starblaze

So, I just bought Champions Presents on the online store and I found that there some pages missing at the end of the last adventure Menace out of Time.  Can we get this fixed?

 

Tim

I ran a GAC game some time ago, my copy is dog eared.

12 hours ago, Spence said:

You did notice what I actually said? 

They wanted a hammer "like" Thor's and they wanted it to return to hand after being thrown and not be able to be taken away.

So I don't know why you would bring up that Thor's hammer could be taken.  We are not talking about Thor's hammer.  We are talking about a similar hammer that cannot be taken. 

Not trying to be antagonistic. 

Just confused...

Even though the Hammer will come back to him he can be separated from it and in the classic version of Thor he will turn back into Donald Blake.

Hi,

I just got a game of 5th Edition Champions at my house in Two Rivers, Wisconsin. It is a standard Superhero game with three players and presently we are playing once a month. Hopefully we will be able to play more but for the moment this is the deal. The game is set in the mid 80's and is Bronze age in style.

We are playing 350pt characters and it is set in Milwaukee. Our next session is on June 30th at 2:00 p.m.

If you could do that, it would be great.  Thank you.

On 5/30/2022 at 12:49 AM, steriaca said:

So that means he is off the table then?

 

Nope. Still on the table. That was Cottonmouth, not Black Mamba. In fact, there is no mention of Black Mamba in the 5ed book at all.

I stand corrected.  Besides in Superhero comics who really stays dead?

I believe in the 5th edition VIPER game Black Mamba turns traitor and seriously injures VIPER until he is caught and executed.

So yeah, I got an old print copy of the Voice of Doom, and I was wondering if anyone has anyone has updated these villains from their 3rd edition versions.

Well, my first Superhero game was Villains and Vigilantes so I probably would have stayed with that although mine was the 1st edition version so I would have eventually graduated to 2nd edition.

On 5/5/2022 at 1:13 PM, Spence said:

Started Supers with V&V. 

 

Then Champs 1e entered our neck of the world we quickly changed over. 

 

Played a little DC Heroes and really tried to play M&M but it's power/combat resolution system never clicked for me.

 

So if Champs never existed it would probably be V&V.  Early edition V&V.

 

Me too.  I dropped V&V after I found Champions.

 

I like it.  Pretty straight forward character.

On 2/3/2022 at 6:56 PM, Tjack said:

   I can see your point although I may not always agree with it.  But that’s in reference to PC’s, under a players control who refused to take a hint from the GM.  What happened there was to an NPC under your control, and you have to admit in retrospect that if it killed the campaign it might not have been a good idea.

 

BTW;  “girl in a fridge” refers to an issue of Green Lantern where Kyle Rayner found the dead body of his girlfriend stuffed into his refrigerator by a serial killer. It has come to refer to graphic violence (often to women) meant only to shock the readers and done in in a way that puts it beyond the line of good taste especially in comics targeted at younger readers.

And that women tend to be treated worse than men in comics.

So I am starting up Champions after many years of not having done it and I would like to use the characters and stuff from Champions 5th edition.  I did get the pdf but I did not see any HD files for this book in the Hero Games Store.  Does anyone know where I can get this?

Yeesh.

So I just got done playing Destroy All Humans on my PS4 and thought I would take a shot at writing him out.  This is him at more or less at the end of the first game.  Let me know what you think.

 

Crypto

 

356 Total Points.

 

APPEARANCE

Cryptosporidium stands 2m tall and weighs 100kg with Brown hair and Brown eyes.

COMPLICATIONS

3 foot tall grey alien. Distinctive Features (Concealable; Extreme Reaction; Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses).

Majestic 11-. Hunted (As Pow; PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find; Harshly Punish).

U.S. Army 11-. Hunted (As Pow; PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find; Harshly Punish).

Police 14-. Hunted (As Pow; PC has a Public ID or is otherwise very easy to find; Harshly Punish).

Disdainful towards humans. Psychological Limitation (Common; Strong).

When in contact with water 3d6 damage Instant. Susceptibility (Very Common).

CCCTiny ball of agression bonus.CCCEND.

