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Lucius
Apr 6th, '09, 09:20 PM
Designer's Note

Batman is a serious, even grim character. Batmite exists to leaven Batman's world with a little humor and whimsy.

Foxbat, by contrast, is a character often played for laughs. Foxbatmite tries to inject a little gravity and sometimes even a sense of responsibility into Foxbat's world.

Foxbatmite, from the twenty fourth and a half dimension.
Val Char Cost Roll Notes

23 DEX 39 14- OCV: 8/DCV: 8
33 INT 23 16- PER Roll 16-
23 EGO 26 14- ECV: 8
6 SPD 27 Phases: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12


Total Characteristic Cost: 115



Cost Powers END
35 Trasnsimensional Manifestation: Elemental Control, 70-point powers
28 1) Who Watches the Foxbat?: Clairsentience (Sight And Perceive into a related Groups), Increased Arc Of Perception (360 Degrees), Mobile Perception Point (can move up to 12" per Phase), Transmit, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (70 Active Points); Physical Manifestation (-1/4)
28 2) Who Listens to Foxbat?: Clairsentience (Hearing And Perceive into a related Groups), Increased Arc Of Perception (360 Degrees), Mobile Perception Point (can move up to 12" per Phase), Transmit, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (70 Active Points); Physical Manifestation (-1/4)
18 3) Where in the world is Foxbat?: Mind Scan 4d6 (Foxbat class of minds), Transdimensional (Single Dimension; +1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Cumulative (48 points; +3/4), One Way Link (+1) (75 Active Points); Limited Class Of Minds Foxbat (-1), Physical Manifestation (-1/4)
31 4) Special Delivery: Extra-Dimensional Movement (Single Dimension), Position Shift, x2 Increased Weight, Usable As Teleport (+1/4), Transdimensional (Single Dimension; +1/2), Usable As Attack (+1) (82 Active Points); 4 clips of 2 Recoverable Charges (-1/2) [2 rc]
49 5) ExtraDimensionalReach: Telekinesis (15 STR), Affects Porous, Fine Manipulation, 1 Recoverable Continuing Fuel Charge lasting 5 Minutes (+0), Indirect ( +1/4), Transdimensional (Single Dimension; +1/2), Affects Desolidified Any form of Desolidification (+1/2) (96 Active Points); Physical Manifestation (-1/4) [1 rc]
40 6) 2X Hardened on up to 60 Active Points of DEF for Manifestation: Naked Modifier: Hardened (x2; +1/2) for up to 60 Active Points, Usable By Other (+1/4), Indirect ( +1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Transdimensional (Single Dimension; +1/2) (75 Active Points)


300 Clark's Law - The 24th and a half Dimension is Sufficiently Advanced: Variable Power Pool, 200 base + 100 control cost, (300 Active Points)
54 The Zornwill Effect: Healing BODY 3d6, Resurrection, Area Of Effect (One Hex; +1/2), MegaScale (1" = 10 km; +1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Persistent (+1/2) (150 Active Points); IAF Zornwill Device Bulky (-1), Resurrection Only (-1/2), Limited Power Must be plausible reason why person is not "really dead" or machine/object/structure not "really totally destroyed." (-1/4)
Notes: This power allows any character or object within 5 km of the Zornwill Device to miraculously escape death or destruction, provided that any of the players can come up with a plausible explanation. The car you thought was totalled? Just a little body work, replace the windows, and it will run again! Things like "Okay, the character's dead, but his identical twin comes to town to avenge him!" are cheap and cliched, so if allowed at all they should probably only be used once (after all, how many twins can one person have?) "I wasn't brain-dead yet, and the paramedics revived me" works too, maybe more than once, but the more often a rationale is used, the less plausible it will sound. The fact that it will not restore the character to "perfect health" is quite deliberate. In many cases, the character WILL be heavily damaged and need time (or help) to heal up; even in cases where the SFX is something like "That was an imposter; I am the REAL Super Tabby!" the time it would take for the BODy to heal represents the time before the player will be permitted to make such a revelation and resume playing the character
45 You will take me seriously now: +45 PRE
Notes: Sometimes necessary to get Foxbat to listen
39 Summon Plot Exposition: Retrocognitive Clairsentience (Sight Group And Normal Hearing), Tracking, Usable By Other (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Area Of Effect (9" Radius; +1) (137 Active Points); Retrocognition Only (-1), No Conscious Control (Only Effects cannot be controlled; Only to review and explain the plot up to the present point ; -1), Physical Manifestation (-1/4), Visible (-1/4)
50 Foreshadowing: Precognitive Clairsentience (Sight Group And Normal Hearing), Tracking, Usable By Other (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Area Of Effect (9" Radius; +1) (137 Active Points); Precognition Only (-1), Vague and Unclear, only Foreshadows events (-1/2), Visible (-1/4)
20 Summon Plot Complication: Luck 6d6 (30 Active Points); Side Effects (If Luck Fails, roll 6d6 Unluck; -1/2)
33 Imperial Stormtrooper School of Marksmanship: Change Environment 1" radius, -4 OCV, MegaScale (1" = 1 km; +1/4), Personal Immunity (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Transdimensional (Single Dimension; +1/2) (50 Active Points); No Range (-1/2)


