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- By Rich McGee,
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I've got someone whose primary ability is their invisibility. I'm trying to find a nice emblem for their uniform. Thing is, invisibility doesn't so much lend itself to symbols. I'm still working on the secondary powers, though I think those will likely involve suggestive abilities. (I'm thinking the character plants suggestions by whispering into their ear while invisible). I briefly used a question mark and then decided that was already covered by some notable published supers. I don't have a name yet. I've only asssigned a temporary code name (so I can find the character in Hero Designer again) of Whisper.
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Theme music 1 2
by Konji- 35 replies
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Greetings Heroes! I was wondering. Does anyone use theme music to set the mood of the game? I ran a campaign a year or so ago and to begin the session I played the theme to the X-Men animated series. I pointed to each player and asked for a heroic pose. It got everyone into the mindset of there character. I hope to be playing again soon and was wondering what music (if any) you folks used? It can be anything. I just would like your suggestions. Thanks!
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Just had an idea for our x-champions universe - the people who play the PCs instead playing the "bit characters," the various Followers and NPCs who are part of the extended Justice Squad (the main PC group) "family". Sort of like how you'd see back pages stories with Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane in Superman, or that sort of thing. Anyone else done this? Comments, suggestions? We'd probably have a cast something like: Gere-luce - the eccentric inventor (he puts a self-destruct button on EVERYTHING) who is a menor and old friend to one of the major PC supers Velma - the office assistant/busy-body, a sharp cookie and sort of a Lois Lane type (vaguely), wh…
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...well maybe not, just depends on exactly when the heroes arrive and what happens In theory they could stop anything bad but I don't think that's possible now. I alluded to a seriously major event in Von D-Man's Washington nuke thread. Known scenario - Jean Gray (known as Phoenix already, I liked the name better than Marvel Girl so she's always gone by Phoenix) has just disappeared from Professor X' "New School for the Gifted" - along with Rogue. What makes this more troubling is it occurs so close to the attacks of an android who swears to eliminate all mutant life - he's known as Vision (and yes, modelled after a combo of Vision and Mechanon). Currently the …
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I've been doing some thinking on all the various Supervilain groups and master villains in the OCU. I was wondering how that could all get along? This is what I've come up with: The Warlord is an arms dealer. When Dr. Destroyer, or groups like VIPER, need weapons they come to him and say "I need 30 Omni-Blasters, 10 Mega-Blasters, 20 Mini-Blasters, 10 Energy Swords, 40 suits of MK VI Power Armor, 10 Suits of MK IV Flexi Armor and 10 suits of MK VIII Battle Armor." So now the Warloard has this HUGE order, sever MILLION dollars worth. What does he do? Well, like any good merchant, HE doesn't do anything. His SUPLIER does. Enter ARGENT. ARGENT i…
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Ok, I'm in a bit of a bind. My players have defeated 12 dire wolves (14 feet tall from muzzle to toe) and rendered them deeply unconscious. So, the game wraps up with one of the players calling Animal Control. Now, these creatures have viciously attacked one person (he died before help arrived) and they attacked the party when they encroached on their territory (after one of them told two of the party members to go away and all six of them return suddenly in a tight group). So when Animal Control shows up, what the heck do they do? Option 1: Put down the beasts. The humane way is lethal injection, but these are dire wolves, would using multiple shotgun bla…
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These are some preliminary conversions of the charactesr from Reignofevil.com, a supplment for White Wolf's Aberrant game. This character is taken from White Wolf' Aberrant game. More correctly he is from Reignofevil.com, the supplement detailing the "satanist" Church of Astaroth, a group of demented Nova losers that believe they are incarnate demons. The subject matter in these conversion may be objectionable to some and the book itself is reccomended for mature readers. No challenge to white wolf's copyright is intended. This my first conversion so be gentle, but I welcome feed back. It should be noted that this character is described as "weak" in his…
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Newbies, All 1 2
by Batman- 27 replies
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I was wondering what the general consensus is on Hero's "Learning Curve." I've been lurking around this site for a while, and I've played role playing games before, but I've yet to actually run a Hero systems game [congratulations, I just graduated from D20]. I'm reading and rereading the the Core Book, and I think I have the basic concepts down to run a semi-slipshod adventure or two. But how intuitive is the system? How many adventures did YOU run or play before you felt comfortable with what was going on? The players I would be running with aren't familiar with the Hero system either, but I could always direct them to copies of the Sidekick...any opinions?
