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Philadelphia? Philadelphia?

Superhero to young sidekick as they eye the place from a distance: “You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.”

Supervillains don’t have sidekicks as far as I’ve ever seen. Henchmen seem to fill that role for Team Evil.

Using Extra Limbs for this doesn’t really cut it for me because there is also the size issue to consider, so I’m going to respectfully disagree with Mr. Shomshak and others. Several hundred pounds of stuff is bulky. Stuffing a man-sized statue into a bag that is much bigger on the inside effectively compresses the bulk and greatly lessens carrying issues due to item size. I can carry said statue much more easily up a flight of stairs or through a doorway if it’s in a bag of holding than if it’s strapped to my back. Extra-Dimensional Space just works better for this. Otherwise you get into a weird combination of Extra Limbs and Shrinking to get the same effect.

Thanks to streaming it on Warner, I could split up watching “The Batman” over two nights. I thought it was decent, but some of the plot elements padding it’s time should have been removed. Catwoman was not really needed. I’ve been noticing that Batman movies have been steadily ramping down the campiness of the character since Adam West played him. A lot lingered in the 80s movies and a bit still remained in Nolan’s films. There’s even less in the current offering. The current version of the Riddler is about where Nolan’s Joker was at.

It would be cool for Pittsburgh to have a bar catering to alien supervillains, like having the cantina of Mos Eisley right here on Earth.

Yeah, the 4th Edition one had a VPP.

How extensive is the Mystical World of Pittsburgh? It’s sounding like it might be the dominant category of superhumans. This could be explored. It might also help to have a section for discussing how things are organized in the city by Worlds: Martial World, Mystical World, etc. That would help players interface their characters into one or more of the superhuman subcultures. Maybe Stine could belong to a loose association of science-oriented villains that occasionally partner up for mutual benefit. It happens in the comics, even if it is just to have someone to go out drinking with and swap war stories. Is there a “bar with no name” where villains congregate?

You can find it for sale on Drivethrurpg.com here. They also have the Third Edition version.

Ah, I was thinking human helpers when I wrote that. Sorry. A cute and snarky female assistant could play well off tall, grim and metallic Igor. She could be a gadget girl type.

Hmmm. Igor and Igora could be twins, which might be interesting.

I vote for Igor, the traditional name for a mad scientist’s assistant. A perky female assistant dressed like a colonial Minuteman (or perhaps Betsy Ross) would complete the trifecta.

It’s possible some people might be just throwing a buck or two at it in a custom pledge. You can support a Patreon campaign without selecting a tier.

Maybe it’ll be up by this Friday?

In a salute to Kang, you could do something like the Timemaster Council made up of multiple versions of Timemaster.

To be honest, this sounds like +0 modifier territory to me. Neither an Advantage nor a Limitation.

Perhaps she is a summoner sort rather than a magic blaster or martial artist. She can summon one or more golems who can then fight for her. Another option could be a magic caster with a Kabbalist theme and one or more relics on her person, I suppose. A tarot deck might be fun as a means of accessing her magical powers.

It sounds like there should be one major superhero of the Jewish faith, which would certainly add to the city’s distinctive character.

Since Pittsburgh is known as Steel City, I think one of its major heroes should be a powered armor sort or have Steel in their name somehow.

I think a Western Hero/Champions/Dark Champions crossover book of characters is a wonderful idea. Publish it and take my money, please.

I suspect this would have to be a labor of love rather than a quest for profits.

Friends In Space

They would be best for a Bronze Age setting. Way too out of date for the modern era. That said, perhaps the presence of Soviet superhumans prolonged the life of the USSR in an alternate Champions universe, and that’s where the campaign is set. It might feel a bit like Watchmen. Another possible way to use them would be as a part of a plot by Empress V’Han or maybe a time travel mission into the future for them from before the fall of the Soviet Union. After all, if you can bring Captain America forward from World War II into the modern world, you could do it with Soviet superhumans and might be pretty fun to have something so retro running around causing havoc.

I’ve seen a number of Gilligan crossovers in this thread, but I didn’t see this one… Gilligan’s Land of the Lost

You could make the effects Sticky.