Talents
3 Absolute Time Sense
3 Bump Of Direction
20 Universal Translator 16-

Skills
5 Interdimensional Power Skill: Fast Draw 15-
3 Concealment 16-
3 Stealth 14-
3 Shadowing 16-
3 Sleight Of Hand 14-
3 Lockpicking 14-
3 Mimicry 16-
3 Ventriloquism 16-
3 Disguise 16-
3 Tactics 16-
3 Deduction 16-
3 Analyze: Master Plan 16-
2 Navigation (Dimensional) 16-
3 Acting 9-
3 Conversation 9-
3 Persuasion 9-
3 Oratory 9-
24 +3 with all non-combat Skills
10 +2 with PRE based skills
5 Cramming
5 Cramming
3 Scholar
2 1) KS: Foxbat (3 Active Points) 16-
2 2) KS: The Foxbat Dimension (3 Active Points) 16-
2 3) KS: Trickster Mythology and Folklore (3 Active Points) 16-
2 4) KS: Interdimensional Lore (3 Active Points) 16-

Total Powers & Skill Cost: 870
Total Cost: 985

200+ Disadvantages

Total Disadvantage Points: 985

Background/History: A powerful creature from another plane of existence, the being normally known as Foxbatmite has taken an interest in Foxbat. Most observers are puzzled as to why, but Foxbat himself of course takes it for granted that he is the most fascinating character in the Champions Universe.

Personality/Motivation: Wherever it comes from, Foxbatmite obviously regards Foxbat as supremely important, to the point that it consistently refers to “Foxbat's World” or “The Foxbat Dimension” or “The Foxbat Zone” to differentiate the campaign reality from the “Twenty Fourth and a Half Dimension” that Foxbatmite calls home. It seems to regard itself sometimes as Foxbat's disciple and sometimes as his mentor, and alternates between praising Foxbat's insanity as brilliance and excoriating him as stupid or careless.
Although strongly approving of Foxbat's sense of fun, playfulness, and humor, Foxbatmite itself seldom laughs and almost always speaks with great earnestness.

Quote: (About Foxbat): "You mock him, yet the sages of Foxbat's World have said 'If it were not laughed at, it would not be the Way.' He has seen the truth of his world more deeply than anyone - and that knowledge makes him free."
(To Foxbat): "Long the way I have come to help you, Fred. I was a Seeker, but I have found you, O Sacred Clown."
(About Foxbat, while looking the player characters up and down): “Yes, he thinks he lives in a comic book. Have you looked in a mirror lately and thought about what gives him that impression?”

Powers/Tactics: The “real” Foxbatmite is probably permanently inaccessible. What the characters will encounter will be the physical manifestation of the powers Foxbatmite uses to project its consciousness into a three dimensional reality. This manifestation has 20 DEF that is twice Hardened, a BOD of 6, and OCV and DCV of 8. Whether called magic or technology, Foxbatmite also has access to a bewildering variety of Powers from the 24th and a half dimension, often in the form of devices miraculously produced from the Foxbatmite Utility Belt.

