Hawksmoor

Re: Passenger Damage

I would second this. Unless you are in a rollover in an SUV.

But ingeneral use of seat belts should be a 50% PD reduction.

Re: Redwood Academy:The Raptors!

I'm sorry for this.

Bliss Power? What did you build Mental Illusions? Speed Drain? Ego Drain? Mind Control (act happy and want more).

I also think he and Caress are going to get along smashingly.

Hawksmoor

Re: Need Name For Telekinetic Villain

Bender

Short simple and evocative.

Plus you can get drunk and play him

Hawksmoor

Re: Need a name for a Empath

...and I'm sure that she's fond of you too.

No really!

Mother would make a great code name particularly for a grittier game.

Hawksmoor

Re: Need a name for a Empath

I'm fond of Mother

Hawksmoor

Re: Redwood Academy:The Raptors!

Here is a pic I found that suits Alexis perfectly.

Of course it is normal mode.

Re: fun with heroes or villians, a comedy

:gasp:

Devlin1 that was funny!

Hawksmoor

Re: Centennial City

That's the point... put your city in Deleware' date=' because that way you aren't in conflict with any other city.[/quote']

 

erm sorry that was a joke. hence the ROTFL smilie. Deleware is a good location and is possibly where Gotham City is IIRC.

 

Gotta look up my Batman Sourcebook.

 

Hawksmoor

Re: Redwood Academy:The Raptors!

PG-13 Material Kid leave the thread!!

Caress

AKA: Alexis Klum

Lifestyles of the Young, the Rich, and the Powerful

You all know the story by now, little rich girl gone bad, makes all the bad tabloids and occasionally PEOPLE or MAXIM driving her parents to distraction being photographed stumbling, half naked and stoned out of her mind, from some Beverly Hills or Manhattan Club. Alexis Klum is all that and more. Alexis is beautiful, already she has appeared on 12 major magazine covers. She is rich, being the heiress to the Klum Hotel fortune (60s motto “Klum’s a Plum!â€). She is powerful; you see Alexis is a mutant.

Alexis lived a life of excess and frivolity. Getting into clubs at 13 and partying all night. Being a Latchkey Heiress has its advantages. She and her clique of socialite friends wore everything that was cool, heck they decided what was cool, had cool guys and gals for lovers, and paid off more than a few cops to look the other way for discretions. Life was good and was only going to get better. Except you guessed it, Alexis is a mutant.

Alexis has always had a temper. Her ‘tude was notorious on the scene, and few people escaped her wrath, verbal or otherwise. She was in Manhattan at some nomad club, you know the type sets up show when ever and wherever the gypsy clubbers decide. Alexis and her group were having a great time, and flying high as kites. Then she walked in, 5 feet 9 inches blonde haired and green eyes and a total pain in Alexis’s ass. Deborah Carter, 19 years old and this years ‘it’ girl, so Alexis, naturally, could not stand her. So Alexis goes and lips off to the model. In that really catty girl way, you know.

Deborah is no weak willed kitten, however and gives as good as she gets. Guess being raised with 6 corn-fed brothers in Podunk Nebraska will do that. Soon the club was all “Fight!†and not in the Zoolander way. Biting and scratching commences with a lot of hair pulling and a few punches thrown in for good measure. Alexis proceeds to get the royal stuffing beaten out of her. And as she is getting her pretty face slapped around, she grabs Deborah’s even prettier one and burns it! Her anger and pain have activated her previously latent mutant abilities. Now covered in a thin film of blue plasma-like acid, (Club-goers described it like that scene in Panic Room when the gas ignites!) her fingers ate into the other girl’s skin and the screaming really began.

Alexis was totally freaking out. She only meant to scratch the bitch, but now the entire world was fucked. She ran out, injuring a few more people with her emergent powers. In a few minutes the Fire department and the paramedics arrived. The Club was emptied and people though freaked went their separate ways.

Alexis went home. She walked into her daddy’s study, sizzling through his Isfahan rugs and told him that something terrible had happened. Poppa Klum, sensible businessman he was roused the might of the Klum lawyers and before noon the next day NDAs and cash payments were secured with FD, Paramedics, and over a hundred club attendees. A substantial payment was made to settle court action with Deborah Carter. Deborah would never again work as a model. But more importantly, Alexis would be found a new school: Redwood Academy.

