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Hi (Fire) from the villain group Yoshoo has a sword defined as OIF because though you can disarm it. It teleports back into the villains hand. Then range was 10” if I remember correctly.
 
Btw my brother has a modified version of Powrhouse (same stats mostly except his Growth is at a lower level) and he wanted to break Sledge’s hammer. I said sure cause I wanted to see those rules in action.

It depends on the significance of the villain.  If the villain is going to be a major and recurring character, I will almost always do a rewrite of the character no matter what the edition it came from.  If it is for a one shot or the villain is more of a secondary character, I don’t usually bother.   Basically, if the only thing the character is going to be used for is combat, I usually don’t put much effort into updating them other than some edition specific elements once in a while.
 
Most of my major villains are my own creation but I do use a lot of the published material to supplement it. 
 

Oddly enough, yes, and it is Cheshire Cat.
 
I have never liked any version if him except the 4e version.
 
And the only other published characters I have ever used are Foxbat and Leroy, but I stick with more or less their original appearances.
 
All that being said, I have used Cheshire Cat a grand total of five?  Six times?  since his original publication, and Foxbat has seen perhaps twice that.
 
There is a very real reason that I find NPC books a near-waste of money.  They are a zero-utility-value item for me.    I have the opposite of the popular "all the sifferent comic book company characters all at once in my universe" problem:  I find that other people's creations and preconceptions don't blend into my games well, and if I have to undertake a major re-write to make a published character work--  well, given how much I enjoy character creation for its own sake, I really would prefer to just make a character who works from the get-go.
 
 

I used to in the pre-5th days. My 3rd and 4th ed campaigns almost exclusively used villains from the various supplements for more than a decade. 5th ed started changing that as I began using more and more of my own NPCs. Nowadays I pretty much use my own only... with some inspired by the old characters, and some that have been used in other systems for the past 30+ years.

And I realized that after parsing your specific question again. Sorry for all the misinterpreted irrelevance I posted here before. 😔
 
I tend to Frankenstein characters who have appeared across multiple editions. I'll take qualities I like from Column A and from Column B, and blend them to form the version of a character I like best. Sometimes that's to conform to my preferred concept, other times it's a quick way to upgrade them via "radiation accident."
 
 

For initial encounters with villains, I tend to use 4e builds. I love how clean and focused they tend to be. If and as those villains recur, I'll upgrade them to builds from later editions over time to teach them some new tricks.
 
I actually almost never design my own villains.

Hello All,
 
The title doesn’t  quite capture the question. As many of you know some of the characters have been around for many editions if not all. However what some may not realize is that a character say Cheshire Cat is not identical (even allowing for edition change) in all editions. So have any of you ran (or running) x edition but use y version of the character? (Naturally this version is conformed to the edition you are running).  I did just exactly that. I had available to me 1st ed Brick which I updated to 4th ed to run a scenario of Vipers Nest. During the game (I also used Cheshire cat) though my buddy is made a comment that Cheshire Cat is going to use his Ego Attack. 3rd ed CC has one, 4th ed doesn’t. 

Running is a pain.   
 
Just remain flexible.  You'll find things that work, things that don't....things that work in one genre, or at one point level, that don't work in another.  Hero's got a LOT of moving parts and room for GM discretion.

@Tech, I just thought of this idea. Look at other character’s powers and see if any tickle your fancy. Then ask “can I use sonic sfx” to the extent that your feel comfortable with. For example, Tunneling has been bought for Bricks to punch a hole in the wall or rip the door off its hinges. I really can see this as a sonic power too. But say stretching, even with Doesn’t pass through real space, maybe not so much.

@Tech, I just thought of this idea. Look at other character’s powers and see if any tickle your fancy. Then ask “can I use sonic sfx” to the extent that your feel comfortable with. For example, Tunneling has been bought for Bricks to punch a hole in the wall or rip the door off its hinges. I really can see this as a sonic power too. But say stretching, even with Doesn’t pass through real space, maybe not so much.

@Tech, I just thought of this idea. Look at other character’s powers and see if any tickle your fancy. Then ask “can I use sonic sfx” to the extent that your feel comfortable with. For example, Tunneling has been bought for Bricks to punch a hole in the wall or rip the door off its hinges. I really can see this as a sonic power too. But say stretching, even with Doesn’t pass through real space, maybe not so much.

As mentioned above, Champions Powers is the 6E book for many categories of power constructs, each broken down into Offensive, Defensive, Movement, and Miscellaneous, with variations for each construct, giving you dozens of ready-built examples for, in your case, Sonic powers.
 
BTW here is where you can download the free Index to the book.

More like Songbird. I know there's no mandatory effect, etc etc with Hero Games system; I'm just so uncreative with sonic powers.