Campaign Use: Deus ex Machina to bail Foxbat out when he's in danger, or perversely derail Foxbat's latest "Master Plan" if Foxbatmite disapproves of the direction it's taking.

Appearance: Yoda in a Foxbat costume. This is not the real being of course, but who can describe something that exists in twenty four and a half dimensions? But the projection of this entity's consciousness into "The Foxbat Dimension" resembles a foxbatmuppet.

Adventure Seeds:

Where in the world is Foxbat?
Foxbatmite comes to the characters for help. Foxbat is missing! Normally Foxbatmite can find always find
Foxbat, but not now. Has he left the planet? The dimension? Or have sinister forces captured him, forces that can even block the perceptive powers of Foxbatmite?

Foxbat must not fail!
Foxbatmite uses the Foreshadowing power to reveal a disastrous potential future to the player characters. This is what awaits the world – unless Foxbat's current Master Plan succeeds. Is Foxbatmite, self confessed student of tricks and tricksters, trying to fool the heroes into not interfering? If the extradimensional imp is to be believed, should the heroes play along – or try to stop Foxbat anyway and then try to overcome the foreseen catastrophes?

Foxbat must be stopped!
Foxbatmite confesses to a serious miscalculation. Not only has the 'mite allowed Foxbat to acquire an artifact (“It's hung around his neck, you can't miss it”) that neutralizes Foxbatmite's own Powers (A massive Personal Immunity Naked Advantage, on a Focus, if you want to write it up) but also one that enhances his own abilities over time (“That one looks like a lollipop, if lollipops were made of sunbeams and rainbows.”) Worse yet, the latter is making Foxbat more powerful every day. “That kind of power is not good for him, it will ruin the Master Plan!” Can the heroes stop a Foxbat who is gaining all the powers of twenty four and a half dimensions – before it's too late?


Lucius Alexander

Pandimensional Palindromedary

Split Decision
Apr 6th, '09, 09:40 PM
The greatest ever. Ever. I mean it.

Hyper-Man
Apr 6th, '09, 09:45 PM
omg....
:doi:


Appearance: Yoda in a Foxbat costume.

If he's from "The 24th and a half Dimension" shouldn't he look like Daffy Duck in a Foxbat costume instead?
:eek:

HM

BNakagawa
Apr 6th, '09, 10:24 PM
Ugh.

No offense, but this reminds me a lot of something that turned up in an otherwise serious Champions campaign and pretty much did its level best to spoil it.

Broken build, (at that time) campaign max Dex/Spd, max defenses (when you stopped to count the 50%/50% damage reduction) life support to pretty much everything, special defenses and an uncountable number of ways to hit people with 60 active points.

Greywind
Apr 6th, '09, 10:29 PM
Reflecting a character that in order to deal with effectively one does not head into combat with...

bubba smith
Apr 7th, '09, 12:58 AM
not yoda a mini me of foxbat

DusterBoy
Apr 7th, '09, 01:55 AM
ROTFLMAO! :rofl::lol: :D

That sting you felt was me hitting you with the rep stick.

Korvar
Apr 7th, '09, 02:25 AM
I, alas, cannot rep. I am sad.

OddHat
Apr 7th, '09, 02:47 AM
As agreed, Foxbatmite Repped.

Well done. :)

Lucius
Apr 7th, '09, 03:56 AM
Ugh.

No offense, but this reminds me a lot of something that turned up in an otherwise serious Champions campaign and pretty much did its level best to spoil it.

Broken build, (at that time) campaign max Dex/Spd, max defenses (when you stopped to count the 50%/50% damage reduction) life support to pretty much everything, special defenses and an uncountable number of ways to hit people with 60 active points.

It's also built on about a thousand points.

This thing isn't a villain, it's a walking, talking plot device that happens to be statted out.

Except Disadvantages. I had everything else done before I even began to imagine what would be appropriate Disadvantages. One might be "Subject to laws of home realm." Then if anyone asks why it doesn't do this, that, or the other thing to help the Master Plan, it can reply that "it is forbidden."

Foxbatmite could presumably hit people with 60 pt attacks all day, but isn't likely to want to.

