BobGreenwade

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Not really a crossover, but: Son of Wolfman: The Heir of the Dog that Bit You

Re: THE HERO SYSTEM GRIMOIRE: What Do *You* Want To See?

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Frankenstein Goes Bollywood

Re: THE HERO SYSTEM GRIMOIRE: What Do *You* Want To See?

Re: THE HERO SYSTEM GRIMOIRE: What Do *You* Want To See? I agree with this decision, but I would suggest giving specific page references in the Introduction for these other things. Wasn't there a category of magic that consists of "stealing" power from the gods -- called Theurgy, or something like that? I'd rather like to see that. (Or would that be a subcategory of Divine Magic?) In the past, the alternate builds have been along the lines of "build it the same way, except for X," followed by the new Active Point (if needed) and Real Point values. I don't have the new FH book, but if different Options can be presented like this that presents most or all spells in alternate forms to fit alternate magic systems, that would be a boon -- though again this may be something too complex to work.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Robin Hood, Prince of Persia Robin Hood, Fresh Prince of Bel Air

Re: THE HERO SYSTEM EQUIPMENT GUIDE -- What Would *You* Like To See? This will probably be a good candidate for Best Suggestion That Ain't Gonna Happen. It would be fantastic if HSEG could get a treatment to make it the 6th Edition equivalent of The Ultimate Gadgeteer. Other than rules suggestions already made, there are some specific ideas: Different kinds of gadget pools -- inventions on the fly, prescient equipping ("happening" to bring along exactly what's needed), the "walking department store" (having a virtually unlimited supply of common, everyday items), and so forth. These can all be served with different flavors of VPP. Various treatments for how a character can have the ability to "summon" an item out of thin air (or the effective equivalent, like pulling it from a parallel dimension). Transform is one way to do this, at least for mundane items, but I've also seen it with VPP, Entangle, the Create Object Power presented in Digital Hero (I forget which issue), and reduced value on the Focus Limitation; under 6th it could probably be done with Barrier. The different types of gadgeteers, as with other character archetypes in the Ultimate books. Like I say, I don't have too much hope that these things will actually get into HSEG, but perhaps at least the "summon from thin air" discussion can get into APG2.

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Master planner, master cat burglar, master martial artist... "Jimmy" Chow Yun-Fat, better know by his alias Black Tiger, was not the leader of the Seven Syndicate, but he was an invaluable right hand man. His very brilliance is what made him the perfect target as the first of the Seven Syndicate to go. For all his stealth, for all his vaunted mastery of kung fu, for all his careful planning against every contingency... he could do little about being ambushed by the Hired Guns. Killdeer fired the first shot, Howitzer the second, OSOK the last, and the other Hired Guns each got at least a couple of hits in between. In fact, when Black Tiger's body was found, there was more bullet metal than bone left within.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Quark and Grilka Plus Eight

Re: Chucking One of the NPC books is just going to have to include a character named Chuck Wood (probably a professor of forest ecology at a university in Hudson City).

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Re: Excerpted PDFs There's something to that idea. Under 5E, I certainly wouldn't have minded having a PDF booklet with all the extraterrestrial racial package deals from Terran Empire, Alien Wars, and Worlds of Empire, even after I already owned all three books. (And having a few extras, like some of the aliens and enhanced humans that appeared in Digital Hero, would have been just gravy.)

Re: Excerpted PDFs Though I'll probably be buying HSMA pretty soon, if I weren't I'd really want the "Martial Arts Powers" section in this format.

Re: Query's Art & Stuff Thread It looks like at least one party member wasn't quite that smart.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares A Beautiful Criminal Mind

Re: Blackwyrm Looking For Star Hero Submissions If I wasn't fixing on taking a break from writing gaming material, I'd definitely have something. I'll check with you guys when I'm fixing to end said break.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine And together, they are... THRUBS!

Re: An Earth-like planet, plus a little something extra While this article is an awesome bit of news, I don't see where it says that the signal he found came from Gliese 581, or even the Libra constellation in general. That star system is discussed, but in a separate context.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares The Odd Couple (Zombie Edition)

Re: Create a Villain Theme Team! Veronica Pepper is eight years old, and she always gets what she wants. If she doesn't she'll scream. And boy does she scream... ear-shattering, glass-breaking, nose-bleeding screams. Literally. Veronica's screams have been known to cause permanent deafness. Once or twice she's caused an older person to have a stroke. Even with earplugs and other protection, anyone nearby experiences severe pain. Cats and dogs run from her, and birds fly away. Most frightening of all is the physical damage. It's not just glass that shatters, either, though that almost always occurs. Cars have stopped running in their tracks. Tires may pop. Metal poles warp and deform. Once, a stack of newspapers spontaneously combusted. And what lungs... she can hold one of her screams for well over a minute, nonstop. She didn't start out as such a brat. Her father is a Baptist preacher, and he has five other children -- three older than Veronica, and two younger. All of Veronica's siblings are genuinely happy, model citizens, taking age into account. And, until Veronica's ability started to manifest, she was no different. Her father explained to her that she had a choice in how to use her power: she could use it for the fleeting pleasures of selfish, instant gratification, or she could use it to be a productive, helpful, and respected member of society. Veronica decided on instant gratification. Now, as Hellscreamer, she helps make sure that she and the other Bad Seeds get what they want... because if they don't, she'll scream. What's really scary is that her power is only starting to develop.

Re: THE HERO SYSTEM EQUIPMENT GUIDE -- What Would *You* Like To See? As I think you were indicating, a lot of this can be done the same way as I mentioned earlier for enchanted items: just give a couple of paragraphs in the Introduction pointing out that many such devices could be the same, with just a change in SFX and perhaps some shifts in Limitations. Nonetheless, a few small steampunk gizmos like James West's boot daggers and sleeve holsters would be cool.

Re: Giant robots! Another meme too cool for its own good. We see you have boom-boom stick. Bye-bye.

Re: Technologically advanced Neanderthals? This one does seem to cover the same ground as the original article, and no less informatively. That article is still not back up, but I did find where someone clipped a few paragraphs: So it's made me start to imagine modern Neanderthals using high-tech devices... like I said, maybe the Geico commercials aren't so far off the mark. But we could have alternate timelines where Uluzzians fly spaceships, get around in rocket-packs, perform microcellular surgery, and know how to get the VCR to stop blinking 12:00 all day long.

Re: Help Me Populate A Creepy Island A new one just came to me. Eric and Bethany Heatherton are fraternal twins, brother and sister. They share an apartment at the edge of the island's main town. Each is incredibly good looking -- Eric is a 6'2" major hunk, and Bethany a 5'5" curvalicious babe. And neither is shy about advertising his or her physical assets. Nor is either of them shy about making use of those assets. Each is quite fond of flirting with members of the opposite sex, and both are well known for their love of sex with strangers -- including, or even especially, visitors to the island. Neither of them, in fact, has ever had anything remotely resembling a long-term relationship. It's a funny thing, though: nobody can remember ever seeing them both in the same place at the same time... or even in two different places at the same time, for that matter.

Re: THE HERO SYSTEM EQUIPMENT GUIDE -- What Would *You* Like To See?