Brutal

Re: Campaign idea!

Yeah, well at any rate, If I have flashbacks, it wont be roleplayed I think. Since its probably more fitting with handing out notes that says what the PC remembers for that.

Re: Campaign idea!

Yeah, timing and good pace is the key to something like this I think.

Re: Campaign idea

Interesting ideas tbh black rose. Agree also that players need a connection to each other.

"keep the theme of "our new life can be just as valid as our old one" in mind"

Yes! I think that one of the most interesting things about this campaign idea is that the PC's will have a choice whether they want to go back somehow to their old life, or live the new one instead.

Re: Campaign idea!

Good idea marcdoc!

Re: Campaign idea!

Yeah good points, flashbacks perhaps shouldnt be acted out, and just be told to the PC's instead.

I have this idea about a campaign. I'm wondering what you think of the idea. Or if anyone played a campaign like it before It would be nice of you to tell me how it went. Also I've posted it in the champions forum as well since im not sure which genre to play in yet.

Ideas

* Campaign is not solely a "save the world" campaign

* The backround of the campaign is not always the main plot and all adventures need not be coherent at all times.

* The idea is that the characters wake up somewhere with a memory loss (new characters).

* They have no idea who they are nor where they are from.

* The campaign is as much about them finding out their origin as in survival.

* Mysterious friends and enemies from the PC's past shows up sometimes

* PC's will experience various flashbacks, some of which actually help them but also some which does not help them at all

* Some adventures could be played as "flashbacks". How well the characters succeed in the adventures will significant for how much the PC's remember and what clues they recieve. It's often about moral decisions, but it wont reveal who they are and where they are from too quickly.

* The PC's hunt for answers about their past will lead them new adventures and conflicts where they might not know which side to chose.

* During adventuring some very wierd things can happen that the PCs have no idea whats going on, but as they continue the campaign they could find out later on what happened.

* They could be hunted by someone or something. They dont know what or who it is, however it will keep them fleeing (someone very powerful ). The idea is that sometime in the future they will think of a way to beat him, and possibly succeed.

Stuff I need to find out before campaign starts:

What are the PC's background, and where do they come from?

Who are they?

How did they lose their memory?

Are they some sort of gods that has arrived to to this world for some reason? Are they from another world or dimension? Are they the last decendants from a now dead civilisation? Have they themselves agreed to lose memory, ie, is there something they dont want to remember?

I think it shouldnt be TOO hard to figure out these things because it could put the players off.

I realise also that it probably takes active players to pull something like this off, so some players could need more help along they way than others.

So what do you think? Any ideas?

/Brutal

I have this idea about a campaign. I'm wondering what you think of the idea. Or if anyone played a campaign like it before It would be nice of you to tell me how it went. Also I'm posting it in the fantasy hero forum as well since im not sure which genre to play in yet.

Ideas

* Campaign is not solely a "save the world" campaign

* The backround of the campaign is not always the main plot and all adventures need not be coherent at all times.

* The idea is that the characters wake up somewhere with a memory loss (new characters).

* They have no idea who they are nor where they are from.

* The campaign is as much about them finding out their origin as in survival.

* Mysterious friends and enemies from the PC's past shows up sometimes

* PC's will experience various flashbacks, some of which actually help them but also some which does not help them at all

* Some adventures could be played as "flashbacks". How well the characters succeed in the adventures will significant for how much the PC's remember and what clues they recieve. It's often about moral decisions, but it wont reveal who they are and where they are from too quickly.

* The PC's hunt for answers about their past will lead them new adventures and conflicts where they might not know which side to chose.

* During adventuring some very wierd things can happen that the PCs have no idea whats going on, but as they continue the campaign they could find out later on what happened.

* They could be hunted by someone or something. They dont know what or who it is, however it will keep them fleeing (someone very powerful ). The idea is that sometime in the future they will think of a way to beat him, and possibly succeed.

Stuff I need to find out before campaign starts:

What are the PC's background, and where do they come from?

Who are they?

How did they lose their memory?

Are they some sort of gods that has arrived to to this world for some reason? Are they from another world or dimension? Are they the last decendants from a now dead civilisation? Have they themselves agreed to lose memory, ie, is there something they dont want to remember?

I think it shouldnt be TOO hard to figure out these things because it could put the players off.

I realise also that it probably takes active players to pull something like this off, so some players could need more help along they way than others.

So what do you think? Any ideas?

