etherio

Re: A new toy for your WW2 PCs. The Surcouf/Narwhal! (HDC file included)

Very cool...

But I believe my villainous Nazi scientist and his super-soldier henchmen will make better use of this little beauty than the heroes...

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange

I'd really appreciate whatever you can send me...

Done...I emailed them to you. I think I sent them all. I'm posting here in case anyone else wants the zipped files. I'm happy to share. Let me know what you think of them, Wolfjack.

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange

(Etherio' date=' I'll wait your word, depending on your brother)[/quote']

 

Haven't had a chance to talk to him about it yet...but I will soon.

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange

I can host them if you like.

You've offered this before, and I think I'll take you up on it. Let me see if my brother wants to tackle finishing my website first, though.

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange

I've got 1/16" scale plans for an alien or future mining factory with 5 levels, plus exterior view, if anyone's interested. Together they're small enough to print on two sheets of 8½ x 11" paper, but they still have "square hexes" to show Hero scale (2 meters per hex.).

 

I've also got standardized deck plans for an octagonal space station (habitat, concourse, and hanger decks) done on the same scale (done to full 1" hex = 2 meters scale the map for each deck would be almost 9 feet across!); plus exterior view. (My station has 32 decks, so done to 1 inch = 32 meters it's almost 16 inches long.) These are blank so you can put in appropriate things in the various rooms as needed.

 

They're pretty large files, but I think I still have enough space in the Hero attachments space to fit them. Or someone else can host them.

I gotta have both. Please...

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange

All the counters got deleted?!? YOINKS! And I was just getting ready to start a FTF game. Well' date=' at lesat it explains as I flipped through the thread why I couldn't seem to actually find attachments. How can we get those babies back?[/quote']

 

I had a bunch of counters posted for supers games. They were available as both the 'headshot-with-little-arrows' variety and as standup minis. Let me know if supers counters interest you and what style you'd like and I'll email them to you.

 

Here's a sample of each. Posting them all takes up a lot of our hosts' space.

Re: House Rules for Hit Location

Zornwil's enthusiasm for my little pet rule system makes me extremely proud. He's an obviously highly intelligent reptile, and sincere praise is awesomely gratifying for something that you put so much of yourself into. I did put a lot of thought and time into these rules, and I feel that they're pretty cool, if you don't mind the extra bit of added lethality. And I don't, for most heroic-scale games.

As with everything I share on these forums, if any one of you gets a little more out of your HERO gaming because of something I contributed, then the effort is worth it.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Sorry folks...

I've been neglecting this thread lately, and I thought it was going well. I started a new job 3 weeks ago, and I've been working about 70 hours a week, so I haven't had time to shave and $h1+ at home, much less make pics.

I would like to invite others to join in, though.

So please...if you have any interest in taking the challenge, or if you just wanna help out a felllow gamer who's less handy with making images than you are, grab one of the descriptions submitted here and run with it.

It would be nice to keep in the original spirit of the thread and do Batman: TAS-syle pics or animation-style pics in general, but I heartily welcome anything with a retro feel to it. Pulp genre characters, Golden-Age guys, etc. That's the stuff I love and want to see, personally.

Come on, all you artistic types: it's not a full time job. Just do one or two.

I'm sure it's fully tax-deductible.

Re: Gamma Girl pics

Thanks for the PM turning me on to this thread, Chimpira. You do some great work, and it's always super cool when somebody who can draw decides to help you visually realize a character that you've created and developed...put a lotta love into.

I'd love to take a shot at coloring an image or two that you've posted here, and post the results. I don't want to tread on your thread or logjam it up with crap, so lemme know if it's okay. Ya gotta understand, those of us who can't draw have to get our creative kicks vicariously through talented folks like you.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Photoshop here also. I can't draw by hand for beans, but I'm pretty handy with Photoshop.

Re: Feelin' philosophical...

I think that the reason a lot of younger people aren't playing right now comes down to a few things.

 

First, HERO hasn't been consistently out the last few years. It's hard for people to buy a product that isn't on the shelf.

 

Second, CHAMPIONS has been the flagship HERO product - and there aren't as many people into comics anymore, which probably translates into a decreased interest in super hero rpgs.

