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I think you're missing a basic point about HERO knowledge skills. YOU define the scope. KS: All Technological Subjects and KS: Galactic History are perfectly valid skills. If you want to take those at 1pt for an 8- familiarity roll, just do so. If you want them at 11-, ay 2pts, or 3pts for an INT based version. Now, the actual information you'll get from such general skills will also be very general. Galactic History may not give you very much about the history of any particular planet, and All Tecnological Subjects is unlikely to give more than an overview. You get what you pay for.

I'd run that scatter distance should also scale up, however scatter is also capped at half the distance to the target, which would effectively deal with megascale scatter at non-megascale ranges.

Champions Complete is "complete" in the sense that it's all the rules needed for Champions in one complete volume. You don't need the two basic volumes plus 6e Champions. Should it have been titled "Champions 6th edition Collected and Revised"? Possibly. I guess you can always cross out the title and write that instead if you like.

Oh, don't worry. I'll leave that to this thread As we discussed above, a while ago, my annoyance was mostly that there was room in that section to add a line or two. Canada and South Africa got mentions in their regional zones. The overall coverage of Australia and New Zealand in the book is quite fair. Besides, here I can air my parochial gripes and know that Darren reads it! I can always hold out hope for a second printing or errata! Hmm. Turns out I *can't* add a real review at Drivethru RPG as I didn't purchase the product there. I've left a general comment review, though. Made sure to mention that it has a new cast compared to the previous editions, and has extensive campaign notes. Soooo... why can't we add reviews on the HERO store?

Not to mention probably 30+ INT

I'll see if I can put something up on the Drivethru RPG site, Darren. It's a good product and deserves profile. I won't even mention the omission of Australia and New Zealand in the section that discusses that part of the world

No worries. That would be like laughing at someone for liking Vartox!

I think you may be confusing the information gathering side of analysis (which is what the power provides - plain facts derived from what the senses involved can detect) with interpreting those facts (which is what Spock or Data are actually doing). The latter is basically them using their appropriate skills, backed by their mighty intellects. Analyze can provide the WHAT, WHERE and WHEN of something, but not the WHY or HOW. There's also a general principle in HERO that the less specific a field is, the less specific the information will be. KS: Everything will give less information than KS: Physics, which will give in turn less information than KS: Plasma Physics when dealing with plasmas. The same applies to Analyze. Analyze Everything gives far less information than Analyze Planets would.

Depends on other lighting. Middle of a city it won't make much difference.

... except for needing a means of reversing the Transform (which is required). Sheer destruction is probably better done with damage powers.

Robo-bushi is definitely dusting off his theme song and chasing the sleigh on Jets of Fire. Big Girl is going to get pretty pissed off that her holiday shipping has been disrupted. Things will be thrown. Captain Third would try to catch a goon to give them the Third Degree. Dwarfstar might try to impersonate a Dwarfstar action figure to get snatched along with the loot.

His NND definition needs care, too. What were his actual defined limits? Are antimatter, living creatures or free subatomic particles (photons, electrons, neutrons etc) on the menu as well? Edit: Oh-kay. Apparently he has managed to eat laser beams on the grounds that energy is just transformed matter. He's also able to eat fast enough to tunnel through things, and is definitely able to eat living creatures and otherwise indestructible objects and materials, though eating the Miracle Machine drove him insane. So at a minimum we're looking at destruction of physical and energy objects, Tunnelling and being allowed to Block and/or Dispel lasers by opening his mouth. In his setting he can also be considered a universal means of unmaking unbreakable foci (that might need some points). And he is able to spit out something he's taken a bite out of as a projectile. Quick swig of acid and he can send a very dangerous loogie your way. Mind you, he DOES have a lot of spare points to spend on this. The OIF flight ring (which I think gives life support for space, too) is cheap enough, and the various Perks he has as a senator and media personality won't run to much either. Whatever mechanic is used to destroy things, it should definitely be set at the campaign points/DC limit.

Yeah, Wild Cards occurred to me too. I ready the early volumes, but it never really clicked with me personally.

