Scott Ruggels

Old Campaign: Demons summoned by the eastern Emperor, were pathologically selfish and lazy. They summoned a race of horned therapods as middle management. Being mortal and horny, the spawned several generations that could not be unsummoned by then. Having a talent for bureaucracy and contract, they avoided becoming slaves, so the demons summoned in a race of small, strong idiots as slaves, that anyone could beat and boss around. Civilization grew, the people mostly prospered. However discontent grew and eventually someone took a swipe at the emperor. It was successful, so some of the demons returned to their planes. Others fought amongst each other until civilization was knocked back to subsistence levels. The idiot slave races rioted, until the middle management organized the people into a militia and chased the little creatures into the Western mountains. Eventually the remaining demons were unsummoned, cancelling out a lot of the magics, leaving a desertified land with scattered small towns and ruined cities near the broad rivers. In the West, lots of little polities, coalescing into nation states with few demihumans if any, except a forest of elves that everyone avoids as they are of the fey, and not to be trusted. New Campaign: Currently run as pBP, No-to-Low Magic campaign taking place in a late classical period. The players are artist colleagues with furry tendencies (all women), so the Demi humans are”furries”, specifically Lupines, at the edges of the human empires (Byzantium Analogue, and. Persia Analogue to the east, fractured by some internal rebellion s. ). The are having fun with it and tend to be more bloody minded than expected. No Tolkien races in sight.

In the late 80s and early 90s, the Hong Kong film renaissance occurred with John Woo, Ringo Lam, Chow Yun Fat, and the like. Both contemporary, as well as period films were produced but with higher budgets than the Sir Run Run Shaw produced films of the 70s. The films would headline the Toronto Film Festival and from there spread to art houses all over North America. These films were a major source of entertainment at Hero Games, and a heavy influence upon Aaron Alston, and his gaming group. Ninja Hero was the product of that era, and his system, playtest Ed by his Dallas TX crew. Slid into main hero by 4th Edition.

The "No more dungeons" thing was why I had rules for Parlimentary government , campaigning and voting, and why I was making my own monsters. Homecrew everything, and it worked fine, until the famous screw up.

Dungeon? I’m Fantasy Hero? What is this of which you speak? This isn’t D&D!!😁. Most of our adventures were outdoors in the weather.

Length of spear does matter. So accounting for reach is important because it means that I can hit you with my spear while you cannot hit me with your sword. And if we get up in the pikes, you are talking about very long pointy spears. This gets into I can hit you, but you cannot hit me with your horse. My long running fantasy, hero campaign was in the pike and shot period. Mased infantry was some thing that the player characters just did not want to tangle with, unless they had powerful AOE spells, as long as they were not mages behind the infantry line or in the squares.

It depends on the style the game will use and the importance of Combat, or skills, or social conflict, or psychics. generally, you have STR, DEX, AGL< for physical abilities, but to take into account Speedsters like The Flash, you need to have the ability to perform multiple attacks. HERO does this with the "SPD" attribute. Other systems allow you to Buy more attacks. Up to you. You wil also need Mental attributes, like INT, WILL (or EGO), and WIS, and you might want FOCus. I am of the camp that doesnlt mind 8 or 10 attributes, as long as they have an effect on gamepplay and give options for attacks and Defenses. In terms of Defenses, You need Physical Defense, Energy Defense, Psychic Defense, and if these defenses will bounce bullets or not. (And in the relm of the Psychic, can their psychic Defense bounce Darkseid's beams?). THis design will take a lot of thought, and testing , to figure out what all works together or not.

VR is complicated. As a medium it’s changing and progressing rapidly. The physical activity is increasing with suits and controllers, so that there is a subculture of dancers in VRChat, and the price of no cap suits has dropped to $500. The attraction of VRChat is an active social environment that one does not need to leave the house for. This will become more attractive when progressive cities prohibit private motor vehicles. I am trying to set up a passive income stream by making full featured VR avatars for VRChat, and other environments. It’s a subject that has become a lot deeper than expected.

The point by System was already old hat, from steve, Jackson’s, Advanced, Melee, Wizard, collectively known as The Fantasy Trip. We had been playing it for a year or two before champions came out, concurrently with playing Bushido. I think that there were Fantasy Games, Unlimited publications that had point buys, but none that I can think of that had power construction. Because even Villains & Vigilantes, and Superhero 2044, had random tables for powers. From what I remember champions started as homebrew rules to make Superhero 2044 playable. George McDonald did quite a lot of work.

Too much math for this artist. Also you need a glossary, especially for non standard abbreviations.

The photos in the WEG Star Wars were gold for sketch reference back then. Boot Hill, screw revolvers, we were Chuck in’ dynamite!

Pen and paper. Write it all down. Brainstorm and figure out what you want and just put it on paper and organize it later when you have defined your goals.

How big is the phone, in millimeters?

Welp. spmeone isn't happy with Starship and Space-X

Oh, you've met him.

You may need a pallette cleanser after D&D, such as run Traveller for a fw months, as there is nearly NO character progression (especially stats) in that system, and without magic the players may start thinking different. Then spring Fantasy Hero on them.