FenrisUlf

Ah! I'll have to go back and check Champions Villains again for those two and see for myself.
 
I also have your Devachan PDF, by the way, and I enjoy it.

Purchased tonight and did a quick read through. I’m hoping the other mystical families of the CU will also get expansions.

Not at all. A place where the question will be seen is the right place.
 
(Edit: Though any further discussion should probably go in the Sylvestri Family Reunion announcement thread, where other people can see it, too.)
 
I've changed the underlying Power for Astral Projection because Steve Long changed it first. I noticed it in the writeups for Chatoyant and Eduard and Anais Vandaleur, in Champions Villains Vol. 3. Well, if that's the new standard for 6e, who am I to argue?
 
(I just wish I'd noticed it before using the expensive Duplication version in my Spells of the Devachan supplement. Oh, well, it makes no difference to how an astral bpody operates.)
 
Dean Shomshak

I forgot a couple of other favorites: Golden Age Champions and San Angelo.

VA is Fifth Edition, but I heartily agree. Another endorsement from the Bennie Fanboi.
 

I have a definite soft spot for Villainy Amok, an aid to creating adventures.  Very different to almost every other superhero supplement and one that enhanced your own work.

Oooo.  I forgot the Blood and Dr. McQuark!

Yeah, the Devil's Advocates received a major change to their lineup between their first appearance in Creatures of the Night and their 5e appearance in Arcane Adversarie, because reasons. I've already rewritten Shadowfire as an independent villain (along with his daughter Nightstar and a new villain, Darkhand, the "enforcer" Shadowfire inherited from the previous leader of the Greater Dark cult, so he sort of has a small team of his own). I've revised Brother Bone as well. I hope to revise Granny Hex and Apollyon. Maze is out for good: Other characters make him excessively redundant.
 
Lady Twilight remains a Gothic vampire, a mind-controlling manipulator and mistress of social warfare. I haven't seen Tiger's version, so I can't comment. It will still be true that the vampire who turned her called himself Stalker, but it isn;t the Stalker in CV3. Over her century-plus of undeath, Lady Twilight has met several vampires who called themselves "Stalker." It's a thing among vampires. 
 
The vampire artist Charles Torres and the activist Shirlee also get writeups as examples of less powerful vampires. Both have connections to Lady Twilight, though Shirlee doesn't know it. With them as examples, it should not be difficult to write up other vampires -- at least other characters of their sort of vampire, the Upyr. Folklore gives many other sorts of vampires, and any of them could be real in your setting.
 
As for the Monad, it's getting so much expansion it could almost become a booklet of its own. But it won't. It'll just be a fairly long and detailed chapter.
 
Dean Shomshak

A big art dump from this spring and summer commissions and doodles.  

More doodles from my Wednesday night game.  Well, Mongoose was done for the Name That Guy contest.... but she is a super agent, so I thought she could go here.  

Btw, I do have another contest going and only 4 entries.  Called What's Her Story.  If you subscribe to my channel and put your idea of what her backstory is in the comments section, I'm picking 2 "winners" and will do a character concept drawing for them, for FREE!  Winners will be picked this Thursday, 10/6.  

 

I saw that!  
 
Hey guys, I've let this thread really stagnate over the last few years.  But I am back to full time art after 8 years of being at a 9-5 energy company doing marketing and forklift duties (wore a lot of hats).  I have been playing supers.  It has been our own system...but I've done a lot of art for our playtest and I thought I would drop some on y'all.  And that is just scratching the surface... I've got a lot more..  But let's see if folks enjoy this before completely saturating the thread.  

Hm. Little if anything about how GMs have actually used the Monad in their games. Oh, well.
 
Anyway, the revised Monad will have an expanded roster of robot types:
 
The autofactory with its controlling AI remains central. (Though as mentioned, each AI is only a facet of an immensely greater col;lective intelligence.)
 
There will still be the three sample giant monsters, two types of murderbots, and the servobots that maintain the autofactories. (And can provide technical services in the field, if need be.)
 
While the primary inspiration came from Fred Saberhagen's "Berserker" stories, I've decided to mix in a bit of Star Trek's Borg and Dr Who's Cybermen, to make things a little more personal nastiness. The Monad now can convert any convenient humans into "hubots" who retain their skills and knowledge but are programmed to serve the Monad. A way for the Monad to exploit humans as a resource before their elimination. Also, easier than writing up a robot that takes over military vehicles, construction equipment, etc, to use them as additional forces: Just convert the people who already operate them.
 
This meant writing up the "Medibot" that implants the machine bits to turn a human into a hubot. Also the "Collector" or "Snatchbot" that captures people and delibers them to the medibots.
 
