Dark Champions

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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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…

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…

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?

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.

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.

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?

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?

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 …

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

So, has Heath Ledger's portrayal of the Joker in Dark Knight returns inspired any Champions GMs to break out the Black Harlequin? You'll note that I put this in Dark Champions. Black Harlequin is too dark for a lighter 4 colour game, but I'm sure he could show Hudson City that it deserves a new class of criminal...

How would you model synchronicity in a DC game? I have this image of a sniper waiting on a rooftop waiting for the proper time for his shot, and then a highlight around a falling leaf -- suddenly the leaf falls nearly straight down, and he takes the shot. What do you think?

Ever wonder why Moriarty was a professor of mathematics? I've been watching the archives of this show -- and using the way that Professor Epps solves crimes could easily be used as a mastermind-level villain's thought process. I don't want to give too many examples due to spoilage. But in nearly every case, I watch the episode with a notepad to check the more interesting theories. In one, another mathematician, working on Rieman's prime factoring, had his daughter snatched. Check it out, and take notes. It really is fun to watch people being brilliant, and how you can twist that brilliance to your own . . . um, your player's benefit. (powe…

I run across articles all the time that are to outlandish to be real - but they are. These are the fodder of all Hudson City games. News stories that can be doled out willy nilly leading into grand adventures or weird enclaves of disturbed but harmless people. So, here are the rules. Present a story such as might be read in the paper only sort and concise. Link to any actual story where you got the idea. The story does not have to be real but you get bonus points for it. Try to edit the entry so that it seems to be about Hudson City I'll go first. Don't read this late at night.

Flying cars and car sized flying vehicles suitable for your dark champions high tech spys and vigilantes Or if you are super rich you might be able to buy one in the real world ....

Okay, I'm new here, so please be kind. I'm just starting a campaign based in Hudson City. It is a Dark Champions style vigilante crime fighting campaign using a modified d20 modern system. My players and I are most familiar with that system, so it was the one we decided to use, though we have incorporated the "Grim n' Gritty" combat rules for Hit Points and Bleeding to make it less level based. There are not really any superpowers per se, though one character has some affinity with electricity. I would love to have people check out my campaign website and always look to share ideas with others playing the same type of game. Please reply here and let me know …

Is membership to a "Powerful Mens Club" an organization contact or a membership fringe benefit? The club I'm envisioning is the kind of place where Senators, Billionairs and Mafia Dons get together to play pool and drink expensive liquor. Membership won't really get you resources, but it will get you in touch with people who do. You also get to learn a secret handshake. How would you build it, and for how many points.

I was reading through Hudson City over the weekend, and I came to the section on Hudson City's Police Department, and that there are twelve districts that divide up the city. I'd been thinking of doing something set in Hudson City with a supernatural twist, and then I got this idea. The 13th District: police officers who deal with crimes from all over the city, crimes that involve the supernatural, sort of a cross between Monster Hunters and Urban Fantasy. From a Faerie druglord dealing a different sort of 'pixie dust' to vampire attacks in the parks, Hudson City's thin blue line is there to deal with it. Since each district is further divided down into precincts,…

First message posted on the Champions genre - DC animated art program thread, all others posted only here. While reading through my copy of Dark Champions - the Animated Series, I noticed that Fleur de Lisa has a description, but not a picture. As the Portuguese art program is offline, I used HeroMachine (old school) to do the following picture based on the description in the book.

Hey all, DC:TAS looks very interesting to me but I don't have DC...based on the reviews I've read I'm thinking I could swing TAS without DC. Is DC necessary to use it? Thanks all.....

There’s probably some special backroom of Hell for people with ideas like this but here goes. I’ve actually been kind of inspired by one of Millar’s ideas (and I just threw up in my mouth a little…). Specifically the comic “Kick A**”. Like Civil War, I don’t think this is really a bad idea per se, just that he won’t handle it well. And I’d like to give it a crack myself. Right now the basic idea is: “What if a group of “Reals” (people that dress up in super hero costumes and play the part (fighting crime in minor ways and helping out) actually got together, got somewhat organized and tried to make more of impact. The character would be “real people”, not special for…

Dumb, but bold. I mention this as it, or something like it, could be used in a campaign. Especially if it's a "Caper" campaign (see D.C. page 10-11). It's not as high-tech as some capers, but it's a good idea seed.

One of the most controversial manga titles in years has come to the United States, and it poses the idea for a great but difficult campaign. Death Note tells the story of a high school genius named Light who finds a strange notebook on the ground by his school and picks it up. Reading the introduction, he finds that it is the "Death Note", a notebook left behind by an Angel of Death. If you write a person's name in the book while his or her face is in your mind, that person will die in the manner you specify if you do so within forty seconds. If you don't specify a means, he will simply drop dead from heart failure. (the face is a failsafe to prevent you from causing…

Our group normally runs a "realistic" Dark Champions game with the elements of the fantastic toned down if not removed completely. The recent discussion of the the Heath Ledger Joker got me thinking about Hudson City as Gotham. More specifically, it got me thinking about which villains would work for semi-fantastic Batmanesque style game. The villains need to be thematically and design appropriate. Hero Resources Possible Adversarial Organizations Circle of the Scarlet Moon - Arcane Adversaries, maybe too fantastic for some games. Sylvestri Family - Arcane Adversaries, A few new members in HC seeing to their interests. Vandelur Families - Arcane Adversaries,…