Narf the Mouse

Re: Recommendations on Str Minimum for weapons? Ah, you mean a shortcut. I'm naturally indisposed to them; they have a tendency to be more work in the end than the longer path.

Re: Recommendations on Str Minimum for weapons? That makes no sense for, for example, a heavily-enchanted dagger.

Re: Recommendations on Str Minimum for weapons? Thanks - So maybe double the Endurance cost if the character is under the Str Minimum and make it impossible to wield at all at five Str under? Anyone know about bows and can give me Str Minimum reccomendations?

Wondering what the forum thinks, because the numbers I came up with seem off to me. For example, an Arming Sword weighs roughly 1-2 kg or 2-4 lbs. I've got it set at SM 10. Hand-and-a-half sword is set at 14...'Olympic Weightlifter' seems a bit off for that. Mostly, I've got no real-world expeirence with swords and am looking for a sanity check.

Re: Captain America and Cast Also...You did all that without Hero Designer? Take one 'You the man!' point, or other suitable forum currency (Such as internets).

Re: Paladin Benetar The theme is a bit mixed. Other than that, indeed cool.

Re: Captain America and Cast He needs some shield-throwing martial arts, I think.

Say you've got a Killing Attack. The ratio of KA to DC points is 5 / 15, or 1/3. 1 DC = +1, 2 DC = 1/2d6, 3 DC = 1d6. Not a problem. But then it gets an advantage that affects how it does damage for +1/4. It's now 5 / 18.75 = 0.2667, or 0.25 or 1/4d6. How do I convert that into +1, 1/2d6, 1d6 and so forth? I've read the rules explanation, but something isn't sticking.

Re: Brink Of War I guess we'll have to agree to disagree - I'd find that annoying to GM. I'd end up figuring out why that was; either they don't exist or they're being deliberatly obscure or you have to have X to percieve them or something else. * Where X = Faith, a 'mark of the gods', 'divine authority', etc...

Re: Brink Of War Thing is - And I'm going to go into a bit of a theory of mine - RPGs are both role-playing and game. So, anything that exists in the game world has to exist in both 'sets'. A role-played encounter is essentially meaningless without mechanical consquences; mechanical consequences are meaningless if they don't relate to IC roleplaying. Of course, IMO.

Re: Brink Of War Hmm...You could also flip that and have everyone be able to use conversation-type skills to talk to gods.

Re: 'Magic Missile' style spell in a VPP with modifiers Ok, that might work. Thanks. But company is over, so later.

Re: Brink Of War And totally your choice, but that's an interesting option I haven't really seen explored.

Re: 'Magic Missile' style spell in a VPP with modifiers Well, considering I'm making it for games I run... Ok, thanks...But that would still require linked, so you couldn't get a 'magic' OCV bonus to other attacks by casting 'magic missile'.

Re: 'Magic Missile' style spell in a VPP with modifiers Thanks, that looks like it'll work. Still, would be nice to make the spell with an attack bonus.

Re: Brink Of War Why not take it a step in a different direction? Clerics get Conversation-type skills, but 'Only To Speak With the God/Only For the Gods Purposes'. So a cleric wouldn't cast spells at all - They'd do what priests are actually supposed to do throughout history - They'd talk to their gods. So it wouldn't be 'I use "Heal Light Wounds"', it would be 'I pray "This man is a good man who does your will. Please heal him"'. Exactly what the result is, mechanically...Well, this is Hero System. Could be Healing with RSR: Conversation; could be a conversation roll and if you're successful the Conversation skill points get 'converted' to a Healing roll. ...Whoop, missed the page count before I posted.

First, it needs to do damage. So, an Energy Blast. Second, it needs to have a very small chance of missing. So a CSL: One attack/weapon. Except it's in a VPP with modifiers. And CSL: One attack/weapon can't have modifiers. And it's in a List, so it can't use Linked, either. Help?

Re: Competition from Marvel ? ...IP collision train wreck.

Re: The Bronze King is up! I was initially rather skeptical, but the more I hear, the more I think 'This may be good - What I wanted CoH to be and possibly more'.

Re: Online, real-time Hero System gaming? All words are made-up words.

Re: Online, real-time Hero System gaming? Thanks.

Re: Online, real-time Hero System gaming? I'm thinking more like OpenRPG, only less prone to horrid glitching. Or Fantasy Grounds, only with actual interest in Hero system. And yeah, I'm looking foward to CO myself.

There doesn't seem to be a hub for this - Any place(s) I should look? Thanks.

Re: Musings on Random Musings That definitly sounds better. Congratulations. (I spelled that right, right? Can't really tell, too tired.)

Re: A Thread for Random Musings It is currently 8:21 in the morning and I have not gone to sleep yet. It being rather late or early, I'm staying up till twelve or later. See, at this point it's easier to move my 'Go to sleep' time forward than back. Also, I may get sillier.