Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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So, looking to join a street level DC game elsewhere. 300 points with up to 60 points of complications. Active Points: 50 - 60 with an average of 20 PD/ED Defenses are the guidelines. My concept is some sort of ghost/revenant who got murdered last year and "came back". And she's torqued that the cops and media don't seem to care she's dead or have done anything to solve who killed her and why. She was a burgeoning podcaster before her murder, so I'd like some minor sonic power as a connection (NOT a banshee!). I was looking at things like Sonic Discomfiture and Voice Negation from Champions Powers, maybe also the Kitty Pryde schtick of shorting out electronics. But th…
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In worlds with only super-skills and gadgets and no real superpowers, would a prison in a Dark Champions universe be much different than the real world? Is there any information on Dark Champions prisons other than what is in the Hudson City sourcebook?
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In the comics, the Batman can self-fund his relentless war on crime thanks to Bruce Wayne’s inherited billions. Peter Parker sells pictures of his masked vigilante activities to pay for his crimefighting expenses. On the other end of the spectrum from Bruce Wayne, the Punisher will blow away drug dealers and other lowlifes before walking out with one or more satchel bags full of cash, repeating as necessary whenever he needs to buy more equipment. How does your character fund their war on crime?
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MONSTERS ARE REAL… …AND THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE. Monsters are among us, and they might be standing right next to you. Muggers, Maniacs, and Murderers is a new series developed to expand your Cinematic Action RPG campaign. Pit your PCs against the worst that humanity has to offer. Volume One expands on Hero Games’ Hudson City campaign book and includes several new villains to challenge your PCs. Are you going to let Evil win? Included in this package is a 94-page PDF with 21 new adversaries for your Hero System Campaign, 26 Hero Designer Files for all included Characters and Equipment, Full Color Front Cover, 22 Full Color Counters, and 4 quality PNG Maps suitabl…
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From the February 2024 issue of Scientific American: The world uses enormous quantities of sand, construction to silicon chips. This makes illegal sand mining one of the biggest rackets in the world, far exceeding other forms of illegal mining. Since this is Scientific American, much of the concern is about the resulting environmental damage -- but the big money in sand mining can corrupt governments at every level and fund other unsavory activities. Googling "sand mafia" turns up many other articles for further research. Illegal sand mining might be difficult to work into the usual urban vigilante Dark Champions game, but you might fit it into an internationa…
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Adventurer PCs in fantasy genres are often a bunch of rogues, not very different of criminals. Sure, they have a code of honor, maybe... In present time RPG genres, crime-fighters and crime-doers are the most akin to adventurer types. I mean, a regular office working person has little adventure time, but a gang member or a cop could have more. That said, has anyone played gang members (one of them an undercover cop, of course), a gang war, or a similar adventure thing? If not, but you like the concept... Hudson City has many gangs, Dark Champions is a cool game, but I need some inspiration. Some general idea, something more concrete. May be stories of Maf…
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I was going to make a big post with lots of pictures, but decided that it was a huge pain in the butt to find all that stuff. So I yoinked a couple and I'll put them here, expecting others to do the same. Criteria for this is that the gun is a bit different. Anyone can go and look up the military weapons of various eras that have been in use for some time. I'd like to see some of the different ones, though it doesn't have to be crazy. So, for my entry, I present two iterations of the S&W .500 Magnum X-Frame revolver. One is a full-on snubby, and one is a 4" barreled snubby. This is basically a big bore old-school style round for a revolver that really belong…
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I don't know how many folks out there are familiar with SCP (Secure, Contain, Protect) fandom out there. starting first as creepypasta on Reddit, it has grown into all sorts of activities. Recently they released a near professional fan film called Overlord, and i feel this could be an inspiration for a horror based, or X-Files flavored Dark Champions game. Take a look.
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Never forget what happened one Christmas at Nakatomi Tower...
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Is there any interest in a play-by-post campaign set in Gotham City in the Champions Universe? In this version, Gotham City is in Ocean County, New Jersey, just south of Toms River, New Jersey and is the county seat. Batman will not always be there and Batgirl will, sometimes, be working on her own case. The others that spend time in the Batcave are Alfred and Batman's engineer (and Bruce's handywoman) Bonnie Knight.
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Batman's home town is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Wayne Manor and the Batcave are in the Pittsburgh suburb of Fox Chapel. If run by me, the campaign would be play by post.
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People often dress as superheroes and villains at comic book conventions. Coyote the Trickster gifted a number of people the skills of the characters they were costumed as and watched the fun.
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I'm wondering if Batman and his associates would work well in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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Where would Gotham City be in the Champions Universe? My guess is near Toms River, New Jersey.
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From The Economist (7-22-23), a report on "Iran's Bizarre Contraband": Would you believe ...piano smuggling? https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2023/07/20/how-well-connected-iranians-import-their-goodies Possibly of use in your Danger International/Dark Champions espionage campaign. Not that your heroes are trying to crack an international piano-smuggling ring, but it might be used as cover to smuggle other things. Maybe even a way for the heroes to smuggle *themselves* into Iran. Dean Shomshak
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Freefall (Helena "Helen" Paladino) STR 13 12- Lift 150 kg; 2½d6 HTH damage DEX 14 13- CON 13 12- INT 13 12- PER Roll 12- EGO 11 11- PRE 13 12- PRE Attack: 2½d6 5 OCV 5 DCV 4 OMCV 4 DMCV 4 SPD Phases: 3, 6, 9, 12 5 PD Total: 5 PD (0 rPD) 4 ED Total: 4 ED (0 rED) 5 REC 25 END 10 BODY 22 STUN Characteristics cost: 75 Movement: Running: 14m Swimming: 4m Powers: Gravity Alteration Powers: Vertigo: Suppress DEX, CON, OCV, and DCV 3d6, Expanded Effect (four Characteristics simultaneously; +1½) (50 Active Points); Costs Endurance (-½), No Range (-½). 25 points. Zero G Jumps: Leaping +40m…
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Has this ever been converted to 6e?
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The Lightweight Taurus motorcycle:
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Has anyone made this character in Fred?
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I have to admit, as a GM, I got nothin'. But this is the sort of driving I could see as an escape from a bad situation in Dark CHamp[ions, or Danger International. I don't think the Hero rules for vehicles are all that good. Autoduel CHampions may work better, though?
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I ran across this discussion of how fiber cables can be used for seismic monitoring. Those folks are interested in actual geology, but an adequately sensitive and discriminatory microquake seismic system has long been in my toolbox of super-tech anti-intrusion systems.
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Anyone remeber this and played it? Anything from it you've brought over to Dark Champion's?
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Saw some articles indicating that the US is supplying Switchblade kamikaze drones to Ukraine: AeroVironment Switchblade - Wikipedia The 300 has a warhead equivalent to a 40mm grenade. The 600 has an anti-tank warhead comparable to a Javelin ATGM. So throw those values in, write up a vehicle with the stated speed/range characteristics and guidance systems, maybe up the DCV to represent how difficult it is to intercept, and you've got a HERO System writeup! 😃
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