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Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Honest mistake. You really ought to refrain from making assumptions about my motivations. It's downright offensive to assume that adding Life Support was an attempt at powergaming. It wasn't, and assuming that it was serves no purpose except to alienate me. That being said, your mechanical objections are solid, and I'll pare it down to the point where he can survive underwater if he's wearing the armor (since he has no natural elemental powers).

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central You told me to create that elemental control with Flight and Armor back in this post. If you now want me to get rid of it, that's fine, but you're not making this any easier on me. And he only has Power Defense. Do you consider Life Support an unusual defense? ~Gabriel

Re: Crisis of Infinite Champions: 10 brave heroes Jericho, my oldest heroic brainchild (from another system, originally), would be stepping forward before the question was even finished. Not just to fight the good fight, but to stop anyone else from sacrificing themselves because he hesitated. Of course, he doesn't believe anything can kill him. But maybe he's right. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central In this instance, Immortal doesn't mean 'undying', it means 'traditional Taoist immortal and all that entails.' Which would include the mythic traits of flight, immortality, and being physically tough. I think it's a case of bad translation. Culturally, 'Immortal' implies something different than it would in the western world. ~Gabriel P.S. Also, alternate picture of Cagliostro (although I still think I prefer the Hero Machine version):

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Alright, how does this look: When looking at his defenses, keep in mind that I took Combat Luck for an additional 3 PD/3 ED that didn't calculate in.

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central I think the background was unhelpfully unspecific about his abilities. At the time I was still working things out. On his own, he is a generic superhuman (again, much like WW). Strong, fast, doesn't age. His physical traits lead a lot of people (himself included) to conclude he's a true Taoist Immortal. He used that to gather a following and protest against the government. After he became a fugitive (for the first time), some of his followers took it upon themselves to train him for his war against the Communist government. Once he felt ready, he went to Taiwan and tried to take over. His armor is very old and grants the wearer some water-related powers. He, and others, believe that the armor was intended for him alone. I toyed with the idea of him having a few mythic weapons that people either gave him or he stole from the government during his escape from the gulag. For example, the Green Dragon Crescent Blade, a relic of the Chinese people. Or the Sword of Goujian. Sometimes it helps to be specific. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central The only thing that really jumps out at me is how high his strength is. I didn't expect that. He'll be able to use his strength for a lot of things that don't relate to inertial movement at all (crushing rocks in his bare hands, for example), and it doesn't seem to follow from the rest of his profile that he'd have that sort of generic superhuman strength. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Hero Machine didn't have anything that fit his look, so I tried the new Portuguese forward-facing option. Ao Kuang ('Dragon King') in armor: And as Gordon Lau, his false American identity (with tailor-made shirt to cover his tattooed neck; he tells people he has a rash): ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Usually I do too, but there are two things I'm considering in this case. One, Chinese mythic figures always have extravagant names, and that's the cultural background he's modeling himself after. Two, he took the name when he was considered a supervillain. Villain names are always a little more over-the-top than their heroic equivalents. When DC created a Chinese superteam, the Great Ten, their names included such humble treasures as 'the Accomplished Perfect Physician' 'August General-In-Iron' 'Celestial Archer' 'Ghost Fox Killer' 'Immortal Man In Darkness' 'Mother of Champions' 'Seven Deadly Brothers' and those guys were heroes. Imagine what their villains called themselves. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Missing Ao Kuang. Incidentally, having trouble deciding what he should be called in English; 'Sea Dragon' 'Dragon King' 'Immortal Dragon' 'the Taoist Immortal' 'Lord of the Eastern Sea' And that doesn't even touch the possibilities that tie into his background. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Ditching the sword for consideration at a later point. What do you think of adding Extra Time (Full Phase, Only to Activate; -1/4) and Gestures (Two Hands; -1/2) to the water control abilities granted by his armor? My line of thought is this: I need points for Contacts and Skills, and since he already has some melee potential, it doesn't seem as though putting a few thematically consistent restrictions on his other abilities would be crippling. Also, adding a few restrictions would keep ordinary folk from being able to use his armor and explain why the Chinese military had it in storage rather than out in use. ~Gabriel P.S. Oop, didn't see Fed's post. Hurray! =p

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central I forgot about the stun-only part of NND. Would probably work better if it were Armor Piercing and just OAF. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central I've been reworking my ex-criminal, adding contacts and editing his skillset. I also took another look at his powers, and I was wondering how you'd react to a Sapphire Jian: HKA 1d6 NND (Any Magical Defenses, +1), OAF Unbreakable (-1), Independent (-2). I know the risk of Independent powers, but I didn't see any other way to represent a weapon that could be stolen/taken and used against him. Any thoughts? ~Gabriel

Re: Recoil

Re: Recoil That would be great, except Move Through also lowers his chance to hit in the first place. I see an OCV of 7 and no CSLs. If he uses a Move-Through at full Leaping speed of 19", his OCV is gonna be 3. Odds are good he's never going to hit anything. He's still no threat. ~Gabriel P.S. Didn't mean for that to sound snarky. Hope it doesn't.

Re: Recoil It strikes me that this is a very passive character. How exactly is he going to detain a supervillain in the first place? Any superpowered criminal worth his salt will be able to completely ignore this character and go about his business. He's never going to draw the attacks that he needs to become dangerous because he isn't a threat. That is, unless the character is going to be smashing his head into brick walls in order to fuel his powers. At which point you might as well just buy up his strength normally. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central Oh, my last post was by no means directed at you! That was just me musing about not being comfortable sharing more stories before it is decided whether the character even has a future. ~Gabriel

Re: Catalyst: A Champions campaign on Hero Central I have a few more vignettes featuring Cagliostro, but I feel like posting them now would make me seem desperate. ~Gabriel

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