Champions: Good Idea, Bad Idea

[JmOz]

Good Idea: To allow a player to play a character based on Q from the James Bond Movies

Bad Idea: To let a player have a character based on Q from Star Trek:TNG

[Derek Hiemforth]

Good idea: To allow a player to have a character with the same abilities as Green Arrow.

Bad idea: To allow a player to have a character with the same abilities as Green Lantern.

[TechnoViking]

Good Idea: Let a player play a character based on James Bond.

Bad Idea: Let a player play a character based on James Bondage.

Mike

[aylwin13]

Good idea: To allow a player to have a wire-wielding Martial Artist named Cableguy.

Bad idea: To allow a player to have a character based on Jim Carrey's Cable Guy. :rolleyes:

[RevHooligan]

Good idea: to let a player run a character based on Allan Quartemain from King Soloman's Mines.

Bad idea: to let a player run a character based on Allan Quartermain from General Hospital.

[TechnoViking]

Good Idea: Mind Control
Bad Idea: GM Control

Good Idea: Mental Illusions
Bad Idea: Mentel Delusions

Good Idea: STR Drain
Bad Idea: COM Drain

Good Idea: 5 SPD & 50 END
Bad Idea: 12 SPD & 12 END

Good Idea: NND (Defense: Metal Armor)
Bad Idea: NND (Defense: any form of Matter)

(For you Legion fans)
Good Idea: Charater based on Ultra Boy
Bad Idea: Character based on Bouncing Boy

Good Idea: Hunted by Bulldozer 8-
Bad Idea: Hunter by Dr. Destroyer 14-

Good Idea: The Return of Gargoyle
Bad Idea: The Return of Seeker

Good Idea: 15" Flight
Bad Idea: 15" Fall Damage

Mike

[TechnoViking]

Good Idea: UNTIL Superpower Database
Bad Idea: UNTIL Weekly Cafeteria Lunch Menu

Good Idea: The leader of VIPER is really Dr. Destroyer.
Bad Idea: The leader of VIPER is really Corba Commander.

Good Idea: Varable Power Pool
Bad Idea: Varable Disadvantage Pool

Good Idea: Converting the SuperFreinds to Champions.
Bad Idea: Converting Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog to Champions.

Good Idea: Using a 3d6 RKA on Mechanon.
Bad Idea: Using a 3d6 RKA on a Nun.

Good Idea: Bribing the GM with fudge.
Bad Idea: Fudging die rolls

Good Idea: Telling the GM before a game that last weeks adventure was great.
Bad Idea: Telling the GM before a game that the villian from last weeks game was a pussy, and you hope he does not bore you to death tonight.

Fantasy Hero (sorry a little bit off topic):
Good Idea: A scenerio based on "Lord of the Ring", and you get to play Gandalf.
Bad Idea: A scenerio based on "Lord of the Flies", and you get to play Piggy.

Good Idea: Steve Long
Bad Idea: Darre... Just Kidding ;)

Mike

[Citizen Keen]

Good Idea: Playing a HERO Conversion of Robin.
Bad Idea: Playing a HERO Conversion of a robin.

[RevHooligan]

What's wrong with a COM drain? Now you're dissing the main attack of my villian, Fuglinator X.

[TheTemplar]

Good Idea: Kidnapping a PC's elderly mother for a plot hook.
Bad Idea: Kidnapping a Player's elderly mother for a plot hook.


Good Idea: Nazi Supervillains
Bad Idea: Nazi Superheroes

Good Idea: Character whose special ability is talking to Aquatic Animals
Bad Idea: Character whose special ability is talking to prostitutes


-T

[aylwin13]

Good idea: An adventure character based on Jules Verne's Capt. Nemo.

Bad idea: An adventure charcter based on Disney's fish Nemo.

[aylwin13]

Good idea: A katana-wielding ninja villian named Hari-kari.

Bad idea: A baseball game-announcing villian named Harry Caray. (No offense to any Cubs or baseball fans intended.)
;)

[TheTemplar]

Building on Aylwin13's post:

Good Idea: Creating a Superhero based on Captain Nemo
Bad Idea: Creating a Superhero based on Captain EO

Good Idea: Naming your Super-Teams Sea Going vessel "The Nautilus"
Bad Idea: Naming your Super-Teams Sea Going vessel "The Titanic"

Good Idea: A Villain with a Lunar Based Earthquake Ray aimed at the Earth
Bad Idea: A Villain with a Lunar Based Earthquake Ray aimed at the Moon

Good Idea: Armored Powersuits powered by Stabilized Cold Fusion Micro-Reactors
Bad Idea: Armored Powersuits powered by Ray-O-Vac

-T

[rayoman]

you only need half as much d6's in Drain COM to get the same amount of effect than you do for a Drain STR. :rolleyes:



Originally posted by RevHooligan
What's wrong with a COM drain? Now you're dissing the main attack of my villian, Fuglinator X.

