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- By Rich McGee,
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I am a long long time gamer played my first game of basic DnD in 79 at the age of 5. Been through most of the games... spent a decade with ADnD a decade with WoD and a bunch of champions mixed in. After a 3 year hiatus due to moving away from my gaming troupe, I have decided to get back into PnP gaming. MMORPGs and the like on computers and consoles are just huge disappointing wastes of time. I want the meat and potatoes of RPGs... roleplaying. So i am here to kinda get up to speed with what everyone is playing and how 5th edition looks? I love the Hero system and Champions is definitely the game i want to play right now. My only hang up is the lack o…
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Arandmoor_Keet says, Next Up: A secluded pad! That's right...gimme an exotic base! I know someone is up to the challenge.
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So after helping several of my players (who are all new to Champions) write up their characters with no problems, one of them finally stumped me. Basically, he wants a few minor gadgets that I am not sure how to write up. They are: - A remote control camera he can attach to a wall or something and be able to see what it sees - A tracking device he can attach to villains, vehicles, etc... - A device to trick key card readers (remember that scene in Terminator 2 when young John Connors gets money from the ATM machine?) Thoughts? Any and all help is, as usual, appreciated. Chris
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I am trying to create a ball lightning effect for one of my characters. I want the lightning to be able to act independently of the character to a limited degree (e.g. guard a location, etc.) Currently I am treating this as a summon automaton, whose main powers are desolidification and a (small) affects solids damage shield. The damage shield also has a side effect such that if it is used against a well-grounded target, the ball lightning explodes for extra damage (but destroying the ball lightning.) Another possibility would be to use an attack power to do the job. The problem is, in order for it to work the way I envision it, I would have to buy it as a 0 END …
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Im wondering how it would be possible to make a voodoo doll in the hero system. You would need a personal item of the target like a lock of hair or a favorite comb. This would then be used in the magical ritual to construct the wax doll. After that, damage (or whatever you choose to do to the doll) could be applied to the target, even if they are half a world away. I realise that this is powerful but it is a common staple of some types of magical fantasy. I must admit Im stumped as to how it could be modeled in Hero. Ideas anyone?
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... but it's not what you think! Check it out! http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7325
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Just wanted to let everyone know that our first new book in the Hero Plus line of e-books, Shades Of Black, is now available in the E-Books section of the Online Store! SOB, written by our own Allen Thomas, is a Champions adventure that pits the character against the evil Black Paladin and his followers. In addition to over 80 pages of text, the adventure has numerous maps (including a completely mapped out haunted mansion!) and three new villains. All this can be yours for a mere $12 -- so don't delay, order today!
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I am running a stupidly ambitious champions campaign. The setting is dark, emerging powers set in 1980s New York. The flavour is x-filesish. The modus operandi is newspaper articles - ie I write lots of newspaper articles containing weirdness which the players can investiagte (or not). Some are links to long term plots, some one offs, some red herrings, some are mundane news articles to complete the newspaper page. You get the idea. Speed is slow - ie each session covers a couple of days of game play, so I have to write a couple of days' worth of news stories every month (our game interval) - generally about 4-6 new/follow up stories each day (a number of which are now ge…
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I was just looking at Champions Universe when something amusing occurred to me. The chapter on the history of superhumans begins on page 6 with a picture apparently showing three different superhuman time periods. Golden Age (WW II) Modern Era Galactic Champions (I'm assuming) What occurred to me is that the hero (?) in the Galactic Champions scene has a chest emblem that looks maybe sort of Fox-ish, sort of Bat-ish. Makes you wonder.
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With the number of magic-using characters running around the typical superhero campaign, does any sort of natural rivalry develop among magic-using superheroes and supervillains that is distinct from the normal rivalries between heroes and villains, and among heroes.
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A friend of mine is stumped for a name for his character, and frankly so am I, so I thought I'd ask around here. The basic premise is that he's a knight from Arthurian times, though he fought on the side of Mordred and Morgana Le Fae (Fay? Fey? Whatever.), though he was decieved into thinking they were the good guys. His background got a little fuzzy here, so I'm not sure how (I'm guessing he died in an act of self-sacrifice to protect someone from the E.V.I.L. family), he wound up in Avalon. Later, in the 'here and now', he's let out into the world to truly redeem himself (the self-sacrifice was impressive and nice, but utterly didn't count for much). He h…
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Buy Shades of Black.... cuz, I'm on the cover so there T.
