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Re: Golden Age Characters Those he have any more powers besides this, or is he a weapon master like Hawkman? Is there anything more of interest known about him, like the secret idea (name and profession). Those he have any more equipment of interest, like vehicles? Is his secret ID known (name, profession)? I don't have Vibora Bay yet. Is he Dr. Ka? What is his real name? It would be interesting to see her be built with the gymnastics martial art from Digital Hero. That martial art is cool, and it would be fun to see used in one of your books. Ozymandias has some stuff with an Egyptian theme, like the base Karnak. Does Optimus have anything similar? What is his real name? What is his secret ID (name, profession)? As for powers, how similar are they to Kinetik or Streak II?

Re: Using Flight For Super-Leaps Thanks for the help guys! For those who wonder, yes this is for the Golden Age characters.

I've thought about the possiblity of using the Power Flight to simulate long super-leaps, like those performed by the Hulk and Superman. For example: Super-Leaping: Flight X", Only To Perform Super-Leaps (-1) This could be one way to emulate a brick who slowly evolve from being able to jump long distances to being able to fly. What do you think about it?

Re: JSA - Day One

Re: JSA - Day One I believe that the majority of the players can handle even godlike PCs, but every group has its problem player.

Re: JSA - Day One I guess this problem summerize both Hugh Neilson's and assault's posts. Exactly who to build, and how to build them is always a problem. A 250-point Atom allows for building almost anything he could do, while 250-point Spectre wouldn't even remind of the character as seen in some stories. The guidelines are just guides, then aren't laws. The reason for the strict built is to have them on the same power level as the heroes. I don't want to run an underdog campaign this time. It might be better if we graded the heroes (and villains); for example, using both 150+100 and 250+100. As for the exact history, and the exact line up. I haven't decided this yet either. I'm generally after the Golden Age DC era, so I guess I'm more after DC as presented during that eran than anything else. The reason I wrote JSA was more to limit my choices. We could begin we the original line-up, and some of their main villains during the early years. After that, we could see what feels best. As already pointed out, few if any, of the heroes started as JSA members. Build the characters as they where before JSA. The exact line-up will depend a lot on the players, so I migt need to make some changes to the JSA members exact stats anyway.

Re: JSA - Day One I haven't given it much thought, butI guess this comes closest to what I intend to do. In what way? I've never tried it before. My intention was to highlight some of the pulp fiction character left-overs in the campaign.

Re: JSA - Day One

In my golden age campaign I plan to use DC's Earth-2 quite much, so I would be very thankful if you coud help me give stats to the important heroes and villains. I want the heroes made with the normal Golden Age Champions guidelines, since there's a chance some of the players want to use them. Try to make the heroes as they were when they debuted, if possible. The Golden Age Champions Guidelines Are: 150 Base Points + 100 Disadvantage Points 40-60 Active Points in most powers CVs 6-10 SPD 3-6 Avoid Multipowers with more than a half-dozen slots Most attack-powers have only one Advantage, if any The 20-points Disadvantage Normal Characteristic Maxima is more common than in many other eras; especially among the so-called mystery men. Almost all supers (both good and bad) have secret IDs. Some helpful links are: The Justice Society of America Toonopedia JSA at Toonopedia Wikipedia The Golden Age Villain Fact File The Comics Archive

Re: Golden Age Characters

Re: Golden Age Characters Are there any more official golden age supers (good and bad)? The Millennium City book has the Spirit homage Mr. X.

Re: Golden Age Characters These are my guesses: American Eagle: Hawkman homage Black Mask VIII: Phantom homage Black Owl: Batman or Nite Owl (Watchmen) homage Bulletproof: ? Captain Patriot: Superman homage Cobra: The Shadow homage Dr. Twilight: Either a Dr.Fate homage or a Dr. Mid-Nite homage Cowboy: Robin homage Futurian: Rocketeer homage Grey Guardian: Spectre homage Lady Mystery: Inza Nelson (Dr. Fate's wife) homage MeteorMan: Golden age Green Lantern homage Nightingale: Silk Spectre (Watchmen) homage Optimus: Ozymandias (Watchmen) homage Scarlet Archer: Green Arrow homage Sea Hawk: Namor the Sub-Mariner homage Sgt. Battle: Captain America homage Streak: Golden age Flash homage Swashbuckler: ?

