Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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Well, I've been away from the Hero system for about a year now, but after seeing both "Mr & Mrs Smith" and "Batman: the Begining", I've been seriously thinking about starting up a modern day action/adventure game featuring lots of gun toting mercenaries, car chases, ninja clans, helicopters shooting up the side of buildings and government cyborg assassins gone rogue. Needless to say, I'm thinking that Dark Champions is probably the way to go. But here's the thing, I have a fairly large group of players (8 to 12), most of whom are not at all familiar with the Hero system. The most important thing for me is make sure combat is fast and furious. Since I h…
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This is my first post so please bare with me. My friend and I are working on DC campaign, the meta plot and minor plots are worked out so far. What we need is advice on how two GM's running at the same time should do it. I'm not sure if one should run the main body and the other help out with combat or should we share the load. Basically we want to here your thoughts and ideas. Signed Baffled in Bummertown
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I'm a big reader... I've taken inspiration from movies before, but novels seem to inspire me more. I'm running a sort of Horror Hero meets Dark Champions over a cup of coffee with John Woo, campaign... the main thematic elements are gothic horror, but the heroes, for the most part, are your typical Woo-ish street-fighters and gunslingers. We're off to a good start, but I need some complications.. and really need to spin some plots to make the gothic horror elements shine, and interweave that with some more mundane criminal elements to give the characters a break. My reading has always tended towards horror, fantasy and some dabbling in Sci-Fi; so the underw…
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I am in the process of designing a base in Hudson City for our Vigilante Campaign. This is a much more upscale team than our last DC campaign - The Omega Team so I would like the base to be a little closer to something that was put together by Bruce Wayne than The Punisher. My first question is location? I am thinking of placing it in Riverside (for quick citywide access) but that seems kinda pedestrian to me. Anyone have any ideas for where it could be and what it could be? It needs to have access to a helipad fairly close and tolerate large amounts of traffic going in and out. I was thinking of a parking garge with a sub-basement but I am not really happy with…
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How is armor going to fare against a weaponized version of this badboy? I assume that the machine is huge and unwieldy but 30 kilometer per second is an ugly speed. Anyone want to take a stab at writing it up?
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After some extensive research, I have come to the conclusion that the standard Kevlar Vests in the HERO rules does not realistically represent the real thing. Here is what I came up with: LEVEL I IIA II IIIA III IV WEIGHT 3.0 lbs 6.0 lbs 6.5 lbs 7.5 lbs 20.0 lbs 21.0 lbs PRICE $450 $700 $750 $850 $1,200 $1,300 rPD/rED 6/3 8/4 10/5 12/6 14/7* 16/8*…
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Carol West, IST San Angelo administrator Sir John Royal's long time secretary, is legally blind (her vision is 20/225, which is worse than 20/200, the defined limit) and has a guide dog. She and her guide dog, Ginger, a golden retreiver, can talk mentally with each other and, by closing her eyes and concentrating, Carol can see through Ginger's eyes and vice versa. The first power is Mind Link in 5E and Mystic Link in 4E. Any idea what the second is? Carol uses non-perscription reading glasses for close-up work and can see up to three feet. Quoting her, "When I'm standing, I can't see my knees, much less my feet." Is the three foot range reasonable? When they're…
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I have been trying to work up a computer for a character who is a technical wiz. The character is the one that does the hacking and electronic feats for the team he is a part of. Trouble is none of us have really had much experience designing computers for a Hero System game. Below is my effort at building one. Please look it over and tell me what you think. The character will be buying this using his resource points so as it is designed it will cost the character 28 Resource points to pack this gizmo. EDIT: Deleted, it really was ugly. See later post for updated computer. That came out pretty ugly. Has anybody built an export template for the Hero boards for Co…
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With half a ton of Champions books bowing my shelving I was absolutely, positively not going to be buying Dark Champions. No need, not my style, it'd never get used and so forth. And then this evening I snagged a free ticket to the preview of the "Sin City" movie and, like half of the characters, I was blown away. My resolve is weakening...
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I'm betting there are SCUBA people out there who can tell me about how much a 1-hour's worth of oxygen tanks would weigh. I am trying to come up with an approximate weight of the SCUBA Equipment listed on page 288 of the Dark Champions book. If you know the answer to that one, how much would the rebreather outfit (options, same page) weigh?
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Guns vs. Armor 1 2
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A disturbing trend (as far as gaming is concerned) that I see is the effectiveness of modern body armor. Many of the standard guns that are out on the street are no match for state-of-the-art body armor. This is even reflected in the Dark Champions book. For instance a street thug manages to get some AP bullets for his 9mm Glock. Using the Dark Champions table on page 218 we can see that this will be a 1d6 RKA AP attack. Along comes vigilante boy wearing his Level III-A Spectra body armor with 9 PD. Even with his armor value halved, due to the AP, the gun that is shooting him will need to roll sixes on the damage dice to do even a single point of damage. In the real …
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Hello all, I was wondering if anyone has ever done a write up for Vigilante, I used to collect Vigilante comics in the 80's and always loved them. That was a least until DC did it's Crisis on Infinte Earth's thing. So if anyone has I would really love to see it. Take care and be well, Grym
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In the on line guide to Hudson City neighborhood Reference it list Crown point (Ashwood) as the gay part of town, but in the Hudson City Hotel,Bar, and Restaurant. It's does not list one gay bar in the whole city. As a gay gamer, I am just wondering why?