[rayoman]

In an urban or Dark Champions campaign I would rather have these in reverse.


Originally posted by TheTemplar
Good Idea: Character whose special ability is talking to Aquatic Animals
Bad Idea: Character whose special ability is talking to prostitutes

[TheTemplar]

Originally posted by rayoman
In an urban or Dark Champions campaign I would rather have these in reverse.

ROFL..fair enough. How about this instead:

Good Idea: Superhero whose special ability is talking to Aquatic Animals
Bad Idea: Superhero whose special ability is talking to members of the opposite sex


Heh...
"Stand back, Ladies! Lieutenant Libido is Comin' Through!"

[TechnoViking]

Good Idea: Hero Designer
Bad Idea: Hero Abacus

[BobGreenwade]

Good idea: letting your hero follow the religious tenets of Hare Krishna.
Bad idea: letting your hero follow the business tenets of Harry Kirshner.

[Trebuchet]

Good Idea: Letting your sister drive a bulldozer.
Bad Idea: Letting your sister date Bulldozer.

[Enforcer84]

Good Idea: Penetrating Killing Attack
Bad Idea: Self Only...

Good Idea: Using lighting and music to enhance a murder mystery adventure.
Bad Idea: Using Murder to enhance a murder mystery adventure.

[yamamura]

Good Idea: Exposing your character to Radiation to gain Super Powers.
Bad Idea: exposing yourself to Radiation to gain super powers.

Good Idea: Gaining a magic Ring that gives you super powers.
Bad Idea: Watching the cursed video from the Ring to get super powers.

G

["V"]

Good idea:
Spending the evening on an intimate date with a foxy babe*.

Bad idea:
Spending the evening on an intimate date with Foxbat.

* as you young 'uns say.

[BobGreenwade]

Good idea: having a DNPC who works for Taco Bell.
Bad idea: having a DNPC who works for Takofanes.

[TechnoViking]

Good Idea: CKC - Conquerors, Killers, And Crooks
Bad Idea: PJP - Preverts, Jaywalkers,and Perjurers

[Tim]

Good Idea: A character wo likes to expose crime.

Bad Idea: A character who likes to expose himself.

[Karma]

Good idea: Having a speedster with DR defined as "Super Dodge"
Bad idea: Relying on it to protect you during your own Move Through.

Bad idea: Being a "Munchkin".
Really bad idea: Being a Smurf.

Good idea: Character based on Flash Gorden
Bad idea: Character based on Flesh Gorden

Good idea: Beating up minions.
Bad idea: Beating up hostages.

Good idea: Saving the DNPC
Bad idea: Saving the villian
(This one actually happened in my game)

[Karma]

Originally posted by Trebuchet
Good Idea: Letting your sister drive a bulldozer.
Bad Idea: Letting your sister date Bulldozer.
Good idea: Letting your sister Pile-drive Bulldozer (if she can).

[Peregrine]

Originally posted by Mike Basinger
Good Idea: CKC - Conquerors, Killers, And Crooks
Bad Idea: PJP - Perverts, Jaywalkers,and Perjurers

I dunno... HERO stats for Bill Clinton might be interesting...

[JmOz]

Originally posted by Tim
Good Idea: A character wo likes to expose crime.

Bad Idea: A character who likes to expose himself.

Actualy had a character with this, the catch was that he was a being made of pure light,, so when he exposed himself it was a No range, AE, PI Flash

[Wormhole]

Originally posted by Peregrine
I dunno... HERO stats for Bill Clinton might be interesting...
ROFLMAO! Thanks, that made my day.:D

Good Idea: Doing an Enraged Haymaker on Grond.
Bad Idea: Doing an Enraged Haymaker on an agent.
Worse Idea: Doing an Enraged Haymaker on a cop.

[BlackSword]

Good idea: Playing a Wolverine clone
Bad Idea: Playing with a wolverine

[TedJMill]

Good idea: Naming your superhero team "The Defenders".
Bad idea: Naming your superhero team "The Offenders".

Good idea: A hero who solves crimes by using his photographic memory and x-ray vision.
Bad idea: A hero who solves crimes by watching pornographic movies and x-rated television.

Good idea: A supervillain named Magnum, because he carries a big gun.
Bad idea: A supervillain named Magnum, because he carries a big bottle of champagne.

Good idea: x-ray vision which is blocked by an inch of lead.
Bad idea: alpha-ray vision which is blocked by an inch of air.

