles of approaching the spell.

Hey Steve,

We're looking at the Combat Archery Talent in Fantasy Hero p. 104 and I *think* the cost should actually be 6 Character Points.

Looking at the build it could have been bought as 3 pt CSLs for a tight group (only bows), but is actually built as 5 pt CSLs for OCV so the "only to prevent hitting non-enemies" limitation can be applied, which makes sense. But looking at the Rapid Archery Variant on p107 I see "only w/ Bows" listed as a -1 disad. So I'm thinking that since Combat Archery must be built with 5pt CSLs to apply limitations it ought to read:

+5 OCV to ranged combat; only with bows -1; only to prevent hitting non-enemies -2: Total Cost 6 pts

Am I reading this right? Is this perhaps a candidate for errata?

I've been trying to create an affordable version of the D&D spell sending in HERO. Basically the spell would allow me to send a message to a farmilliar recipent as long as they are on the same plane od existance and get a reply back from them. The D&D version is built on 25 words or less for both sending and reply. Any help in building this power with a 90 point active point cap?

I'm not for sure if this has been covered anywhere. In a heroic setting, you have a sword that you don't pay points for with the ability to add character points by enchanting the item. the question that comes up is once the character has put chacater points into said sword for a power that is onloy ussable by that player, even though the base sword is ussable by anyone. what would the focus be on that weapon or is there some other kind of build?