Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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As some of you may know, I'm working on a campaign that has Batman based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (my home town), not Gotham City, New Jersey. One challange for this is the creation of the Batcave. This is challanging because the rights to everything underground Southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, were sold several centuries ago. Batman's friend, Doctor Arcane, is willing to help by creating the Batcave in a pocket reality. Batman, however, has to design it. Hopefully, some of you can come up with ideas, or designs, for the Batcave.
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The campaigh is set in the Champions Universe, using the Dark Champions: The Animated Series rules. The Waynes watched the 1930s Zorro at the Gateway Theater, located on Sixth Street, before Dr. and Mrs. Wayne were murdered. The Batmobile is based on the Lamborghini Diablo. Wayne Enterprises is located on Pittsburgh's North Shore, near the Alcoa Building. Wayne Manor is located on Millionaire's Row, Fifth Avenue between Devonshire Street and Shady Avenue. Doctor Arcane's house is on the same street. Batgirl is Barbara Gordon, Bruce's live-in secretary and, according to some, lover. A fourth-generation circus performer, her parents, both aerialists…
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Hello everyone, had an idea and was hoping people could add to it. Having watched many movies, played a lot of video games, and being formerly rather involved in the martial arts... I have an issue: I hate katanas. Don't get me wrong, like every other fanboy here, I used to love them... and, really, they are great swords and all that... BUT, I'm sick of seeing them in movies, RPGs, video games, etc. exclusive to any other type of sword, except those wielded by incompetents and the guy whose gonna lose/die. So, herein I propose a simple idea... the coolification of other sword types for all of our Hero based games... How it will be done: simply, a type of swor…
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With a Friday the 13th just past and Halloween coming up soon I thought it would be nice to see if anyone ever had an adventure centered on these themes. I once did an adventure where the players went to a world where it was ALWAYS Halloween (Halloween Forever I called it) The players had to find a way of defeating MISTER BIG UGLY AND SCARY in order to free the people trapped in that world.
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Things I would add: Analyze Location: This would enable the officer to realize when something is not right in an area. Example: a light is out near a business that the officer routinely patrols by. Some Knowledge Skills: KS: Body Language KS: Crowd Control KS: Use of Force Laws and Principles Some other stuff: Perk-Contact: Confidential Informants Perk-Contact: Friends in the Media Set the cost to fit your campaign.
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Yep, another version of Black Widow. This one's civilian identity will also be Denise Dumont (because I think the name's cool). She is an attractive African-American woman who wears her black hair in cornrow braids. She was a high school cheerleader and on her community center's gymnastics team. Also, at her mother's suggestion, she learned to belly dance. She entered college as a theater major and wanted to act in plays. While in her senior year, Denise's first play was set in 1901 Boston, and she was to play a fashionably-dressed woman. In that day, during King Edward's reign in England, fashionably-dressed women wore gloves all the time. In order to…
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Marvel's Black Widow has always been one of my favorites. So, she's going to form the basis for a Champions character that can be used either as a Dark Champions character or as a representative of some federal agency, possibly Homeland Security, to a superhero team. She won't be the official liaison, that person's a bureaucrat. Our web-spinning lady's a spy that could pass herself off as a cat burglar. Her powers, without foci, include wall crawling, perception bonuses to touch, bonuses to DEX, acrobatics, breakfall, SPD, and running speed. She may also be able to generate some kind of bioelecrtrical or chemical stun blast. I'll post her background story so…
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Re: Secret Worlds: Book 3 - Episode 4 Finales Ok... here's my attempt to finish up the big fight. This was a tough one to write and capture the feel that really played out well in the game. Again, this is stream of memory (faulty) and very unedited. I actually realize I wrote part of this wrong, and I'll correct it in the official story book when I get the chance. ----- 40 Seconds Previously Kovias grins and laughs in recognition and respect of Damien’s challenge. He bellows his own name in response and is a whirlwind with his tulwar. The blade spins and cuts again and again at Damien. Though it never connects, Damien is forced to slide and circl…
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I'll admit I'm not so skilled when it comes to building MA's for HERO system and my "Google-Fu" has (so far) failed me so I could use some help: I'm looking to build/adapt a MA framework for "Kaysee(SP?) Fighting Technique" as seen in "Batman Begins". According to my recollections of the documentary regarding the fight scenes (as found on the two disk DVD) the technique uses mostly elbows, forearms and upper-body strikes (head-buts, etc). Any thoughts ? Thanks. -Carl-
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Can you spread an autofire attack? I have a ninja character in a dark champions campaign that can autofire 5x shurikens. What I'd like to do is represent filling the hex, or getting a +3 to OCV and only a max of 2 hits. I've never liked the idea that if I pop off a burst fire, my chances of hitting once is no better than a single shot. Is there a rule I'm over looking?