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Hot off the press! Dark Champions: The Animted Series is HERE! You can now buy the book and the Character Pack in the Online Store! Get it now and start kicking animated butt tomorrow!
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Now that the 2004-2005 TV season is over in the United States, people are going to argue over what the best new show was. In this country for broadcast, that is like arguing over the ideal number of fingers on a leper. Although i am not devoted to anything on broadcast, the one new series that has consistently entertained me the most is House. It is a medical drama about a Dr. House (played by Hugh Laurie, a British actor who did a lot of great stuff over there, particuarly with Stephen Fry) who tackles diseases and ailments that baffle everyone else. House is brilliant and mercurial but arrogant, misanthropic, callous and addicted to painkillers. He'll cure your ill…
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I've just ordered the first season of The Shield - gritty with a seedy underbelly! Just wondering what TV shows, films, books & comics you guys consider good reference for the DC genre. I understand there are multiple sub-genres to cover, but, what the hey!
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Below are the house rules that I am using for body armor in my Dark Champions campaign. This campaign strives for more realism than cinematic effects. I am posting this as an FYI for whoever might be interested. I have an extensive collection of body armor that I have worked up based on what is available out there in the real world. Most of what I have conjectured is based upon TV (Discovery Channel, Military Channel, TLC, etc.) and web resources that I have found. THE SHORTCOMINGS OF BODY ARMOR Modern body armor is very effective at stopping what it was designed to stop. What it is designed to stop is bullets and shrapnel. As an added benefit it is pretty effectiv…
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I'm still waiting for the books to stat out my world. So I thought I'd write a short story to flesh it out some more. Let me know what you think. Part One -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Burning diesel fuel and cigarettes. God this place reeks, Carlos thought to himself. I’ve been waiting for this hack, who calls himself a mechanic, for over two hours. Enough is enough. “Hey man! When can I cruise outta here? You said this was an easy job!†As if a response, another part of Carlos’ baby rolls out. Only stop next to a pair of grease stained jeans sticking out from under the fender. “Well mate, whoev…
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is anyone running Dark champions at GenCon Indy? thanks Mike
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I really like the optional Skill Enhancer 'Expert'. Though, I am finding that one can really pile on the skills with the right explanation. In the book, they gave the example of Russia. I believe that the list of skills could be quite long. Do you allow/use this skill enhancer? Do you have a limit on the number of skills that can be a part of it?
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Although this idea mainly comes from reading about the Yakuza, who began as police in areas where the feudal Japanese authorities didn't want to go, but it could apply to other "organzied crime" gropus as well. What sort of a campaign could you build around characters who are criminals, and do illegal things for a living, but who have a moral code of their own and lines they never cross -- and find themsvles opposing and oppsoed by other criminals for whom there is no such code, not to mention by the authorities? There are numeorus examples of this in fiction, from thieves who secretly support charities such as orphanges and commit crimes to ebenfit them to assa…
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I was scathed second-hand on the boards the other day. A guy was expressing displeasure at gamers who just give their characters the most powerful weapons they can carry with their given strength, regardless of how well the gun fits the character. I looked at my character sheet. A softspoken analyst character who dabbles in mystical arts . . . and carries a Glock 21 (2d6 RKA) with a Silencer/Flash Supressor and lazer sights. Okay, I've clearly done something out of character. The Silencer works (quiet man that doesnt draw attention to himself, quiet gun that doesn't draw attention to itself), but I still needed something less . . . austere. Now, I really don'…
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First of all let me provide a spoiler warning. If any player from my future Red Star game lurks on this thread I will be very ticked. I'll give you a chance to back out now. You know who you are. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ok, I'm trying to create a sniper character for the heros to deal with. Sort of a crime scene investigators thing. The sniper will be heinously powerful given time and preperation. but if you get him running or get one step ahead, he should be an easy catch. A little mind over muscle. I am just working with Sidekick, DC and Hudson City. I'll post his stats here but I have a few rule…
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This was a villian from the old Murder's Row supplement (4th Edition DC). Does anybody have any art that would work for him? I am revamping the old villian since one of my players is using him as a hunted.
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I'm trying to create a brick for my up coming sci-fi game. We are using pre-gens and the player wants a brick. The game will have periods of time when the players will not be in full gear and other times when they will be loaded for bear. Equipment is bought with Resource Points and the group will be a military unit so armor is available. I'm having trouble finding the balance. The player wants to soak damage and "Stand there and take it" Easy enough to do with good armor. But if the brick is wearing the good armor why can't the rest of the party? Then they are all bricks. If I give the brick more inherent powers like DR or rPD the brick becomes permantly re…
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