Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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Has anybody else read the Sigma Force books by James Rollins? there a team of mostly ex special forces folks with advanced science training also. there sorta in the vein of the Da Vinci Code, but are better written IMHO. books in the series so far: Sandstorm Map of Bones Black Order Judas Strain The Last Oracle Team members: Painter Crowe: former Ranger, degree in physics, part native american, speaks 3 languages and an expert horseman/trainer. Grayson Pierce: Ex Ranger, degrees in biology and chemistry. court martialed after striking a superior officer in bosnia, spent a year in Leavenworth. devout catholic whos also studied Buddhism and Taoi…
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i know mr long doesn't like crossovers between champions and dark champion but maybe this idea will would considering the respective time eras are any gamers playing dark champions characters that are ancestors [grandchildren] of your pulp hero characters?
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Mafia wants author dead by Christmas http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE49D6D220081014?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews&rpc=69
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I was curious if anyone had ever run campaigns set in this time period, either for Pulp Hero or Dark Champions style stories. Which "style feel" did you use? For examples of military stories, I would imagine the best known are Nick Fury and his Howling Commandoes (Marvel) or Sgt. Rock and Easy Company (DC). However, there was also plenty to do for spybusters and vigilantes to do on the home front in America. The Batman was pretty busy, for example. Would his comic be an example of Dark Champions or Champions? Can you do Golden Age style Dark Champions, or is that a contradiction?
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Thanks everyone in advance for your help. I've been warmly welcomed to your little online community here and feel quite at home. As some of you may know, I'm running what is, essentially, a Dark Champions game, set in Hudson City (though I have made a few minor changes to the city), but instead using a heavily modified version of D20 Modern (using Grim N' Gritty Rules, freeform experience, and some other alterations). I chose these rules, because most of the players are more comfortable with the D20 system than anything else (their 2nd choice would probably be Storyteller). We've done 8 sessions so far (7 are posted in the Campaign Log thread and the 8th should be…
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Hi all, I am running a DCTAS and I need some pictures to help my players out, any ideas?
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Okay, so it's a Top-N list, but I'm pretty sure there's a lot of inspiration here... http://www.theshiznit.co.uk/feature/top-50-movie-gunfights.php?page=5
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You know that I like the circus and admire the Secret Service. Well, what if the PCs were Secret Service agents protecting a female circus staffer. Said staffer isn't a showgirl. Instead, she's the circus's veterinarian. Somehow, her family came under Secret Service protection two days before the show was due to go on the road and her agent(s) arrived the afternoon before the season starts.
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If your PCs are finding it too easy to eavesdrop and wiretap in your games then maybe you should go straight to the state of the art in encryption: Quantum Cryptography.
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Hi, A friend of mine is running a game of highly skilled char with a war of the world tipe fell to it. aleins are trying to change things so they can take over. I have a thought of a char that is ex nave sail, and hase true marshul art training. he is an american. his mom is japanise with ties to the yacosa. and his dad is italon with ties to the mob. he can speek both. and i don't realy know the system so any help with what tp pick i would thanks all.
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while reading egyptoid's thread on heroes from the 50 states i wondered what each states DARK champion would look like any ideas? thanks for the idea egyptoid
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Quite a fascinating post from someone who's lived through the economic collapse of his country. http://www.frugalsquirrels.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=044387;p=1
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Why is this here? 'cause now you know what the drug lord your PCs are going to hit is riding in come next play session! http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2008/09/over-top-limousines.html Seriously -- imagine having a chase scene with this! Or a fight in or on it!
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The Walking Dude Dark Champions character for a campaign with limited psychic abilities, but few other powers (mutants and zombies will be baddies, but not player characters.) Character is an old Gunslinger who wields two massive revolvers (str 20 for anyone else to lift.) He has the ability to Psychically generate ammunition for his weapons (no charges more or less plus a couple of abilities.) His back story is that he was a member of an organized criminal organization (a hired gun so to speak) and he turned his back on them and is wandering and helping people. 75 points 75 Disads 150 points total Characteristics Val Char Cost 12 STR 2 …
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in dark champions the urban abyss there was a refference to a pulp era dark champion named golden tiger has anyone written him up?
