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Eh, he just doubled his foci a few times and his GM let each one be unique.  I didn't get the sense that any of them were actually more powerful.

I figured they would use Mister Mind after last one.

You're saying that a chart in the rulebook which literally shows 2DC killing costing 10 points and being either 1/2D6 or 1D6-1 is not clear enough for you?

Before things go too far off the rails (too late, I know)...let's inject some facts into things.
 
1. You're focusing in on issues with granularity in the system.  The more you focus on granularity, the worse it gets....kind of the nature of the beast.  So no, you don't get to say that "1D6-1 is 10 points, so 3D6-3 should be 30 points" -- as that completely ignores the granularity inherent in the system...and then arbitrarily re-applies it at the end.
 
2. RAW, which HD follows, is 5 points per DC.  1D6-1 and 1/2 D6 are both 2DC.  Why? Because granularity.  You can't have partial DC, per RAW.  Lacking partial DC, you should be limited to 1 pip (1 DC), 1/2 D6 (2 DC), and 1 D6 (3 DC) for killing damage...but there's that nagging desire for 1D6-1...so you go with rounding in the player's favor and call it 2 DC.  What does 2 DC cost?  10 points.

3. APG is not RAW.  It expands on RAW.  In this particular instance, it specifies optional rules to allow for partial DCs....making 1D6-1 2.5 DC.  If 1DC is 5 points, and 2 DC is 10 points, what does 2.5 DC cost?  12 points, when rounding in the player's favor.  Dealing with both partial DCs and partial points is not something that anyone wants to deal with, methinks.

As with all things HERO, this comes down to special effects.  What are they hoping this drone will do for them?  There is a world of difference between a treaded bomb disposal drone, a flying camera drone, and a US Navy drone with anti-tank weapons that can stay in the stratosphere for days.  So we need to figure out what you want.
 
Personally, I think way too many people reach for Variable Power Pools way too quickly.  They have their place but I've found that 9/10 times people actually end up using 4-5 powers frequently and weird one-offs and you are better off building a power conventionally and then making them make inventor, power skill, or similar rolls to pull off the weird one time things they do with their powers rather than opening the can of worms that is VPP.
 
One way of handling the Drone is to build it as a follower or (depending on how much control you have) a duplicate.  A follower gets you another character but you have to deal with lots of issues with it being it's own thing that may want to help your character but has to be controlled separately.  A duplicate makes it part of your character so you end up having pretty much total access to it.  The down side is that because it is a follower or a duplicate a strict reading of the rules means that if it's destroyed you don't automatically get a new one.
Going this route, you stat up the Drone like a character.  Give it skills, powers, abilities, stats, etc.  It can do what it can do. 
 
If you want them to be semi-disposable, you want to buy them as a special effect for a power.  Likely as a foci.  You have lots of options depending on what you want
Buy Clairsentience defined as the drone flying around and beaming camera footage back to an eye piece.   But attacks with the "indirect" advantage to simulate weapons on the drone.  You make the attack rolls yourself & just say the drone is doing it Buy Mind Control to reflect the Drone flying down and rewiring technological attackers Buy Aid to reflect the Drone flying over and injecting combat stim drugs into your allies ... and so on.
(I may be thinking of the Drones the Specialists troops have in the X-Com 2 video game for some of these examples)

As with all things HERO, this comes down to special effects.  What are they hoping this drone will do for them?  There is a world of difference between a treaded bomb disposal drone, a flying camera drone, and a US Navy drone with anti-tank weapons that can stay in the stratosphere for days.  So we need to figure out what you want.
 
Personally, I think way too many people reach for Variable Power Pools way too quickly.  They have their place but I've found that 9/10 times people actually end up using 4-5 powers frequently and weird one-offs and you are better off building a power conventionally and then making them make inventor, power skill, or similar rolls to pull off the weird one time things they do with their powers rather than opening the can of worms that is VPP.
 
