Scott Ruggels

Robots in 4 color. You can cut loose. But for many of my characters, even 4 color, they are all just targets to be dropped.

It’s documented in The Armoury, Vol. 1 (Second Edition), available on DrivethruRPG. It’s a third party supplement for Espionage/ Mercenaries, Spies & Private Eyes. They go into formulas on how to convert muzzle energy to HERO dice amounts. If you have those (usually easy info, but if not, you can get it from reloading manuals). The hard part of conversions are figuring out is the weapons have bonuses to range mods When set & braced ( what kind of scope and how powerful), if the bullet does extra stun (determined by bullet weight) , any bonuses to offset autofire minuses, due to design or compensators. And the like.

Might be possible. Damage is easy using Kevin Dockery and George MacDonald's formulas.

Well here in California, no one is panicking, other than the fact that Msks and hand sanitizer has diappeared from the shelves. But stores in the SF Bay Area seem to have flats of water , and bulk beans and rice vanishing. https://abcnews.go.com/International/coronavirus-live-updates-countries-scramble-outbreak-case-numbers/story?id=69381834 Me? I have my supplies all ready laid in, and I never leave my house anyway except for Doctor's appointments, and perishable groceries. I am expecting them to cancel KublaiCon. (Memorial Day Holiday). Large companies are already backing out of Comic-con in San diego.

I am curious about this. I saw this on another forum I browse. if the tiers are budget priced, I may back this, just so I can get a copy to look at. I probably won't play it, but it will be illuminating to see the quality of the printing and the art. Who knows? Maybe there are lots of ideas to retool for Hero?

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Herosystem Mobile has a Die Roller that works well. The best Die Roller though is probably the one in Brenall's Tabletop Simulator Module for Hero system that he's working on, as it's physics based, so it's probably more random that the pseudo-random number generators. His also calculates body and stun.

Scale depends on which edition you are using, For 6th edition use 1M per Hex, otherwise it's 2M per hex. Never plan ahead in the campaign. But, Know the world as intimately as you can. Three years of world Building, through three campaigns, gave me a good idea of who was where, and how they reacted. In general though, other than the first session or two where I did have to prepare some background and packages and the like for the players, What would happen is that during the wind down half hour after the game, while everyone is packing up their books and binder, I would take a half hour to think and elaborate on the notes I took during the game. a half hour before the next session I would make some notes as to who would do what, make some rolls, and remember where thye players were at the end of last session. So any "planning" was just an intro into the next session and then the players would be off, like frightened cats, all over the background. Here are some of my note from the last time i ran that campaign, back in 1993 or so: https://imgur.com/a/YMeqPys They are in chronological order. (until the final retcon that derailed and ultimately sank the campaign.)

They have it as PDF in the shop, for $14.00. Thought i tend to like Physical copies to carry around.

i will dig for it, as I am now getting into 6edition games on TTS, and possibly at local cons (though the local cons may be running 3-4 edition XD)

Oh I am known for apocalyptic amounts of typos. so I am somewhat dependent upon the little red underlines in Windows systems, These old things were done on a Macintosh Plus, which at the time did not have any sort of spell checker and I type recklessly fast.

D&D Little Brown Books, AD&D Hard backs, D&D 3rd (D-20 Era briefly) D&D 5e Melee/ Wizard, Advanced Melee Wizard. Also FGU's "Bushido". Hero System 1 -4, after 1993 mostly 3rd 4th edition Fantasy Hero and occasionally Star Hero. I own a lot of 5th edition books including the big green bullet stopper. I also own Champions New millenium, , but I was out of the hobby on break (called Los Angeles) for the 6th edition and only own Champions Complete.

I gotta say. This is just cool.

Apparently BB code no longer works for dropping in characters if one wants to share here. HTML also comes out looking like raw output (code) rather than a nice page. So for me, I guess it’s, print the character sheet, scan it, post it to Imgur or another image sharing site and linking it here. The old BB code used to allow for some nice looking results.

So I am lying here in bed with my phone at entirely too early in the morning, and nodding in agreement with the whole “Analysis Paralysis” supposition. So I do think that a 3e like presentation of a 6e based game would work. Equipment and items as just stats and description, and cash cost, sets of skills, and some background info. I think that may be the correct approach. The $64 question is what would be compelling to the market, now? Other than Fantasy, which Hero has a lot of published backgrounds for, all that have small audiences, what sort of background would be compelling? An updated Danger International? An America in Flames background to rope in all the Bernie voters?, Something based on Altered Carbon, but with the serial Numbers filed off? As much as it might be attractive to base a game off of a licensed media property, licenses cost money, and licenses can be withdrawn at any time. Hall of Champions then could be some sort of incubator for such products if HERO was amenable to complete games.

Here's a package example from old FH game: The other item was that package Disads were always full price. That was the point of packages versus templates.

You missed the main point that in 4e, the Package deals were bargains. You got cost reductions from them. Templates are pretty much the same, EXCEPT that they do not have reduced costs for picking them up. You do not get a raft of useful and less than useful skills for a bargain. 5e and 6e no longer have discounts or bargains that GMs such as Myself used to entice players into custom package deals with bargains on skills and stat mods. That's my main gripe about the difference between Templates and Package Deals. It's the move for exacting, tax style accounting that has me basically cold on 6e.

Sorry Hugh, but one of the few things that get me to actually do math are bargains. This also simplified things as you just have to add and subtract the costs, and make sure they met the requirements. Very little of those incomprehensible fractions. Buy a Race, a Profession, a couple of flavor skills, and equipment being paid for in cash... Boom! Near Instant Fantasy Hero Character, or modern Merc, ect. I stopped playing Champions mostly for two reason. There were others, but the main two we’re the insufferable Comics Code mindset of most Champions GMs, and the calculations for limitations and advantages. The loss of the bargains just made the character sheet more of a slog.

I am so sorry to hear about this and yeah the Covid19 is a current worry and i am cancelling Aprils'['s travel. Being in Dyalysis now, makes travel a bit more difficult (and international travel impossible), But I would like to get to more conventions now that I have slipped back into the hobby.

Mqan I miss Package Deals. made building characters so easy....

People forgot the obvious one. Food carts. Prepared food that can be put together by anyone who can cook. A lot of folks forget street food. I may joke about "Fried Weasel on a Stick"*, but the food is out there. Living in Los Angeles, food was always available from food trucks, food carts (danger dogs), ice cream carts, and fruit carts. Now there may be restrictions as to what can be sold (no alcohol), but the offerings can be varied and add local flavor to your cities and towns. *Stolen shamelessly from Sam & Max

I think I suggested this sort of thing a while ago in this thread. Though i can see the differences, in that I wanted a reprint of 2nd Edition Champions Boxed Set, with dice and a few other items, all in time for the 40th Anniversary of Hero next year., and you seem to be using 6E rules, but presented mostly in that 2nd Edition Boxed set style. Hell update Viper's Nest and Stronghold, and put those in the box for 6e and that might work.

Well I had a method for that. So a half hour or so before the game I would grab my campaign notebook. and read what I wrote after the last game, make a few rolls, figure out what was supposed to happen next game, and thart was the extent of my prep. THe reason this worked was because i had Vast and Extensive writings about the background and the people, and I could, for all intents and purposes, "wing it". My campaign notes looked like this: So I was able to keep flexible, and if not anticipate the player's desires, I could at least keep the information flow up. Typo, But I think you knew what I meant.