TheQuestionMan Posted November 10, 2016 Report Share Posted November 10, 2016 Resources (Subsidizing Crime Fighting Activities) Marketing their Images Product Endorsements Souvenirs, Toys, and Games Apparel (Hats, Shirts, PJ's, Colouring Books etc...) Action Figures and Play Sets Healing for Money (Mutant American Medical Association) Special Appearances (Dancing with the Superheroes) Natural Disasters (Earthquakes, Hurricanes, Wildfires) Anthropogenic Hazards (Societal, HazMat, Transportation, Environmental ) Hollywood Knights Museum (Memorial, Trophy Room, Replicas) Bounty Hunting Biographies, Comics, etc... Cartoons, Video Games, etc... Police Special Operations Celebrity Charities Community Crime Fighting Mutant Civil Rights Activism The Mutant Underground - Recruiting Support Staff Base Contributors: Hollywood Knights - Amber (? pts) - Hardcore (? pts) - Hive (? pts) - PSI-Kick (6 pts) - Midnight (? pts) - Street Angel (5 pts) - Twister (? pts) Total: (? pts) The Protectors - Base: (The Citadel) - Computer/Artificial Intelligence: (Galahad), - Follower; (Security & Surveillance Robot Drones) - Vehicle: (The Skycruiser) City of Los Angeles - Mayor Eric Garcetti State of California - Governor Grey PRIMUS - Silver Avenger Webster Wealth: Pay Roll/Team Salary Dependant NPC's: Support Staff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TheQuestionMan Posted November 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2016 ROFLOL!!! Not what I had in mind, but hilarious. We have no Wealth in our group on top of a lack of science and technology investigative support skills. In return for stopping the Protectors during the Purifier Incident and saving the world. The Protector's built the Base-less Hollywood Knights a duplicate of their own Base. Operating and Maintaining such a place requires Wealth/Money!!! Which we do not have. The above are suggestions for "Subsidizing Crime Fighting Activities" and Living Expenses like food, electricity, etc... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Greetings Programs, Player information update. The GM deducts 1 out of every 10 character points awarded for the Groups Base, Vehicles, Followers (Base Security and Surveillance Robots), and Group Communications Devices. So basically its all on a layaway plan. The Contacts and Favors are awarded as Roleplaying Rewards and cost the PC's nothing unless they wish to improve them. Dependent NPC; Superhero Support. We have not recruited anyone yet, but Street Angel is pushing to recruit Tweaker, a mutant Technopath, sister of Hardcore, and member of the Mutant Underground. She would fill the Technology hole in our roster. Hunted by Mutant Hate-Groups Hunted by Media Watched by PRIMUS - Currently no Liaison Officer assigned to the Team Watched by State of California - Currently no Liaison Officer assigned to the Team Watched by City of Los Angeles - Currently no Liaison Officer assigned to the Team Watched by Municipality of Santa Monica - Currently no Liaison Officer assigned to the Team Note: Added Genocide Skybikes to our Resource. Authorized by PRIMUS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wardsman Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 We had team set in Atlanta during the late 80's called Metaforce. One the of team members negotiated a team sponsorship with Coca-cola. We reluctantly went along ic wise most of the team found it distasteful and dub the team member who pushed for it "Capt. Lunchbox". Sometimes to his face. Though we did a few promo tours. At least one game involved how we could use our powers or looks to promote product. I was running a light elemental with holographic powers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Its always hard to split the line between fantasy and reality. In hero system we get to work it out. QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 18, 2016 Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 I see your team name is Hollywood Knights, and you're based in LA. So, no movie / TV deal yet? I'm kinda surprised. I'm imagining a reality TV show - "Days With The Knights" - where a half-dozen normal people, tricked out with protective gear, assist the Hollywood Knights in the field as Squires. I'm imagining security specialists, PIs, technicians, former CSI, PR flacks, media liaisons. And each week, one Squire is voted off the team by the superheroes until there's one final winner. As a GM, I'm seeing all types of fun plot hooks, ways to complicate the heroes' lives to justify the money the network will spend to help defray the team's operational costs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2016 Thanks BoloOfEarth, both great ideas. QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freakboy6117 Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 You also missed public speaking gigs special effects and stunt work. Beast boy played all of the animals in a doctor Doolittle movie because it was cheaper to color correct him than hire all those animals then make them talk with sfx. There have been a number of super heroic stunt men being nigh invulnerable would certainly up the thrill level of stunts. Other fun raising kind of depends on the members power sets. A speedster could make a fortune doing rush production be that assembling props or placing thousands of mannequins for crowd scenes. A telekinetic could replace wire work in Kung fu movies or just work as a safety officer. Orbital flight even without superstrength would let you launch cube sets for a fraction of the cost if a rocket launch. And I've always said magneto was an idiot he chose terrorism when his power was much more useful for making him the richest man on earth. Mutant acceptance is probably a lot easier to get when you can buy whole countries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrKinister Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 Hmm... this usually doesn't come up for me. I always spend a few points to buy my character's wealth up, so he can have 1) plenty of money in case of emergency, 2) plenty of free time to do his heroing, because he doesn't have to hold down a 9 to 5 job. Wealth! It's cheap! =D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 Team member Midnight is gonna sub contract to NASA and private space program corporationsThanksQM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 In the 2000 movie "The Specials" the team sold it's members images to a toy company for an 11% return on a line of action figures. The deal fell through because of the liberties the toy company took with how the various members looked. One was turned into a clown, another in a refrigerator, and another had Richard Dawson's head (a re-use from a line of "Hogan's Heroes" action figures from the 1970s). In 4th edition The Champions Universe it was revealed that Victrix, an auto parts heiress funded the group with her Money: Well Off trust fund. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
massey Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 You don't have to spend money for something if you've spent points on it. It's effectively considered to be self-maintaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 You don't have to spend money for something if you've spent points on it. It's effectively considered to be self-maintaining. The point (pun intended) being that the team didn't spend points on it. The base was donated to them by someone else. (See post #3.) So I can see the GM saying, "Well, unless you're willing to put some points into it yourselves, you're going to need something (e.g. Complications) to cover expenses." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassandra Posted December 19, 2016 Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 In role playing games, bases exist to be used at battlefields. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted December 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2016 I think our GM is using the shaved character points for our team communications and resources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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