Redwood, a friend of a friend, had assured Mr. Klum would take care of his rebellious and now exceeding dangerous daughter. Redwood is a school to not only prepare her for the real world, but teach her to control and contain her gifts. Alexis was packed off by the weekend. Her Parents went to Bora Bora for RR.

Now Alexis is at Redwood, and she is determined to be queen bitch there. Why? Because she didn’t ask for that slut to f*ck with her, she certainly didn’t ask to have powers that ruin her best clothes if she is not careful. More importantly, she is pissed that Mommy and Daddy think they can just shuttle her off and ignore her.

Image: Driving her convertible Porsche onto the campus, bitching about the move to her terrified friends on the cell, later going into her dorm room and screaming it is a dump. Acid resistant sheets and treated ceramic floors and walls. And being told no she cannot have her satin sheets or her things until she could control her damage shield. Then she really lost it. The Headmaster just chuckled and let her scream and rant. It was good training.

Personality: Paris Hilton on a bitch trip, she is vain, flighty, arrogant and mean with anger. If you interest her and are non-threatening to her ego she will love you, or well treat you like a friend. Go against her opinions or worse marginalize her and she brings the bitch-‘tude out.

As far a real evil, Alexis is not even in the running, she is a bad person, but not evil. She is a reluctant villain, like a school bully is a villain, or like a bitchy and amoral person is a villain. She does bad things because she has a total lack of empathy with other people and is entirely self centered.

Combat: Total uncertain of her power level, Caress will dodge around the battle at least ½ of the time. Only when she feels she has an upper hand or similar advantage will she cut loose with her EB. Alexis has absolutely no skill at hand to hand combat, and will probably scream and employ her HKA reactively if someone ‘hits’ her.

Powers:

Alexis is a mutant with no noticeable physical enhancements yet. Her main powers consist of surrounding herself with and projecting a powerful substance that eats through nearly anything. This “plasma-acid†as she calls it is blue in color and feels to her as a kind of filmy air, or really dense smoke. It glows softy blue as well making her feel a bit like a day glow or neon sign.

The substance also coats her skin deflecting and absorbing a lot of incoming attacks (Force Field). Alexis can also carve a hole in a bank vault door and hurl a gout of plasma-acid at foes at a distance (her preferred attack.)Her killing attack is extremely powerful, but she prefers not to use it except as above (enraged is about the only other time!). Her damage shield is an emerging power, and one she has little control over, it mainly activates when she is really emotional, ala Bruce Banner “Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.†Once it is on she cannot turn it off voluntarily. This is her big task. Turn the bleeding thing off!

Hawksmoor

Re: Redwood Academy:The Raptors!

Yay!!! I'm in!!

:Does Snoopy dance:

Hawksmoor

Now to send that Backstory

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

Ask you shall receive. The Hero Boards are the nicest boards evar!

 

Seriously though, I don't think they're bad work. Maybe I just used to it.

They are just a style, no different that the Big Eyes Small Mouth or Animated Adventures style. Except that people will always harp on the MegaBreast power.

I appreciate the Pics, although I would never draw like that if I could draw. Which I can't!

Hawksmoor

Re: Centennial City

Put it in Deleware.

Deleware? Nothing is in Deleware!

Hawksmoor

Actually, Deleware is quite nice. Or Baltimore (Not so nice but it has a harbor!!)

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

Sorry for the Triple post

Re: What would your character do (65?) -Recruiting pitch

Unless it was Unlimited League Volleyball!

Supers on Supers Volleyball rocks!

GM:Grond Spike BALL!!

Players in unison: Dive for Cover!!!

GM: BOOOOOOMMMM!!!!

Re: What superhero character concepts are you tired of seeing?

I think you guys really need to do what I require of all my players. I insist on a one page background sheet. No, I am six feet tall and have a scar on my face does not count for a word of what I am looking for.

Give me one page detailing who your PC is. Write it up and give it to me with your Character sheet.

Do that and not only do you get to play in my game you get Bonus points to character gen.

In DC Heroes (Mayfair only please!!) I gave 45 points

In Champs I gave 10 points

In White Wolf Games I gave a whopping 5 Freebies!

Etc;

The rule is you get what you reward. If you b!tch, but do not lay the law down and reward the players that give you exactly what you want, you are not going to get what you want. Did that make sense?

