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Re: Batman's home city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, not Gotham City, New Jersey You've got a commercial airport, a marina "with plenty of dock space and gas pumps" and a chandler, a crematorium - - - and you're running all that with two vigilantes/superheroes, a couple of house servants, four pencil-pushers, and a nurse? No way that's enough support staff! Note: I'm assuming you let lobes 3, 4, and 5 go to waste! Wow, that's gonna come back and bite 'em on the a** someday. After all, who knows what's growing in those "gardens".

Re: adding a random factor to the game It is good to take ideas from one game's background, settting, etc. and use in a different game. It is LOUSY to take part of one game's system and implant in a different game's system. If you want to play D&D, play D&D. If you want to play HERO, play HERO. Anyway, it won't do what you want; most min/maxing comes during creating powers, and (unless you use RSR) characteristics don't affect powers. So you won't stop min/maxing. You are likely to increase min/maxing because the players know their characteristics are a crap shoot, they can't depend on characteristics for ANYTHING, so they'd better make characters who are all powers, no skills. Thus, the players will concentrate on powers at the expense of skills --- and characteristics, and talents, and probably roleplaying. After all, a carefully written backstory does not guarantee good roleplaying, and if they have to fight the system --- and the GM! --- to get back to where they wanted their characters to be, roleplaying will suffer. So will cooperation and good attitude. Thus, the game will suffer.

Re: Help with a "Possessing Hero" I suggest looking through Ultimate Metamorph. Look most especially at page 78, "Free Spirits and Switchers" as well as the pages therein referenced. Note please that Bodyjacking is on page 169, not 167! There will be other useful powers in UMet.

Re: World encyclopedia Of course I did! If I thought you believed that shtuff, I wouldn't have sassed at you, I would have kept quiet and sneaked away!

Re: Batman's home city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, not Gotham City, New Jersey I put that dumbly. I meant, if the "new owners" want to get all those very useful services "back on line," how many people would that take? Roughly estimated is AOK.

Re: Batman's home city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, not Gotham City, New Jersey Wow, interesting setting! How many people, total? Sounds like a lot of NPCs.

Re: World encyclopedia :shock: Help, help, the paranoids are after me!! :shock: j/k

Re: Popular Guns Tell me if you manage to, some day.

Re: Woot! You will greatly enjoy Dark Champions, I am sure. If you want more information on the Yakuza, Tongs, and Triads, you might consider getting Hudson City: The Urban Abyss.

Re: World encyclopedia You will find the following has most or all of that information, in a much better format: https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/countrylisting.html

Re: The Death Note and How To Stop It

Re: [Possible game] Jonestown Blues

Re: Batman's home city is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, not Gotham City, New Jersey Yeah. Used square graph paper, not hexagonal. Everyone I know hates hex paper. #2, go metric. Don't even think in feet. That's my 0.02 zorkmids.

Re: Weapon Designs -- opinions wanted Excuse me but is "AF Line" a typo for "AE Line"? That is, "Area of Effect, Line"? Or do you mean an Autofire, with Area of Effect, Line, too? Cause if the second, it's gonna get expensive.

Re: Hudson City rocks OUT!!! Are these the heroes or the villains?! j/k If you can, get a copy of Hero System Almanac. It's got an article right up this line. 4th Ed., but converting it shouldn't be hard.