kave99

Re: Sapphire - Heroine, Champion, ...Hater of Puppies? i thought you were discussing some thing entirely different ,my bad

Re: [GM Advice] PC's Buying Defences vs. Adversaries Attacks OK first things first are you saying that thy are buying say 30red only vs electricity at say a -1/2 lim because your mane villain is lighting man if so than ask this question of the players how dose the character do this , if the answer is something like "i keep geting hit so i develop a immunity to it than just no or say OK but you can only buy 3red with only -1/4lim because lightning man is so common in my game then in the next game have flam boy as a special guest and unless the game is starting a new character that about all hes going to be able to afford unless he has some kind of defensive multy power like say powered armorer with a grounding slot another option wood be for lighting man to get a focus like a hand held self powered rail gun to add to his multy power 2D6 RKA vs PD 16 c OAF cost end that only costs 2 Pt's in a 50pt MP ether way thy will wish thy had thought of sum thing more interesting you do not have to justify it thy do if thy want armorer{oif} and do not have the skill TO make it thay might say i take a viper agents and paint it red , well it works but the papers or others might mistake him for a viper agent. scary man ant that scary if all he can do is scare you, use situational mods to decrees his roll give villeins pre only for defense -1 lim in the end if the players see you rewarding good character development and exploiting there abuses then it should even out. in the comics most villeins exploit the hero's weakness thats part of the genres the revers is not!

Re: Eating your lunch...

Re: Eating your lunch... i think D20 is at about the same place hero was say 20 years ago with new rules in every book perhaps in 20 years it will catch up naww wont happen

Re: Gun-Fu or MA with guns question ranged MA works much like HtH MA if i punch you in the face it will hurt. if my Evil duplicate 10th dan black belt punches you in the face it vary likely to hurt way more. the same go's if i shot you in the head i might kill you the sniper will kill you! as for how to justify the increase in damage well damage is not fixed you could build a colt 1911a1 .45 cal as a 1D6 a 2D6 or a 5D6 RKA with 7 charges or 14 charges or 2 clips of 7 charges or as 0 END all would be legal think of 007 and his PPK it's not that good a gun but in his hands it dos not mater that much . another example special op's often use a .22L silenced Rugger and are expected to kill with one shot to the head now that using a standard build 1D6-1RKA generating 1 to 5 points of damage multiplied by 2 gives 2 to 10 body and between 10 and 50 stun a average roll say 6 body and 30 stun with Quick shot and no DC that would be 1D6 RKA it gos on like that add 2DC 1d6+1 .it cost a lot of point but it has a grate feel ! one more thing you can do this with combat skill levels too! in the end its your choice but i would not recommend trying to use these rules with out the UMA have fun

Re: Eating your lunch... I just had to say that just about ever one of us started in on this "hobby" with sum form of d&d and that A}there is nothing wrong with that B} we think that Hero is one of the vary best games C} we will play just about anything under the right circumstances now I happen to like D&D 3.5 but I real haven't played or GM to much. I have come to hate D20 and not for the usual reasons, game designers are spending there time trying to build there game into d20 instead of creating some thing new and exciting, in the end most of it is bland and uninspired and the hole concept of gaming is watered down ! Hero and a few others stand against that tide because thy are different, even vary good games have scummed to the temptation {CoC} of fast market growth. in the end this conformity is killing the hobby and in turn the industry. Gamers as a grope are not conformists thy are individualists be thy artists,nerds or misfits but we come together as a group to have fun and explore are selves and each other:drink:

Re: If YOU have been playing Hero since the 80's why do you still keep coming back? not quibble but GURPS dos not appear before 1986 a full 2 years after the seminal work of Justice Inc.that with Champions showed us the fundamentals of the system we have today . Gurps remains derivative in my mind edit I suspect that Espionage may trump Justice Inc.

Re: If YOU have been playing Hero since the 80's why do you still keep coming back? GURPS has always struck me as a big rip off of hero by a bigger and more stable game company Car Wars gave S.J.G. the bank roll that hero never had.

Re: If YOU have been playing Hero since the 80's why do you still keep coming back? at 20+ [i do not want to say 25:hush: ] years with Hero. I keep coming back to it for all those reasons. but at hart i am a games mechanic and the ability to build the character as i see him ,her or it keeps me coming back the only other systems that have endured in my hart and mind are 1Ed Boot Hill {as simple and elegant a RPG that ever there was} ,Call of Cthulhu{meanwhile on the death hike} D&D {we all owe at least a passing nod to it} . over the years I have played or read the rules of countless games most of which are now just dim memory's in heads of gray beards like me:( three of this games are classics and will endure for 25+ more years in some form but hero is the only one ware a 1ed character could be played against H5R character based on the same points and not be totally out classed . I would love to hear George Mac Donald and Steve Peterson take on how things have changed. It is a testament to there work that so Little has changed and thy both deserve a Oscar for best game design of the 20th century!!!

Re: please help a newbie if you like the John woo school of gun fighting see if the gm has the ultimate Martial artist ,the ranged Martial arts might be nice option. but as always check with gm first it can be overpowered and unbalancing thanks for coming out to play you have found one of the RPGS ever made

Re: Eating your lunch... your kidding? right! shoe horning some Hero in to D20 has been tried before. it dos not work. but hopefully some of them will see the error of there ways and find Hero!!!

