Grailknight

Hero IS a skirmish miniature combat game. That's superhero combat in a nutshell. It just happens to also have a unique character creation detailing system and a good, if dry, skill system.

This might be a good movie trope, but it doesn't translate well to HERO. You are essentially penalizing some SFX but how do you make consistent rulings? What exact length of hair triggers the penalty? Why wouldn't capes be like tear-away football jerseys? What about horns, tails or body spikes? If you use this on a PC, do they now get a Physical Limitation? You're imposing one as GM that the player did not present to you in character creation. How many of your NPC's will have that Limitation? Are you going to be constantly opposing anime girls or the Dora Milaje? If you really feel this should be in your game, then purchase some Limited Skill Levels with Grab that only apply vs targets with the given handholds. Then describe the results cinematically.

I'm sure they command pretty big salaries for their market. But they rarely make movies aimed at foreign markets, so they have their pay based on domestic gross.

If you're trying to figure out how long a combat will be, then you need to factor in at least 2 other parameters. You need the SPD's of the participants and also relative OCV and DCV. with the other numbers you just gave 4-5 average SPD will be a 3-4 turn slog at if you hit on 11 or less and 2- 3 turns at 6-7 SPD. Even at 8 SPD or higher, you're going in 2 turns. Turning up OCV slightly will shorten the combats slightly but shifting just to 10 or less will make these combats take forever. Some will be decided by who runs out of END. You need to set all your variables and test them out. Only with a good baseline can you tweak.

Glad to see you back! For movement at interplanetary distances, you going to want to look at the Megascale Advantage rules for movement. They change 1m. increments into kilometers and additional levels increase this by factors of 10 per step. It can still get rather pricey, but it is doable. For interstellar travel, you'd use the FTL Movement rules.

I say just beginning because we don't have a true set of rules just yet. The transfer portal has changed each of the last 2 off seasons and NIL is still in the early Wild West days. Right now, those valuations are just estimates by marketing research and don't have access to all the income from all sources because there is no uniform reporting structure. Until the rules are firmed up, there's no way to know how much many of these side deals are worth. But just getting a free car puts most of these deals above $50K and there's hundreds of those type of deals if not thousands.

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I fail to see how a power with a Custom Limitation constitutes a simpler build than PD or ED. Also, the fact that it precisely duplicates an existing Power for less points sems to violate a metarule.

Shouldn't that be 9d6-14 and 12d6-24? I don't doubt your graphs, but the starting parameters seem off.

But you equated it 10 points of either PD or ED and it is much better than that. Those 10 points allow STUN damage on 50% of rolls of 3d6 if spent on PD/ED but are 100% effective if spent on STUN only DN. And there is no situation where the PD/ED would apply where the DN does not. One of these is clearly not getting what you pay for.

It's much easier to fight to the top in basketball than in football especially with NIL in play. It's pure numbers and even the smaller schools can play in this arena. It's just easier to raise the money for 15 basketball players as compared to 85 football players. Especially when it only takes 3-4 stars out of those 15. I'd be shocked if Kentucky wasn't competitive in NIL deals for basketball. And Kentucky is down somewhat right now, but 90% of the schools out there would gladly take their "down'. NIL and the transfer portal are just beginning to change college sports and even Saban got out because he could sense that staying elite was just going to be much, much harder and the power dynamic was going to shift. You effectively have to recruit an incoming class and re-recruit your current roster every year and then ride herd on a large group of 18–23-year olds with 50k-1mil plus incomes, no experience with said money and no parental supervision for maybe the first time in their lives. I applaud getting money to the players but that doesn't mean I can see how much harder coaching has become also.

I wouldn't allow "STUN only" to be applied to Damage Negation for an entirely different reason. Such a limitation would completely change the mechanic of the power. For such a Limitation to have meaning, you'd have to somehow know the BODY pips of the number of DC's negated. But there's no way to know that because those dice are never rolled. This is already covered under the Non-Resistant Limitation for DN that is already in RAW. There's no need to duplicate that and even if you made STUN only a thing, the Drain STUN should still have effect. Plus, that 3 real points of limited DN is still equivalent to 6 PD or ED. It doesn't stop an average of the DC's, it stops them completely even if you would have rolled maximum damage every time.

Very nice! I might suggest changing the Drain from CON to PRE but that might be too effective.

I'd go with this. Ghostly Forms: Multipower, 60-point reserve 6f-Incorporeal Form: Desolidification , Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (60 Active Points) 2f-Semi-solid Form: Physical Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% (30 Active Points), Costs END only to Activate 2f-Semi-Solid form: Energy Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% (30 Active Points), Costs END only to Activate Flight 15m, x4 Noncombat, Costs Endurance Only To Activate (+1/4) (25 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about a fourth of its effectiveness (Only when in Incorporeal form; -1/4) This way the character can interact with the regular world but is Desolid as a default. The Semi-Solid forms should be considered a Combined Power (Sorry, I had already closed HD).

That would be best simulated using the Fusion rules I suggested. Long combats where you take a great deal of STUN but recover drain the hp and eventually result in BODY damage. Another option would be a Penetrating KA that only works with Activation that only works on targets at 33% of their STUN.