 

Third, HERO is, if not an "advanced" game, it is not an entry game either.

I suspect that if you took a poll of all the people on this board, most of us started off in D&D or some other similar game and found HERO at a later date(college for me). You probably just have to give 'em time to find the game.

Excellent points, all.

Re: Feelin' philosophical...

Total tangent here...

 

I would like to add a little anecdote to this. I have a group of five players right now. Two of us in late thirties, two in early thirties, one about thirty... and a 23 year old. (We would have two early twenties but Bush swept up the husband of this pair and shipped him off to Iraq, damn him to hell...)

 

So anyway... last game session, we are all in the kitchen BSing until the last guy shows up... talking all things geek... and our youngster is talking WoW with our almost 30 guy. He's a total online game addict... and the two of them were saying things like, "What server do you play on? Maybe we could meet up some time?" Now, while I understand what they are going on about... it had ZERO appeal. My thought was, "Hey... you are RIGHT HERE... RIGHT NOW... in front of each other! You are talking and interacting like REAL FUCKING PEOPLE, and when we start gaming, we will still be REAL PEOPLE in a room together!"

 

But they wanted the interface. They wanted the structured anonymity/false identity and "otherness" to interact through.

 

Personally, I'm more than disturbed by this. Even boards like this are of a similar vein... with the maleable, shifting reality... false identities and isolationist interaction paradox.

 

Part of my distaste for this is the dependence on technology. The dependence on a highly manipulative system (the internet) is really dangerous on a social level. Mainly though, it's the enabling of behaviors that keep us more and more isolated from each other. Even as a strong introvert myself... someone who can be easily drawn into this stuff... I see the dangers.

 

What we have is a generation coming up that simply accepts this without any clue about what a vast and seismic social shift has taken place. This is a generation that has more filters between itself and the outside world than have every existed before. How bad might it be if those filters are removed? What have we lost because we don't really know eachother anymore?

 

The things I've learned about my friends through actual, FtF games and conversation and real life interaction... all of that is lost to the pale faces staring into glowing screens...

 

... the irony of which is that I'm doing that right now.

 

End tangent

Not a tangent at all, in my opinion. This (and several other comments made by posters here) is very similar to the sentiment I was trying to express in the thread starter. I don't think it's largely because of age. I was 10 when I first played D&D; I was 13 when I picked up my first HERO game (Justice, Inc. by the way). I was blown away, and I really felt that this was something different and altogether more of a creative medium than other games. With a few exceptional circumstances when AD&D was fun for a while to cleanse the palate from HERO, I've never gone back.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

...(The Mighty) Neutronium. He is swiped from what little I can remember of the Atom.

A flying, shrinkng brick/martial artist, who's a bit overconfident.

I THINK he wears electric blue, with either gold or silver trim. He's also fairly idealistic, and a sometime-leader of the Charlotte Hero Group. He has brown hair and green eyes...

 

I didn't know anything about ages when we built Neutronium (20 years ago). Golden or Silver Age would fit, with what I know now.

 

He has 5 levels of Shrinking, which HD says makes him 0.0572 meters tall (I used to say 1.5 inches and leave it at that).

He has Density Increase and increased CON linked and proportional to the Shrinking, so he gets stronger and tougher as he shrinks.

He can fly (because 1" of Runnning just won't cut it )...

Well, here he is. I went for idealistic Golden Age super. This is in way of thanks for responding so quickly when I requested that spreadsheet from you.

Let me know what you think of the Mighty Neutronium:

Since the new format for the boards began displaying our ages in our signatures, I've noticed a distinct pattern. The bulk of us are around the same age: a bunch of 30ish to 40ish 'Gen Xers,' or whatever you'd call that group.

I'm sure that RPGaming is generally continuing to be picked up by our societal counterparts among younger folks; the crowd that I see in my local hobby stores indicates as much to me. I wonder, though, if the HERO fanbase and demographic is something that's just going to grow old along with us. Is this style of gaming something that had a unique appeal to our age bracket? Is there something about the state of the geekdom hobbysphere (games, comics, etc.) or about the world at large during our adolescence that caused us to appreciate the hobby in a different way than our younger fellow hobbyists do?

