drunkonduty

Go right ahead! The books are written as starting points, not final words.
 
And it's quite interesting so far.
 
Dean Shomshak

I am away from my books at the moment so I'm going from memory. Also , I could be talking out of turn here given the man who literally wrote the book is posting in this thread...
 
That said... officially each planet in this dimension has it's own parterres.* Each parterre reflect the beliefs (spiritual, ethical, scientific, etc.) of the beings who inhabit those worlds. So the worlds in this dimension each have their own parterres that are unrelated to the parterres of Earth. This suggests to me that, as each other-dimension parallel will have it's own unique each planet with it's own unique history, evolution, etc, each unique other-dimension world also has it's own unique parterres. 
 
That's my interpretation of official Champions sources. 
 
Personally, as I said in my previous post, I like the idea that the parterres are connected cross-dimensionally. By cross-dimension I mean across parallel realities.
 
 
 
*These other-world parterres may or may not reflect the four way tensions of the higher (Brialic?) realities in a manner that is is similar to how Earth's parterres reflect the higher realities.
 
So, does anyone think that, given that the imaginal realms reflect beliefs, is it possible for there to be imaginal V'hans that exist in the many (or not so many, see my above post) parterres of the worlds? Not the real V'han anymore than Zeus is the real Urizen; but pop-culture V'hans that are influenced by the popular media culture that the real V'han creates around herself.
 
Or am I just disappearing up my own backside at this point?
 
 

This project is out of pure nostalgia from a video arcade game I once played...Wizard Fire a.k.a. Dark Seal II. 🙂 The WinZip contains Microsoft Excel and Hero Designer files for the following characters:
 
Carl Greystone - Knight
Jade Greataxe - Fighter
Hark Riger - Bard
Freya Edirne - Wizard
Eminna Jozestore - Elf fighter-mage
 

In all honesty there is not really that much difference between and orc and a hobgoblin.  Looking at the orc template in the book it comes out to be a 0-point template.  By default, all it does is to make some adjustments on stats.  In the Hero System it’s all about the points.  Package deals are just guidelines for how certain things can be done.  The package deals in Fantasy Hero are also pretty generic so if you really need a package deal just use the orc package deal and change the name.   In other game systems this is usually frowned on, but in Hero System it is pretty normal.   

There should be a "fall down the rabbit hole" side effect.

So, is there only one Faerie or are there infinite versions of Faerie unique to each universe?
 
It might give Faerie an interesting feel if it connects to all Earths at once. That crazy Fae talking about weird things might just be talking about real things on a different Earth and can’t understand why it’s audience doesn’t get what it’s talking about.

Given the number of worlds and peoples Istvatha V;han rules, it is virtually certain that some of those worlds generated Umaginal Reals. I haven't read Book of the Empress, so I can't say if anything like this is described there. Regardless, this field seems wide open for GMs to invent their own. My little e-book, Spells of the Devachan: Thaumaturgy from the Sorcerer's Galaxy (available from the HERO Store) includes brief descriptions of some alien Imaginal Worlds you could easily drop into the CU.
 
IIRC, though, Istvatha V'han has conquered several alternate Earths. This brings up a question I never considered in The Mystic World:  Do those alternate Earths also have alternate Parterres? (I didn't consider it because it's just a whole big can of worms, for a book that was already running long.) My first thought, though, is that the alternate Earths each have their own alternate Parterres... including some Earths where one Parterre or another became so dominant it merged with that Earth. But the Multiverse imposes very strong barriers between alternate Imaginal Realms -- even stronger than between material worlds -- so there's not much possibility of, say, multiple Netherworlds teaming up for a cross-dimensional attempt at conquest.
 
I'd be interested to know if Book of the Empress says anything about how Istvatha V'han deals with the Parterres of the Earths she's conquered. If she leaves them alone, the various godly entities might not object to her conquest. After all, she doesn't generally try to impose or suppress native religions. They also might be reluctant to intervene because it's a setting rule that Earth's spirits are very weak against creatures from the Outer Planes. (A rule created so humanity must rely on its own heroes to stop dimensional conquerors, rather than relying on gods.) So it seems quite possible that on some alternate Earths, V'hanian forces conquered the Parterres as well. Heh, imagine a world where the Mythic Resistance Front is led by Tezcatlipoca, Marduk, Mephistopheles and the Archangel Michael. Yeah, these guys are not going to have an easy time working together.
 
Dean Shomshak

In my old champions campaign, since so many mutants were the result of environmental contamination, the EPA was given jurisdiction over superbeings...

Not sure if this counts as superhero cosplay, but cosplay from last Halloween:

I need to work on the rigging for the cuirass and jetpack before I put that thing on again...
 
Also, a nod to The Wife, who decided to get in on the fun
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And...The Dog:

This one strikes me as particularly appropriate given what happened to Christopher Reeve
 

Not sure if this counts as cosplay, but here goes.
 

Mikomi Hokina is going through chemo and lost her hair and decided, lemons-lemonade, so Saitama Cosplay it is.

