CorPse

Re: A source for Police & Fire Dept. Dispatch Codes?

Sweet! Found some other resources, too.

I'll Rep you up if you can explain how it works!

RIP,

CorPse

hey gang,

FINALLY getting my Dark Champs campaign off the ground...

and I would love to find a source for those neat numeric dispatch codes you hear people toss around on crime shows. I want the campaign cranked up to maximum grittiness and this will be just another way to get that feel.

And if there's a similar thing for paramedics/Fire Dept. that would be great, too.

Will give Rep to whomever helps - is someone can explain the Rep system to me!

Personally keeping the streets full of human filth,

C:sneaky:rPse

Re: PREDATORS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

...unless you run it...

Here Here!

Re: PREDATORS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

:blink' date=' blink:[/quote']

 

Just riffing on the Grond Smash! handle by your avatar.

 

Zigging when I should zag,

CorPse

Re: PREDATORS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

... but my copy of that has been so long gone I can't remember.

Dude, Grond is so tough on gaming supplements, I'm surprised you still hang out with him.

RIP,

CorPse

Re: PREDATORS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

And heck' date=' maybe an actual Predator-clone. Some alien that comes down during a specific season (summer or winter) and hunts trophies.[/quote']

 

Interesting. There's certainly a Champs precendence for this (Firewing and all those fancy aliens built on a LOT of points.) The DC Universe, hehehe - get those lawyers working, could probably stand up to something like this.

 

I like it.

 

Just another something I can kill without feelin' all sorry and weepy about it.

 

RIP,

CorPse

Re: Pulp Hero Cometh

The Spider is my avatar. He embodies the essential essence of the crazed psycho avenger.

It's like I always say...

If something's worth avenging, it's worth avenging psychotically.

Love & Kisses,

CorPse

Hey Mr. Steve,

This is the kind of thing that keeps me from going to bed when I should. Thank goodness you are on the East Coast, so this'll be answered by the time I'm having my tasty bowl of Hereo's for breakfast.

I'll be as specific as I can...

Given: A character called Knuckles, with 15 STR, has the Dirty Infighting Martial Art with the Manuever Kidney Blow (1/2d6 Killing). He also has Weapon Element: Fistloads.

Question #1. He has a set of Brass Knuckles defined as +3d6 HTH. What is the total Killing Damage he may do if he uses the Kidney Blow?

Question #2. He has a set of Brass Knuckles defined as +1d6 HTH Killing Attack. What is the total killing damage he may do if he uses the Kidney Blow?

Do he's just max out at double the Kidney Blow damage? (1d6+1 Killing?)

I'm sure you've answered a question like this about a thousand times.

So thanks for the usual patience.

CorPse

Re: Pulp Hero Cometh

During the course of a Spider story' date=' it's not uncommon for the villain to kill thousands of innocent people, for the Spider himself to gun down dozens of underworld thugs, and for female characters to get captured, stripped naked, and tortured.[/quote']

 

And people thought old CorPsey was naughty.

 

Well, everybody needs something to aspire to... even the dearly departed.

 

Thanks for the (severed) heads-up!

 

CorPse

Re: Pulp Hero Cometh

You might have a better case arguing for the Spider' date=' who was downright ruthless and murderous compared to the Shadow...[/quote']

 

Where do I meet this Spider fella? Sounds like CorPse owes him a beer.

 

Seriously - does anyone have web links leading to more info on this intriguing sounding pulp era personage?

 

RIP,

CorPse

Re: Timestop

Gotta run, but you gets yerself one of them thar 5th Edition Hero-type books, partner! That's what you need if you want to rustle ideers with them Hero Board folks.

Get along little doggies

CorPse

Re: Timestop

Hmmm.

I wonder if you could come up with a role-playing/meta-gaming solution like...

A Mega-scaled, Area Effect, No Range, Extra-Dimensional Teleport that's defined as sending the character and everyone else to a parallel time dimension where only the character may act.

