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  1. CHARACTER: the dirt

    in Champions

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    ELL_DIRT

     

    Comments and criticisms please.... :no:

     

    This is the dirt. He used to be a truck driver in the UK.

    he mistaken ran some guns for the IRA, and the sorceress

    from your local campaign used him as a host for an

    elemental spirit. Now he's a synthesis of the two spirits.

     

    He can't truly die yet. When Reduced to Death by Body loss,

    he begins regenerating when his body contacts the earth.

    Slowly he reforms and his body will eventually reappear

    in a hill in England. He will arise in a few days from

    http://www.hows.org.uk/personal/hillfigs/main.htm

    a chalk drawing.

     

    Dirt is a brick who returns from the dead. Powers similar to

    the old spidey villain SANDMAN.

    when "killed" he regenerates in England,

    and the more dead he is, and the farther from

    there he is, the longer it takes for the

    emerging from a chalk outline drawing on a hillside

    (this ruins the drawing) when there are no more drawings left,

    he will truly pass away if "killed" in combat again.

     

    Player: ELD

     

    Val Char Cost
    58/63 STR 48
    13 DEX 9
    33 CON 46
    18 BODY 16
    13 INT 3
    18 EGO 16
    18 PRE 8
    6 COM -2
    12/13 PD 0
    12/13 ED 5
    4 SPD 17
    34 REC 0
    66 END 0
    64 STUN 0
    8" RUN42" SWIM011 1/2" LEAP0Characteristics Cost: 170 :ugly:

     

    Cost Power END
    15 EARTH BODY: Elemental Control, 30-point Powers
    15 1) Life Support (Eating: Character does not eat, Longevity: Immortal, Safe in High Pressure, Safe in High Radiation, Safe in Intense Cold, Safe in Intense Heat, Safe in Low Pressure/Vacuum, Self-Contained Breathing, Sleeping: Character does not sleep) (30 Active Points)
    15 2) Toughness of Body : Damage Resistance (15 PD / 15 ED)
    10 3) Feet of Clay (standing on brick, rock, stone, mud, earth): +15 REC (30 Active Points); Limited Power (Power loses about a third of its effectiveness; -1/2) (added to Primary Value)
    15 4) Slider: Physical Damage Reduction, Resistant, 50% (30 Active Points)
    17 5) Melding - (through earth, rock, brick, sand, stone, clay, lava) : Desolidification : heat ray, earth magic, disintegration ray, Costs END Only To Activate (+1/4) (50 Active Points); Limited Power (Power loses about half of its effectiveness; -1) 5
    17 6) Sand Shifting ((only when submerged in earth, resurrect to chalk hill designs in England)): Healing 1d6 (max. Healed Points: 6) (Can Heal Limbs, Resurrection), Trigger (+1/4), Uncontrolled (+1/2) (61 Active Points); Limited Power (Power loses about half of its effectiveness; -1), Self Only (-1/2), Limited Special Effect (Very Common SFX; -1/4) 6
    14 Density Increase (300 kg mass, +5 STR, +1 PD/ED, -1" KB), Inherent (+1/4), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +1/2), Persistent (+1/2), Uncontrolled (+1/2) (14 Active Points) (added to Secondary Value)
    Powers Cost: 118

     

    Cost Martial Arts Maneuver
    4 Sacrifice Disarm: 1/2 Phase, +2 OCV, -2 DCV, Disarm, +10 STR to Disarm roll
    Martial Arts Cost: 4

     

    Cost Skill
    3 Climbing 12-
    3 Concealment 12-
    3 Disguise 12-
    3 Lipreading 12-
    3 Mimicry 12-
    3 KS 12-
    3 Lockpicking 12-
    3 Shadowing 12-
    3 Stealth 12-
    3 Tracking 12-
    3 Streetwise 13-
    Skills Cost: 33

     

     

    Cost Talent
    3 Bump Of Direction
    15 Danger Sense (12-)
    2 Environmental Movement: Dirt
    4 Simulate Death 12-
    Talents Cost: 24

     

     

    Total Character Cost: 349

     

    Val Disadvantages
    5 Accidental Change: Fuzed into Glass, Soaked into Mud, or maybe Baked into Brick, Uncommon, Infrequently (8-)
    15 Dependence: Dirt, Very Common, Weakness: -3 To Characteristic Rolls and related rolls per time increment, Addiction Daily Submersion
    15 Distinctive Features: Hard Brown Body composed of earthen stone, Concealable, Always Noticed and Causes Major Reaction, Detectable By Commonly-Used Senses
    5 Physical Limitation: dirty, gritty, hard, cold, Infrequently, Slightly Impairing
    10 Vulnerability: earth magic, Uncommon, Vulnerability Multiplier (2x Effect)
    20 Susceptibility: earth magic used, Uncommon, 3d6 damage, per Turn
    10 Social Limitation: no ID or citizenship, cannot prove details of former life, Frequently (11-), Minor
    20 Psychological Limitation: c v k, Very Common, Strong

    Disadvantage Points: 100

     

    Base Points: 250

    Experience Required: 0

    Total Experience Available: 0

    Experience Unspent: 0

  3. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

    in Champions

    Posted

    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    In our Champions game Blue Bat has had nothing but bad luck with his Bata-Rangs. Every time he's used them he's either missed, fumbled an 18, or just totally bounced them off nothing.

