Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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Watch, and enjoy.
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Air Vehicles: B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber Cessna ATK-208 Combat Caravan Dehaviland Comet Airliner E3 Sentry Eurofighter Typhoon Tranche 3 F-14D Tomcat F-16E Desert Falcon F-22 Raptor MJ-346 Master Advanced Fighter Trainer TBM Avenger Torpedo Bomber Tejas Light Combat Supersonic Fighter Hawker Hurricane IIC Ground Vehicles: 1938 Phantom Corsair Arjun Mk.2 MBT IAI Merkava 4 MBT M1A1 Abrams Australian Variant M2A3 Bradley BUSK variant M-270A MLRS OBRUM Anders Multi-role Combat Vehicle Tiger 1 Revisited V2 Type 87 AADA Vehicle Water Vehicles: Brahmaputra Class Frigate Courageous BC[WW1] Courageous CV[WW2] Gato SS Huo…
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I have read that cyberpunk, in the 1980's and somewhat, the 1990's, was about fighting the man behind the machine. Nowadays, it is supposedly about fighting the machine behind the man. Is any of this true?
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I'm gearing up soldiers in an alternate-history game of mine, but want to avoid conventional weaponry for the sake of flavour. So far, I have the Heckler and Koch G11 as their rifle of choice, but am stumped in terms of sidearm, machine gun, and grenades. I need weapons that are innovative (perhaps better in some ways), but didn't catch on in "our" timeline for whatever reasons.
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What (besides not taking cover ) are some common and easy-to-fix tactical gaffs you've noticed players in modern day to near-future police and/or military campaigns make?
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ok so this is for a pet project. I want make a list of weapons that only cost 10 active points so far i have clubs: Hand-To-Hand Attack +1d6+1, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (10 Active Points) knife : Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 point (1/2d6 w/STR), Armor Piercing (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (9 Active Points) pepper spray: Sight Group Flash 1d6, Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2) (7 Active Points) what else can you come up with
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The ultimate super roleplaying game returns to reclaim its crown in *Champions Complete!* All the legendary flexibility and power of the renowned *HERO System* rules engine, plus all the superhero goodness *Champions* has been famous for over 30 years, now in one pulse-pounding, senses -shattering, heroic handbook of superpowered action! At 240 pages, *Champions Complete* includes everything superhero gamers need, and nothing they don't. New players will love the unmatched freedom of *Champions* that allows them to create and play exactly the hero they imagine. Longtime fans will appreciate the tight, concise new approach, presenting the full game system in a fracti…
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For a "modern day" character (1980 onwards), what kind of background could be fun yet practical that explains their great wealth?
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Chapter 1
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VINCENT [b]Val CHA Cost Roll Notes[/b] 15 STR 5 12- Lift 200.0kg; 3d6 [1] 18 DEX 16 13- OCV: 7/DCV: 6 16 CON 6 12- 18 INT 8 13- PER Roll 13-/15- 16 EGO 6 12- ECV: 3 - 5 20 PRE 10 13- PRE Attack: 4d6 7 OCV 20 6 DCV 15 3 OMCV 0 5 DMCV 6 4 SPD 20 Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 5 PD 3 Total: 5 PD (0 rPD) 4 ED 2 Total: 4 ED (0 rED) 6 REC 2 32 END 3 11 BODY 1 28 STUN 4 [b]Total Characteristic Cost: 127 Movement:[/b] Running: 14m/28m Leaping: 4m/8m Swimming: 4m/8m [b]Cost Powers & Skills[/b] 10 [b]Double Tap:[/b] Autofire (2 shots; +¼) for up to 60 Active Points of RKA, Both Shots Must Be At Same Target (-0); OIF (handguns of opportunity; -½) 30 [b]Ne…
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Just curious and wondering if there is a Hero variation or alternative rule that uses Ego Score or rolls to create a situation like the sanity points in Call of Cthulu type games and genre? I would like to incorporate more of this aspect into a Dark Champions or even a Steampunk game. It would make it much more interesting to throw the curve ball of the supernatural in. Anyone see anything like that?
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Can someone please point out in which book(s) these templates for HERO 5th or 6th Edition are at?
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Using HERO 5th Edition, or HERO 6th Edition, how would you build a boot with a internal concealed blade that can also be quickly deployed?
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From mashable: Certainly a usable plot seed...