Re: How to build these powers/disads? Really need help!

ahh thank you buddy, thats kind of what i had in mind myself. Hmm, never realised one could use skipover sprayfire tbh. That might just be what I need, thanks!

Need help from your genius minds, would really appreciate it, thanks!

Btw, these are generally superhero genre if anyone wonders about power limits and what not.

1) A character has trouble controlling his powers (like a teenage mutant for example). So, if walks around angry one day, a car next to him might explode (or if he's sad, a well might try out, etc). It's out of his control to stop these things. I thought of making it a psychologial lim. at first and just let the GM specify it, but the problem is that he, most of the time doesn't realise what he's done or how it was done.

2). I want a character to be able to autofire an entire area. Normally this would be kind of easy i suppose, but here comes the twist. Say you have a roughly 10" area (radius). Within this area, say I have 6 or so attacks autofire. If there are 2 people in this 10" area, they each get 3 hits. If 6 people are in there, they get one hit each, if only one person is there, h gets all 6 hits. How would one go around constructing this?

3. An attack that both slightly slows enemy's attack speed (somehow), does damage, and makes his movement slower.

Would appreciate any input tbh

/Brute

Been thinking about making a character lately that is either an elemental type, or a magician (not sure yet). I want him to be a little uncontrolled. Since he's still learning his abilities (mutant), he does not have full control as of yet. This also, affects his environment when he is emotional. For example a burst of rage could possibly put a building on fire randomly, sadness might make a well dry up, make a small mountain fall apart, those kind of things, although perhaps a bit smaller effect .

How would one go about constructing this? It's not really a power since he has no control over it at all, and its affecting him negatively. I find it hard though to make a disad, (which disad would THAT be?!).

Also, I want to make him have the capability of being VERY powerful, but since he's still young and learning them, he cant really fully control them. I suppose this kind of reminds me of someone like Rand in the wheel of time series around book 3 or so, for those of you who read it.

Think the character itself could rock, but I'm not sure how make it

Heya, I've just started up a villain campaign (short warmup tonight). Was wondering if anyone had one before and have any advice? So far they've chosen the political way of getting power (getting control over the mayor so far ).

Anyways, the real questions I have is: Allow their goals, or try to stop them? That is, when we play heroes, their goal is usually to stop the villains (well doh). But when they play villains, they are currently trying to get more power, money etc, you get the idea. Is this something I should allow alot? Or should I go the "stop them alot" approach? Would really be fun to get this campaign rolling, as an alterative to casual hero playing.

Advice would be thankful

Question: My friend built a character which has a medallion as a foci. He specified it as an IAF. Since I never really encountered this in a game before. How does this work in battles? How can someone remove foci if its not visible? It says in the rules book that a certain power/skill/circumstance will reveal it, but is it totally impossible to the foci if he doesnt have it?

Re: He's a WHIMP !!! (My Gripe)

"Superman #133 asserts that Superman could consume virtually endless quantities of food, and Action Comics #306 suggests that Superman can perform feats of lovemaking of which an ordinary man would be quite incapable"

Cool

Re: Overpowered Elemental control?

I assume you meant page 203 of the rulebook, not 2003.

 

The cost of a slot can be reduced below the bease cost of the Elemental Control, by applying limitations. That's what happens in the example on page 203; the cost of the slot is 30, but a -1/2 limitation reduces the cost to 20 points.

 

You can have a 100 points base Elemental Control with a slot whose real cost is 5 points - just make it a 100 points slot, then apply limitations for a grand total of -19.

Ahh, Ok you explain better than the book does, guess my english is a little tacky (not my first language). Thanks for explaining

It says on page 203 that a slot in elemental control can cost for example 20 points even if the BASE cost is 30. This is something that must've missed before somehow, I always thought the slot cost had to be AT LEAST the same ammount as the base points ammount. Also I've noticed how several villains (found 5 so far i think in CKC) that has slots that cost UNDER the base cost, tell me if you specific pointers to which characters/pages.

This would mean that I could buy a base pool, of say 100 points and have slots that cost 5 points (a 21d6 energy blast) for example.

Is this how its calculated, or have I missed something?

edit: yeah i meant page 203

My first character was a He-man ripoff, called, yes you got it - HE-MAN

Incredibly cheesy beyond belief, sure but he turned out to be quite powerful and fun to play.

DEUS EX 2.

Its a first person shooter, but you should definately download it. It has no set ways of how to solve the problem. If you need to get into a room, you could bash the door in, decode the lock, use the airvent, blow a hole in the wall, get the code to the lock. Take your pick.

