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Re: Star Trek Online gets Free To Play at 17. January 2012 Makes me wonder why I'm playing Star Wars: The Old Republic. I should have just waited until it went free-to-play.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter

Re: Possible HERO System Supplement Kickstarters From Steve -- What Interests You? Definitely Mythic Hero and Cyber Hero for me at least at the $50 level for both (maybe more for Mythic).

Re: So Which Hideout are you looking at? I went with the moonbase; that was just too cool to pass up.

Re: Here Be Dragons [PDF] now available. Picked it up earlier this week. Skimmed it day 1 and am currently reading it more thoroughly. Very nice sourcebook.

Re: Swallow whole power anyone? the 5E Bestiary has rules for swallowing whole and I'm sure the 6E Bestiary does as well. Basically, big creature does a Grab with it's mouth, and if the grabbed creature is small enough, it can be swallowed. Swallowed creature takes damage while inside the other creature.

Re: Hero System Power Cards

Re: Hero System Power Cards

Re: Pole Arm Quiz Man...must have been a while since I've studied pole arms.....I only got 6 of the 22 right.

Re: Stunning enemies (and Dragons too!!)

Re: The Cape - What do you think of it so far? Hopefully what's left will resolve some things...I hate being left hanging. I will watch it though, when NBC puts it up. I did generally enjoy the show as a "I don't have to think to hard to watch" show and as a "I don't need to see every episode to enjoy" show. While I do enjoy multi-episode; multi-season story arcs, sometimes I just want to sit for an hour with a good romp. Probably the reason I'm always caught up on shows like Castle, but shows like the Event will sit for months.

Re: Nostalgia: Anybody Else Covert Old Gaming Material? At one time, I tried converting FASA's Doctor Who RPG to HERO. I didn't get very far before I gave up...I wasn't that proficient at conversions at the time.

Re: Your "2011" Pet Gaming Projects Since my Traveller Hero campaign got derailed with personal issues last year, the main focus for this year is to get that back on track.

Re: Tron Very nice! I'll have to grab the file when I get home! Have some Rep!

Re: What 5th Ed Books to buy on sale? I second the Lucha Libre Hero recommendation. And I agree the sale prices are too good to pass up. For myself, I'm planning on getting the last 2 Pulp Hero books I need; and maybe a few others (there's very few 5E stuff I don't have, mostly in the Champions and Dark Champions lines).

Re: Death Traps #3: The Deep Freeze I agree....insidious! Keep the death-traps coming!

Re: Do I need the 6th Martial Arts book? It helps if you have players that want to play a genre other than fantasy. There's a couple players in the D&D group I'm in that's interested in doing sci-fi, so I offered to setup a campaign, and said we'd be doing HERO.

Re: Do I need the 6th Martial Arts book? Yeah, with what I'm reading, I've actually changed my mind, and will pick it up. Also, assuming any stores get it in. Of the three stores in my area, one's always been D20 Land, a second that had very good stock became D20 Land after the D&D 4e release, the third is fairly good on stocking non-D20 stuff, but it took a request from someone else to get them to stock The Ultimate Base (when I picked my copy up, the owner claimed he didn't know it was out). I haven't seen the new Champions in stock, yet, but since it's a bit of a drive for me, I only go in about once a month. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Re: Who's still playing and when? I'm not active, but I still play about 2-3 times a month.

Re: First Wave, the First Review! Discuss, or risk Angering the Golden Tree! I also enjoyed the one shot and the First Wave 1st issue. So far it's a lot better both story and art than a lot of the stuff that's in the mainstream DC Universe.

Re: Sample Kingdoms I've only just skimmed them, but from what I've seen, example kingdoms would have really helped me understand some of the Characteristic rules.

Re: Your "2010" Pet Gaming Projects These are my goals for 2010: 1) Continue in a couple D&D 3.5e campaigns 2) Convert some of those players to HERO 3) Continue working on my Traveller HERO campaign - this is related to goal #2. Since we have fantasy covered, I said I'd run a sci-fi campaign. 4) Read through the new Doctor Who RPG and convert to HERO....very low priority, although I might convert some of the stuff into Talents for the Traveller HERO campaign.

Re: Any Star System Mapping Utilities? Thanks guys! Nolgoth, I did find AstroSynthesis and have been evaluating it. I like it, just not sure I'm willing to pay what they're asking. I'll look at some of the other links on the link you posted. Nyrath, I am doing a Traveller Hero campaign, but I'm using Star Hero's sector generation as I like space being 3D I'll have a look at Heavean & Earth, though....looks like the World info stuff might suit my needs.

Hey, does anyone know of a utility that will allow me to a map out a star system? Preferably one that shows planetary orbits and has icons based on the size of the planet (to easily tell gas giants from rocks)?

Re: History: My first HERO character Oh, yeah! And I still have the character sheet! Just like you, we started with the Champions box set. The character's name was Gospel Singer and had sonic powers built with an Elemental Control. He was kind of a weakling, as I was new to the concept of Character Disadvantages, so I didn't take enough to get the max points allowed (because...why gimp your hero????? ). I don't remember any of the other's characters other than one had a Hunted: Viper....and those dudes kept messing us up!