We created a team and let one of the players whose never had a leader before, be the leader. The player himself was not necessarily a leader. So, we pushed his character for a Higher Presence, Higher Ego and Tactics skill. As players, when the time came for a leader to do something, then we actively waited for him to make a decision during the game. Repeatedly done, it gives actual experience - and confidence - and the player does much better now with his leader character.

I agree strongly.  You cannot hold a player's personal limitations against their character. If someone is terrible at coming up with soliloquies for their presence attack, consider the best they can do to be a great one.  Don't treat their soliloquy as terrible just because they are bad at it.
 
Related: puzzles and riddles that test the player's ability to solve them instead of the character's.  This is ROLE PLAYING and as such you should be checking how good the character is.  I play RPGs to do things and go places I cannot personally - its a sort of wish fulfilment as well as storytelling.
 
I could rant on this for pages as it is an enormous pet peeve with game designers.  Its okay to put puzzles and riddles and such into games as long as you allow the skill of the characters to produce hints, details, and information to help solve the problem.  Requiring the players to figure out your perfect riddle or fail is not role playing, its you being a jackass as a GM.

Buffs to Defenses (like Combat Luck), including a PRE Defense. Tactics powers that allow things like Castling, or Healing.

Aid powers that enhance CVs and/or Teamwork skill for teammates could be considered.

Not to mention that kidnapping yourself is extremely problematic...

Generate artificial earthquakes beneath the ocean that will unleash tsunami waves able to bury coastal cities beneath hundreds of feet of seawater.

One other idea is to threaten to blanket the world with electromagnetic pulses, wiping out everything electronic.  As a demonstration, Moscow, Beijing, New York City, or Washington, D.C. would be hit with a pulse.

I have a character--one Doctor Invictus by name--who believes he was born to accomplish "great things."  To that end he has created what he considers "the ultimate instrument of peacekeeping"--the Mindshock Bomb, a device capable of generating a specific electromagnetic effect that renders people and mammals unconscious for hours at a time, with no effect on inanimate objects or other electronics.  He is almost ready to detonate a city-yield Mindshock weapon in the heart of Los Angeles, demonstrating for all the world that he has the power to stop invading armies dead in their tracks, and give whichever nation possesses the Mindshock the power to inflict absolute chaos upon their enemies.
 
What Invictus fails to mention is that the Mindshock is not entirely without lethal effect.  In previous tests the Mindshock was found to have killed, on average, nearly ten percent of the targets in its area of effect.  In Los Angeles, with a population of nearly four million, the lethal potential of the weapon is nearly four hundred thousand people--and that doesn't include the collateral damage of cars, planes and other vehicles suddenly going out of control, surgeons losing consciousness mid-operation, and other such calamities.  Invictus considers these "acceptable losses."  Others--including, hopefully, the heroes--may wish to differ.

Open up a dimensional gate under the sea that leads to a total water world and let the water flood in until everything but the mountains is drowned.
Erase the memories of every human being who isn't under my protection
Trigger an electromagnetic pulse that will fry every civilian computer and power grid on the planet
Start a chain reaction that causes every volcano in the Ring of Fire to erupt, triggering a new Ice Age
Envelope the Earth in a shrink field that causes all humans to reduce in size.
Unite all of humanity into a single harmonious hive mind
Travel back in time and prevent the origins of every superhero.
Expose all of humanity to radiation that will give the survivors superpowers
Replace humanity with android duplicates
Start a zombie epidemic
Cause a nuclear exchange
Invite a invading alien or demonic army
Cause the sun to go nova
Abduct a city to a primitive world and then use it to conquer the natives
Use a power enhancement device to convince the lower level villains to unite and defeat the superheroes and the more powerful villains
Expose the superheroes to something that causes berserk rage, totally discrediting the survivors
Create and spread a biological weapon that will kill 99% of men.
Trap all the players of the most popular MMORPG in virtual reality
Cause every nuclear warhead to spontaneously explode.
Convince a large number of major investment players that the market is about to collapse, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy
Infilitrate the major drug syndicates, then poison the the product to eliminate the addicts.  
Accelerate plant growth so that a years growth happens in a day.  

Immanentize the Eschaton.
 
Dean Shomshak

Thanks! Surprisingly, Robert E. Howard's original story was "Red Sonya of Rogatino" that took place in the Renaissance era where she carried a saber and pistol. Marvel Comics would adapt her from his stories during the 1970s into the version we enjoy today as a contemporary to Conan the Barbarian. 🙂

There have been fan write-ups of Robert E. Howard's Red Sonja for D&D, so here's my interpretation of the famous character of the sword and sorcery genre for Fantasy Hero. Included is the Hero Designer file,  Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Word to use, edit, and print as you see fit.
 
Enjoy! 🙂
 

With any D&D adaptation, you gotta check the spells... 
'Obviously' he was using Telekinesis.
 
Cute that they used Witch Bolt for Sith Lightning... I've seen players make that connection, before...
....except, canonically, Vader can't use it.