Yet Another Champions Good/Bad

[Cybernaut]

It's time for another Champions Good Idea/Bad Idea...

Good Idea: Having a powered armor suit, whether defined as OIF or OIHID.

Bad Idea: Having no useful abilities outside of the suit.

Worse Idea: Wearing nothing underneath but your skivies the one time the bad guys manage to strip it off you.

[pinecone]

Worse idea...Buying the armor as your character and having a Follower to ride around inside? (only truely bad if GM has good left hook or ready acess to weapons)

[Chuckg]

Good Idea: Taking 'Novice Hero' as a disad for role-playing purposes.

Bad Idea: When you're the team leader.

Worse Idea: And you're taking it at the 'total commitment' level.

[Blue]

Good Idea: Mental Paralysis entangle
Bad Idea: Mental Paralysis Disadvantage

Good Idea: Duplication power
Bad Idea: Having your duplicate as your Hunted.

Good Idea: Breakaway uniforms on attractive heroines
Bad Idea: Breakaway suits of powered armor

[Fireg0lem]

Good idea: Entangle damage shield
Bad idea: Forgetting to put "transparent" on it.

(this actually happened to me).

[Enforcer84]

To take from #1

Good Idea: Having Powered Armor with a cool design bought OIF

Bad Idea: Having Powered ARmor with a big button marked "Eject" on the chest bought OAF

[BobGreenwade]

Good idea: using a car for cover against attacks.
Bad idea: using your car for cover against attacks.
Worse idea: using the Police Chief's car for cover against attacks.

[Cybernaut]

Worst Idea: Daring the bad guys to shoot the gas tank.

[Cybernaut]

Good idea: Offering to help with security at the local PRIMUS office.

Bad idea: Offering to help with security at the local VIPER nest.
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Good idea: Dressing up as your character for a Halloween party.

Bad idea: Dressing up as your character for a job interview.

[Lord Liaden]

Good Idea: Marrying into nobility.

Bad Idea: Marrying the Baronet of South Mallon.

[Wormhole]

Good Idea: Creating a character who got his superpowers by being mutated with gamma radiation.

Bad Idea: Trying to aquire superpowers by the same method in real life.

[Blue]

Good idea: A bottle in front of me (Temporary INT drain)
Bad idea: A frontal lobotomy (Selling back all your INT).

[Pteryx]

Good Idea: Giving your energy projector a Vulnerability to bladed weapons.
Bad Idea: Giving your martial artist a Vulnerability to bladed weapons.

Good Idea: A Major Transform to give your foes 1d6 Unluck, defined as a magical curse.
Bad Idea: Giving this Major Transform a Side Effect of giving you 3d6 Unluck. ("But it falls in line with the Three-Fold Law!")

Good Idea: Pulling a punch against a civilian.
Bad Idea: Pulling a punch against an automaton.

Keep 'em coming. :) -- Pteryx

[Tech]

Good Idea: Buying more INT
Bad Idea: Buying more INT which only affects your opponent.

Good Idea: Buying an Indirect, AE attack, defined as a meteor falling from the sky and striking your enemy.
Bad Idea: Giving it the disadvantage 'No conscious control'.

[Tim]

Originally posted by Pteryx

Good Idea: Pulling a punch against a civilian.
Bad Idea: Pulling a punch against an automaton.



Good Idea: 60 str brick haymakering an automaton.
Bad Idea: 60 str Brick haymakering a civilian

[Glen Sprigg]

Good Idea: Taking a Hunted Disadvantage
Bad Idea: Being Hunted by Dr. Destroyer on 14-

Good Idea: Buying an AE Sleep Gas attack
Bad Idea: Making it No Range without buying Personal Immunity

Good Idea: Buying a Duplication power
Bad Idea: Asking Teleios to clone you

Glen

[Ghost who Walks]

Number 1
Good Idea: Buying a no range explosion, linked to teleportation.

Bad Idea: Exploding, and teleporting straight up.

Worse Idea: Buying tempermental and impatient for the character.

Worst Idea: Riding in an elevator with said character, on the way to a fight.


Number 2
Good Idea: Building a martial artist with gliding, linked to a flying kick maneuver.

Bad Idea: Jumping out the window of a 25 story building, gliding to the ground to deliver a 27d6 attack, to a thug.

Worse Idea: Buying side effects for the gliding, with the result being that you break your leg. You then notice the thug you just brained has 30 friends with tire irons.


Number 3
Good Idea: Wearing clean underwear, before a fight.

Bad Idea: Wearing clean underwear, as part of your costume.

Worse Idea: Claiming that this is instant change to your GM.

[KnightShade]

Good idea: Bringing food for all the players

Bad idea: Bringing food for all the players except the guy that bought life support: does not eat.