Or a Mega-scaled, Area Effect, blahblahblah Speed Drain that's defined as an NND (where the defense is dimensional travel abilities). So the vast majority of folks just more or less stand there. (I can't remember if you can reduce peoples to Speed 0 or not.) The minimum Speed may be 1. You could also link some sort of Entangle to this that further slows down the PCs.

For that matter you could define the whole thing as some sort of Entangle that's incredibly hard to perceive and affect.

Ain't this here Hero System fun.

Rest in Peace,

CorPse

Re: Hero System women are all insanely attractive

Referring to female characters in the DEMON sourcebook... Cloaca (unfortunate name' date=' the term also refers to a shark's reproductive parts) actually has an unmodified COM of 10. [/quote']

 

Oh, Ollie, see then I had to look - and it was worse than I thought.

 

The definition of the word CLOACA from the fine folks at dictionary.com:

 

1. A sewer or latrine.

2. The common cavity into which the intestinal, genital, and urinary tracts open in vertebrates such as fish, reptiles, birds, and some primitive mammals.

3. The posterior part of the intestinal tract in various invertebrates.

 

It comes from the Latin for sewer/canal.

 

Look on the bright side... maybe this is some sort of subtle character note?

 

I tease, but Allen is a HeroGod ( ) So as far as I'm concerned he can name a character Colostomy Boy and I'll still buy the book.

 

'What do you have in your Bag of Tricks for me this time Colostomy Boy?'

 

Rest In Peace,

CorPse

Re: PREDATORS -- What Do *You* Want To See?

I'd love to see a section called Shades of Grey (or possibly Shades of Black), or something like that, full of characters that you can't honestly say from encounter to encounter whether they are good guys or bad guys. The DC Universe, if you'll pardon the pun, is exactly the place to explore this sort of thing. What's better than the moment when the guy you thought was your enemy saves you from falling off that roof top?

Example: You could have a serial killer that more often than not puts down bad guys, but whose internal logic eventually compels him to kill a child, a nun, or the mayor.

Example: An arms dealer that hates drug dealers. He goes after them in his spare time, but is more than happy to keep terrorists well stocked.

Maybe I'm the exception, but I take my Dark Champions black - no cream or sugar.

Whatever you do with Predators, keep those streets wet & grimy.

Love & Kisses,

CorPse

Re: Hero System women are all insanely attractive

It's funny, my mind has really been warped by living in Hollywood. I now expect people to be above average to utterly hot. When I go home, or take a trip almost anywhere, part of me thinks - why is everyone here so average? And then I remember...

Like the typical guy, I thought Hollywood would be chock full of chicks with big plastic boobs. And while you can certainly still find those sorts of women here, what stunned me was how different all of the insanely hot women here look. If you can think of any attractive woman you've ever seen in your life, you can bet her somehow hotter counterpart will eventually be standing in front of at the check out line.

The other funny thing is that if you see a really attractive woman out here that reminds you of an actress or model, then it's probably them. I had this experience with Denise Richards last weekend at a Whole Foods here in LA. She was getting her child out of her black Mercedes... and even though she wasn't wearing any make-up and has probably ganged a pound or two from her new baby, I thought, damn, Denise Richards is an attractive woman.

Anyway, all of the my long term characters have been pretty ugly but with (imo) compelling personalities. My character de plume, CorPse, had a COM of 0 and he smelled pretty damn bad, too. My favorite D&D character, and now we are getting in the way-back machine, was a hideously overweight and incompotent 'trader' that turned out to be an assassin.

But maybe this is a case of you are only interested in being something you're not. I'm not overweight and I'm not a smelly dead guy with bits of me falling of all the time. (Although my recent bout with food poisoning did remind me of how mortal we all are.)

Well, that's my self-indulgent $0.02.

