Scott Ruggels

Given how Hasbro is mishandling Magic: The Gathering, I don't have a lot of hope they'll do any better with the D&D franchise.

Because many Hero Acolytes fetishize the point system, mostly as GMs, especially if they have come from Champions. Especially Recent editions.

Oh , you are one of those that think math is fun.  I see. 
 
In all seriousness, I ran a Fantasy Hero campaign for nearly 20 years, and equipment handling became detailed. I  ROTC on the 1980s and WW2 re-enacting in the 90s an no matter the nation, combat and sustainment gear was between 70 and 120 lbs. so for most normal people, that was their hiking carry limit.  Generally, what wasn’t weapons or armor was sustainment equipment (camping gear).  I just carried that through to FH.  So this kept encumbrance reasonable. Anyone wearing heavy plate had animals to carry the sustainment gear, and sometimes servants to set it up. But often a long cloak, was all one had for sleeping rough.  

If you paid points for something you could reasonably expect to retain it or get it back with a little effort.  If you bought it, you had to account for it, but it could be taken or lost permanently due to circumstance. A lot depended on the skills and attitude of the party. 
 

The Capsule should return on Satirday.

The Capsule should return on Satirday.

Because many Hero Acolytes fetishize the point system, mostly as GMs, especially if they have come from Champions. Especially Recent editions.

Characters have to pay points for specialized personal gear, or any non-mundane gear they want to start with.  They get higher quality or magic gear as they adventure.  Gear that they pay points for is either reproducible or replaceable if lost, but gear they acquire through adventuring can be lost, broken, stolen, or used up.

Was there ever a time when you weren't good at this?

Except for that game Dr Ohz is running, you mean. 
 
 
Tease not the furries, for the internet runs on them.
 
 

From memory, most of the heroes were more or less retired, only coming out of retirement when the plot made it necessary. Good for the story, not so good for a game.
 
At the very least, the PCs still need to be hero-ing, although you might be able to start with them retired. That would require a suitable threat.

A serious point - the actual plot of The Golden Age should be avoided. It could be fun to run - but would require unfortunate levels of GM manipulation, if not outright railroading. Something like it could happen eventually, but only if it grew organically from the events of the game, using NPCs the players and PCs cared about.

Far too late to stem the flow.  There was already a vanguard with Tabaxi, tortles, and loxodonts. A good argument could be made for gnolls, when anyone allowed them as PCs. The recent crowd funded “The Delver’s Guide to Beastworld” has put an official seal on the inclusion of furries in 5e. That was an effort that came out of a group of furries on Second Life. 
 
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Lee VanCleef. 

They put furries in the main book now having them being good planetouched filling the role of the aasimar and let humans be small which means children pc's.
So yeah.. Hero for life. 

Be cautious about which version you pick up. The Velo bound version has the first iteration of Tri-Tac’s system, which is crunchy and difficult. The system evolved over time. The supplements are a hoot to read. 

What about the version of grabbing the sword, using two hands in a "clap" so as not to get cut?

Yes

My gaming group converted everything into the Hero system.
We would play the original rules for two or three sessions, get frustrated at the lack of rules, and convert it.
We played spies, cowboys, pulp, Cthulhu, pirates, Klingons, Star Trek, Star Wars, Middle Earth, Twilight 2000, … using Hero rules.
 

So, I've bowed out of continuing to the next campaign due to my depression and that was accepted.  Kinda glad I did, given what the GM is allowing.
 
This also means that I'm not gonna suffer the consequences of the husband's NOTORIOUS dice rolls.  Seriously, doesn't matter the game or if it's online or face to face, his dice rolls SUCK.  He's hoping he can overcome it with his new lvl 1 character: a Halfling Divination Wizard with the Lucky feat (GM is giving bonus feats as lvl 1 characters).
 
I give him 3 sessions.

What about the version of grabbing the sword, using two hands in a "clap" so as not to get cut?

I think this is why I don’t “get” the OSR movement. Random die rolls and clunky mechanics, and low damage rolls. I don’t feel nostalgic for the game systems I played prior to my adoption of Hero, except Traveller (and maybe Bushido). Lots of annoyances, like ineptly crafted riddles, puzzles, and trap after trap after trap. This is why I gravitated to the political side of campaigns. Then there were the random encounters like clockwork. Inside the dungeon I understood, but outdoors? Many years of camping taught me that the animals of the forest took a wide detour around people, even bears, as long as you suspended your food storage and kept the campsite clean.  I like travelogue. I like being a tourist in someone else’s world. But the old games just have no attraction for me.

An example of World Building I haven't seen the likes of since the 1990s.
 
 
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As a player, from “back in the day”, having UN personnel on US soil was an issue. The Cold War was still ongoing and deep suspicion about any sort of one world government led to talk of fire arm confiscation and personal liberties restrictions. Basically, back door authoritarianism. So while UNTIL often existed in many campaigns, responsibilities within the borders of the US, were Federal, state, and Local agencies. They were the people that would shrink wrap defeated villains and truck them off to Stronghold.  How Primus, or SAT or any of the homebrew agencies were handled was very dependent on any of or crew of rotating GMs who handled our shared universe at the time.  Later when I gamed with the Hero Games folks after work hours,, UNTIL was more of a presence, and often assisted with investigations, and equipment, as well as shrink wrapping defeated villains. 
 
If there had been no PRIMUS, there would have been an agency formed to fulfill those duties. ( often by GM homebrew). 

You remind of a game many many moons ago- Davien's character hastily stripped the boots from a fallen guard because they had tested as magic.  He threw one to the party mage while he worked at removing the other.  The mage rolled, the GM spilled "the aura tells you this boot and its mate have been enchanted with an ancient Southern magic to become a warrior's Boots of Speed, and that the ritual used has made these boots as much as three times faster than any other pair ever crafted here in the northern lands."
 
In character, the mage announces "Boot of Speed!  Nice!"
 
As soon as the second boot popped off, he slipped it on, snatched the other away from the mage and preened for a moment.
 
Then he stabbed a porter who, among other things, had been carrying- well, for simplicity's sake, let's call it a bag of holding in which much of the party's loot was stored.
 
He then turned around and _raced_ away.  
 
The GM:
 
Roll DEX.  Roll DEX.  Oops! A miss; you take [rolls dice]  some disturbingly high amount of damage
 
What?  Why?
 
Your normal move is 8".   You were trying to move 30"!
 
But these are boots of speed!
 
One of them,is; yes.
 
      
 
Before anyone says it was a crap thing to do as "retaliation," the GM dropped the screen, produce the note card with the NPC guard on it, flipped it over, and sure enough: if checked, he will detect as carrying magic.  He is wearing one Boot of Speed and an identical normal boot.
 
The GM went on to explain that the there was a similar but reversed pair at a dishonest pawnbroker's store (we had actually been there two sessions before) who picked up the boots for a song, and saw a chance to double his profits.