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Re: Possible HERO System Supplement Kickstarters From Steve -- What Interests You?

Mythic Hero: $50-100

Cyber Hero: $25-50

Dark Champions: $25-50

STORMlords: $50-100

Re: ARMED Acronym

Alpha Response Mechanized Expeditionary Division

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Quotes from Session 55 - The Wardens are discussing Eon's return and how to get Delta Prime home. They end up saving a group of teens with paranormal abilities from a kidnap attempt and then bring the teens back to the base.

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Amethyst - Brick with minor energy projection abilities

Contego - Gadgeteer with Force Beams and Invisibility gadgets

Eon - Immortal Teleporting Energy Blaster in a crystalline shell - powered by alien energy being symbiotes

Indigo - Mage from another dimension, stranded in the Wardens' dimension.

Stalwart - Red, White and Blue Patriot with abilities from a super-serum and martial arts training

Satomi and Neji - teenage brother and sister who are currently Karalyn Nicholas' wards, Satomi has a minor precognitive talent that warns her when others are trying to harm her.

Kelvin - teenage paranormal with fire generation and control abilities

Mortimer - teenage paranormal with shadow generation and control abilities

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"Your duplicate built a device to allow me to transverse dimensions," Eon says to Contego.

"You are saying that our evil duplicates can travel across dimensions?" asks Contego.

"No," replies Eon. "I toppled the organization."

"You toppled a world spanning criminal organization in two weeks?" inquires Stalwart.

"I was the leader," responds Eon. "I toppled the organization from the top down."

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Stalwart suggests that Indigo use her magic to get Delta Prime home.

"I am still working on that for me," replies Indigo.

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Satomi says she and Neji were waiting for Karalyn to pick them up when Amethyst and Indigo rescued them from the kidnappers.

"Do you know, she has a purple SUV just like you?" Satomi asks Amethyst.

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Kelvin asks that the Wardens not say anything about his abilities to his parents and that he is scared to tell them.

"They may think they have a freak for a kid," says Kelvin.

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After Kelvin leaves, Amethyst tells Satomi and Neji that she is Karalyn.

"So that is why you have the same SUV," says Satomi.

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"You are asking the same questions as other guy," says Mortimer.

"This is a test to see if you give the same answers," quips Eon.

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Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Here is a link to a thread with a variety of action hero creator style on line apps - including HeroMachine and Fabrica

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/72794-Heromachine-and-similar-applications

Re: Wardens Chronicles / Foundation Chronicles

The campaign is still going well... here are the updates for Session 55... you can find them all at the link below...

http://wardens.angeva.com/log-all.asp?Site=W4

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Session 55 - Journeys and Beginnings

Downtime: Post-Session 55

Interludes: Session 55

Story: Khepa Makes Another Request

Story: Cassidy's Promotions

Story: Attempted Kidnapping Investigation and the North Bay Academy

Story: Christmas - Judah and Rebecca

Story: Christmas at Connor's

Story: Wardens, Generation Next - Kelvin

Story: Evil Portraits?

Story: Another Date with Taurex

Story: Connor is Followed

Story: Khepa's Xenexis

Story: Investigations - Mini-UFOs

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As always, your comments are welcome...

PS - does anybody read these???

Re: Wardens Chronicles / Foundation Chronicles

The campaign is still going well... here are the updates for Session 54... you can find them all at the link below...

http://wardens.angeva.com/log-all.asp?Site=W4

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Session 54 - Geniuses and Genius?

Downtime: Post-Session 54

Interludes: Session 54

Story: When in Rome (The Return of Eon)

Story: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations

Story: Plans to Rescue Eon

Story: Khepa's Request

Story: Prime Revelations

Story: Lessons

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As always, your comments are welcome...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Quotes from Session 54 - The Wardens are discussing recent events while entertaining a girl genius who is visiting their base. The session ends with them inspecting the alien landing craft that the team captured last session.

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Amethyst - Brick with minor energy projection abilities

Contego - Gadgeteer with Force Beams and Invisibility gadgets

Eon - Immortal Teleporting Energy Blaster in a crystalline shell - powered by alien energy being symbiotes

Indigo - Mage from another dimension

Stalwart - Red, White and Blue Patriot with abilities from a super-serum and martial arts training

Rita - 11 year-old girl genius that the Wardens are trying to prevent from becoming a mad scientist.

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"I'd image that if my race had almost been wiped out by another race, I would adopt a shoot first policy, too," comments Stalwart.

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"Is this your daughter?" asks Eon looking at Rita "Is this bring you kid to work day and I did not get the memo?"

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"You are ahead of where I was in school at your age," comments Contego.

"So, she is smarter than you," chides Eon.

"No, girls just mature faster than boys," replies Rita.

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"How do you get around since you don't drive," asks Amethyst.

"The bus," replies Rita shaking her head and looking at Contego who smiles.

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"What are you doing bringing a chimp to the infirmary?" queries Amethyst when she sees Stalwart enter the infirmary with a chimp in tow.

"Testing it for sentience," replies Stalwart.

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Stalwart shutters and then says, "I just had this image of an enhanced chimp running around the base shooting people with a mouse that has laser beam eyes."

