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Just asking, has anyone written up Truck-Kun, the living truck which sends normal people to another world by ramming into them?

Ganderhaxen: a wise old woman with witch powers and a giant gander to fly on. Magical Potions: most of her magic is potions she can brew and give temporary abilities to others. Story Speak: She knows the languages of all beings, including non-human speaking animals. Not only that, but she can permit anyone to understand what she speaks. Giant Gander: it's a loyal to the Ganderhexan and can change it's size and flys. It is intelligence as a human but cannot speak human languages.

In theory the Ubermachine is a "official" Champions Universe shared orgin machine. Created by Professor Pomegranate (who never got any official writeup), and I don't know if the Ubermachine was ever written up. Closest we ever got was, well, either Champions 2 or 3 had a random power roll up table I think.

Well, my idea of Champions 2050 calls for more limited powers. All powered armors, cyborgs, and unusual tech devices are basically large and clunky now. Most genetic powers are no longer easy to use (semi-manatory power limitations like Increased Endurance and Requires A Roll, etc.). Magic is not exactly reliable anymore (again, semi-mandatory power limitations). Martial artist and 'natural' mentalist and skill 'powers' are of course not exactly limited. They are not exactly forbidden, just very limited. Well, at least in theory.

The Wolf of the Wind: Powers. 'Blow Your House Down": cone shaped double Knockback Blast, air special effect. Flying: Special effect of releasing air below or behind him. Shapechange: Can assume a human form as long as he can find appropriate human clothing. Stomach Storage: Can "eat" things for later use. Even living things. Basically the Extradimensinal Spaces power, everything can be released unwilling if the gut is sliced. It is how Grandma and Red survive being eaten. Same with the Seven Goat Kids.

True. Her name is supposedly based on "Mother Goose", and I thought "The Goose Witch" was similar enough without beating over the head with it. "Ganderhaxen" might sound better. Give her a kindly german grandmother accent and your good. Other people: The Golden Princess: She looks like a moving golden statue of ancient Greek origin, she is the daughter of King Midas of legend (who gave the Golden Kingdom to her to get away from people). She is a basic brick with intelligence, living in a land where every living thing is living gold. Her true name is Marigold (keep hidden as that is the culture of the ruling class in Faerie). The main lands are The Seelie Land (seelie faeries and elves), the Great Mountain (dwarf), the Happy Kingdom (humans), the Animal Lands (talling animals with human intelligence), The Unseelie Lands (unseelie faeries and dark elves), the Hill Lands (human farmers and halflings), the Land Of Clouds (cloud giants), the Shadow Lands (dragons), the Scarlet Lands (undead), Yamato (Japanese folk legends), and the North Lands (Baba Yaga, Vikings, Russian folk legends among others), and needs a name for Faerie Russia. Wondering how to change the title of this thread while on my cellphone. A better title would be "Faerie in Champions". Note: Feel free to tell me if I'm going too far from the source material.

If course, The King of Scarlet and the Shadow Queen are not the only ones to watch out for in Faerie. There is also... The Wolf of the Wind: The "big bad wolf" of legends. An intelligent speaking wolf who is at times a villain and an antihero. He doesn't rule his part of Faerie (The Animal Lands), but is a major player. The Goose Witch: While not evil,this story loving "human" witch flies the skys of the Animal Lands on a giant Gander is not one to upset. The Old and Merry King: Always smiling and laughing, King Coal (usually not addressed as such by his subjects, but only as The Old and Merry King) lives to be happy, sometimes at the expense of his subjects. His kingdom is, of course, The Happy Kingdom (at times, crying is punished by death, depending on how Old Coal is feeling that day).

It is ok to bow out of a discussion. If the subject is not for you, then it is not for you.

