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Re: Possible HERO System Supplement Kickstarters From Steve -- What Interests You?

Re: The HERO System 6th Edition Three weeks? Doesn't it take about six weeks for a cargo ship to go from Hong Kong to Los Angeles?

Re: Does Anyone Have Hex Maps of The Warlord's Flying Fortress? Thanks for pointing out the one in Masterminds And Madmen (the Skymaster's Skyfortress)! That'll help! Nick

Did anybody create a hex map of The Warlord's Flying Fortress in an electronic format? If so, can you please upload it so I can yoink it? Or does anybody know if there's one somewhere on the web? Thanks! Nick

Re: What kind of campaigns will you all be running? Firefly and Battlestar Galactica -- great shows!

Re: What kind of campaigns will you all be running? Yes, these are the bugaboos of mysteries in RPG's. There's some really good advice for mitigating these in Pulp Hero (the "Deduction" subsection on page 357). Also, often a detective case doesn't turn out to be much of a mystery at all -- rather, the foul play is very apparent to anyone that makes the effort to investigate. The real problem is the antagonist that doesn't want anybody to find out what's going on and tries to stop the detective from snooping around!

Re: What kind of campaigns will you all be running? I'm starting a campaign almost like this, with the exception that the PC's are partners in their own private eye firm, i.e. they are the only ones in the company. In the first or second adventure, a wealthy customer gives the PC's an advance big enough for them to purchase a starship (the customer wants to find out what happened to his daughter). I'd be interested to hear if anybody has any ideas or recommendations for this type of campaign. Thanks! Nick

Re: [Release Schedule] Dark Champions Battlegrounds? I wonder if the Battlegrounds books would sell better if they were a bit easier to use. Don't get me wrong, I love the material to bits, but if I wasn't lucky to have one of my players spend the appreciable time to create the battle mats for the adventures in CB (Thanks, Kyle!), I don't know what I'd do. That's the great thing about Shades of Black -- it's a PDF, so it was fairly easy to expand the maps to the proper scale and print them out. But what do I know? I'm not a good customer market-research-wise, because I buy every Hero product that comes out! So don't listen to me! :-)

Re: Millenium City Maps(?) Those are some really useful resources. Thanks so much! Do you have any maps of useful locations on your realschluss site yet, e.g., Dr. Silverback's laboratory?

I use AutoRealm for some maps, but for others I draw things out on a mat with the wet-erase pens. But I always wipe off the lines at the end of the day, as per the instructions for the mat. Problem is, if we're in the middle of a combat when we have to break, then it's a pain in the foxbat to have to re-draw it. And, in general, any time the players return to a location, how do you remember where everything belongs? AutoRealm is very nice, but, unfortunately, it doesn't run on Mac. (sniff)(sniff)

You might want to highlight the fact that it is a 5th Edition product in its description at the online store, because it shows up in the E-Books section of the online store along with 4th Edition products, and less frequent web-site visitors might overlook it when seeking new products. Nick

Am I the only GM in the world that runs Champions battles with miniature figures? Just curious. Nick

Has anybody out there created 1" hex scale maps with software for Champions Battlegrounds that you could share so I could print them out and use them? Thanks! Nick

And it would also be very nice to have the maps from Champions Battlegrounds as files so as to print out scale battlemats for game play. By comparison, printing out battlemats for Shades of Black is much easier!

Thanks for the suggestions Redmenace. I will probably end up doing one or the other. Frankly, though, it seems like a significant pain in the foxbat for all the GM's who bought this book to have to do individually. If Hero were to offer PDF's we could print out, the scaling would only have to be done once. Even if they charged a few dollars for it, it would be worth avoiding the hassle of doing it ourselves!