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WHAT'S NEW
July 7, 2008
FANTASY HERO
Reorganized the Lethality Options and Arms & Armaments Variant. Improved the organization of the Fantasy Effects application to incorporate Vancian Spells and Powers more effectively; made necessary changes to those two apps as well to make it possible.
March 26, 2008
FANTASY HERO
Added a document on various options for making HERO System combats more lethal.
February 12, 2008
SITE
Upgraded from .NET 2.0 to .NET 3.5
Also, took the opportunity to reorg the main portal page.
January 26, 2008
FANTASY HERO
The FantasyHERO Effect Lists page is up. It provides an interactive interface to go after items (both magic and mundane), exceptional abilities, granted powers, and more. It's definitely in the process of being filled in with content, but there is already a couple of hundred abilities presented. The long term goal is to get all significant abilties presented on the site into the effects database and accessible.
January 19, 2008
FANTASY HERO
Added conversions for the Feats, Totem Spirits, and Varisian Tattoos from the Pathfinder setting.
January 17, 2008
FANTASY HERO
Reorganized the Domain Packages for the Dominine Magic System utilizing the new Effects architecture.
January 13, 2008
FANTASY HERO
Added new Named Spells lookup links to the Vancian Spells page (at the bottom). Now you can easily look up, say, all of Bigby or Tenser's spells.
Also added spell lists for three new Clerical Domains Cold, Weather, and Skill
January 12, 2008
FANTASY HERO
Spent the last two weeks refactoring the architecture behind the overhauled Vancian Spell and Psionic Power lists linked to below. Got them on a unified system now, and all seems to be working. Also implemented some new code to sort spells and powers by level then name by request.
December 29, 2007
FANTASY HERO
I leveraged the development of the new Vancian Spells list to redo the Psionic Powers list as well.
December 22, 2007
MORDHEIM
Updated the old Mordheim content to the new nav style and massively updated the look and feel.
December 19, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Updated PtolusHERO to the new nav style and got it crosslinked with the D&D 3e Conversion nav tree.
Added PathfinderHERO to the D&D 3e Conversion nav tree.
December 17, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Cleaned up the Sortilege spells, and compiled them into a set of HERO Designer prefabs...here.
December 15, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Added the ability to search for spells by keyword to the Vancian Spells page...here.
December 13, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Added around a 100 new Spells submitted by Shadowcat to the Vancian Spells db...here.
December 1, 2007
FANTASY HERO
It's been a long time coming, but I finally rewrote the entire Vancian Spell list content to be fully OOP. I just finished replicating the last of the previously existing functionality, and rolled it out...here. Now that the foundation is firmly laid, additional features will be forthcoming.
November 20, 2007
ALL
The Character List by Genre is ready for general usage, though its far from perfect.
August 12, 2007
METACYBER
Work has been picking up again, so I've had limited hobby time this past month. However, I managed to sneak a few minor updates to the MetaCyber site in before I got too overloaded. I added some inserts here and there with gear write ups, packages, and whatnot. I also revised the Computer Skills pages to split the content into smaller, easier to absorb chunks on separate pages.
The biggest single chunk of new content is the NuBushi Package.
June 22nd, 2007
CHAMPIONS
Well, I've been slacking on keeping the what's new page up to date, but I have been churning some stuff out. For starters I started a new Champions campaign which we are currently calling Champions of the West, for lack of a better name. The site has character bios, character sheets, HERO Designer files, and writes ups of the first three sessions which make for interesting reading.
Champions of the West
Additionally, I've put up two mini sites that are tangential to this campaign, a group of lower powered NPC allies called AEGIS, and a villain group of industrial saboteurs / thieves called The Violators. Between the two there are 10 full character write ups with art, Hero Designer files, and team summaries.
AEGIS
Violators
May 5th, 2007
ENDLESS
Posted up the beginnings of a new site featuring material for the campaign I'm currently playing in, as developed and run by another GM, Podfish. The campaign is called The Endless...check it out.
May 2nd, 2007
WEBSITE
Got the new nav style applied to MetaCyber. Check it out...
April 15th, 2007
WEBSITE
Ugh...been a rough couple of months of long hours and toil. However, I have finally managed to finish a project I began about 4 weeks ago to redo the navigation of the Fantasy HERO site. There's a ton of information that I've built up in that space over many years, and it can be hard to find things in it...when even I found myself searching for stuff, I knew it had to be improved.
Any way, gone are the "HOME" buttons found other places on the site. In their place there are now three, count em, three different nav controls available on pretty much all of the Fantasy HERO content pages. There is a left nav menu, a "bread crumb" trail across the top, and a sneaky little nav menu hanging out at the bottom of each page (mouse over to use).
Hopefully this will prove to be an improvement, and if its successful I'll slowly but surely extend the same treatment to other parts of the site.