Rouge Love & Lipstick Kisses,

CorPse

Re: Tentative 2006 Schedule

I'm jazzed out of mind about Stronghold coming back. Every now and then I find a copy of the old 1981 book and snag it for my gaming buds so we can have a point of reference about what is a very useful campaign setting. I've always thought Stronghold should be part of the Champs Universe in this new era. (There're about 2 generations of players that never have any idea what I'm talking about.)

Re: At what point can HERO sue?

I hear you brother!

I played a game of the new edition of GURPS at GenCon SoCal. I couldn't believe how much like Hero System it's getting. I've been using a Mac for years and now Windows machines are almost identical - at least when it comes to the interface.

It's funny - good ideas always win out - it's just not always easy to cash in on them. I, for one, think we play the best game on the market with the best writers in the market.

Love & Kisses,

CorPse

Sorry this is so confusing... I'm probably overlooking something really obvious!

Here's a specific example of the situation I'm thinking of:

In Phase 4 I Grab Dr. Destroyer and Squeeze him for my STR damage. In Phase 8 I decide to Throw him off the top of the building we are fighting on. Now I need to make a new attack roll vs. his DCV to make sure that the Throw succeeds, otherwise Dr. D will slip my grasp as described on pg. 387 5ER. So let's say I manage to succeed with the new Attack Roll vs. Dr. D...

That's not the end of the story. If I want to Throw Dr. D at a specific hex, ie one that's well off the building, don't I need to make a second Attack Roll to hit that hex? Even though I've succeeded in initiating the Throw, I still have to make an Attack Roll vs. DCV 3 to hit the chosen hex, right? This is the second attack roll I'm referring to. If this roll is missed does Dr. D slip my grasp as, again, described on pg. 387 5ER? Or do I come up with an alternate method to find where he really lands (like using the miss system for Area Effect Attacks, etc.).

Or can you just Throw for distance w/o making an Attack Roll at all? And if you are 'just' Throwing for distance does the character take damage? I looked in the Throwing Things section of 5ER (pg. 35) and it seems to make a distinction between throwing things for distance and for doing damage. But I'm having a hard time figuring out where something that was thrown for distance would actually land w/o using OCV and creating a situation where an Attack Roll would be needed.

That's as specific as I can be. It could well be I have some fundamental misunderstanding that's keeping me from seeing this. So, if I'm still too thick to get it, perhaps you'd indulge me with a discussion at DunDraCon! This is probably a weird mechanic to seem obsessed with, but I'm designing a Con scenario that will likely have a lot of Grabbing and Throwing, etc., and I just want to make sure I've got it cold before I bring a bunch of players along.

I don't want to take away from any more of your "writin' and keepin' Hero profitable" time.

Thanks again!

Steve, thanks as always for your speedy reply... just had a quick follow-up:

you wrote...

"2. If the Attack Roll for a Throw following a Grab fails, the effects are as noted on 5ER 387. That also means missing any additional “target†the victim was Thrown at (such as a specific hex or another character). The GM can determine where the Thrown character lands using the rules for misses area-affecting attacks or whatever other method seems appropriate to him."

So, if either roll fails does the Grabbed character end up as 5ER 387 describes (remains on his feet, etc.) or only if the Grabber blows his Attack Roll to initiate the Throw?

Thanks!

Here's something that confused me a bit in the FRED Grab section.

I'll quote from pg. 386, almost the end of the page:

"If the Grabber wants to Squeeze or Throw his victim in a later Phase, doing so is an attack Action (it doesn't automatically succeed, requires an Attack Roll, and so forth.)

... and then later on pg. 387...

"If the attack roll for a Throw fails, the victim is no longer Grabbed and suffers no effects of a Throw (he takes no damage, remains on his feet, and suffers no initiative penalty in relation to the character who threw him.)"

So, what Skill Levels would apply to a Throw happening in a phase after the 'initial' Grab? Clearly HTH Levels, etc. would apply, but what about levels with Grab or Levels with Throw?

