Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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you know the rules. The night is your brother/best friend. Be stealthly. Become one with the darkness.
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From many moons ago (all two years of 'em) ... there any copies of the DC Holdout giveaway floating around (electronic or hardcopy) or have I just completely missed the boat on that one? I couldn't find info in a search.
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Okay, it's not really stupid. To my mind, the only truly stupid questions are, "May I ask a stupid question?" and, "About how long was the Hundred Years' War?" But this is something I feel like I should know from good sense, or know where to look up in one of the published books, but don't. The question is: would a conventional firearm (pistol, rifle, whatever) work in a vacuum?
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NCM is not a permited disad in this campeign, the characters are expected to be within HCM but going over NCM is apropriate for most characters in one or more characteristics A point system based on the resource points system in 5th edition DC will be in use, however military tech is the starting level for it, buing up from basic level is not allowed The first character for review is SSgt Michael Freeman Mike to his friends grew up in Mississippi, at 18 to pay for college he joined the USMC, where he works as a mechanic in the motor pool. During his time in he has learned to box. His large size (Stands 6'4", and weighs in at 283 lbs) and natural talent a…
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Saw an ad yesterday that Taser International now offers video camera attachments for Tasers. A great idea in RL, as a defense against the ubiquitous "I was just sitting there minding my own business when the mean officer zapped me for no reason" claims. (As well as increasing accountability if an officer does misuse one.) Anyway I got bored, so gamer-geek that I am I had to write it up (based on the Taser example on p262 of DC): Although as long as we're on the subject, I've never been terribly happy with DC's take on Tasers anyway. While I have never shot or been shot with one, I have seen demos and talked to people on both ends of the wire; Tasers don't real…
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I saw this mentioned on Bulletproof (Discovery Channel) and then found this video: http://www.break.com/movies/newarmor23.html There's also this businessweek article: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_32/b3996068.htm Looks very cool. No performance data yet, but they seem to imply that it will be useful against rifle rounds, implying that this will be about 12-13 DEF. The video only shows a pistol round, but that still puts it at 8-9 DEF. One interesting comment was the talk about making clothing out of it. I assume the clothing wouldn't be as strong as the torso armor in order to remain flexible, but I can imagine this putting 4-6 DEF on all…
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Hi everyone. Below is a character I was going to play in a World of Darkness game that never got off the ground. I decided to design Ameiko before her "event" so that hopefully she'll feel a little more real. This is just a rought draft with a reall shortened background and history. Please feel free to make comments, thanks! Background/History (shortened): Ameiko Minoru is of Japanese descent. Her father was a highly decorated officer before being shot dead in the line of duty when she was 15. At that point Ameiko, a devout Catholic, had been considering joining a nunnery despite a talent for the martial arts which her sensei felt would have made her a serious …
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I'm looking for 2-3 players for an ongoing Dark Champions/Street Level supers PBEM set in Hudson City. If interested please contact me at nexus@qx.net. Puts [Dawnofheroes] in the subject header so it won't be filtered as SPAM. Current characters: Nightfall: Blind costumed vigilante with enhanced senses Ghost: Highly trained martial artist vigilante Esien: Cyborg Menagerie: Mystic with power to take Totemic animal forms. Vanguard: Metahuman with enhanced strength and physical attributes. Calamity: Gun using vigilante/gadgeteer Roller Babe: Roller blading vigilante that uses fighting style based roller derby and hockey Dra…
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Would using slugs instead of shells in a shotgun remove the Reduced Penetration limitation?
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For all you gun experts. Antique Shotgun Is this a percussion cap shotgun? It looks a little like it to me but I've not found a date for it yet so I'm not sure. Thanks.
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I am posting this in the Dark Champions thread since this seems to be where most of my fellow gun bunnies hang out. Anybody happy (like me) that the latest issue of the American Rifleman says the US military is going readopt the .45 caliber pistol as its standard side arm. Apparently the 9mm has been disappointing. While the 9mm has better penetration but it lacks stopping power. If you want to penetrate something you'll use a rifle anyway. The US Military has decided that stopping power is more important. The decision has been made to open bidding for a new .45 ACP Joint Combat Pistol. Apparently the US Military is looking to purchase up to 649,000 of which ever .45…
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There is a ton of information on bullet balistics, penetration, balistic gel tests for various rounds/loads, etc. Is there anything on arrows... specifically on the unique damage to a human body done by an arrow? I know a four inch penetration through armor was usually considered a "kill" and not just a wound... but I'm thinking that was due more to poor medical aid rather than "insta-kill." What I'm interested in is the kind of damage an arrow (think broadhead hunting tip or the long, pointed pile arrow as two main types of damage). How does penetration and damage compare to say, a 9mm round? What is the damage done trying to remove the arrow (sans silk sh…
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Unless the doc does something unexpected at today's oral surgery follow-up appointment, tonight's chat will be held as usual at 9:00 PM EST, 6:00 PM PST in the chat rooms! Come hear the latest news and talk Hero!