Feb 26th, 2007
WEBSITE
I was able to get the provider to point .shtml files at the .NET Isapi, so I was able to write a custom HttpHandler for the site to intercept and correct .shtml addresses to .aspx. This means that all of the old remote links from message boards and other gaming sites will resolve now, but going forward anyone linking in should point to the real .aspx files. Thanks!
Feb 26th, 2007
WEBSITE
You may have noticed some disruption the last few days as I changed web providers.
Everything went pretty well, with only one hitch: the new provider doesnt support SSI / SHTML so I had to rename / relink all the shtml pages to aspx so that the .NET framework knows how to render them. All the internal links should be good  to go, but external links such as from the heroboards and google will not resolve. I'm going to try to make a custom 404 error page to intercept and redirect, but in the meantime, all due apologies.
Feb 24th, 2007
METACYBER
Updated the Amper archetype, after feedback from Checkmate, to allow Ampers to "sell back" their starting resource pools for more Real Points to buy boosts with. This made a lot of sense, and was one of those "why didn't I think of that?" ideas that seems so obvious once its tossed onto the table. Thanks Checkmate!
Feb 6th, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Updated the Adeptology Magic System to the new layout.
Jan 27th, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Updated the Métier Magic System to the new layout.
Jan 19th, 2007
METACYBER
Added a document discussing Computer Related Skills and Hacking to the GM's section.
Jan 12th, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Updated the Troubadourus Magic System to the new layout.
Jan 4th, 2007
FANTASY HERO
Updated the Totemic Shamanism Magic System to the new layout.
Jan 1, 2007
SAN'DORA
Posted a big update to the Nine Arrows campaign, wrapping the entire affair up. In addition, write-ups are up for a host of characters.
Dec 26th, 2006
FANTASY HERO
Updated the Spellweaving Magic System and its variants to the new layout, and added a new society of Spellweavers, the Brotherhood of Stahryc.
Dec 21st, 2006
SAN'DORA
Did a different version of the Race Comparison Illustration to include a (newly rendered) Haelfinan. I also took the opportunity to fill out some information on the Haelfinan.
Dec 18th, 2006
SAN'DORA
A little eye-candy; a Race Comparison Illustration of all the races I currently have artwork for. Ill try to get the Haelfinan and Ullu races represented eventually, as well as some of the more esoteric / minor races. The file is a bit large, so click only if you are patient or have broadband.
Dec 17th, 2006
SAN'DORA
Detailed the Vorshek, the Troll equivalent of San'Dora.
Nov 30th, 2006
FANTASY HERO
Updated the Aeldenaren Magic System to the new layout, plus a new bell or whistle here and there.
Nov 26th, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Added a conversion of Commissar Igor Urnst (Fighter 18), the ruler of Ptolus.
METACYBER
Finally got around to doing a campaign specific custom character sheet export for MetaCyber along the same lines as the ones I did for the San'Dora and Millennial Men campaigns, and re-exported all of the sample characters using it, and added a new character (Ismet).
Nov 24th, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Added a couple more characters to the PTOLUS conversions, a 20th level Cleric of Gaen, and a 9th level Cleric of Lothian.
Nov 22nd, 2006
METACYBER
Added a Cyberpunk Plot Generator to the MetaCyber site.
Nov 20th, 2006
FANTASY HERO
Finally finished revising and reorganizing D&D 3e Clerical Spell Conversions. Prefabs for each Spell Level are provided here.
Nov 9th, 2006
FANTASY HERO
Updated all of the Vancian Magic System documents to the new header oriented, paginated layout. Quite an undertaking!
Nov 5th, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Added a Ptolus subsite.
Nov 4th, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Did a conversion of Lord Durant Khatru, a Fighter 20 and head of a militant noble House from Ptolus, City by the Spire.
Nov 3rd, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Did a conversion of Kargas the Bold, a Barbarian 20 from Ptolus, City by the Spire.
Nov 1st, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Finished Sir Beck.
Oct 31st, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Started a conversion of Sir Beck, a Paladin 12 from Ptolus, City by the Spire. The basic character is modeled, I just need to add his Spells and Magic Items.
Oct 28th, 2006
FANTASY HERO
Added a "Detailed" list to the High Fantasy HERO main page for both the Guidelines and content sections. A radio button allows you to flip back and forth between the Detail view and the traditional simple link list.
Updated ToDo List: High Fantasy HERO Reformat
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Finished converting Kaira Swanwing from Ptolus, City by the Spire.
Oct 25th, 2006
FANTASY HERO -- PTOLUS
Converted a couple of characters from the Ptolus, City by the Spire setting.
Prince Ironhide: This character is a completed conversion of a Fighter 13 with a signature special power (Metal Skin).
Kaira Swanwing: This Rogue 5 \ Wizard 8 character is mostly converted into the HERO System; I just need to convert some of her more esoteric magic items, and add some disadvantages.
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