There may well be a constitutional requirement. There's definitely precedent; it's actually normal for royals to marry foreigners, usually from other royal families. This business of hitching up with commoners is a bit of a modern fad (Diana doesn't count - her family are old blue bloods and her father was the 8th Earl of Spencer). I blame Prince Rainier of Monaco for starting the trend. I'm fairly certain Phillip was required to become a sole British citizen, though marrying the actual heir is a few steps up from marrying 5th in line for the Throne (and counting), and the Marriage Act and CoE rules have changed a lot since then.

Meh. They can probably do glowing seams with practical effects easier and cheaper than with CGI these days. Flexible LED strips or such.

Well, it looks to be official. No one much lies the idea of killing off a stadium full of innocent spectators in order to create a handful of superheroes.

Summon linked to a Dispel, and with appropriate mimicking modifiers would work. So you stop their Summon and then summon whatever it was they were summoning. If your Dispel doesn't work, they succeed and you fail. IMHO this is a fairly clean way to do it - all the normal Summon rules now apply between your character and the creature and the original casters are out of the loop. Mind Control leaves open the possibility that control of the creature will revert to the original summoner. Which is fine if that's what you want. Pseudocode would be something like: Dispel (Summon) Summon (Limited Group - creatures summoned by target of linked Dispel +½), Linked to Dispel

Sounds like Charges applied to the Framework. If there are also limits on the number of warheads of each type, you might be able to apply a separate allocation of charges on each slot, but you need care with that.

That was from Comicon? To kill spoilers on that they avoided showing any eye damage to Thor in material released prior to the movie, including the struggle with Hela on the balcony ("What were YOU the God of again...?"). If only they'd done the same for Mjolnir getting crushed and Thor's reaction to seeing Hulk in the Arena. Those were meant to be Wham! moments but were totally spoiled in the trailer. Heck, you could have still shown Thor and Hulk smacking each other around and Hela catching the hammer.

I think the standard trope name is Put On a Bus. All soaps do it. And... I'm fairly certain most British soaps have used "Emigrated to Australia". Some of those were bound to end up in Queensland

Well, that particular limitation is intended for the normal, self-only use of Teleport. If the power is designed to be used as an attack (as opposed to UOO on willing targets, who can always refuse it), I'd disallow the limitation value because it has ceased to be a limitation. That's how it's meant to work, and there are any amount of examples in all versions of HERO to that effect. Any time your Irony Sense starts to ping, look for cheese and adjust the build accordingly.

Went to Queensland.

Blood Bowl never stopped being popular, kept up its tournament scene, spawned online leagues such as FUMBBL and had a big revival from the release of the PC versions. Also has fans going back to 1985 (including me). None of the other squad management/warband games have that. I think GW would have liked to forget Blood Bowl, but it's still the best thing Jervis Johnson ever designed and he's one of the few old timers still working for the company. Plus it demonstrably makes money for them, even without releasing any new kit (gods know I've spent hundreds of dollars on Warhammer regiments to convert to Blood Bowl Teams...). The physical components for it date back to 1993, so it was a fair enough decision to totally redo those. They made a decision to increase the proportion of the pitch size too (squares to suit 30mm bases instead of 25mm), although nothing actually changes as long as you're using the right scale range ruler for passing. And that's all in line with general GW scale creep anyway - I'm guessing the new Necro minis will be scaled to match current 40K ones. (There was also one practical reason to upsize the squares; sometimes you have a lot of Big Guys close together and it can get tricky to place them on the old pitch...)

Harsh? Sure. But I'd assume for the purpose of the discussion that this is something the player has asked for. I agree it's not something the GM should impose without a damn good reason. I'd argue that in game terms it basically is the same as a floating DNPC for the purpose of the DNPC complication itself, although as we've discussed above there may well be other Complications to look at because of the "curse", which wouldn't be taken for a Boyfriend of the Week. Things will play out differently, and you'll have different plot hooks, but that applies to various flavours of DNPC anyway.

That's a little harsh, Christopher. Even if they end up dead at some point, this sort of DNPC will often be the focus of a lot of saving and protecting along the way. Possibly moreso than your average DNPC who doesn't have a Sword of Damocles hanging over their head. It doesn't require death every session. And to my mind it's not much different to the well-established "girlfriend of the week" DNPC, who also may never be seen again. She still gets saved and protected during the sessions she shows up for.