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  5. [New Product] Champions Complete

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    Dammit! Just got off the Horn with my FLGS. They are having "Problems" getting this book and not including me and the Dozen or so copies I am buying ( plus extras for some more overseas folks) they have LOTS of interest and inquires. I want to fix this issue.

     

    ~Rex...is not amused.

  6. [New Product] Champions Complete

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    I started putting one together at one point, and realized it would never make the cut for the final book. Let me walk through why I say that...

     

    Take a look at the Powers Summary Table (PST) on pages 231-232. A Power Modifiers Summary Table (PMST) would need five columns: Modifier (i.e., the name), Applies To (without which the summary table would be basically useless), Value, Description, and Page.

     

    First consider that there are probably an average of about three Power-specific Power Modifiers per Power (some have fewer than three, some have many more). So right off the bat, our hypothetical PMST is going to be three times longer than the PST, just to include the Power-specific Modifiers. Then consider that the Power Modifiers from the Power Modifiers section outnumber the Powers more than two-to-one. So now we're up to a PMST well over five times longer than the PST. That would take up around eight pages in the book, even if each item in the PMST would be about the same number of lines on the page as each item in the PST.

     

    But each item in the PMST wouldn't take up about the same number of lines on the page as the items in the PST. The PMST would require many more two-line entries than the PST does. For example, two of the Power names are long enough that they require their entry to take up two lines in the table (Extra-Dimensional Movement and Hand-To-Hand Attack), while there are dozens of Power Modifiers with longer names than either of those, and every one of those entries would almost certainly take up two lines as well. Many entries for the Applies To column would also be wide enough to force their line item to take up two lines.

     

    Rather than taking up eight pages, it would likely be closer to ten pages (or more). I just don't think a PMST would be useful enough to justify cutting ten+ pages worth of material (the size of the entire Characteristics section) from elsewhere in the book. For instance, while the Value column of a PMST wouldn't be any wider than the Cost column of the PST, it would likely be less useful (because it would have to simply say "Varies" much more often than the PST has to).

     

    So there's a pretty solid practical reason why it couldn't be in the book: it would just be too long. But do folks think it would useful as a downloadable extra? If it isn't in the book to refer to alongside the other Summary Tables, is it worthwhile at all? I'm personally inclined to say no, but I'm curious to hear how people think they might use it. Maybe it would be useful for a purpose I'm not thinking of. :)

     

    Bundle it. Insert for the GM screen that needs to be made. Toss in some old school character sheets with the character outlines circa the good old days. Goes with the theme.

     

    ~Rex

  12. The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC

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    Lot of Marvel bad writers over in DC right now. Kept hoping they would take Bendis an Loeb but alas those two are entrenched in like Dire Ticks. Hell Loeb is the head of the TV stuff (bad marvel) so only Vishnu knows what's gonna happen.

     

    ~Rex

  13. The Good and Bad about Marvel and DC

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    The Good about Marvel. Recognizing the potential of properties like Nova and Guardians of the Galaxy.

     

    The Bad about Marvel. Giving those two titles to Bendis and Loeb.

     

    The good about DC. Earth 2, World's Finest. Saturday Morning DC Nation

     

    The Bad about DC. DC Nation going on hiatus today with no warning after just getting back from Hiatus. Constant attempts to get folks to like crappy Jim Lee ideas like Team 7 and the Ravagers...

     

    ~Rex

  23. Has anyone tried doing an Hyborian/Conan game using Fantasy Hero

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    Curious Rex which one? I'm working through Sword Woman and other historical stories collection of R.E.H. myself.
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    Big pile of stuff from a yard sale, lot of collected editions and some older stuff. Few of the Jordan pastiche things which I already trashed. Pretty much all of the last set of Bundles from the last reprint. The Prize though really was a bunch of the old Savage Sword of Conan magazines. SCORE!

     

    ~Rex

  24. Black Collar

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    Hmm...coulda sworn I posted relevant scale information. Ah there it is Yes. Mordecai is the only Black Collar (And it's not a device it's a profession, like Green Beret) I'd put at a 6 Speed anyway just based on a few of the scenes in the books. 5's about right for the rest of the Backlash recipients and Caine, a solid 4 ....

     

    ~Rex

  25. Black Collar

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    Just found new copies a few weeks ago, plus a new copy of the Judas Solution as well as the old and New Cobra stuff. You really don't need a lot of points to do them (Blackcollar's, Cobra's are a bit more expensive). Blackcollars were essentially just, Ninja's in Space trained up to peak human with a touch of superhuman reflexes and training/memory aid and longevity due to the backlash drug...

     

    Got to get the scale right to. These are the Best Trained Examples of a guerilla warrior you could possibly have. Not Baseline Human. So you are already up there on the charts a bit. Toss in Backlash and then you got this from the book: Backlash—the code name for the drug that had been the heart of the whole blackcollar project. Given in a tailored dosage pattern, it permanently altered a man's neural chemistry, effectively doubling his speed and reflexes in combat situations. Backlash, and Backlash alone, had allowed the blackcollars to successfully pit their low-tech, low-profile weaponry against the more sophisticated Ryqril equipment and, in many cases, come out ahead. Shuriken and nunchaku passed detectors set for lasers and high-metal projectile guns without raising a ripple; Backlash speed and blackcollar marksmanship turned them into deadlier weapons than they had any right to be.

     

    Double the Speed and Reflexes of the Best Trained Ninja Army Ranger Green Beret Navy Seal out there. That's it. Doubling is fairly easy in HERO. Everything else is impact activated flex armor, sling shots and ninja toys.

     

    ~Rex

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