One way of handling the Drone is to build it as a follower or (depending on how much control you have) a duplicate.  A follower gets you another character but you have to deal with lots of issues with it being it's own thing that may want to help your character but has to be controlled separately.  A duplicate makes it part of your character so you end up having pretty much total access to it.  The down side is that because it is a follower or a duplicate a strict reading of the rules means that if it's destroyed you don't automatically get a new one.
Going this route, you stat up the Drone like a character.  Give it skills, powers, abilities, stats, etc.  It can do what it can do. 
 
If you want them to be semi-disposable, you want to buy them as a special effect for a power.  Likely as a foci.  You have lots of options depending on what you want
Buy Clairsentience defined as the drone flying around and beaming camera footage back to an eye piece.   But attacks with the "indirect" advantage to simulate weapons on the drone.  You make the attack rolls yourself & just say the drone is doing it Buy Mind Control to reflect the Drone flying down and rewiring technological attackers Buy Aid to reflect the Drone flying over and injecting combat stim drugs into your allies ... and so on.
(I may be thinking of the Drones the Specialists troops have in the X-Com 2 video game for some of these examples)

In fact, as I'm browsing the Book of Templates II, Patriotic Shield Boy Scout has an area of effect Stun Aid with Incantations called "Get Back in the Fight Trooper"
 
So there are a lot of ways to do this.

Did nobody watch the 60s episode where the guy who is half black half white, split down the middle is at war with the other guy who is half black half white split down the middle but with the colors on opposite sides?  And they each think the other is racially inferior?
Or the one from TNG where a local sees Dr Crusher heal a crewmember & immediately starts a new religion worshiping Picard and decides to sacrifice Troi so that his new god will magically keep the storms away?
Or the DS9 where Sisko has a vision of himself as a pulp sci-fi author in the 1930s who experiences viscous, violent, racism and has his best work pulped because he dared to write about a future where Black Men can be captains of space stations?
 
Trek was never subtle with it's wokeness.
 
I'm loving Strange New Worlds.  Its the first Trek that actually feels like Trek to me since the 90s.
 
 
Asking the important questions.
 
Edit: Upon further reflection... I think it's the fact that he keeps going into new situations with that hair and demanding respect shows a level of confidence that most people can't help but find sexy.

This encapsulates 40 years of Moon Knight comics.
 

In fact, as I'm browsing the Book of Templates II, Patriotic Shield Boy Scout has an area of effect Stun Aid with Incantations called "Get Back in the Fight Trooper"
 
So there are a lot of ways to do this.

Yeah, this doesn't seem to die.  I mostly think it was about how a revered director tore into the movies that actually make money in the modern era.
I keep coming around to "Guy remembered for making gangster movies 40 years ago shakes fist at clouds about superheroes".
 
I know his body of work is much larger and much more varied than that, I know he has made important and powerful movies, but he is from another generation. He was one of my Dad's favorite filmmakers and my grandparents thought his work was violent and crass.
 
The part where he hates what the kids like today is not a surprise.  Everyone these movies are made for is young enough to be his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

That has to be one of the most irritating articles I've read in a while.  It talks vaguely of the Marvel franchise "anticlimax" and being in a "funk" with zero evidence of any kind.  Even more maddeningly it somehow attributes this to things Scorsese said three years ago.  It's the most clickbaity article I've read about Marvel possibly ever.
 
Ironically Scorsese would have a point if he complained about the dominance of franchises in filmmaking.  The majority of theatrical releases nowadays are sequels, Star Wars or Fast and Furious or supers, and it does choke the air supply off from more artistic films.
 
Then again he's kind of throwing rocks from a glass house given how often he returns to the gangster movie formula.
 

It depends on what kind of a "leader" someone is.
 
Personally I love leaders that actually make their teams mechanically better.  Such as:
 
- Combat Skill Levels (or even overall levels!) that were useable on others, requires a teamwork or leadership roll to reflect how everyone fights better when they follow the leader's plan
- Aid to Dex/OCV/DCV (one at a time or all at once), Selective Area of Effect, reflecting how the skilled leader is coordinating the fight to get the drop on the bad guys
 

It depends on what kind of a "leader" someone is.
 