"Can you do a picture of that?" Contego says to Eon.

"Don't go there," replies Eon.

"Don’t you take commissions," chides Contego.

"Yes, I take commissions," replies Eon.

"How about $300?" offers Contego.

Eon just glares at Contego

"Hello, small child of unknown name...," says Stalwart realizing that he has not been introduced to Rita, who has volunteered to take care of the chimp and the mouse from the tests.

"I'm Rita," responds Rita with a large grin.

"Report if they show any signs of sentience," orders Stalwart before smiling at the girl.

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"I am sure since they inhabit you they are aware of how humans reproduce," quips Contego

Eon glares at Contego and the discussion grinds to a halt.

"See Rita, hanging out with the Wardens you get to see lots of biological oddities," says Stalwart breaking the sudden silence.

"Like this one standing next to me," says Contego pointing to Stalwart.

"I am not an oddity, just the result of a super soldier serum," says Stalwart.

Turning to Rita, he says, "But you would not be interested in that."

Rita corrects, "You are wrong I would be interested."

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Stalwart blames his nausea on the air and says that he needs a gas mask because the atmosphere is not healthy

"Seems good to me," responds Eon.

"You don't breathe," says Stalwart snidely.

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Amethyst asks, "Where is Eon?"

"He must have got stuck and triggered the return mechanism," responds Stalwart before looking at Contego and asking, "Contego, isn’t that what you think happened."

Contego remains silent.

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Re: Else Earth Character Thread.

Ok' date=' so technically it's a Grab at Range maneuver ?[/quote']

 

pretty much...

Re: Widow II (5e, 411pts)

I have a question about this line of power

 

Web-Grab: Stretching 12" (60 Active Points); Cannot Do Damage (-½), Always Direct (-¼), Range Modifier Applies (-¼)

 

Doesn that mean it's just a thrown web to catch object, and you can't use it like spiderman do, to grab your opponent and pull it at you and then punch it ? Or am I misunderstanding the Cannot Do Damage limiter ?

 

Opale

 

Still afraid of arachnids... yikes !

Stretching typically allows you to apply your STR damage via a strike or grab/squeeze... this limitation makes the stretching only able to apply the STR for things like "grabbing" your opponent and pulling them to you to punch...

In earlier editions of Champions, several characters were build with a focus that was an 'OAF' but was treated as an 'OIF' because they could summon it back to them using Instant Change.

I would like to mimic this mechanic because the resident supermage wants to be able to 'summon' her staff whenever it is nearby or taken from her.

How would you do that in 6E as Instant Change is no longer a power and since the staff is not in her possession a Transform (Cosmetic), the new mechanic suggested for "Instant Change", just does not seem like it would do the trick for me.

Re: Create a Hero Theme Team!

Not a submission, just a link to a group with a similar theme...

http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/64971-A-DC-Animated-style-HeroMachine?p=1929393#post1929393

Re: Weaknesses in Armor Joints

Weaknesses in Armor Joints - sounds more like a weakness in the target versus something the attacker is doing...

As such I would propose something like the following... inspired by CrosshairCollie's suggestion...

Resistant Defense, 6 PD and 6 ED (The base armor including the joints)

Resistant Defense, 4 PD and 4 ED, Requires A Roll: 14- (All areas but the joints)

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

Quotes from Session 53 - The Wardens are in combat with a spider alien landing craft that crashed next to a high school.

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Amethyst - Brick with minor energy projection abilities

Contego - Gadgeteer with Force Beams and Invisibility gadgets

Eon - Teleporting Energy Blaster in a crystalline shell

Indigo - Mage from another dimension

Stalwart - Red, White and Blue Patriot with abilities from super-serum and martial arts training

Meka - Robotic entity with the ability to grow to 13 ft tall that uses blaster weapons

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Indigo blasts one of the aliens and then comments to Meka, "That's how it's done metal man."

Meka misses another attack on an alien and suffers several hits in return.

"Damn it Meka pull your own weight," chides Eon while blasting a spider alien.

Stalwart lands a couple more kicks downing another spider alien. As it starts to fade away, he yells "Get off my planet, you damn dirty aliens.

"You're going down alien," says Meka as he finally hits an alien then glares at the Wardens around him.

"Good job metal man," praises Indigo.

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The bad guys... the Spider Aliens...

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Meka seeing all the other Wardens moving towards the high school comments, "All the humans run off leaving the robot to face the alien hoard."

Contego standing next to Meka drops his invisibility field and yells "Hey eight-legged freaks, over here."

Re: Battle maps for download

I believe HeroClix use 1.5 inch hex/squares...

Another resource for maps, if you want to pay for them, is http://www.DriveThruRPG.com... in addition to maps they have 3-D buildings and terrain that you print out on card stock then fold to provide buildings and other city features...

Re: Battle maps for download

Yes, it is some nice work... I bookmarked it a long time ago... it is done by a member of the boards but I forget who...

Re: Battle maps for download

Silent Empire has some at http://silentempire.com/downloads.php

Re: Wardens Chronicles / Foundation Chronicles

The campaign is still going well... here are the updates for Session 53... you can find them all at the link below...

http://wardens.angeva.com/log-all.asp?Site=W4

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Session 53 - They Came from Outer Space

Downtime: Post-Session 53

Interludes: Session 53

Story: Aftermath, the Spoils of War?