Hawksmoor

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

Well' date=' not to sound too stuffy, because I really liked the computer graphics(probably Photoshop), but I was a little disappointed with the quality of the overall characters. I suppose a great deal of you appreciate a 12" waist and 48 GG breasts, but I have always liked the more realistic pictures. So enclosed, I drew a simple pencil drawing of a plain template woman, with appropriate silicone breasts and realistic hips. Enjoy.[/quote']

 

Dr. Rushing!! You *drew* that? Wow!

 

I like!

 

Hawksmoor

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

Well' date=' not to sound too stuffy, because I really liked the computer graphics(probably Photoshop), but I was a little disappointed with the quality of the overall characters. I suppose a great deal of you appreciate a 12" waist and 48 GG breasts, but I have always liked the more realistic pictures. So enclosed, I drew a simple pencil drawing of a plain template woman, with appropriate silicone breasts and realistic hips. Enjoy.[/quote']

 

Dr. Rushing!! You *drew* that? Wow!

 

I like!

 

Hawksmoor

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

Well' date=' not to sound too stuffy, because I really liked the computer graphics(probably Photoshop), but I was a little disappointed with the quality of the overall characters. I suppose a great deal of you appreciate a 12" waist and 48 GG breasts, but I have always liked the more realistic pictures. So enclosed, I drew a simple pencil drawing of a plain template woman, with appropriate silicone breasts and realistic hips. Enjoy.[/quote']

 

Dr. Rushing!! You *drew* that? Wow!

 

I like!

 

Hawksmoor

Re: What super hero concepts would you like to see more of?

Personally I like "niche" superheroes and would like to see more of them. You know, like an "ocean-based" hero or a "space-based" hero or a hero who drives a superpowered car. These guys have a mile-long hook. I get a big kick out of them. Of course as PCs they present a challenge to scenario-building, but as long as they're designed to be reasonably effective outside their niche, I love the flavor they provide.

 

-AA

Then Austin you would love Lancer. My PC in a New Gods Game. Does he have a car for you. Think the Cadmus kids Wonderwagon on Steroids.

Now to upgrade it for MegaMovement Flight and Teleportation.

GM: What do you do?

Lancer: I contact the Vette and order a Nuke from Orbit!

GM: What?

Hawksmoor

Re: Redwood Academy:The Raptors!

I just sent Nexus a PC for this game as well.

Caress, a 16year old spoiled little rich girl that becomes a real acid queen when she gets upset.

Hawksmoor

Re: What super hero concepts would you like to see more of?

Gadgeteers that are not munchkinny. 300-pointy heroes (or less) in a 350-limit game. Heroes who rely on skills and bravery... well, noncombat skills. Heroes who have no "main attack" poiwer, or a limited one- those who wouold rather support the other heroes or clear out the innocent bystanders.

 

Am I biased? Heck yes, but I'm the guy who is usually wearing a fish bowl on my head at superhero cocktail parties. (Marvel fans know what I mean by that.)

Heh heh. Water Breathing Boy! Heh heh! Cut my Hero teeth on Marvel. The fun WAS in trying to tie in all those strange powers from the UPB into a coherent PC.

My Fav: PowerGlide a Hybrid Supersoldier/Angel with Excellent Flight (wings) and Rocket Flight (incredible), monsterous Regeneration and amazing Fighting.

Hawksmoor

Re: What super hero concepts would you like to see more of?

Characters that actually think and plan out actions. Not gamers agonizing over how to move this phase or that, but what do they want to do? What do they want to accomplish?

Not to go Authority because despite how much I loved the first 12 or so issues, heros do not as a rule kill or maim. But how to be proactive and not reactive. Why wait for Primus or SAT to show up...develop it on your own.

What I really want is for PCs to be heroic.

Hawksmoor

Re: What would your character do (65?) -Recruiting pitch

My old PC The Z-Man would call up his old buddy Defender and ask why he wasn't clued in the moment old Def knew something was up. Then he would mobilize his version of Vanguard and set up a regional C&C for the uncoming Godwave or Invasion or Attack of White Wolvies that lost their favorite game

Hawksmoor

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

So any suggestions for the Crimson Seraph? As stated before I am willing (no argument or foot dragging) to implement any suggestions.

Hawksmoor

Re: Can you suggest some powers for these images?

Yep' date=' some of his other stuff for Exalted. SOme of them caused a bit of stir.[/quote']

 

I'll say! Attack of the Naked Zenith.