Lucius Alexander

Conspicuous by its absence

brionl
Apr 7th, '09, 10:54 AM
Isn't it 24th and a halfth century? err, dimension?
:thumbup:

The Arc
Apr 7th, '09, 02:46 PM
Sounds like Larry from the Teen Titan show.

Lucius
Apr 7th, '09, 02:48 PM
This is on its way to becoming the single most reputized post I have ever made.

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary suggests I thank the guys who inspired it.

Egyptoid
Apr 7th, '09, 04:54 PM
Fox-Bat-Mite ?

OddHat
Apr 7th, '09, 06:18 PM
Fox-Bat-Mite ?

Totally repped.

Narratio
Apr 7th, '09, 06:53 PM
Lucius, I take it back. Very nice bit of work.
Now get out and get a life.
.
And take Egyptoid with you!

Basil
Apr 7th, '09, 07:22 PM
That's one of the most flipped-out things I ever saw :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:


Even Dr. Infamous is impressed. The Bacandforthtrian isn't. But he's like that, so pay him no mind.

Dr. Infamous and he Bacandforthtrian yadda yadda yadda.

Nagisawa Takumi
Apr 7th, '09, 08:05 PM
I wish I could rep, but have to spread some 'round.

You know how it goes.

bubba smith
Apr 8th, '09, 12:51 AM
and deservedly so

Lucius
Apr 8th, '09, 03:32 AM
Fox-Bat-Mite ?

I think that's a perfect portrait. Did you make that yourself? And may I use it as the character portrait?


I have an embarrassing question. Which book has the most recent version of Foxbat in it, anyway? I'm starting to think I need to run out and get it.

Lucius Alexander

Digging around in the palindromedary's saddlebag...surely I have SOME money....

JmOz
Apr 8th, '09, 05:44 AM
This is on its way to becoming the single most reputized post I have ever made.

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary suggests I thank the guys who inspired it.

I can appreciate it, my Bat Gear post is insane...

teh bunneh
Apr 8th, '09, 07:44 AM
Reflecting a character that in order to deal with effectively one does not head into combat with...

Eh, he's easy to defeat. You just have to trick him into saying "Etimtabxof". ;)

Lord Liaden
Apr 8th, '09, 09:15 AM
I have an embarrassing question. Which book has the most recent version of Foxbat in it, anyway? I'm starting to think I need to run out and get it.

Latest Foxbat stats are in Conquerors, Killers, And Crooks. And if you're a Champsfile and don't have that one yet, you should be embarrassed. :p

OTOH if you use the website store right now you'll only have to cough up $18.74 for it. :)

bigbywolfe
Apr 8th, '09, 09:49 AM
I hated Batmite. Always did, even as a kid. That being said, this write-up is brilliant. I would never use it, but it's brilliant.

bubba smith
Apr 8th, '09, 09:51 AM
Eh, he's easy to defeat. You just have to trick him into saying "Etimtabxof". ;)
no thats mr. myxlptlk you're thinking of

DocMan
Apr 8th, '09, 02:13 PM
So very repped. I just love the names he gave to all the powers.

Doc

Lucius
Apr 8th, '09, 02:30 PM
So very repped. I just love the names he gave to all the powers.

Doc

And after all this time I finally used the Zornwill Effect.

How did Batman usually get rid of Batmite anyway?

Lucius Alexander

I can get rid of a palindromedary by threatening it with a crab cannon.

OddHat
Apr 8th, '09, 04:51 PM
And after all this time I finally used the Zornwill Effect.

How did Batman usually get rid of Batmite anyway?

Lucius Alexander

I can get rid of a palindromedary by threatening it with a crab cannon.

Batmite was a fan of Batman; he was usually trying to help, or trying to show people what a great hero Batman was. He left when Batman got angry.

BNakagawa
Apr 8th, '09, 05:17 PM
It's also built on about a thousand points.

This thing isn't a villain, it's a walking, talking plot device that happens to be statted out.

Except Disadvantages. I had everything else done before I even began to imagine what would be appropriate Disadvantages. One might be "Subject to laws of home realm." Then if anyone asks why it doesn't do this, that, or the other thing to help the Master Plan, it can reply that "it is forbidden."

