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It was the aquatic telepathy and perks (King of Atlantis) this was during the Peter David years IIRC
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1 hour ago, Panpiper said:
Personally I would consider a 300 point super with 'only' 15 PD/ED to be 'extremely' fragile. I am pretty sure therefor that those numbers are individual suggestions. Frankly I wouldn't create a 300 point super that had less than 13 resistant PD/ED and a total of 'at least' 21/21. That would not be my character max, that would be my 'minimum'! A character needs sufficient constitution and defense (combined) to 'not' be stunned by an average attack, and then some. Either that or they need an exceptionally high DCV and sufficient speed to afford to abort fairly frequently. My opinion anyway.
Fair to say that it is a different feel. The lower defenses make combat more dangerous (duh!!!), while higher defenses make for a more drawn out combat. Both can be genre appropriate... (I aim for a 2.5*DC personaly)
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On 5/23/2020 at 4:30 PM, fdw3773 said:
I use 6th Edition rules from Champions Complete. Instead of running a campaign, I host sessions at game conventions and RPG charity events where players select a pre-generated character from the DC or Marvel Universe for a scenario. The scenario is designed so that characters from different universes can participate in the same adventure.
In terms of points, I follow the general guidelines in the Champions Complete rules. Here's a quick run-down and examples of characters I've developed using those general benchmarks:
300 CPs = Low-powered/Youthful/Street level heroes (Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Huntress from Justice League, Beast Boy from Teen Titans, Jubilee from X-Men)
400 CPs = Standard Heroes (Cyclops and Beast from X-Men)
500 CPs = High Powered Heroes (Captain America, Power Girl, Colossus, Rogue)
600 CPs = Extremely Powerful Heroes (Batman, Green Lantern, Storm, Wonder Woman)
750 CPs = Cosmically Powerful Heroes (Superman)
Hope this helps!
Strange trivia, when I pointed up the JLA a number of years ago the character who was the most powerful was Aquaman...Just felt like letting you know
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Regarding Passing strike.
5 END for strength
2 END for Flight, reduced endurance is a rare modifier that the Active Points do not add to the END Cost. Even if it did it would be a 50 active point power or 2.5 end, which rounds in your favor to 2
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On 6/5/2020 at 7:39 AM, Spence said:
EMMA the second
EMMA part two
EMMA the return
The EMMAnator
FRED & EMMA, a love story?
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I like this idea, maybe tie in a drug addiction element, so the drug gives people temporary super powers...
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To answer the acronym
In the sixties the United States Government approved the funding for two new agencies due to the rise of costumed criminals. The first agency (Special Target Reconnaissance, Investigation, Policing, Espionage Service; aka STRIPES) was placed under the authority of the Department of Justice. While the second (Special Target Attack Response Squads; aka STARS) was placed under the supervision of the Department of Defense. Both agencies are tasked with protecting the United Stats from the rise of “Super Threats”.
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Delete...decided it was not worth the grief I would get
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Super soldier is a power type for me. Slightly super humans, more than a profession. Technically they would be "Super US Marshalls"
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33 minutes ago, steriaca said:
Once you gathered the writeup, you can decide what to do. I suggest a team of clandestine agents fighting the equivalent of COBRA and other no-do-well organizations in a paradoxical private/public war.
I thought of that. Problem is there is actually a different agent group (STARS) that would fit more of. STRIPES is about super heroes / villains instead of the pajamma ramma gangs (Hydra, Cobra, Viper, Kobra, etc...)
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Basically yes. In addition, as it is a naked modifier on an attack power we need to account for it being a constant modifier on an instant power
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Let's not get to caught up into the advantage of it (but I think IndianaJoe3 might be right) but still want to think of how to represent the ability of requiring 2 skill rolls over multiple actions...
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So last week I finished my long running Fox is dead campaign. The players were disappointed to see it go so I agreed to start a new campaign.
My game world (Centurion Earth) has some consistencies, and one of them is that to be a legally sanctioned team you need to have a member of STRIPES (kind of like SHIELD) on the team. They do have super powered agents (mostly Super patriots with a Super Soldier serum power set) and high tech agents. If the group does not have a player who wants to play that type of character they either get an NPC (often more of a paper pusher) or are considered rogue.
This time it looks like the whole group is making super soldiers... I really was not expecting this, so not sure what to do as a campaign guideline. Was really planning on a normal super team...
Ideas would be appreciated...
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Not QUITE the same, but in my super hero campaign I explain it like this : up to 20 is what you can expect to see people get to who are dedicated (Muscle boys on the beach, professional / Olympic athletes, etc...). Between 21-30 is characters who are still human, but legendary. If Hercules was a real person that myths were created about he would be near str 30, Bruce Lee (he of the so fast you can't film it) would be 23-25 dex, etc...
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Thank you
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So, I did this. Not sure how good it is, not sure if anyone will like it, but wanted to take a stab at it...
Not sure how this all works, but I did this
- Acroyear II, Duke Bushido, Amorkca and 3 others
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On 5/31/2020 at 1:58 PM, Scott Ruggels said:
Excellent. That sounds like a truly satisfying campaign arc.
The end fight was great (Bill, the former Fox) has been captured. The sword of the Fox whines up being a key to a mystic prison. As the prisoner is about to stab him to set himself free. Midnight uses her grappler to grab the sword and goes "This was your mistake, I'm the Fox"
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Thank you for the advice and critique. I appreciate it greatly
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1 hour ago, Duke Bushido said:
On a phone at work, but a couple of quick things:
Find a large (high-Rez: high DPI, whatever you want to call it) flag, waving if you can, and make a full sky out of it. Find a public domain image if you can. If not, run to the hardware store, have someone flop about one of their surplus Memorial Day impulse buy flags. Save it in the highest res you can.
I like to work in 1200 to 2400 DPI, but never work in less than 600. Less than six hundred, it looks like butt if you try to print it.
When you drop something onto your pre-sized background, do not enlarge it to make it what you want unless you are working with vector graphics. Start big and go small. Do not use or save in jpg. Vector is best; png is a distant Second.
I'd love to show you some of what you could do, but as I stated elsewhere, my graphics box died near the end of Western HERO, necessitating the hiring of a pro to finish a few things for me.
I have yet to find the budget to replace it (or the desire, since Adobe has done to a subscription format.)
Biggest thing: no white space
Consider a skyline with a semi-transparent overlay of the flag as the sky.
Conside the title skewed to follow the stripes on the flag.
On a shoe string budget for this
But how does this look?
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Yah, was thinking -1/2 base. -1/4 per step down (So first power is -1/2, second is -3/4)
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Can anyone give me pointers on making a cover? I'm working on the one for my first book and I am HATING it....
But how does this look?
What are the typical starting point/power levels these days?
in Champions
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I found a good compromise was to merge Vehicles, bases, Follower for use with the +5 for x2 Rule. Batman buys one 400 point resourse (80 points) x16, all of a suddenly he has a fleet of vehicles, bases and followers
You can also be a bit cheeky and build your base, then include a summon vehicles inside of it...any GM who is not cautious about this deserves what they get....