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I have always done it the way Derek suggests, but I also handed out a matrix when we played Champions 20 years ago.

Does anyone set the base OCV at 14 and DCV at 3 just to simplify the attack roll equation? OCV-3d6=DCV

I don't tend to write up characters who don't have combat abilities or are likely to appear in a combat situation. I assume average BODY and STUN, and whatever skills make sense. If they are shot or punched by a brick, they will go down, and die unless they receive quick medical attention. (EDIT: I might write some backstory for them, but I don't stat them out.)

Barbara Eden as Poison Ivy Frank Zappa as Professor Hugo Strange Charles Nelson Reilly as Two Face

Barbara Eden as Poison Ivy Frank Zappa as Professor Hugo Strange Charles Nelson Reilly as Two Face

Characters in games I have played include Johnny Angel and Barracuda. The rough side of town is known to the locals as "Town without Pity"...

The Facts of Death: Six teenage girls and their house mother defend their boarding school during the Zombie Apocalypse. Fashion Police State: Paranoia and conspiracies abound when a bureaucratic dystopia is ruled by an ancient comedienne with an acid tongue and an iron fist. The Little Cabin on the Prairie: American pioneers are sacrificed to appease an ancient evil Highlander 2: Electric Boogaloo (or Breakin' 2: the Quickening)

Kolkhov was born Ivan Ivanovich Semyenov on a Soviet Collective in 1930. He was always a little bit faster and stronger than any of his peers. Some old wives whispered to each other that the boy was draining the other children of their strength, but noone dared call the Overseers boy a witch. When the Nazis rolled through in '42, they gathered his collective together in the dairy barn to exterminate them. Only Kolkhov knows what went on that day, but he was the only person left at the collective when the Red Army came back to reclaim the farm. No bodies were found, and Kolkhov was babbling in a mix of German and Russian for weeks. Kolkhov gains strength and speed by siphoning it from the crowd around him. He is already as strong as a hundred men, and in a crowd of thousands, he gains the strength of a thousand men. The limits of this power are unknown to him at this time. Kolkhov can also drain an individual of all energy, absorbing his psyche into himself. His teammates do not know that there is a village full of people and an entire German regiment in his head.

I prefer allegorical worlds. Nothing is real, but everything is based on some historical reality.

Surface dwellers will be obsessed with flying. Balloons may make cartography more accurate. Are the Naran amphibious? If so there may be a history of raids on the surface. Beaches would be covered in traps and barbed wire. Is there trade? ideas and culture exchanges might lead to hybrid creatures. Are they beautiful creatures or hideous monsters?

The Franchise Army: from the brochure Is the FA For You?, "The Franchise Army is the largest military organization in the Galaxy. From police forces to full Armadas, the Franchise Police has a solution for any government, corporation, or individual with the material wealth to finance a campaign. Whether you want drones, or vat grown soldiers, or merely want to train and arm your own patriots or zealots. The Franchise Army has a plan that can fit most budgets. Our turn key operation ensures that your new army will conform to the highest standards and discipline in the galaxy." The Franchise Army is not welcome in the Commonwealth. On three separate occasions, Zealots employing the Franchise Army have waged wars against Commonwealth systems. In each case, the Commonwealth rallied the military might of hundreds of systems to repel them. Furthermore, the Commonwealth considers vat grown soldiers to be slaves, and will not trade with any system that endorses such slavery.

Less homage, and more ripoff. I wanted to run a game with element of Star Trek and Star Wars, without the back story of either. Straight up Space Opera for me.

The 13th consigliore computer was sabotaged weeks before going online. Intel reports that the city shields flickered for a microsecond, coinciding with a orbital slug attack. 50,000 persons died in an instant.

Squatch world, where Sasquatches were the dominant lifeform in the Americas. Super-Rome, where Rome never fell and now uses Slider tech to conquer other worlds. Calipha, where the Islam dominated the crusades, and is the dominant religion http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.S.A.:_The_Confederate_States_of_America Dreamworld, a world in which people spend 23 hours a day asleep, hooked up to networks that provide a shared reality to the dreamers.

Berserkers Some members of the Order have found a way to draw upon their rage to enhance their abilities. This hubris is abhorrent to the Order, and extreme efforts will be taken to correct the member, or to dismiss them. Galactic History is filled with cautionary tales of Berserkers who gained followers and wreaked havoc on worlds and systems before being destroyed by their own rage and the intervention of the Order. Even against this threat to the galaxy, the Order makes every attempt to solve the problem without killing the Berserker. They perceive the rage as a separate entity, and believe that the madness can travel from victim to killer.