LouisGoncey

The random speed chart is real good if you like chaos. I don't swear by it, but it worked great for a WW2 mini-campaign I have run.

I have used the playing card system described above except I only randomized 11 segments -- segment 12 is the first segment of a battle (unless you were surprised) and everybody moves then...

I always used OCV+3D6 => 10+DCV

Seriously, this is like a THANK YOU times a 100!

Now I have a lot of reading to do...

Also, this is going to sound strange, but we have been doing the following:

In Superheroic Campaigns, everything is stated up as Normal Damage. For PCs and major NPCs it is just Normal Damage.  But for all others it is converted to Kiling Damage.  It is not written up in Hero System terms -- kind of a mook rule, if you will...

I remove the package deal cost from package deals.

I use 5e rules for Change Enviroment.

Is there anyway to get a pdf of the 4th ed version?

On the other side of the coin, I don't think 6E has really streamlined play (nor has it made it too much more complex*).  To me, most changes were in the "fixing problematic rules" realm, as well as the granularity and control that GA covers quite well.

 

 

Underline and read this section again.

 

What was that recent Irish movie about alien tentacled beings that attack an island, and the inhabitants figure out that they can't stomach alcohol?

That was a solid little film called GRABBERS, I think.

And I would spend the extra 16 points to raise my John Wick 3e write-up's EGO to 24.

That'll do pig.

So 30 is the ceiling for human STR?  Just changed my house rule -- dropped it actually.

I figured it was a point shaving measure -- no biggie, as you can see from my example, I love the 3 and 8 break points for the same exact reason.

The reason I question say the use of "anonymity" is you are pointing out things that I would just assume are part of the genre being gamed. The only cop I remember from the film is the one early on who shows up at his house after he killed a butt load of people defending it. It is obvious that the cop knows who he is, and for whatever reason (probably because he is not a hitman any more) is OK with it. Cops are then gone from the film.

I am like John Woo when it comes to guns. I appreciate and use the operatics of gunplay quite well. But I personally have never fired one, have never seen one being fired, and do not think I am missing anything by not firing one. I bow to your obvious and incredible knowledge of guns.

Basically, there are no disads because Wick really does not have any -- he is vengeful, but he never becomes enraged by it.  He has his dog killed and his car stolen, then he just decides, "All enemies must die!"  Then he goes to it.

His maximum characteristic is his EGO.  If I hadn't already placed a solid Heroic Limits cap on the game, I would/could argue that he is the Baba Yaga, and deserves a truly supernatural EGO.

I just statted out John Wick for Champions 3rd edition, which I am currently running.  (I will do a Danger International one later in the week.)  My house rules for Heroic characters in Champions are as follows:

Heroic limits are in effect, and they are solid limits.  For example, there maybe 10-20 guys in the world that call themselves the strongest guy in the world -- they have a STR of 20.

All damage is Normal Damage.  If I only have KD for the weapon/effect, then I convert it to Normal Damage.

John Wick

18   STR   8

18   DEX   24

15   CON   10

15   BODY   10

15   INT   5

20   EGO   20

18   PRE   8

18   COM   4

7   PD   3

6   ED   3

4   SPD   12

7   REC   0

30   END   0

32   STUN   0

RUN  6"

SWIM  2"

JUMP  4"

14-   ACROBATICS  12

13-   CLIMBING   5

13-   DETECTIVE WORK   7

12-   DISGUISE   5

12-   FIND WEAKNESS(Guns)   15

        3D6 LUCK   15

        MARTIAL ARTS   18

12-   SECURITY SYSTEMS   5

         +2 ALL COMBAT SKILL LEVELS   16

         +1 RANGED COMBAT SKILL LEVELS   5

13-   STEALTH   7

Base Pts   100

Disadvantages   0

Experience Pts   118

Total pts   219

Just some questions on your build.

Why give Wick anonymity?

Why give Wick PS: Gunsmith?

Why do you give Wick all the skill cost breakers? (Like Scholar, etc.)  Is it just because it will save you points on the build?

Genuinely curious -- thanks in advance for taking the time...

Damn know I feel even more compelled to speak Russian...

Just watched the first season of MOZART IN THE JUNGLE on Amazon Prime.  Good show with an unusual arena. Watching second season later.

This is me interrupting an amazing thread based on high-level Hero System mastery just to drop this tiny, little non-Hero correction:

John Wick is not the Baba Yaga.

"John Wick is not the Baba Yaga.  He is the guy you hire to kill the Baba Yaga."

it is one of my favorite lines of the movie. 

ENTOURAGE. The film. Despite protesting from friends,I really liked the show.

The movie however, showed me everything wrong with the project.  The Ronda Rossey sences where actually the funniest.

but I am playing 3rd edition CHAMPIONS and the 4th edition BBB.  How much of the new material, that is going to be statted for an edition I don"t even use, am I truly going to miss.

Don't worry, you have plenty of people trpwing money at the project...

that is why I said my comment was insane -- I an hoping that after the 6ed version of STRIKE FORCE comes out, the original version's price will drop, so I can buy the original version.

It is a pure nostalgia collector's purchase for me. Glad you have a new version coming out, but I am not that interested personally in that.

This is going to sound completely insane, but I cannot wait until the new STRIKE FORCE is out so it will (possibly?) drop the cost on the original STRIKE FORCE.

I have regressed back from the 4th edition BBB to the 3rd edition CHAMPIONS...

Place a curse on the world that makes metal extremely brittle.