Talk:Hero System

message: Don't know how to flag things, but this article contains many statements that don't belong in an encyclopedia. Check this out: "HERO System products and players are notorious for the ingenuity and complexity of their power constructions" It sounds like a fan website. I've never tried editing Wikipedia before so I don't know how to flag things, so I'll try deleting some of the more ridiculous statements and let people who know what they are doing fix things up.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.67.161.66 (talk) 08:12, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: "It was one of the first systems to forego the use of polyhedral dice."
I know what the author of this is trying to say (too tired to rewrite it tonight), but, last time I checked, the cube was considered to be a polyhedron.  Several RPG's have foregone the use of polyhedral dice; electing to use decks of cards, coin flips, drawing chits from bags (dating myself) etc...  Perhaps, "It was one of the first systems to forego the use of polyhedral dice, other then the common six-sided variety."?
I am relatively new to Wikipedia, but wouldn't a discussion of the body/stun combat mechanic be on-topic, as it was a relatively new concept at the time of the games creation and a significant deviation for hit-points.  Star Wars d20 appears to have adopted a similar mechanic in the use of its Wound/Vitality points.
Another, relatively uncommon element of the Hero System is the use of the Speed Chart for initiative. 66.125.96.134 08:12, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prejudism against the common d6 

message: The math section currently states that logarithmic functions are used in some optional situations?  What are they? I don't remember ever coming accross them in my years of play... ZPS102 15:28, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Math Section 

message: For some unknown reason, my attempt to find the article under "HERO System" didn't result in finding this article. Therefore I mistakenly thought there was no article and wrote one from scratch. A merger is obviously called for. --Michael Hopcroft 02:55, 30 November 2005 (PST)
Merging as requested. For a while, I thought HERO System would be the better title, since that's what Hero Games uses but then noticed that nothing links there, while a dozen or more pages link to Hero System, so will try to merge here. GRuban 19:06, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: Publication dates of 1st and 5th ed. are according to RPG Encyclopedia —TowerDragon 07:27, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication dates 

message: Can someone who owns the book add the dimensions and weight of the 5th edition book to the article? The fact that it's 374 pages just doesn't convey it's hugeness to the audience. 24.252.10.228 21:39, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bulletproofness 

message: I've attempted to merge the "Trivia" items into the rest of the article, per Wikipedia:Avoid trivia sections in articles and Wikipedia:Handling trivia#Practical steps. Some notes:
# I delinkified the software names "Heromaker" and "Hero Designer" to reduce the number of redlinks.
# I took out the abbreviation "reFrED" for Revised Fifth Edition because it seems wrong to me — I'd expect "reFREd" instead.
# Could someone please check the last 2 paragraphs of Hero System#Publishing history carefully. I haven't watch the bookshooting video (due to limited bandwidth), and I'm not completely sure I got everything right.
Cheers, CWC 06:08, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  May 2007 

message: Wikinoob here.. I normally don't touch anything, but I noticed that the linky thing wasn't directing properly and fixed it.
--125.236.157.166 (talk) 21:01, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maths issues = Mathematics issues 

message: The article states: "The HERO System itself was not released as an independent entity until 1989, as GURPS (Generic Universal Roleplaying System) became more popular. ". That's the first and only time GURPS is mentioned. As a player of Hero and GURPS I know that the system seem very similar, but this single sentence hardly explains why. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  19:52, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to GURPS 

message: I have notice two thing I think should be changed
:1. The picture used is of the 5th edition book, and so is outdated (a 6th edition book is out and well established)
:2. The "Genre(s)" section define the game as "Superhero fiction", it should be either "Generic" or "Universal" (I'm changing to the later to be consistent with GURP another game system that is multi genre system)
--Nightseeder (talk) 23:16, 12 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: change both issues (above) to reflect the new edition (6th) --Nightseeder (talk) 19:51, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The info Box