     

    The GM usually described the missed shot (the Bata-Rangs are supposed to return to him) as being stuck point-first into a nearby wall.

     

    One teammate tried to be helpful:

    Blue-Bat rolls an 18 again.

    Batarang goes zang into wall over villains head.

    My character points at it, attempts a PRE attack with it by exclaiming "My gosh, I cant believe he's using a Bat-Bomb! Run!!"

    GM says no way, its not ticking. PRE attack fails.

     

    Other teammate just makes fun of Blue-Bat:

    Bata-Rangs? I thought they were climbing tools.

    (cause they stick in walls like little shelves)

  4. Villainy Amok

    in Champions

    Posted

    Re: Villainy Amok

     

    Villainy Amok seems wondaful at first read.

    I havent used it yet while GMing,

    but its chock full of great ideas

    to send heroes fetching and

    players groaning.

     

    The Fire system (End, Flam, Spd) seems :nonp:

    a bit like Rolemaster in its chartiness,

    but it is cool to know how fast a burnin

    candle will kill you.

     

    Can't wait to use it for sure for sure...

  5. Clix mod challenge

    in Champions

    Posted

    Re: Clix mod challenge

     

    as soon as I get my junk out of storage,

    I'll post pix of my Zatanna. :hex:

     

    I'm a big Z fan, but I hate the stage-costume look. So I modded (just painted really) a White Queen clix to look like old JLA dress Zatanna.

     

    I think youguys will like it...

  6. Longest Running Thread EVER

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

     

    Joey, honey, I've got the money.

    All is forgiven. Listen, listen.

    And if I seem to be confused,

    I didn't mean to be with you.

    And when you said I scared you, well,

    I guess you scared me too. :(

     

    But we got lucky once before,

    and I don't wanna close the door.

    And if you're somewhere out there

    passed out on the floor, oh Joey,

    I'm not angry any more :cry:

  8. Longest Running Thread EVER

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

     

    These minstrels should soothe your jangled nerves:

     

    "I n New York the people talk and try to make us rhyme

    They really Hawk but we just walk because we have no time

     

    And in the city it's a pity cos we just can't hide

    Tinted windows don't mean nothin', they know who's inside

     

    It's Tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that's right on time

    It's Tricky...(How is it D?) Tricky (Tricky) Tricky (Tricky)"

     

    :nonp:

  9. Taking Your 11, or Taking Your 3

    in HERO System Discussion

    Posted

    In some other roleplaying system they have the mechanic of

    taking your 20, which is to say the PC spends as much

    time as it takes to get a skill correct.

    This can only be done in non-combat, low-pressure situations.

    The player is assume to have rolled the best skill check possible

    which is a 20 on their one die, when the PC does this.

     

    Is there a similar animal living in Hero anywhere?

     

    Also in this other roleplaying system they have the mechanic of

    taking your 10, which is to say the PC takes a little

    time to get a skill done at a median level. This is usually done

    by experts who know that their high skill level is good enough

    for the situation at hand, even at medium effort.

    This can usually be done only in non-combat, low-pressure situations.

    The player is assume to have rolled the median skill check

    which is a 10 on their one die, when the PC does this.

     

    Is there a mechanic similar to This in Hero anywhere?

  10. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

    in Champions

    Posted

    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    reminds me of a gaffe by the DM that totally destroyed the mood of the game.

     

    it was supposed to be a gritty sewer crawl,

    laden with horror by monsters lurking in deep water and deep darkness.

     

    He tried to describe the formless invertebrates that were oozing up . . .

     

    but the faux pas that came out of his mouth was "boneless hermaphrodites" :nonp:

  21. Longest Running Thread EVER

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

     

    The new world was an unspoiled frontier perfect for colonization, a virtual paradise of boundless beauty and limitless resources, untouched by human hands...but not untouched, as the unsuspecting colonists soon discovered. Now marooned on a planet infested with the deadliest Blogger species ever encountered, the colonists learn firsthand

    the Law of the Internet:

    adapt or become extinct. And a little helping hand couldn't hurt, inexplicably provided by the selfsame Board-Lurkers who destroyed the colonists' keyboard and made them prisoners in paradise. Are these extraterrestrial hunters actually showing sympathy for the humans' plight, or do they have something even more monstrous in mind? :nonp:

  23. Longest Running Thread EVER

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

     

    Oh I recognized your log in name. I'm always wondering about old-timers

    from the Champs-L days.

     

    I used to be the vocal minority on a lot of the :rolleyes: discussions.

     

    I'm better now. But I still value both sides of a theory.

     

    Hi' date=' I used to be on champs-l, welcome![/quote']

  25. Longest Running Thread EVER

    in Non-Gaming Discussion

    Posted

    Re: Longest Running Thread EVER

     

    I am new to the Hero-Games boards.

    But not new to this Earth. & Not new to champions.

    Not new to the internet; not new to the Champions discussions

     

    here's my old stomping grounds:

    http://www.sysabend.org/champions/index.html

     

    As I work my stuff up into 5th Ed. I'll post it;

    but not in this t_h_r_e_a_d :stupid:

     

    Thanks for the props on the sig line.

     

    Welcome to the thread, Egyptoid. New to the forums, and already doing yeoman's service!

     

    (At least, I assume you're actually new to the forums, and not an old hand "reincarnating" themselves.)

     

    I don't know if you've seen it come up in my sig yet or not, but I did add that quote of yours, so it's in the rotation. :)

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