Toxxus

My understanding of history is that they pushed a very egalitarian socialist agenda until they had some real power and then swerved hard-right with the racist genocide hyper-nationalism stuff. But while they were building power they offered a list of goodies to the working class to gather influence that reads like a Democratic party wish list. 1- Nationalized education. 2- Nationalized healthcare. 3- Gun Control. 4- Old Age Insurance 5- Rent Supplements 6- Disability benefits You can wikipedia this stuff pretty easily. The Nazi social welfare provisions included old age insurance, rent supplements, unemployment and disability benefits, old-age homes and interest-free loans for married couples, along with healthcare insurance, which was not decreed mandatory until 1941.[6] One of the NSV branches, the Office of Institutional and Special Welfare, was responsible "for travellers' aid at railway stations; relief for ex-convicts; 'support' for re-migrants from abroad; assistance for the physically disabled, hard-of-hearing, deaf, mute, and blind; relief for the elderly, homeless and alcoholics; and the fight against illicit drugs and epidemics".[7] The Office of Youth Relief, which had 30,000 branch offices by 1941, took the job of supervising "social workers, corrective training, mediation assistance" and dealing with judicial authorities to prevent juvenile delinquency. I'm no fan of Trump either, but comparing his policies and administration to those of actual Nazi's is pretty disgusting stuff. Those same detention centers (concentration camps?) on the border were in play during the Obama era and nobody said a thing. There's plenty to dislike about Trump without resorting to the reductio ad hitlerum.

Mongolian horse archers made an art out of shooting heavily armed opponents while running away.

Sounds like the real origin of Planet of the Apes.

Modern bodkin / narrow tipped arrows pierce mail quite easily. As far as I can tell from the video it's metal armor (can't vouch for quality though). I've seen other you tube video creators similarly punch chain mail without much trouble using narrow arrowheads. For a goodly sized chunk of history, though, nobody thought of that improvement and the broad bladed arrows (to do more damage) were well rebutted by the armor. One of the reasons I love HERO system is that armor actually does something to reduce damage. In other games it just reduces your chances of hitting as though your only options are full damage or no damage. Hollywood drives me nuts on this front with guys in plate and chain being felled repeatedly with a single sword cut or an arrow through solid plate like it was butter.

I guess that's kind of my point. Those liquor levels would diminish to the tune of rougly 1.5 drinks per hour as part of liver function. If the Life Support was maintained for 8 hours shouldn't they be reasonably OK when it drops?

So using my example from above you'd have the Dwarf become instantly drunk as soon as the life support ended?

11 or less is actually 62% success rate. 10 or less is 50%.

1- I have a hard time believing you have actual concentration camps that escaped media attention. 2- There wasn't remotely enough evidence to convict anyone with what was brought forth. Claiming that he's factually a serial sexual abuser is pretty extreme. 3- I actually agree with you partially on this front. However, congress sets the spending bills and the tax bills and with a brief exception for Bill Clinton we've run a massive deficit each year for decades because our government spends far more than it takes in and obliges itself to future debts to the tune of 100+ trillion dollars - already. 4- No idea what you even mean here. They're not trying to make anyone not exist. 5- I don't believe this is happening at all. In fact we've had some countries recently applaud the fact we're no longer ashamed to be Americans. 6- I won't argue that his ego is a titanic monstrosity. It is, but some of these trade deals are garbage and hurt us. Pushing back to get fair deals is not a sign of evil. We got a new deal with Mexico recently. 7- Both parties do this and it's garbage. Doesn't seem like rational discussions on issues and, gods forbid, some compromise are in fashion any more. 8- Calling the administration Nazi's is way over the line. Also, probably inaccurate as it stands for National Socialist and Trump has been pretty outspoken against socialism.

Depends on the nature of the poison, doesn't it? Say in this case the party Dwarf is trying to win a drinking contest and the party mage uses a Life Support: Alcohol Immunity spell on them. Given a few hours the Dwarf's body will naturally remove the toxin (alcohol). I've allowed a player with life support - all diseases - AoE - Usable by Nearby to give a group of sick villagers immunity to a disease long enough for their immune systems to defeat the illness.

He's definitely using a lightweight bow to exaggerate the trick-shot capabilities, but he does quote some of the historic texts where they expected a skilled archer to be able to fire an arrow every second or so while moving. Lars STR < battle-hardened Mongolian horse archer STR

And as awful as that sounds I can't be convinced it wouldn't have been even worse under Hillary. I think team blue is going to struggle to put forth a candidate that can win the general public as they currently seem to be racing each other to the edges of the far left. I'm still pretty disgusted by what they did to Bernie last time around. There doesn't even seem to be a point in voting during the primary if you're Democrat. The party will choose for you with their mountain of super-delegates.

I say Lars Anderson to you ,sir! No half DCV was had!

