Wednesday Boy
The Nerd WhoFell to Earth
It's not my favorite edition but I would immediately be up for a 2nd Ed. AD&D campaign if I was allowed to play a Wild Mage. That d100 wild surge table is a thing of beauty!
Name ONE favourite thing about your favourite edition
Teacher Man
Explorer
1.0 Aside from the new factor, modules G1-G3.
(I am using converted G1 in a 3.5 tourney)
3.5 Because it fixed many of the problems of 1.0
(I am using converted G1 in a 3.5 tourney)
3.5 Because it fixed many of the problems of 1.0
3.5 - the warlock
I know it's not considered a powerful class, but my personal experience of playing a warlock was pretty much the most fun I've had in 30+ years of TTRPGs.
I know it's not considered a powerful class, but my personal experience of playing a warlock was pretty much the most fun I've had in 30+ years of TTRPGs.
I have to say that, although 4Ed is not my favorite edition, I actually liked its take on the Warlock better than the 3.5Ed version.
My problem with the original version was not its weakness- that power ranking stuff never bothered me- but rather its being tied into such a narrow range of possible patronages. It was a narrative shackle that 4Ed removed.
My problem with the original version was not its weakness- that power ranking stuff never bothered me- but rather its being tied into such a narrow range of possible patronages. It was a narrative shackle that 4Ed removed.
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Yeah, as with most things that are inconvenient or troublesome, we just ignored that stuff and made it up ourselves. Though since I was playing in the Shackled City campaign, having a demonic forebear somewhere in the family tree actually was useful in the narrative sense. As well as tactically, when I started hearing "the voices"...
Certainly you could ignore the shackles, but 4Ed went the additional step and gave mechanical support for the different pacts, like how 2Ed diversified the priest class.
Introspectively speaking, if there was one overarching thing I like about RPG designs is options.*
Every time D&D has given me more options in mechanical support for the concepts bouncing around in my head, the more I like it.
* It's why HERO is my favorite system, bar none.
Introspectively speaking, if there was one overarching thing I like about RPG designs is options.*
Every time D&D has given me more options in mechanical support for the concepts bouncing around in my head, the more I like it.
* It's why HERO is my favorite system, bar none.
I see what you did there!
I think HERO is a great system! I wish I'd have more opportunity to play it, I've only ever been able to dabble. But it did seem to inherently address the broken game mechanics we find in d20-type games at higher levels. With d20, eventually the bonuses overwhelm the effect of the d20 roll. With HERO, from my admittedly limited experience, it seemed that the way a character is built would prevent the 3d6 roll from becoming trivial regardless of the number of points used for character creation. Which means you could play a character an arbitrarily long amount of time and never break the game mechanically.
Would that match your experience?
Sorry to get off-topic with this!
Olgar Shiverstone
Legend
I'll name two: Ale & Whores.
It is just as possible to break HERO as any other game. However, doing so requires:
1) either a bit of system mastery
OR
2) a GM who isn't paying attention to the powers with little warning symbols next to them.
The current edition did a lot to fix some of the pure math exploits, but there are still those pesky powers like a Time Travel...
But all that said, IME, it is the rare player who actually went out of their way to do those math exploits or screw around with the most problematic powers. Most were too busy modeling their PCs the way they envisioned them. Time Travel may be capable of screwing things royally, but most people playing supers games are not interested in playing time travellers. They want the iconic powers like flight, super strength, super speed, superhuman toughness, super martial arts or shooting energy beams.
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