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Kaiju Hero   please!!!!

So you want to play Big G? Or defend the city against Big G?

This is really neat, I’m going to dig into it and see if I can find some specs. I can imagine it landing on the roof of the Empire Club and a bold crime fighter stepping out. Perfect! 

I do like that concept, and I'll probably work something like that into my Dearthwood aventure whenever I get back to working on it.  But I agree, environment is a major part of adventure and play that doesn't get touched on often and is an exciting part of play if handled right.

Environment can be more than one thing, fear can be a very hard thing to overcome but it can also be the climate environment. From '80 till 2000 I ran adventure's every other weekend, then I got a promotion at work (or as one of my friends called it a demotion with higher pay) and had to work every weekend from April till the end of September and sometimes into the end of November. I have always used the weather as an antagonist in my adventures. I would keep a weather diary actually 4 or 5 such. Tempreture, precipatation, wind conditions and severe weather having to face a blizard in May can be a bit of a schock. With the Change Environment Power maybe not so much anymore although, a 3-4 tornadoe might just play havock with that too. Having your party wet, cold, misarable can and will affect thier ability to function. I created at one point a table of weather effects on melee, ranged and spell casting, I wasn't capricious with the weather, I would have friends or relatives send me a daily weather report on thier locale conditions. I would use those offset by a year, to handle weather in the campain. Then there is the political environment laws, culture, prejudices and locale mores. It enrich's your world. 

I think you're confusing the resolution of the transmission with the pixel size/density of the monitor.  An HD monitor may have the pixel density necessary to render the resolution that you want to run your screen at, but you're still going to have perceptible pixels (depending on your proximity to the screen and the screen size).  Whether or not those pixels are consciously perceived, your brain is still working to "smooth" the image (think Monet paintings) -- this is one of the big sources of eye strain.  Get the highest resolution screen you can afford and run it at the resolution that you are comfortable with - that will give you the crispest/cleanest image and help to reduce eye strain.

STRONGLY recommend large 4K TV as monitor if your computer has HDMI cables, I use two 42" Samsung 4K LED TV from Sams Club [about $300 each] for my programming.

In a Windows system you can turn on high contrast in the settings, Ease of Access.  But that does not seem to work with Hero Designer.  The program has to support this but it does not look like Hero Designer does.  This might be something @Simon can add in an update. 
 
One thing I would suggest for anyone with limited vision is to use a large display.  Around 32” would be ideal.  Large computer monitors are typically expensive, but most there is a cheaper alternative.  Most computers support HDMI so you can actually use a flat screen TV as a monitor.   I have a 32” LED hooked up to my laptop and use that as the primary display.  I hooked up my Xbox one to the other HDMI port and ran the cable TV through the Xbox.  So, the same TV functions for all entertainment.  LED TVs are a lot cheaper than computer monitors.

You can increase the font size on startup.  
 
Create a text file in your folder where the HD jar lives;  I use RunHeroJar.bat.  Then paste this line:
javaw -Xmx1024m -cp .\HD6.jar com.hero.HeroDesigner 14
 
-Xmx1024m gives the Java machine more memory...a gig.  I've got 16 gig, so I go big.  If you've got less system memory, you can do less, like 128m.  The last number there is the font size;  you can make it what you want, but going too big may cause problems with labels and fields overwriting each other.  I think 16 is fine, tho.
 
If you're using a desktop shortcut, edit the shortcut;  its execution line should look quite similar.

My opinion is a "Teen Champion".

Without modifying the template, the following options would work (either manually on each character or as a prefab):
 
1. Custom "Adder" on each Complication to negate the cost - the custom Adder needs a negative cost greater than or equal to the cost of the Complication -- all Complications have a minimum of 0, so you won't get points back if the Adder is too much.
 
2. Create a List on the Complications tab and add a Private Adder to it.  Set the value of the private Adder to the total of all Package Complications (e.g. -175 points).  Add all Package Complications to the list.  Math involved in this approach, as Lists don't have the same minimum value as Complications (hence the Private Adder).

OK so here's the example of how to build Transfer given in Volume One of the Hero System Rules:
 
 
Now notice in that build: its two powers linked together... with a trigger.  Why on earth have a trigger?
 
