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Re: Teen supers ideas There are a lot of good ideas out there on the boards. I'm trying to format a game that takes place just after the end of Kingdom Come in the DC Universe. I was actually considering having the characters start as younger heros... family and associates of the great heroes. I was thinking of having Robin teaching gym and self defense.

Re: Teen supers ideas Looks like some good stuff. I like the pics you chose. I can't imagine having Rob Zombie look-alike as an instructor. That would be a little freaky.

Re: Too much tweaking? Too powerful? Not to be redundant... but the entire character concept seems o be BROKE!! BATGOD or whatever he is calling him, is a classic example of a concept being squeezed into a lower powerframe. I don't know what level you are starting the characters at, but you might want re-evaluate the characters keeping a close eye on the level. I ran into this when I tried to create a Green Lantern-esque character for a mid level game. I found that I didn't have the point so to make a full-fledged GL unless I "munchkined" it to death. I ended up re-evaluating the character concept and redesigned it to represent the lower character level. The game is yours and I would never assume to tell you how to run your game.... But I would have had to stand up and say... NO.. OH HELL NO!!! My 2 cents worth.

Re: UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign

Re: UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign I'd love to get into a good super's game. The game that I'm currently involved with is on and off. We don't meet at regular intervels and it is really hard to "keep the feeling" when is bounces like this. I even looked at Mutants and Masterminds trying to find a gaming group. I have a 19 m/o son that hampers my ability to go out on a regular basis. I have a lot of things going on and it all adds up to having limited time to do anything. SO... I live vicariously through the posts on this board. Keep up the great work.

Re: Which Edition of Champions/Hero System Worked Best for Your Champions Campaign? It was very nice of you all to send me those nice packages. I think they are clocks since most of them are ticking. Oh.. and the post office asked that you put a return address on them next time. Sorry to disillusion you that I still play Fuzion. The issue I face is that the group I play with do not have the available funds to buy all new books for the game. I play D&D and that siphons a lot of my funds as well as playing minatures games.... WARMACHINE rocks!!!. Oh yeah and I have a 19 m/o son. Actually, I'm surprised I can do anything. I like Fuzion b/c it took a system that seemed rather number heavy and streamlined it without losing a lot of the flavor. I also liked the setting update. The Proprietor War was a neat idea that I incorporated into my campaign.

Re: Which Edition of Champions/Hero System Worked Best for Your Champions Campaign? In all honesty, I have played in 3rd Edition rules and I started running a game in the 4th/Fuzion Edition. At the time R. Talsorian Games had the license to do Champions in Fuzion format. I liked the rules and found them less number intensive than the previous edition. I still still run an occassional game with Fuzion. Converting the characters is easy and so there is little push for me to switch over.

Re: UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign I'm SOOOO hooked...

Re: Masked Vigilantes In Trial Working in the legal field, I can say that this is a "suspension of disbelief" situation. In the "real" world, the hero would have to unmask so that the courts could verify their identity and also pursuant to due process, the accussed has the right to face his/her accusor. The way I get around this issue is that the heros can officially license/incorporate themselves, at which time the hero becomes an entity seperate from their "real identity". SO.. in a trial, the complaint would be Captain Patriot -vs- the Sinister Serpeant (Aka Jim Smith) I like the national security angle also. Another way to handle this could be to have a legal team based out of the District Attonies office that presecues the offenders based on the premise that the heroes become witnesses for the presecution. If the heroes wrote staements then they could be entered as evidence if the hero was not available. This way, the hero would testify. I can see it now. "Can you please state your full name for the court and spell it?" {clears throat} "Captain Patriot" " That is C-A-P......"

Re: Memoirs of failed concepts I don't know if you knew, but Astro City already has an Alter Boy. He is the sidekick to the Confessor.. A very cool character. The Confessor is a Batman-esque character in that he wears all black and runs around fighting crime. He was a big white cross on the front of his outfit. Oh.. yeah.. and he's a vampire. The Confessor uses the cross (which is always causing him pain to remind him to do the right thing. ANYWAY.... Alter Boy is his sidekick. Basically think a Robin to his Batman.

Re: UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign You can never have too much home security. There is nothing worse than waking up with your arch nemesis standing over your bed with the fake rock where you hide the key in his hand. It's enough to ruin your morning....

