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  1. Brickhouse would jump (using a push ?) up to the skyfalling carrier, and do use her formidable physic to crush it into parts as fast as possible to make it explode before the impact... even to the cost of her own life (Thanks Lucius & palindromedary again for the first build of that character ^^)

     

    Mimic would try to find the best abilities to copy and use them, ti either destroy, repair, deviate, whatever the skycruiser.

  2. Another thought -- keeping a Superman-level being like Mother Russia under control requires some forethought.  I made her an actual mother -- son Ivan, age 6 and daughter Irina, age 2 -- and figure that the Russian government has her children, as well as her Earth parents, in "protective custody" as a means to keep her following orders that she might not like.  (Her husband was killed by a terrorist bomb a few years ago, prompting her to stop hiding her powers.  Citing possible terrorist reprisals is a good way to justify keeping her family under lock and key.)  I'm sure they'd also have a ready supply of the kryptonite-substitute on hand, so she doesn't threaten Vladimir directly or just grab her kids / family and run.

     

    Ideally, the PCs might eventually figure out that they can really hurt Red Alert by getting Mother Russia out from under Putin's thumb, most likely by the PCs going to Russia themselves and rescuing her family members.  So I'd like to have at least the basics laid out of what they'd be facing.  Underground, lead-lined facility? 

     

    What other measures would they have in place? 

    Woot ! I like this thread ^^

     

    First, Mother Russia's relatives should be kept under a really well hidden custody, one that Mother Russia can't look for (even more if she's going to have N-Ray vision or supersenses), so here are a few ideas where to keep them :

     

    - in an ever moving submarine vessel

    - in another dimension custody

    - in her mind : i,e she THINKS she has relative but they are all a creation of a mentalist or gadget that make her thinks so (what about adding a mentalist in your Russian superteam ?)

    - They are all dead already, and impersonated on videos by robots or VR icons.

     

    As for Putin, I won't comment the full american way you see him all; no politics in post. I'd just say, in Champions normally you don't mess with Head of States personas. You don't fight Khadafi or Kim Jung Hun. You fight the minions, the villains, yu let politics to politicians and UNO.

     

    Just my thoughts

     

    Opale, in soviet cosplay

  3. I find the idea interesting, although some points seems difficult to settle with.

     

     For example, if all your PCs come from a different dimension from each others, how can they work well together ? Who to trust ? Who to follow, as ech of us would want to save their relatives, their own world ? 

     

    And then, if they survived they would have to fight and survive in a multidimensional world that want them dead. Without a personal way to move from a place to another, how is that possible ? I suggest you take a look at the Book of the Empress for hints about cosmic dimensional threat, or Skarn the Shaper,  or Tyrannon.

     

    About the character's balances, it seems you are more or so using the 5th ed power level, which means to me the SPD chart of your PCs could go from 4 to 7. But that's not enough to survive and fight in such a world you describe, even if the villains are street level. They would need "weird " science or powers, in order to escape and make a difference. And build a network of resistance.

     

    Opale, who ran a V'han invasion in Galactic Champions....

  4. Overdrive was a supervillainess from the 31th century, with vast cyberkinesis powers. She was acknowledged by Mechanon as a potential rival and threat, and studied by him till the two confronted in an epic battle that saw an entire solar system covered with a technovirus, that turned every organic life into machines. With the gathering of the Champions, The Star*Guard and several heroes and powerful beings, the Mechanon threat was annihilated.

     

    But still, noone was able to understand how he could have achieved that kind of massive destruction; the reason is there : he captured Overdrive, and made experiment on her. He learned that they shared the same hatred of humanity, at least for freeing machines from them, and that she would prefer robots to life. And he wanted to use her powers for his own advantage. So, with nano surgery, he separated her head from her body, and used that said body, still full of her cyberkinesis abilities, as a way to spread the technovirus, covering the planets with a mix of nanites and Overdrive's organics particles.

    But he underestimated the villainess survival instinct, and while Mechanon was fighting heroes in the galaxy, she subjugated another of Mechanon space facility, and built herself a new body, that would protect her brain and head. Now, using a body partially made of Mechanon technology, she became UltraDrive.

  5. My players don't like to develop their own stories, and paradoxally want to have "something of their own".

     

    After a dozen of occurence and try, I abandooned the idea of casual living for PCs, as they aren't able to manage it by themselves, or be patient enough for other PCs Secret ID. :/

     

    Might be a cultural thing again

     

    Opale, often putting too much work and hope in Pcs commitment to the game

  6. Thanks Phantom.

     

    And btw, as I'm mostly using the excellent work made by the previous authors of GC, I'm reviewing the B&W pictures used to illustrate the book.

     

    Does anyone know of good superheroic and galactic pictures I could use to create this fanmade 6th ed ?

