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So I am making an Angelic character with an OAF Sword. I was going to have it such that when the sword was knocked from his hand, only someone not evil could pick it up. But I am wondering if this goes against the Accessible part of the Focus. Maybe another question would be: How would you build Mjolnir so that only Thor or "only the 'worth'" (like Captain America in Endgame) can pick it up? Thanks.

I try not to post a question here because the problem is between the keyboard and the chair. Never the less, I have been building a Shrinking character. On different occasions 3 levels of shrinking will display a different result. It's a radically different result like .2m (which is 4 levels of shrinking. Another character with 3 levels of shrinking has .0095m. I think that's like 7 levels. Some of these are inside of an EC and some are not and I don't know what is going on. I start a new character and just build it and just notice that the levels are off. Right now it really doesn't matter and I am just using the program as a guide as the numbers don't matter (sort of like "Whose Line is it Anyway". But I'm wondering if I am doing something wrong. Sometimes the Shrinking numbers will show up properly. The Perception and DCV numbers are fine. I have not changed any of my settings. There was a Java update but I had the problems before that. I am on an iMac (Intel chipset). I suppose I could just reinstall the program. Everything else seems to work. Thanks.

Thanks, I knew there had to be something I was missing.

The character is set for 5th edition Superhero. I have have created a new character and tried again. The 5th Edition Book example, with 100 point END Reserve with 20 point recovery has OAF. By Any calculation that should come out to 15. But using the program it comes out to 25. Note: I am testing this on a PC laptop with a year old version of HD and on my Mac with the latest version. Both of them do the same thing. When I create an EB or just about anything else with some limitation, things add up. This is why I am asking. When I first posted, I thought I was doing something wrong with the END reserve. But the 5E book is doing it properly. Oh, and if I need to check if I am using 6th edition rules or 5th, there is the OMCV and DMCV that really stand out. Body is at the bottom of the page too. So I KNOW that I am making a 5E character. I'm wondering if I should report this. At this point the program is good for the Designing, but I have to go back on paper and recheck the calculations.

I missed something obvious with another question that I was going to post, but this one is bugging me. I create an END reserve (say 50 with a recovery of 7) (forgot there is the OIF). The Active Points are 12 and the Real points show up as 10. But I've divided by 1.5 and I get an entirely different number. So far Hero Designer hasn't done me wrong. I have used 4th edition mostly and have had to re-learn things. So, could someone tell me what I am missing? Thanks.

I've played GURPS Supers, V&V, I bought Mutants and Masterminds but never played it. I'm sure Steve Jackson Games had something. Played and loved DC Heroes. I've played Marvel. Is New Millennium considered Champions? I think RoleMaster (chart master) had ha hero game, though I played someone's custom version of Rolemaster. Back in the 90s, a friend was in the process of creating a game it was more like Gurps and a little heroic and it was called Zen and the Art of Mayhem. It was never finished but it was very fun. I think the better question would have been what would you have played if D&D didn't exist because other games existed after it because they didn't like how D&D worked.

I know it's kind of crazy to ask given that I have the Hero Designer and I can print Character sheets out, but sometimes a PDF form fillable character sheet is easier when I use the Designer to create my character first. The problem is that I have ran across a couple of such sheets but they are both bad. One adds up speed incorrectly. It rounds the number when it clearly says in the book not to. So that one is out. The other is by Wayne Peacock and it seems fine but I find that it does some thing with Strength. It's not a whole number and in some cases the stats can be off by one. I'm not a GM so this is my character I have tried searching via google for such PDF files but come up empty but I know such files can be sitting on a site and not be searchable. The alternative is to write it all out like the old days. Thanks.

Supercharger (maybe the hero drives a tricked out car) White Lightning (not sure maybe the hero has a dependence on Moonshine? But wears a white costume to hide the fact he's covered in alcohol?) Bullitt (Her or she really likes Steve McQueen movies?) Ballistic (maybe the hero has anger issues?)

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I am building a character for 5th Edition. I noticed that when I build Teleport in a Multi power that I can't put the floating and fixed locations in the multi power like I used to be able with the old program many long years ago. (So long ago I don't even remember doing it I just have the output page) So obviously this is intentional. I am just wondering why, when you would manually add this stuff up and get a different result.

I like this idea. The idea that the character is primarily hand to hand but then there are those fliers and he pulls out this gun to take pot shots. I don't mind it being ineffective. After all, he was a bad detective novel.

I love the puns, but I pictured him as the "no police powers" detective. Also that probably comes from a well written book and this detective comes from a horrible book that makes every trash novel look fantastic. Never the less, Stretching as "long arm of the law is possible. Thanks.