Re: Deathstroke To the best of my knowledge, Deathstroke is a highly trained mercenary who was biologically altered, initially in an experiment to help him resist truth serums. He is now several times stronger and faster (reflexes) than a normal person. His specialty is guerrila tactics. He uses standard weapons and has an armored costume... There you go... As far as who would win between Deathstroke and Batman??? Hmmm... I think that it could easily be a tie. Deathstroke has the strength and speed that Batman does not, but Batman has more training (I think ) and wonderful toys.

Re: You can't possibly be!! The Flash is rescuing a school bus that had been at a nuclear powerplant, that was attacked by a terrorist sleeper cell. A container of nuclear waste is struck by a stray shot and saturates the Flash. The waste reats with his hyper-kinetic body and starts to accelerate him. Slowly, the Flash becomes so fast that time around him starts to be effected. The Flash passes from our time and enters Hypertime. Speed force energies flood in and mix with the Hypertime. The end result is that the Flash is able to regulate and control time. Speed it up, Slow it down or create pockets of Zero time... Places where time stands still. The effect also makes the Flash take on ghostly form, as he no longer exists fully in our time. In order to interact on this plane/in our time he has to concentrate to make himself solid.

Re: The Council of Evil I'd have to agree with this. Too many powerful characters and you could run into some major ego clashes. Having a terrorist group working for them makes sense. Their way to maintain control is through fear and intimidation.. and the occassional vaporization. Personally I like Brother Blud from the DC Universe. Mass- mind control can be very helpful. take over a town and presto... instant work force.

Re: Super humans populations in cities Most of my ideas have already been stated. I would like to add: Big cities offer more travel room for the heroes. I work in a town where the avergae height of a building is 4 stories and there are only a handful of buildings that go above 10 stories. I can't see Spiderman swinging from building to building when there are only 4 stories. I think it was already mentioned that the shear number of people attracts crime and thusly superheroes. If I had super human abilities, I would be hard pressed to operate in the town where I work. I would be bored senseless.

Re: Favorite Superhero Lines They say a picture tells a thousand words so here goes.. My favorite scene/line in a comicbook was in JLA. Huy Gardner (Green Lantern) was being his usual annoying self.. Batman cooly walks over to him and punches him knocking him cold. ********************************************************* Another favorite line is from the Image/Crusade crossover with Cyblade (Cyberforce) and Shi. A giant creature is destroying the land. When Cyblade and Shi confront it, it anounces... "I am the great Marvel and I will consume all that is small and make it part of me until only the Marvel remains." Ok.. a little political but for those of you that remember the entire problem with independants... there you go.

Re: UNITY 2010: A New Champions Campaign NO!!!! I need my Unity Fix.... The "cold sweats" are starting already

Re: The "real" Golden Age vs the "nostalgic" Golden Age Toe Jam as a spell component?!?!?!? That's rediculous... Everybody knows that Toe Jam is the source of the Mutant Phenomenon. The X-Men should be called the TJ-Men.

Re: Millennium Force Fallen My Champions game only has 3 other plays and usually that falls to two. I like playing in larger groups but you have to work with what you have. If you want to keep playing, then do so.. If the players that dropped out are willing, maybe they could turn their characters over to you to play for a couple of games so that the transition from big group to smaller group is less problematic.

Re: DC Animated U Campaign? YUP... HAL IS BACK!! Apparently the fan base wanted Hal Jordan back. They wrote a 6-issue story arc that actually was pretty good. In it, the spirit of Hal Jordan starts to fight the spirit of the Spectre. Parallax was found to actually be an ancient creature that had been locked away in the Great Battery on OA. There it slowly started to corrupt the Lantren Corp. It's color was yellow and was the living embodiment of fear. The taint was the reason that the rings were ineffective against yellow. The green energy of the Corp represents Willpower. Needless to say, Hal Jordan was starting to get corrupted when the entire Coast City disaster took place. He started to gather rings which basically gave allowed the corruption to affect him faster. Then he drained the battery, in the process absorbing the Parallax entity. But not before the entity had supercharged Sinestro. Yup.. Sinestro is back as well!! It actually looks like hal is going to be written well and not like the older issues.

