Wormhole

Re: WWYCD: Works As Advertised! Wormhole: Would stock up on some new goodies, especially those X-ray glasses.

Re: WWYCD?: Mummy Dearest... Most of my characters, after they're through kicking themselves for not putting the kabosh on this before the sorceress appeared, would start doing research/general information gathering until they can devise a plan for dealing with her. How they would proceed from their would depend on whether they're dealing with an actual reanimated mummy or a possession victim.

Re: Champions Universe Plot Hole Plugging Plot Hole: VIPER Agents (and agents of similar organizations) commiting such pedestrian crimes as robbing banks and jewelry stores. The Plug: First, you got to learn to crawl before you learn to walk. Bank and jewelry store hiests are optimal first assignments for newbies and allow the bosses to seperate the promising up-and-comers from the cronic numbskulls. Once a group of rookies shows that they can complete several robberies in a row without any significant F-ups or loose ends, you know they're ready to move on to bigger things. Second, the newbies and their hiests make a good distraction for the heroes and the authories while the more experienced and competent members of the organization are pursuing more important objectives. Profitability is also a factor, through the procedes of these hiests are usually peanuts compared to what other ops are bringing in.

Morty the inept mugger is an incompetent minor crime played for comic relief in the campaign. Every week, he always mugs (or rather tries to mug) someone that in retrospect he should've left well enough alone. Last week, he made the mistake of accosting a local Martial Artist who teaches self-defense classes at the YWCA and was lucky to get off with just a blackeye and a couple of teeth knocked out. This week, he's at it again, even though he'd probably be better off hanging it up and getting a nice safe McJobâ„¢. This time, as he accosts and demands money from a man passing his alley, the would be mark produces a cylindrical metal object from his pocket and says, "Mode: cryogun, Setting: carbon freeze." Sure enough, the cylinder whirs and takes the shape of the specified weapon. The stranger points, fires, and does indeed carbon freeze Morty (yes, very much like Han in Empire Strikes Back). WWYCD?

Re: Character creation help requested: Platoon Update: I plan to post the finished write-up here soon, I just need to double check to make sure their are no gross math errors or the like. I should have it up by tomorrow at the lastest.

Re: Character creation help requested: Platoon I'm not all that familiar with Battalion, all I know of the Teen Titans is from the cartoon. I do get the Battalion/Platoon joke though.

Re: Character creation help requested: Platoon Hermit, you truly are the master. I love it, and I'm literally kicking myself for not having thought of the Project: Sunburst angle myself. Thanks again buddy.

Building a supermercenary villain for my next campaign. His sheet is near completion (see attachment below), but I hit a bit of writer's block and I need help finishing out his flavor text, specifically his Background and Personality/Motivations sections. While some comments on the stats will be welcome, I am primarily interested in ideas for his background rather than mechanic stuff at the moment. Thanks In Advance

Re: Champions Universe Plot Hole Plugging Also the concept of Need To Know Informationâ„¢ obviously comes into play here. A telepathic sift of a rank and file VIPER mook's mind isn't usually worth the time since it's highly unlikely to yield any relivant infromation you don't already have (note that I said highly unlikely since there's an outside chance that a bottom-runger might have overheard something important and simply chose to keep his or her mouth shut so as not to get in trouble, but logically this should be a rarity). Even elites and officers are only going to have as much 411 as the Supreme Serpent and the other big wigs deem them worthy of having (and that assumes they don't make a run for it or commit suicide the moment they see things going south). Besides, who's to say a particularly incompetent agent wasn't loaded up with misinformation by his boss(es) and sent out for the express purpose of getting captured?

One morning as you are about to brush your teeth/shave/take a shower/draw a bath/whatever, you are shocked to find, instead of water, a reddish oily liquid is coming out of the fosset/showerhead/whatever. You're not sure if the substance is toxic, but it smells (and tastes, if you're daring enough to put some to your tongue) like a strange combination of raspberry jelly and axle grease. Before long you find out this stuff is coming out of water fixtures city-wide, and possibly state-wide. WWYCD?

Re: The Cutting Edge SuperBase...what's in it? Under the heading of medical facilities, a Regeneration Chamber (think the sarcophagi from Stargate SG-1 minus the insanity side effect)

For the last couple of months, you and your party have been pursuing a dimensional travel-capable villain across several dimensions (insert campaign appropriate villain and reason here) when a "dimension storm" knocks you off course. After you get over the disorientation, you find yourselves adrift in some kind of void. There also appears to be a strange assortment of objects floating around in here: various articles of clothing (mostly black jeans, black t-shirts w/skull and crossbones on the front, and Protect-O-Weaveâ„¢ reinforced Florida State University letterman jackets), weapons and ammunition, gadgets, magic items, several issues of Maxim magizine, and several mini-refrigerators stocked with various brands of soda and beer (the frigs appear to be plugged into glowing crystal-like power devices). After a few minutes, a portal as big around as a dinner plate opens and a hand in a fingerless "grip glove" reaches in, grabs a guass rifle and ammo packs nearby, and then disappears. Shortly after, the portal opens again and the hand tosses in the now empty ammo packs and reaches for fresh packs. Before the portal closes, you catch a glimpse of Wormhole hunkered down behind what looks like an overturned VW bug, taking shots at what looks like powered armor troopers with--against all odds--Nazi insignias painted on the chest plates. From the looks of things, Wormhole is critically out numbered and has been shot in the leg during the firefight. WWYCD?