Ok. I understand Takofanes sits there. I don't see it myself, but then again I don't have a game. The rivalry with Takofanes could easily be ignored, mostly because of the distance between dimensions. The reason why the Shadow Queen hates him? He killed and turned undead one of her husbands. It is understandable why you want to bow out. While I do want him to sit in the Sauron seat, if you have an idea which is more fairy tales related he could sit in, then he should sit there instead. Earth humans only know of the King of Scarlet from vaguely remembered fariy tales. Evil mages on Earth know a bit more, people in Babylon might know more than that. Takofanes probably does know of him, but as you point out they don't interact so it doesn't make sense for them to have a rivalry enough for a limitation. The King of Scarlet has a undead kingdom, but unlike Takofanes the kingdom has a sizable living population, on purpose. Many of the fariy tales around the King tells of daring rescues and escapes, only for the hero to years later die and there bodies dissapeared before they could be buried or other furnial rites given. It's harder for him to steal bodies from across dimensions but not impossible for him to do so. "You are mine, forever. There is no escape from my service."

The idea is to create a pseudo Sauron type villain. But I'm not sure how to give him that feeling. Any ideas?

The Bone White Queen looks familiar...I think Tiger used her image for a villain of his.

Why appear in the Champions Universe? The King of Scarlet (as I have decided that is his name now) can be used as a rival to The Shadow Queen and Takofanes. It is up to the players to decide to team up with a lesser evil to stop a greater evil. The King of Scarlet is always looking for new serfs to serve him. He encourages his serfs to get together and produce children, but sometimes the birth rate under preforms the death and undead rate. He usually rades "adjacent" kingdoms in Faerie (even if adjacent changes from time to time), but in the past thoes who know of him from Earth have always offered offerings of live human. Or dead ones to transform. His worship has fallen to a bare minimum, but he still knows the portals there. The standard adventures involving The King of Scarlet is to come to the Scarlet Lands to save someone abducted to become a serf to him. The King of Scarlet's army. It mostly consists of revrents (intelligence zombie). Thoes who have aged enough for brain rot to happen become normal zombies. If they rot enough they become skeletons. And once the bones are destroyed they become ghost. Vampires are sargents and generals of his armies as long as he can trust that they can control the hunger. Ghouls are not welcome in his realm. Hemogorgon are also welcome as long as they control their thirst. Litches are not welcomed at all. He doesn't want the competition in the magic department.

The Hemogorgon is what scholars in Faerie call the exact type of monster he is. His enimies call him The Blood Beast. His subjects call him the King of Scarlet. His lands are called the Scarlet Lands. Like most of Faerie, getting there is not as simple as "follow the north star" (more like "follow the north star east for two forests, then take a right turn at Alberqurkie."). In the Scarlet Lands, it is always overcast and the sun never peeks through the clouds. It seems to be always in a state of Autumn. There are no graveyard to be seen. Everyone who dies MUST be bought to the castle (the Scarlet Castle) or suffer the conqusesses. As one gets closer to the castle, the guards can be seen, full of attention but obviously undead. They never rest and always alert for trouble, occasionally scanning the skys for Dragons. There is no joy around. People work in the fields without smiling. They know the score...they work for the King of Scarlet till death and beyond. Any escape from him is always temporary. Even elves and dwarves look glum, as they can become undead also. Any body of water has a red tinge to it. Every inch of the Scarlet Lands had a violent war upon it. Each tree in the forest barred a body hung from it's branches at one time or another. Somewhere in the Scarlet Lands is one partial wall standing in a ruins. Written upon that wall, some say, is the true name of The King of Scarlet. Some say if you speak the name in his presence he MUST grant one boon to the speaker of the word, and can not directly hurt the speaker. But that word changes over time. One day it works, another it doesn't.

Nope. The monster in season one of Stranger Things (streaming over on Netflix) is called the Demigorgan, after the Dungeons and Dragons demon of the same name. In season two, they call another monster the Mind Flayer. In season three Venna (which is an evil god in D&D and made his hand and eye artifact). Hey, that's what you get when you let D&D nerds name your monsters.

The Hemogorgon sounds like an academic name for what he is. Something wizards, sages, and other learned beings would use. What would the public use? Probably something simple, like The Blood Beast.