Originally posted by BoneDaddy

The porno pop-up at the end of the first link is NSFW. You should mention this. Such a breach of nettiquette...

 

Anyway - he's an impressive flipper, and getting inside that could be tough. Can he ground fight? Does he know what to do when traps come into play? GREAT acrobatics, though.

Well I have popupkiller to get rid of em so I had no idea that such a thing would pop up. You should try downloading one of them, gets rid of lots of spam.

On the general topic though, im not sure if he's actually mr Lee's cousin or of that is just a fancy title for the clip .

However, this is a third grade black belter in karate we're talking about, so obviously he's no wuss. Of course a regular kickboxer/mutai fighter or similar would kick his and most other karatepractitioners ass in a regular streetfight, but that is beside the point .

Another point is that he's the junior world champion in NASKA forms. So this "showing off" is from competition, where performing certain moves perfectly is the whole deal.

I was thinking though that a style like this could work well in champions on a character with high dex, speed, some nice martial arts it could turn out looking pretty impressive, and would be fun to play as well.

Originally posted by Pattern Ghost

I don't see anything particularly amazing, there, in Hero terms. The flips are just a decent Acrobatics roll, maybe a 14 or less. The MA aren't really shown in either clip. He could be a crappy fighter who's great at flipping around, or a great fighter who's also great at flipping around. Hard to say. (I'll say he's nobody I'm going to screw with, though. =)

 

As for the UMA, if you don't have the prior version, I think it's worth picking up. If you do have the prior version, I wouldn't rate it a higher priority than some of the other sourcebooks, but I'd still pick it up sooner or later.

He's a great fighter (third grade black belt kung fu if i remember correctly) who is great at flipping around (world champion in forms)

First take a look at this clip:

http://www.donpixel.com/video/?v=031125110016

then take a look at this one (same guy)

http://www.sonicstrike.net/~tom/terada/videos/_stevesampler1.mpg

Now in champions I can imagine him having pretty high stats in martial arts (black belt in various martial arts, like wushu (at least if i remember correctly)etc), include a monster of an acrobaticsroll.

However this kind of shows me what could happen with superhero with, say dex 30, speed 7, great acrobatics roll, obviously very skilled in various martial arts can do.

Even though what this guy does on the clips is for show, it could easily be put into direct combat by a superhero/supervillain.

Back to my real question, what kind of powers/skills would a character need to efficiently put this to good use in combat?

And secondly, is THE ULTIMATE MARTIAL ARTIST worth buying?

Wow, i havent check the forums in like a week or so and now i come back and got some pretty useful input.

Thanks

/bru

Im thinking of starting up a campaign which includes an invasion (military). Timeline starts a few years into the future (5 years aproximately), around the chicago area.

Point being, anyone played any invasion type of campaign before? Would be nice to know if there is anything I should keep in mind and look out for, or to avoid or to enforce.

Isnt leaping a bit overpowered? Or at least the length of the leaps. Say a character is jumping across a ravine or maybe at some sportinging event. A reasonbly fit npc for example can jump 2" in combat, horizontally. This means he can do it 4" non combat. So, most npc's or characters arent that far off from breaking the world record (which is 8.95 meters or so afaik?). My fantasy hero PC with 100 total pts + a bunch of experience with strength 18 can jump somewhere along the lines of 7" non combat? Which is just MONSTROUS.

Is my math correct here, or did I miss something?

We at least TRY to Roleplay more, and speeding up the fights. Because after all its CHAMPIONS - the roleplaying game! Not champions the tabletop game

Originally posted by Killer Shrike

Getting stronger as you get older doesnt make much sense, Im afraid. Are you stronger than your grandfather or father? Training only goes so far; age past a point equals deterioration. Else, why are atheletes "old" by thier 30's and finished by thier 40's?

 

Yes you can go over Maxima, at double the cost. Normal people dont have very many points to push around. Also, while HEROs, ie PCs, dont have to apply the Age categories if they dont want, its assumed that normal people do. Accuracy can very well be a problem when Leaping over a gap or clearing a ravine or going for a ledge or such like -- a miss can earn you a one way ticket straight down.

GEEEEEZ you just don't seem to get my point do you?

Its not the AGE that makes you stronger, its the ammount of time you get to lift weights. An elf that can live for five thousand years without dying does not feel loss of strength at the age of 500.