Personally I love leaders that actually make their teams mechanically better.  Such as:
 
- Combat Skill Levels (or even overall levels!) that were useable on others, requires a teamwork or leadership roll to reflect how everyone fights better when they follow the leader's plan
- Aid to Dex/OCV/DCV (one at a time or all at once), Selective Area of Effect, reflecting how the skilled leader is coordinating the fight to get the drop on the bad guys
 

There was a time in Marvel Comics where Hank Pym ran around in a red jumpsuit acting as a pure gadgeteer, via the shtick of carrying lots of shrunk down gadgets / stuff in his pockets that he could make big at need, which was fun. Older Hank Pym in the Ant-Man movies reinterprets this pretty effectively. 

This is the same thing I always think about with the various extra dimensional storage items in most Fantasy Games.
I feel like when they (rarely) show up in fiction the "cool part" about a Portable hole is how they give you access to spaces where you need them, no matter how weird.  Heroes often hide inside them.  The hero is being chased, jumps in his portable hole, the villain misses them & runs right by.
 
When they show up in the old Rodger Rabbit Movie, Portable Holes let people make a hole in a restraint, letting them escape.
 
In RPG games, people always put up shelving and use them as portable store-rooms.  Which fills a need I suppose, but I am always kinda disappointed by the lack of imagination.
 
In Hero Terms, how they are used will be the big factor in deciding how you write them up.

There's various ways, all w/ pros and cons. 
 
Most people would naturally go for an obvious and literal translation, fixating on the idea of "how do you make or interact with an extradim space in the Hero System" and thus go down the path of using EDM. This can be made to work, and I have also done it that way, but I think it is a somewhat naïve approach and focuses on using mechanics to model the SFX rather than reasoning from effects which is the more correct way to do things.
 
For me, the "bag of holding / handy haversack / portable hole / extradimensional object of holding more than you think it could" idea is mostly about carrying stuff. Bluntly, the BoH type of magic item in D&D is about allowing D&D characters to opt out of the encumbrance rules while carrying around  the ridiculous amounts of loot they have acquired. In campaigns where the GM doesn't bother to enforce encumbrance, you rarely see such items because the problem they overcome isn't affecting the players and thus they are not needed.
 
Fantasy Hero also has its version of encumbrance rules, but not all GM's enforce them at all or enforce them only partially. In a campaign w/ encumbrance being tracked, how much stuff you can carry without taking encumbrance penalties is a function of STR, and thus a bag of holding type item can be handled as nothing more than SFX for extra STR (0 END, IIF, Only to Offset Encumbrance Penalty For Things Carried Within It).
 
YMMV.
 
There are also other variant notions such as Newt Scamander's suitcase, which could be treated as a cool SFX for a Summon. Another approach for these sorts of things is as a fantasy SFX for a gadgeteer VPP (ala Batman's Utility Belt but with the justification of "magic xdim storage" instead of "Cuz I'm Batman"). And so on. At the end of the day, focus on what the desired outcome is, ask what mechanic most directly delivers that outcome, and the chrome / cosmetics is just SFX.

I went down this path with 4e recently, looking into what to include from 5e and 6e. In the end, I decided to not only not import anything, but to also strip away most of the house rules I've built up over the years and just run 4e RAW aside from using 1/2d6 for the STUN multiplier (which I've been doing since the early 80s). If anything comes up in actual play that can't be solved with a simple spot rule or table ruling, I can look into importing something from 5e or 6e, or just make something up like we used to do.
 
And it's been working well so far. No complaints, no issues. And no need to reference a document filled with rules changes! Just open the book and read.
 
(I did incorporate the errata into the text with handwritten notes and pasted-in printouts).