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Variety of things, some quite good. Show especial potential if you were to do a little work on them. Man, I'm tired. http://www.landauction.com/
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I am starting up a star hero low powered (150) game and well I am having some trouble with the weapons/equipment part. Since this is sappose to be a realistic ( with aliens ) game the players will have to buy their equipment instead of paying character points and stuff. I heard that Dark Champions has some kind of rule for a weapon pool or some such ? Can someone possibly message me with some info on this rule? It sounds like something I could use for my game.
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Why the lack of pre-written adventures from Hero games to almost all their titles? Especially Dark Champion, which i was hoping to start a campaign in - since i have quite a lot books from my Hero Fantasy campaign. This really puzzles me, i have seen that Champion do have a lot of adventures while almost all the other products lack adventures. I have been a gamemaster for tons of rpg´s throughout my roleplaying life, and always preferred to write my own adventures... however now i have limited time and would like pre-written adventures and sees that their none. And i dont feel for gamemastering Champions, since i dont feel comfortable gamemastering superhero …
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First My Players STAY OUT! I'm planning to introduce Black Harlequin into my Dark Champions campagin. He will be making his big debut on April 1st with a series of cruel (maiming, injury, some lethality) "practical jokes" pulled on seemingly random citizens of Hudson City. But, at the moment, I'm drawing a blank and I could use some suggestions. The setting allows for some advanced technology but nothing overtly supertech.
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No, these are not meant to be "realistic" weapons, but are trying to simulate certain source material. Feedback wanted. Chaingun: Found in countless FPS games, chainguns are known for two things -- being able to hose down an area with bullets and for drinking ammunition like it was water. In truth, the weapons labeled as “chainguns” in almost all FPS games aren’t a chain-driven guns at all, but multi-barreled mini-guns, similar to the one seen in the movie Predator. While not the best weapon for well-armored targets, they are perfect for cleaning out squads of grunt-level opponents. This version uses the Reduced Penetration Limitation, coupled with a high rate of …
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No spoilers, herein please. Hint: It is something we all have...
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I just ordered Dark Champions from the Online Store! This should really help me improve my Dark Champions game, The Gunman of Gangland.
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Yeah, the one from Kill Bill 1 and 2. Anyone have it written up? Do you consider it exceptional to other swords?
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I ran across this site while looking for some data, I thought it makes a pretty good reference for running a game in a country other than your own. I thought this was the most likely forum for interest in this. Lots of details including the national anthem, monetary system, political system, population distribution etc. http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/
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I was browsing through the forums for the Serenity RPG, and I came across this player resource: guns printed on business card stock. It seems an easy way to keep track of weapons on hand or in an armory as well as ammo. Has anyone done something like this for Hero System weapons?
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8 people try to find out if they have what it takes to become a spy in this series from BBC Three. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/spy/ I just got my hands on the series and viewed the first episode. I like it. It is interesting to see how ordinary people romanticize the spy trade.Then they get dragged out of their beds and sent through about 8 hours of interrogation. Sorry, if this has already been posted.
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Hi everyone, sorry i haven't posted in awhile... been busy with school, a new house, upcomming nupitals and such and havnt got those dang pictures posted yet of our DC game. I promise to get some pics soon... i wanna show a modified version of vehicle combat in DC thats fast and easy. now let me show you whats going on in my campaign.... In my DC game run in hudson City, I was bandying around a few ideas with the players on where to take it... go total goth, an animated series, pulp... but since our regular gaming group can be as little as 3 to 10 at a single sitting... devleloping plot lines can be a pain. But something came as a joke that worked out as a stroke of g…
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Hi, I'm sure it's around but I didn't see it and it's hard to search on words like this (to me, anyway) - would anyone familiar please elaborate on the differences between 4th and 5th Dark Champions? I'm not interested in better/worse, just the primary differences and in particular reasons that one might still pick up 4th edition Dark Champions. Apologies for covering ground I'm sure has been covered before.
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but I've played/run Champions since 1984 (yes, I'm buffing my liver spots and only my hair dresser knows for sure--heck, he's the best source of gossip in this 1-bit town). Weylan, my spouse, posted a bit about the new campaign I'm starting over on the Champions thread (Powers classification or something like that), and though I don't frequent many game-related boards (lack of time, not interest), I thought I might try it out. LSS: I'm attaching the backstory of our campaign, and I would appreciate feedback. I'm more than willing to give it in return. We've played one game, wherein the two players met and made contact with a couple of key NPCs. I'll have a 3rd …
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Mirroring the thread in the Champions forum, here's Tony Jaa's onscreen self and a few other characters from his films.
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