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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DrunkonDuty" data-source="post: 6294024" data-attributes="member: 54364">Sorry to hear that you will have to ditch your character concept there, Elfwitch. Mages can be difficult in HERO. A lot comes down to how the GM wants to model the magic system. Nice suggestion re. the cape fighting, Dannyalcatraz. It's a classic. I second the Ultimate Martial Artist as a great source but if you can't find it consider Combat Skill Levels as a good alternative way to model a martial art. Heck, even if you do find it, consider Combat Skill Levels.The way I'd do it using just skill levels is to buy a bunch (6-8 of them) of Combat Skill Levels for use with a "tight group of manoeuvres." (Cost is, IIRC, 3pts/level.) Define that group as "Fencing" or maybe "cape and blade fencing" or some such. (Discuss with your GM what they think qualifies as a "tight group." Keep in mind that generally this means a whole Martial Art - be it Fencing or Kung-fu or Ninjutsu - OR a Multi-power.) Now, with your bunch of skill levels on any given action you can move them around to be defensive, offensive, for damage OR some combination thereof. Your character will have great flexibility.Skill Levels are the bomb. Also, as you go up in XP you can upgrade your existing skill levels, turning 3-pt skill levels (that are only for use with your Fencing or what have you) into, say, 5-pt skill levels that can be used for all Hand to Hand Combat. Then later upgrade to 8-pt ones (ALL combat) and even 10-pt ones (ALL Combat and all Skill and all Stat rolls.)Please note that it takes 4 skill levels to add 1 level of damage (1 "Damage Class" or "DC" in HERO speak) to a Killing Attack. It only takes 2 Skill levels to add 1 DC to a non-killing attack ("Normal Attack" in HERO speak.) Note that things like Disarming your opponent or Entangling their weapon count as Normal Attacks for damage purposes, even if you use your rapier to do it. Also note that a weapon, now matter what your combination of strength, skill and what have you, can only ever do 2x it's base Damage Classes. e.g. A rapier has a base damage of (IIRC) 1d6 Killing damage (this is 3 Damage Classes, Killing.) It  it will never be able to do more than 6 Damage Classes, that is 2d6 Killing.Best of luck Elfwitch. And please do feel free to ask advice on character design, it's one of my favourite parts of the game. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile    :-)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" /></blockquote>

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