Christopher R Taylor

You could as a GM rule that if you roll x or lower then there's no visible or audible trace of your passage.  For example: if you make your roll by 5, there's no sound.  If you make your roll by 8, there's no visible damage to the rice paper.  This is more old school Hero, but certainly within the concept of the skill.  It just represents someone with astoundingly great stealth or an amazing effort doing things beyond the believable.

If you're going to set your campaign in Medieval England, you may find one of the calendars here useful.
 
Just for grins and giggles, you can find the phases of the Moon here. Why? Because werewolves, that's why.

The 13th century had the Mongol invasions, so it would be an opportunity for lots of adventure and fighting. Almost like a medieval world war, I suppose. As I recall, they went on for a couple of generations before the Turks managed to repel them.
 
I also find the politics of Italian city-states to have lots of potential. Plotting, scheming and knives in the dark.
 
Like others have said, there’s always fun with Vikings. I would go for an older era for this. Perhaps 7th or 8th century.

Interesting.  What's next, another sequel to Freedom Force? 

Indeed it does. But even the legendary Welsh sources are very thin in detail, and would require much elaboration to use in a RPG context. The actual historical existence of a real person inspiring the legend is highly doubtful. And that legend includes practically none of the iconic elements of what most people consider Arthuriana.

Absolutely. My only request, outside of them being in good resolution, is that the trade dress not be as forefront as a cover is. In some cases that's fine, but that Perez 5th ed Champions cover? I would love to have it as a "virgin" image as they say in the comics field.

Right, if it could go either way, give it to the player character.  If they probably wouldn't make it, let them just barely pull it off, gripping to the edge of the building with their fingernails.  Use a DEX or appropriate roll to get up safely.  This is HERO games, not chump games like real life where you'll probably fail and die.

I would love to have a lot of the old Hero covers as posters; Justice Inc, Danger International, Fantasy Hero (any of the editions), Lands of Mystery, Champions 4th edition as you say, there's been so many great ones.

Right, if it could go either way, give it to the player character.  If they probably wouldn't make it, let them just barely pull it off, gripping to the edge of the building with their fingernails.  Use a DEX or appropriate roll to get up safely.  This is HERO games, not chump games like real life where you'll probably fail and die.

Right, if it could go either way, give it to the player character.  If they probably wouldn't make it, let them just barely pull it off, gripping to the edge of the building with their fingernails.  Use a DEX or appropriate roll to get up safely.  This is HERO games, not chump games like real life where you'll probably fail and die.

The answer is about 0.65 seconds. A SPD 6 character running at 40m goes 40m in 2 seconds.  So would go 13m.
 
This will vary with running and SPD of each character in working out how far they move in 0.65 seconds....but as Christopher says, we are not doing physics, we are playing a game.
 
I would fudge towards reasonable feats for heroic purposes, possibly giving harder rolls the bigger the stretch being asked by the player.

I wouldn't say that the rules have gotten more complicated, they've just gotten really specific and try to cover every contingency rather than leaving it up to the GM.  I noticed after 6th came out I was looking stuff up in the book all the time instead of just winging it -- and finding I was almost always doing it according to Hoyle just from experience and common sense.

I just want to note that under the 6E AVAD rules, you can also have exotic-defense Normal Damage attacks with that Advantage which will do unimpeded BODY to a target without that Defense. It just won't do as much as a comparable Killing Attack on average, but will do more STUN.
 
Being able to do BODY damage with AVAD is an additional +1 Advantage. And the price of AVAD goes up the more exotic the Defense is. So rather than starting an arms race by creating something overpowered, the Advantage is self-limiting in that it provides diminishing returns the rarer the Defense against it is.

As a more specific answer to this question; Flash does not deal any body damage, its not actually using the damage rules at all, it has a separate mechanic which uses the normal damage rules to count body, but only to determine the effect.  Its like flipping a coin doesn't actually involve any payment or wealth, its just a device to determine an outcome.

There was a one-shot my friend ran for us when we were all home from college on winter break. The antagonist in question was Captain Heroic™! He had Superman-esque powers: brick, flight, super senses, a couple of ranged attacks, etc. He just showed up in town one day and started doing good deeds.
 
The catch: there was a fee schedule attached.
Help an old lady cross the street: $5 Get a cat out of a tree: $20 Rescue people from a burning building: $50 per person Stop a robbery: $500 (Mom and Pop store) up to $10,000 (large chain bank) Fight a team of supervillains: $5,000-$50,000 per villain ...and so on. He even had a toll-free help line: 1-800-HEROIC-1.
 
It was annoying, but as he and his well-dressed publicist pointed out, there was nothing legally or ethically improper about it. We had no real reason to shut him down.
 
Until we discovered that he was using his powers to cause a lot of these problems. For example, using his heat vision to start an apartment building fire, hiring villains (through shell companies) to rob banks or kidnap the mayor, things like that.
 
It was a hard final fight, but it was incredibly satisfying to take that guy down.

Dig into your memories; into the past....
 
Remember the early days, the infancy of the game....
 
When the GM _was_ the enemy....
 
 

As a more specific answer to this question; Flash does not deal any body damage, its not actually using the damage rules at all, it has a separate mechanic which uses the normal damage rules to count body, but only to determine the effect.  Its like flipping a coin doesn't actually involve any payment or wealth, its just a device to determine an outcome.

This might be better directed to @Jason S.Walters, but does anyone know of any Champions posters in the world? I know I'd love to see a poster of the Perez 4th ed Champions and Hero Systems books. Does the art exist in such a way that posters could be made from them? Are there hi-res images that don't have the trade dress in the same manner as the book? 

Yeah its going to be a really, really rare circumstance, but maybe some villain creates the flash gun that does killing damage to anyone without resistant flash defense.  As a GM I would probably bop with a nerf bat any player who tried to buy that sort of build, but its theoretically possible.

"Defense is Resistant Flash Defense or being one of the Three Stooges."

That sort of thing is why they don't make flashcubes any more. 
 
Or better yet, one of those old-timey cameras where you put the flash powder in a pan loose. 
 
"Beware my doomsday device, you Gen Z slackers!  Its technology is far too outdated for you to even comprehend!"  - the Sesquicentenarian

Yeah its going to be a really, really rare circumstance, but maybe some villain creates the flash gun that does killing damage to anyone without resistant flash defense.  As a GM I would probably bop with a nerf bat any player who tried to buy that sort of build, but its theoretically possible.

Because you can apply the Advantage, "Attack Versus Alternate Defense" (Resistant Flash Defense) to a Blast or Killing Attack, or even Strength if you want.

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