Hero game rules and setting

2010-03-01T03:26:36Z

This is an evolving document, especially as we all figure out the system more.

Basic Rules Edit

You get "Powerful"-level Heroic points, as well as a gob of cash (still figuring out how much) to spend on equipment (which is just Powers, in the form of cybernetics/bio-enhancements/gene therapy/whatever). I'm still figuring out equipment pricing and all that.
Max SPD you can buy with character points alone is 4 (that's the upper limit, not the amount you can buy).
There is no Energy Defense; it is folded into Physical Defense. It's just too niche for this sort of game.
Base skill roll is 8 + (CHAR/4), not 9 + (CHAR/5)
Everyman skills:
- Cryptography
- Deduction
- Interrogation
- Mechanics
- Stealth
- Any one Professional or Science skill.

The Setting Edit

Heavily influenced by Maishin and similar short cyberpunk works. It's the kind of dystopian grimdark you'd expect out of classic cyberpunk.

The state of the world: there are four superpowers: United States, China, Russia, and Japan. All the countries you have now are pretty much still in place, with some exceptions:

Mexico is a lot stronger, kind of like Canada.
South America is a lot more unified. Most of it is taken up by Brazil, Chile, and Argentina.
Africa as well is a lot more unified, by I'll only go into detail there when it becomes necessary.
Megacorps: think of today's megacorps (Microsoft, General Electric, and whatnot) -- they all are still there, but they are all cyberpunk-level megacorps. They're given the usual far-greater-autonomy, like their own beneficial laws and "security forces" and whatnot. While Microsoft "answers" to the United States, they basically own the state of Washington and of course get away with whatever they want.

Space travel sucks, but it's become pretty cheap to do it with robots -- so there's asteroid mining, and a moon-base I suppose, and all sorts of satellites, but not much else.

The internet: think Lain, or The Ends of the Matrix.

Everybody starts wherever they want, really. Up to you to figure it out.

All About the Break-Up

2009-08-26T03:58:24Z

I'm going to try to explain the process of creating this new site as clearly as I can, for the purposes of anyone out there who comes across here and is confused.

1 The Run-Up
2 The Straw
3 Continuing Weirdness
4 Another Update

The Run-Up Edit

The head administrator of the old wiki is named Green_Dragon. For many months he was inactive except for arriving every two weeks to make some random change. More often than not, this change would vastly annoy virtually every other active user. When the change would be reverted or a user would post a comment about it, Green_Dragon would get extremely pissy. This was the state of affairs on the old wiki for about a year.

The Straw Edit

The action that caused us all to leave and found our own wiki is really an extension of the run-up. The active users were extremely displeased with the old rating system, which said just about nothing about a class. We had decided to do something about it, and implement a new rating system. The rating system was discussed, and was posted on Green_Dragon's talk page, where it sat for three weeks. After sitting for three weeks and drawing comments from everyone except Green_Dragon, TK-Squared implemented the framework for this rating system. The new rating system was not yet implemented, merely the framework for it was created. Green_Dragon immediately went nuts, deleting the new rating system framework. In response, I (Surgo) posted a comment on his talk page asking what was up with that, as if he had disagreed with it he had three weeks to voice his disagreement while the proposal sat on his talk page. He responded by banning me. Sulacu then posted, asking why I was banned, and was promptly banned herself.

In an effort to stop the tide of banning that would inevitably destroy his site, Aarnott (another administrator) banned Green_Dragon (a useless gesture except to send a message, as Green Dragon can access the database directly), telling him that if he continued he would drive away all his active members. Green_Dragon responded by going ballistic, tearing down his entire site for the next day.

This upset every active member. I proposed creating a new wiki here on Wikia. After some discussion on whether to be self-hosted or hosted here, it was decided that we would host it here. I set up the wiki with the intent that there would not be a supreme overlord like Green_Dragon on here, so that the preceding events could never happen again, along with a philosophy change stated on our main page about quality and usability. We exported over formatting templates, and the users exported their work and set up shop here.

Continuing Weirdness Edit

At some point, Green_Dragon went more nuts and accused me of deleting another wiki on Wikia (as if that was even possible). That's where we're at now; I'll update this blog again if anything else happens. He is also currently in the process of violating the copyright of the old wiki's uploaders by removing their names from the pages they created (a violation of the GNU Free Documentation License, Part 4, Section B).

Another Update Edit

Apparently, Green_Dragon has been claiming that if someone puts their own stuff up on dandwiki, them going and posting it on this wiki too would be illegal. Wtf? This guy shows an incredible non-understanding of how copyright actually works. I wonder if he actually believes this nonsense, or if he's just trying to threaten his users away from coming here.

Surgo's blog