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I obviously shouldn't be reading my new Hero book at work when it's pushing 100 degrees outside (and no air conditioning inside). "Fatal Attractions", the Hall of Mirrors map has a spot marked "1". Where's the reference to what the "1" stands for?
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Hello all, It's been 10 years since I ran a Champions game and 2 years since I've run any game at all. So recently I jumped into running a game of Champions with my fiance and one of my friends. The first night was a test run to get the players familiar with their characters and to get us all a bit more familiar with the system. The end result was a reconnaisance mission by Calibre (who is hunted by VIPER) and Myst (an unknown telepath and telekinetic mutant). Myst was to investigate a supposed Nest and get any information about an ambassador that had been kidnapped and was rumored to be held there. Calibre, being hunted by VIPER because of his power…
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Hello all I have a problem. I am presently running a WW2 superheroes campaign and I have a group of Heroes who have just had one of their number get captured. Now this normally wouldn't be problem except that none of the heroes have a prediliction to actually investigating everything. The players themselves can do it fine but their character just do not have the skills. I don't want NPC"s doing all the legwork but I cannot see any other way to handle it. Normally they are a sort of superhero commando team but I wanted to do something on the homefront for a change. Any suggestions?
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I purchased Champions Battleground this week, and I'm most impressed with the product (especially the maps, way to go Keith). I think CB is the best-written adventure I have seen for any system in a long time. I do think DOJ made one big mistake. Not including the stats for all the villains in the book is a bad idea. I think some people will not pick this great book since they will need both Champions Universe and CKC to have the needed information on the different villains. I think WoTC still includes stats for all the monster in an adventure, even if they are already listed in the Monster Manual. I think making a free download of the villains (just the stats. …
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Has Viper been printed yet and going to be released this month or early September? OptimusV
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"Pushing your players' buttons" is something that every GM is warned against doing too lightly. While it's one thing to give folks what they want, or stories they can really get into, you can push it too far. I'm not advocating that... but I confess, I'm curious. Are there any villains in the Champsverse that you personally find real easy to loathe? Are there some that you look FORWARD to having your character beat up on, even if your character him/herself wouldn't? For instance, while it's not 'loathing', one of my female players looks forward to tromping Bulldozer no matter WHAT character she's playing. His attitude just annoys, and I guess it is very gratify…
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If you purchased Shades of Black before now, there is a new file for you to download. This will fix some of the art issues and it will hopefully provide a beter downloadfor hte users who were having problems opening it. Please email me and I will supply with access to the file.
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I have a player who wants to create a character that is in a wheelchair in her secret identity and activates nanotechnology to walk in her superhero id (i.e. her powers are enhanced CHA in the "suit"). What would be the best way to build that? She would still retain all her secret id skills, etc. when in costume. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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After the thread on the Zeppelin Base, I got inspired and started a mostly Golden Age WW2 campaign. I came up with the package deals, the organizational structure for the allied supers (The heroes are amongst the very few high powered supers at 350 points, most are 250), a nifty base for them (The Surcouf after some modification) a basic timeline of events and a list of the known Supers on each side... So now that I got that out of the way, I realized I had no idea what to do for an introductory adventure???? I think I want a blend of RP so that folks can get into their PC's, the lingo and attitudes, and then a big explosive finale. Has anyone else run WW2 whe…
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...and as a loyal customer, I'm very disappointed.
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Guess who's back.. Back again. Anway. My Mystic Masters and Champions in 3D books have finally bit the dust. Fallen apart from too much use, beyond even the amazing fixative powers of lots of tape. The pages stained with various forms of coffee, beer, and even some soy sauce, smudged with cheetos, pizza grease, and what appears to be some cake icing. Any suggestions on where to find replacements? I've cased about fifteen gaming and used book stores within a fifty mile radius with no luck.
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Man, I'm going to ask Doctor Destroyer to do a number on the Toronto distributor who handles the only gaming store in Barrie...I just got the Until Superpowers Database today. They also have Millenium City there for me, just in time for Champions Battlegrounds to come out...I can't win. Anyway, even though it's probably long past shelf-life for comments on the book, I'm going to make a couple anyway. I really like the little margin bits on the different heroes and villains; very cool plot tidbits in there. The options for the various powers are really impressive. And there are a lot of powers I'd never even thought of giving a character. So this book shall see m…
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... to another thread. Has anyone actually used the info in the random character generator as the basis for a computer version of the same? Perhaps as an Excel spreadsheet or something? OR perhaps the Hero dudes are planning something along these lines... Just wondering along... Edited for cranial gas emissions...
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