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  4. Succeeding The Blood

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    Re: Succeeding The Blood

     

    I prefer the idea of a family of Empyreans, outcast long ago, as the Blood equvalent. It seems to have the Amber-like quality that the Blood possess, though I suppose it might invite the danger of the Empyreans becoming overused as a plot device or origin.

  6. CotN Outtakes

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    Re: CotN Outtakes

     

    Who is Mark Derringer ?

    You mention him quite often in your History of the Guard.

     

    Mark Derringer, aka Avenger of SUNDER, one of the teammates from Thundrax's first team. Currently head of the Steelhead Division of the RCMP, as mentioned in Champions of the North 5th edition. He's stationed at Force Station Steelhead in Champions Online.

  7. CotN Outtakes

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    Re: CotN Outtakes

     

    I thought I'd posted in here' date=' but apparently not. I got great use out of COMET in my campaign, with the players guest-running them in an assault on an alien battleship that turned out to be a trap. Very good characters, and the players had some fun with their personalities and powers. So even though it's months late, I've repped you for the team, and am finally getting to express my thanks for posting them.[/quote']

     

    Thanks! Glad they were useful. I hope you picked up the free PDF; the writeups are a lot more legible in there.

  8. CotN Outtakes

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    Re: CotN Outtakes

     

    I noticed that Cryptic folded Justiciar's origin into a battle with the Guard, so I decided to revise the writeups accordingly, and gave them a bit of polish and expansion in places. New writeups attached.

  9. CotN Outtakes

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    Re: CotN Outtakes

     

    Hi. You've seen the COTN outtakes file on the Hero Extras page, here's something else I've been working off and on on for the last few months. Primarily RP background for Thundrax, so you may find this dull, but there's hopefully a few good ideas here.

  10. Hero in ENnie award Hunt

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    ENnie nominations came out today. Categories where HERO was nominated:

     

    Best Supplement

     

    * Lucha Libre Hero (Hero Games)

    * Mysteries of the Hollow Earth (Exile Game Studio)

    * Nobis: The City-States (Pantheon Press)

    * Player’s Handbook 3 (Wizards of the Coast)

    * Rebellion Era Campaign Guide (Wizards of the Coast)

    * HM: Cthulhutech: Damnation View (WildFire)

     

    Best Game

     

    * Dragon Age: Set 1 (Green Ronin)

    * Hero 6th Edition (Hero Games)

    * Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing)

    * Shadowrun – 20th Anniversary Ed. (Catalyst Game Labs)

    * Wild Talents 2nd Edition (Cubicle 7)

    * HM: Labyrinth Lord (Goblinoid Games)

     

    Best Rules

     

    * Atomic Highway (Radioactive Ape Designs)

    * BASH Ultimate Edition (Basic Action Games)

    * Diaspora (VSCA)

    * Hero 6th Edition (Hero Games)

    * Wild Talents 2nd Edition (Cubicle 7)

    * HM: Earthdawn 3rd Edition, Player’s Guide (RedBrick LLC)

     

    Also:

     

    Best Art, Interior

     

    * Escape from Tentacle City (Willow Palecek)

    * Pathfinder Core Rulebook (Paizo Publishing)

    * Rogue Trader Core Rulebook (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * Shadowrun – 20th Anniversary Ed. (Catalyst Game Labs)

    * Warhammer Fantasy RPG (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * HM: Hero 6th Edition (Hero Games)

     

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    In addition to this, there's a Hero System book out for Day After Ragnarok, which was nominated for best setting.

     

    Other categories.

     

    Best Adventure

     

    * The Grinding Gear (Lamentations of the Flame Princess)

    * Pathfinder AP #31: Stolen Land (Paizo Publishing)

    * A Song of Ice and Fire: Peril at King’s Landing (Green Ronin)

    * Trail of Cthulhu: The Armitage Files (Pelgrane Press)

    * WFRP: The Gathering Storm (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * HM: Trail of Cthulhu: Shadows over Filmland (Pelgrane Press)

     

    Best Aid or Accessory

     

    * Battlegraph Dry Erase Boards (Longtooth Studios)

    * Campaign Coins (King of the Castle Games & Paizo Publishing)

    * Gaming Paper (Gaming Paper)

    * Hero Lab v3.6 (Lone Wolf Development)

    * Pathfinder GM Screen (Paizo Publishing)

