Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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An NPC in my IST Campaign is a U.N. field agent with a lot of experience doing black-bag jobs. Is the cat burglar template in the DC book the right one for her?
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Just a question... If the default for pistol round damage was considered to have "reduced penetration"... what might be the downside in a "game mechanic" arena. Some caveats... I don't want to get into a discussion of all the different real world types of ammunition... nor discussions on "bullets do damage based on what they hit in the body..." or any of that. I'm simply looking at the fact that... 1) I want to avoid escalating damage and armor defenses that seems to happen when attempting to differentiate between pistols and rifles rounds in terms of damage/lethality to human like targets. 2) I like to keep things as simple as possible... no charts or …
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I dunno if it belongs in Dark Champions... yeah I do! Calling all Blue Blazer Irregulars! Here is a link to a news article on the new comics line of Buckaroo and the Hong Kong Cavaliers!
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.22 Ball Point Pen gun (qrc a) .22 Ball Point Pen: (Total: 15 Active Cost, 3 Real Cost) Killing Attack - Ranged 1d6, Side Effects, Side Effect occurs automatically whenever Power is used (Side Effect always occurs whenever the character does some specific act; -1 OCV and -1 RMod; +0) (15 Active Points); 1 Charge (-2), STR Minimum 1-5 (STR Min. Cannot Add/Subtract Damage; 5 STR; -3/4), IAF (Ball Point Pen; -1/2), Beam (-1/4), Real Weapon (-1/4) (Real Cost: 3) Name: .22 Ball Point Pen Cal: .22LR OCV: -1 RMod: -1 Dam: 1d6 STUN: +0 Shots: 1 STR Min: 5 PER Mod: +0 A/R Cost: 15/3 Mass: .11kg Notes: Typically used for close-in assassinations; poor for…
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A question for the gun gurus out there
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Many years ago, while reading through some of my uncle's gun magazines, I came across an article about a weapon which, at that time, was being con- sidered for police use. At first glance, it looked like a pump-action shotgun, but upon reading the article found out that it was actually a pump-action carbine chambered for the .357 Magnum cartridge, with (IIRC) a 10- round capacity. Unfortunately, I don't remember what the name of the gun was or who manufactured it. What I'd like to ask is this: is there anyone who knows what this gun was called, or even if it's being manufactured at all? Major Tom
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After reading the Dark Champions book, I pulled out some of my old supplements from other games that I've never had the opportunity to fully use. They include things like GURPS Illuminati, Suppressed Transmissions 1, Suppressed Transmissions 2, GDW's Dark Conspiracy book, a host of Call of Cthulhu supplements, and others. Then I got involved with some discussions on RPG.net regarding the new World of Darkness book (which seems to focus on the same area) and C. J. Carella's Witchcraft (which can be found for free in PDF format). I feel a part of my brain that cries out to run the Weird Conspiracy Hero game that I've never had an opportunity to run (since many of my players…
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Anyone likely to play in the game, don't read this thread. You know who you are, and so do I, and there will be penalties You Have Been Warned. I have been toying with the idea of running a Dark Champions game (or several, though probably not a full campaign) in the Galactic Champions time period. The characters would be built on DC guidelines or a little tougher, and deal with the criminal element in the 31st Century. This means that we might have a DC group with disintegrators. However, much as I might like to run it, I am completely at a loss for plot seeds. Please assist me in this. The type of game I'm leaning toward is a 31st Century techno-thri…
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Okay, my friend was watching poker on TV. I normally don't think of that as a spectator sport, but whatever. They start talking about one of the players, named Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, and cut to a video short to demonstrate a talent of his. He throws cards, and he throws them about 70 MPH. He throws them so fast and so well, he can use them like throwing knives. I'm not kidding. As we watched, he threw them straight threw a banana, choping it in half with one hit. Then he did a carrot. With bona fide normal playing cards. Granted, fruits and vegetables aren't the toughest items in the kitchen, but I was still impressed. Even if they couldn't cut through meat and b…
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Posting this for a friend: ----- Does anyone know anything about the methodologies of urban gang warfare? Or have a link handy they could send me? ----- Thanks! Bill.
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It's here! It's here! Hero System 5th Edition, Revised is on our shelves and ready to be sent out to our fans! Just go to the Online Store and buy it! Damaged copies are also available.
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I'm looking for information (like a chart) on the organization of a large, urban police department - including support staff. I'm also looking for a map of a large, urban police headquarters. Anybody have a clue where to find this stuff? My initial google searches have not been successful.
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Just wanted to let the DH playtesters/testreaders know that Hudson City is now available in the usual place. Looking forward to hearing your comments! Please note that I will be in London from Dec. 2-8, and thus unlikely to have much (if any) opportunity to check the playtest board, much less answer questions, so don't worry if you don't hear anything from me for a while. If you have any questions/comments, please post 'em in the "Company Questions" thread of the same title.