There are definitely some major differences between the world those younger folks have grown up in and the one that we, though we're not so much older, experienced as we grew up. No internet, no cel phones (to speak of, anyway), the Cold War. It was a different place to be a kid. I think that the values, conflicts, and general style offered by those entertainments we enjoyed as hobbyists reflected the times and we continue to reflect that in the way we express ourselves as gamers.

Maybe I'm being too philosophical. Chime in if you have any opinions.

Re: Interesting Universe

Funny stuff to browse. Not sure if it's RPG-related, based on my perusal, but also pretty sure that, while I find it funny, I would not enjoy gaming with those folks. Having some beers and shooting the $#!*, definitely, but gaming? Nah.

Re: Clix mod challenge

How about me? The character's name is Medusala. She's a mutant' date=' with 4 arms, a mental paralysis attack with her sight, and a "stone touch". She's also a competent MA. Heres' a pic:[/quote']

 

Hey, who did that pic? It's pretty awesome.

Re: Clix mod challenge

Reptyle is assembled and th first coat is drying. I should have a pic up Sunday.

Holy crap!

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

BTW, I reposted the images that I pulled from earlier posts in this thread, but at a lower resolution.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

i was just wondering if ether (sp?) of you would be able to get around to my characters. i feel left out

anyways no matter what i want you guys to know that i am truly amazed (sp) by your work. as soon i as i figure out how to rep. rep to you guys

 

P.S. could someone plz tell me how to rep

 

thanks

 

night

Give a little more visual decription of your characters...gimme the feel of how they look. There are a number of requests here already, so since I can't do them all, I'll do the ones that inspire me.

You give rep by clicking that little scales icon in the corner of a post. If I'm correct, right now you can't give any rep points, because you haven't posted enough times. I think that once you hit 50 posts, you'll start your rep "pool."

Re: Clix mod challenge

Awesome offer...your challenge takes a lot more work than mine.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Man, you crank 'em out in no time, Winterhawk.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Wow!

 

Could you give me a Golden Age power suit, red (with a special extra-hard red steel alloy), a bit like Iron Man's chunky old "Golden Avenger" armour, with an obvious built-in jet pack and boots, and a big heat-vision visor for the Red "Rocket's red glare"?

 

It can't be too clunky, chunky and Golden Age to suit me, and there's a big, burly patriotic inventor inside there (Rhodes "Red" Mars), so there should be ample room for him. The design philosophy is like the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt (also called the "Jug", which it resembled): there is no such thing as over-engineering, survivability is king, maneuverability is optional, and it's a silly superstition that a fighter has to be smaller than the bombers it chases. (grin)

 

If anything he would be built more like Titanium man than like any sleek, advanced version of Iron Man. Definitely no 80s tough-guy add-ons, no spikes or anything like that.

 

I'm reluctant to ask for an American flag or other American symbol on the chest (to distinguish him from a Red/Russian/Communist). That might be very awkward to do.

 

A simple white circle and might be best, to mark out Mars - for "Mars steel, building the Arsenal of Democracy!"

 

Couldja couldja!?

I'm pretty happy with this one...my first attempt at something gadgety, but I think it came out well. Hope you enjoy it.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Do either of these characters pique anybody's interest? I'd sure love to see pictures' date=' if anyone's interested in drawing them.[/quote']

 

I'm interested in Neutronium. He sounds very Golden Age...Is that the genre he was built for? Gimme a rundown of his powers...also, how small does he shrink?

 

Right now I'm doing another figure that's a real challenge, but I'll take a crack at yours once I'm finished.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Very cool. I like the effect on the axe and the thunderbird meshes nicely with his clothing.

Thanks. I put a lot of work into those two very things.

Re: Gimme a cool challenge...

Terrific. I have no expectations' date=' but if something does happen I will be very happy. And of course I understand you reserve the right to use your images.[/quote']

 

I'm working on it right now, in fact. I would finish it tonight, but my buddy just called, and he wants to go to shoot pool and drink $1 beers.

 

Tuesdays are good for something, after all.

 

I'll finish it tomorrow, if at all possible. Getting into the project.