    * HM: A Song of Ice and Fire Narrator’s Kit (Green Ronin)

     

    Best Art, Cover

     

    * Eclipse Phase (Catalyst Game Labs & Posthuman Studios)

    * Pathfinder Bestiary (Paizo Publishing)

    * Rogue Trader Core Rulebook (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * Trail of Cthulhu: Rough Magicks (Pelgrane Press)

    * WFRP: The Gathering Storm (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * HM: Star Wars: The Unknown Regions (Wizards of the Coast)

     

    Best Blog

     

    * Critical Hits

    * Gnome Stew

    * Kobold Quarterly

    * NewbieDM.com

    * One Geek to Another

    * HM: Sarah Darkmagic

     

    Best Cartography

     

    * Aces and Eights: Judas Crossing (Kenzer & Company)

    * Dungeon of Terror Virtual Box Set (0one Games)

    * Maps of Mastery: Swamp Caves (Maps of Mastery)

    * Pathfinder City Map Folio (Paizo Publishing)

    * Revenge of the Giants (Wizards of the Coast)

    * HM: Death Frost Doom (Lamentation of the Flame Princess)

     

    Best Electronic Book

     

    * The Great City Player’s Guide (0one Games)

    * Heroes of the Jade Oath BETA (Rite Publishing)

    * To Kill Or Not To Kill (Rite Publishing)

    * Pathfinder Society Scenario #29: The Devil We Know Part 1: Shipyard Rats (Paizo Publishing)

    * Shambles (A Terrible Idea)

    * HM: Fey Folio: The Unseelie Court (Alluria Publishing)

     

    Best Free Product

     

    * Advanced Players Guide Playtest (Paizo Publishing)

    * Combat Advantage #15 (Emerald Press)

    * Lady Blackbird (one.seven Design)

    * Warriors Adventure Game (HarperCollins Children’s Books)

    * Wayfinder #1 (Paizo Fans United)

    * HM: Hexographer (Inkwell Ideas)

     

    Best Miniature Product

     

    * Alkemy Minis (Kraken Editions)

    * D&D Minis (Wizards of the Coast)

    * Fortress of Redemption (Games Workshop)

    * Gaming Paper (Gaming Paper)

    * Maps of Mastery: Swamp Caves (Maps of Mastery)

    * HM: Battlegraph Dry Erase Boards (Longtooth Studios)

     

    Best Monster/Adversary

     

    * Aces and Eights: Rustlers & Townsfolk (Kenzer and Company)

    * Hellfrost Bestiary (Cubicle 7)

    * Pathfinder Bestiary (Paizo Publishing)

    * Pathfinder: Classic Horrors Revisited (Paizo Publishing)

    * Supernatural: Guide to the Hunted (Margaret Weis Productions)

    * HM: Fey Folio: The Unseelie Court (Alluria Publishing)

     

    Best Podcast

     

    * All Games Considered

    * Atomic Array

    * NewbieDM.com Minicast

    * Open Design

    * Power Source

    * HM: The Gamer’s Haven Podcast

     

    Best Production Values

     

    * Eclipse Phase (Catalyst Game Labs & Posthuman Studios)

    * Pathfinder Core Rulebook (Paizo Publishing)

    * Rogue Trader Core Rulebook (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * Shadowrun – 20th Anniversary Ed. (Catalyst Game Labs)

    * Warhammer Fantasy RPG (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * HM: Mysteries of the Hollow Earth (Exile Game Studio)

     

    Best Regalia

     

    * Battletech: 25 Years of Art and Fiction (Catalyst Game Labs)

    * Buried Tales of Pine Box, Texas (12 to Midnight)

    * Cthulhu 101 (Atomic Overmind Press)

    * Grind (Privateer Press)

    * Three Dragon Ante: Emperor’s Gambit (Wizards of the Coast)

    * HM: Best of All Flesh (Elder Signs Press)

     

    Best Setting

     

    * Day After Ragnarok (Atomic Overmind Press)

    * Goblin Markets (White Wolf Publishing)

    * Kerberos Club (Cubicle 7)

    * Judge Dredd (Mongoose Publishing)

    * Rome: Life and Death of the Republic (Cubicle 7)

    * HM: Shadowrun: Seattle 2072 (Catylst Game Labs)

     

    Best Website

     

