Maelstrom

Re: Cool Guns for your Games Couldn't leave it alone, sorry.

Re: Cool Guns for your Games More from that site: I love the guns from the 70s, they're so Bond:

Re: Champions games you've run My latest Champs run the old heroes were around, but not commonly available. I tend to run in the Marvel universe, just for ease of transition, rather than the Champs universe. That keeps down the Wolvie clones. So, for example, Doc Samson was a Dean of UCSF medical center, where the heroes wind up a lot for their wounds or other's. They haven't gone looking for the rest, yet, for some reason. Could be the cautionary tales I throw in: last time they called for high-powered help, there were serious problems, and a doctor died.

Re: Fallout Perks A - C No worries. If he finds them useful, I'll work on D to Z.

Re: Actor Package Deals This is the cinematic Seagal. The real one has more aikido and less CIA. SPY magazine did an expose before it went belly up.

Re: Cool Guns for your Games One of the guns from that site:

Re: Cool Guns for your Games Found this. If it's been posted before, sorry. http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg172-e.htm

Re: Autofire Punch Power?

Re: where do the villains get the MONEY? You know, in one of the Parker books, the protagonist indicates that the best place to get a lot of money fast was a check-cashing place. They're not as heavily-guarded as a bank, and not a federal beef, either.

Re: Champions and the IRS In a world with superheroes, maybe they can apply for a tax id, just like a nonprofit or a corporation.

Re: Character Names Wolf: Wolf is okami in Japanese, and O-kami means great spirit. So his name's a pun. Maelstrom: I just liked the name. Psi-blade: pretty self-explanatory.

I don't know how many people remember Fallout, but I had some time and designed some of the "Perks" from the game. Unfortunately, some of concepts don't transfer well, but here they are, for what they're worth. 10 Action Boy: +1 SPD Adrenaline Rush, all slots Only when STUN drops below 50% Power loses about half of its effectiveness (-1) 5 1) +10 STR (10 Active Points); Only when STUN drops below 50% Power loses about half of its effectiveness (-1) 1 9 2) +6 DEX (18 Active Points); Only when STUN drops below 50% Power loses about half of its effectiveness (-1) 8 Animal Friend: +25 PRE (25 Active Points); only to keep animals from attacking you Power loses almost all of its effectiveness (-2) 13 Awareness: Detect Armament or Weapon A Single Thing 11- (Unusual Group), Discriminatory, Analyze 0 7 Ayyyyyyyyy: Lockpicking 15- (9 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about a fourth of its effectiveness (Must hit the locked item or door loudly; -1/4) 19 Better Criticals: Hand to Hand: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1d6 (2d6 w/STR), Trigger: only on a half-roll (Activating the Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; Only for games that allow half-roll criticals, of course.; +1/4) (19 Active Points) 2 19 Better Criticals: Ranged: Killing Attack - Ranged 1d6, Trigger: only on a half-roll critical (Activating the Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; Only for games that allow a half-roll critical.; +1/4) (19 Active Points) 2 4 Bluff Master: +10 PRE (10 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about two-thirds of its effectiveness (Only when trying to talk yourself out of trouble; -1 1/2) 2 Body Snatcher: +3 with Disguise (6 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about two-thirds of its effectiveness (When you have uniforms of the enemy, no matter how bloodstained or torn.; -1 1/2) 2 Bone Head: +5 STR (5 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about two-thirds of its effectiveness (Only when down to 1/2 STUN points; -1 1/2) 1 1 Bonsai: There's a tree growing out of your head!: Life Support (Eating: Character does not eat) (3 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about half of its effectiveness (Only for the "Ghoul" race; -1) 0 5 Bonus HtH Attacks: Rapid Attack (HTH) 3 Bonus HtH Damage: Hand-To-Hand Attack +1d6 (5 Active Points); Hand-To-Hand Attack (-1/2) 1 10 Bonus Move: +1 SPD 15 Bonus Ranged Damage: Killing Attack - Ranged 1d6 1 5 Bonus Rate of Fire: Rapid Attack (Ranged) 3 Bracing: +10 STR (10 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses almost all of its effectiveness (Only useable for STR minimums; -2) 1 1 Brown Noser: can be taken multiple times: Fringe Benefit: Corporal 7 Cancerous Growth: Healing BODY 1d6, Can Heal Limbs (15 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses about half of its effectiveness (Only for Ghouls; -1) 1 6 Cautious Nature: +3 versus Range Modifier for Hearing Group and Normal Sight 0 5 Comprehension: Eidetic Memory 17 Crazy Bomber: Desolidification , Trigger: just before the explosion goes off (Activating the Trigger requires a Zero Phase Action, Trigger requires a Turn or more to reset; +1/4) (50 Active Points); Limited Power Power loses almost all of its effectiveness (Only if your demolitions roll fails; -2) 5 10 Cult of Personality: +10 PRE Couldn't figure out the HTML, sorry.

Re: What happens in Vegas...

Re: What happens in Vegas... Nothing. He might have arrived after the fighting was over. None of my characters are screwed up enough to really care what he did with his holidays or interrupt his fun.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... Two words: "Jedi Karaoke" *sigh*

Re: Armored Suit One approach I didn't listed was the use of the vehicle rules for powered armor, as mentioned in the Ultimate Vehicle rules. Maybe he got into a VW bug, and psionically shaped it into the mighty Volksarmor.

Re: Rocketship Empires! I bought this and Gunslinger Betty. I like them both and wait for more with breath abated.

Re: Betatesting? Yes! Bring on the Beta! How do we sign up?

Re: Tell us about your Pulp game! My pulp game is actually set in a quasi-Victorian 19th century. More Steam Pulp than Nazi-bashing, the heroic adventurers represent the cause of Science! against superstition and magic.

Re: Jedi build ideas? I built the lightsabers as attacks with limited defense, rather than NND's, and of course they did body. Force fields stopped them. I prefer the multipower approach, since really Jedi's don't have that wide a variety of powers. I required the Jedi to buy END batteries, though, and these batteries had to have the disadvantage that they were easily detectable through "Detect Force" -- the guys with the biggest batteries could be noticed from interstellar distances.

Marine Corps Martial Arts Program I think the idea that you have to attain certain ranks within the Corps to attain certain ranks within the art interesting. Could this be another limitation to balance out an art? Has this been mentioned before?

Re: Anybody ever play Fantasy Superheroes? I ran a game once where the characters were various avatars of various Indian gods, which worked well since none of the rest of them had read "Lord of Light".

Re: Susano's Song-Based DC NPCs How about the Eagles' Disco Strangler? Lookin’ for the good life Dressed to kill She don’t have to worry ’cause There’s always someone else who will Loose and loaded every night Dancin’ underneath the flashin’ light Sayin, ’look at me, baby, look at me. I’m beautiful, I’m beautiful, I’m somebody.’ Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler He’s been around here all along, baby, Been waiting for his time to come. You lookin’ for attention, darlin’ He will surely give you some He’s the crimson in your face du jour, The fiddler in your darkest night. He’s the melody without a cure and Rome is burning, but that’s all right. Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler Just slip into the arms of the disco strangler

Re: [Worst Ever...] Reasons to be a superhero To immerse myself in violence so that I don't have to deal with my personal problems or emotional inadequacies.

Re: (best ever...) reasons for becoming a superhero Because I can't stop.