ParitySoul

Re: THE ULTIMATE METAMORPH -- What Do *You* Want To See?

Anyone watch the original Bubblegum Crisis? Remember when the borgs went crazy they picked up any local tech and merged with it?

I'd like to see that explored.

Re: Using Flight For Super-Leaps

What about Teleport (Have to Move though intevening Space) for the really fast jumpers. He's vunerable when he touches down...

Re: What Champions Books Would You Like Published in the Future?

Some expanded Argent thoughts.

If they do the Argent book then they should do something like The Political World sourcebook to follow it up.

Various government superteams. Supers and poltics. World laws and the differences between conventional teams and say one working out of China. International UN teams and tie-ins with UNTIL.

I was tinkering around with a Star/Pulp Hero idea of a character who could make minor edits to the existing plot and pull allies, items, etc out of nowhere to save his hide at just the right moment.

All 1 time ues kinda stuff. If he drops the gun, says good bye to the contact, etc, it just goes away. (Maybe the GM can pull out the contact again, but the PC can't as an action.)

Then I started thinking about a negative version of this were he could apply disadvangtes and flaws as a transformation with No Visable Effect. Gun jams, foe is spotted by police, etc.

Is there any way to make a small version of this cost effective for a 200 point game?

*minor spoilers warning*

Dear god. Anyone see Cloud'ss 6 part Sword? How would you build that culterly set in HERO terms? 6 seperate blades that can be used in tandum and then linked in many variations for effectivness. A final Buster form, and a number of quick disassemble and use attacks. Lets not forget the final "Limit" he used too.

Re: Psychic Wars

Locke: The Superman- Basicaly a cosmic scale psion.

Babel 3rd- More of the same. But good source. It's all earth local.

Giant Robo- OVA not the TV series. The "Defenders of Justice" are a fun mix of super martial artists and psis.

Re: Psychic Wars

Okay a bit more of anime info:

Sc-ry-ed - The "alters" are actualy mentaly controled constructs from another dimention. What happened was that years ago an accident happened and the part of Japan called the "Raised Ground" fluxed upwards due to expanding extra dimentional matters entering it. Children born around this time developed a mental defence/reaction that allowed them to summon and adapt to the alien energies. The first Alter users were born.

Btw: As the series progresses, the various Alter uses learn to tap more and more into this other world. It's not healthy for human life but they encase themselves in physical manfestions of their mental energy. (Really out there.)

Gundam - Universal Centry is a perfect example of highpowered precogs duking it out over long ranges in space. Pilots who just are natruals are 'New Types', due to their evolution to space.

Re: What Champions Books Would You Like Published in the Future?

Ultimate Superteam - Sorry, but this is just TOO good of an idea. I'd love to see a GM's guide to party/group building.

Ultimate Super-Skill - Already coming so I'm happy!

Ultimate Mentalist - Already coming so I'm happy!

Primus - We need to complete the universe!!!

Btw: Ninja Hero is not the same as Anime Hero. Ninjas have lost a lot of 'cool' factor over the years in the US and a more generic Anime genre book would be nice.

Re: Pulp Hero, after looking it over

I just wish DOJ would publish sourcebooks this big! Could you imagine how cool and complete Champions Universe would be if it were this size?

Hell ya! Or a redone Star Hero merged with say Terran Empire?

Re: Pulp Hero, after looking it over

I have sooo much to read...but WOW. Steve. Wow!

Re: Teen Champion Cover!

It's cute. Cute works for this genre.

Re: WWYCD: Life is but a Dream

Brand X would go looking for birth records. Family. Anything that would hint at a real life that was denied him. If lack of such shows up...then he would start working at getting free of whatever illusion has him. Most of his youth was spent in virutal reality training. He's really good at picking real from unreal.

Re: Anime Champions?

Still would be nice to actually see a collection of this in a book. With other ideas on how to flavor any of the other genres. A good kick at games like OVA and BESM that make it out like HERO and such can't do good Anime.

Re: Build your own "New Avengers"!

Personally' date=' I'd love to see a chunk of the Malibu-verse characters show up in Marvel mainstream ... for that matter, I'd alsot like to see some New Universe characters as well (which we'll at least see in the next Exiles run )[/quote']

 

Ummm as far as New Universe, it's happened. Quazar's Girlfriend is the current StarBrand and the New Universe Earth is floating out there in "earth space" behind a field that keeps it isolated.

Re: DarkHawk: Body Swapping.

Duplification with the original body being inert as with the astral projection power.

Would this run into problems if say BIG BAD villian picks up the item...or psionics? Any way to limit things here? What about the low percent chance of you waking up in your original body back at 'base'?

Re: Build your own "New Avengers"!

Captain America

Dr. Strange

Iron Man

Namor

Scarlet Witch

Quazar

Photon (Capt. Marv)

Daredevil

Spiderman

Luke Cage

Anyone remember DarkHawk from Marvel? He even recently made a reappearance in Runaways.

At first we thought he was gaining a costume and super powers, then some strange transformation. But in the end we discovered he was mind swapping with a body transfer into a cybernetic form.

If I was going to simulate this with an item that anyone could use what are you suggestions?

Re: Military HERO

You could try and find the old HERO supplement 'Here Be Tigers' which deals with the modern US military (and mercs) and their training in some depth

Ya, but how out of date is that?

Re: Build your own "New Avengers"!

How about:

 

Captain America

Hawkeye

Giant Man

Wasp

Captain Marvel

Yellowjacket

Songbird

 

Wait, they did that one already ...

Or are going to do that one. ^^ (Funny thing is...we don't know who was in the team when Capt. Marvel and Songbird technically were members...or will be members. )

Damn, still screws with my head.

For all the griping this is something I'm curious about. Lets say the only character you 'have' to have in the Avengers is Rick Jones. Let say, he's having another cosmic moment and he needs to make a new modern team. Who would you put in the line up?

(Thinking up my own as we speak!)

Re: New Avengers?

Personally I like New Avengers run. There' s a lot of thinking going on inside the book. Old plots that Marvel never use to touch on are finally getting looked at.

Capt. America dealing with the mutant issue.

Spiderman getting more props from the heavyhitters. Capt/Wolve already know he's good in a pinch but honestly if you were going to have an Avengers with Luke Cage, Spiderwoman, etc...you'd need Spidy to balance them out.

I just hope they get off of some of the overdone tropes they've been playing on. Super loosing he secret idenity, EVIL government conspiracy (with suprise twist...Spiderwomans involvement in this is a bit tiresome.)

Etc.

Btw, if you measure in Tbots, New Avengers, Young Avengers, New Xmen...it's a good time to be a Marvel reader.

I would think that information about Military based games, tactics, and historical 'unit' builds would be an interesting supliment. I know GURPS has touched on similar with Special Ops and High Tech...but no one has ever sat down and talked much about tactics (small and large) and how these translate into the HERO system.

BTW: Dark Champions did a VERY nice job of this but it feels more on the small urban scale.

I've been thinking about WWII type engaugements or some pesuo-future fights.

Is there existings web resources?

Re: Shadow World Hero Help

It's been ages since I heard of Shadow World. What was like as far as fantasy worlds went?

Re: light saber color signification

Personally I would like a gold lightsaber.

Re: Hero System Guru in 20 days or less.

First: Thanks so far for the great advice. Good info and a lot of things I added to my little note book.

Second: Doh! I totaly forgot my earlier days of system testing. I called it Superman vs Batman! We could build a brick and a streetfighter and pummel each other to death over and over again.

The arena game idea sounds great. I might be able to sell that to players.