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Re: Combat, Aborting & Phases Didn't see that in FRED - possibly a 5ER clarification? Possibly Doc not reading the damn rules properly! Doc

Re: Combat, Aborting & Phases Been looking in FREd. Now as far as teh dice falling, there are specific mentions that block actions have to be declared before the dice are thrown in FRED, there is no such mention in either the aborting rules nor in the dodge or dive for cover manouevre descriptions. Possibly an oversight, possibly deliberate. Doc

Re: Combat, Aborting & Phases

Re: Combat, Aborting & Phases Nope. If he aborted to a dodge on 4 then he is considered as dodging until he next has an action. That would be segment 9. If he had aborted to a block then he would be making a tactical error. As you are aware by insisting on the abort on phase 4 after attacking on phase 3 he could have delayed his phase 3 attack to dodge the blow on 4 and then attacked normally on 6 and 9 (much better tactics) Doc

Re: Combat, Aborting & Phases Only the ninja's tactics!

Re: The Cost of STR & Other Characteristics: An open discussion Part of the problem here is that the characters were built in a way where they could, under normal circumstances, do no damage to each other worth talking about. If we reduce those defences to 20 or so - just to keep things even - then the advantage inbuilt to the energy projector comes into play. We assumed that they were next to each other in the original scenario - the energy projector had to escape just to avoid being grabbed. If we assumed some separation then the energy projector has a ranged attack that will come into play, allowing him to damage power woman before he can get close enough to bring his advantage into play. It is easy for small differences in an aspect here to make one or the other look absolutely perfect for one or the other protagonist. Possibly close enough that it doesn't actually make that much of a difference - I've never been convinced that it was necessary for me to do this though have often been sympathetic to the 2:1 argument. Doc

Re: The Cost of STR & Other Characteristics: An open discussion

Re: Is the Hero the Ultimate System? I have been using Hero with my group who are not Hero people and more comfortable with D20 (I know!) and so I have an export format for Hero Designer that produces characters in a more D20 like format. I have changed aspects of the mechanics to accommodate this and to reduce the variety of numbers in the game. Been some work to add material to the notes of powers but well worth it for the response it got from the players. Will see if I can get an example up here later but the skin is attached for HD experimenters. Doc

Re: Old races, new tricks.

Re: Is the Hero the Ultimate System? I would have to say that Hero is less likely to be the ultimate system than any of the others out there. My idea of the ultimate system is one that gives me a fantastic gaming experience straight out of the box - delivering some kind of play experience. Now I can tweak Hero with the best of them and I believe that my Glorantha Hero - when I eventually finish it - will be a contender for the ultimate system and it will be based purely on Hero. But Hero straight out of the box. Nah... Doc

Re: How do you approach spirit binding? Well, there is the colour aspect of teh binding and the mechanics of it. In RuneQuest the idea of the binding a spirit was that it increased the number of spells you could remember and provided an alternative store of magic points to cast spells with. As such it was essentially a buff to the character. If I was looking at it in Fantasy Hero terms then I'd have to look at whether there were limits to the number of spells that I could remember (use) at any one time. If so the spirit binding would buff whatever stat was used to determine that (most often INT) and would buff END and REC. I might require the player to keep the base END and REC and the buffed stuff seperate for accounting purposes. That would provide the caster with the game facility you find in RuneQuest. The colour side of it required the PC to defeat the spirit in spirit combat and then to cast the proper spell. That could be abstracted any number of ways - in RuneQuest it revolved around POW a stat we do not have in Hero. Doc

Re: A weird alien boarding vessel

Re: Standard Limitation for a blowgun dart? Well, I often built this kind of thing with the limitation of not versus resistant defences. That is around -1 in a Champions game less so in other genres, IMO. Doc

Re: Hero All-Stars 2008 A character that I am going to have to think about next time I do a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen style game will be Tinkerbell.... Doc

Re: How would you build missles comic style That is a bloody good limitation. I'd rep you again if I didn't already owe you... Doc

Re: Not Quite Arm-Fall-Off Lad

Re: Catgirls (and Catboys) for Fantasy I would have thought that a good lok at the Kzin from Larry Niven's Known Space would be a good start. There's been a lot of thought put into why the Kzin are different from humans beyond the 'scream and leap' battle tactics. Doc

Re: Not Quite Arm-Fall-Off Lad What about the vanishing Sean? Shrinking with special effects or EDM and focus?

Re: The Heroes blew it! Evil Wins We started a game like this in Middle Earth. It was just after Morgoth wiped the floor with the good guys and darkness spread over Middle Earth. It was pretty gloomy but I suppose it wasn't too bad because you knew that this did not last. I think that the message you have to get to the players is that everything cycles - the battle against evil is never over because it always re-appears but, from the opposite perspective, the fight against good is never over either, it always re-appears too. Doc

Re: How would you build missles comic style

Re: How would you build missles comic style

Re: How would you build missles comic style Very reasonable for real life and it fits your build. I would ask whether the fact that the missiles were of the homing variety whether they should give you a bonus beyond the no range penalty but it could be considered 'guilding the lily'! As far as the comicbook version goes - you see what we are trying to accomplish - it goes a bit beyond your build and comes with its own problems. Doc

Re: How would you build missles comic style

Re: Not Quite Arm-Fall-Off Lad You've got a lot of stuff going on here - I would suspect definitely for multiple powers to get all the effects you are looking for. I think Mr mattingly has a good point in invisible, indirect stretching for the toe in the room idea but you have a case for that being too distant for stretching to cope with. I think that you might want to do this via focus based clairsentience. The special effects of that clairsentience would be that you would have had to be in the location - or have a body part moved to that location before you can 'view' it - obviously the view you would get would depend on the senses available to the body part left there. the foci would be indestructable though would feed damage back tot he character - they are still part of you. The vanishing aspect is a difficult one - though very interesting. I initially thought about shrinking for that - you are effectively becoming smaller until all you are left with is an eye, ear etc but this does not address the movement aspect. I think that I would be inclined to use teleport for this - only between various body parts. For moving nowhere, but simply becoming a body part I think I would use EDM - you have only one focus - or several but your 'being' is in a pocket dimension somewhere else. The feedback from the foci maintain the link between the being and the body parts (and I think you might need to have a distinctive looks disad - limited to only when using these powers). I presume that you could use an ear (for example) to get to a place (location A) - re-attach the ear then appear at another location where you left an eye, with ear intact (location but then be unable to get back to location A. Doc

Re: How would you build missles comic style