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“You’re killing me, Smallby,”

Hell, Spock got some hairy eyeballs in his direction when Romulans were revealed to be related to Vulcans- not exactly widely disseminated info at the time of TOS.

I’ve got plenty of tragic murderhobos in my D&D history, but there’s several who had more positive backgrounds & motivations. A few off the top of my head: My first 4Ed PC was a Dwarven Starlock/Psion whose entire clan had sworn to fend off any incursions from The Far Realms. No sob story- he...

It’s Morrus’s question, but I personally assumed no alien tech.

Cecilia Giménez has died. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5z5p633q5o.amp

IOW, it’s not that HERO can’t do games in the investigative genre, but that its mechanics do not support particular playstyles. It’s skill/talent/powers system is fine for uncovering a set hidden plot that the GM has created, but it doesn’t handle emergent plotlines well at all. …at least, not...

As I recall, he appeared on L&O in 5 different roles, including a security guard/serial killer.

The cheapest meal I can think of is the $1.50 all-beef hot dog & soft drink (with free refills) at the Costco food courts. I finally had one for the first time earlier this month. Not the best hot dog I’ve ever had, and your toppings were limited to ketchup, mustard, mayo, dill relish and raw...

People HATED when I got that one out. I’m certain your experience was similar.😁

Exactly! I did a deck that Samuel L Jackson would NOT have appreciated: it had all the various poisonous snake token creating cards PLUS spells & artifacts that made them fly. One of my tournament decks had Living Plane as a centerpiece- an enchantment that made all lands into 1/1 creatures...

I’d use the Dark HERO ruleset and GREATLY limit access to Powers- almost exclusively just for creating Items. Skills & Talents would be the bulk of PC options. Very low total point ceiling. But that doesn’t necessarily make for a good investigative RPG campaign, unless your GM is really good...

I am exaggerating, absolutely. But I have owned over 167 different RPGs and played almost 200 different systems, including 2 playtests. That said, I’ve used HERO to run supers, space opera, horror, hard sci-fi, low fantasy, high fantasy, cross-edition D&D simulations, spies, mecha (hence my...

I never deconstructed my favorite decks. It was never about the cost or the resale value for me. It was about wins & losses…complicated by my inner contrarian and DIY personality traits. I never wanted to play copies of online decks. I wanted to innovate. I wanted to surprise other players...

Looked it up: By my reading, the Engineer is kind of a stretch, power wise, versus most versions of Superman. But Ultraman (a literal Superman clone), Metamotpho and a kaiju absolutely could give Superman a serious challenge. But most mundane* earthly materials, situations and forces are...

I mean, it’s not like we’re unaware of the possibilities, we just don’t know the particulars. It was at a low-budget photo place, like the services offered at department stores and some drug stores back then. The dogs are together in front of one of those “marbled” backdrops. One is seated...

Didn’t see it, but isn’t he fighting opponents of essentially the same power level?

As an unabashed HEROphile, I’m of the opinion that HERO can do any genre of RPG…because I’ve done it. But it’s not necessarily going to so as well as a system custom designed to model a certain genre or especially a particular IP. For instance, while I could definitely run a Mecha-centric...

That sounds like a cool format. I might still be playing if that had been around before I quit.

We have a fridge magnet with badly photoshopped images of our 2nd and 3rd border collies on it. We don’t know how the manufacturer got a photo of our dogs, because this would have been in the mid/late 1990s, and we weren’t sharing pix online back then.