Kal'daka

Re: Most Embarassing Champions Moment I was gming a group in the No Tolerance era of late 1990's comics. Where superheros were mistrusted and hunted and feared by most governments. Well the villian they were fighting in this was a multi billionaire businessman, but of course he was also a vampire. Well the group was investigaiing one of his companies warehouse for illegal bio wpns and of course ran into the villian and his cronies... a mix of vampires and hi tech henchman. They were doing a pretty good job of beating the tar out of the henchman when the master villian tried to escape...needless to say they noise and destruction had alerted the local law enforcements SWAT team ..specializing in taking on supers... well as the master villian escaped through the warehouse he came across this SWAT team and with a mixture of his public ID and vampire charm informed the LT that he was being attacked..... When the group reached the door the team spokeman came forwrd first .. they saw that their master villian was protected by this SWAT team.. well another character behind him decided to try to strike at the villian with her prehensile hair around the spokeman in the doorway ... she rolled 6 6 6 ... so for effect I had her role again to see where her attack actually struck... this time she rolled 1 1 1 ... down goes the LT of the SWAT team... critically hurt ... the rest of the SWAT team seeing their Lt go down respond ...the target .. the PC in the doorway ... with no resistant def... after the insuing battle ... more villians reinforcements arrive...the bullet ridden barely holding on PCis approached by the master vampire... long winded speech... the master villian turns the PC... it save his life but made for some interesting rping the rest of the campaign.....

When applying your defenses against an attack do you apply damage reduction first or your applicable PD or ED ?

Re: Mystic Defenses Mystic Defense is not resistant that has to be bought just like regular damage resistance. If the fire attack is mystical or magical only mystic def applies.....

I run a Galactic Champions style game but I have run normal champions games in the past.... but in my adventures magic and mysticism play a large roll in the world. I always was in the mindset that mystical and magical energies were differnt than other attacks or energies.. so in my games i have created two unique powers to show this. The first is just Damage Reduction vs magic... uses standars pts for Damage Reduction and protects against spells, spell like abilities wands scrolls and inate spell abilities. The other is Mystic Defense it is bought just like Mental Defense 1pt/1 and ego/5 ... it protects you against all things mystical and magical , dimensional, enchanted wpns, artifacts, drains, transfers, etc. I think it adds a bit more flair to the game I mean I looked at some old Superman comics and we all know how powerful he is and he was affected by magic fully... his normal energy defenses did not apply.... Ramblings and comments ?

Re: Galactic Champions based in Bab 5 universe It works out awesome my players love it because not only can they choose from various alien races, they can choose from elves, dwarves, drow and draconians. Took a little finese to bring those style of characters up to par with 23rd century mechanics but I just looked at their ideals and such ... figured elves would stay true to their woodland beliefs, dwarves to mining and so forth ..... the Drow make for many an interesting plotline

Re: Galactic Champions based in Bab 5 universe Its actually quite cool I use the Forgotten realms timeline for elves and such just adding a little finesse and flare after all my main character is 1/4 atlantean, 1/4 wood elf and 1/2 ilythiir (drow)... I have also written up his timeline and other races I have created and place them within the first ones timelines from Bab 5.......

Re: Killing attack optioal damage A lot of help and suggestions... thanks . My issues are more higher scale than guns ... I run a Galactic Champions based game 750 base pts plus 150 disadvantages....hey they are fighting dimensional deities and galactic conqueors a lot.. not a problem I deal... one thing that arose dueing game play was a character that has 75 pts resistant ED plus a 75% damage redustion vs energy....... he took a blast from an orbital defense platform.... damage 20d6 KE AP well with his defenses he took no body damage but with the lotto took massive amounts of stun ... obviously the argument arose there the fact that he took no body ...... why all the stun ... plus some other issues with characters taking on space craft same scenerio massive stun ... but no body gets through... so in these type situation to add flare and degrees of flash to the game I have adopted that if no body gets through than no stun is taken on these larger scale attacks.... regular player vs player or villian or such I use the hit tables and a flat 3x stun multplier for basis.....

I use the optional effects of damage rules for killing damage by using the flat 3x stun modifer it eliminates the possibility of a really low or high stun multiplier. ... I have been thinking of trying something else also if the targets resistant defenses are adequate enough to stop all the body of the attack then they take no stun either .... it just does not seem sensible that you do not take any killing damage but you take stun...... Thoughts, suggestions and/or arguments against.... for reference I GM and play a Galactic Champions based game...... with higher starting points

Re: First Supers in the World campaigns I have been running a game like that also for years I introduced supers into the Bab 5 universe. Granted they had Psi corp and the likes but it definatly made for interesting adventures .

Re: Supers without costumes I run a Galactic Champions based adventures and we do not use costumes hardly at all because we traverse the galaxies and such it works fine. Would offer a little more of a challenge on a one world but not much.

I have been running adventures in Bab 5 universe for a few years now. We are currently about 10 yrs past the events in Excalibur. I also incorporate fantasy and mysticisim. I have worlds with elven kingdoms, dwarves and dragons. My main villians are Drow and an Interdimensional conglomerate trying to ascend the Dragon (Mystic World). I basically follow Galactic Champions rules but it does make for some interesting characters and adventures. I have a few PC's that have elves with psionics a half dragon and my main character is half drow from a family of good aligned drow who trascended to another world around 11,700 BCE before their ppl became fully evil. Drop a line for any questions or an suggestions

Re: My Hero Genre Thanks, that's Aroo's page. He pays awesome attention to detail. I am waiting to see his stats for Whitestars, The Excalibur and Warlocks. I already have stats for them, that I have made I want to see how close I am to his. Plus I have designed a lot of ship classes also. I created a group of good aligned drow known as Moonblades that act like the Rangers they patrol the galaxy plus ward off dimensionall and mystic attackers. They are are from drow clans that left earth around the time of the Second Crown wars of the elves about 14,000 yrs ago. They trancended Earth with the help of dimensional allies and a race of Dimensional, space faring elves known as Mystecs. They set up on a planet out on the rim of the Milky Way. Continued their existance and never gave in to the evils of Lolth or their soon to be subterranean brethen.

Hello all I am currently running a game set in the Bab 5 universe about 10 yrs after the events in Excalibur. I mix Galactic champions plus use Mystic and fantasy settings also . It Makes for some interesting roleplaying. I have villians that are Drow , Interdimensional conglomerates trying to "rebirth" the Dragon and your typical alien style dealings. Also made up some house rules making Magic and Mystical enrgies and attacks seperate from other type of physical or energy attacks. Post any questions or musings you may have ..