Re: DC Animated U Campaign? Sorry... I have to disagree with a few of the pervious statements.... I'm an avid watcher of Batman and Justice League and the old Superman. 1) Women are not more powerful than men.. they are AS powerful as men. In the DC comics Wonder Woman and Superman are the powerhouses. It is nice to see that the women can hold thier own instead of being relegated to eye candy positions. 2) As far as Superman being a wuss??? NOPE... In the latest episode of JLU, Superman and Doomsday are slugging it out in a volcano. One punch sents Doomsday flying through a rock wall. Again, Superman is shown to be a powerful hero but not a god. The god mentality is the reason that Superman never appealed to me. Its like... " Oh gee.. Superman stopped another natural disaster [yawn] by moving the mountain." I really enjoy watching the cartoons and to be honest I'd like to play in the DCU-Cartoon world. My only complaint is that John Stewart is the Green Lantern, I would have preferred to see Kyle Rayner as the Lantern or now that he's back, Hal Jordan. Yes boys and girls... Hal is back!! John is not that imaginative with the ring... If you are animating something, you could do so much more with it. Kyle was always the more imaginative person, being an artist. As far as the Teen Titans go.... The current Teen Titans cartoon is peroduced by a different compnay I believe. It is done for cutsy cartoon humor. It tackles some deeper episodes but then the Anime-Over-The-Top facial expressions and sudden bursts of emotions ruin it. Don't get me wrong, I watch the show but it is not on the same level as Batman and JLU. Back to the original idea of genre rules: The only thing that I can add is that energy weapons are used in conjunction with projectile weapons. The cops carry revolvers and automatics and then the heavier weapon of choice seems to be an energy weapon/rifle. Vehicle designs run the scale from retro to cutting edge. Of course the heros always use cutting edge.

Re: columbia! I like the look... You did a good job on them.

Re: The "real" Golden Age vs the "nostalgic" Golden Age I have to agree with what has been said. The "contract" is important to the game. I have run into several problems in gaming groups where persons will ignore the "norms" of the group. If the players wants to play a grim and gritty game then the group as a whole needs to accept that. In a Star Wars campaign I was running, I had a player that wanted to play a "gun with a life support unit"... basically he was little more than a Soldier that liked to blow things up..."Real good like". There was a Jedi in the group and they wre always numping heads. The first major incident came when the Soldier wanted to cut a man's feet off to torture information out of him. The Jedi stepped in and confronted him. The Soldier was having fun (I think) but his fun was not meshing with the rest of the groups'. A GM usually sets the contract into place by stating up front about what the game is about and what expectations there are. My group for Champions knows that they are expected to follow the "Killing as a last resort" rule. We are supposed to be heros not superpowered thugs.

Re: Teen supers ideas With the information provided thus-far.... One possibility is to have the characters starting in the training process, trying to perfect their abilities and become a team. Small battles and scirmishes make for great training. If theu are already a team, follow the idea of them trying to make a name for themselves. The main bad guy could be looking at killing the crop (of supers) before them get too powerful. You can place classic teen angst moments throughout the story arc. At the end then could be ready for the bigtime.

Re: The "real" Golden Age vs the "nostalgic" Golden Age Nostolga: the ability to forget the bad and remember the good. When we look back at the old comics there is a tendency to say that the comics were more pure... Sorry that's the wrong answer. I remember seeing a special on comics that stated that (for example) Wonder Woman's powers could be taken away with you tied up her hands and feet and gagged her. More than once there were scenes where Wonder Woman was bound and gagged laying over a man's knee getting spanked. You couldn't print that today. As has been stated previously in this thread, the stories are a product of thir time. The same holds true today. The "Iron Age" comics that are violent and dark are nothing more than a product of the modern society. I still remember when Spawn first premiered. A man from hell fighting the devil?? Neat concept and the art was wild. I used to collect Cyberforce. Again, a team of killers that broke free and started to directly oppose thier previous master. The later eighties were heavily influences by the cyberpunk mentality. Where a person is fighting against the evil megacorp. If you think of the today, people are sceptical, and cynical. The comics reflect that. It is only natural that the people who do not like that look back and activate the "nostolgia filter". Is it wrong?? Every generation does it. My parents talked about how the kids were better in their day and now I see myslef saying the same thing about the new generation. Human nature states that the past is better than the now. Getting back on subject: The fact that the Golden Age comics were produced is not in question. The fact that thre are two schools of thought about them (real and nostolgic) is not in question. The true question is if you are playing a game in this era, how are you going to handle it?? In one game I played in, the characters went back in time to the Gold Age Era. When they got there, they were confronted by the fact that the woman were considered less and other such relaities of the time. One of the legendary heroes turned out to be a womanizing alcoholic. Time and history had polished him up and people chose to forget that half the time there was trouble he responded from the bar or a hookers bed. OK... There ... Now I have what I needed to say