Story: Aftermath, Satomi and Neji

Story: Aftermath, the Next Few Days

Story: Aftermath, Thanksgiving 2007

Story: New Crystal: Stalwart's Experiments

Story: Japanese Adventures

Story: Taurex's Crush

Story: Karalyn gets Kimberly and Calen Together

Story: Rita Streeter, Child Genius

Story: Karex's Announcement

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As always, your comments are welcome...

Re: How do you introduce players to champions?

mostly option 2 and every now and then option 3...

option 2 because I am running an ongoing campaign and it is an hour and a half drive for me to where we game... it is easier to communicate with the new player via email then design the character for them... when we get together for a session, it only takes a few minutes to give the player a feel for the character before we start playing... designing the character before hand also prevents the other players from having to sit and wait while a design session is done face-to-face...

the last time I used option 3 was several years ago... I had a few newbies when restarting the current campaign...

Re: Wardens Chronicles / Foundation Chronicles

The campaign is still going on after some player and character shuffling... the new updates include Sessions 51 and 52 as well as one of the new character's origin story... you can find them all at the link below...

http://wardens.angeva.com/log-all.asp?Site=W4

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Origin Story - Percival's Story

Session 51 - Hatchlings and Demons

Downtime: Post-Session 51

Interludes: Session 51

Story: Introduction and Credentials

Story: About Taurex

Story: Tainted Aura

Story: Introduction of Meka Karex

Story: Bank Robbery in Oakland

Story: Eye of the Beholder

Story: Amethyst - Community Center - Strange Happenings

Story: Revenge Thwarted

Story: Amber and Dot Dash Recalled

Story: First Paranormal Criminal

Story: Crystal Investigations: The Call for Home

Story: Toby and the Process

Story: Letter to the Wardens/Meeting at Alcatraz

Session 52 - Halloween Thrills and Chills

Downtime: Post-Session 52

Interludes: Session 52

Story: Thursday, November 1, 2007

Story: Friday, November 2, 2007

Story: Breaking the Code

Story: Planning for an Invasion

Story: Some Time with the Yricians

Story: Crystal Searches: FSS and Orion

Story: Satomi's Visions

Story: Control of the Satellite

Story: Contego and Amethyst Unveiled

Story: A Change in Plans

Story: Spying on the Enemy

Story: Satomi's Fate

Story: Tactical Decisions

Story: Battle in Space

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As always, your comments are welcome...

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Okay, soem mixed news:

Instead of the normal (current version) FdH is still this Niam Cat game, but the older version are availible again.

Unfortunately the borders of the Flash application are incorrect, so the older version all have there lower parts cut off. You can scroll the application by pressing the middle mouse button/scroll wheel down and moving the mouse, however.

For Firefox users, there is an add-on called UnPlug that allows you to open the flash application in its own browser tab/window outside of the page's frames.

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine

Some of the Wardens' trainees have graduated...

Cang Hua (Blue Flower)

(L to R) Old Trainee Uniform - New Costume

Sapphire

(L to R) Old Trainee Uniform - New Costume

Cobalt

(L to R) Old Trainee Uniform - New Costume

Re: A nice name for a Eastern European country?

When I needed to provide some small states in Europe for a couple of story lines for my campaign, a little research on Romania on Wikipedia led to the discovery of many ethnic or former historical divisions. I borrowed some of the names or archaic spellings of them as well as creating a fictional name and now in place of Romania there are the states of Banat, Budjak, Moldavana, Oltenia, Transylvania and Valahia.

Just something you may want to consider as a resource for names for your state is using historical or ethnic divisions of current states.

Re: Alternate Sexualities in Champions and Supers settings

The Wardens Chronicles campaign is set in San Francisco and the paranormals in the area tend to reflect the demographics of the area.

Captain Fantastic was a vocal proponent of gay rights, here is a write up for him I adapted for another thread... the "Create a Hero Theme Team" thread created a GLBT group...

Captain Fantastic - http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php/80447-Create-a-Hero-Theme-Team!?p=2066531#post2066531

The Wardens have had two openly gay members, Boost and Delta-Vee.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

A provision of names and quick description usually goes a long way towards establishing the humour of the piece; please see other such posts for examples.

Thanks Narf, I will keep that in mind...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

A few quotes from the last session of the Wardens Chronicles campaign.

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"Is that the one that kicked your ass?" Indigo inquires of Judah.

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Prime yells "Will someone call off that dragon."

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Judah cautions Contego, "You have been doing too many drugs and should seek help."

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"How many Yricians are at the security station," asks Stalwart.

"Two," replies the duty agent, "Karex and another one that sort of looks like him."

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"I told you that humans were the most violent race that the Yricians had ever met," replies Karex. "That is the truth of the matter as none of the Yricians from the exploratory cruiser had survived the encounter."

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"They truly are alien," mumbles Contego.

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Eon questions, "They singed your metallic super fur?"

"They had laser beams," exclaims Prime.

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