Dark Champions
Modern-day action-adventure, including vigilante crimefighting, military action, law enforcement, espionage, and more!
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Barring the long lived or immortal heroes out there, an interesting scenario for a campaign would be post retirement heroes. Ether they live in world where (supposedly) most of the troubles have been put to rest or have signed out for the younger generation. Either way, for some reason something from thier past drives them out. Now they have to deal with retraining thier skills, dealing with lower back pain and younger hotshots who lack any experience. Sorry if the idea has crept up before. But would make for a good suppliment for Champions.
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Dark champions to champions
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I like some of the dark champions characters like Harbinger and Card Shark and I want to use them in Champions but all there powers dont apply like the resource points. So how would you represent the resource points in a Champions campaign were you have to pay for everything.
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hey gang, FINALLY getting my Dark Champs campaign off the ground... and I would love to find a source for those neat numeric dispatch codes you hear people toss around on crime shows. I want the campaign cranked up to maximum grittiness and this will be just another way to get that feel. And if there's a similar thing for paramedics/Fire Dept. that would be great, too. Will give Rep to whomever helps - is someone can explain the Rep system to me! Personally keeping the streets full of human filth, C:sneaky:rPse
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The "war on terror" ended but there was a depression, worse then that of 1929. This was a total economic collapse ! The United States fell apart into disassociated cities with little to no central government. Sometime later the Players will enter one such town in an effort to; reclaim that greatness that has fallen into darkness. Campaign name: RECLAMATION Power Level: HERO (powerful) I'm thinking a Shadowrun-ish style game. It still needs work but I wanted to see how it looked so far.
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For DH subscribers interested in being involved with the playtesting or testreading, DC:TAS is now available in the usual place. If you have any questions or comments, please post 'em in the "Company Questions" thread of the same name. Thanx!
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All the villains, allies and vigilantes from Hudson City: The Urban Abyss in Hero Designer format, including the Harbinger's weapons, for $6.99. Enjoy!
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For your consideration. There are two small errors in the text, to be fixed later.
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I was wondering if anyone considered the possibility of having "Dark Champions" characters meet "Dark Champions: The Animated Series" characters. Or, conversely, having "TAS" characters meet their darker, more violent counterparts... "He's just like me, but... cuddly?" Killing Attacks Changed to Normal Attacks Firearm SFX changed to "Blast of light" SFX Physical Limitation: Code Against Killing (Note that this is not a -psychological- limitation - it's a physical one.) Physical Limitation: Cannot Curse Physical Limitation: Cannot Mention Religion (Seriously! They changed the line for Skeets in JLU to "My gosh, it's full of stars!" …
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http://www.larrywillis.com/300Whisper.html when you get there click on the blue writing in the middle of the page.....it does require quicktime FYI
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I was thinking the other day how much I enjoy Andrew Vachss's novels as Dark Champions inspiration, and I figured it might be helpful to start a thread about what y'all find inspirational for the genre. So, leaving aside the obvious (technothrillers by the likes of Clancy and Bond, spy thrillers by the likes of Fleming, LeCarre, and Ludlum, mysteries by all sorts of people), what sort of novels, short stories, etc. have y'all found good as Dark Champions inspiration or source material?
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Hitman
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I was pleasantly surprised by the Hitman series from Eidios for the PC and Playstation, far from the mindless shooter game I expected (nothing wrong wth mindless) it actually has an interesting plot that would not be bad for a small 1 or 2 player DC game. Throughout you are not really sure of the reasons for your missions or if you are doing right or wrong, and there is alot of mystery about your own background. It reminded me a little of the movie The Professional too. Has anyone else played through this series and had similar thoughts?
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Steve, I snagged my copy of HC yesterday and have been drooling over it since. Very nicely done. Perhaps you've addressed this already in another thread that I missed, but is there any chance of DOJ publishing the Hudson City maps in a larger format? It would be very handy to either have a full poster-sized version like a real city map or 8½ x 11" maps (perhaps a pdf?) of each grid square and/or individual neighborhood (Little Italy, Freetown, etc.). The maps in the book are first rate, but they're a bit tough on these middle-aged eyes and a version I could read without a magifying glass or maybe put down in the middle of our gaming table for all to see would be tr…
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A nice thing about Hero is that suggestions for doing things in one genre can have similar uses in other ones. One of the suggested Fantasy Hero magic systems involved characters buying spells by taking a spell's real cost and then dividing it by a number like 3 or 5 to see how much it cost in character points. Has anyone ever considered trying this with the costs of Dark Champions superskills? If this is done, it brings down the points needed for characters to have a few cool abilities. Or am I a heretic for suggesting this?
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Someone had mentioned that they were looking for generic street-level thugs. Below I will be posting the old generic thugs from the 4th Edition sourcebook Justice, Not Law. I have slightly modified the write-ups for 5th Edition. This is also the first time I have tried to post with this export template so I hope it works.I will be posting a zip file with the HD files after I finish posting the 4 characters. Street Thug (Type 1) (Click to toggle display) Character created with Hero Designer, version 2.41 -- interim build Combat Information Page Character Name: Street Thug…
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I was wondering why Hero Games chose to name the book "Dark Champions?" Afterall, the book isn't only about superheroic campaigns and doesn't focus on dark, gritty settings either. "Modern Hero" or "High Tech Hero" would have seemed more appropriate.
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http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=3&f=118&t=221779&page=1
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In the main Dark Champions Book is a table of ranks for the military, The bit that gets under my skin is the idea that a 2 Lt is a more valuable perk than the a Chief Master Seargent of the Air Force, the officer and enlisted corp do not stack on top of each other, while the officer corp gets paid more and are in command postions the lower officer ranks (O-1, O-2) are as influential as the mid enlisted (E-4 through E-6) range IME
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The new .460 S&W magnum. It is ONLY in the monster revolver they made for the .500, and it is a lenghtened .454 casull, basically. It can use .45 Colt OR .454 CASULL as "REDUCED LOADS"!!! It generates 65,000 PSI chamber pressure, and drives a 200 grain bullet at 2200 FPS!!! out of a bloody pistol! That pressure is so high you can't put it in most lever action rifles. wow.
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Has anyone seen a copy of Hudson City yet in their FLGS?
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Hi, Trying to get this build right and am finding it a bit tricky, please can someone throw their 2 cents worth in? H&K Socom .45: Multipower, 40-point reserve, (40 Active Points); OAF (-1), STR Minimum 12 (STR Min. Cannot Add/Subtract Damage; -1), 12 Charges (-1/4), No Knockback (-1/4), Beam (-1/4), Real Weapon (-1/4) u 1) Standard Mode: (Total: 30 Active Cost, 9 Real Cost) RKA 1 1/2d6 (vs. PD) (25 Active Points); OAF (-1), STR Minimum 12 (STR Min. Cannot Add/Subtract Damage; -1), Beam (-1/4), No Knockback (-1/4), Real Weapon (-1/4) (Real Cost: 7) plus Laser Sight +1 with Ranged Combat (5 Active Points); OAF (-1), Required Hands Two-Handed (-1/…
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Has anyone had any luck with trying a DC game over e-mail. I am currently not able to play now because of my school/work schedule in my usual gaming group, and they are talking about setting up a PBEM to accomodate my gaming desires. Has anyone else gotten this to work to any luck? Has anyone been in a game that failed miserably? Any suggestions for when we do this that I can pass along? Thanks, Jonathan
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Here is U.N. Intelligence agent Christine Hunter from my IST San Angelo campaign for your comments Name: Christine Hunter Player: GM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Val Char Base Cost 14 STR 10 4 14 DEX 10 12 15 CON 10 10 14 BODY 10 8 17 INT 10 7 16 EGO 10 12 16 PRE 10 6 16 COM 10 3 11 PD 3 3 11 ED 3 3 4 SPD 2.4 16 6 REC 6 0 30 END 30 0 29 STUN 29 0 6" RUN 6" 0 2" SWIM 2" 0 2 1/2" LEAP 3" 0 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- STR Roll: 12- Run: 6" DEX Roll: 12- Swim: 2" CON Roll: 12- Leap: 2 1/2" …
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Jujitsu - Help!!!
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Need Help Now Hi I am playing in my first DC Campaign shortly and my PC is an expert in Jujitsu (a style I have dabbled in myself)- very practical, short, not flashy etc. Has any one got rules for this written up as a package? Cheers ears Baz
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As you probably already know, we took Dark Champions Battlegrounds off the 2005 schedule because the Battlegrounds books have generally had lackluster sales. Nevertheless, I still hope someday to do DCB. For fun tonight I'm fiddling around with some ideas, and I figured I'd solicit peoples' opinions. My currently plan would be to make the book something similar to FHB, in that it would have three main scenarios, followed by a section of a dozen or so lesser locations/scenarios. It's the main scenarios I'm interested in at this point; we can talk about the other stuff later. One of the main scenarios will definitely be a reworking of Harpcor Towers, the main adve…
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April Carter replaced Christine Hunter as IST San Angelo's U.N. Intelligence Agent. Like Christine, she's an NPC. Here she is. Name: Apeil Carter Alternate IDs: Player: GM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Val Char Roll Notes 13 STR 12- HTH Damage 2 1/2d6 END [1] 17 DEX 12- OCV 6 DCV 6 15 CON 12- 13 BODY 12- 15 INT 12- Perception Roll: 12- 12 EGO 11- Base ECV: 4 21 PRE 13- Base Presence Attack: 4d6 18 COM 13- 11 PD 9 ED 4 SPD 8 REC Run: 6" 30 END Swim: 2" 28 STUN Leap: 2 1/2" -------------------------------------------------------------…
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