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Re: Sleep Deprivation There aren't any (from Steve) As someone operating on 2-4 hours of sleep a night for more than a year now. I can say with certainty that for me it is not sufficient, but I know people for whom it works. So first we need to establish a baseline >1 hour but < 8 hours (As 1 hour or less gets into LS, and >8 hours might constitute a complication - maybe set the minimum higher @3 hours/night so as to not let someone effectively CON their way to free LS - or make that also Campaign Specific) - Maybe Con, 10 con requires 8 hours sleep -1 hour per X points of Con based on Genre to the campaign minimum. So High Fantasy or Pulp might have - Min 3 hours X= 2, so 14 Con=6 hours required and a 20 Con hits the minimum of 3 hours while Dark Champions might have 5 min X=3 and Golden Age 2 min X=1 - establish the range for setting by setting (influenced by the genre) Once the baseline is established we can look at how characters are affected. Incompetency's a nice option to use (6E1 page 419). Applyig 1 level for each Y hours of needed sleep missed with a minimum of 1 level; Y being campaign specific. Remove 1 level for each Z hours slept. Set a maximum value to Y, based on Con or Ego after which you absolutley fall asleep or if yu cannot for some reason Max Y x 5 goes insane and +x5 dies. Throw in some ego and con rolls to temporarily stave off the effects and Bob's your uncle. This is all predicated on you caring one way or another and don't want to just wing it - it's never really come up in the 20 + years I've been playing Hero - the only reason I even thought about it was is I had an adventure idea while reading the Kamarathin world book ('No Sleep til Endson' One of Duke Velan's bastards is using magic to steel dreams to power a takeover of his 'rightful' inheritance - sleep doesn't bring rest and the players need to find and stop him)

Re: Sleep Deprivation Funny, I was just asking about this. I think the effect should vary by genre - Dark Champions and Horror would likely have more harsh rules than Golden Age Champions or Pulp.

Re: Multipower are so common, why not just cut every cost by 2 ? 60 point MP with 3 Powers 78 Active Points x4 = 312pts Access to 4 powers (Say 2 Attack, 1 Def, 1 Movement) at a time from a total of 12. I could purchase 4 60AP powers for 240 AP and have 72 points left to spend on other things - like making them 75 AP powers with an Overall Level (or 3-4 levels with the 2 attacks). Which is better diversity or power and skill?

Re: Multipower are so common, why not just cut every cost by 2 ? Why would you make an exception for one Special Effect?

I haven't been able to track down the effects of Sleep Deprivation in either of the 6th core books or the APG. There's Life Support that reduces the need for sleep, but where is the effect of missing the sleep that you still need listed? Thank you.

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive Mine came USPS

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive Books just arrived, now what am I gonna complain about? Seriously though these puppies look awesome.

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive Postal Cart Thunderdome - Two packages enter, One Package Leaves

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive My minion, who placed the GenCon order for me, got his - still no sign of mine.

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares I could do something with this one - Route 66 meets NeverWhere, yeah that could work really well -

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive I think it might just be me and you now

Re: Quantum of Time Hmmm, if I was going to look at this closely I'd probably start with pulling off all the brakes. So Can always take a full move during your phase - you can alternate between movement types using a reasonable look at percentage of move (12" running 4" Swimming would allow 3" Run 2" Swin 3" Run, 9" Run 1" Swim, etc etc). This does not count against actions per phase and is similar to other systems where you can always travel your movement w/o penalty You can use your action for additional movement (1/2 phase = additional1/2 move, full phase = additional full move) You can abort to any action w/o additional penalties. Attack actions are no longer considered 'terminal' (is that term still used?) there are no longer 'terminal' actions which would allow two attacks per phase. Once we played like that for a while and got a good feel for it, then begin to, if necessary, re-introduce limits that seem important for balance - ultimately arriving at the set of house rules that would work best for us - also getting a real good sense of what rules to add in or take out for setting simulation.

Re: Cut 'em Off at the Horsehead Nebula! http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/2009/01/cut-em-off-at-horsehead-nebula-part-two.html http://rantingroom.blogspot.com/2009/01/final-afterthoughts.html

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive Well I got my APG - still no Main Books.

Re: A Storeowner's First Impression 10? (Since I can't add another)

Re: What Genre book Reprint are you most anticipating? Thanks, then I'll ammend my answer to Fantasy Hero followed by Star Hero

Re: What Genre book Reprint are you most anticipating? Is there a list of the Hero Genre books that are currently being planned?

Re: What Genre book Reprint are you most anticipating? Dark Champions and Pulp, followed by Fantasy.

Re: Lock-On System

Re: Speeding up combat "Restrict SPDs" is Dead Wrong Anecdotally; By coincidence all of the PC's in my Heracle's Children campaign had a 6 speed. The combats were the smoothest and quickest our group has ever had - and it was obvious from early on to everyone that that was the case. I would not have thought it would have made that much difference but it did.

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive According to UPS the APG I ordered on 10/21 is scheduled to arrive today - I too sent minions to GenCon to order me the Main Books so there's no way I can track those, but perhaps the pick system is sophisticated enough to combine tickets for a single delivery address and I'll get a big box o Vetran's Day joy.

Re: Greatest Western Movies of all Time Silverado High Noon The Man who Shot Liberty Valance Destry Rides Again Sukiyaki Western Django

Re: Genre-crossover nightmares Slapstick horror, hmmm, never tried that on purpose. I've seen it as an unintentional consequence of my players being, well, my players and I'm sure they'll laugh about it someday once the nightmares begin to fade...

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive It would appear so

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