Or for 6th its called Champions Powers (iirc). And if you have access to older stuff, Howler has sonic powers-singing or at least voice and I’ll throw in Vibron because though technically his is vibration, I feel that’s close enough to sound to work.

Or for 6th its called Champions Powers (iirc). And if you have access to older stuff, Howler has sonic powers-singing or at least voice and I’ll throw in Vibron because though technically his is vibration, I feel that’s close enough to sound to work.

Well this past weekend I got to run the Battle in Christopher Park. My brother used a heroic version of Powerhouse straight out of the book and I used an updated (to 4th) version of Brick from the Viper Nest booklet. And it was a tough battle! I still can’t get my brother to understand that he almost stunned Brick. The version I used has a whopping 38 CON!  

The Freakish Four: This foursome of strange-looking heroes were blessed and cursed with power thanks to a mysterious anomaly in space. They consist of:
 
Jackie Frost: A beautiful animate ice statue of a woman, Jackie Frost has powers over cold and frozen water. Despite her powers she’s a fun-loving thrill seeker who wants her sister to “lighten up”. She’s always up for a snowball fight but she’s also a brilliant physicist.
 
Shadow Woman: Jackie Frost’s sister, Susan is the mistress of stealth, able to become a two-dimensional living shadow, take shortcuts through the Darkness Dimension, create animate entities of “solid darkness” and boost her strength in shadows.
 
Claymore: Jackie’s actor boyfriend Ben has become the Face of the team since while his clay monster form is quite frightening his shapeshifting power allows him to regain his cinema-idol good-looks for part of each day and pass for normal. He keeps his misery hidden from the public.
 
Dr. Richard Woodrue: Briefly tried to call himself Doctor Floronic but there was universal agreement that name was unbelievably terrible so he stuck with his actual name. He’s half-man, half plant, and all scientist. Unlike his younger colleague Jackie he’s serious-minded and a bit pompous. Even so he managed to become romantically involved with Susan.
 
The Four have foes of course.  For example
 
Clayshaper: An older actor envious of Claymore’s career, he managed to get his hands on a small sample of Claymore’s body and managed to bond with it, giving himself much more limited shapeshifting powers as well the power to create clay statuettes of people that could influence their minds or large statues that could copy a character’s form and powers.
 
Doctor Terrific: A genius associate of Jackie Frost and Dr. Woodrue he used that genius to develop technology to become a superhero in his own right until a combat injury caused facial disfigurement that he blamed Woodrue for since Woodrue was there and he had always regarded the other man as a rival. Since then he has been secretly creating threats to attack the Freakish Four while still acting as a now grimmer hero in a suit of powered armor. Even so, it is only a matter of time before he becomes known as Doctor Terror.
 
Metalsmith: Another genius, he has uploaded his own mind into a robot body and crafted more robots to challenge the Four, a team that consists of Silver Ghost who can turn intangible, Iron Vulture who can fly and is very strong, Red Mercury who fights with with stretchy semi-liquid tentacles that can drain vitality, Golden Dragon who can fly and breath fire and Galena who can alter her mass and create barriers  

A monk named Ranger? Sounds like a Chuck Norris character!  

Yeah, you're right, I was thinking of multipower.  That's what happens when I move half a house in the heat of summer and then try to think.

Years ago I saw something like this question and really, unless your hidebound about the rules (which I can be to my own annoyance) the VPP for skills is really the easiest way to go.  

Yeah I recommend not giving enemies very high DCV unless that's their particular schtick.  That is: don't make them really hard to hit unless that is their special, memorable ability.  It sucks to miss, but people will tolerate doing minimal damage.  Focus on defenses and damage reducers instead of DCV when possible.

Just dinished helping one of the kids in the youth group put the finishing touches on her speedster, Starling.  I pushed for Hummingbird as she can start out at top speed (extra inches specifically for boosting launch speed) and has a solid 12 skill levels in maneuvring while running (to offset penalties of moving super fast, obviously.)
 
She is not the fastest speedster this group has producws (that honor goes to Kinetica), but she could full-speed an agility course blindfolded!
 
 

I just hate current year more and more.

I made my own set of dungeon tiles. I bought some gridded paper (you can use wrapping paper with 1" grids in the back), glued it to cardstock, cut out the shapes I wanted, and laminated the pieces with packing tape.

You probably don't want to have PCs that have all their abilities purchased with this limitation; they'd essentially be useless outside of their region.  I would probably allow few powers bought this way to represent that a given character would be more formidable on his home turf.
 
For example, if I were building Daredevil as the regional defender of Hell's Kitchen, I would buy most of his abilities without the limitation.  And then buy some ocv/dcv, levels with perception, or danger sense that only worked in that region to represent that he is in-tune with that environment.  That way if the adventure happens outside of his region the character can still participate.
 
Of course villains and NPCs can be built to serve the needs of the story.