Christopher R Taylor

Humm...back to what I think for HERO (thank god I'm not the CEO.)
 
What I see in the HERO System Psionic book:
 
1) First chapter should be about how to run a heroic level psionic campaign. From what extra stats to add (Mental Defense [MD], Mental Speed [MSPD], and Mental Endurance [MEND], for example), to exactly what an heroic level psionic campaign means.
 
2) Of course chapter two is the meat of this proposed book. A list of mental powers divided by both obvious categories (Telepathy, Mind Control, Telekinesis, etc.) but also in obvious categories (Pyrokinesis, Tempralkinesis, Electrokinesis, etc.). Everything is priced for a Heroic Campaign (30 points maximum), but can easily be upscaled to fit a Superhero Campaign if needed.

He once was asked at the time why he was playing a Nazi since he was Jewish he replied "I'm an actor. If I can play Richard III, I can play a Nazi" He also insisted that Klink never won against Hogan or he was out the door.
 
I have not seen Operation Eichmann, but it's hard to believe that four years later he would be Klink after playing that bastard in Judgement at Nuremburg.

The print version of The Island of Dr Destroyer is available in print-on-demand now, on Drive Thru RPG.  I hadn't noticed the announcement so I figured I would post it here

Yes, I have just the adventure in mind, something I ran in a convention once.  And yes, it involves an actual escape

Eh, current trends come and go, gaming is long term.

Eh, current trends come and go, gaming is long term.

Super Agents at two levels would do this: a UNTIL/Man from Uncle/SHIELD kind of game, and then a low level/street hero game setting and tips.  One of my long-term dream campaigns I never got to run was super cops: police officers with powers.  Just one low power, just something that sets them apart, and dealing with street crime and low end villains

The print version of The Island of Dr Destroyer is available in print-on-demand now, on Drive Thru RPG.  I hadn't noticed the announcement so I figured I would post it here

Eh, current trends come and go, gaming is long term.

"I don't want to cure cancer! I want to turn people into dinosaurs!"

I go further than the original poster.  Rather than going in % of heroes I like to build agents for end results:

- The agents should have about a 20-30% chance to hit the hero.
- A hit from an agent should do about 1/5 the Hero's stun after defenses.
- Regular Agents should go down after 1 hit from a hero (their Stun + Def should be equal to or less than an average damage roll)
- Elite Agents should go down after 2 hits from a hero

Nobody is excited that an agent just got con-stunned and has 3 stun left and will be back in the fight in 6 phases.  Just let them go down.

The official Viper agents are *way* too tough for a satisfying Captain America vs 20 Agents type of fight.  (Although I maintain that the old Kirby version of Cap had skill levels only to offset Sweep Penalties vs multiple attackers)

You know you're a player when:
- you see a movie or show, and start guessing what the character's Dex, Con, PD & ED, etc. are.
- you see a movie or show, and start figuring out the disadvantages as well.

This one is pretty long, but its a section of GM advice I've stored away from the 90s which people might find useful.  Because its a bit longer, I've posted it as text file attachment, with just the question that prompted the response.  Dave Stallard wrote the response, the question's author is lost to time, but its kind of irrelevant who it was.  When I saved this off, I added another response by David West as well, the Appendix.
 
I really recommend this for everyone, because its an excellent breakdown of GM diplomacy, player  and GM philosophy, and how to deal with problematic situations or characters in a game.  A version of this will end up in my Master Guide for Jolrhos.
 
 
GM Bullying.txt

The one thing that C:NM did which I thought was neat was having combat displayed as a comic and then it described both the action the characters were taking and the mechanics too.

The Wizard is one of the characters that really bug my suspension of disbelief.
 
You've invented functional anti-gravity in devices that can stand up to water sand and fire blasts that are the size of coasters...  Why are you a supervillain? They would build another mint just to print your money. You'd have a bank account significant to G7 nations and if and only if, people give you grief your security army can't handle then you could go villain on them.
 

Just finished it this morning on the my morning commute.
 
My only issue is that I can finish them at a faster rate that you are making them
 
Another great show and keep them coming.

But to be fair.  Those idiot extremes are helped along by a tiny but disproportionately over represented idiot fans.  You know the ones that insist that characters like Venom (I know not DC) are great heroes.  Well they only eat bad guys so yep, hero
 
The problem with relying on social media to get a feel about whether your comic is good, is many of the social media types don't actually contribute anything tangible. 

You forgot the mind-controlling cupcakes and fruit pies.

Fortunately there are two new bundles at Bundle of Holding that for not much money can get you an amazing start with 6e!
 
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Hero6E
 
https://bundleofholding.com/presents/Champions6E
 

My problem with reboots is that if you are going to reboot, reboot. Too many writers came in after a reboot and wanted iconic stories to have happened that don't fit if you have a reboot. Like Barb being paralyzed, becoming Oracle. When you reboot to young Barb starting in college at 17 or something and being Batgirl, then it doesn't work if she was Oracle also, but Writers came in and wanted to write stories referring to when she was.

Yeah but they can rewrite that.  Someone made a mistake, it was a fake ring, whatever.  If you do a reboot, then the whole history gets rewritten anyway.  We're on, what, the tenth total restructuring of DC's universe now?  If nothing else you could just blast them all off into Earth-9328 or whatever and have the earth GL be the only one, but now his ring uses a different battery. I think Green Lantern is a fascinating concept character, but has almost never had good execution.  And usually way too much power.

Personally it’s the 1/2 DCV for Multiple Move-Bys which hurt Speedsters more. 

I know a lot of people like it, and many never knew any other way.  But the whole Lantern Corp thing destroyed the entire coolness of the Green Lantern.  Instead of a unique and cool Hero, we got Smuckatelly Joe just one of 246729482629 others. 
 
We went from one unique magical based superhero to one unique superscience based superhero to "just a beat-cop among thousands of other beat-cops".  
 
Sad, but there you have it. 

Yeah, but you've got to be careful with your lines, else you could get tied up in gnats.

Schultz was the owner of the largest toy company in Germany, which had been commandeered for the German war effort.  At several points he mentions not liking the Nazis, both for what they do in general but also for how his family was treated when their company was seized.  I always took his "I Know NOTHING!" announcements to mean he saw a lot more than he reported because he was hoping the Allies would win the war and he was just trying to keep his head down until that day came.  There is a theory that Klink put up with him because he knew that Schultz was going to be a good person to know when the war ended.