Also, when the text mentions failing the Attack roll with the Throw, I assume it means actually hitting/attacking the Grabbed character and has nothing to do with the roll you'd make to hit a hex with a character you're throwing? I assume you can miss your hex about as badly as you want to and make a roll using the Scatter rules to see where the Grabbed, and now Thrown, character ends up.

In a similar vein, what Skill Levels would apply to a Squeeze happening in a phase after the 'initial' Grab? Again, clearly HTH Levels would apply, but what about levels with Grab? Could a character buy levels with Squeeze? (I suppose buying levels with Squeeze would only make sense point-wise if levels with Grab did not apply to later phase squeezing.)

THANKS!

This is a weird one that came up in a game chock full of bricks...

Can you Brace to change your Range Mod before making a leap? It seems like a waste of a phase, but could you Set as well?

Could you buy PSLs to offset the Leaping Range Mod. (of course keeping in mind the Accurate adder for Leaping only cost +5 pts.)?

Thanks!

May a character Haymaker an attempt to break out of an Entangle or a Grab?

Doesn't seem like the rules specifically prohibit this, but I'd, of course, love your take on it.

Thanks!

Charles Picard

Is there a place where errata for individual books can be found?

And is this the place to report possible errata from suppliments?

cP

Re: Good toys for use with Champions...

I'm sure your right about the 1/64 scale of the matchbox and hotwheels. (They are overshadowed by the figs.) But those cars cover almost exactly the same size as the car illustrations on the old pre-printed hex maps!

cP

Man, I wish they wouldn't let me into Target. Is there a way to get them to bar me for life? That is without breaking any laws and spending a lot of time in jail.

Anyway - I was in there to get some frames and a shadowbox, don't ask, and I wandered over to the toy section. BIG MISTAKE. You see last Christmas I bought my friend Matt this really strange set of evil clown Hot Wheels cars. He's obsessed with C.L.O.W.N. from the good old 4th Edition days. (That says a lot about Matt.)

Anyway, when I looked today, I discovered that Matchbox has a whole line called - HERO CITY.

This is probably old news to some of you folks, but I couldn't believe my eyes. Finally I could have an entire police force (including 5 duplicate police cars) for just a few bucks. I'm obsessed with villianous bricks tossing police cars (which says a lot about me.)

Anyway this Hero City line has all sorts of goodies that are basically perfectly to 35mm scale, like: an armored police troop transport, an ambulance, numerous fire vehicles, even ... wait for it ... a police helicopter. So, I spent about $15 bucks staffing up the emergency services department for an upcoming Dark Champions campaign when I made the mistake ...

... of turning around. Not to be out done Hot Wheels, the Pepsi to Matchbox's Coke, had a sale going on where you could by individual cars for 66 cents. My God! I've never seen Hot Wheels on sale. Are the miniature car markers of America trying to unload excess inventory to boost 3rd Quarter sales numbers? Are they fighting off competition from Toyota's new miniaturized line?

Well whatever the reason, I had my pick of some pretty flash rides. Hot Wheels delves pretty far into the realm of bizarre automobile architecture. A good case in point is a member of the cryptically named Final Run series. The Hot Seat features a blue chrome drivers' cockpit shaped like a giant toilet bowl. In case we miss the point the words Final Flush are emblazoned on the side. Thoughtfully, the oversized toilet does come with a black toilet seat. The seat actually flips up. If there's someone in your campaign with Growth, and you can't resist a good sight gag, I think you know what you have to do. In any case, I found some futuristic Hot Wheels hot rods, all black of course, for my Dark Champions campaign.

But get in to Target soon, the Hot Wheels sale ends on Sept. 18th. And believe me, you're gonna kick yourself if you end up paying the full 92 cents for that ride later.

The guy at the counter asked me if I was a car collector. I could only chuckle. Because the truth is much, much worse. Muahhahahha.

Keep on truckin