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Great stuff guys, thanks for the input. Im running 5th ed Ninja Bear btw. never made the transition from 5th to 6th, 4th to 5th was difficult enough.

Hi, I'm about to embark on a low powered supers game, with my players making 250 point characters. So far i have a gadgeteer/skills guy in the son of van helsing, a werewolf and a sorcerer. My fourth player asked for an earth bound angel, who wants his powers to be voice/sound based as opposed to the whole wings and golden armour and shining sword thing. As a flaw or limitation, he only wants his powers to work against evil/devils, and otherwise to be a normal human. What limitations would you use to recreate that? conditional power? limited power? he also requested that he be powerful against devil kind, something like X2 effect kind of deal, but not as powerful against humans. with the concept that he was meant to protect the souls of humans not harm them.

Re: Recurring NPC's great thread, and fun to read. heres a few of mine. SNN reporter, her most recent incarnation was called Jenny Allen, but theres been other names, i usually start each session with a news bulletin from the super news network with a few hints and red herrings and usually an on the street report from Miss Allen who's usually at ground zero of whatever the heroes have been up to. Most recently she stepped out from the screen and into a relationship with one of the team, he being the flashy showoff of the team, she being a superhero groupie. Finnegan Docherty, Finn is a friendly chap from ireland, he's also a member of the trimestigus council and is usualy on hand to lend the heroes a helping hand for matters of the occult. Lazy Viper guy, Lazy viper guy isnt so much of an NPC as he is a cardboard minature. I have some old card mini's from the marvel super hero game by TSR, and one of the cutouts is a goon sitting down, but the guys actually start to get antsy if i dont field him on the face offs with viper, he's become a bit of a mascot for the team

Re: Design Challenge: Initiative Recruits Ahh, my apologies, hmm, in that case, i shall get to work on primal before and after

Re: Design Challenge: Initiative Recruits I think what were looking for here, and correct me if im wrong is write ups for the initial recruits from issue 1, and that would be Cloud 9 (EC wind powers?) MVP (Heightened Physical stats) Armory (VPP attack powers) Hardball (force powers multipool?) Komodo (regeneration) Trauma (mental illusions) I dont know if you would include the guantlet in that line up too, as he wasn't a recruit as such, but an instructor. I'd be interested in taking part, sounds like fun, its a good (if underated) title. Cheers

Re: I'm just drawn this way... Power Suggestions needed Interesting concept, and a thread we can poke fun at comic artists with, and probably offend someones fave while we're at it, excellent!. off the top of my head, Todd McFarlane +10 dexterity, +5 pre, double jointed, (for all those really contorted shapes shapes he can put you in and still look cool doing it) John Byrne, +5 ocv (blurry outline) John romita jr -5 com, -2 dcv, (ugly blocky cumbersome form) Bill sienkiewicz Ego attack (pen) (opponent is locked in a mental battle as he tries to comprehend whats he's looking at) Neal adams +1000 pre, (you look that awesome because you ARE that awesome) all i can think off right now, theres more, theres always more

Re: 350 point jedi? Hey guys, been a crazy week at work for me, even found time to have a fall and break a rib (yay go team me) so i haven't really been feeling up to wading into the mire of positive and negative modifiers to 4 multipools. What i did find though was some genuine support and encouragemnet so that cheered me up tremendously. thanks for that folks Your advice and how you approached things have given me a lot of food for thought. Elven jedi vampire interesting....

Re: 350 point jedi? First of all, my heartfelt thanks to peregrine, alibear and hyperman for their genuine helpful advice. With that in mind I can set to work on this character. In my campaign what the players want to play is important to me, if they're not happy with their character then I’m my opinion the game suffers, so when one of the players character was written out of the story I asked what archetype would he like to try, brick, blaster etc, when he said he'd like to try the mentalist thing is said sure, so we got brainstorming and as the conversation went the Jedi angle came into play, I saw his eyes light up, I figured why not, of course it won’t be star wars Jedi tm it’ll be like someone mentioned martial artist/ mentalist hybrid. To those of you who felt it necessary to admonish and heap your scorn on me, I feel it’s my right to defend myself. I’m sorry I can’t spend all day on these forums reading every thread and posting on them too, I have a job, wife and a life that takes up the majority of my day. Its painfully apparent to me with my low rep and minimal posts that my opinion or 'voice' is viewed with lesser respect than a member with thousands of posts and rep to match. It was never my intention to cause anyone upset or to challenge your sensibilities. I didn’t in my original question ask, 'hey guys, how would I go about making a Jedi, oh and by the way feel free to judge me as a lesser human being while you’re at it" So you needn't worry, I thought this was a 'community' of people who shared a passion for hero games/champion's etc but what I’ve discovered is a clique society, alpha geeks if you like, and that I’m pleased to say is something I can quite happily live without.

