Vestnik

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

Don't have my Bestiary on me at the moment but...

 

The bird takes 9d6 damage if he uses that attack... does it have the PD to take that? If not then it's not a sense of fair play so much as it's survival instinct

Combat Luck, my friend, Combat Luck.

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

Well it is technically a move-by' date=' and dramatic and common sense factor in here. The falcon kills by whip-lashing its prey to death. Swoop, snap, neck break. Except the tiny things. They evidently just go along for the ride and then get eated.[/quote']

 

Thia, if there is a conflict being Hero system mechanics and the real world, then that means there is something wrong with the real world, not the other way around. Clearly falcons are refusing to use their 28d6 Move Bys in the interest of gentlemanly fair play and balance.

Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell

4th book?!?!

 

I was only aware of three (Night Watch/Day Watch/Twilight Watch) if there is a fourth one please tell me its name so I can order it

I read it in Russian, and the title is Poslednyi Dozor. If they translated it literally, it would be Last Watch.

It was published a year or so ago -- I think Lukyanenko was inspired to write a fourth due to the success of the films

I thought the third was the best. Very sad ending.

Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell

I only saw the movie, but isn't part of the deal with the Others that they want to keep themselves a secret from the normals? This spell sounds like a power that renders the 'secret' disadvantage they all share much less inconvenient.

It also protects them from being assaulted by said normals. Without giving too much away, in the fourth book a group of mages is assaulted by normals with a rocket launcher.

Re: Sell me on HERO 5th ed.

GURPS is called "GURPS." It sounds like some kind of lungfish. Hero, on the other hand, is called Hero.

I rest my case.

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

It needs to be combat flight or it's gonna be OCV 0 and all kinds of dead as it splats into the deck when it can't pull up in time. I'm gonna have to check the build when I get home.

I didn't even factor in Noncombat Movement.

Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell

 

Essentially the EDM is moving the PCs and NPCs to a dimension exactly like the one where they were except that it does not include the potential innocent bystanders. You dont have to think about affecting the background cast of NPCs just the main protagonists?

 

Doc

There's nothing in principle keeping the Forces of Evil from threatening the sleeping normals. I don't think they actually do it in the book, though.

Re: What gives the "rightful" king the right?

 

By this period, it had already became the rule that you needed some form of legitimacy to have much chance of ascending the throne.

 

cheers, Mark

There's always the option of making up the source of your legitimacy. As when Pugachev pretended to be Catherine the Great's (dead) husband.

Re: What gives the "rightful" king the right?

In other words' date=' you scrutinize your rivals for signs of impiety and look for omens. If you are really on the ball, you'll capture the magical blessings of the priesthood. If you look at the aftermath of Henry VIII's death, you can see that kind of thinking in action.[/quote']

 

When Henry said bye-bye to the Church of Rome, weren't there fears of divinely induced famine in the countryside? Or is that totally wrong?

Re: How to build this nice knock-out spell

Ooh, I like. Thanks Sean! (and everybody else!)

I think it's redundant to get PI though, if the caster is a witch?

In the Night Watch series of novels, there is a spell used by the "Light" magicians to get large numbers of pesky normals out of the way. I am not sure how to build it.

It is basically a large AE spell that puts everybody to sleep. However, to avoid the problems arising when people driving down the highway and so forth suddenly fall asleep, the spell first compels them to stop what they are doing and get into a safe position -- giving them about 20 seconds or so to do this, so it doesn't always work.

How to build this in Hero? Ego Attack, Delayed Effect, linked to Mind Control?

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

I'll be damned' date=' I misread it and you are correct. They were all in order and my brain just merrily reorganized the information despite what was right in front of me.[/quote']

 

See, that was your brain refusing to accept that a falcon can do a 28d6 Move Through.

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

Nope nope nope. The Flight and Gliding are in an MP -- the Stooping is outside it.

28d6 Move Through Deathbirds Rule All!

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

Let me check my book.... OK, 40d6 is a bit high.

Falcon. -10 STR, so nothing there. 24" Flight, PLUS 48" Flight only for Move Bys. Double that because Flight is doubled when you're going downward. That's 144" of Flight, divided by 5 = a 28d6 Move Through!

Technically this will only work if the bird is doing a Move By at prey and misses, ramming into whatever is in its line of motion. I wonder what kind of a crater this will leave in the ground?

EDIT: what MP? I don't see that in the writeup.

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

It does!

Re: Simple Falcon/ Bird of Prey

I don't know if I can reprint the one out of the bestiary' date=' but if nothing else it'll be a good exercise in design for you. Low stats, some Flight, and crazy telescopic vision. An HKA so it can snap the necks of little bunnies, and you're good to go.[/quote']

 

It has something like a 40d6 Move Through, too.

Re: Let me consult my library...

This is the first I've ever heard of the Research skill. Is this in TUS? Which I do not have in my library.

Hello y'all,

I'm building an occultist character (the grandson of Pickman of Pickman's Model fame -- he's part Lovecraftian ghoul; "Distinctive Features: Loping Gait" ). I want him to have a well-stocked library of esoteric tomes at his manor that provide an aid to research.

Should I buy the manor as a base, and then buy the library as a laboratory? There's nothing actually special about the manor except the library and the ghoul tunnels underneath it...

Re: You can't move! Ha ha ha!

You need to keep on making attack rolls?

I... think... so...

Re: You can't move! Ha ha ha!

I'm not sure I understand where the devastation comes from?

 

A single use of Suppress suppresses SPD for one phase. After that phase is over, the SPD is back to full, unlike Drain.

Hmmm? Won't it suppress at long as the attacking character pays END and keeps making an attack roll (not hard to do, if the target can't move)?

I think maybe you're thinking of Dispel, not Suppress.

Re: Building John Carter of Mars

They just haven't met Djon Kartyer of Jupiter yet. Everything is bigger on Jupiter, you know.

I thought about putting this in the Champions section, but Lovecraft was a pulp writer, so here in goes.

One thing I like doing with my supers characters is basing them, loosely or closely, as the case may be, on characters from mythology or fiction. Being a Lovecraft fan, I've often wanted to do something with his work, but somehow it has never gelled -- probably because Lovecraft's heroes aren't very swashbuckling and are usually doomed.

A partial example is Randolph Carter of the various dreamquests. So, if you were going to write up Mr. Carter -- either as depicted in Lovecraft or suitably altered for an adventuring pulp or supers game -- what would you do with him?

Re: Building John Carter of Mars

Hmmm. I just had an idea for a Djon Kartyer of Jupiter. He travels via force of will/dreams/GM fiat to the low-gravity planet of Earth, where his superior muscles and reflexes allow him to engage in swashbuckling adventures, do battle with exotic alien earthbeasts, and save swooning Earth damsels from certain destruction at the hands of villains.

Re: '70s TV Supers

You know, this kind of reminds me of a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen for the 1970s.

I'd like to do it for the 80s, given that I am in that age cohort. The group could have, let's see, Knight Rider, one of the Misfits of Science, the Fall Guy, McGyver, and the kid from Back to the Future. Plus, of course, Manimal.

Was the Man from Atlantis 1970s?

Re: Teleios: The origin story

Teleios sent the information back to himself once he acquired temporal manipulation powers from the genetic template of a mutant with them' date=' perhaps Time Lapse from Villains, Vandals and Vermin. He's a closed loop.[/quote']

 

Hence the name Teleios.