Enforcer84

KNight & Knight of the Azure Shield

Total Character Cost: 218

Base Points: 200

Experience Required: 18

Total Experience Available: 0

Experience Unspent: 0

Here is two "Knight Packages" I put together over the weekend when my internet service was on the blink. To take the Knight of the Azure Shield package you need the Basic Knight Package.

A side note: None of the talents or "Powers" are required for either package. They are optional.

Hmm, I have several alternate Earth's but the only one ever appering in an actual game was Marvel Earth. My character Powerman, got to go toe to to with (in this order); Thor, Hulk, Wonderman, Count Nefaria.

He did better than I thought, but went 1 for 4 , only able to clock ol' Wonderman. He probably would have beaten the Hulk but some really unlucky early rolls, let ol' greenskin get angry and strong enought to counter Powerman's speed and agility advantage.

Nefaria was just Powerman, only more so, and the battle was fairly one sided. I really wanted a rematch.

I have written up my self or snagged write ups for CHaracters from Marvel, DC, Awesome, Wildstorm, V&V, Heroes Unlimited, Rock and Roll song titles, Consol RPG's, Comic Book Company Names, as well as two HERO universes. I always wanted to see a "last man standing" battle between

Superman, Valor, Captain Marvel (Shazam), Hyperion, Thor, Gladiator, Powerman (my character), Count Nefaria, Supreme, Mr Majestic, Apollo, and Titan (from Darkhorse's Comic's Greatest World). Never got around to doing it though.

Originally posted by Hermit

Hmmm, these are oddly familiar

 

Actually, a lot depends on the characters' personalities. How closely do they identify with their ethnic group? Are they trying to embrace that ethnic group's culture, or escape stereotype? Once I figured that out, I would be able to decide better.

Good point, well, for necessities sake, I want them to be fairly middle of the road ideas. These characters are individuals and they tend to identify themselves as Americans first, then what ever else. Lets assume they all come from fairly middleclass backgrounds and have at least a highschool education.

Hey I was just wondering, we as a group here seem to be a bit down on the established companies (comics, gaming) for their handling of minority heroes.

Here are four heroes chosen at random:D

A Native American hero with growth powers.

An African American hero with flight, electrical powers, and limited superhuman durability

An Asian American hero with wind manipulation particularly whirlwinds

and finally, a South American hero with a suite of nebulous "magic" abilities, at least including flight, Super human Strength and Durability, invisiblity, etc, heck he might be a DC Martian.

anyway, what would you A) Name these characters, and what would their costumes look like.

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PS: If there are any other "Random" :rolleyes:ethnic Heroes I might have missed from the Superfriends Cartoons, let me know.

Okay, lots of art, but I was non internet over the weekend and took the opporotunity to finally get my scanner set up. This is Omega. My digital painting skills are nascent at best.

oops. too big. Lets see if you can see it at all

Short lived comic series called the Preternaturals.

or Prets' for short

Looks pretty good.

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I was thinking of writing the whole group of player characters up from that game as a superteam. Shion was a technomancer "Open Ether Circuit!"

Chaos was an "angel"

Ziggy and KOS MOS I pretty much would keep as is.

MOMO is a curious creation. An artificial Sorceress. JR is a 1000 year old "boy who ages one year for every hundred" (got the idea from Child of the first VIPER Book) or a clone of a long lost hero who was released "too soon", I hadn't decided. I'd probably put

Virgil in the group and possible Allen as a support member.

Originally posted by Storn

I am glad that some folks are finding these useful.

 

In update news: my website is still down. Something to do with the domain and my host is working on it. I have no idea when it will be fixed.

 

Here is a private commission done for a character created by RW Temple: Thunderbird. Hope y'all like.

That is beautiful. All I can say. Beautiful.

Very nice. Now, write em all up! And have Acroyer do Costume Design Forums on them. And hermit can make a poll and.... okay, getting ahead off myself here.

Well, that went badly.

okay, here is my Heavy Knight Package.

note: the Heavy Knight Package requires that you take the knight package first.

This is a strudier version of the standard knights. They show up in the Suikiden Series all the time; examples include: Humphry, Leo, Fred, Georg Prime, Pesmurga, Lucca Blight, etc..

BTW it is easier to post it this way. Ignore the attributes and the fact that all the optional skills are paid for.

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I can't find it to fix it. I'll have to rewrite it? Oh well...

Does make for fast advancement though.

Bring it out next week. That's what I want to see...

That was very cool. (The Archer) how about Sword magic? Are knights like Steiner?

Re: Re: Staring us right in the blackface

Originally posted by Worldmaker

At least they don't have to wear feathers and warpaint. I'm still waiting for an American Indian hero... or even an American Indian villian for crying out loud... who isn't wearing feathers, warpaint, or some other sort of classical "Indian" accoutrements.

 

Hey, and while I'm kvetching about the lack of representation for my particular ethnic group, why not wonder why the heck all of the Indian heroes are so obviously Sioux and/or Apache? What... a Seminole can't be a hero? Or an Iriquois?

I don't think the artists know what one looks like sans war paint. Really, I have tried thinking of someone who was indian without at least fring boots and a headband and I can't think of one. (Forge, maybe?)

The Feloneous Four!

Screwed up.

Re: Silverwing

Originally posted by Domino

Here is my character, Silverwing. He was penciled by me and inked by Champions artist Barry Winston in 1988, and photoshopped by me in 2002. He was placed over the LexCorp background picture from the Superman Animation Cel Painting Kit.

 

http://members.aol.com/dominousa/images/silverwing.jpg

Very nice!

I like the shield alot.

She is, indeed. I might write her up too. to keep the couple together.