Re: How complete is Sidekick? have to say that H5R is well worth the money it clears up so much, but you might consider Hero Designer v3.0 when it comes out. hopefully soon ,Hero Designer v2.42 has most of the crunchy bits you seem to looking for. you will still have to give H5R a look over to fill in the gaps. try it you will like it .guaranteed

Re: Restrainable I Have Always Thought Of Restartable As Less About Grabs And Entangles And More About The Striping Of Focus Eg Powered Armored Guy And Angele Girl Are Knocked Out And Captured. Dr Deviant Removes P.g.a. Armor[oif] And Clips A.g. Wings{restartable}. Now P.g.a. Needs To Find His Old Armor Or Get New Armor. A.g. Needs Time To Grow New Tail Feathers Thy Have Now Seen The Down Fall Of There Lims And Have Lost There Powers For Some Time To Come And Need To Get Out Of The Death Trap With Out There Powers If Only Thy Had Not Given All There Powers This Lim Thy Might Live To Fight Another Day! MISSED ODDHAT'S POST GRATE MINDS THINK ALIKE

It Seems That -1/2 Lim No Figured Cha Must Be Applied When A Cha Is Purchased In A Power Framework But I Always Thought That It Was A -0 Lim In This Cass Or Have Just Lost My Mind .eg As Lady Blue Str Augmentation (c.k&c Pg 164 )as Apposed To The Way Hero Designer Is Calculating It As A -1/2 Lim. The Entry On Pg 139 Seems To Say That Hd Is Right But I See Subtle Change In Wording Between 4th Ed, 5th Ed,and 5edr That May Not Have Been Deliberate That Simon May Have Missed Thanks In Advance

If I have NCM and 20 str would it legal to buy +30 str for 30 Pt's as power without any advantages or limitations the rules on pg 140 seem to say yes but it strike me as abusive. just wondering what you think?

Re: The Ultimate Disadvantage, talk about it here rant>> as i read this i think to my self how role- playing has effected my life . i work in the film industry as a set decorator and each time i read a script i think as the character . i imagine what things he would have in his room (this is vary hard to verbalize) would he have modern or post modern furniture ect. the details of there life ,remember that the script might only say a fancy new York loft. the average champion character has larger amount of information about him the average script has next to nothing but his dialog and actions a hole team of creative people pull the detail out of the script to get the character. i got vary lucky on my trade test as the big question revolved around a post Holocaust treasure trove . ultimately the immersion in to character is the most fun aspect of the game and my job! otherwise we would all be arguing about micro armor or d&d . yes the crunchy game mechanics are good but i had a lot of fun playing the first ed of boot hill with next to no rules. so i have rambled a bit!! and now the point in the end anything that elevates the game above simple dice rolling and game mechanics is good!!!! so if this book just gives you code vs killing 20pt it's of Little use. if on the other hand if it details 5 levels of cvk ,and lots of detail into what thy represent then it is good idea

Re: Detect Life 'Radio Group' - Need help as a GM i have funny feeling that he is taking about a tri-corder like devise. detect life signs at range analyze. I would say that it would give only the most vague information about Numbers, range and location. but would tell you how healthy thy are . being in the radio group means that things like emp, weird electrical Fields and flash attacks vs radio sense grope would effect its readings . really its just a plot device for the gm to use. "well Captain she appears human but she is to perfect . Yes she is Dr!!!!"

Re: Science Familiarity Chart? back in the days before ss ks ak ps we used to spend 5pts to 50pts on super skill called scientist. a Doctor might spend 5pts, a gadgeter 25pts and doctor destroyer might have 50pts. the more points the more skilled you where. the gm would roll sum dice and give you sum info on the alien virus or what ever. it worked well . when ks and such came around we switched over and it seemed that the points totals matched up pretty well to the character concept.

Re: Hidden Template i suspect a lot of the hidden template is based on the way the game started. the 250pt character from 1982 revised ed had 45 powers,13 skills, 11 advantages ,7 lims, 2 frameworks and 11 dis ads to chose from.{my 1981 copy disappeared into the ether decades ago} you wood spend between 125 and 175 Pt's on characteristics and 75 to 125 on powers. in particular high str marital artist was vary expensive. green dragon 15 str 30 dex 7 speed 30 pts of MA had a total cost 225 pts 160 of which was stats and he was deadly in hth. the trick is to keep that level G.D. was the bench for hi end Dex and speed and use the new rules extra Pt's for all the extras for skills weird powers etc that 225 pt green dragon should still be competitive in todays 350 pt game

Re: Incremental End Cost? OK got sum sleep| now the real problem ea and nnd are vary powerfully advantages on there own and more so when combined with or without 0 end. i think this can be fixed in the same manor as auto fire is when combined with ea,nnd, o end etc.[ see PG last 3 paragraphs 5er] a additional +1 adv should sort things out.

Re: Incremental End Cost? buy the way the more i think about it the more i like this adder idea

Re: Incremental End Cost? yes you are . and i don't disagree that the 4d6 nnd ae 0 end should cost the same as the 12d6 0 end, but im not so sure that the hole adder's thing dos not make things more complex than necessary thats my point...

Re: Incremental End Cost? god this sounds like the old 1Ed 1/2 end for a +1/4 add , 1/2 of 1/2 end for +1/2 add etc. it was changed to make things less complex. sum times it's good to have sum history

Re: Wireless connection laptop? iv always used mind link with a focus lim to connect to a base computer for laptop/pda type devices. in one of the 3RD ed books(an eye for an eye) thy applied a focus lim to a computer but did not divided by 5 or 10 and used HRRH. PS a hero's computer needs stealth and concealment to keep from being tract down by the the NSA or viper

would 12 charges with 1 level clips give me 2 or 4 clips as a +0 add. HD v2.42 gives 4 , 4th ed examples gives 2 clips ,5.5 I'm not sure. 48 total charges for a +0 add seems abusive . please delete previous post thanks