Metaphysician Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Since they have been introduced to 5e in STAST, has your campaign used the organization COIL?? If so, how?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iuz the Evil Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL Yes I have. But I can't talk about it as players from my PBEM read this board all the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Posted August 27, 2005 Report Share Posted August 27, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL Thus far I have used the Ophidian Plague sub-hook to weaken VIPER pretty much across the board. I ran the primary adventure with my FtF group, but ran the effects of the outbreak in my online game at Hero Central. VIPER's resources along the east coast have been fairly well gutted, and they lost a number of members of Dragon Branch as well (the plague had an interesting side affect with metas created by KC for VIPER originally). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchellS Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL I plan on using COIL in my new Miami [non-CU] game in much the same way that Slug might be used. Their base will be in the Everglades and King Cobra's goal is to turn everyone into a snakish-form so that he can control them and eventually rule everything. COIL agents are slowly infiltrating all aspects of Miami society and will be attempting a city government take-over, which will then lead to a state-wide take-over. Of course I don't expect it to get that far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hermit Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL Haven't run Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth yet, though I like what I've read in it, and do eventually plan to. How I'll use him and COIL depends a lot on how successful my PCs are in that adventure. I think the effects on VIPER will be the biggest consequence in my campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhamin Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL My campaign city is only now recovering from the aftermath of the Ophidian Plague. As for COIL, most of the inner circle were captured by the Player's Heroes during the adventure and PRIMUS rounded a majority of the rank and file agents that were present in the Hothouse. Krait escaped and has shown up a couple of times working for other villians in exchange for the chemicals he needs to produce his Serum. As for all the other rouge COIL agents, well there numbers were probably exaggerated. And King Cobra? Nobody could have survived that cave-in in the subway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southern Cross Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL So Jhamin,the other rogue COIL agents and King Cobra will show up again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jhamin Posted August 29, 2005 Report Share Posted August 29, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL Well, this is supposed to be the comics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted August 30, 2005 Report Share Posted August 30, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL I use COIL akin to the Serpent Society ... with much help from the 4e COIL The newer version just didn't gel well for me, so I use updated 4e with some ideas from STAST ... and I've also made Mongoose up for 5e that serves as a "Casey Jones meets Blade" that's hunting them down Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virtue Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL So have all the 4e stuff been thrown out the window in the champions universe Coil is way difernt UNTIL is way differnt Did they just toss out the old stuff almost all togther Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tech Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL I'm still using the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th editions of Cobra/King Cobra and his COBRA/COIL organization. Made up my own villains, which I might add, are quite good and easily equal to anything in any of the books. 'Course, I think we all have those kinds of villains and/or teams, don't we? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBikle Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL Around 3rd ed. Champs, I briefly used King Cobra in a bio-terrorism scenario. Basically, the PCs snuck into his warehouse and listened while he made a ranting speech. As soon as he finished, one of the PCs jumped out from ambush and riddled him with machine-gun fire (I think KC was shot about 5 times). King Cobra was killed instantly (the 3e version had no resistant defenses). Slightly anti-climactic, but everyone seemed entertained. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MitchellS Posted September 22, 2005 Report Share Posted September 22, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL So have all the 4e stuff been thrown out the window in the champions universe Coil is way difernt UNTIL is way differnt Did they just toss out the old stuff almost all togther Yes, a great deal of the 4E material was disgarded. Some of it was changed due to ownership issues [earlier owners didn't buy complete rights to many characters] and some of it was changed due to dislike. Overall most of the general themes of the 4E material have been maintained though. Some things have just been added too like COIL, which never really had a well-defined purpose in prior editions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirby Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL I haven't used the 5E yet, and am not sure I will (other than to defeat them from the get-go, perhaps as a VIPER controlled plot). However, I did use them in 4E, but mostly I used a self-created street gang. The gang was called Caimen Overlords and they referred to themselves as the Invisible Legion, thus: Caimen Overlords Invisible Legion Since the players had a PC in her senior year in high school, the street gang problem became a priority for them (and one of the gang members was nemesis for her at school). The gang members tended to wear brown leather jackets with "Caimen Overlords" on the back in black. (Pun intended). The team made it a priority to defeat the gang. They figured there was an organized crime unit behind the gang instructing them, but weren't sure who. It wasn't until they were patrolling the streets during a gang war (that the Caimen Overlords were winning) that they came upon a rally for them. The leader shouted "Caimen Overlords" and everyone else responded "Invisible Legion." One of the players figured it out then, but the others didn't figure it out on their own; they had to be told. I also added a stronger character for COIL. I think in 4E that Alligator was the toughest, so I introduced a personal bodyguard for King Cobra named "Orinaco" (named after the largest croc on earth that resides there, and is ironically enough being killed out by the tiny caimens), who was a basic clone, but Orinaco had 10 more character points in STR, CON, BODY, 1 or 2 higher points of DEX, and one more skill level than Alligator (or Croc, I don't recall who was the strongest at this time). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTemplar Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL Our old GM ran the STAST adventure and it was pretty fun. My personal favorite members of COIL were Gorgon and Boomslang. That's been our only exposure to them so far, but now that I'm getting ready to take over the GM spot, they may be making a return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Pants Posted September 23, 2005 Report Share Posted September 23, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL I haven't run the adventure, and don't plan to. Overall, I found it too campy. Some elements of it were of interest, though. I used the old west theme park as a VIPER base, and the ophidian supervillains as further members of Dragon Squad. While I may use the main villain someday, I'll DEFINITELY do something else for a picture, because WOW did they make him look STUPID. It's either that, or give him a -100 PRE for Presence Attacks. - Cap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted September 26, 2005 Report Share Posted September 26, 2005 Re: How Have You Used King Cobra/COIL If you can find Classic Enemies, Patrick Zircher's drawing of KC is far more sinister and threatening. David Blue 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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