Hey guys, while i work on the stats for my own 350 pt jedi, has anyone else attempted this or is there a thread i should be aware of about character creating jedi's? Obviously my first port of call would be the lightsabre, is it a basic 1 1/2 d6 AP HKA no str modifier weapon or do i build it like a multipool, EB no range, hka, missle deflection then theres the force powers I was working of the old WEG force powers set, control sense and alter 3 multi pools Control would have the physical traits, enhanced running, leaping and the absorb energy and aid to lightsabre damage sense would be the precog, post cog, telepathy, mind control etc but i was unsure how to go about gestures and incantaions, obviously some powers will and other wont have these limitations and alter would be the 'fun' powers, force lighting, force choke, tk, force push etc any suggestions are welcome, hopefully have a basic working sheet up soon. cheers

Re: Morning star maybe i will

Re: [Character] Paragon Nice build, i like it, only thing i'm flagging is the novice hero disad, 20 pts? unless you intend to force the player in question to intentionally make bad judgement calls i think this is a weak disad otherwise, good work

Hey guys, Want to start a thread for anyone else who like me runs a hero games system, and from time to time is confronted by a judgment call, or a new house rule. Personally i subscribe to the mantra if it sounds good, then run with it. of course this does tend to return to haunt you sometimes but for the most part it works. So this weeks problem comes in the form of one of my players and his attempts to vocalize his charatcers torment. You see, his character is an energy projector (light based) and the team came up against shadow men, susceptable to light (x2 stun/body) The character in question tossed in his most powerful attack (12d6) and subsequently vaporised the shadowman, (114 stun, 32 body vs 34 stun 10 body) To be fair to the player in question when asked what his phase 2 action was he said," i stand agape in horror at what i just did." Which made me happy as he continued to be in character, unlike another player i have who's usual line of questioning going into combat is 'so this code vs killing, its only for humans right?" So come the end of the night and i dole out XP , i penalize the layer in question 1 xp for the death of a NPC and warn him to excercise restraint next time. So we go away happy and then i get the call, "So how do i convey this in game terms?" See, his character is built on the shoulders of green lantern/human torch, ie hotheaded, brash and show off-y i had already swapped out his showoff psych lim for a DNPC when his tomfoolery nearly got the press chopper destroyed by an ambush he didnt see because he was playing to the camera's So now the player wants to 'act out' like a petulant teenager, he claims his character isnt having a good time dealing with having the blood of this kill on his hands coupled with the fact his new dnpc girlfriend also has a past with a NPC hero i've been introducing for a potential new player. So do i slap another psych lim on him 'depressed'? or some kind of enraged? how would you handle it?

Hey guys, Is there a revised write-up of morning star (pg 182 CKC) he's spent 33 pts in a variable advantage against his 50 str, methinks these points would be better spent in a defined multipower for his brick tricks, any ideas?

Re: London Knights Hey guys, first of all let me thak everyone who submitted a character, their work was stellar. Unfortunately, due to unforseen circumstances i can no longer commit to a PBP game at this precise moment in time. I left a message with the players i had accepted over at storycrafter, and i'm leaving a general message here for the others i haven't had a chance to meet yet. once again, accept my apologies and if anyone feels like taking the game on themselves, PM me and i'll hand over moderator rights and the sweeping plot idea. Cheers

Re: London Knights Hey mallet, yeah, still looking for one or two more. If you make your guy tactical smart and until based background you'll probably get in. I just had an application from someone called delinquent with his character funwrecker. I cant quite figure out if he's at the windup with the character or really wants to play a character dependent on anti psychotics. In which case i need to point him in the direction of the dictionary and the definition of the word hero, that or i need to point him in the direction of the nearest dark champions game