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Re: Villianous Code Name for a Emotion Manipulater Jack of Hearts if you go casually villainy. How about "Date-Rape Boy" if you go dark with it. What kind of name would a teen-age boy want? Stud? What kind of name would other teens give him?

Re: CLOWN for 5th Champions CLOWN was always entertaining for our group when things had gotten too dark or just too serious. But, while requiring a major re-tooling, I could easily see a way to bring CLOWN into the Champions Universe. Because we play a game with superheroes, there is naturally a focus on metahumans being either heros or villains. Now and again there is an NPC superpowered being who is neither, just fitting in and living his/her life in the Champions Universe. But CLOWN could easily fit into the Champions Universe as a group of bored metahumans not compelled to be heroes or villains but not content to be regular folks either. Sort of a group of super-powered performance artists whose next big prank has to top the one before so they can one-up their compatriots and deal with the ennui of being soooo powerful yet neither heroes, villains, or the person next door. CLOWN could definitely have political overtones, economic overtones, etc. Think of them as opinionated fringe folks with odd senses of humor, bored with time on their hands, and the metahuman abilities to wreak a lot of havok. I miss them.

Re: Instructors needed, apply within. If the instructor is a NPC, a precog would drive students nuts! Imagine a teacher who knew what crap you were going to pull before you pulled it, could evaluate your strengths and weaknesses before you began a project, and knew what choices you would make before you made them.

Re: What Would Your Character Do? #63 Your character is, I hope, a villain? And one that, no offense, I hope gets arrested VERY SOON if he frequently mind-rapes people.

Re: What superhero world concept are you tired of seeing? OK. It appears that you really dislike all world concept genre conventions. Would you prefer a game setting based on how people might actually react in the real world to the emergence of super powers?

Re: What Would Your Character Do? #63 Are you sure Husky is a hero? Cause that behavior is underhanded, dishonest, and manipulative? (Not that I against being underhanded, dishonest, or manipulative...just thought your character was more straightlaced heroic type!)

Re: Real World Issues in the Game World I'm playing in a game now in which 9/11 was the trigger for super powers. A version of the Wild Card virus was released by terrorists. It is going well so far!

Re: What superhero character concepts are you tired of seeing? Well, yes, that is true. Sort of like the "reformed villain" applying for hero team membership...only he is the only one who knows he is reformed! Not gonna be welcomed with open arms...

Re: Strike Force Jealousy. Intense jealousy. Not just that they had the supplement, BUT THAT YOU HAVE A FREAKIN' STORE WITH HERO ITEMS AND USED GAMING STUFF. (My local store has half a shelf, and that only because of the game I play in.)

Re: What Would Your Character Do? #63 A minor child lacks legal standing to choose to remain in his newly aquired artificially aged body. Legally, his parents or guardians would have the legal right to decide if he did or did not stay "all grown up". So in game terms, you could face loving parents distraught over their precious baby losing his childhood...or unethical parents seeing a monetary advantage to having a kid they (think) can be controlled with a lot of power. Plus...if a kid jumps from age 5 to age 25 physically, but not emotionally or intellectually, you've got a NIGHTMARE on your hands. Look at your own kids, neighbors kids, etc. and tell me you want a 5 year old kid with the body of a grown man and enough power to blast an armored car away. Uh uh. No way. Regress that sucker back to his rightful age. Even if childhood sucks, it is suckage we all have to deal with before being adults. No cutting in line, no skipping ahead.

Re: What superhero character concepts are you tired of seeing? Several of my characters have started as super-powered beings with no heroic motivation. What I do to make that work is lay character groundwork for the potential for heroic motivation, and then discuss with the GM what general events we inlcude in the game to make the character a hero. It is sort of like role-playing Peter Parker finding out the robber he didn't stop is the man who killed his Uncle Ben. So my characters gain their heroic motivation in game time. Has worked well for me so far. I have also had players in the games I've GM'd choose to do the same.

Re: Campaign Plot Ideas Create a mystery. Plot will automatically occur if the group has to figure out who to engage in combat.

If I see another Wolverine or Batman clone again I may lose what is left of my mind.