Regardless of the mechanics you choose to implement Poison Resistance it better work consistently or you're going to have an upset player. It does seem more in keeping with Life Support that it would provide protection against environmental hazards rather than attacks. That being said if the poison resistant dwarf gets bitten by a common rattle snake and then takes full damage because of the poison attack is modeled - they're going to be upset with you. Probably a good place for the Absolute Effect rule and a campaign specific CP cost based on the prevalence of poison attacks.

This is how I've modeled it, but I do find the idea of sticking with the original mechanics (automatically hits, but you get a characteristic roll to avoid all/half of the effect). How much of an advantage do you set that at?

During our Fantasy HERO games on Saturday's the team has worked out some synergies based on their relative strengths. Whenever an opponent is difficult to hit due to DCV the team will use the following tactics: 1- Fire witch flashes the opponent so the rest of the team can actually hit the target. 2- The spirit-shaman-tank (Udyr) will run in and grab the opponent with turtle shell running. 3- If there are adds (Lts or minions) the group AoE's the tank and surrounding targets until the tank is in trouble. 4- If there aren't any adds they focus higher damage single target shots on the blinded and grabbed target. Recently using Mind Control to counter-control a mind-controlled ally. Last week this went hillariously wrong as the fire witch poorly worded her command. 1- Big Bad: Witcher guy - kill your friends! 2- Fire Witch: Don't kill my friends! 3- Witcher guy: If I have to kill my friends and I'm also controlled to not kill any of the Fire Witch's friends then the only valid target is.... The Fire Witch. DIE!!!! Against anything with high damage output the team will usually hold their phases until the big bad attacks. 1- The target dodges or blocks. 2- The rest of the party dog piles the big bad - often with haymakers.

For barrier and other powers that are abusable when instantiated numerous times I limit the number of active instances to INT/5. I would certainly add this one to the list.

Fortunately for all of humanity that brief period when it was artistically in style to intentionally use non-sense words in poems was very brief. I tried scouring the internet for hours trying to find some of those before I found out the author (and others in that time frame) intentionally made up their own words - which meant nothing - for these types of poems. Classically I have gone with one of two variations for this type of weapon. Flat OCV bonus between +4 and +6 only to hit the neck. Flat OCV bonus of +8, only to hit the neck, only works on a critical hit, side effect: Roll normally on hit location table if non-crit.

In my D&D-became-Fantasy-HERO tables I've added saving throws as a -1 limitation that becomes a skill/stat contest between the caster and the person affected by the spell which approximates the saving throw mechanic of D&D.

That is essentially the rules. Though I think in v6 operating a bow or crossbow also makes you 1/2 DCV. I'm less a fan of that. I feel it's a side effect of olympic style archery and not active, mobile archery like you'd see with Lars Anderson.

I actually ran that one back in the 80s and the first hit landed by our team that insta-killed one of the Gold's made my players so mad. Guilt felt: None. Player anger towards GM: Massive.

Studies conducted over sufficiently long periods of time confirm that 100% of carrot eaters eventually die. Thusly, we conclude that carrots are as deadly as water (water drinkers also having a 100% mortality rate).

I've got a table or two at my local comic store that is wanting to give Champions a try (they've enjoyed Fantasy Hero so far). What are the best adventures in the Champions library? I want to cut their teeth on something epic.

Unfortunately the dialogue on this topic - as bad as it has historically been - has further devolved and the two sides essentially resemble this: Variation 1: Us - We're preserving the right of women to have control over their reproductive choices. Them - They're murdering babies! Variation 2: Us - We're preserving the lives of the defenseless unborn. Them - They're punishing women because they're evil! This is where using a steel-man argument would be useful to both sides.

Up to and including running for president. I recall the awards show when some comedian pointed at him and said, "at least this guy will never be president." He had a look of malice that would have made Emperor Palpatine cringe. A few years later he's president.

As the GM. I like the occasional desperately difficult battle, but players rarely enjoy getting stomped into the mud. Last week they had an encounter where nobody got significantly injured, but they basically fought the big bad to a stalemate for a couple of turns before he vanished. He's supposed to get away via plot device, but the encounter itself was perfect. They thought they were meeting a spy contact. Only to find out they had been getting grilled by the spy's assassin (spy is long dead). Then they got to 5v1 murder this guy - and I had just let them have a couple of feel-your-wheaties encounters against trash-level street thugs. One player described it as the hapless street tough trying to mug the Punisher. So they get this lone spy trapped and expect to pancake him on phase 12. He's DCV 11 + has spells + high defenses and a murderous damage output. They had a couple of phases of wtf-is-happening-here and then went into full X-Men danger room training mode. The Udyr (spirit shaman tank) is finally able to grab the guy after the fire witch flashes him and the explosives expert has forgone explosives to land damage-less hits with his marking crossbow (lowers enemy DCV). It was glorious. When the smoke cleared they were thrilled to get the draw against such an unexpectedly dangerous opponent.