Western Champions, Redone

[JmOz]

Ok a while ago I had an idea for a campeign, well for one reason or another I got it about 1/2 way done and stoped.

 

My loval FLGS has asked me to highlight a game at a local gaming convention like thing they sponser. I being a hard core Hero Fan have decided to run a Hero game, and pull my "Western Champions" idea out of storage and restart it.

 

So, I decided a thread for ideas, etc... was warented

 

The idea is to show how well hero runs cross-genre by mixing Cowboys with superheroes, for inspiration think: Lone Ranger, Zorro, Two Gun Kid (Marvel), Phantom/Ghost Rider (Marvel), Johnah Hex (DC), etc...

 

Now I have some threads from two years ago already bookmarked, but I am not sure if I will use all of the characters there, and if I do they will be simplified as it is a demo game

 

The characters I am planning on using are:

 

Defender 1875 (Steam Powered PA)

Seeker 1875 (MArtial Artist)

Dakota Rose (Mistress of the Lasso)

Lucky Jack (Card player, fighter, lover)

Undertaker (Need a better name for this dead man who aint ready for the grave yet)

 

Plus 2 new charactrers I have not decided on

 

Now, I'm working on plot ideas, originaly I thought of an alien invasion, I am also teasing with an homage to the "The Vally of Guange".

 

Ideas would be appreciated

[TheRavenIs]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

I'd call the almost dead man, Shade Walker. Has that spooky feel and also fits the time period.

[JmOz]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

I'd call the almost dead man' date=' Shade Walker. Has that spooky feel and also fits the time period.[/quote']

 

Good name, but he is dead, he just ain't lied down yet (He's an undead type, more powerbased than the others, but it does give the character something "Special")

 

BTW: I am only going to be using the SK rules for this...

[TheRavenIs]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

When you have the C's done can you post them? I'd like to see what you did and how.

[JmOz]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

You can bet on it, I will probably post 2-3 versions as I revise them, etc...

[Spence]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

If you are wanting to keep a Western Hero feel, I keep Undertaker named The Undertaker. Think of the western movies. They are not big on flair like four color heros. Naming a gunslinger Texas, or the Ringo Kid was about as far as they went. Also I wouldn't go alien or anything like that. Villains should have a more Western storyline. A land grab, stopping sheep farmers, stopping sodbusters (farmers), stealing land because of mining rights.

 

The "ghost" that is running off settlers and killing some turns out to be a Shawnee super intent on driving out the white man from the sacred hunting grounds.

 

If you are wanting to go western, then do a western.

[TheQuestionMan]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

The characters I am planning on using are:

 

Defender 1875 (Steam Powered PA)

Seeker 1875 (MArtial Artist)

Dakota Rose (Mistress of the Lasso)

Lucky Jack (Card player, fighter, lover)

Undertaker (Need a better name for this dead man who aint ready for the grave yet)

 

Plus 2 new charactrers I have not decided on

Daniel "Fancy Dan" York - (Englishman Pinkerton Detective)

Joesph "Red Wolf" - (Indian Guide/Tracker/Shaman)

James "Professor" Forster - (Scientist/Inventor former valet ot Phileus Fogg)

Claude "Doc" Bernard - (Civil War Surgeon/Doctor/studying with Indian Medicine Men)

Sigurd "Black Gang" Freyrsson - (Black Smith/Inventor/Clockwork, Steampower, and Manufacturing)

 

 

Cheers

 

QM

[freakboy6117]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

for undertaker

 

daniel "boot" hill

bone-yard

Lazarus Jackson

john "six feet" downs

[David Johnston]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

There is a busted pilot you occasionally see on TV about an outlaw who was hanged but revived after being cut down with a sudden desire to change his life and abandon his criminal ways. He tries to get a job as a farm hand but ends up fighting off the bad guys attempt to run off the widow he's working for and as the movie progresses it becomes increasing obvious that he now has ghostly superpowers. It was entitled "The Hanged Man".

 

There's also an undead character from the RPG named The Tombstone Kid.

[Kevin Schultz]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

Sounds like Deadlands.

[yamamura]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

How about for one of the extra characters, a young Hermetic Sorceress that had traveled westward and ended up trapped in an Indian ambush. She lives with the tribe a few years gaining shamanic knowledges. She has recently come back to the whiteman world with a new hybrid system of magic (which her former teachers considers an insult) and is now looking for her place in the world.

[Manic Typist]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

How about "Tombstone" for the dead guy?

 

Coffinbait?

 

Or "Six Feet?"

 

*Whipsering conversation* "Pst... why do they call him Six Feet? He's only 5'10''!"

"It's short for Six Feet Under... now shut your trap before we get killed! Oh crap, he heard us!"

[Twilight]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

There was a western character mentioned in Madmen and Masterminds, in the backstory of the Cabal. He was a small town sherrif who opposed the Cabal in it's early days, so they had the entire town destroyed and framed some native tribe for the massacre. They thought they'd killed him, but the man came back to thwart them again and again.