I was considering the Teleport (uses a cloak as gestures and must be in shadows), also I was thinking of HA attacks but was too expensive at least I thought. I've never built a Brick before. So a Shadow/Stealth/Martial Arts Brick sounds interesting. Thanks

Sometime soon our D&D game will be winding up and the GM will be running a 350pt Champions game. Most of us are well versed in this. He is running this for his wife (He has been running Champions since the 90s). The game is set in 60s or early 70s. I have created a character name and background. I like to make crazy characters and this one is no exception. Dark Mysterio is a character from a bad 40's detective novel where they made a single book or they just burned all but one. It was just that bad. An ailing hero or villain comes alone and finds this one book and touches it and draws out this main character. The powers are combined with the Detective of the book. Mysterio, in the book, talks just like in a book: (if you read it, he says it) I'm going for Shadow powers. The character look is kind of like the typical pulp detective novel from the 40s. They have that hat pulled low and you can't see the face. Shadows. I have no real solid ideas. So I hope someone can come up with something. I have looked through the list of 5e downloads. Some were interesting but were not what I was looking for. Thanks

I bought HD in January. I am not sure there can be a huge change to this in just a couple of months, but just in case I thought why not. But how do I update. It's not in the downloads area for me to just download. That's what I would expect. Though I could swear when I bought it it was there. I have not seen it since.

The last time Star Trek was military in the strictest sense was Enterprise when they had the Macos (Marines) on board. I haven't watched Discovery, so I have no clue about that show. But TOS has had it's share of civilians, even a Cook. I do remember an episode where Kirk et. al. were served real food. Please correct me if I am wrong I may be remembering the movies.

Thanks. I downloaded it for Open office and instead of changing anything I just go to File -> Reload to have it re-roll the dice. I know the easy way here is to just take what you have here and just fill out a blank spreadsheet for Body and Stun. I think there is an app for a phone that will do just that. But I just thought I could create this "simply" and if one of my friends said, "hey, can I have one of these?" I'd say "sure!" and I would just hit reload and have a different version. But this thing is getting cumbersome to create. I was on reddit Excel forum for help and I don't own Excel. RANDBETWEEN(,) seems to work, but INDEX [array] does not. I'm pulling out my hair. I'm slow with concepts and usually think things the hard way. Thanks for what you created. I will likely create a sheet that doesn't calculate Unless I find a different way

[edit] I should say that our current D&D game will likely take the entire year to play before we play another game. The Plan is to play Champions after the D&D game. But given the state of the Vaccine roll out, who knows? You are right about sending the file via email. But I am assuming we will be playing in person by the time we start to play the Champions game. We should be at a table. But 12d6 is still a LOT of dice. I think the group would love the resurrection of that table we used way back when. All I need to do is find it.

I have a 5th edition Excel Character sheet that is dated 2007 and I assume I got from here because there is a link to this site in it. As far as I can tell any other character sheets do not exist on the site before 2013. I have done a search for 5th edition character sheets and there is only one. The one that I have is basically a beta version and is superior to the one that is on the site (no offense to the person that uploaded it). But I am just wondering what happened to the file or files 6 years previous. Would the owner ask to have it removed? I was hoping to find an updated version, but sadly no such luck. There is a link in the file but that is over 13 years old and very dead.

I'm guessing no one knows what I'm looking for. No problem. It was a long shot. I will see if I can find it elsewhere. Who knows, maybe I can find an old laptop and computer with Win95 (that should be old enough)

I know this is late, but I come from a group of power games. (don't we all?) If our GM said we were having a Champions game, one would create an insane gadget pool. The rest would create their VPPs. I don't think it's only up to the Player to be responsible to the player. You can have a player that can make the perfect VPP. (I had friends make a character for me that had a Weather VPP and I had sticky notes for all the powers she could create) Where the REAL responsibility lies is the GM. If that person doesn't know the rules backwards and forwards, they might as well ban the Variable Power Pool. Otherwise Chaos will reign.

I know this is a dead thread but I like beating a dead Corpse How did you come up with your 'handle' (forum name)? The name Strand is a favorite Champions New Millennium Character. I saw a picture of Batman with the strands of his cape spreading outward and that was where I got the idea for the character. The character was a Martial Artist that the GM said I could use those Strands in the Martial Arts. The GM has always been forgiving and fun. What was the first tabletop RPG you played? First game was OD&D. It was back in the early 80's I would say around 1982. What was the first tabletop RPG you GMed? AD&D 2nd Ed. Probably my 1st and last time. A dungeon with puzzles. I am horrible with them so I made a dungeon with them. Simple ones. It couldn't be bad, right? Right? They just stared at me blankly when I read off the the puzzle. [sigh] First DM, last DM. What are you currently playing/GMing? I am in a 5E D&D game based on Iron Kingdom. So we get access to WW1 era guns and Steam Jacks. We are at 14th level working our way to 20th.

I don't have the documents. I moved around a lot in the 90s (and changed computers a lot too). I have the program, version 2.1 and wish there was a way to convert those character files. At least I have print outs.

I'm sorry, I should have been more explicit in what I said. It wasn't directed at Hero Games. It was directed at the people installing the program and if they were still having issues installing it. I was pretty sure I had gotten it installed properly. Though I was not happy that I couldn't save character files to the Documents folder and realized later that it had to do with permissions. I've decided that I don't want to go into Terminal and try to change the permissions. Again, I will try to be better at explaining what I am saying. Sorry.