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Re: Ultimate Skill (STR Min 13) Thank god I had the Speed Reading talent.

Re: Archetype Twists I had a character named "Cavalier" who had inherited a mystic sword that could pretty much cut through anything (think: 4d6 KA w/AP). Well, the guy who inherited it was otherwise a normal, so he used his company to build himself a battlesuit. He was Iron-Man + Shining Knight.

Re: Characteristic power NCM Dude...if it's a rule you don't like, just don't use it. Many others have found value in it. Why act like it's a total given that it's "bad" and should be removed from future editions. One of the reasons Hero is popular is that it gives the GM and Players choices that other game systems don't. Don't harsh the options!

Re: How to steal a comm link Can a Mind Control with Class of Mind: Machines control clock radios? Think of it this way: Can a Mind Control with Class of Mind: Animals control insects? control starfish or clams? Sure, why not? The rolls are just that much easier as they don't have minds to affect. You mention that a Mechanopath who can control Iron's Armor is very dangerous. Sure, no less so than a telepath who Mind Controls Iron Man himself! I'd allow it... There's a lot of good use for Mechanopaths controlling the Foci of heroes. Afterall, that's why they have the Foci limitation, right, because every once in a while, someone comes along and uses that limit against them.

Re: Seeking Concept Help - Magical Technologist? Have the guy be dwarf-like and bind elemental spirits into items to have them do, well, whatever is needed. If you want to make it a little more modern/urban, you can do things like bind concrete elementals, or trash elementals, or what-have-you. Go for the "mystical resonance" of an everyday object type idea. He could cast runes with a spray-paint can! Instant magical graffiti!

Re: Ghost Archer! Explain this please! For Cyclops, you could by his Optic Blast with "Uncontrolled", then buy a naked modifer to buy off the Uncontrolled, but make it OIF or OAF: Visor. Thus, without his visor, his Optic Blasts cannot be controlled and fire off, destroying everything he's looking at.

Re: What power sets do you like, but never play? 1) Vehicle Guy: Normal guy with a kick-ass, multi-use vehicle. Think Owlman in Watchmen; think Batman, but without the detective angle. Most GM's find vehicles sorta' annoyingly invulnerable, and hence, I rarely get to play it. 2) Mentalist: I've had a lot of GM's make up house rules to stunt mentalists because they fear the "game warping" powers of them. Hence, they end up being a little blunted and not fun. Else, the GM's who are afraid of mentalists make everything a +30 on the charts, hence ineffective.

Re: Thoughts on the Secret Service questions I think that a protectee has the right to tell the Secret Service where they are going and what they are doing. What they don't have the right to do is tell the Secret Service how they'll be protected. Meaning, if the President's daughter wanted to take a trip to Sunnydale and encounter the Hellmouth, then the Secret Service would arrive early, clear out the entire populace, put her in a tank, and drive her there. They'll do what she wants, but they'll do whatever is necessary to protect her along the way, no matter how extreme that becomes.

This question probably rates as a "how to" question, but I wanted to check with the official source before running it past Herodom Assembled. A character in my Fantasy Hero game is designing a Necromancer with a spell that would allow him to read the thoughts and/or memories of a deceased sentient being. I have reread Clairsentience/Retrocognition in FRED, and it discusses how the Clairsentience power is essentially a vehicle for other senses to see into the past. It states that Clairsentience cannot act as "Line of Sight" to Target a mental power, hence it would seem that Clairsentience cannot be a vehicle to extend mental powers "into the past." I have reread Telepathy and Mind Scan and neither have adders or modifiers that would allow them to extend into the past. I know that, as the GM, I can allow whatever I want in the game, so I considered buying a Compound power with Retrocognition and Telepathy and "fudging" the rough spots, but again, I wanted a second opinion. What do you think?

Re: Turakian Age: Which way do the rivers flow? I would think they would follow standard physics: away from mountains and high lands, toward oceans. But...it's fantasy, so do whatever.

Re: Introducing "Primeval" Thanks, man! IM me sometime, I'd like to here your view on it.

Re: Introducing "Primeval" Thanks, man! I hope you enjoy it.

Re: Introducing "Primeval" I developed the Arcane Forces as a means to delineate special effects for the milieu. Sometimes with the Hero System, because it's framework is a generic toolkit, the powers and spells that are created by characters can come off sterile (i.e., focused so much on the generic framework definitions that they lose flavor) or very random (i.e., a bunch of disparate powers strung together). I wanted to give characters a context for the special effects they might choose. I've seen this in other games, notably D&D3E, where they have energy archetypes that "do a certain thing" or have "certain ramifications" if used. They do the same thing with categories of monster and it seems to matter when unifying the milieu.

Re: Introducing "Primeval" Yeah...I know it's a lot of material sorta' a dense read. I've been trying to keep it broken up into easily digestible sections, but that only goes so far. Thanks for your interest.

I've been lurking and reading for a while on the forums, sampling the good ideas and getting the feel of Fantasy Hero, 5th ed. I've been working on a campaign setting for a couple of years - - well, it started out as the setting to a novel and grew into an RPG setting. Thus, I'm presenting my website detailing the milieu to my peers. http://primeval.logomancer.net It's still largely in development. The magick system is fairly basic and I'm busy expanding some of the "flavors" of it. There aren't a lot of professions yet, but the races are somewhat fleshed out. I'm detailing it all as I go; as most GM's do. At any rate, your input and opinions will be welcome.