 

His name....Lazarus Adams.

[Manic Typist]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

Dang. I just now noticed that someone already suggested names using "Six Feet" and "Tombstone."

 

Oops.

[JmOz]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

First character is done, need to write up the background, but basicaly he is from china and his child has been taken to america, and now he looks for him, while wandering the west he is often asked to help out members of the asian community with various problems that arise in the fairly racist time of 1876

 

Seeker 1876

 

Player:

 

Val Char Cost

15 STR 5

28 DEX 54

20 CON 20

12 BODY 4

18 INT 8

11 EGO 2

15/25 PRE 5

10 COM 0

 

7/10 PD 4

7/10 ED 3

5 SPD 12

7 REC 0

40 END 0

30 STUN 0

 

7" RUN 2

2" SWIM 0

5" LEAP 2

Characteristics Cost: 121

 

Cost Power

6 Combat Luck: Armor (3 PD/3 ED), Hardened (+1/4) (11 Active Points); Luck Based (-3/4)

3 Strong Mind: MD (5 points total)

10 Targeting with Normal Hearing

3 Reputation: +10 PRE (10 Active Points); Activation 11- (-1), Asian Community only (-1/2), Offensive Only (-1/2)

5 Luck 1d6

Powers Cost: 27

 

Cost Martial Arts Maneuver

Kung Fu

4 1) Killing Strike: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +0 DCV, HKA 2d6

3 2) Legsweep: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, -1 DCV, 6d6 Strike, Target Falls

4 3) Martial Block: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, +2 DCV, Block, Abort

4 4) Martial Disarm: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, +1 DCV, Disarm; 35 STR to Disarm

4 5) Martial Dodge: 1/2 Phase, -- OCV, +5 DCV, Dodge, Affects All Attacks, Abort

4 6) Martial Escape: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +0 DCV, 40 STR vs. Grabs

3 7) Martial Grab: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, -1 DCV, Grab Two Limbs, 35 STR for holding on

4 8) Martial Strike: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +2 DCV, 7d6 Strike

3 9) Martial Throw: 1/2 Phase, +0 OCV, +1 DCV, 5d6 +v/5, Target Falls

4 10) Nerve Strike: 1/2 Phase, -1 OCV, +1 DCV, 3d6 NND

5 11) Offensive Strike: 1/2 Phase, -2 OCV, +1 DCV, 9d6 Strike

8 12) +2 HTH Damage Class(es)

3 13) Weapon Element: Clubs, Improvised Weapons, Staffs

Martial Arts Cost: 53

 

Cost Skill

6 +2 with Kung Fu

0 AK: (placeholder) Province, China 8-

3 Acrobatics 15-

0 Acting 8-

3 Animal Handler 12- (14-)

3 CuK: Chinease (INT-based) 13-

3 Breakfall 15-

3 Climbing 15-

0 Concealment 8-

3 Contortionist 15-

0 Conversation 8-

0 Deduction 8-

1 KS: Guild of Vipers 8-

1 KS: Hope Springs, Dakota Territories 8-

3 KS: Kung Fu (INT-based) 13-

2 Language: Cantonese (fluent conversation)

2 Language: English (fluent conversation)

1 Language: Spanish (basic conversation)

0 Language: Mandarin (idiomatic) (4 Active Points)

0 PS: Innworker 11-

3 PS: Railroad worker (STR-based) 12-

1 PS: Instructor 8-

3 Paramedics 13-

0 Persuasion 8-

0 Riding 8-

0 Shadowing 8-

0 Stealth 8-

3 Survival 13-

0 TF: Equines

3 Tactics 13-

1 WF: Clubs, Fist-Loads, Improvised Weapons, Thrown Rocks, Unarmed Combat

Skills Cost: 48

 

Cost Perk

1 Fringe Benefit: Right of Shelter

Perks Cost: 1

 

 

Total Character Cost: 250

 

Pts. Disadvantage

10 DF: Asian (Concealable; Always Noticed and Causes Major Reaction; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses; Not Distinctive In Some Cultures)

10 DNPC: DNPC of the week 8- (Normal)

10 Hunted: The Green Dragon 8- (As Pow, Harshly Punish)

20 Hunted: Viper Gang 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Harshly Punish)

5 Money: Poor

20 Psych. Lim.: Code of the Wuxia (Very Common, Strong)

20 Psych. Lim.: Searching for Daughter (Very Common, Strong)

5 Reputation: Wander serching for his daughter, 11- (Known Only To A Small Group)

Disadvantage Points: 100

Base Points: 150

Experience Required: 0

Total Experience Available: 0

Experience Unspent: 0

[Radar]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

How about Revenant Black for the dead cowboy?

[Lethosos]

Re: Western Champions, Redone

 

"Dead Man Walking" Jameston

Gravedigger

Spirit-That-Walks (Indian undead, seeks to settle a debt of honor/atonement, can't go to the happy hunting grounds until the slate is clean)

 

Other than that... I like. Keep it up!