... Sadly, no. I myself would love some generic maps for superhero use (base, warehouse, office building.) A program with tools to create them that didn't cost...
1504
daDiceGuy
dadicedude
Apr 1, 2011 1:04 pm
You should try and find the maps that came with Heroclix sets, ... -- Necessity is the Mother of invention. MacGyver is the Father....
1505
Curt Meyer
curtmeyer9
Apr 1, 2011 3:12 pm
Has anyone heard anything about when the PDF will be sent out? Sent from my iPad...
1506
Soylent Green
gsoylent
Apr 1, 2011 3:41 pm
Yup, I got my copy this morning. April Fool :-) To: icons-rpg@yahoogroups.com From: curtmeyer@... Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:12:18 -0500 Subject:...
1507
Charles Rice
steelwhisper...
Apr 1, 2011 3:45 pm
So, so, mean....
1508
Charles Rice
steelwhisper...
Apr 2, 2011 2:29 pm
Homefront Heroes is the next in Vigilance Press' popular line of USHER Universe supplements set in WWII! In the Golden Age of comics, most comics were set on...
1509
Soylent Green
gsoylent
Apr 2, 2011 2:31 pm
Hello everyone, I'm thinking about running another online ICONS game session today (Saturday) at 17:00 GMT. Given the Daylight Saving has kicked in I make...
1510
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 2, 2011 3:31 pm
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 15:31 +0100, "Soylent Green" <gsoylent@...> ... According to this site: http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/ 17:00 UTC will be 13:00...
1511
Soylent Green
gsoylent
Apr 2, 2011 3:42 pm
That should be fine. I think anything more than 3 hours with a headset would be kind of brutal anyway. To: icons-rpg@yahoogroups.com From:...
1512
Gerry
urbwar
Apr 2, 2011 3:56 pm
Got my copy, along with the 4 Wargames solo characters today....
1513
Meeting Invitation
gsoylent
Apr 2, 2011 4:55 pm
ICONS Occasionals games starting shortly. Just follow the link. To join the session, click on the following link: ...
1514
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 3, 2011 2:03 am
I uploaded a new version of the simple spreadsheet that I use to make up ICONS characters and post their character sheets to our wiki. ...
1515
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 3, 2011 2:06 am
On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 22:03 -0400, "Brandon Blackmoor" ... Here is what the wiki output looks like (I played this character today, in fact): ...
1516
Tim K.
lion_poet
Apr 3, 2011 6:35 am
... Nice, I'll take a look. I'm not entirely happy with the formatting of some of the ones I've played with....
1517
Soylent Green
gsoylent
Apr 3, 2011 7:39 am
And there she is, the Widow from yesteerdays ICONS Occasionals! :-) Nice work Brandon. To: icons-rpg@yahoogroups.com From: bblackmoor@... Date: Sat,...
1518
dirkgentry2000
Apr 3, 2011 2:26 pm
Hey Gerry, hope you liked them. As a writer for Vigilance, I got to see Homefront Heroes about a week or so ago. I was blown away. Between Steve Perrin's...
1519
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 3, 2011 2:55 pm
... I am currently using the wiki itself for formatting the output. I haven't added a way to print directly from the spreadsheet yet. I do intend to do so, but...
1520
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 3, 2011 5:42 pm
The disconnect between speed and distance has become an intermittent source of annoyance in our games, so I have been trying to come up with a way to put them...
1521
Tim K.
lion_poet
Apr 3, 2011 9:09 pm
... I think my biggest concern with most of them is the table formatting. It's hard to tell at a glance while playing where the bar for a trait reaches say 5...
1522
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 3, 2011 9:15 pm
... I don't have that problem myself, but I made an "accessible" output on the wiki for the visually impaired. Kind regards, Brandon Blackmoor -- ...
1523
abesapiens
Apr 4, 2011 4:23 pm
Looks pretty good to me. John John Powell | john@......
1524
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 4, 2011 6:28 pm
... Thanks. I will say that it kind of bugs me that level 3 and 4 are so close to each other, and that the jump between levels 7 and 8 is so large. I am ...
1525
Brandon Blackmoor
bblackmoor
Apr 4, 2011 7:42 pm
I smoothed out a couple of bumps. Opinions are solicited. http://www.westguard.org/index.php?title=ICONS:House_rules_worksheet Kind regards, Brandon Blackmoor ...
1526
Chris McGuire
ardrikk
Apr 4, 2011 9:21 pm
Still no PDF here and, of course, no hard copy book either. :(...
1527
wee_ree_cat
Apr 5, 2011 9:30 am
I know that may be the dumbest question in the mailing-list yet but... How does the difficulty work ? The corebook says it's a malus on the roll... But I'm so...
1528
Mike Olson
stabbysideways
Apr 5, 2011 10:33 am
Difficulty is a target number. Roll the dice (d6-d6, giving a range of -5 to +5), add Ability + Specialty (if any) + Power (if applicable), and compare that to...
1529
Soylent Green
gsoylent
Apr 5, 2011 10:44 am
Okay, here is a simple example. The Masked Avenger wants to hack into the mobster's email account. The GM determines that the difficulty is '5'. The Masked...
1530
Soylent Green
gsoylent
Apr 5, 2011 11:09 am
PS As a matter of preferrence, I tend to use fairly static difficulty ratings and not to worry too much about the exact difficulty of a test. I tend to stick...
1531
wee_ree_cat
Apr 5, 2011 11:18 am
... Some tests require a minimum amount of effort, called the test's diffculty, which is rated on the scale like other things, from the absolute minimum to...
1532
Mike Olson
stabbysideways
Apr 5, 2011 11:22 am
It just means he beat the difficulty by 2 -- his effort was 4 and the difficulty was 2. Effect is important in combat, or if you want to have a general idea of...
