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All systems I have not played. Fate is modified form of fudge I'm told. Riseus may be a rollup system. I'd have to look it up.

Honestly I never had anyone complain about rolling low. Hell Chaosium rolls low! Storyteling and Storyteller systems you roll under. What other RPG system besides D20 and its rip offs rolls high for success? .

Firestorm: The Nuclear man is duplication in reverse.

You would be surprised. And yes there are Vancian rebuilds in Hero. I disagree about giving multipowers only to mages. I tend not to use frameworks for magic. But if I do I believe you should let the other "classes" take advantage of that construct as well if they are allowed. I know 6th Edition did away with EC's but I could see a ranger EC or MP for a higher power level campaign. Or just fighter moves in general.

That is an interesting way of looking at it. From a AD&D perspective I find that people either read too much or not enough in alignment. We actually forbade you to tell other players your alignment. You had to roleplay it in character. We had to cut the paladin some slack when hanging with possible neutrals because of that rule. Alignment was one of those game balance things I felt didn't really work well in D&D. I have no problems with religious based Limitations on powers like (require deity's favor) but I would not worry too much other than that. One possibility is having clerics and paladin powers tied to either a END reserve or charges that only recharge when the character performs rituals to his god or only on holy ground. Say when party rests the cleric may need sanctify an area to his god and pray so he can recharge.

Take anything I say about 6th edition with a grain of salt as I am a 5th edition guy. But Change environment is an area effect power (unless they changed that) that does not require you to hit the target normally neither does flash attack. Question why not use flash attack Cantriped?

so it is a refinement. nothing wrong with that. WERE IS AT AGAIN. YOU MIGHT YET GET ME TO BY A 6TH EDITION BOOK.

I found this. It just barely failed its kickstarter. Maybe the guy can be convinced to do a Fantasy Hero Source book. "The Nine Worlds have fallen and a single world, the Nine Realms, has risen. The Gods are dead, Giants, Spirits, Dwarfs, Elfs, and the Dead of legends now share the lands of Men. " https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hithrael/helheim-rpg-yggdrasil-burning

Hero is a tool kit system kinda of like NWoD but more point based. Hero's strength is it's weakness. It possible to replicate several styles magic from D&D vancian to Runequest. Including very original styles. And we all here have differing versions of using the power system to build spells and magic systems. Yes other classes can have powers if you wish. As an example Deadly Blow with differing limitations can represent a rogue's backstabbing, a rangers extra damage, or a paladin's blow. Here is the thing is you can choose powers levels for your setting (low, mid or High) and you don't have leveling up like D&D. You can have a very rich fantasy game using Hero. But it requires a lot more work for the Game Master Some of us have gotten good at mimicking D&D. Some of us despise its quirks and use Hero as an excuse and not use D&Disms. Understand this in a Fantasy Hero campaign everyone can use Magic or spells if you want. Just like Runequest. Or you can limit it to certain "classes". You can make magic skill based or not. Magic could cost endurance or not. Magic could be based ley lines or essence flows like Role Master. It is up to you. There have been several D&D conversions. Each slightly different. Assuming you are willing to take this challenge as DM, you need to gauge your players on several issues. Hero rolls low for success on 3D6. Hero has Body , Stun , and Endurance which works different than hitpoints Hero as a default does not have spell resistance or saving throws, it is a different paradigm Hero does not have a default random character generation system No aligments I have long argued when you start converting D&D classes to Hero some of them begin to blur together, Paladins and Clerics are two such classes. You will find that there are some D&Disms that only make sense in the D&D system. If you are willing to take the plunge it can be rewarding. But it is not for everyone.

Sounds like the Gift system in 5th edition

Like I said before Ultimate Skill has a few ideas on this.

Which version? Arturus the saxon trying rebuild roman culture sword would be different the high medieval or renaissance fantasy that most people see Arthur as .

Build with suppress effect.

In our mutant campaign the 80's I categorically rejected that nonsense! Why would a mutant brick have different psi signature?

How is that different from an electrical field from mechanical or geophysical sources? An auroa generates a stronger electric current than your body. Bio thermal signatures are comparatively weak when compared to other sources. My favorite is when they encounter something very alien that shouldn't be alive, but exhibits "life signs".

Is this the time to bring up how unscientific "Captain, I'm reading life signs" is?

We always had our own world and just use whatever element we like. Sometimes it is just now and supers start popping up. Sometimes they have been around for a while. I know people who have mish mash of DC, Marvel , GURPS, and indie elements in their world. Hmmm. Just got thinking supers begin showing up in a post 9-11 world. That is a lot different than 60's or 80's being the starting point. Hell run a thunder agents game!.

It has gone back forth over the years who was Mechanon or Dr. D. Plus all the new stuff.

If the city is a port city then the local lowlifes might use or have their own dialect/version of the trade pidgin used in the setting.

Wasn't latin used as a linga franca ?

I couldn't find the really beautiful bronze sword image I was looking for. That one is actually a little dull. A well done Bronze(and that one looks reddish) glints like the sun. It got me wondering why Wonder Woman's is portrayed as steal. I mean really think about. At the time of the Greek Legends they were a bronze age culture. The pros and cons of bronze swords https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4qLhq5V2-o

A picture Pres. Jack Kennedy giving an award to both some Supers and Astronauts. Oh and there is a photo or two of some supers with President Ted Kennedy and the Iranian Hostages.

On punch Cards! Or 8 track tapes! What is this Vacuum tube apparatus that takes up a 100 X 100 ft room? Is that a platform? What are these strange symbols on the Nixie tubes? Should we shut it down? May be they find this? or this? And they are stronger and tougher than they should be. And what about this Copperish necklace that has strange energy readings?

YMMV, but I would make the the middle three pact magic. While the source will change and shape the nature of the magic, there should be commonalities between the three as well differences. Perhaps even competition and agendas. As to the last one, don't assume those techniques don't work in all forms of magic. In fact the techniques to focus concentration and power are present in all forms of magic. Mantra, Mandala, and Mudra

Wouldn't that create different mages in effect? Also how common is it. If you allow babbage style magic, why can't any tinkerer use it? Same with script kiddie magic?