Re: Captain America

Originally posted by Southern Cross

I,ve noticed that the first version of Captain America that was posted in this thread had both his REC & END bought down by 4 & 5 points respectively.

It states on pg. 25 of FReD that one can only "sell back" one Figured Characteristc at a time.Furthermore,it seems out of the character concept "The peak of human perfection" to have REC & END reduced.The super-soldier serum was supposed to fix those sorts of problems...

wow, I guess I forgot that the old program doesn't always adjust for the increase in figured characteristics.

His rec and end should be 12 and 60 respectively. My bad...

This is a reworked version of Jabberrock from Enemies III. By reworked, I mean completely different, sort of.

Stone

Player: NPC Villain

Total Character Cost: 570

Disadvantage Points: 150

Base Points: 200

Experience Required: 220

Total Experience Available: 220

Experience Unspent: 0

Background: Turned into a mockery of a man by Professor Pollum, Benjamin jones took the punnish name, Jabberrock and tried to become a first rate supervillain. After a number of years of failure; he took his girlfriend, Spectra, and travelled to Tibet. Managing to avoid confrontations with the Tiger Squad, Ben began searching for himself. It was during this time that he began to develop his own style of Kung Fu; dubbing it Stone Dragon Style. The meditation, training, and self discovery led to a startling transformation; one day he found a portion of his stone flesh had chipped off!

After three months it had crumbled off; leaving a smoother, polished granite like surface. The shedding of his old form did more than just make him look a little more human, he now was faster, and stronger than ever! His eyes still danced with flames and he could still start small fires, but he was now a far more effective martial artist. Taking the name Stone and finding his desire to be a master villain renewed, Benjamin and Spectra returned to the US to further their criminal careers.

Motivation: Stone has many motivations: he wants to be one of the preimminant martial artists of his era, a feared criminal mastermind, a devoted husband to Spectra, spread his style to worthy students, and achieve spiritual perfection. He realizes that his criminal goals interfere with his spiritual ones but he feels that he needs to prove himself superior before achieving perfection.

Quote: "You will find that the Stone Dragon's teeth are quite sharp, mortal. "

Appearance: A sturdy built man of above average height with dark, stone like skin and eyes of flame. He is bald but his eyebrows seem to be made of fire. He wears brown robes and no shoes.

That's what I figured. You hadn't really singled out any of my changes after all...I was just saving some space.

I forgot these guys

I forgot about the Technarchy.

These fellows are brilliant scientists that are working with a number of powerful nations to put a cap on the level of technology the world employs.

Basically, they believe that they are the one's who should control the flow of advancement. They target heroes, villains and normals alike. They work in the shadows so much so that very few people even know of their existance.

The main council consisted of Time Master, Beamline, and a few other home made villains.

Dr Destroyer never noticed them since he didn't ever really try to market his technology, but they served as the main reason that all those supertech guys never brought about flying cars and such and that only a few nations had highly advanced agents.

Originally posted by TheEmerged

I love theoreticals

 

/* cracks knuckles

/* opens CKC to page 102-104

 

*snipped the critiques of Binder *

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Okay, now to actually get to work on evolving him

 

First and most notable issue: secondary targetting sense. The ability to sense your opponent is simply too important to bypass, IMO. Radar is usually the most appropriate for a battlesuit type, and can be snagged for 10 points (15 active, OIF) without much trickery, 8 points if you throw in "Flashed as "Sight" group as well". If I'm designing him this is a bigger prioirty than Flash Defense, but I've already criticized too much.

 

Secondly, boy needs a little Mental Defense, even if it's not much. I find it hard to believe someone that fancies themselves a master villain with a "inferiority complex tinged with paranoia" in a super-powered campaign world in which mentalists exist is going to be walking around with 10 Flash Def but no MD, unless the GM has decided that MD is something rare/unobtainable via technology. Given the likelihood that such countermeasures are available (to protect non-super politicians & generals if nothing else), I'd say Binder can swing it.

 

Third priority is another slot in the multipower: Dispel vs any one power of Mechanical special effect (as GM I'd rule this as a +1/2 advantage because the special effect is so broad). That would leave 60 points under Binder's multipower, enough for a 20d6 Dispel (70 active on average). Effect would be gluing the gears/locking the moving parts.

 

Dispel is a terribly under-rated power that is especially effective against certain constructs like Continuing/Fuel Charges. This slot would give Binder an edge against many technological opponents, and in my opinion appropriate to the character.

 

Fourth priority would be the "psi-breaker" entangle slot for his multipower: Opaque to Normal Sight and Mind Scan. 4d6, +4 DEF (8 final), and "Both Take Damage comes in at 87 active, 4 points real as a slot. You could also drop the DEF down to +2 (6 final) to have Opaque to Sight & Mental Groups instead, if you felt it more appropriate.

 

Priorities after this depend on the opposition he finds himself against, and which Dead Horses you feel the need to beat. One that jumps out screaming at me is the prospect of putting Difficult to Dispel on the Life Support & Flight (dispel flight + altitude = trouble). Another possibility is giving Binder a special defense against entangles -- even something as simple as Martial Escape and some DC's.

I like it! I hadn't thought of gumming up the works! I was thinking about an anti-entangle, hadn't liked any of the ideas I had for it yet...

good point. I think that everyone in the suikoden world tends to know who everyone else is, especially the more powerful armies.

Wow. These are great ideas. I like the sensory imput and the attack based entangles! Very cool.

Here is what I have done to him Its about 75 pts of improvement...

Binder

Player:

Total Character Cost: 483

Disadvantage Points: 115

Base Points: 200

Experience Required: 168

Total Experience Available: 200

Experience Unspent: 32