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Thsi weekend I goit to watch a whole bunch of new anime at a friend's hosue, and one of the new series I saw was GetBackers -- which seemed to me like it might be prime DC fodder. On the other hand, many of the important characters have superpowers, so I'm wondering how it would work. The heroes of the series, Genji and Ban, are 'retrival specialists" who use their natural ability and minor-league superpowers to retrive lost and stolen items. The powers do not seem intuitively the sort of powers that would be most useful for this kind of work: Genji is a human 'electric eel" who generates electricity from his body and can perform a variety of effects with it, while B…
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I was down at the local County Sheriff's office yesterday and they had a SWAT team display. Part of the display was dedicated to a different type of SPEC OPS police unit. This unit was designated a T.R.U. or Tactical Rescue Unit. These men and women are trained to Special Forces proficiency in high risk rescue techniques. They specialize in EMT under fire, High Mountain Rescue, Acrtic Water Rescue, Avalanche Recovery, and other types of high danger emergency services. So here is the challenge.... I thought it would be interesting to see what types of teams, characters, equipment, vehicles, headqaurters, etc, the board could come up with....for a Hero TRU. Ok…
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That's right, folx -- it's time for another customer input thread! This time on deck: Hudson City: The Urban Abyss. NOTE: Before you post a recommendation, comment, or question, please read the outline I've posted below. It's not ultra-detailed, but it explains the basic contents of the book. It's a waste of your time and mine for you to suggest things that are clearly already intended as part of the book. You might also want to read the posts already made, so you don't waste your time duplicating something already said. So, anyhow... HC:TUA is our first setting book for Dark Champions. Like MC and VB, it's a city book, but slanted toward the darker, g…
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I was wondering if there were any plans to include in some book something similar to the wonderful section on the law, the US constitution, government and superheroes, and other such elements that appeared in the old version of Dark Champions. I really found myself missing that section, even as a Canadian player when much of the material was on the American constitution, when going through the new DC book. DC: TAS doesn't seem like the book to cover it, so I'm assuming it won't show up there.
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Hey guys, I'm getting started on DARK CHAMPIONS: THE ANIMATED SERIES (DC: TAS, from here on out) and this is the traditional "What Do You Want To See" Thread. First a little about the book.... The book has two goals. First, to serve as a sub-genre book that covers two types of Dark Champions campaigns. (1) Non-superpowered heroes who have, to some extent, a four-color comic book attitude toward their vigilante activities (for instance, PCs with a Code Versus Killing). (2) Low-point superpowered heroes, aka street-level superheroes, like Daredevil and Spider-Man (the early years more so than lately -- back when Spider-Man fought the Kingpin, the Owl, Silverm…
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in the list of guns in dark champion he have a colunn of stun x for each gun.............when we use the hit location table do we use the factor stun x also......excuse my english i am a french canadian and sometime rule are real jello for me..... stef the french canadian
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I was watching Indiana Jones the other day, and they used the old schtick where there are 3 or 4 goons coming at the hero in a line, he shoots, and the bullet goes through all of them (must've been full metal jacket with a good size callibur). Is there anyway to do this in Hero terms?
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Hi all, first post here. I just recently started playing HERO about 2 weeks ago with my gaming group. They had been playing for a few weeks, and I had just been watching, and then finally decided to join in. I built a character based on the character Christian Bale played in Equilibrium, with the exception he used rifles as his primary weapon. Originally I wanted to built my own multi-fire gun using the powers rules, but our GM decided against it, and recommended I buy a standard gun from dark champions. So I did. All the skills I chose were pretty straight forward. Most focused on marksmanship and increasing my OCV and damage. All in all I ended up with ar…
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The Game I'm starting an solo-espionage game with some pulp undercurrents for my wife. It will center around the adventures of a female Mossad agent who works for the Mossad's special operations division, also known as Metzada (spelled "Masada" by Anglos). Metzada specializes in assassination, sabotage, and psychological warfare operations. It is intended to globe-trot and get pulpy from time to time (most likely with some occult or weird science issues comming into play). The character she envisioned is one part James Bond, one part Chow Yun Fat, and one part Lara Croft. She's a fan of the TV show Alias (we don't own a TV, but she rented all of them a…
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New to this Genre
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Hi a player in my Group is mooting a game of Dark Champions, I take it it is quite dangerous (I mean F Hero is dangerous with swords??) Any hints for a new player? xx Baz
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Back in 1983ish, I was co-running "Espionage", and the organization for the spies was UNION. UNION stands for United Nations Intelligence Operatives Network. Started secretly by members of the UN Security Council, they started with ex-spies from trusted orgs (CIA, MI-5, etc.) and then recruited or blackmailed others into the organization. Of the six player agents, AJ Parker and Dr. Frank Garrison and Rene Baptiste LeClerc were recruited; Axamander Tobias Teach and Ivan Raverhaben were blackmailed. Espionage was 50 Base plus up to 50 in Disads. I have converted the six characters to 5E, and kept them at the 50/50 level (but including their earned experience points).
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Based on the assumptions in the Top Secret game system, here's my version of the ISB organization Spy Package deal. (Needs some refining). ISB Spy Package Cost Skill 2.....WF: Small Arms 3.....Conversation 3.....Persuasion 8.....Languages (choose) <1> 6.....KS or SS: (choose) <2> 12....Martial Art maneuvers (choose) <3> 2.....KS: ISB Organiation 2.....KS: Spys 2.....KS: World Events 3.....Fringe Benefit: ISB Security Clearance 12....12 points in skills from current Bureau (choose) <4> Disadvantages 15....ISB, Watched 8- 20....ISB, Subject To Orders Bureaus: Section 1 - Investigations Bureau: choose from Inter…
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