Via campaign appropriate means, your character has been transported to the world depicted in the 1980s TV series Captain Power And The Soldiers Of The Future (for those unfamiliar with Captain Power, click here for info) shortly after the events of "Retribution Pt 2". What would they do once they were up to speed on what's been happening there?

Re: WWYCD: The Invasion Is On... If memory serves, I think it was in Non-Gaming on the old boards.

A year ago, you had a run in with an alien scout who was sent to Earth to determine whether the planet was ripe for conquest. Said scout had a change of heart after getting *ahem* "intimately involved" with an Earther. He had since gone home to try and persaude the leadership to reconsider their plans to attack our world. From the look on his face when he approaches you again after so long, it's clear he does not have good news. Despite his best efforts, the big wigs wouldn't listen to reason and the fleet's on the way--ETA about two weeks. He hands you a data crystal containing tactical data on the fleet--technical readouts on the the warships, logistical data, etc. After wishing you good luck, he informs you he came for one other purpose: to collect his sweetheart and take her somewhere he can be confident she'll be out of harm's way until it's all over. WWYCD?

Re: WWYCD: We're here for the reward money...

Re: WWYCD: We're here for the reward money... All true, but we wouldn't have much of a senerio if they were that smart.

The reward offered for a certain Infamous Middle East Terrorist Leader had been doubled again recently and, according to news reports, a well known super mercenary and a cadre of his buddies (a bunch of shade-of-gray types) have left for the M.E. looking to collect on the bounty. Over a month passes with only a couple of reports of them shaking down individuals and/or groups alledged to have connections to said IMETL. Then finally, on the day the President of the United States is in town (i.e. your campaign city) for a speech/press conference/whatever, the super mercs show up dragging the IMETL with them (who, BTW, looks like he very recently had the living sh*t beat out of him) and the ringleader of the mercs publicly addresses the POTUS, demanding/asking for the reward money. WWYCD?

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Enigma Radio on my Realplayer. Got the .ram file at enigmamusic.com

I'm currently building a duo of Energy Projecter types: Thermite and Ice Princess. Though the spend alot of time bickering with each other, I want them to nevertheless be able to use his PyroBlastâ„¢ and her IcyBlastâ„¢ together in a flashy and highly devastating combo attack. To that effect, my question is two fold: First, the game mechanics of the attack. At the moment I'm thinking a massive RKA with the Requires Multiple Casters limitation, but I will be willing to entertain other suggestions if they sound significantly better. Second, I need a solid comicbook science explaination for how their combo attack works. Preferably something that won't cause significant suspension of disbelief issues when the two of them come into play. Suggestions? (P.S. will post stats for them when they're ready)

Re: Answers & Questions Q: What should Paris Hilton and Britney Spears wrestle in? A: True, they can be annoying little buggers, but they taste great marinated in a mixture of honey and dijon mustard.

Re: WWYCD: Bride Of The Shadow Lord Most of mine would try to talk Amanda out of marrying Terror'Khan, but other then that I don't think there'd be much they could do about it. Man, where's Starguard when you need her?

Re: WWYCD: The Binder Guilty as charged, your honor. As for what my characters would do: Wormhole: Being the dog that he is, Bradley would do one of two things: either give himself a group DNPC (harem) or add a psych lim: Madly In Love With Wormhole (Com, Str) to all the hotest supermodels and actress in the campaign world. He would also consider giving himself an obsenely high Seduction roll and a couple more points of COM. Hardware: Up his Gadget Pool considerably, possibly give himself STR, DEX, CON, PRE, and SPD upgrades. Air Raider: Would give himself characteristics upgrades across the board, arsenal upgrade, and if he's really feeling his oats, changes his Hunted By police to a Watched and give himself a law enforcement perk on par with Judge Dredd. Might also consider making Bridget a little less danger prone. Tiger Shark: Give himself the ability to change back into his human form.

During the course of their typical day, your character finds a thick, black three-ring binder lying on the ground. On the front cover is a green Hero System logo. Inside, in protective plastic sleaves, are complete character sheets for the PCs and every significant NPC in the campaign world. There are also blank character sheets, two pencils, and some more sleaves in the pockets inside the covers. If a character sheet is removed from the binder (except that of the character holding the binder), that character will vanish from existance without a trace and no one but the person holding the binder will have any memories of them. If the sheet is reinserted, said character automatically returns from oblivion. If a new character sheet is inserted in the binder, the PCs will encounter the new character within an hour afterward. Any changes to the campaign world necessary to accomidate this new character's existance occur automatically. Any changes made to a character sheet from the binder automatically occur in the appropriate character once the sheet is reinserted, though additional changes will automatically be made if necessary to balance out point totals. WWYCD?

Re: Who is your campaigns "Bad Guy they love to hate" In my campaigns, it's none other than my name sake. Players going up against Wormhole for the first time always underestimate him because they assume he's just an idiot teenager. The truth is, he's in his mid thirties cronologically but hasn't physically aged since he was fifteen thanks to the dimensional displacement field generated by his Gatemaster Beltâ„¢ (this is something Bradley considers both a blessing and a curse). The belt grants Wormhole control over dimensional portals and conduits, allowing him to travel nearly anywhere in space-time and gives him access to a pocket dimension he uses both as a hideout and a store house for his possessions, including all the weapons, gadgets, and magic items he's pilfered over the years.