Champions at War!

[Vondy]

Well, the mages have gone to the frozen north and recruited a barbarian horde they intend to gate into Saddams royal palace when the fighting starts.

They have summoned, bound, and tortured a demon to identify the real Saddam and to ensure they get the right one.

They have also identified his true name: So Damned Insane!

Whoops, wrong genre...

[JohnTaber]

In my newly restarted campaign...for a variety of historical reasons...supers are not really wanted if they are not "controlled" by the government and then they are a "necessary evil". The PC are trying to change things...

I plan to use an impending conflict as a reason for a misunderstood Hero to be called into action. This Hero was imprisoned for getting superpowers by causing Chernobyl. The government has brain washed the guy and plan to use him as a secret weapon...should make for a cool side story as this guy hunts one of the PC...hehehehe...[evil GM snicker]...

[gewing]

Well, with three times the energy of a 120 smoothbore, it might actually be worth 8d6 K AP!

supposedly went in the front of an M-1 IPMI or later and out the back...

Originally posted by Chaosliege
That was a cool video.... But most of our characters are tougher than tanks

[Mutant for Hire]

Originally posted by Chaosliege
That was a cool video.... But most of our characters are tougher than tanks

This brings us to the old Natoman Boards thread of exactly how powerful a modern tank is. The general conclusion was that most people were seriously underestimating the armor of modern tanks.

In general, given trends in recent games, I'm starting to get the feeling that there is going to be the increasing rise of the 50's-60's as a distinct genre to game in. That maybe for sixth or seventh edition Champions you're going to see a Silver Age Champions book in addition to a Golden Age Champions book.

Technology now is starting to catch up slowly with some of the supertech you find in some of the books. Cloning is an example of that. And of course robots and research and design work on exoskeletons (the foundations of powered armor) are also being worked on in the real world. Military weapons are getting nasty enough that giving people innate powers to match these weapons is upping the power scale considerably.

In short, some of the foundations of the Silver Age genre are being undermined here. We're entering a world closer to Cyber HERO now in the real world. And the days when an ordinary supers team could take on the army and do a lot of damage is coming to a close.