     

    Any help welcome :)

     

    Opale, looking for dreamful pictures

  7. Tendril

     

    Calvin Wines was one of the good guys. He served his country as a marine for six years, got wounded at war, received medals and honor, and wanted to be back on the field, to help his brothers at arms. The army only permitted him to act as a trainer and recruiter; so he did it till his contract was due. Then he became a security consultant, and was always trying to help people wherever he might go.

    One day, he and his team were hired by the Sentinels, as part of their base security, and Calvin relieved in working with superheroes. He deeply wished to become one, to help even more people.

    And it happened. After one of the capes missions, Calvin seized  a batttle serum, and took the risk to try it on himself. He became faster, stronger, tougher. He became the Ward, a new born hero, that the Sentinels trained as a stagee. But the serum was demanding, and started to have dangerously draining effects on his body and psyche. Again the Sentinels helped him, and they healed him, destroying any trace of the serum in his cells.

    Calvin was devastated to be a normal guy again. But even his friends from the Sentinels couldn't do much for him.

     

    And he became bitter, envious, jealous. He worked with them as a physical trainer, and stayed close, hoping something could be done for him. He spied on them, plotted whatever he could to get back his abilities, to no avail.

    Till that day, when the team revealed some of an evil plan from King Cobra and COIL organization. Against the superheores advise, Calvin wanted to show them he was still a hero. Of course he got captured. Of course, King Cobra easily detected the poison in his heart and mind, and turned him into one of his minions. The bio-genetical virus turned Calvin into Tendril. Now he was powerful enough again, fast strong and tough, and lethal. That's all he wanted finally : power. The rest of his good personality having been erased by COIL leader virus.

  8. Opale, if you don't have it, I strongly suggest picking up Terran Empire for the Star Hero line. For a project like yours, it would add a lot of details to the majority of official alien races and civilizations, which don't appear in the Champions line books. It's also a well-written and entertaining book in its own right. You can buy the PDF version for $10.00 US from the Hero website store, or $12.50 for hardcopy and PDF (plus shipping of course).

    Hi LL

     

    Yes, I do own the Terran Empire book already, issue is it stayed in France (I only have pdf with me in China.). And I need to produce some documents with the China banks in order to buy something online. Might get solved in few weeks.

     

    @ Megaplayboy : thanks for the tips, I will look at it.

  9. @ Phantom : I llike the setting you push,but like I said, I think I'll try to stick to the setting provided by Darren Watts , Steve Long, etc, and then include new stuff into it. But I can see a way or two to use your good idea.

     

    @LL : Yes Ro'inesh, and other aliens didn't got developed enough (or in books I don't own) to be really useful; I think lot of work is to be done on the 5-6 major species ruling the galaxy

  10. I do not confuse both books, but I use alot of CB in GC.

     

    I intended to use lots of the work that had been done by Darren Watts, Steve long, etc, in Galactic Champions, both by respect to their work, and because I am not good enough in english to paraphrase them. 

     

    But I intended to extend their work in specific spots and ways, to make it my own 6th ed vision.

     

    Speaking of which, would any of you be ok to review my Champions Team and give me a feedback ?

     

    Opale, gathering intel

  11. Well, I never read LoSH, I'm afraid.

     

    But I am told I like to create things in more than 4 colors, including some shades of grey. Something between Bronze and Iron Age.

     

    For instance I want to revisit Defender concept, as well as several others, but still include it in the universe. I have more than one single idea for that, I just need to decide myself for an option or another.

  12. Feeling like creatng a villain so :

     

     

    HellGate was originally known as François de Closet, a bored wealthy heir of an ancient french family. He tried it all twice, got even more blased and bored, till finally his wealth permitted him to get new acquaintance with very shaddy persons. They trained him into the occult arts, but he was not very good at it. They made him use his wealth in order to help their cult, as part of a new DEMONhame. But it was destroyed by a french cape, and François barely escaped. Although, in his flee, he grabbed what he could and looted on the corpse of the DEMON brother, a large brown cloak, that should have been an artefact, but that no one could activate.

     

    The instant the cloak was on his shoulders, it went back to life. And it leeched all sanity François might still have, to replace it with it's own will. And granting him the dangerous powers of been a living portal to the Hells. Since then, the puppet that was once François de Closet obeys the whispers and whims of a thousand devilish voices. But what is the goal of the Hellgate

  13. Thanks alot QM for your abondant help :)

     

    I'll need to read it all several times, but it appears to me that some of those things you wrote, I never heard about.

     

    I'm also pondering the fact to rewrite completely the Champions team for the 6th ed, and be very careful about the balance in their stats. In 5th ed, some characters were totally unbalanced compared to others, and we discovered that as we were playing. Which led to creating a brand new group afterward, and a second group of heroes to protect the galaxy.

     

    Opale, the head in the stars

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