Foxbatmite could presumably hit people with 60 pt attacks all day, but isn't likely to want to.

Lucius Alexander

Conspicuous by its absence

That may have been your intention, but the thread has it tagged as a character, not a walking plot device.

Egyptoid
Apr 8th, '09, 05:59 PM
of course you can use it.

I made it from the CH*** generator in another thread.

adjective has been edited to avoid offending the sensitive
==

Narratio
Apr 8th, '09, 06:48 PM
I thought you were out frolicing & gamboling in the sun with Lucius?
Ixnay on the Ch**** already.

Korvar
Apr 9th, '09, 01:25 AM
That may have been your intention, but the thread has it tagged as a character, not a walking plot device.

I don't think there is a "Walking Plot Device" option for threads...

Anyway, remember the PC mantra: If it has stats, we can kill it.

palaskar
Apr 9th, '09, 06:12 AM
As I said in my rep post, this is the Thing That Should Not Be Done.

Does it freak anyone else out how much Foxbatmite is like Ozymandias?

Lucius
Apr 9th, '09, 04:24 PM
As I said in my rep post, this is the Thing That Should Not Be Done.

Does it freak anyone else out how much Foxbatmite is like Ozymandias?

I meant him to be a solemn and even dry counterpart to Foxbat, but I didn't visualize him with "frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command."

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary suspects that a different Ozymandias is meant.

Lucius
Apr 9th, '09, 04:31 PM
Batmite was a fan of Batman; he was usually trying to help, or trying to show people what a great hero Batman was. He left when Batman got angry.

I imagine Foxbatmite will disappear if Foxbat comes to rely on it too much.

"What do you mean, the Master Plan requires me to turn all the gold in Fort Knox into lead? You must rely on your own wits and resources. You don't need me. You are The Foxbat!"
*POOF*

Lucius Alexander

My Master Plan calls for a palindromedary

MrBlu
Apr 9th, '09, 06:50 PM
Here's a pic:

http://mysite.verizon.net/blufam/Foxbatmite2.jpg

Lucius
Apr 9th, '09, 07:04 PM
I love the caption.

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary tries to ignore the laws of Lucius Alexander but is less successful

bubba smith
Apr 10th, '09, 12:57 AM
Here's a pic:

http://mysite.verizon.net/blufam/Foxbatmite2.jpgthis is FOXBATMITE

Lucius
Apr 10th, '09, 03:50 AM
I can see Foxbatmite in an almost Jiminy Cricket role, as Foxbat's conscience.

"But Foxbat, if that stage of the plan goes wrong, people could die! What are you, turning into the Joker or something?"

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary still thinks the best Foxbat dialogue was when Foxbat got mixed up with DEMON.
Foxbat: You were right. These people are crazy.
Rose: And you're not?
Foxbat: Not the same way.

palaskar
Apr 11th, '09, 08:01 AM
Lucius Alexander wrote:


I meant him to be a solemn and even dry counterpart to Foxbat, but I didn't visualize him with "frown, and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command."

I meant like Watchmen's Ozymandias, who seemed to be prepared for everything. (Thus the "walking plot device" analogy.)

Sorry for not making that clear.

Lucius
Apr 11th, '09, 08:41 AM
Lucius Alexander wrote:



I meant like Watchmen's Ozymandias, who seemed to be prepared for everything. (Thus the "walking plot device" analogy.)

Sorry for not making that clear.

I haven't read The Watchmen, although I probably should.

I have read Shelleys' famous poem about an Ozymandias who said

"My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!"

Lucius Alexander

Look on my palindromedary, ye foxbatmitey, and kiss the poetic meter goodbye.

Lucius
Apr 11th, '09, 08:50 AM
Okay, for some reason Narratio thinks having done Foxbatmite means I should do Aunt May.

I owe him one, so here goes.

