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  1. Whatever Happened To:

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    Re: Whatever Happened To:

     

    That is 4th edition. And here is the list of characters who were in 3rd edition: Crusader, Starburst, Armadillo, Cheshire Cat, Pulsar, Bluejay, Brick, Icicle, Howler, Mechanon, Dragonfly, Shrinker, Ogre and Green Dragon.

     

    Each character had a Hero background and a Villain background, depending on how the GM chose to use them. Except for Mechanon :) He just gets to be a villain.

     

    The art in the 3rd edition's Campaign Book for these characters was supplied by Denis Loubet.

     

    Allen

  3. HKA's and STR in Champions Complete

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    While building a character with claws I ran into something that took me back a bit.

     

    In 5e and earlier, you could add +1d6 for every 15 STR but only to double the attack. In CC, that limit appears to be gone...which means a character with HKA 2d6 and a 75 STR can do 7d6 rather than just 4d6. That's fairly substantial :)

     

    Allen

  6. Champions Complete Combat Record Sheet?

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    Re: Champions Complete Combat Record Sheet?

     

    No actually, there isn't. What I am talking about is the sheet that let's you list the characters, their DEX and SPD, the phases they act on, and would now have OCV, DCV, OMCV and DMCV, as well as notes on each character's abilities. They had GM forms like this in 4th and 5th edition (and actually I think the first one is from Champions II). You may be thinking of the list of combat modifiers.

     

    Allen

  8. Whatever Happened To:

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    Yes I have to admit, I bought the first 10 issues or so of Heroic Publishing's Champions comics back in the day, and was somewhat less than enthused about the more gratuitous aspects, like how they turned Flare into...well you know..and all that. If you have to do that to sell your comics, then maybe you should not do comics...just sayin'

     

    Allen

  11. Whatever Happened To:

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    Is there any "official" information on the characters Brick (who vanished after 4th edition) and Icicle (who vanished after 4th edition, I believe) in the present Champions Universe? if not, what do you think happened to them, assuming they ever existed at all?

     

    Allen

  15. [New Product] Champions Complete

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    Re: [New Product] Champions Complete

     

    Y'know. Champions New Millenium wasn't all that bad. Okay, the Fuzion rules, as my British friends say, were pants...but the setting wasn't. It would in fact make a very cool "alternate Earth" for Champions if using 6e rules and updated in timeline to 2012.

     

    Allen

  23. Champions/V&V Conversions

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    Re: Champions/V&V Conversions

     

    Hey, Scuba, thanks for jumping in. I pasted a link to the spreadsheet I threw together, below.

     

    http://home.earthlink.net/~robbneu/VandVConversion.xls

     

    Basically, all I did was use whatever numerical formulas the V&V conversions provided, along with the formulas Oruncrest used, and let the spreadsheet chose the higher of the two values. It's nothing fancy, but it does speed things up a little (at least, it does for me).

     

    Robb

     

    Excuse the thread necromancy but does anyone have this spreadsheet? The link no longer works.

     

    Allen

  24. C25 Island of Dr. Destroyer: Official?

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    Re: C25 Island of Dr. Destroyer: Official?

     

    We do not plan to reprint IoDD, because I think it would make C25 less of a "special event" and be unfair to those who did pick up the book. (OK, maybe we'll reprint it when we do the Champions 50th Anniversary, which will probably be beamed directly into your brain.) And yeah, I admit we've been a little surprised by the number of people who seem ready to assume that if the book takes a few days to get somewhere it's a sign that we dislike them personally, or plan to rip them off or something. Tina's put in way too many hours double-packing, hauling the things around the country and keeping track of all the special requests to deserve that.

     

    On the other hand, I'm trying to take it as a positive that people really want the book ASAP, which certainly beats the alternative. After all, the internet's for complaining as much as it is for porn. We've gotten plenty of compliments on the product, and I think it's been totally worth doing- I'm very proud of the book myself, and I'm chuffed to have one on my own shelf. I'm not in a rush to do it again, though. (Which is a shame for those who were hoping this meant we could start a whole new line of 25th Anniversary hardback editions of all of our books- sorry, Jason, but plans for the 25th Anniversary hardcover of Scourges of the Deep have been scuttled.) dw

     

    Rats..there goes that solid gold collector's edition of Border Crossing I was hoping for...

     

    Allen

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