Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!msdc!gt-stratus!gitpyr!ccastkv From: ccastkv@gitpyr.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Super Hero Role Playing Games Message-ID: <1489@gitpyr.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Mar-86 13:38:51 EST Article-I.D.: gitpyr.1489 Posted: Mon Mar 3 13:38:51 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Mar-86 05:10:34 EST References: <9319@ritcv.UUCP> <1157@watmath.UUCP> <206@ulowell.UUCP> <2560@genat.UUCP> <9396@ucla-cs.ARPA> <1436@watmath.UUCP> Reply-To: ccastkv@gitpyr.UUCP (KEITH VAGLIENTI) Distribution: na Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 24 All of the games in the Hero System are compatible but there is a problem with mixing Champs with any of the other three games (Justice, Inc., Fantasy Hero, and Danger International) and that is that Champs uses a slightly different point scale than the others. Where Champs gives you 100 points as a base the others only give you 75. Furthermore the value of disads in the three lower base games is halved with each disad you take of a similar type as opposed to with every other disad in Champs. Then too there are other point differences. For example a competent DNPC in Champs has a base of 50 points while in the other games its 20 points. The most points a Champs character can have before hitting diminshing returns is 290, in the other games its 140. I've found that when mixing genres that Champs characters shouldn't have more than 200 points, otherwise they'll blow everyone else away. The other three games though are completely compatable and I often allow my players to take skills/abilities from one for use in another if its within conception and the genre. -- Keith Conrad Vaglienti Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332 ...!{akgua,allegra,amd,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo,ut-ngp}!gatech!gitpyr!ccastkv In no way should my remarks be considered to reflect the opinions and/or policies of the Georgia Institute of Technology nor GIT's Office of Computing Services. Put another way, its-a not my bosses fault, monkey boy!