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It still just feels like a Physical Complication to me.  People are overcomplicating it.

You could also use a Custom Complication and set the cost to 0. 

On 10/20/2023 at 1:21 PM, Doc Democracy said:

So, I reckon those actions are actions that matter.  In a table tennis game, I would have an opposed roll for the serve, the ball then pings back and forth every second or so, and in an action phase you get the chance to do something exciting to win the point.

 

It would be interesting to have a baseline difficulty.  You choose a baseline and serve against that.  Success means that is the difficulty other actions work against. Your action might seek to win the point, or up the difficulty level. If you try to win the point, and fail, your opponent gets a bonus to win on their next action.

 

Manoeuvres, like Smash, will alter difficulty level for your opponent's next turn.  You might abort your next action to counter a successful smash etc.

 

All the time the ball flies back and forth, the SFX of the difficulty level.

 

😁

Should non-combat sports be resolved using the combat system or by using Professional Skills?

Actually, perhaps even combat sports like boxing and fencing should be resolved with Professional Skills, since boxing or fencing to score a point can be different from boxing or fencing in a real combat.

And don't forget to factor in PS: Three-legged Racing for those participants who have it. 🤪

I wonder if the difference between liking and not liking figured characteristics depends upon how you build characters. I, for example, always looked at every characteristic, figure door non-figured add determined what it value should be. As a result, I'd basically say no difference, except in how I figure out the cost of the former figured characteristics. But I can see that for those who seldom modified their figured characteristics, suddenly having to look at what each value should be, would be a major difference.

14 hours ago, unclevlad said:

Jacob DeGrom  needs Tommy John surgery on his elbow.

 

Out for the rest of this year AND most of next season.  

 

Rangers will end up paying him about $2.5M per inning pitched for '23 and '24, if he can't come back to pitch at the end of next season.  

Assuming that the contract was insured, they’ll be paying less than that.

For prefabs, I just load and unload them as needed. Once you’ve added an Ability from a prefab, you no longer need it loaded.

Posted this on Facebook but I'll share it here too.

I knew Darren Watts for just over 20 years. I first met him in person in line for a burger at the convention center food court the night before Origins 2002. At the time, I was regularly GMing Hero System games at Gen Con (and sometimes Origins). That night, he invited me to join him and Steve Long at their table and from that point on, I felt like I was part of the HERO family.

But that was Darren. He had a knack for making people feel welcome, in a way that felt geniune not schmoozy. Hanging out with Darren (and the rest of the Hero folk) becam a cherished part of my convention-going experiences. When he and Diane moved from San Franccisco to New York and Darren got involved with the Double Exposure conventions in NJ, I started attending those cons regualrly. In fact, since I have an aunt who lives in Manhattan, it was not uncommon for me to fly in a couple of days before a Double Exposure con to spend time with my aunt, wander New York City, grab a Tuesday night dinner with Darren before guest starring his current campaign, and then meeting up with him to take the train out to Morristown for the con.

I always enjoyed my chats with Darren.And we always seemed to find something to talk about: RPGs and HERO System in particular, the game industry, baseball, comic books, Jeopardy!, movies, musical theater, various TV shows, and more. And every once in a while, those chats would become deeper and more serious. He introduced me to Scoresheet Baseball, a sophisticated fantasy baseball simulation and to Learned League, an ongoing trivia league featuring many Jeopardy! champs and other top trivia players. And while I have never become a fan of Lucha wrestling or Lucha movies, I gained an appreciation for the genre, thanks to Darren.

Darren also played a role in getting my game Last Word Standing published. I was having trouble finding a publisher for the game and Darren was doing some consulting work for Chronicle Books' game division. He asked me if I wanted him to talk to Chronicle about the game, I said yes, and they ended up publishing it.

In short, Darren Watts had a large impact on my life and his passing has left a huge hole in it. It's hard to believe that there will be no great meals togetherat Chef Fredy's Table, no more drinking Rum Swizzles together at the Hyatt bar, no more texting Darren if I want more info on a player that the Jays have just acquired, no more listening to Darren expound on comic book history on the Explain This, Comics Guys podcast, and most disturbingly, no more Darren.

I don't think Darren believed in an afterlife and neither do I, but right now, I kind of hope that we are both wrong. Good-bye, Darren. My life was definitely better for having known you.

EDIT: Corrected Origins 2022 to Origins 2002.

So, if I understand correctly, the idea is that the ninja only communicates through looks and body language and no other way. Also, anybody can understand the ninja’s ‘communication’ even if they have never met or seen the ninja before.

if this is indeed the case, I might just take a 5 point Physical Complication of “Must be seen to communicate.”