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I've been pouring over the old "Widows and Orphans" PDF and The Asylum books. Some pretty good stuff, I have to say. While reading these two, I kept thinking of HP Lovecraft's new England and then my mind jumped to the Qilophic* (can't spell it worth a damn, or remember how to save my life) realm, I know no genre mixing to that scale but still >< Point, point...I do have some questions I keep wondering about Toddbury asylum. Which is mentioned a few times in the Dark Champions books, and it seems kind of like a stand in for Arkham, but I can't seem to find much more info on it besides its brief mentioning (I'm a fairly lazy GM, I know, and I like the me…
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During times past, it was much easier to be a wandering adventurer: there was less (or no) electronic record keeping, borders were not quite as secure, and the climate in general was more flexible for those with no real home. Nowadays? Well, there are certainly more obstacles to contend with. What skills/traits in general would a "modern day" (mid 1980s onwards) character need to make it during their journey?
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Is there any place in any of the books that talks about stats for mid 1800's era smooth bore and rifled cannon stats? I have not be fortunate enough to locate this in any of the books. I see a few promising threads that MIGHT contain something like this but I do not have time at the moment to look though 100+ pages in many of these threads to find any mention of them and am hoping someone can recall a specific thread to narrow down my search. We are trying to figure out what some good stats would be for this weapon: http://civilwarwiki.net/wiki/1.5_inch_Hughes_Breechloading_Cannon
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So just in game terms, what would I have to Skill and Stat the guy in the video to do this, assuming the numbers he gives are accurate? Of course, he is from Kentucky...so there's that.
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So, I haven't been able to come up with anything good for the Creepy Hotel thread. It's not that there isn't creepy stuff out there, just that not everything is creepy in the right way for the Hotel. Fortunately, Karmakaze came through for me... sort of. On Tuesday, she sent me a link to the SCP Foundation wiki, sort of a spiritual successor to SJ Games' Warehouse 23 Basement (since Warehouse 23 itself is their online store, they moved the unsellable boxes to the basement some time ago). It's also something of a forerunner to the Syfy show Warehouse 13 (which isn't bad, as far as Syfy shows go -- it's almost science fiction!) However, of all of those, the guys w…
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First of all this is a great book! Wish I found it years ago. Question: the Super-Skills listed from pages 106 - 150 are very cool - but obviously Dark Champions was written for 5th Edition. Since I am using 6th Editon to run my game does anyone know (or has anyone done any conversion analysis) as to whether these can taken as read (no need to convert them to 6th Edition - ie re-point them out) or should one go through them and figure out the new (if any) point cost for each of them? Am I making too much of a big deal about this? The rest of the book can be taken pretty much as is - use the combat rules for 6th which are very comprehensive and add in mat…
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I got hooked on Hero System because I wanted to play Champions - now that I have been working my way through the rules and expanding my horizons I started to figure out what sort of game I wanted to run. I read through all the Champions books then bought Pulp Hero and then Dark Champions and I have to say WOW Dark Champions is the setting I have been dreaming of. I wanted to run a more Iron Age game with Champions but I wanted to have the PCs be some of the first Super Powered beings to come on to the scene (I did this years ago using TSR's Marvel Superheroes FASERIP system - and it was a success - longest game I ever ran - 3 years). The PCs are either hardwar…
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Especially in a near-future scenario.
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Currently, Dark Champions seems to be revamped (or defined, I guess might be the proper word) as the "action movie style" for Hero which is good enough, except I'm more a fan of Dark Champions as just that, low level supers dealing with more "realistic" but occasionally powered crime such as Daredevil, early Spiderman, Punisher, occasionally Batman without even the "kiddifying" that is done for animated series versions of these characters. Fourth Edition DC seemed to have more information about that style of play while Fifth almost ignores it favor of modern day action. Is there going to be any support for street level supers in upcoming products for Dark Champions?
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I'm trying to figure out Smith and his guns from the movie Last Man Standing and how to build the attacks. The GM wants attacks capped at 70 active points. For the update from the 30's to the present, the guns will still be based on the full frame 1911 Colt. It would have tritium dots (to help reduce penalties from firing in the dark), ambidextrous magazine releases and flat black finish. No laser sights or stuff like that. In the first gunfight, the bullets seem to cause a terrific amount of knockback. The gangster is knocked backwards 5 or 6 meters, out into the middle of the street. In that fight, the bullets go through a pane of glass when Smith shoots …
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Someone know if somewhere exist The character of Johann Krauss made with hero system ? One of my player want to make a character like him . Thank you in advance Steph ps excuse my english not my first language
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