Kisska

Re: What do you really think of Champions Online?

Tried it didnt care for but then didnt care for CoX either didnt feel enough like champions to me but then neither does the new edition of champs pnp. Now character creation for Champs on line is fun though but not worth paying any money for.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

Kung Fu Fighting by Tom Jones (from the Supercop soundtrack) just ended and Beer by Reel Big Fish (From Our Live Album is Better Than Your Live Album) just started.

if your gonna listen to kung fu fighting you need to listen to the good version

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now?

Well not really I like to listen the game I am playing when I am playing but here is some stuff I have been listening to while doing school work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYI8L3aDhtA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omc68axI2SU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFSGQ9SMoqo&feature=related

those were in romanian as is my spouse

stuff from when I was a little kid

Re: Lunar Cave Discovered

Thats pretty cool

Re: And 6e print books start to arrive

I am very happy for the fans of 6th that they are getting their books:thumbup:

Me I am happy I may soon be getting my replacement copy of 4th a guy says he wil get me one to trade for my copy of TOEE

Everybody wins.

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

I stand corrected. LotR does have respectable numbers.

 

I SERIOUSLY disagree here having had some time to play it. Running through a dungeon smashing barrels is not my idea of D&D. Let's not forget the fact that it's now free and relying on Micro-Transactions to stay alive speaks volumes.

 

There are reason very good reasons I'm biased against Turbine, but you're right, we'll never know who's really at fault.

Its not really free its a hybrid and many of the new people trying the slightly limited free to play option are switching to subs to buy off those restricitions and many players such as myself are still subscribing and have been for over three years, yeah the microtransations are helping turbine out but they set those up in such a manner to encourage people to sub rather then do microtransactions.

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

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And that's not to say I 'hate' DDO. It's a fantastic game, it's the most accurate D&D pnp ruleset to MMO to date. The problem is the people behind it, not the game itself."

 

You are right, DDO did a good job on turning the pnp ruleset into a game. Sadly, they went with Eberron which ran me off. I would have settled for any of the earlier properties... but oh well.

 

Cryptic failed to turn the HERO game system into a workable Champions MMO at least using the pnp ruleset. I now am seriously concerned about them flubbing STO

Yes I am hugely disapointed with their champions game didnt feel like playing champs even mildy to me so even though I was looking forward to STO I will not preorder it for sure.

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

I think the main problem with DDO was that they used the Eberron setting which is not a bad setting but I believe that Forgotten Realms is a much more widely played setting. At least it is with my group' date=' when we aren't playing Fantasy HERO. Thus I believe that while it may not have saved the game it might have attracted more players if it was set in the Realms. At least that's what I like to think.[/quote']

 

 

I hate the realms and wouldnt have played if it had been there, and to tell the truth I think it would have been a mistake as they couldnt have made all the Realms fans happy and they would have been told constanly that they got this or that wrong. I love Eberron myself but would have been happier maybe if they game on been set in a new world or maybe Kalamar, Greyhawk or Blackmoor

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

Yep, seems I've been wrong about Turbine.

 

Seems like Atari really gets off on abusing the companies it works with. Which should go a loooong way to explaining why Atari bought Cryptic Studio's outright. They can kick them around now and not worry about being sued?

 

Talk about Atari having it out for DDO to fail because they were interested in pushing out their NWNO MMO. Ugh, the thread explains quite a bit. =(

 

http://forums.ddo.com/showthread.php?t=196705

I have to applogize I didnt read this before I chastised you in my other post. so sorry:(

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

Turbine is sueing Atari over DDO and these rumors. They want 30mil.

While I am rooting for Turbine Atari is counter suing

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

I do know that DDO has or is (I'm not sure of their timetable) going free to play. fyi.

Actually they are a hybrid of free to play and subs. Free to play has some limits on what they can access(can buy more through microtransaction) number of character slots and a little restircted on races and classes as well as limits on auction house and tells, and no shared bank, they can buy all of these off either with cash or earned game points(would take a long time to buy off all for free) while subscription players have no limits on tells and more character slots. I would recomend any who hasnt played to at least check out the free to play option.

Re: Cryptic to develop Neverwinter Nights MMO?

Maybe if Turbine got off it's ass and didn't cack up DDO so badly from the start they wouldn't need to sue some other company for trying to put out a D&D MMO to replace the utter failure that is Turbine.

 

And that's not to say I 'hate' DDO. It's a fantastic game, it's the most accurate D&D pnp ruleset to MMO to date. The problem is the people behind it, not the game itself.

 

It suffered from what the MMO community likes to now call FATAL Star Wars Galaxies Syndrome.

You need to get some of your facts straight one the big problems with ddo was Atari didnt promote or market it like they should most likely it seems now that they were planning on coming out with their own game and didnt want to boost a competing game and its one of the reasons turbine is suing them.

Re: Top 5 Favorite 5E Supplements

Hmm only one I still have is the Ultimate martial artist I did like that book. still a bigger fan of 4th editon and if I can ever replace my lost book I will run champs again my fave supplement from that was the 4th edtion VIPER book always liked Scott Bennie's work and enjoyed playing with Cliff in the past, but my fave stuff always by scott b and scott h. No offense Steve. Wasnt a fan of 5th edtion as it seem the point scaling seem to rise abit from 4th.

Re: Top 5 Champs books of all time

Yeah I like your list to and yes to your viper book choice I dont like the 5th ed one and didnt see the need for one for me I like Scott and Cliff's work wish they had done more

Re: Which Champion are you

I am grond.

