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From time to time I'll post small bits here. Mostly to keep psyber624 from drooling all over the board. Some of these may not be used. Some already have a place in the grand scheme of things.
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Inspirational stuff hopefully
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A spin-off from the Create a Villain Theme Team thread. These heroes can be potential (not-so) friendly rivals to your PCs or just flavor characters for other parts of your game world (if your heroes are in New York and they need to hit Los Angeles or France or Japan for a case). Perhaps these heroes only focus on a particular fringe element like animal rights, space travel or protecting Delaware. Maybe they're Rust Age to your PCs Four-Color or vice versa. They could be altruistic or mercenary. Team Name: Number: Theme/Motive: Remember! Once you post the last hero of a team, you then come up with the next concept! ***** Team Name: The Even-Odds…
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This is my first time playing champions and I've got a concept for my character but I'm having a hard time figuring out the best way to go about building them. The concept for my character is based off the Guardian from the games Destiny 1 and 2 specifically trying to mix all the classes like you can in the lore. I am working with a 400 point build in 6th edition and the only thing I really know I can do so far is the Titans barricade. Any help and/or guidance would be greatly appreciated.
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I found an old paper while cleaning my room that has a list of ideas for Champions campaigns of various types and power levels.I figured I would post them here to offer some inspiration for GMs looking to start up a campaign: Part of a government or state official super team collected to fight crime and terrorism Each character is a child of an extradimensional being who has sown his oats widely - characters probably don't even know they were related. Dying alien distributes part of their power amongst all people gathered nearby to help fight his evil family. Low powered game, possibly no other super types in the world Characters all awaken…
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Perhaps my inquiry is based on faulty assumptions but read me out. If Orchardsville is in any way based on real-world Orchard Lake (which is about the right direction and distance from Detroit) then, unless you count the chain stores along the main street, there’s bugger-all to do unless villains hide bases there rather than any other bedroom community. “But the action’s in Millennium City” you say. True, it’s a relatively short (~16 mi/~25.7 km, if the distances are about the same) drive, but can your turbo teen get to the scene of the crime fast enough? And what’s the range of your teen teleporter? To say nothing of weekdays and curfew. Or is it assumed…
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I’m normally more specific with my topic titles but I’ve a few odd questions that don’t fit a higher theme, and may have more as I think of them. Also, the questions assume knowledge of the source material, particularly the 4e supplement Watchers of the Dragon. Here’re my questions, with no further adieu: • According to the rules no high-tech is allowed in the tournament. But what about everything else that isn’t martial arts? No reason was given that I remember for other superpowers being disallowed, save for implied tradition. • Related to the above, what if the fighter only uses martial arts, but they’ve been genetically enhanced? (Teleios …
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This thread is a think of what would be in the third book of Templates. Christoph has voiced a desire to do one of DC Comics proxies. Here is my list of characters most likely to be included and whyish. The Big Three Basically it would be fully to do a book of DC Comics proxies without Flying Mammal Man (Batman), the Man of the Future (Superman), nor the Woman of Wonder (Wonder Woman). Because they are the big names, they should exist in the two cost range of all the big characters of the books. Also I expect that they will have some of the support characters in the book. Bird Boy (Robin), Clownman (Joker), Science Buisnessman (Lex Luthor), Al…
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OK as I get a first draft down to sections of this I'm going to post them as pdfs here for people to look over and comment on. My goals are these: To create a package that has a book for GMs and a book for Players For each book to be fun, easy to read, and teach the system The scenario is in tutorial format (familiar to gamers) introducing concepts one bloc at a time, until they know enough to play the game without the tutorial I'm using the old Viper's Nest/Microfilm Madness scenario updated for modern times (so, no microfilm) Each chapter has an intro to the rules used in this section, then the episode of the scenario Play…
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I think there's a fair amount of interest in seeing old, out-of-print Champions adventures being re-released in 6th edition with some new art, updating to modern day, etc. These are from adventures that I own, there are others which people might want to see rebooted. I don't want to redo To Serve and Protect personally, I think that should be done by Scott Heine.