3 hours ago, LoneWolf said:

Sounds like it would also be visible to mental.  Just do it as a physical complication.  It would probably be infrequently, barely impairing.  That would make it 5pts.  All it does is change the sense groups for speech.  

 

This would mean that the character is incapable of normal speech.  

Oops. I didn’t notice your post when I made my similar suggestion.  Great minds think alike.

Probably the most fun convention game that I had a part in running was the Champions 30th Anniversary that I co-ran with Dave Mattingly at Origins 2011. In addition to the 6 slots for regular players (playing the Champions), there were 3 special players: Steve Long playing Robert Caliburn, Darren Watts playing Doctor Silverback, and Jason Walters playing Caveman Cortez (from Lucha Hero). Steve, Darren, and Jason chose which of their characters they’d play. 

Foxbat had come to the conclusion that he was a character in the Champions RPG and traveled back in time to Origins 1981 to kidnap the game’s creators and have them rewrite the universe to make him a hero.
 

In the rewritten universe, the Champions were now Foxbat’s Amazing Friends and the players had a lot of fun with the idea that Foxbat was now the world’s greatest hero. Meanwhile, in Vibora Bay, Robert Caliburn sensed the rewritten universe and along with Caveman Cortez, who had just finished helping him wrap up an adventure, headed to Millennium City. 
 

The heroes eventually figured out what was going on and thanks to the genius of Doctor Silverback, they all headed back in time to Origins 1981. There they found Foxbat and a team of villains from Enemies 1 that had not yet appeared in another Hero book standing over the unconscious bodies of the Guardians. The heroes defeated the villains, preventing the kidnapping of George MacDonald, Steve Peterson, and Ray Greer and restoring the timeline.

It’s just 6E specifics updated, maybe some errata fixes. In fact, it wasn’t even reorganized to put Charm (the renamed Seduction) in its correct place alphabetically.

There is a fully searchable PDF (HDDocs.pdf) included with Hero Designer that explains things like this.

As LoneWolf suggested, I would use the Power skill and edit the Display to Divination. I would then use Custom Adders to add the Divinination method, using a cost of 0 for the three (one primary, two secondary).The one oddity is that you cannot create a 1/2 point Custom Adder; however,as explicitly stated in the Hero System Skills (aka The Ultimate Skill), buying one extravsecondary divinition method costs 1 (minimum Hero System cost), it's not much of an issue. If you buy one extra secondary, you buy a 1 point adder. If you buy 2 extra secondary methods, buy one adder with a cost of 1 and the other with a cost of 0.  Alternatively, you could combine multiple primaries or secondaries on one line using the total cost for those methods.

If a player takes such a Limitation, they and the GM should have a discussion about how and why the Limitation works.

If I was the GM of a campaign with a character with this Limitation, I would be thinking about villains who can suppress or dispel magic, areas where magic does not work, etc. Also, once the character becomes known at all, villains may start to take specific actions against. For example, perhaps recurring villain Evil Tech Guy, having had large amount of damage done to his operations by Super Magic Guy, teams up with the mystical Artificer to create defended against those magics,

To expand a bit on what others were saying, you select Skill Levels and then on the Skill Levels dialog, select either "with one mode of Movement" or "with all modes of Movement" from the Options dropdown.

On 2/6/2021 at 7:47 PM, Bazza said:

I agree that Mistress Death should have been used, and worked out a rationale how, years ago, but I’ve forgotten it. Not doing it takes something away from the character and ruins the possible introduction of The Abstract Entities like Eternity, or The Living Tribunal (with a nod in Doctor Strange). 
 

Thanos The Gardening Titan, or

Thanos The Sporting Titan

As someone with only a passing knowledge of comic book Thanos, I think the Death stuff could end up just making him look like a stooge of Death's. I also wouldn't be surprised if the idea of a guy killing half the universe to impress a girl made the creative team a little uncomfortable.

But honestly, I don't see how not using Mistress Death as a motivation for Thanos ruins the possible introduction of other cosmic beings.

On 2/6/2021 at 8:50 PM, Bazza said:

Bottom line: the cosmic MCU is vastly & significantly different* is subtle ways to the MU. 

*I’ve lost count. 

I am constantly amazed when people expect the translation of a story or a character to another medium to be exactly the same.  

In any event, I'll admit that I am largely unfamiliar with the cosmic side of Marvel, but I am willing to bet that over the years, like moist things in comics, it has become bloated, confused, and contradictory, as multiple creators with different interpretations put their own spin on it. The movies can start with a blank slate and use what they need when and how they need it. 