Because in the linked rules, it states this:
 
 
Aid is an adjustment power, which in this case Steve is treating as an attack power: you have to roll to hit someone who doesn't want to be Aided, so it can kind of be treated as one. Since the Drain is on one target and the Aid is on another (you) then it has to have a mechanism to go off in addition to aid, by that logic.
 
This is where we part ways.
 
-First off, you do not need to roll to hit a willing target, per the rules.
-Second, if your "target" is Self Only (-1) then its not a targeting power at all nor an attack power.  It literally cannot be used on anything but you.
-Third, the purpose of this build is to simulate the Transfer power, which means it should be as clean and simple as possible to get the build across for ease of use.
-Fourth, you can use any of your powers on your own phase without needing a trigger to do so.
-Fifth you are fixated on Aid being an attack power, you could treat this as a Multiple attack in which you use several attack powers on any number of targets (including yourself) in the same attack action.
 
I could go on, but I think you get the point.  Its a linked power, not a trigger.  That's pointlessly increasing the cost and complication of the power to no good end.
 
Plus, there should be a small limitation on the Aid noting that it cannot Aid more than you drained.

GA, I don't think you broke any laws...but ChatGPT probably is.  The rules are copyrighted.  HD is copyrighted.  I doubt ChatGPT has permission.
 
Also, in at leas the skills...it's moronic and, I think in several cases, WRONG.  There's also no consideration whatsoever for END, and some of these will *burn through* END.  Others...how does 15m Teleport with just x4 Mass come out to 75 points?  Several others look wrong...and I think the entire package is wrong.  This:
 
Illusion (Sight, Hearing, Touch) 8d6 (40 points), Area Effect (2m Radius; +1/4) (10 points), Constant (+1/2) (20 points), Selective (+1/4) (10 points), Uncontrolled (+1/2) (20 points), No Range (-1/2) (-10 points). Total: 90 points.
 
No Range is completely mis-applied;  I'm not even sure WHAT it's being applied to.
 
I think getting the ideas for powers...that's interesting.  But its use of copyrighted material is not, and its *gross* mistakes render it useless.
 
Note that there's already some major players suing the AI companies for using copyrighted material to train their AI models without permission.
 

Re: Damage Reduction Vs. Extra PD/ED
 
Hugh points out good cases where Damage Reduction outshines normal PD/ED. In my mind, DR is good for characters who don't go down because they are tough, not because they are indestructible. Colossus of the X-Men would have really high PD/ED, but Wolverine would have DR.
 
DR also has great utility for master villains. It allows you to set their defenses low enough that all the heroes can contribute some damage whether they have powerful attacks or mediocre ones, but it keeps the villain from being KO'ed by one big hit.

Undersea Kingdom 
1936 with Ray 'Crash' Corrigan 
 
One scene has Corrigan putting two Atlanteans in double choke hold while they punch him ineffectually.  Not sure what type of martial maneuver to build to simulate that:
 

And of course you have robots, rocket-subs, the undersea kingdom, etc...

Kolchak: The Night Stalker had some pulpy elements.
 
The Serpent and the Rainbow, while not pulp, I could see being used for inspiration.
 
 

My wife found this online graph paper generator:
 
https://incompetech.com/graphpaper/
 
Appears to be completely free at the moment. If you scroll down to the Patterns section, there's a Hex Grid option.

Was an errata document ever completed. I have the "Champions Complete Freebies and Errata" package from 2013, but it contains no errata. This thread started in 2021 appears to intend to fix that, but it doesn't actually seem to have resulted in a document. If a final errata PDF was finished, can anyone point me to it. Otherwise, I'll assume that the items in the original post, and a few others mentioned in the comments, is all that there is.
 
Thanks.

Basically the Sad Puppies came up with their own alternative slate and then used bloc voting to try to push their preferences for the Hugos. Nothing more than a desperate grab by bitter white men. Meanwhile Correia has continued to write (and win awards), undercutting his complaint.

It sure was them. SpaceX is now launching v2 Starlinks, fewer of them but each far more powerful than the v1. SpaceX is planning on tens of thousands of them in LEO [low earth orbit].

Any Champion/Hero groups out there needing more players?   I have been yearning to play Champions (and Rune Quest) again.   I'm in the Las Colinas area (North Irving, near the music sound factory).
 
Looking forward to hearing from my fellow heroes
 
Kind regards,
 
Michael