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I want to create a robotic henchman who has a sort of "synaptic disruptor" Ego Attack. The robot is just a robot -- no AI, and thus, no EGO. I looked through the automaton rules and they don't appear to address this (is it addressed elsewhere?). So how would a robot without an ECV attack the mind? Any advice? Tnx! Bill.
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Not so much a what would your character do, but whats DOES your character do, specfically for fun? Most of us seem to put alot of thought into our character fighting style, code name, costume, background but what do they do to relax and burn off stress? Whats the guy under the costume like when he lets his hair down?
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Well, I am back to playing after many years away. However, I am a but rusty, especially with combat techniques. In addition, I am running an Energy Projector for the first time (previously I tended to play very high Dex MA types). As such, I would appreciate some advice on effective tactics to use in combat from the great minds on the board. My character's power set (force field creation and manipulation EC) includes flight, force field, force wall, TK and EB with +1/2 variable adv (different shaped force rams). Dex and speed are mid to low for the campaign (23 and 5, respectively). So far I have been fairly standard using FF, Flight and EB or TK to blast …
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Ok here's the poop. I am trying to convert an old brick of mine to 5thED...I just recently learned of all of the Brick tricks in the Ultimate Brick via my GM who owns the book. I unfortunatly do not. I was wondering if anyone has a brick character with a brick trick mp they could post so I can see how it is built.
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Well, they are all painted and the mailing labels are printed out (Finally!) Sorry for the delay, but everything should be in the mail tomorrow, I guess expect it sometime in the next 2 weeks. I'll be sending DelCon numbers to all winners so you can track the packages. As mentioned originally, the prizes are well and truly crap. Well, except for Bill's. As the winner of the first ever contest of this sort here, he gets the much desired GOLDEN FOXBAT!!! Yup, I found a seriously old Foxbat fig and it got a nice 4-5 coats of Incan Gold for Bill. The rest of the winners get Heritage champions miniatures painted in the appropos color (Silver, Bronze, Stone or Clay)…
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Alright, you alternate historians, riddle me this: It's become something of a cliche in superheroic universes that with the rise of McCarthyism, all but a few heroes retire and/or drop out of the public eye in some way. So what happens if McCarthy gets discredited right off the bat, whether from some Senator or patriotic super actually having the balls to say "You're a liar, and this isn't how we do things in this country", or pictures of Tailgunner Joe's (and his staff's) private peccadilloes turning up in the scandal rags, or from him being drunk and slamming his car into a tree or something? What would be the effect on the world, both Normal and Super, if t…
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Comments and Criticism Gladly Accepted.The SunPlayer: NPC Val** Char*** Cost 33** STR 23 23** DEX 39 28** CON 36 18** BODY 16 15** INT 5 15** EGO 10 23** PRE 13 20** COM 5 * 15** PD 8 25** ED 19 5** SPD 17 13** REC 0 160** END 12 50** STUN 1 *6"**RUN02"**SWIM06 1/2"**LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 204Cost** Power END 90** Solar Powers: Multipower, 90-point reserve* 9u** 1) Blinding Beam: Sight Group Flash 18d6 (90 Active Points)* 9 5u** 2) Blinding Flare: Hearing Group Flash 9d6, Area Of Effect (3" Radius; +1) (54 Active Points)* 5 9u** 3) Coherent Light: Energy Blast 12d6, Armor Piercing (+1/2) (90 Active Points)* 9 9u** 4) Fireball: Energy Blast 12d6, Explosion (+1…
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More specifically, Could any ONE member of your superteam at least distract someone like Grond away from innocent bystandards until the rest of your team showed up. I bring up Grond since he is referred to as a baseline often and even was even updated in the Ultimate Brick. For a Very simple and early one shot adventure for a new group of gamers should Any member of the team be able to deal with an encounter with this big guy? The old Spidey vs. Firelord thread got me thinking about this topic. I am not suggesting that they be able to actually win a fight. Just make sure nobody dies at the scene of the encounter. Or, do most GM's here stay aw…
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Bay City is one of my more long lived Champions game and a favorite of mine. Over the years, Bay City has incorporated material from comics, other super rpgs even other game lines such a Werewolf, Vampire and Changelings. Its also featured some of the strangest character I've ever had the pleasure of gming. They're adventures have spanned a few universes all without leaving the confines of Bay City for the most part. I thought I would post a few PCs and NPCs here for the entertainment of the board over the next several days.