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I have not played Champions in years(the mid 90's) and really only made one character, now my nearly 17 yo son wants to run a game. For this game I am trying to make a Colossus type Champions character that his alter ego activates on a 13- character roll as he is new to his powers, that I will eventually buy off with XP as we progress. My question is would I place all his powers under a Multipower frame work with fixed costs for each power? Not sure what to do as his powers are an all or nothing kind of thing so having each power have the roll does not really work. What I am looking at is the following powers that Require roll to activate: 13- (-1/4):, OIAID (-1/4): …
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Nitro Thruster Accelerate Dash Blitz Turbo Bullet Jet And my personal favorite: Rush
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(Inspired by the Villain Theme Team thread) Just for fun, I thought we might collectively create a few villain theme teams. All of the members have to match the theme, whether in name, powers, or appearance. A bit of obscurity (as in Blue Raja from the Mystery Men movie) is acceptable as long as the poster explains how the character actually relates to the team's theme. Descriptions of each character (appearance, personality, powers, etc.) can be as brief or as detailed as the poster wishes. Full writeups aren't necessary. Here's the guidelines: Someone provides a theme and a number of members, and then posters that follow can provide a character or two…
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PLEASE NOTE: This topic isn't whether you support vaccination, masks, etc. Its just about how the current environment is affecting your HERO gaming. Please refrain from such conversations pro or con. My game kind of fizzled as one of the core players moved back to the east coast and kind of isolated himself for various reasons (not all reasons due to the pandemic).
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This week's award goes to Chris, for: "In my experience, Neanderthals *always* attack aliens." This replaces the previous title-holder, from Jason: "I made my INT roll, and I've decided to do it anyway." dw
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I am running a super hero game using Hero 5th Edition Revised and one of my players wanted to buy combat sense after earning some XP. On page 88 it breaks down the power in the main body of the explanation - 15 points to buy for 9+(INT/5) roll and +1 to the roll for 1 point. It also says you can spend +2 points to make it a sense and get rid of the 1/2 phase action to track opponent. Okay, that is all good and understandable. Then, at the bottom, in the smaller, bulleted breakdown it has the 15 points to buy for 9+(INT/5) roll and +1 for 1 point but does not have the +2 to make it a sense. It DOES however add "Detect target in HTH combat [5 ch…
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Multi-attack lets you do this but the downsides of using it can mean that if you use more than one attack, your OCV goes down by 2 for every attack after the first. There's no way to negate that as far as I know besides having a huge OCV to counter the penalty. The reason I'm asking is because I'd like to make a character based off the TK powers Grifter has shown here, firing off multiple guns at the same time. So, is there a way to fire off multiple attacks at the same time without my OCV taking a massive dump?
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How would you describe your last major story arc in your Champions campaigns? Rules: Minimum of 100 characters. That's about 20 5 letters words. So "police procedural" doesn't cut it as a description. More description helps. Maximum of about 300 characters. That's about 60 words. This isn't a hard limit but try to keep your description to only a paragraph or two. More description is good, but we aren't looking for a novel. Try to describe it in a way that a new GM might take inspiration from it. Example: Last year I completed two story arcs. One was fairly long. #1(2014-2020) The PCs are involved where the…
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This worked really well last time, thanks everyone! So this time I'm trying to ID characters in an image I'm using in Champions Begins. I need to know who two of the characters are, they are easy to spot, because they aren't the ones I have colored. I got the rest (the guy in the middle is not in any book, I don't think so I just went with basic flame colors). One looks like a faux Vision and is super familiar to me but I cannot place him. The other I have no idea what it is, some orb thing?
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I'm looking for Tim Drake, the Robin from The New Batman Adventures at or near the beginning of the series. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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I am trying to get or find a write-up for Green Arrow. Any help would be appreciated
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Hi, Everyone! I've been revising/converting my 4th and 5th Edition stuff to 6th Edition as an on-again/off-again project and have trying to come up with a simplified format for characters. I modified a previous template to make it resemble what's published from Hero Designer but can fit on one page. Below is an example of a Power Girl write-up for your feedback in terms of presentation. While quite a bit resource intensive when I commit to printing, I think the final product looks sharp and more importantly, easy to follow for players showing up to my game table to play Champions since it lays out everything in a clean format. Thanks for your help …
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Outside of Poison Ivy, I can't even think of a good one that's already taken ... and I'm trying to come up with one. Anybody have any thoughts?
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For those who don't have too much free time and aren't conversant in obscure and seldom-relevant lore (and you probably homebrew anyway : p), To Save The World is a soap opera in the Champions setting, even more so than the heyday of the X-Men: And besides a mention in Everyman (p.24, 108) and possibly Champions Battlegrounds (which I don't have...) there isn't anything else about it that I recall. So what? Let's flesh it out, just for fun, based on what we know or can extrapolate. Particularly if using the adventure seed where Menton gets too into the show... ; )
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Tiger Paw Press has put together a collection of all the villains released in SIDs and Villainy Codex product lines. The products will be called TPP Villain Compendium, there will be two volumes, Vol I will be Masterminds & Villains for Hire. Vol II will be Villain Groups, depending on the size may have to be split up into two issues. TPP Villain Compendium I is now released, soon to the Hero Games store, and in the process of being Tiger Paw Press's first Print on Demand.
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