Re: And the old shall swallow the new...

From a commerical standpoint, Stormreach was an abject failure. When I tried my demo a year and a half ago, there were only five players on any of the servers at any given time. What's the point of an MMORPG that very few people play?

 

Why did Stormreach fail? Direct competition with WoW where WoW had all the advantages.

Not a huge comercial success no but I have been playing for over 3 years and I have never ever seen it at 5 players on any server at any time. I dont think I have ever seen less then 100 players on any server at any time of course none of them maybe running something that I want but at least just running around in ddo is more fun the playing a raid or quest in wow.

I dont have high hopes for CO for one reason its not really champions to me its not using champions rules just set in the universie although I do like that world though, I hope it surprises me and is good but I am afraid that for good champs play the only way is to sit down and play with rl people.

Re: And the old shall swallow the new...

IIRC' date=' Atari has had some successful products lately, most notably for our purposes the long-running [i']Neverwinter Nights[/i] line. They haven't had a lot of success with MMORPGs, though; Dungeons & Dragons Online Stormwatch was a disaster of epic proportions. They've had a long-standing connection to Wizards of the Coast, and have overall made money from the endeavor.

 

That said, they are an independent company (no Hasbro ownership) and have a solid record of transposing RPG mechanics to computerized formats.

 

The name may still be linked to the first videogame boom and bust, and to a doomed line of microcomputers (they made the first computer I almost bought back in 1988 -- I chose the imported PC-compatible Amstrad instead, and they ended up losing out to PCs ion the marketplace), but Atari does have a good understanding of the market and a decent capital base. Barring catastrophe, this should work out.

Completely and utterly false game is great and closer to dnd then what CO will be to true champions, CO might be a good game but it will really only be champions in name at least ddo is 60-80% 3.5 dnd.

Re: 4th edition support

KillerShrike.com - General HERO

http://www.killershrike.com/Default.aspx?tab=3

 

Hero Adaptations, Conversions, & Resources

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63848

 

Champions (Super) Hero Resources

http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=31865

 

Hero System 3rd Party Products

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64013

 

San Angelo: City of Heroes (Unstated sourcebooks; Arroyo Verde - High-Tech San Angelo.pdf , PART Sourcebook.pdf , and the San Angelo City of Heroes Map.pdf )

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1597681#post1597681

 

 

Please note the changes from 4th Edition to 5th Edition HERO System are primarily refinements. Many HERO Fan Pages are still 4th Edition, but many have added 5th Edition changes. Essentially clearer, cleaner, and classier. Lord Liaden asked a few good questions. What are you looking for... precisely?

 

 

Thanks

 

 

QM

 

 

P.S.: Changes from 4th to 5th Edition

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=4871&highlight=4th+Edition+vs+5th+Edition

 

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Thanks for the information you and LL have been most helpful, I dont find 5th cleaner or classier but thats my personal choice not saying anyone else is wrong but thanks again for the help

Re: 4th edition support

Okay, Kisska, I think I can provide you with some useful free Internet stuff.

 

To start with, this forum thread has links to several adventures written for Fourth Edition, most (but not all) of them based on characters and groups appearing in 4E or earlier Champions books, but easy enough to adapt: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36759

 

This is an archive of postings to the grand old Red October BBS, once the hub of the HERO online community. There's a host of diverse 4E material there: characters, campaign settings, house rules, book errata and updates, and much other goodness. http://www.mactyre.net/october/Files.html

 

Here are Fourth Edition expansions to the classic Champions villain group Terror Inc., posted to the forums by their creator Steve Perrin: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=177839

 

These Attached files are Fourth Edition HERO stats for all the characters from the Champions: New Millennium line of sourcebooks, originally using the Fuzion game system: http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1127464

 

All of the websites below host numerous write-ups for well-known superhero comic and other characters, mostly for 4E HERO:

 

http://www.sysabend.org/champions/gnborh/

 

http://www.mactyre.net/scm/deejay/champs/writeups.html

 

http://x-men.the-wild-hunt.org/

 

http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/mathew/champions.html

 

(NOTE: the links on the webpage above are sometimes cranky and may take you to the author's homepage instead. Just go Back and try the link again.)

 

Finally, should you actually be interested in using some of the published Fifth Edition material, this webpage summarizes the changes from Fourth to Fifth Edition, with interesting commentary thereon. Although it's not complete enough to replace the 5E rulebook (deliberately so), it will allow you to recognize anything you see in the newer books: http://theemerged.blogspot.com/HERO425.htm

Thanks so much this should be a big help and I remember the red october board didnt have internet access for it but my brother-inlaw at the time did and he would put all that he thought I would be interested in on disk so I could access it later, sadly all the info was on my amiga's hard drive when it died. No there isnt to much in 5E I care for I like the 4th ed viper book better then the newer one for example but keeping my eye on things here to see if 6th is going to be good for what I want but as things stand I will proably stick with 4th but not saying 100% yet.

Re: 4th edition support

Welcome' date=' Kisska! What sort of support were you looking for? Characters, rules help, conversions, campaigns?[/quote']

pretty much all the above as I am not sure where my bbb is I do have a 4th ed hero rule book and some of the eniemes books and thats about it.

I have recently decided to get back into champions mainly due to not liking 4E dnd but I want to use 4th edtion champions rules and background can anyone direct me to where I could get support for that, as I cant find anything for that here really my search skills maybe lacking though.