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Batman The Animate Series http://www.batmantas.com/ http://www.catsuka.com/interf/gengal/sketches/batman/batman/gal.html http://www.sketchee.com/gallery/fan_art/04_23_03_harley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series http://ewsearch.lysator.liu.se/search.jsp?query=Batman+The+Animated+series Justice League Animated http://www.jlanimated.com/fanart/index.php?id=8 http://www.ualberta.ca/~jd8/website_main_wallpaper.html http://jl.toonzone.net/ http://directory.google.com/Top/Arts/Animation/Cartoons/Titles/J/Justice_League/ http://www.animationartgallery.com/ajlacn1.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_League_Animated Goog…
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Inspired by the Weekend Warriors, I am posting my campaign log. As I said in my other thread, I am new to the DC genre and the HC setting, and not using Hero system (I use a modified D20 Modern with Grim & Gritty system). Still, after reading the other campaign logs here, I believe the story can stand independent of the system. Our goal with this campaing is to tell a good story and NOT be handcuffed by any set of rules. Many of my sessions are virtually diceless (2 sessions so far and about a dozen total dice rolls to this point, including mine, which is extremely low for a D20 game - not sure about a Champions game). Anyway, some of the logs refer to things…
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Hi there, long time reader, first time poster. I've recently decided to crank up my old Dark Champions Campaign again, mainly due to the cool proliferation of new books by Mr. Long. I've been writing up a near-future dark storyline for the campaign background, along with some photoshopped extras for the players. I figured I would drop in here and post it for the reading perusal of you fine folks. I'm aiming for Watchmen, Batman Begins, or the Wild Cards series for overall tone and power level - minus people like Doctor Manhattan and The Great and Powerful Turtle, of course. Dark and gritty, with the "heroes" having only one or two powers, or perhaps just a lot of ski…
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i think i figured out a storyline plot as to why there are no super-heroes in hudson city, its the counterpoint to vibora bay florida . the inherent mystic energies in theVB area draw super powered beings there while hudson is the equal and opposite reaction with NO high power supers but gadgetteers and martial artists does that sound like it'd work mr long?
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Just saw this movie. No spoilers. Pretty classic shoot-em-up, Thai-style. Only two interesting things, from my perspective: 1. the use of JKD by Joe (hobud from Escrima, wing chun trapping, entries into grappling) and 2. the use of spacial awareness -- "You live in a city of mirrors. Windows, polished steel. Use them to develop eyes in the back of your head." OWTTE.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Gang Citations may be needed in the actual article, but these people are perfect for a Dark Champions game.
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When playing in a Dark Champions campaign, where have you had your most memorable battles? Shooting it out with a mafia hood in a dingy hotel room? Fighting an enemy military unit in the midst of a bombed out cityscape? Jumping from rooftop to rooftop as you chase a costumed criminal? What made this battle so memorable?
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So, I am reading Hunter: The Vigil by White Wolf and it strikes me that there is nothing that is inherently bound to the storyteller system. The Vigil isn't a game it is a setting with minimal rules or system wonks. The one issue seems to be "The Code" which involves their humanity system and simulates a Lovecraftian descent into obsession and perhaps madness. Anyone else reading Vigil?
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Step One: Start at the Bottom Players begin in the Toddbury Sanitarium, a place for those so insane that the keys are thrown away. Up until this point they had normal lives, marriages, jobs, and all that mundane stuff that makes the world so happy. Now they shamble around in a drug induced haze wearing pajamas and eating slop. Slowly, over days they come to recognize each other as being somewhat sane. That recognition comes in the form of One-Eye, the biggest muther anyone has ever seen (6’10, 450 lbs). One-Eye also has the disposition of pre-menstrual T-Rex. Nobody stands up to One-Eye; not the inmates, staff, or security. He does as he pleases and everyone walks …
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I found this link while doing some research for my campaign this morning. It was so funny (to me at least) that I thought I was going to hurt myself laughing. I had to share. Wolfgang
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