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Scott Darkmoon Player: Val Char Cost 10 STR 0 10 DEX 0 10 CON 0 12 BODY 4 10 INT 0 12 EGO 4 20 PRE 10 10 COM 0 4/14 PD 2 4/11 ED 2 2 SPD 0 4 REC 0 40 END 10 40 STUN 18 6" RUN 0 2" SWIM 0 2" LEAP 0 Characteristics Cost: 50 Cost Power END 10 Artisitc Power: Elemental Control, 20-point powers 15 1) Bring Life To The Work: Summon 100-point Drawn Creatures, Difficult To Dispel (x1 Active Points; +1/4), Costs END Only To Activate (+1/4), Expanded Class of Beings Anything Scott Has Drawn (+1/2) (40 Active Points); Increased Endurance Cost (x3 END; -1) 9 10 2) Travel Into The Picture: Extra-Dimension…
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In the spirit of the recent 'Quote of the Week', I've posted a short preamble from our MegaCity [Mysterymen-style] Campaign. One of our players (Night Watchman) couldn't play one week, so the GM planned to handwave him out of the plot. I felt he deserved a bit better treatment... (We open with the team busily renovating their own base - an abandoned Asian restaurant in Parkdale, T.O...) "No, you pebblehead, hold it like this!" Night Watchman grabbed the 4x8 sheet of drywall that Rebar was holding and attempted to yank it from his hands. That left Watchman holding a 2x2 piece of drywall, and Rebar holding two end bits. Which, in a slow-witted attem…
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You read that correct. One of my players wants his cat as a DNPC. I'll allow it only if I can get a list possible ways that cat could come up as a DNPC. So, hit me with them... please.
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Several years ago (I think 2001, but I may be off a year either direction), I went to GenCon and played in a game where Foxbat was the secret mastermind. Afterward, I was talking to the GM and several players, and someone talked about their rewrite of Harmonious Fist. I won't go into detail, but the rewrite was more in harmony with the character's name and, IMO, quite a cool idea. If anybody here is that person, or knows who that person might be, please let me know by email, private message, carrier pigeon, or any other way you prefer. Thanks.
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Hiya Gang, I've been working on some city books for my Champions campaign and I was curious what people look for in a city setting book? Do you usually work on a ton of NPCs (from Joey the Paperboy to Mayor Smith) or do you usually just let them sit in the background? What about maps? Do you map your cities? How about corporations and landmarks?
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A Difficult Power 1 2
by Blue- 44 replies
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A player came up with this concept and I think it's kind of neat so I'm thinking about how to make it work. So far my builds on this have been fairly costly (I don't have them in front of me or I'd post them). So I'm going to give you the effect and you tell me what you'd suggest... ------ The character is essentially a spirit. Each day when they appear to the super-team they show up looking like someone completely different. Basically they appear as the nearest freshly dead body, because they have taken over that vacant husk. But each day the body deteriorates enough that they have to inhabit a new one. Picture the characters getting their morning…
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Okay...barring world peace. What would they want? [Edit: Or Hannukah, or as appropriate]
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Read the text. No title would do it justice.
by Guest WhammeWhamme- 2 replies
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Just a vague concept (ok, not so vague) that I had. Dissect and enjoy! werewolves eat people and transmit by biting. So werevirginism would obviously be transmitted via sex. So, waking up after the greatest night of his life, our hero finds himself in bed with a 57 year old street person, cursed to become gawkish, shy and fmubly each night of the full moon. On the plus side, he's now largely invulnerable, superstrong, and much faster... as all werethings are. actually... werevigins could perhaps turn into beautiful young women on the full moon.... heh. now... what would our hero do with all this? hrm.... -or an incubus, i'm flexible hr…
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