 

 

CHARACTERISTICS

STR 8 11- STR Dice 1½d6, Lift 75.8kg

DEX 20 13-

CON 10 11-

INT 15 12-

EGO 20 13-

PRE 20 13- PRE Attack 4d6

 

REC 10 PD 5 ED 5

STUN 35 BODY 10 END 20

 

 

PERCEPTION 12-

Telepathy 10d6 (50 Active Points); END 5.

Majestic Technology. Detect A Single Thing 12- (Unusual Group), Range.

 

MOVEMENT

Running 6" (12")

Swimming 2" (4")

Leaping 26" (104")

 

Jet Pack. Leaping +25" (26½" forward, 25½" upward; Accurate, x4 Noncombat), No Gravity Penalty (52 Active Points); OIF; END 5.

 

DEFENSE DCV DMCV

Total Physical Defense (PD) 5/20 (Resistant 0/15)

Total Energy Defense (ED) 5/20 (Resistant 0/15)

 

Telekinetic Force Field. Force Field (15 PD/15 ED); END 3.

OFFENSE OCV OMCV

Initiative 20 SPD 5

on Phases 3, 5, 8, 10, 12

Attack Roll -

Mental Attack Roll -

 

+3 with Ranged Combat

Psychokinesis. Telekinesis (32 STR; 48 Active Points); END 5.

Mind Control 10d6 (50 Active Points); END 5.

Holo Bob. Sight and Hearing Groups Images 1" radius, +/-2 to PER Rolls; END 2.

Zap-o-Matic. RKA 2d6, AOE (12" Line; +1; 60 Active Points); OIF; END 6.

Disingration Ray. RKA 3d6 (56 Active Points); OIF, 32 Charges; .

Ion Detonator. RKA 2½d6, Explosion (60 Active Points); 5 Charges, OIF; .

Anal Probe. Drain BODY 2d6+1, Ranged, Based On EGO Combat Value (Mental Defense applies; +1; 57 Active Points); OIF; END 6.

SKILLS

Acting 13-

Breakfall 13-

Combat Piloting 13-

Disguise 12-

 

SKILL LEVELS

+3 with Ranged Combat

 

LANGUAGES

 

 

 

POWERS

 

Furon Mental Powers

Multipower (50 pts).

• Psychokinesis. Telekinesis (32 STR; 48 Active Points); END 5.

• Mind Control 10d6 (50 Active Points); END 5.

• Telepathy 10d6 (50 Active Points); END 5.

 

Telekinetic Force Field. Force Field (15 PD/15 ED); END 3.

Jet Pack. Leaping +25" (26½" forward, 25½" upward; Accurate, x4 Noncombat), No Gravity Penalty (52 Active Points); OIF; END 5.

Holo Bob. Sight and Hearing Groups Images 1" radius, +/-2 to PER Rolls; END 2.

Majestic Technology. Detect A Single Thing 12- (Unusual Group), Range.

 

Furon Ray Gun

Multipower (60 pts), (60 Active Points); all slots OIF.

• Zap-o-Matic. RKA 2d6, AOE (12" Line; +1; 60 Active Points); OIF; END 6.

• Disingration Ray. RKA 3d6 (56 Active Points); OIF, 32 Charges.

• Ion Detonator. RKA 2½d6, Explosion (60 Active Points); 5 Charges, OIF.

• Anal Probe. Drain BODY 2d6+1, Ranged, Based On EGO Combat Value (Mental Defense applies; +1; 57 Active Points); OIF; END 6.

 

EQUIPMENT

Encumbrance. 0kg of 75.8kg Limit.

Equipment Value. $0.

 

 

 

On 5/21/2020 at 7:03 PM, Tjack said:

Now you need a hero with sonic powers...the Howling Commando!

A flying superhero with sonic powers, Screaming Eagle!

That was a great what might have been moment.

On 3/31/2021 at 9:01 AM, Tjack said:

   I remember a BH episode where Jethro gets his draft notice.  Everyone in the family was real impressed that the President sent him a letter....”Greetings!”   Does anybody remember what happened about that? 
   I’m thinking now about Jethro in Vietnam. Slipping through the woods/jungle should be pretty easy for a country boy like him, and we already discussed his being a crack shot.  Besides if the Army could get Forrest Gump through basic training and the Marines put Gomer Pyle through Boot Camp then Jethro Bodine is going to the ‘Nam.

   Wow, I’m picturing Jethro as an angry vet like Rambo or the guy from the song Copperhead Road.
   