Goles: I spread his influence throughout Faerie, taking control to expand his meager lands to span a larger part of Faerie. To expand his choice of food, and to persevere his food supply (which is blood of sentient beings). Abductions from Earth is an honest opinion for him. To expand the amount of people who acknowledge him as an enviable part of life and unlife. That all serve him both in life and beyond with no choice in the matter. While he is evil (selfish), he is approachable to grant boons to others for his benefit. He is not exactly the everyone must be dead thing (that is Takofanes' job after all). He is the crush all hope thing ("You serve me forever, body mind and soul, both in life and after. You are allowed to think for yourself only so you can realize this." Add a gurgling effect to get the full effect of his voice.)

Alternative names to avoid confusion with the Gesault villain. The King In Scarlet. Gives a Cthulu vibe (Hasar, the King in Yellow). The Blood King. The Crimson Emperor (might be too similar to the Jojo stand...) The Hemoemperor (Henogoblan + Emperor) I'm open to suggestions.

In Faerie he always existed. The current story going around was he was a human king who was afraid of dying and orchestrated the slaughter of his entire kingdom to provide blood for him for a ritual to extend his life by making him undead and his kingdom undead also. I love this explanation. He does want to extend his empire, BUT he is NOT the guy who wants to eliminate all life in the world. If there is no life, he has no unlife. He is evil and cruel, but doesn't want his food to end. What is obvious is that there no way to escape his rule. A human in his kingdom in Faerie is fated to serve him both in life and in unlife. Humans are encouraged to have children, to ensure his food supply and supply of lesser undead to serve him. Great explanation for his immortality. Thank you.

I think I need another name then.

The Blood Red King vs Takofanes The Undying Lord. On Faerie the advantage is on the Blood Red King, since the form he can send out to the Champions Earth is basically an avatar form. But don't think the Blood Red King is weak. He has to have enough Mental Defense to minimize a 20d6 Mind Control. Prehaps even 20d6 + 6d6 (with the Dragon Crown). Desolification can help, as probably also Mental Damage Reduction. Of course, Takofanes will probably just rip control of whatever he summons from the Blood Red King, so all the BRK does is enlarge Takofanes' undead army by lots. BRK is about as vulnerable to Holy Magic as Takofanes is. Othoe the BRK is probably also vulnerable to "Elemental Light" attacks also (as he is the Faerie Embodiment Of Unlife And Darkness And Evil And Disease). Since "Elemental Light" doesn't harm Takofanes, he can always use such spells to damage the Blood Red King. Scary thoughts: both could team up, with each one planning on betraying the other at an appropriate time. Or an entire city can get caught between two undead armies, with your heroes trapped between them. Add the Shadow Queen not resisting foiling the plans of a hatred rival (she might side with Takofanes because who cares if he takes control of Earth as long as her little piece of Faerie is safe), and you got an epic adventure on your hands.

One thing I was thinking is the complete mental control over anyone who were to be forcefully injested with the semi-liquid body which makes up the Blood Red King. (A no range NND Mind Control). And woe to those who are made to bleed in front of the Blood Red King. For anyone who bleeds in front of him can be drained to death, then maybe raised as undead to be forced into his service. (Line of Sight range Drain BODY. And then use Summon Undead with the empty husk as a "focus".)

When I herd of Exploding Dice (or, basically read it here), the title made me think of a gambler themed Champions villain who chuck dice at superheroes. Anyone else think that?

Understandable...

The Blood Red King. A evil blob of blood with a human skull and crown. The great undead king from Faerie, he is a rival of the Shadow Queen, and like her can never truly be destroyed (as Faerie will recreate him, or pass the mantle of Blood Red King to another similar undead being). Considering what he is, these powers are likely. Desolification (turn his body from semi-solid blood to liquid blood and back). Extra Limbs. Streching. Variable Power Pool (Necromantric Magic). What other powers could he have? Remember, he should be as powerful as The Shadow Queen's dragon form. And probably can have the ability to cross dimensions (othoe it shouldn't be so easy...) Yes, the idea was originally the Crimson King, but if this gets published one day, why get sued by the lawyers of the members of King Crimson?

You could also make it an Area Of Effect Line attack (depending on how you build it, Blast or Killing Attack - Range), and a linked Teleportation power (must pass through adjacent spaces, only to the end point of the linked attack) to simulate the attack. Add Accurate to the line (so he only slashes who he wants to slash) and you should be good. But it is probably easier to use Move By rules instead.