Re: What Would Your Character Do? #63 First...wonder how a kid learned profanity so quickly! Rook would telepathically link with the kid to see why he wanted to skip the first eighteen years of his life. Then, (barring finding horrific abuse or anything like that in his background), Rook would use mental illusions to show him what he was missing by growing up "too fast" (you know - kids birthday parties, holidays such as Christmas, summer vacation, graduation, all the Norman Rockwell Hallmark cards you could imagine) and hope he chose to go back. If not, then Rook would guilt him by showing him how his parents will experience grief nearly beyond imagining by the loss of their baby. Hopefully the brat would be ready to go back and actually live his life instead of fast forwarding. Then he'd get zapped back to infancy. And watched carefully for signs of his powers manifesting in the years to come!

Re: Looking for ideas for my campaign (Danger: Long) Why start small with an FF homage? A Galactus clone ought to make any FF inspired group quiver with fear/anticipation. Especially if you start with a Herald clone first. "I am the Golden Glider...Herald of Galaxia. Prepare your world for her arrival." And the players wet themselves...

Re: Dream Teams - Champions Style My dream team is from the group I played with in the 80's...so nostalgia factor big time! Mr. Terrific - Brick; The only thing too big for him to lift was his own EGO! Microman - Shrinker, "Hey...no cracks about "things" being small..." Icestorm - Energy Projector, "I spend more time cooling off my teammates than the bad guys." Wraith - Telepath, "I think you should change your mind. Wait. I'll change it for you."

Re: Superhumans pulling an Authority Justice League animated series did this for an alternate world scenario when Luthor became President and Superman killed him with Heat Vision, then their version of JL took over. They declared martial law. Took over the media. A resistance immediately formed. Because the supers were so powerful, the resistance was secret and waged guerrila warfare on the flunkies backing the supers. The public was rallied to oppose them, even in the face of certain death. You could slowly poison our country by slowly, methodically eroding our freedoms one by one while palcating us through the use of media, but you could never strong arm us without opposition. We are a stubborn people.

Re: Help: Sniper Syndrome Maybe you could deal with all of this in role-play Your team leader, or tough brick character, or whomever is in charge speaks to the character in character about his tendency to hang back in combat. Discusses tactics and has a hand to hand training session. Very Danger Roomesque. All within the relatively safe confines of the game. Then throw some agent type NPC's at the guy that you know won't cream him close up. Build his confidence up. And at the same time, if needed, you show him the mechanics of tracking stun and body. Really, it sounds like the guy just doesn't think he can take a punch. Maybe you could show the player how do do that by showing the character. If that doesn't work, then you could do the long distance ambush to teach him the beauty of having teammates watch your back!

Re: Looking for ideas for my campaign (Danger: Long) True, true. But what if Firepower didn't act like the leader, but the media covered things that way? Or he started to clumsily take on that role, but was really, really bad and Brainwave had to actually lead if they weren't all going to be annihilated pretty quickly. Could be fun to play with, or not, as things go in your game.

Most super hero fans have a favorite team configuration - you know, The Avengers group they like the best, the Justice League they like the best, etc. For Champions players and GMs...what configuration was your alltime favorite/best group of Champions? When for awhile everything clicked, the stories were good, the players never seemed to make a wrong move. Before a player quit so a character got dropped, or a new player came and while they were OK it still wasn't the same. Share your Champions war stories!

Re: Looking for ideas for my campaign (Danger: Long) Tweak some other FF plot lines around, and that could be fun for your gender reversal! What if the paparazzi were very enamored with this comeliness enhanced quartet? Being pursued more for magazine covers, dating advice, etc. could throw a girl like Brainwave for a loop. And as if being turned into a media "Babe" wasn't bad enough, what if your frivolous male energy projector was whom the media and general public turned to, incorrectly assuming he is the team leader? Having the perplexed party boy taken seriously and the brilliant scientist treated like a super model could make for some fun moments!

Re: Looking for ideas for my campaign (Danger: Long) In keeping with your homage to the FF, why not combine elements of Doom and the Red Ghost in Cataclysm? Have her attempt to recreate the experiment that gave the Fab Four their powers, and her first attempt mutates the lab animals she is using. You've got your super-powered animals, a connection to Cataclysm, and the jealousy hook can become invested in Brainwave and friends stole all the power that was rightfully hers, not just the "my brain is bigger than your brain" jealousy like the one between Doom and Richards. Just a thought.

Re: Please delete Think of it this way...even if this thread got deleted...some wiseguy would just try to undelete it at this point.

Re: Need help naming my New Hero group How about the Cape(d) Crusaders? (Of course, they would all have to incorporate a cape into their costumes...)

Is this "Delete" a hero or a villain? Hmmmm...dispel, possibly extradimensional movement or teleportation. Perhaps computer control abilities? I know...time travel and he rewrites the past!