I believe he ended up becoming a reservist.

No one could shoot like Granny, she actually skeet shot with a rifle.  A rifle!

3 minutes ago, starblaze said:

 

Leona Huxley: Neutral Good, wants to be Chaotic Good but has been in a Lawful Good society for so long that it is hard to break free.

 

Edgar Friendly:  Chaotic Neutral, just wants to do whatever he wants and hates the repressive society that is as he puts it, "It's a 47-year-old virgin sitting around in his beige pajamas, drinking a banana-broccoli shake, singing "I'm an Oscar Meyer Wiener".

Chief George Earle: Lawful Neutral, servant to the Law and willing to use modern methods and procedure all the time.

4 minutes ago, starblaze said:

Demolition Man characters:

 

John Spartan: Chaotic Good, doing the right thing and saving innocents are more important than the rules.

 

Simon Phoenix: Chaotic Evil, just crazy bastard.

 

Dr. Raymond Cocteau: Lawful Evil, willing to unleash a criminal psycho just so he can gain even more control over society through fear.  Actually wants to eliminate a bunch of homeless vagrants because they mess with the ordered society he created.

 

Demolition Man characters:

 

John Spartan: Chaotic Good, doing the right thing and saving innocents are more important than the rules.

 

Simon Phoenix: Chaotic Evil, just crazy bastard.

 

 

On 7/23/2021 at 4:11 PM, Opal said:

Wow, he even dresses the part.

 

That reminds me:

 

Edward Leedskalnin, creator of the megalithic Coral Castle, could have be a TK or brick on that basis.

I used to live in Homestead, I have been to Coral Castle.  The common belief is that he had an uncanny understanding of balance, but TK works too.

On 7/14/2021 at 4:50 PM, Hermit said:

Hedy Lamarr

1) Incredibly talented actress

2) Inventor, self taught mostly, who worked for Howard Hughes at one point, also helped invent the Frequency Hopping Spectrum to jam Nazi torpedos (Tech would later be incorporated into Wifi)

3) During World War II, the Office of Strategic Services invented a pyrotechnic device meant to help agents operating behind enemy lines to escape if capture seemed imminent. When the pin was pulled, it made the whistle of a falling bomb followed by a loud explosion and a large cloud of smoke, enabling the agent to make his escape. It saved the life of at least one agent. The device was codenamed the Hedy Lamarr.

4) Incredible Recluse particularly later in her life

 

The villain from Agent Carter season 2 is based on her.  Hedy was a genius but people only cared about her beauty.

On 10/29/2014 at 6:25 PM, Enforcer84 said:

maybe. But in my decades of experience, no one in my group wanted to play Hawkeye. Or at least a Hawkeye that found cops a threat. Not that we never played low-power games, we just preferred the Avengers to the Teen Titans. 

 

We had a series of broken concepts - didn't really get going until Champions II and III came out and we got some real potentially disruptive powers to play with - absorption to force field was a favorite for one "Martial Artist." or the mage who had a cosmic, 0 phase variable defense pool. 

 

IIRC our first game consisted of Enforcer (Me) a flight Brick with Adrenaline surges (ripped off Ripper's Strength buffs) so I went from 60 to 100 for 6 rounds a day. Had a lot of defenses and a jet belt like Wonder Man.

 

Xenonoblaster was the aforementioned robot with 100 STR and 700 pts. He would have been imbalanced but the GM and that Player were intellectual rivals at most things and so most of the competition was geared towards eliminating him.

 

Ratman was an anthropomorphic rat with an 80 STR.

 

Syphon had a multipower of drains and transfers. And looked like Captain Caveman.

 

Rising Son was the Martial Artist with the absorption field.

 

we stopped a bankrobbery...by Neutron's group...(Arc, Wyvern, Ankylosaur, Grond was added as were Thunder and Lightning)

 

Xenonoblaster tore the vault out of the building to keep it from them and then KO'd Wyvern and Lightning. Neutron detonated him. Ratman took out Thunder and Arc, Enforcer got jobbed by Grond, Rising Son managed to take out Ankylosaur and Syphon drained Grond into a managable brick but Neutron got away.

 

Aaaand I'm back in Ed's basement.

Can I join you?

Big Buffy fan, I remember that it was basically Dawn dealing with Joyce, her mother dying and not handling it well.