RexMundi Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! I think, if they had covered up the neck and lower meat parts, I would be fine with the helmet. Hell I'm an Adam Strange fan so I can deal with open face (Toss in the Raanian Hard Light stuff and I'm happier there is a lot of potential with that idea), heh, and I did say, He does look better on that cover then any of his other renditions. Still. If Hit locations are used He's toast. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! A Seeker fan has been spotted, Call forth the Hounds! ~Rex What's wrong with Seeker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JmOz Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Being held up for comparison to George Perez in his prime isn't a fate I'd wish on any comic-style artist. The man was (and still is) a detail-rendering god. But I do think this composition is more dynamic and gripping than that 4th Edition cover. Maybe...then again my computer wallpaper is the cover to Avengers/JLA #3 (Look it up if you have not seen it yet) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certified Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! What's wrong with Seeker? I'm not sure but one of my friends was rather amused by his lack of resistant defenses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! I'm not sure but one of my friends was rather amused by his lack of resistant defenses. So was one of my villains!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! I think, if they had covered up the neck and lower meat parts, I would be fine with the helmet. Hell I'm an Adam Strange fan so I can deal with open face (Toss in the Raanian Hard Light stuff and I'm happier there is a lot of potential with that idea), heh, and I did say, He does look better on that cover then any of his other renditions. Still. If Hit locations are used He's toast. ~Rex *Shrug* Force field around the neck and face. Well within comic-book physics precedents. Perhaps Defender's armor is so light and sleek looking because its actual defensive properties are from a force field around the whole body, like Guardian of Marvel's Alpha Flight. Doesn't have to be an issue at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darren Watts Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Cryptic was fairly adamant, and rightly so IMO, that their new featured main cover art character not be somebody with hidden facial features. I'm with LL- it's a force field. dw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Additionally' date=' I've uploaded the cover as a wallpaper to the Free Stuff page, so if you want to see it when you boot up your computer (and trust me, it looks really cool that way!), go snag yourself a copy. [/quote'] At the time I write this, the link to the smallest, 1280 x 1024 wallpaper doesn't download. The two larger sizes download with no problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Heh, how's that line go... "Show me the Force Field!" As for Seeker.....I think I had that write up of the Champions get stuck on a Desert Island, with no chance of rescue. Seeker, is the first person Jaguar hunts down and eats. I see the Logic behind Defenders new look, I just would have gone, a little more Masanume Shirow, and a little less Tron. Over all though, no serious issues. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt the Bruins Posted January 10, 2010 Report Share Posted January 10, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Speaking of good ol' Defender, I was shocked when I saw the write-up in the 6th Ed Basic Rulebook this week and realized just how many points of correspondence there were between him and the Tuskegee Airwoman powered armor character I'd built a few weeks ago in complete ignorance of his stats (same STR, within a point on the armor's resistant defenses, even uses bolo entangles). Clearly, I need to add a bit about the USAF pirating James Harmon's designs to her backstory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadborder Posted January 10, 2010 Report Share Posted January 10, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! A Seeker fan has been spotted' date=' Call forth the Hounds![/quote'] CRIKEY! (Is a Seeker fan) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carnus Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Maybe a bit late, but I love the cover artwork. It screams action. It is AWETASTIC!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! CRIKEY! (Is a Seeker fan) Bloody Oath! Seeker does not talk like that Steve Irwin bloke. More like Crocodile Dundee (you ever here HIM say Crikey?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! It's a good looking cover. I'm surprised but I like Witchcraft's redesign a lot and I vastly prefer blue to green. But it's good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kahuna's bro Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! don't you mean DEFENDER'S designs?the fact that james harmon invented ther armor is unknown isn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DusterBoy Posted January 11, 2010 Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Oh yeah, artwork by Pelletier! Can't say I go a bomb on Defender's new look, but as a cover it ROCKS! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted January 12, 2010 Report Share Posted January 12, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Bloody Oath! Seeker does not talk like that Steve Irwin bloke. More like Crocodile Dundee (you ever here HIM say Crikey?) I've never heard Either of them NOT say Crikey? ....... I showed the cover off to a few other folks that don't have computer access at the moment. They like the angled perspective look a lot. Sort of like the Shakey Cam, without the shakey. That sort of In the Scene feel I think has looked pretty good on a lot of the HERO product. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! *Shrug* Force field around the neck and face. Well within comic-book physics precedents. Perhaps Defender's armor is so light and sleek looking because its actual defensive properties are from a force field around the whole body, like Guardian of Marvel's Alpha Flight. Doesn't have to be an issue at all. Works for B-ko from Project: A-ko. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ghost-angel Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Cryptic was fairly adamant' date=' and rightly so IMO, that their new featured main cover art character not be somebody with hidden facial features. I'm with LL- it's a force field. dw[/quote'] Indeed - I definitely like the Open-Face look of the new Defender; he says Hero that way, open, trusting, not some skulker in an alley. I just get stuck on the lack of back combined with the side-wing parts running down his jaw... It looks so silly. The bottom half the helmet is in desperate need of changes IMO. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WarriorKnight Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Cryptic was fairly adamant' date=' and rightly so IMO, that their new featured main cover art character not be somebody with hidden facial features. I'm with LL- it's a force field. dw[/quote'] I just hope he doesn't take a hit that knocks a system,like being deep underwater or in space when he needs that life support. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! I just hope he doesn't take a hit that knocks a system' date='like being deep underwater or in space when he needs that life support.[/quote'] If you're talking about the game mechanics for Focus-breaking, or an Adjustment Power against Life Support, that would be a problem whether or not Defender's helmet is drawn covering his face. SFX only go so far. I must say that Grond looks much better on this cover without those glowing radioactive pustules on his skin from the game animation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GestaltBennie Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Seeker is one of the big reasons why I like the addition of Combat Luck in 5e. Because genre literature is filled with examples of people who go out and have adventures without visible body armor or regeneration, and if the Hero System can't make that viable, then it's failing a serious genre emulation test. People who ridicule him solely for lack of resistant defences just make me shake my head in sadness. I'm sorry Seeker was taken out of the Hero Universe (he would have been a perfect showcase for Combat Luck had he been kept in 5th), though I like Nighthawk too. The Aussie's a stereotype on the surface, but there's enough hooks in his background and personality to make him a lot of fun -- and surprisingly deep -- in play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Liaden Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Especially the post-Watchers of the Dragon Seeker. That book added great depth to the character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peregrine Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! Especially the post-Watchers of the Dragon Seeker. That book added great depth to the character. Quite honestly, that book was the first time I really paid any attention to Seeker - and I liked what I saw there. In the 5e incarnation of my customized setting, there were two wanderers, a man and a woman, who could be found in various parts of the V'Hanian Dimensional Empire. Everyone seemed to know them, but no one spoke of them. But the woman had a glowing jewel that constantly floated nearby... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sketchpad Posted January 17, 2010 Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 Re: Champions Sneak Peek #1: The Cover! I've actually kept the 4th ed Champions in the universe when I use the CU. The 5th ed ones are there as well, but like any good team, they all serve as part of the greater history Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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