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Re: I remember when you could stop a train This ain't GURPS...

Re: Succeeding The Blood There is a second mystic family in Arcane Adversaries - the Sylvestri clan. They are a much tighter family, with a higher proportion of black magic users.

Re: In Progress From Blackwyrm Games: Mythic America That's Mick Jagger...

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Re: Succeeding The Blood Another idea, tangential to the Imperions - it has occurred to me that the CU doesn't have an analogue to DC Comics' Amazons (which concept has been, um, "borrowed" by some indie publishers). I had considered an origin for such an analogue with ties to both Atlantis and the Empyreans, though the "all or nothing" inheritance of mixed-Empyrean children makes that challenging.

Re: The 10 Most Disgusting Alien Civilizations I'd buy the Vong at the #1 spot, though more for how the Star Wars setting was horribly abused in that segment of the EU than anything about the race itself.

Re: Replacing Destroyer with Teleios And thus speaks my partner in that plotting... Hi, Chuck!

Re: Replacing Destroyer with Teleios I've had an idea to do this myself. Comparing with the 6e CU, DD did in fact die at Detroit. He was dying already and decided to commit the superpowered equivalent of "suicide by cop", though in his own mind he was choosing to A. die by his own hand, for only Destroyer can choose the hour of Destroyer's death and B. taking as many of his enemies with him as possible, to deny them the pleasure of a world without Destroyer. And Shadow Destroyer either doesn't exist, or hasn't and never will find his way to my campaign world (since Luther Black "left and never came back", there was no trail for SD to follow). Thus the way is left open for Teleios to step in - all of his decades of waiting for that fool Zerstoiten to finally die have paid off. You see, Teleios is the name currently used by a contemporary of DD, one Gerhardt Spregen (sp?) [from 4e Dark Champions; Justice Not Law, IIRC]. You see, Spregen successfully formulated a longevity serum during WWII, but shared a subtly altered version of the formula with Zerstoiten that *prevented* any such treatments from being effective while taking the real serum himself.

Re: Replacing Destroyer with Teleios Expand Teleios' science skills to have the breadth of Destroyer's. Be prepared to have your breath taken away when you see his skill levels, though, since DD has INT 35 and Teleios has INT 50.

Re: Blowing Up Prootwaddles, or Character Self-Destruction "I'll kill him! I'll kill the Prootwaddle!"

Re: Doctor Destroyer Pissed... What? Who TPd the space station? FOXXXXBAAAATTTTTT!!!!!!

Re: Flower Warfare Far out!

Re: Supers and SF characters from 70s TV. And I for one have no problem with that whatsoever.

Re: Battlefield control a viable concept in Champions? The concept takes teamwork to a level beyond the Teamwork skill - from the characters to the players. This is to be Highly Encouraged.

Re: Help with Vigilante Project Are you using Dark Champions: The Animated Series as a reference? This really sounds like something DC: TAS calls "Hudson City Powers". Another couple of characters that come to my mind: The Question (Vic Sage, not Renee Montoya) Daredevil

Re: Does this Power Work: Mental Wound that Never Heals Is this for a PC or an NPC? If the former, would you want something like this inflicted on your PC by another character (PC or NPC)? If the latter, do you plan to inflict this on the PCs in your game? Do you make a habit of permanently injuring/crippling the PCs, and how do your players feel about that? In short, what story role is this intended to play and whose fun might it also damage?

Re: Battle of the Bands (6e) The aforementioned almanac was the Hero System Almanac 2, for 4th Edition. Still, the differences between editions isn't that great. The biggest difficulty would lie in finding a copy in the first place. (Or talking me out of mine...)

Re: What's different about YOUR Champions Unvierse? Unfortunately, this is a world in potentia - I haven't had the opportunity to run it. Without spoiling anything in the eBook, suffice to say that the PRIME Team and their whole backstory was brand-new in the eBook, as was the ethnicity and sociopolitical characteristics of the key person "behind" Cyberline. Plus, the tone of PRIMUS in prior publications (primarily the PRIMUS and DEMON book, reprinted in Classic Organizations) was exaggerated, while the organization was transformed from "law enforcement in peacetime and military in wartime" ala the U.S. Coast Guard (prior to the formation of the Department of Homeland Security, at least) into a permanently civilian law enforcement agency ala the FBI. And I actually had UNTIL's technological jump-start into becoming Starfleet coming out of a combination of Project Shiva's anti-Destroyer tech and actual Destroyertech captured after Dr. D's death.

Re: What's different about YOUR Champions Unvierse? I have added an ahistorical city, Trinity City, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers (real world Cairo, IL), and moved the Battle of Detroit to that location. Thus, instead of Millennium City, I have Trinity Island. I also have ex cathedra declared Dr. Destroyer to be most really, and sincerely, permanently dead. The Battle of Trinity City was his refusal to go gently into that good night. His "successor" as the Great Worldbeating Master Villain is an origin-revised Teleios (hint: 4th Edition Dark Champions' Gerheardt Spregen) There are other changes, such as using the 4th Edition CU timelines for UNTIL and PRIMUS (with substantial changes in the events surrounding the former, and ignoring the Iron Age-ification of the latter from the eponymous eBook, etc.), and shuffling things around a bit inside of VIPER. (Speaking of which... Krait lied, but he wasn't entirely wrong...). Oh, yeah. Luther Black never came back. No DEMON. Eurostar is the official superteam of the EU. (No, I didn't say superhero team.) More on UNTIL - in the aftermath of the V'Hanian Invasion, UNTIL reorganized, transferring Arctic operations to the Wilderness Division and space operations to the previous Oceanic/Arctic Division, the latter of which was separated out into the Oceanic and Aerospace Corps (OAC), which is moving full-speed ahead into becoming Earth's Starfleet.

Re: STAR HERO Reading List I'd also add Niven and Pournelle's Oath of Fealty. While entirely Earthbound, and with not a lot of "future tech" to be seen, it is an outstanding sociological study of possible future social changes that might be seen in near-future enclosed societies (i.e. space colonies, sublight non-sleeper interstellar colonies, etc.)

Re: Domino costume This has been well-known for a long, long time...

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Re: The Hero System is bland and over complicated Not to mention starting point totals as equal dogma.

Re: "Crowning Moment of Cool?" Ask your players. Seriously. Enlist them in campaign planning and they will enjoy the game more. (Exceptions exists, but this generally holds true.)