    * d20PFSRD.com

    * Epic Words

    * Obsidian Portal

    * Pathfinder Wiki

    * Pen & Paper Games

    * HM: Hexographer

     

    Best Writing

     

    * Eclipse Phase (Catalyst Game Labs & Posthuman Studios)

    * FantasyCraft (Crafty Games)

    * How We Came to Live Here (Galileo Games)

    * Kerberos Club (Cubicle 7)

    * Victoriana 2nd Edtion (Cubicle 7)

    * HM: Colonial Gothic (Rogue Games)

     

    Product of the Year

     

    * Doctor Who (Cubicle 7)

    * Dragon Age: Set 1 (Green Ronin)

    * Eclipse Phase (Catalyst Game Labs & Posthuman Studios)

    * Geist the Sin-Eaters (White Wolf Publishing)

    * Kerberos Club (Cubicle 7)

    * Pathfinder (Paizo Publishing)

    * Rome: Life and Death of the Republic (Cubicle 7)

    * Shadowrun – 20th Anniversary Ed. (Catalyst Game Labs)

    * Warhammer Fantasy RPG (Fantasy Flight Games)

    * Wild Talents 2nd Edition (Cubicle 7)

    * HM: FantasyCraft (Crafty Games)

    * HM: Savage Suzerain (Cubicle 7)

     

    Congratulations to all nominees. Nice to see us back in the hunt after several years of absences.

  11. CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Re: CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

     

    You mean' date=' aside from that whole "Gestalt" thing? :sneaky:[/quote']

     

    I'm just waiting on art at the moment. When that gets to me, I can put the Hero version to bed and do the Superlink version when M&M3 is out.

     

    There are no other writing projects on my desk at this time, and none are in the planning stages.

  12. CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Re: CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

     

    I don't think there's anything stopping DoJ from putting out a volume of "generic" villains that aren't part of official Champions Universe continuity and have no connection to the CU. Come to think of it' date=' Steve Long has even mentioned that in the worst case scenario -- something making the Champions license unusable by Hero Games -- they could always create their own all-new setting. So I should think an unintegrated villain volume would be easily doable. Considering how many Hero gamers simply crib elements from published books for their own games, that would probably sell as well as any other villain book.[/quote']

     

    There's also npthing stopping a third party publisher from doing this, if they operate under the appropriate license. :)

  19. CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Re: CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

     

    I don't personally know, but judging from the few pics that I've seen from 6e 1&2, he easily looks Large, possibly Semi-Enormous.

     

    I also wonder if there could be a little more differentiation between Grond and Obelisque - they fill pretty darn similar roles and seem too interchangeable.

     

    I would also like to request that Ogre be adapted from his TUB version.

     

     

    Um...

     

    This is my CO shot of Grond. Thundrax is 6'7".

     

    ((image deleted))

     

    Hope this helps.

     

    Damn, image won't shrink. Here's the link:

     

    http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j229/GestaltBennie/Grond.jpg

  20. CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

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    Re: CHAMPIONS VILLAINS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

     

    If you rework the origins of the bad guys, Steve, I'd like to see some greater ties to the established places of the Champions Universe. There's a lot of kooky corners in the world now, which weren't explored when you did CKC. Going back to those and tying a few established characters into those places, where appropriate, would be a nice added value for the book.

  22. Gestalt: Architects of Change: What Would *You* Like to See

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    Re: Gestalt: Architects of Change: What Would *You* Like to See

     

    Okay, i've come to a bit of a decision on this book.

     

    It's almost done, but the Eiko invasion scenario continues to be a brick wall. So I'm going to jettison the sections on the Eiko for another book, finish. edit, polish and index the rest (which should be a reasonably short process) and publish as soon as I have art for it and Dave can get it in the channels.

     

    It's still a big book -- the manuscript's at 174 pages at the moment -- so I'm confident you'll get value out of it. Once I get the superlink version done (provided that life allows me the privilege), I'll start work on a third book to cover the Eiko and maybe add some material on the Gestalt Dimension. There might be a 6th edition HERO version, provided there's interest, which may well end up being a Gestalt 2nd Edition.

  25. Dimensional Fun!

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    Re: Dimensional Fun!

     

    Laurentia and Cabotia, the alternate earths mentioned in CotN 5e; the former where French Canada conquered the world, the latter where the world is controlled by a united British North America.

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