The "Slaver" is a more advanced specialty robot, developed as the Monad learns more about human neurology, like a big metal crab that wraps its legs around a person's head and drills into the person's head to take control of them.
 
From the beginning, I mentioned Monad warships. They get a writeup now. The Monad only deploys them once it takes the measure of human resistance, though. These have been tricky to write up, as they must function both as plausible adversaries in ship-on-ship space combat, and as formidable but defeatable opponents to Standar Power suyperbeings.
 
I may write up another Vehicle, a "Transbot" that ferries other robots around the world so the Monad can initiate a new gambit anywhere in the world.
 
Each type of robot gets at least one Story Seed as an example of how to make it an important part of a scenariop.
 
Dean Shomshak

While my goal here is to listen more than speak, I can confirm a few things already decided about the Monad.
 
It is a true hive-mind. The "field operations" robots range from machine intelligence to sapient with unbreakable directives, but are controlled by the autofactory that built them. The autofactories, however, are hyperspacially linked to form a single super-consciousness.
 
To represent this in the character sheet for "Monad O/S," the AI has 75 PRE, only usable when someone achieves EGO + 10 effect on Telepathy or some similarly invasive mental contact. They touch the deeper layer of Monad consciousness and find it's... really, really big. Default effect of the Presence Attack is to make the person break contact right away, but if the Monad expects the contact it can attempt some other impression.
 
The Monad, aware of cosmic-level threats such as the Kings of Edom? Interesting. Well, the Monad does record and analyze entire civilizations, right down to individual memories. And H. P. Lovecraft had something to say about the results of pulling together disparate information. If the information about the Kings, the Elder Worm, or some similar threat was available, or merely deducible, from a civilization's knowledge base, the Monad could plausibly have figured it out. This may be good for a story seed.
 
Dean Shomshak

I bought the PDF and hardcopy off of DriveThru. Looking forward to getting the physical book. It's great to finally see some more information on the Sylvestris, as well as some new ideas on how to handle things like ghosts, astral projection, and more.
 
Possibly we can hope to one day see similar works covering the other mystic dynasties of the Champions Universe like the Chunhu and Kayvanzadi, or other Dragon cults like the Bone Children or Sons of Kingu? I know I'd buy them.

At long last, you can now buy The Sylvestri Family Reunion. These seven members of the most evil family in the Champions Universe have been mentioned in various sources for decades. Now you finally get character sheets and full descriptions! Also included: a few ghost and demon minions, and two archdevils who act as patrons to various Silvestris.
 
Here's a link to buy it at DriveThruRPG. Some other sources top, even Barnes & Noble, but this is probably the best known. (Oddly, Jason Walters didn't mention it as appearing in the HERO store, at least not yet. Oh, well.)
 
The Sylvestri Family Reunion: Spawn of the Dragon - Hero Games | Champions | DriveThruRPG
 
Buy my book!
 
Dean Shomshak

Cowboys were not more violent than anyone else. Most of them ordinary people, peaceful and just trying to find their own space and make a future for their children.
 
But wherever people gather there's always a certain unruly element. Whenever you gather a bunch of unmarried men they'll tend to be especially unruly. Women tend to be a civilizing influence.
 
In the old west we saw this in mining towns, lumber camps, railroad towns, ranch houses, etc. Men get to drinking and gambling and brawling out of boredom and restlessness and trouble ensues.
 
The problem we have in RPGs is that it's not interesting to play peaceful family people doing their job every day. What's interesting is when you have to strive and fight; but for the most part, those who live by the sword are already engaged in questionable activities. Either that or they're living in a crazy frontier area, although those crazy frontiers are not sustainable for very long, they tend to be short-lived transitional periods.

I just did edit/remove it, my apologies for taking this long.

Not really here.  Political thread if you think it has political overtones;  this doesn't appear to have those.  Extra! Extra! for general stories like this...like the man who stole the forklift and deliberately ran over a woman in the process.  This thread's for cases when we can say "how can someone be so STUPID as to do THAT?" or the like.  This case, from what I've read...simple google search brought it up...appears to be bullying...nothing more, altho that in no way is intended to be dismissive.  The girl who struck the kid has been ID'd, arrested, and charged with FELONY assault...so it's no joke.

He keeps diggin' that hole!
 
Smiling tourist who defaced Rome’s ancient Colleseum claims he didn’t know the structure was so old

The falsehood there is at the end of the statement.  Some people DO care...a very great deal.  

I get what you're saying, tho.  I try to avoid those people, but it's not always possible.

Look at it this way. In a few thousand years, science will regard his inscription as just as valuable as theirs.

Look at it this way. In a few thousand years, science will regard his inscription as just as valuable as theirs.

On the plus side, he'll be able to carve his girlfriend's and his name into his cell wall.
 
Moron.