12 minutes ago, Christopher R Taylor said:

 

Alternate explanation: its sloppy writing/comic book logic, like how you can have a battle obliterate a city and its fine the next issue.  Which is by far the most reasonable and likely explanation.  That's just how it is, and who cares if it makes sense, we're just having fun here.

Whatever. It's how I always interpret stories.  I'll start out with assuming that the story takes place in a world very much like our own and adjust my assumptions as the story goes along, based on what happens in the story. It's only contradictions within a fictional world itself that it starts to annoy me. 

As for the example of the city being repaired, obviously the city has gotten very very good at recovering from superhero fights. And maybe there's a story there.

On 2/10/2021 at 11:12 AM, Spence said:

 

...the film version is the official version.  For ever 1 person who knows the comic book history and stories, there are 900 that thought books from the 1990's and later were comics and 9000 who know only the movies.

 

There fixed it

 

What?

 

I think "definitive version" might be more appropriate than "official version". The definitive version is the version that the majority of people familiar with the character think of first. I think official version sounds like version sanctioned by the company that owns the character and can vary from medium to medium. For example, in comics, the Superman who appears in Action and Superman comics (amongst others) is the official version. On TV, the official version is Tyler Hoechlin's character introduced in Supergirl and being spun off into the Superman and Lois series debuting htis week. In the movies, the official version is Henry Cavill's version who debuted in Man of Steel. Of course, in cases of a multiverse you can multiple official versions within a medium, but these would be the primary official versions.

On 2/5/2021 at 11:08 PM, unclevlad said:

I haven't watched WandaVision at all;  I'm not in the mood to give Disney money.  My choice, of course.

 

But the gaping plot...not hole, per se, but unanswered question was with that second <snap>.  It's FAR worse than the story suggests.  Here's one point:  after 5 years with only 3.5 billion people, food production will be at a level to support.......3.5 billion people.

 

What happens when, overnight, there's 7 billion?

 

*To a degree*...if half of everything included animals, then there's a massive surge of slaughterable animals.  But that won't last that long.  And it'll still take time to slaughter, age safely, process, and distribute.  OK, there's *some* food in the supply chain, but when you double demand, it simply won't last.  And fruits and veggies?  Tree fruits and nuts...perhaps the trees wouldn't have been <snap>ed but a fair few would've fallen to lack of care.  But most veggies and grains?  They're annuals.  

I look at things like this in a completely different way. If a dramatic presentation says that something work, then it worked. Maybe there was a group of billionaires who believed that people would be back and paid for food to be produced and stored so there wouldn't be an issue if they suddenly came back. If Director Hayward of SWORD (introduced in WandaVision) is to be believed Maria Rambeau, mother of Monica and founder of SWORD, set up protocols to deal with the return of snapped agents.  So, it's possible that others believed in the possible return of the snapped people. Since Spider-man: Far From Home has been established as occurring about 8 months after the snappees return and we see no indication of issues, the only logical interpretation to me is that it was not a serious issue.
 

On 5/24/2020 at 10:31 AM, Brian Stanfield said:

Hero Designer works just fine on a Mac since it is a Java app. As for 4th edition, you’d have to find an older version of HD (v.3 I think) to be compatible. 

Hero Designer has never supported 4th Edition. It was created for 5th Edition and then updated to include 6th Edition. 

On 6/9/2020 at 3:31 AM, Wildcat said:

I tried to send a PM to Jason, but got a error saying 'that user wasn't accepting mesages'

 

Been a week now and nothing. For a product I bought a year ago. Is this the state of things at Hero today?

I think Jason Walters is the only one who would be handle Hero Support tickets at this point. And running Hero Games is only a small part of his overall job. So I don't know how often he checks support tickets.

Amorkca, did you purchase the villain bunde or did you purchase Champions Villains 2 as a separate pack?

I ask because my purchase of the bundle and Wildcat's purchase of the bundle were many years apart and we both have the same issue. And I'm just wondering if the  Villains 2 Character Pack sold separately is actually different from the one in the bundle.

EDIT: Also, Amorkca, does your version of the Crowns of Krim include Bloodstone and Dark Seraph?  They are missing from my version (and, I assume, from Wildcat's).

I purchased the Villain Pack many years ago and never actually got around to looking at it.  I just checked it and have the same issues as Wildcat.

It is clearly not just a matter of files being cut off because some folders have different names that what Amorkca showed. For example, in the version that Wildcat and I appear to have, the folders for the Futurists and the Crimelords are named FUTURIST and CRIMELORDS, whereas in Amorkca's version, they are named THE_CRIME-LORDS and THE_FUTURISTS.

I will also try to get in touch with Jason about this and see about getting it fixed.

PRIMARY_OCV without the MATH tags is giving you a non-integer value? That doesn't seem right.