In my campaign I indeed to use some of the Golden Age characters in the Champions Universe. Besides what's written below, is anything know about them: American Eagle: Flight powers Black Mask VIII: CK: Chicago, Fringe Benefit: Local Police Powers, PS: Policeman, Social Limitation: Secret ID (Jeffrey Layton Ward) Black Owl: Deep Cover (Lefty LeGrand), Social Limitation: Secret ID (Bill Jeffries) Bulletproof: Bulletproof suit made by Dr. Ping Captain Patriot: See Champions Universe Cobra: Martial Arts: Generic, CK: New York City Dr. Twilight: Social Limitation: Secret ID (Robert MacDonald), CK: Harlem, powers over light and darkness (granted by Osiris), Social Limitation: Harmful Secret (communist connections) Cowboy: Social Limitation: Secret ID ("Kid"Brown), PS: Circus Artist, Trick-shooting Futurian: Rocket-Pack and Electro-Pistol Grey Guardian: CK: San Francisco Lady Mystery: Magic tome (VPP: Magic?), Social Limitation: Secret ID (Abigail Chase) MeteorMan: PS: Scientist, Social Limitation: Secret ID (Harrison Chase), see MeteorMan III in Champions Universe Nightingale: CK: San Francisco, Social Limitation: Secret ID (Leticia Henry), PS: Showgirl Optimus: Money: Well Off, Social Limitation: Secret ID (Drake Wilson) Scarlet Archer: Fringe Benefit: Lower Nobility, Social Limitation: Secret ID (Sir Peter Tanfield), skilled archer Sea Hawk: Social Limitation: Secret ID (Princess Mara), Hunted: Dargon, DNPC: Amy Levesque, DNPC: Navy Lieutenant Barry Colville, Fringe Benefit: Higher Nobility, see older version in Hidden Lands Sgt. Battle: Fringe Benefit: Sergeant, the world's mighiest non-com (what's that?) Streak: Speedster Swashbuckler: ?

Re: Will the revised CU book have updated Champions? I would be both glad and surprised if it did. There was a thread about this some time ago, but as far as I can remember nothing was said about whether Hero Games had decided to update them or not.

Re: "Hudson City" like graphic novels

Re: "Hudson City" like graphic novels The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen... which is the third book?

Re: Comics are getting too steamy...

Re: Millennium City The depressing thing is that it isn't a joke. It's not really a big problem in the larger cities, but on the countryside it's religion. What a shame...

Re: Millennium City I take it as that you know a few Swedes. For those that doesn't know any Swedes, here's a crash course: http://www.waste.org/~xtal/red/jante.html http://dke.cti.gr/people/pfoser/jante.html We're a lovely people, aren't we?

Re: Millennium City We could try to flesh things out in this thread. Who knows, something useful might come out of it. In some sense, the Plot Seed thread was the father of the Villany Amok book. Hopefully this thread might do something like Millennium City Revisited.

Re: Millennium City I will soon continue with the list, but before that I want to discuss a related topic: How do you make Millennium City come to life? It’s always interesting to see exactly how your Millennium City is built ruleswise, that isn’t what I’m after. Even if you’re naturally free to tell me that too. What I’m asking for are does small things that make your city feel like someone actually could be living there. Which neighbourhood has Eagle-Eye as its guardian? Which is Sapphire’s newest hit? Has there been any current criminal trend (like jewellery thefts). Which major players are currently in town? Who are the up and comings? How does Mr. Smith look at the town, with all its supernatural happenings? What does a normal day in their life look like?

Re: 2nd Stringers I was expecting someone like the Genre by Genre heroes. This caught be totally off guard.

Re: 2nd Stringers

Re: Favorite Super-Mercenary Who's bullet?

Re: Millennium City I would probably try to do as DC and Marvel, and keep most of the NPCs. The majority will never be used more than as media broadcast NPCs ("Today Defender saved a bridge!"), a few will be NPCs that show up occassionally and an even smaller group will be used heavily. Naturally the tone of the campign will matter too. Thunderbird and Eagle-Eye are more likely to show up in a vigilante campaign, than Cantrip and Foxbat. I guess you get the idea.