[death tribble]

As someone who was in a campaign with a Wolverine clone it is not a good idea.

Good Idea: Having a hero emulate Batman
Bad Idea: Having a hero emulate Bat-Mite

[Dog Soldier]

Good idea: Violators will be prosecuted

Bad idea: Prosecuters will be violated

[MilkmanDan]

Originally posted by TheTemplar
Good Idea: Character whose special ability is talking to Aquatic Animals
Bad Idea: Character whose special ability is talking to prostitutes
-T
Or, if the villain's modeled after Troy McClure, aquatic animal prostitutes.

[TheEmerged]

Originally posted by Mike Basinger
(For you Legion fans)
Good Idea: Charater based on Ultra Boy
Bad Idea: Character based on Bouncing Boy

Don't mock Bouncing Boy :D One of my player's character began his life as a "how would I convert Bouncing Boy into HERO" project and became an absolute combat monster.

[Peregrine]

Heck, if you're talking the original Legion, I wouldn't mock any of them. Not just because they would defend each other fiercely, but because any one of them was a tremendously experienced hero.

Or, to get back OT:

Good Idea: Contact: Original Legion of SuperHeroes member
Bad Idea: Hunted: Original Legion of SuperHeroes member

[McCoy]

Can't believe I'm about to do this!

OK, let's get it right.

Good Idea: PC based on Legion of Super Heros member.
Bad Idea: PC based on Legion of Substitute Heros member.

[Peregrine]

I don't know about that. The Subs were rejected by the Legion. That's like being sent to a AAA team by a major league baseball team - you're not quite prime-time material, but you're still pretty damn good. (Of course, some of the Subs were pretty pathetic...)

[BobGreenwade]

Originally posted by McCoy
Good Idea: PC based on Legion of Super Heros member.
Bad Idea: PC based on Legion of Substitute Heros member. Worse idea: PC based on Legion of Substitute Heroes Auxiliary member.

[Peregrine]

Originally posted by BobGreenwade
Worse idea: PC based on Legion of Substitute Heroes Auxiliary member.

There you go! :)

[Tim]

Good Idea: PC who is an Archeologist
Bad Idea: Pc who is a Gynocolgyst

[TheTemplar]

Good Idea: Having a Disad: Rivalry w/ another PC
Bad Idea: Having a Disad : Rivalry w/ GM

Good Idea: Building Mighty Mouse in the HERO system
Bad Idea: Buildling Mickey Mouse in the HERO system

Good Idea: Roleplaying Relationships between PC's
Bad Idea: Roleplaying "Relations" between PC's

[TedJMill]

Good idea: describing your female superhero's origin on an island of Amazon women.
Bad idea: describing your male superhero's orgy with an island of Amazon women.

Good idea: Villain attempts to gain power by practicing necromancy.
Bad idea: Villain attempts to gain power by practicing necrophilia.

Good idea: Powers based on teleportation.
Bad idea: Powers based on telemarketing.

Good idea: able to transform into any member of the animal kingdom.
Bad idea: able to transform into any character in the Magic Kingdom.

Good idea: superhuman accuracy with projectile weapons.
Bad idea: superhuman accuracy with projectile vomiting.

[Andrew Dynon]

Good Idea: Enhancing the feel of your Champions game by using Danny Elfman's themes for "Batman", "The Flash" and "Spider-Man".
Bad Idea: Enhancing the feel of your Dark Champions game by using Danny Elfman's theme for "The Simpsons".

And not Hero, but...
Good Idea: Charging into melee combat with a bunch of gun-weilding mooks in Feng Shui.
Bad Idea: Charging into melee combat with a bunch of gun-weilding mooks in Shadowrun.

(I've done it in both systems, so I speak from experience)

[Enforcer84]

Originally posted by Andrew Dynon
Good Idea: Enhancing the feel of your Champions game by using Danny Elfman's themes for "Batman", "The Flash" and "Spider-Man".
Bad Idea: Enhancing the feel of your Dark Champions game by using Danny Elfman's theme for "The Simpsons".

And not Hero, but...
Good Idea: Charging into melee combat with a bunch of gun-weilding mooks in Feng Shui.
Bad Idea: Charging into melee combat with a bunch of gun-weilding mooks in Shadowrun.

(I've done it in both systems, so I speak from experience)

In a related note:

Good Idea: Increasing the excitment by describing your combat actions in dramatic detail.
Bad Idea: "I draw my twohanded sword, scream at the top of my lungs and charge from the <b>Back</b> of the party, swinging in haphazard, sweeping arcs."

- lest you want to be killed by the return fire of your own party...