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CBikle

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  1. Re: Using INT in Combat The Star Wars RPG had a similar mechanic of declaring actions vs. performing actions; it's an interesting idea, but it tends to bog down the game even more than it already is and I can't imagine that working too well in a game with 8-11 people.
  2. Re: Psidestep: an Intradimensional Summoner of Experience Points For Psidestep, some of those numbers look off for characteristic costs; is that a 6th ed. thing ?
  3. Re: Have any of you played a Champions Hero with Summoning? I just checked out the "Dog Soldiers" stats ; not bad. Personally, I'd be OK with them as written, but I'd recommend a higher PRE (maybe 15) and Tracking Scent, because they're dogs. Out of curiosity, I have two questions: - How many players are in your group. - Does the GM run summoned creatures/followers or does he let the PC do this and if so, is it all the time or just in combat (I'd imagine that the loyalty modifiers might influence this).
  4. Re: Have any of you played a Champions Hero with Summoning? Summoning can be a tricky power with GMs who like to have a stronger degree of control over their game and/or with other players who might resent you playing "extra" characters and/or if your game group has a limited amount of game time each session (4 hours or less). These same problem also apply when playing with lots of Duplicates and followers. My suggestion is that you keep the Summoned creatures at a relatively low Speed (3-4) and keep their actions at "soundbyte" level (especially in combat, as suddenly introducing new characters in the middle of Hero System combat will bring the game to a halt). I don't know you, your GM or your playgroup, but I suspect that if the GM allows Summoning, he/she will gradually rethink the decision and will marginalize and water-down the power until you both agree to get rid of it or just create a new character.
  5. Re: How to build: Traffic Light Changer Sounds like the Images power vs. normal sight (and radio waves ?) With reduced end, persist, focus limits, having a very narrow purpose, etc. I'd guess it costing between 7-10 pts.
  6. Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! IMDB trivia on BB
  7. Re: Buckaroo Banzai vs. The World Crime League! Rumor has it that this was made, but re-written as the classic Big Trouble in Little China with the Buckaroo Bonzai characters replaced. W.D. Richter (the director of BB) was one of the writers for Big Trouble.
  8. Re: "Encounter level" When I GM, I try to keep the damage classes around the same levels as the PC's; maybe going a little higher or lower, but not significantly so. If you use moderation, it also helps prevent an arms race of escalating power-levels.
  9. Re: Nightman and Nightgirl Right. Fictitious settings require a little more prep, but often the PC's background (which the player would write) would flesh a lot in.
  10. Re: Nightman and Nightgirl My style of fleshing out my Champions campaign world is pretty much the exact opposite of Mark's, with the initial background being somewhat generic, but incorporating and intertwining elements of the PC's backgrounds to enrich the campaign's foundation. The initial background was usually not much more than: "Super-heroes and villains have been around since the late 30's. Viper is a vast high-tech criminal/terrorist organization and PRIMUS is a patriotic, high-tech government paramilitary agency that battles Viper and other paranormal threats." It's been my experience that, at first, PCs really don't care about the background intricacies of the GM's campaign world; they want to interact with the other PCs and NPCs and then hit them.
  11. Re: SJG's Traveller Deck Plans - dang wrong scale! Yes. Truth be told, doubling the hex size to make it fit Hero's standard isn't all that big a deal, it just means the ships have a more epic feel. If you go with the 1 yard scale, then you're going to have characters "flying" across the map (a character with 6" running will roughly be moving 12 hexes as a full move). I used the Hero hex-scale with the generic indoor/outdoor maps SJG used to sell for GURPS and it worked fine.
  12. Re: Tear gas grenades in Dark Champions vs. Champions OK, thanks guys.
  13. In our recent Champions game, the tear gas grenade from Dark Champions (p.255) was implemented by one of the goons we were fighting. The design of this was different from previous Champions models (like the tear gas models shown in Gadgets And Gear[ p.20 and 41]) in that it was a straight flash attack without the NND element). In other words, gas masks (LS: self-contained), provides no defense vs. the effect. (it does have the "Real Weapon" limit, but that doesn't necessarily address the issue). My question is this: Does anyone know offhand if there is/was errata on this or is this the desired build for Dark Champions ?
  14. Re: Who uses or has used Dr. McQuark? I've used him in some of my previous (pre5E) games. I always ran him as one of the more selfless and innocent individuals in my games (most of the other NPCs - even other heroes, had their own agendas and goals that didn't always mesh with he PC's.). One of the players even ran an android that had been created by Dr. McQuark.
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