May Parker
Val Char Cost Roll Notes
5 STR -5 10- Lift 50.0kg; 1d6 [1]
11 DEX 3 11- OCV: 4/DCV: 4
8 CON -4 11-
5 BODY -10 10-
8 INT -2 11- PER Roll 11-
8 EGO -4 11- ECV: 3
5 PRE -5 10- PRE Attack: 1d6
6 COM -2 10-

2/21 PD 1 Total: 2/21 PD (0/9 rPD)
2/21 ED 0 Total: 2/21 ED (0/9 rED)
2 SPD 0 Phases: 6, 12
3 REC 0
16 END 0
12 STUN 0 Total Characteristic Cost: -32

Movement:
Running: 5"/10"
Swimming: 1"/2"

Cost Powers END
30 Luck 6d6
12 Miraculously survives: (Total: 24 Active Cost, 12 Real Cost) +10 PD, Hardened (+1/4) (12 Active Points); Limited Power Only stops BODy, not STUN (-1) (Real Cost: 6) plus +10 ED, Hardened (+1/4) (12 Active Points); Limited Power Only stops BODy, not STUN (-1) (Real Cost: 6)
18 Miraculously survives: Combat Luck (9 PD/9 ED)

Skills
3 Housewife of All Chores
1 1) Have some cookies: PS: Baking (2 Active Points) 11-
1 2) PS: Gardening (2 Active Points) 11-
1 3) My husband was fond of rice: PS: Cooking (2 Active Points) 11-
1 4) PS: Housekeeping (2 Active Points) 11-
3 Scholar (Been around a while, and remembers some of it)
1 1) KS: Daytime Television (2 Active Points) 11-
1 2) KS: Geography of Brooklyn (2 Active Points) 11-
1 3) KS: History of the 20th century (2 Active Points) 11-
1 4) KS: Stories in the Daily Bugle (2 Active Points) 11-
3 Conveniently Overlooked, sometimes: Concealment 11-
3 Conveniently Overlooked, sometimes: Stealth 11-
3 I'm a harmless old lady, you don't want to hurt me, do you?: Seduction 10-
3 Does the shopping: Trading 10-
3 Has worked in an office: Bureaucratics 10-
3 Nag, nag, nag: Oratory 10-
10 Much Missed: +2 with DCV

Total Powers & Skill Cost: 102
Total Cost: 70

-50+ Disadvantages
0 Normal Characteristic Maxima
10 Age: 60+
15 Hunted: Spider Man's rogue's gallery 8- (Mo Pow, Capture)
15 Psychological Limitation: Mental Block - Cannot put two and two together to guess nephew's identity. (Common, Strong)
10 Psychological Limitation: Protective of nephew (Common, Moderate)
10 Physical Limitation: Getting senile and forgetful (Frequently, Slightly Impairing)
15 Physical Limitation: Weak heart (Frequently, Greatly Impairing)
10 Susceptibility: Old bones, extra damage from falling/being thrown 1d6 damage Instant (Uncommon; Including BOD damage)
30 Susceptibility: Upon learning that her nephew is really Spider Man 3d6 damage Instant (Uncommon; Includes BODy damage)
5 Unluck: 1d6

Total Disadvantage Points: 70

Background/History: Aunt May is Spider Man's frail old aunt, and the major reason for maintaining a secret ID. If she ever found out that her poor frail nephew is really Spider Man, the shock could kill her.

Personality/Motivation: A sweet if somewhat naive old lady who took in young Peter Parker for her husband's sake. Although her nephew is an adult she still tries to "mother" him.

Quote: "Your uncle was a man of great faith, but seldom preached. Except when I served rice. I don't believe a grain of rice has a soul to save, but it's like he wanted to convert it anyway...."

Powers/Tactics: I've included an unconventional use of the skill "Seduction" in the write up. This represents her ability to talk even the worst of villains into seeing her as not worth harming or killing. It helps that she's right, she really IS a harmless old lady. Luck, Combat Luck, and the Combat-Luck-Like "Miraculously Survives" power are there to improve her survivability in ridiculously dangerous situations, as is the otherwise incongruous DEX of 11 and DCV levels. Note that if she ever learns her nephew's secret identity, she will probably take about 4 BOD damage right away (3 from shock to the heart, and 1 from the fall when she faints) and a bad roll really COULD mortally wound her.

Campaign Use: Could be easily adapted to be someone's DNPC, especially an elderly one.


Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary thinks she needs her own thread. NOW it tells me.