I think 6th edition is a good idea to use because its most current and it helps new players stay up with what Hero is doing now (and gives you more new content that doesn't require changes), but people should play what they like and enjoy.

Finished ST:  Strange New Worlds - This is the best ST (movies and TV) I have seen since the best seasons of DS9.  Very, very good.

The term "woke" seems to have become a handy derogatory label used by conservatives for anything that makes them uncomfortable.
 
(And maybe that's enough said about that, before Dan Simon swoops in.)

Did nobody watch the 60s episode where the guy who is half black half white, split down the middle is at war with the other guy who is half black half white split down the middle but with the colors on opposite sides?  And they each think the other is racially inferior?
Or the one from TNG where a local sees Dr Crusher heal a crewmember & immediately starts a new religion worshiping Picard and decides to sacrifice Troi so that his new god will magically keep the storms away?
Or the DS9 where Sisko has a vision of himself as a pulp sci-fi author in the 1930s who experiences viscous, violent, racism and has his best work pulped because he dared to write about a future where Black Men can be captains of space stations?
 
Trek was never subtle with it's wokeness.
 
I'm loving Strange New Worlds.  Its the first Trek that actually feels like Trek to me since the 90s.
 
 
Asking the important questions.
 
Edit: Upon further reflection... I think it's the fact that he keeps going into new situations with that hair and demanding respect shows a level of confidence that most people can't help but find sexy.

Did nobody watch the 60s episode where the guy who is half black half white, split down the middle is at war with the other guy who is half black half white split down the middle but with the colors on opposite sides?  And they each think the other is racially inferior?
Or the one from TNG where a local sees Dr Crusher heal a crewmember & immediately starts a new religion worshiping Picard and decides to sacrifice Troi so that his new god will magically keep the storms away?
Or the DS9 where Sisko has a vision of himself as a pulp sci-fi author in the 1930s who experiences viscous, violent, racism and has his best work pulped because he dared to write about a future where Black Men can be captains of space stations?
 
Trek was never subtle with it's wokeness.
 
I'm loving Strange New Worlds.  Its the first Trek that actually feels like Trek to me since the 90s.
 
 
Asking the important questions.
 
Edit: Upon further reflection... I think it's the fact that he keeps going into new situations with that hair and demanding respect shows a level of confidence that most people can't help but find sexy.

If you look up the definition of "bittersweet ending", I think you'll find the description of yesterday's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
 
Meanwhile, I've seen the rise of two controversies surrounding the said show on social media, namely:
 
1) The 'wokeness' of SNW (which I personally find hilarious, because if you didn't know that the entire premise of Star Trek is 'woke', you simply haven't been paying attention for the past half century), and 
 
2) Is Captain Pike sexy in spite of his ridiculous hair, or because of it?

I once ended a session by having the PCs find a letter that contained vital information.  They had spent the whole session looking for it, felt good they had found it, and one Player transcribed the letter as they were certain it had more clues than were obvious.

The next session they formed a plan to act on their new information & I had a NPC interject to remind them of an important thing they were overlooking (I didn't want to waste a session with them going down a blind alley).  They insisted that *wasn't* info that they had.  I insisted it was in the letter they had just worked so hard to get.  The players all looked at me in silence & the one who had transcribed that letter held up her notebook page & proved that info *wasn't* among the info they had gotten from the letter last session.
 
Knowing I had screwed up & left out a vital point, I (rather lamely) had the NPC declare there was "a hidden fold" in the letter that contained the information.
 
The Players all laughed for about 10 min at my weak save & from that point on if I ever tacked something on to an ongoing info dump someone would mention that "there must have been a fold".
 
This has been a running joke now for 25 years.  I married one of them.  The woman with the notebook was our Maid of Honor.  In the years since I've gotten christmas cards that say "Merry Christmas! and a >obvious fold in the card< "Happy New Year".  I texted my wife 4 things to pick up at the store a couple weeks ago, then remembered something else 10 min later & got a text back "was there a fold?"
 
I try to take it with good humor......