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I was one, since the first book.🤷🏾

I like a good martial arts campaign. You can really have a blast with them. I briefly ran one in HERO that was centered around a martial arts combat competition in which weapons were allowed; killing was permitted but not required. I had a DMPC who was based on the blind master archetype...

Specialized power armors aren’t usually flexible, though. Iron Man’s first stealth armor was less durable and had fewer, less powerful weapon systems. His first orbital-ready armor was similarly light on offense. As I recall, several of his (again, early) hulk-buster suits depended less on a...

The Hero’s Lack of a Journey

True, but that’s a GM call. And TBH, I’d probably model specialized power armors without Multipowers. I was thinking in terms of a straight-up VPP, requiring use of a base & with a time limitation. IOW, kind of like a variation on a gadgeteer archetype, but the VPP has to have certain...

Here’s to relief & modern pharmacology!

I can’t see that.🤷🏾‍♂️

I singled out Wakanda specifically because they’re the source of the vibranium used in the alloy of Cap’s shield. As I recall, that’s ONLY available from Wakanda, so Confederate Cap’s shield probably wouldn’t have any.

Sorta. It’s possible to model stuff like that in HERO as discrete, alternative power suits that require access to a base and time to do the swap. I’d probably do that via Multiform for an Iron Man PC with specialized armors. For PCs with lower powers, a VPP or Multipower might be more...

Generally speaking, HERO handles high fantasy more easily than GURPS. GURPS handles gritty Swords & Sorcery more easily than HERO. So if you want fireball casting mages & god-slaying warriors, choose HERO. If you want protagonists who even have to take fights with castle guards seriously...

Stuff like the kinky mycologist who asked another character how the mushrooms tasted before awkwardly revealing his inevitable demise would almost NEVER appear on an American murder mystery show. (Midsomer Murders, “Destroying Angel”, S4, E2)

That cruelty is what she savors most!

Three places close to my heart. I don’t know what it is, but British murder shows just have wittier, more convoluted writing.

Jessica Fletcher was a serial killer. There, I said it.

Mod Note: Be the change you want to see on the boards.

When I was in Austin in the early 1990s, our group had a rule where everyone was responsible for running a campaign (we had a rotation system) and everyone had to make a PC for each campaign. One guy was BIG into anime, and wanted to run some kind of campaign where we were all mech pilots. He...

Y’know, I ran my Champions 1900 campaign for 18+ months, and I never once considered having the heroes deal with some kind of natural disaster or mundane crisis. And I have to admit that something along those lines would be both heroic AND relatively easy to run on the fly- no foes to stat out...

You might want to watch this for ideas to mine: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0389828/ As for your NPC, I wouldn’t make the shield messed up at the beginning, but- in keeping with the CSA’s presumptive technological disadvantages- make its material much more mundane. Nothing from Wakanda, for...