Enforcer84
Apr 11th, '09, 11:58 AM
I totally need to rep you for this at some point. *wanders off to recharge rep stick*

Lucius
Apr 12th, '09, 07:05 AM
This is on its way to becoming the single most reputized post I have ever made.


It is also being praised as highly as anything I've ever done


My clumsy aptitude for language does not permit me to convey how amazed and pleased I am with Foxbatmite. Truly a stroke of supergenius, even for you.

Thank you, by the way....I really get a boost from the "even for you.":)

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but I want to get specific.

Foxbatmite was reputized 22 times in a row before the streak was broken and something else of mine got reputized. Not only is that a record for me, as far as I know it could be a record for the Hero Games board!

What makes a character whose visible manifestation is the size of a muppet stand head and shoulders above, not only everything else I've ever posted, but apparently all the stunning examples of brilliance and creativity on display here at Hero Games? (And do you have any idea how heady it is to feel like I stand out, even for a moment, in company such as this...)

What makes a supporting character (if an absurdly powerful one) whose role in the game universe is totally defined in terms of a relationship to a character that has been described as "the sideshow of the Champions Universe" the focus of so much enthusiasm?

Is it something in the mechanical build? The "twist" I tried to give the character concept? Something clever in the flavor text? The eccentricity and sheer effrontery of taking on such an unexpected, "throwaway" character concept at all?

I want to know what I'm doing right!!!

Lucius Alexander

Inquiring palindromedaries want to know: Does anyone see a use for this character (with name and serial number filed off) in a game with no Foxbat?

Greywind
Apr 12th, '09, 07:27 AM
I want to know what I'm doing right!!!Well, the $50 your camel slipped me didn't hurt any...

Narratio
Apr 12th, '09, 07:00 PM
It's all in the characterisation, not the points.

And that's a GREAT Aunt May. It's not an Ultimate Aunt May, but it's fine! Now put it in it's own thread.

OSAT
Apr 14th, '09, 04:10 AM
What makes a character whose visible manifestation is the size of a muppet stand head and shoulders above, not only everything else I've ever posted, but apparently all the stunning examples of brilliance and creativity on display here at Hero Games? (And do you have any idea how heady it is to feel like I stand out, even for a moment, in company such as this...)

What makes a supporting character (if an absurdly powerful one) whose role in the game universe is totally defined in terms of a relationship to a character that has been described as "the sideshow of the Champions Universe" the focus of so much enthusiasm?


1) Foxbat is loved everywhere (except shaboigin)
2) The only problem people have with him is that he's soo goofy the mite is like a shot of serious that fixes the problem
3) who doesn't like muppets?

Greywind
Apr 14th, '09, 03:10 PM
Cheboygan?

Log-Man
Apr 14th, '09, 04:23 PM
It's all in the characterisation, not the points.

And that's a GREAT Aunt May. It's not an Ultimate Aunt May, but it's fine! Now put it in it's own thread.
Let me guess, Ultimate Aunt May used to kill for the CIA.

Lucius
Apr 14th, '09, 04:39 PM
3) who doesn't like muppets?

Hm, and two different people were inspired to draw the character and post their art.

Did I hit on an exceptionally evocative physical description?

Lucius Alexander

The palindromedary is supposed to be sitting for a portrait....actually, probably standing for a portrait....

Lord Liaden
Apr 14th, '09, 05:57 PM
What is great about Foxbatmite, is that it takes a silly but beloved comic book cliche and turns it completely on its head, in a way that looks blindingly obvious in hindsight... like all true strokes of genius. :)

Lucius
Apr 14th, '09, 06:07 PM
What is great about Foxbatmite, is that it takes a silly but beloved comic book cliche and turns it completely on its head, in a way that looks blindingly obvious in hindsight... like all true strokes of genius. :)

We have Mr. Blue to thank for that.

Lucius Alexander

Standing a palindromedary on its heads

Lord Liaden
Apr 14th, '09, 09:30 PM
We have Mr. Blue to thank for that.

Lucius Alexander

Standing a palindromedary on its heads

Perhaps... but there's a whole world between inspiration and execution. And your palindromedary trekked across the sands of that world. :king: