Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

[Ben Seeman]

Hey everyone, my nephew is looking for an online resource for Hero writeups of Marvel charcters. I looked at Susano's page but couldn't find any. Any links?

 

Thanks!

[MitchellS]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

The one I'm the most familiar with is the Great Netbook of Real Heroes here: http://www.sysabend.org/champions/gnborh/

 

I think most are 4E rather than 5E but there have been some 5E updates. I contributed several Marvel and DC characters to that site over the years.

[TheQuestionMan]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

The Great Net Book of Real Heroes – Comic Book Conversions

http:// http://www.sysabend.org/champions/gnborh/index.html

 

Matt's Champions Page - The 250 Point Project

http:// http://www.angelfire.com/scifi2/mathew/champions.html

 

Dejay's Champions Write Ups

http:// http://www.mactyre.net/scm/deejay/champs/writeups.html

 

Red October

http:// http://www.mactyre.net/october/index.html

 

The Wild Hunt - X-Men

http:// http://the-wild-hunt.org/sitemap.html

 

Converted to Marvel Superheroes

http:// http://www.marvelrpg.net/

 

Project Genesis: Conversions to...

http:// http://members.lycos.co.uk/genesisproject/convert.html

 

Surbrook's Stuff

http:// http://surbrook.devermore.net/index/index.html

 

And check my Signature's Links

 

QM

[Ben Seeman]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Thanks guys.

[fredrik_nilsson]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

As always, TheQuestionMan delivers. You should run your own search engine, or something. The address http://www.thequestionman.com is available. Sort of like Ask Jeeves.

 

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There are some conversion notes between the old Mavel RPG and Hero that might been of interest. That won't give you a complete campaign, but you get a good starting point. You even get a complete set of the old game, if you want.

[TheQuestionMan]

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As always' date=' TheQuestionMan delivers. You should run your own search engine, or something. The address http://www.thequestionman.com is available. Sort of like Ask Jeeves.

 

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There are some conversion notes between the old Mavel RPG and Hero that might been of interest. That won't give you a complete campaign, but you get a good starting point. You even get a complete set of the old game, if you want.

 

 

Thanks, but I am only Computer Semi-Literate. Meaning I know just enough to be dangerous.

 

Cheers

 

QM

[John Desmarais]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

The one I'm the most familiar with is the Great Netbook of Real Heroes here: www.sysabend.org/champions/gnborh/

 

I think most are 4E rather than 5E but there have been some 5E updates. I contributed several Marvel and DC characters to that site over the years.

 

And we're always willing to accept more (I hit a time period for a while when I went back to school where I simply didn't have time to keep it updated, but I'm through with that).

[Enforcer84]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

The one I'm the most familiar with is the Great Netbook of Real Heroes here: http://www.sysabend.org/champions/gnborh/

 

I think most are 4E rather than 5E but there have been some 5E updates. I contributed several Marvel and DC characters to that site over the years.

Me as well

[Enforcer84]

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And we're always willing to accept more (I hit a time period for a while when I went back to school where I simply didn't have time to keep it updated' date=' but I'm through with that).[/quote']

Really? I'll have to see about updating some of my 4th to 5th and resend. Can you take HD Files?

[assault]

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Just a thought: a lot of the writeups out there are for heroes. Villains might actually be more useful.

[John Desmarais]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Really? I'll have to see about updating some of my 4th to 5th and resend. Can you take HD Files?

 

HD files are great.

[John Desmarais]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Just a thought: a lot of the writeups out there are for heroes. Villains might actually be more useful.

 

Good point. Make some.

[John Desmarais]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Hey everyone, my nephew is looking for an online resource for Hero writeups of Marvel charcters. I looked at Susano's page but couldn't find any. Any links?

 

Thanks!

 

Ben, your avatar is really beginning to weird me out. I'm thinking "Ben" but seeing "Emma". It's just odd.

[assault]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Good point. Make some.

 

Feh. You can't catch me that easily. I already know that the main danger in coming up with good ideas is that people expect you to be the one who implements them.

 

Besides, I refuse to accept the legitimacy of "continuity".

 

I only ever design homages to characters, without fussing over the stupid things that were done to them after they were first introduced. In other words, my Doctor Doom-like character would be based on his appearances in more or less the first year of the FF, and totally disregard everything after that.

 

In fact, it might even be based on his first appearance, when he showed the ability to fly, build some nifty toys, and, of course, build robots that could be shredded by a single haymaker.

 

You don't _really_ want me to design the 450 point Doctor Doom, do you? Or the 350 point Lex Luthor?

 

Hmm... Of course, for those people who aren't poopie-heads like me, it might be nice to suggest that they include plot seeds with the character. If a character only appeared once or twice, then only one or two plot seeds would be necessary, while a character that has been around for eons might have three or more. The most obvious sources for such plot seeds would be their actual appearances!

 

First plot seed for Amazo: "Professor Ivo is nuts for whatever his reason is, and decides that the way to achieve his goal is to build Amazo, who can absorb the PC's powers and whap them about the landscape."

 

That's a real subtle plot, isn't it? But a group of PCs would work themselves up into the biggest lather in the universe trying to deal with it. You could probably drag it out for multiple sessions, simply by handing them a Really Big Obvious Clue after they've been slapped around a few times.

 

In other words, you could play it. That doesn't, unfortunately, extend to all villains, who are in many cases fairly closely associated with their heroic opponents. Then again, many supervillain teams are pretty generic. As long as they have a patron who has a mad on for the PCs, they can usually just carry out random acts of mayhem in order to bring on a showdown.

 

And there's a plot seed: "a supervillain team has a patron who has a mad on for the PCs. The villains are ordered to carry out random acts of mayhem in order to bring on a showdown".

 

Or whatever. Very little comics writing is Great Literature, and the plotlines usually match.

[Enforcer84]

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Ben' date=' your avatar is really beginning to weird me out. I'm thinking "Ben" but seeing "Emma". It's just odd. [/quote']

At least is hasn't become Benemma yet, that's just too wrong.

[Enforcer84]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Feh. You can't catch me that easily. I already know that the main danger in coming up with good ideas is that people expect you to be the one who implements them.

 

Besides, I refuse to accept the legitimacy of "continuity".

 

I only ever design homages to characters, without fussing over the stupid things that were done to them after they were first introduced. In other words, my Doctor Doom-like character would be based on his appearances in more or less the first year of the FF, and totally disregard everything after that.

 

In fact, it might even be based on his first appearance, when he showed the ability to fly, build some nifty toys, and, of course, build robots that could be shredded by a single haymaker.

 

You don't _really_ want me to design the 450 point Doctor Doom, do you? Or the 350 point Lex Luthor?

 

Hmm... Of course, for those people who aren't poopie-heads like me, it might be nice to suggest that they include plot seeds with the character. If a character only appeared once or twice, then only one or two plot seeds would be necessary, while a character that has been around for eons might have three or more. The most obvious sources for such plot seeds would be their actual appearances!

 

First plot seed for Amazo: "Professor Ivo is nuts for whatever his reason is, and decides that the way to achieve his goal is to build Amazo, who can absorb the PC's powers and whap them about the landscape."

 

That's a real subtle plot, isn't it? But a group of PCs would work themselves up into the biggest lather in the universe trying to deal with it. You could probably drag it out for multiple sessions, simply by handing them a Really Big Obvious Clue after they've been slapped around a few times.

 

In other words, you could play it. That doesn't, unfortunately, extend to all villains, who are in many cases fairly closely associated with their heroic opponents. Then again, many supervillain teams are pretty generic. As long as they have a patron who has a mad on for the PCs, they can usually just carry out random acts of mayhem in order to bring on a showdown.

 

And there's a plot seed: "a supervillain team has a patron who has a mad on for the PCs. The villains are ordered to carry out random acts of mayhem in order to bring on a showdown".

 

Or whatever. Very little comics writing is Great Literature, and the plotlines usually match.

I've a bunch of writeups for villains there. I can get more too...

[AlHazred]

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You don't _really_ want me to design the 450 point Doctor Doom' date=' do you? Or the 350 point Lex Luthor?[/quote']

 

Of course I do. That way I can pit their might against the 2000+ point Batman teamed up with the 250-point Superman. (Reminds me, I've got to find that high-point Batman writeup...)

[AlHazred]

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You know, John, maybe as an adjunct to the SHAMO website, you could add a character wiki, like has been done for Mutants & Masterminds. That might encourage people to tweak a little; it's less of an investment in time, and with everyone's spare energy some might actually get done...

[John Desmarais]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

You know' date=' John, maybe as an adjunct to the SHAMO website, you could add a character wiki, like has been done for Mutants & Masterminds. That might encourage people to tweak a little; it's less of an investment in time, and with everyone's spare energy some might actually get done...

 

Interesting idea, but it would take more time to get the basic framework built than currently I spend posting submissions to the GNBORH. (What's the SHAMO?)

[John Desmarais]

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Interesting idea' date=' but it would take more time to get the basic framework built than currently I spend posting submissions to the GNBORH. (What's the SHAMO?)

 

DOH!!! I was having a Homer Simpson moment.

[TheQuestionMan]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Surbrook's Stuff

http:// http://surbrook.devermore.net/index/index.html

 

Oops! Sorry Susano

 

QM

[Enforcer84]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

DOH!!! I was having a Homer Simpson moment.

JOhn did you get Batroc's Brigade? I sent them last night!

[ghost-angel]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

you know ... I'm almost convinced that TheQuestionMan is nothing more than a Google AI. His linkage ability is kinda creepy in that helpful way.

[TheQuestionMan]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

you know ... I'm almost convinced that TheQuestionMan is nothing more than a Google AI. His linkage ability is kinda creepy in that helpful way.

 

Thanks, I think.

 

LOL

 

QM

[Enforcer84]

Re: Marvel Character Hero System Writeups

 

Head on over the Netbook, I am going through my Marvel Files and turning them all to 5th ED. High powered true, but you can always scale back. Oddly enough, my first four submissions I never submitted before. Hmm....