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  1. Teen Champions PCs vs Minuteman.

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    Re: Teen Champions PCs vs Minuteman.

     

    You can adjust the minuteman without messing with any continuity. Have the minuteman be damaged or maybe partially disassembled before the fight starts. Perhaps this particular minuteman had been damaged and waiting for repair when the teens showed up.

     

    Perhaps the techs were planning on upgrading the minuteman's armor but only got as far as removing some of the components when the minuteman was suddenly needed. But since the targets are a bunch of kids the minuteman should still have no problem.... :)

     

    Finally it could be an early prototype. "They're just a bunch of kids, let's save the big guns for the real threats."

     

    All of these options preserve the "badass" status of the minutemen and still give the PCs a fighting chance.

  2. My CU based webcomic

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    It is an interesting comic, and I like the story...

     

    I have problems with Mind Girl. Her motivation makes no sense. According to her brief bio, she is interested in using her powers and wealth to help others... but thinks that Sun Girl is low-life scum? That does not fit.

     

    If someone wants to help those less fortunate than themselves... they should be looking out for all.

     

    If she has a personal grudge against Sun Girl for one reason or another, that is one thing; but that does not seem to be the case.

     

    You don't have to like someone to want to help them, like people who donate money to homeless charities but will cross the street if they see a homeless person aproaching them.

     

    Her attitude is more that it is the responsibility of the quality people to take care of the unwashed masses who can't do it for themselves, kind of a "Noblesse oblige".

     

    Of all the group members she is the most unlikeable, although when push comes to shove she is fully on the side of good.

     

    Her problems with Sun Girl start with SG being lower-class and are exacerbated by SG's take-no-crap attitude.

     

    In future stories I hope to explore their relationship.

  3. Valdorian Age, Turakian Age

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    Re: Valdorian Age, Turakian Age

     

    There are lots of racial and cultural templates. There are also a handful of pre-designed spells and special abilities. Turakian Age seems to have more mechanical stuff than Valdorian Age.

     

    There are tons of things that can be lifted for other campaigns.

     

    The mechanics are fairly segregated from the "fluff". The machanics are broken into appropriate chapters, i.e. the characters chapter has all the racial templates while the magic chapter has the spells.

  4. Moving from D&D - rules issues

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    Re: Moving from D&D - rules issues

     

    I'm running a fantasy hero game in which the characters are allowed to purchase special abilities that work like powers but can represent things like super honed skills. Here's an AoO type effect that I came up with. It represents someone who has been specially trained in defending a person or area.

     

    Defend the Path: Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 2d6, Damage Shield (+1/2), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Area Of Effect (Weapon Range; +1/2), Selective (+1/4), Continuous (+1) (112 Active Points); OAF (Readied Weapon; -1), Only useable against targets who are ignoring or trying to pass (-1), Concentration, Must Concentrate throughout use of Constant Power (1/2 DCV; -1/2), Base Damage is equal to weapon damage (-1/2) Cost:28

     

    I don't have my books with me so the numbers maybe slightly off.

  5. My CU based webcomic

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    Re: My CU based webcomic

     

    Very, very cool stuff(kind of a fox force five with super powers)

    Repped:thumbup: !!

     

    I've never heard of Fox Force Five, but it does sound simmilar. ;) Where can I find out more about it?

  7. My CU based webcomic

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    It looks good' date=' and I hope you get to finish it.[/quote']

     

    I had to take a week off to work on another project. Now that the project is done I can get back to the comic.

     

    Issue 1 will be 12 pages long so I only have two more to go. :) I takes me around a week to do a page, Since I usually only have around an hour a day to work on it that averages out to one page per 8 hours, or one per working day. Now if I could only work on it full time...

  8. My CU based webcomic

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    Re: My CU based webcomic

     

    My first thought: do you have permission from Hero Games to use their intellectual property?

     

    I can't actually look at the site at the moment, since I'm pushing my luck being here at the moment...

     

    Yes I do. :)

  10. My CU based webcomic

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    After much waffling I'm finally posting about my webcomic "Heroes of Vibora Bay" based in the Champions Universe.

     

    I'm hesitant about posting it because I'm not entirely happy with it. I have learned quite a bit from creating it though.

     

    I still have a couple of pages to go on issue 1, then I hope to impliment some changes and improvements for the next issue.

     

    You can read what I've finished so far at: http://kd.dynip.com/WoE/web_comics.htm

  11. City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

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    Re: City of Heroes - Online Hero Game

     

    On the other hand it doesn't take long to out level the low level zones. When you get to the high levels (40+) it takes a long time to level so you spend a lot longer in the zone.

     

    New high level zone?? why?? How many charictors will someone have at these high leveles? I would imagine that even a dedidicated long time player will only have a small handfull of charictors at these levels. However howmany charictors will you have in the low and mid levels? Lots' date=' piticularly considering that all charictors begin low level. So to me it would make more sence to make new low level zones, and to revamp the low level dungions. You can only fight thugs in nearly identical office buildings or nearly identical warehouses so many times before it becomes dull. How hard would it be to put some new maps and textures into these? Wait, I need to somehow tell this to the COH people.[/quote']

  14. Name That Band Hero!

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    Re: Name That Band Hero!

     

    My turn

     

     

    Night Prowler: Batman type with invisability to all senses.

    TNT: A woman whose punches cause explosions.

    Heatseeker: A speedster with fire powers.

    Problem Child: A girl who controls probability fields.

     

    AC/DC

  18. Name That Band Hero!

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    Re: Name That Band Hero!

     

    Midnight Maniac - Darkness powered Martial artist

    Nightwolf - Lycanthrope

    Freedom - Flagsuit son of former counter culture figures

    Headhunter - Mentalist with a wicked sense of humor and theatrics

    Hardluck Hero - A brick who is the living embodiment of karma. He takes the bad to give the good.

     

    Krokus

  19. A couple of Hero Pictures

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    Re: A couple of Hero Pictures

     

    Nice character design :).

     

    Mind if I ask "How long have you been using Poser? And how long did it take you to get used to the program?" (I'm looking at getting the software myself, but it's not a trivial expense at this point in my life :D )

     

    Thanks

     

    CT

     

    I've been using poser for around 5 years now. It's not too tough to get the basics down, but some of the advenced features are way up there on the difficulty level. I've been using the program for 5 years and I've never once messed with the setup room (that's were you can rig figures for movement).

     

    I also recomend downloading DAZ's "DAZ|Studio" and trying it out. It has a different UI from Poser and it doesn't have all the high end features, but it is free and will give you an idea if it's something you really want to work with. Poser and DAZ|Studio content is mostly interchangeable. DAZ can't use Poser's material shaders, dynamic hair, or dynamic cloth.

     

    My favorite Poser hangout is Poser Pros. Lots of skilled poser artists and people willing to help out with questions and tips.

  23. A couple of Hero Pictures

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    Re: A couple of Hero Pictures

     

    The Back grounds left little contrast. But they weren't horrible.

     

    Ok, looking at it with my work machine I see what you mean. The picture was created on my home machine with a nice LCD monitor so the image is much brighter.

     

    I can't make the background too bright though or the glowing ring effect gets washed out.

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