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Re: Can't start a thread on the 6E Forum? So it seems. Can't tell you how surprised I was to come back and see on the main page Steve talking about the book pretty much done. Last time I'd checked, 6E was *no where* on the radar Well, here's to hoping things are cleaned but not terribly changed -shnar

Re: Zombie Horror Survivor (Left4Dead)? Most of the Zombie board games are pretty good. Zombies!!!, Last Night on Earth, heck I'd even through Doom: The Boardgame in that category (Fatties are Zombies, right? ). My group has just loved L4D so much that it's got us thinking maybe a table-top RPG would be fun to try. Of all the systems, Hero is the one I think I want to try, though D6 doesn't sound too bad either... -shnar

Re: 6E, 1st non backwards compatible Hero? Really? Maybe I was just using basic stuff, but my 2E supers characters played just fine in the 5E world. Anyways, that's good to hear (though I'll miss figured characteristics, always loved that part of creation) that it's not that dramatic of a change -shnar

Re: Can't start a thread on the 6E Forum? Ah. I'd noticed most of the threads were closed, but not the entire forum. Too bad too, I've been out of Hero for a year or so, Champions Online prompting me to come back. Last I'd seen on the forums was that there were no plans to look at 6E since everyone loved 5ER so much. Had I gotten wind that a 6E was in the works, I would have loved to put in my input -shnar

Reading through all of Steve's ideas, which aren't bad, just made me wonder how backwards compatible 6E is going to be. The one thing that's really impressed me with Hero is that I can take a Champions 1 character, and still use it in a 5E system. Will that not be the case going forward? -shnar

Are only certain people allowed to start threads on the 6E forum? I tried but said I have no permission to do so... -shnar

Re: Zombie Horror Survivor (Left4Dead)? That's all good talk. I was picturing the fast zombie kind, i.e. 28DaysLater/Left4Dead. I just wasn't sure how to handle the "bite" factor. Having the players play themselves is an excellent idea though. After playing L4D for a couple weeks straight, a couple of our guys had started planning escape routes, spotting things like gas cans and propane tanks along the way, wondering if a shotgun would fit in their backpacks, etc. So I think they'd dig a play-yourself-zombie-survival game. -shnar

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? I've got Jaynestown running on Hulu.com (Firefly eps 7)... -shnar

So what's the difference between the MMO and the Pen-n-Paper? At brief glance, it looks like the only thing in common between the two is the genre/universe. Is 6E going to add some similarities? -shnar

With the new Hero6 coming out, I was thinking about using this system to do a Zombie Survivor game, similar to Left4Dead. Has anyone tackled this before? Pointers on how to handle infection, basic zombie stats, etc? -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Ah, interesting. Well, I'm hoping for a good MMO from them -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Cryptic is not developing CoX anymore? I thought NCSoft was just the distributor, and Cryptic was the development studio... -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game I'm not sure if this has been discussed, but Cryptic is now developing Champions Online. Wonder how it will compare with their other superhero MMO... -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Yeah, they changed that a long time ago, where the summoned pets didn't give XP. But again, with CoH, grinding is not a smart way to lvl-up. Go do your missions, especially if you have the difficulty set up higher. You'll get more XP just for completing the mission than for killing all the creatures inside. -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game It's the 'farming'. People would find a communications officer and never kill him, let him spawn more baddies to kill, a seemingly easy way to get XP. IMHO, it's kinda silly cause waiting for more spawns takes just about as much time as jumping to the next mob in the mission, and missions is what give the best XP, not grinding on mobs. Some habits are just hard to break, I guess... -shnar

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) Crappy.

Re: Genres HERO GAMES may want to avoid (intended to be humorous) Reality HERO? Heros HERO... Nine Princes of HERO HEURO (European version) -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Did we have costumes last year? It seems like the event changes somewhat every year. My memory is probably very off, but 1st year was Trick or Treating, then they associated a badge with it, then they added the monsters and their badges. What else has been added? -shnar

Re: 6th Edition Hero System

Re: 6th Edition Hero System I mean if Sidekick is the "basic" HERO, how do you grow from basic to advanced? Sidekick is an afterthought and probably not doing well because of it. There is little in the way of Sidekick-Specific-Material and no real "upgrade-path". It's not like MERP->Rolemaster. But I'm on the bandwagon that mechanically there's nothing wrong wihth HERO 5. The *only* problem I see is that the BigBlackBook is a beast for new players and I merely wonder if there's a way to regain some of the elegance of earlier HERO products... -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game Huh, I wonder why these didn't just tell him how to fix it then? Bugger Gms I'll let him know so he can start playing again -shnar

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game My friend upgraded to Vista and now for some reason, the mouse doesn't display. He reported it as a bug, and they said they knew about it and had no plans to fix it -shnar

Re: 6th Edition Hero System I've actually mentioned that in a couple posts, Sidekick could solve this issue, but there's no clear path right now suggesting it. It's just sort of thrown in. One idea was a Hero6 should maybe have a BBB for the "advanced" user, and also a SideKick with a bunch of splat books... -shnar