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GM_Champion

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    Playing Champions & HERO since 1990. Running Champions 6e face-to-face, set in "New Bern City" (alt history - NC Capital never moved inland).
    Looking for Traveller HERO/Star HERO, either local or online (Roll20, FG, etc)
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  1. Hi, I just noticed it was time to update HD (I had 4/18/23, and 7/15/23 is the newest version), but I have no idea what was updated. Would it be possible to include a changelog.pdf with the .zip download, or perhaps a webpage here on herogames.com that lists what was done with each revision? Thanks in advance for all your hard work!
  2. Hi all, I just got Fires of Heaven (print + pdf) and other Star HERO books from herogames.com. I like Fires of Heaven a lot! **Question to anyone who can answer** -- did Patrick Sweeney/Blackwyrm ever put out MAPS of the many planets detailed in the setting? (I'm sure some GMs like the "freedom" of not having any prescribed maps, but I'm more of an "inker" than a penciller - I would prefer to have some sort of map showing the continents, major cities, acid oceans/notable features mentioned in the text.) Thanks in advance!!!
  3. https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/93490/Star-Hero Could we please get POD Star HERO 6e at the above link? www.herogames.com store only has the pdf. Thanks in advance!
  4. Anyone know what changes/fixes etc. are in the "new" 8/1/22 version? (go to herogames.com, click store, click manage purchases, scroll to HD, and voila, 8/1/22 version available for download) Just curious since HD doesn't have a "release notes" file that lists changes in each release. Thanks in advance!
  5. I don't know if this is HD or Java, but here's the situation on Windows 10: 1) no issues with HD version 20210804 (immediately prior version) 2) I've used HD version 20220312 the past couple of months without issue, but loaded it today (Saturday) for the first time in a few weeks, and I think maybe Java updated once during that time. 3) Issue - I load any hero, go to Skills tab, click on a skill, and then either click edit button at bottom, or right-click on the skill and select edit - then HD main window loses focus (as it should), but no edit window shows up anywhere. When this first happened, I used task manager to end the Java task, loaded up 20210804, loaded same hdc, edited skills without issue, saved. Then I went back to 20220312, loaded hero, tried to edit a skill, same thing - HD main window loses focus, no new edit window shows up. Since it happens across multiple hdc files, I don't think the hdcs are the issue but maybe (1) java update recently combined with 20220312; or (2) the edit window is spawning, but always off-screen. I use a laptop with a second display, and I've tried disconnecting the display and then loading HD to see if the edit window would show, but no go. Help, please? (I'll upload any file you think would help) A friend suggested I check preferences about window positions. I unchecked "Remember dialog position and size" and that fixed it. Q - how does the dialog position get corrupted to begin with?
  6. Simon, Just checking to see if anything in the Nov 25, 2020 update was other than a minor update. Thanks!
  7. Over 370 members now, and growing - come join us and stir the best RPG pot ever, HERO! https://discord.gg/HcUJvJH
  8. All, The Discord continues to grow - we're over 300 members now, and we are having, and have had, many awesome HEROic discussions! https://discord.gg/HcUJvJH Jump in, the active points are fine!
  9. To add to roles not covered, and to piggyback on "science officer," I am reminded that Star Trek, both original and TNG, often had guest stars be geologists, xenobiologists, botanists, and various other science specialists - you could be one of those, with a "side order" of other things/skills. Likewise Cultural Anthropologists who evaluate a whole society rather than be "the face" who skill rolls a single NPC into an info dump. Finally, I don't know whether the Terran Empire has Universal Translators as commonplace like in Star Trek, but one of my favorite sci-fi characters is Daniel from Stargate - linguist, sociopolitical analyst, archaeologist, etc. The Galaxy might run on Galactic English as a lingua Franca, but I have to imagine that, were there no universal translator, many backwater worlds, and some economic powerhouses, would prefer their own languages. (And yes I know that even now in 2020, Google and other companies are trying to have real-time audio translation) So... Science specialist, linguist, anthropologist, etc... Some possibilities...
  10. Tungsten, Use this one: https://discord.gg/HcUJvJH Welcome!
  11. Gadzooks, I'm not sure why the original link is broke, but here's one fresh from the server: https://discord.gg/HcUJvJH Please reply here if the above doesn't work, and I'll generate another eternal join link. (I'm also one of the moderators on the server)
  12. Another bump - we're at about 170 members now on the Discord - the water's fine, come and join us!
  13. TranquiloUno, The first RPGers came out of a mostly-common background of board game and/or wargame experience, plus every actor-in-training who walked by a gaming table. That's a heavy math-enabled demographic not intimidated by Subtraction, and not allowing the friction of having to use an unused skill (subtraction) stop them from having fun. Today, 5th edition D&D (helped largely by Critical Role actual play YouTube channel) has pulled in so MANY new gamers from the mainstream that the gaming demographic is now much closer to the national demographic (at least in the USA). With that comes people who do not use, or do not like to use, mental math as a daily task. They use it to shop and buy things because they have to, but have calculators and computers and smartphones to give them the answer. Addition simply costs less mental effort than subtraction for many people for a variety of reasons. Therefore, addition creates less friction to stop a mainstream person from getting into an RPG. As proof, 5e D&D has sold more copies of D&D than all previous D&D editions put together, D&D has entered mainstream news without stigma, and D&D is now a "cool" activity instead of mainstream society viewing it as a minority interest unworthy of mainstream attention, or worthy of mainstream derision. I find subtraction easy. Almost everyone on this forum does too, I bet, but we are not the mainstream majority, and if we want HERO to live and grow, HERO needs to become more accessible (roll-high) without giving up its strength and reason to be - ultimate customization of one's character. So as not to derail this thread, please feel free to start a new thread in the Rules subforum or some other appropriate place for your quote and reply.
  14. Duke, It's on Amazon Prime only, but Amazon Prime as a service is no longer an annual lump sum as the only option. $11 or so buys you a month of streaming, during which month,if you had time, you could binge-watch all 4 seasons. I think they also sell the episodes individually if $2-$3/month to own one episode fits your schedule and budget better...
  15. AGE system is pretty much Traveller with roll-high a la most modern d20 games, and also Mongoose Traveller, and it adds the Stunt Die. I approve of 3d6 roll-high. However, in these days of "all games are 5e or PF2 at conventions" (and maybe Cyberpunk REd and Shadowrun and Call of Cthulhu) finding AGE is about as rare as finding HERO. That said, I hope the Expanse sells gangbusters and encourages more RPG producers to grow the science fiction pie. (And that 7e HERO, when it comes, moves to roll-high for everything so we can get all the RPG newbies 5e D&D yanked out of the mainstream...)
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