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Re: Who Would be Your Character's Sidekick? That looks painful! He should keep smashing his eyes everywere... Well, let's see...The last superhero I am developing, Maciste, is a character straight from the sword and sandals italian movies...He could have a kid sidekick with his same powers on a lower degree and it would be called the Son of Maciste...But I can't devise a suitable name..."Macistino" sounds ridiculous but maybe it's good since he is a sidekick...

I am generating a super-fencer superheroine, so I took the fencing martial art, added a lot of combat levels, damage classes and combat luck and then started to devise a multipowers for the "fencing tricks"...now I don't have the sheet under my eyes but it goes roughly this way: Multipower ('art of fencing'): OAF(sword) 1u 'Queen of spades' HKA autofire, OAF 2u 'Parryng bullets' Missile deflection, OAF 3u 'My sword can cut metal' Tunneling DEF9, 1", only walls, OAF I'd like to add something like 4u 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to fly up and down by rotating the sword, but I am going low on spare points... So, if I well understood the FAQ, I can add damage classes and bonuses for martial arts to the HKA attacks, and use combat levels as well. Does this apply even to tunneling? That is, can I improve tunneling by adding damage classes? And what about missile deflection? Speaking about tunneling, it has a lot of active points, so it's the most powerful power in the multipower even if it is the most useless power...How can overcome this (So far I had to improve the active points of the multipower but I don't like much the solution) The rule for converting killing damage from weapons to normal damage by hitting with the flat of the blade still apply with this multipower, or I have to buy an HTH attack for the purpose?

At last, I seized a copy of 5th edition revised at an RPG fair...(So Far I had Champions Fourth Edition) and I am amazed at the huge amount of informations in that book... Do you have any suggestion on how I can quicly learn the mechanics and become able in devising my own PCs, NPCs and powers and the like?

Re: G.I.Joe I figured that VIPER was the Cobra, but I totally missed that UNTIL was the GIJoe...Thank you!

How would you make up a characters who is utterly incompetent in the field it should be an ace? Like a mage that always miscasts spells or a superhero wannabe that is an hindrance for the other supers more often than not? Yes, you can make a stupid wizard or a weak fighter, but by doing so you just have an impaired character...I was thinking of a way to make incompetent characters a playable source, that is a character that despite being incompetent manages to be as powerful as the other characters (perhaps by sheer luck...)

Do somebody know if there are some Champions write-ups of the G.I.Joe characters available on the web? Did you ever made some?

Re: Sky High - Teenage Super Movie Cool. Hope they will find a way to imply that she was Wonder Woman... Anyway there was the old Hannah and Barbera cartoon...

Re: Super humans populations in cities Thank you. I edited the post :-)

Re: columbia! Wonderful job! the design of the costume is amazing! i downloaded the program; what packages are you exactly using? I like much the template characterization...

Re: Super humans populations in cities Mhh...Perhaps I used a wrong word...I heard the term in the "Downtown" animated serie from MTV, but perhaps they invented it or I misunderstood the word. Anyway, how do you call those (mythical, I guess) yokels that marry between cousins or between brothers and sisters and as such have things like six-fingers, extra or missing eyes, displaced facial features and so on? (like Custer's friend in Preacher, for example)

Re: Super humans populations in cities Since in the superheroic genre every incident is likely to give superpowers to someone, the majority f superheroes/supercriminals will be located where the rate of annual incidents is higher...So big cities should be on the top of the list. Also, since superpower-generating incidents seems to preferably involve high tech devices (irradiated spiders, toxic wastes, generic lab explosions) the total should be further biased in favor to big cities...However, speaking of mutations, rural towns could be preferred... Lana: "Clark! You just lifted that truck bare handed! Are you an alien, perhaps?" Clark: "Well...I...Uhm...No, you see...I am just an inbred." Lana:"Oh."

Re: Need Italian Names A lot of the names are wrong, I checked only the male ones, but Emmanuele=Emanuele; Constantin (oh, God!)=Costantino; Biaiardo=Baiardo (I guess, but i never heard this name); if "CASEAREO" was a name, it would mean something like "connected with the production of cheese"...The only correct name in that line is Cesare; Kajetan(?!?!)=Gaetano; Rafaele=Raffaele (and of course no raphael...the "ph" sound in italian is represented as an "f"); Also, a lot of the names in the list doesn't exist, for example Lorenz (only Lorenzo exists) and other are so rare they seem invented... The lists of italian names that are found online are always full of such fun, I wonder why...

Re: How do you feel about Superheroes that kill? I think the Code vs. Killing of Silver Age has some (not planned) degree of realism...Unless the superheroes work for the government or the police they have no authority to do what they do; they are basically (pseudo-fascist) vigilantes. As such, they can operate as long as public opinion and authority are willing to tolerate them. So, it's better that they avoid controversial behaviour such as killing...Even if the killing was for self defense, they would be likely asked to prove it in a court, bt they can't go in a court without revealing their secret identities. In fact, even minor charges would be a problem... Also, since we are talking about supers, it's likely (or at least, desiderable) that they adhere to a superior ideal of justice and so they are above killing their foes...

Some day ago, my brother pointed that the Champions rules don't allow to make creative use of superpowers: for example, if I have a character with heat-ray vision, and I use the heat ray to melt the ground under an enemy, I should buy that effect as an entanglement, and I can't use it if I didn't... It is true or one might be more flexible? And what's the limit of that? (Since it could be abused, as well)

Re: Superhero Pope: Ridiculous or Sublime? Ridiculous (but, in the superhero genre, if you start thinking you end with Watchmen and Return of the Dark Knight)...Most likely to be a spoof or some one-shot boutade...