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I don't know how many of you go into this level of detail in your games, but I have found a site that can give you data on sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset and other data, for just about any city in the US on any day of the year, past or present. Sun & Moon cycles.
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What kinds of armor can you think of, or have seen used in campaigns? What sort of stats would you assign these various kinds of armor, whether it be everyday, unusual, advanced, exotic, or just plain bizzarre? I admit I am woefully ignorant of the various kinds of modern day armor out there. Also, what DEF value would you assign a cup? You know, the one that covers hit location 13?
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Okay, What happens next? In the Weekend Warriors campaign that I am in, My character - Sweeper, just pulled a real doozy. I won't say that it will stop the campaign, BUT, it will definitely change the course of the campaigns short term future. I want to know what the rest of "you" out there would do.... For the details of the the gaff, refer to the campaign log of the Weekend Warriors. When it gets posted - Should be with-in a week or so... Would any of you... A) Pretend that nothing out of the ordinary happened, and carry on as "normal". Finish off the character with ritualist "sepuku"(?) and start fresh. C) Try to use th…
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I'm a new dark champions gm, so I thought I aske the experienced hands here for some assistance. I have vague notions for villians that I'd like to feature in upcoming sessions...one a Eastern European crimelord with horror/vampire undertones....the other a frightening killer that I could use in a wild west setting. A quick scan of the Predators table of contents as listed on the Hero Games website shows two villains therein that might fit my needs: Strad and the Headless Hangman. I'm therefore considereing ordering the book, but before I do so I'd like a better idea as to whether these characters so indeed fit my needs. Can someone provide brief overviews of the ch…
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I am building a character for a new player in the Weekend Warriors campaign. The player is not too familiar with the system so I have his basic specifications so that I can do an initial build to save time. I having trouble thinking of a good name so I thought I’d see what suggestions the community has. I need a name for a vigilante character in a low-powered Heroic game. The character uses a katana but also has a .357 magnum revolver (Colt Python). I may also give him some shuriken. I think that I will make the character the son of a Japanese father and an American mother (mixed blood). The character has lived in America all his life and is in his late twenties. In …
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I am currently running a Dark Champions "Cyberpunk" flavor game, and one of the optional rules that I am using is Adjustable Hit Locations (Dark Champions, p. 185). Since my game is a Hero level campaign (75 pt characters to start with), I adjusted the power curve of this optional rule downward by only granting +/- 1 to the Hit Location chart for every 2 points by which they make their Attack Rolls, rather than +/- 1 per 1 point. This makes it a little more challenging to get that critical "head shot" or "vitals" shot, which I feel is more appropriate for this power level, but still rewards the players with a much more desirable Hit Location when needed on a "good shot"…
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A couple days ago, I came up with a very strange character idea. Think of this one as a mix of Anime and Dark Champions, like Golgo 13 or Kite, and further blended with the unholyness of Hamtaro. Presenting: Gunner, the Hamster Hitman [b]Gunner - [/b] [b][u]VAL[/u] [u]CHA[/u] [u]Cost[/u] [u]Total[/u] [u]Roll[/u] [u]Notes[/u][/b] -15 STR -25 -15 6- HTH Damage -3d6 END [0] 20 DEX 30 20 13- OCV 7 DCV 7 12 CON 4 12 11- 2 BODY -16 2 9- 15 INT 5 15 12- PER Roll 12- 12 EGO 4 12 11- ECV: 4 0 PRE -10 0 9- PRE Attack: 0d6 20 C…
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At least I think it's clever... For my Weekend Warriors campaign I have just constructed a prop for our next game. It is supposed to be a page from HCVIGILANTE.NET. I created this prop in reaction to the group's bloody solution to their most recent action (see the last log entry). The prop is attached to this post as a PDF file (Acrobat). Here is how I created it: I went to the The things I learned playing a gunbunny thread and used the forum tools to display a printable version. I then took the page removed the hyperlinks and rewrote some of the text, saved it as a PDF and there you have it. I think it came out pretty nice. However some of you have now bee…
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I just watched the trailer, it looks pretty good. I liked Micheal Mann's heat and Collateral, so hopefully this is just as good. At the very least it will be some good ideas for DC
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