steriaca

Pendulum 

Markus Wallace found an odd suit of hitech armor one day and found it possess some time control powers. He originally called himself Temporal, but when hired by Pauline he renamed himself Pendulum. 

On 11/1/2023 at 2:41 PM, death tribble said:

And an apology to Steraica. Yes you clearly have spelling mistakes in some of your entries but there are others as well who we should have spoken to about this issue.

No need to apologize to me Dearh Tribble. I know I spell as well as Akane Tendo cooks. Which is one of the many reasons I haven't unleashed the utter horror of any of my supplement ideas upon the masses yet.

11 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

 

FWIW I used the Monster as a tool of the Dreamzone entity Demoiselle Nocturne, one of DEMON's inner Circle. Nocturne materialized the Monster out of the murderous dreams and fantasies of a psychopathic child named Henry Francis Krueger , whose psyche she uses as her "sanctum" in the Dreamzone. Demoiselle Nocturne employs the creature as an enforcer, or sometimes just turns it loose to spread the chaos and terror she enjoys.

 

That leaves the option open for encounters with the Monster to lead to further stories with D.N., the Dreamzone, and/or DEMON.

This is appropriate because of the vague origin given to the Monster. Do you wish there were more vague villain origins which you could mold as you feel fit?

Pauline's Perils

Seven superpowered criminals hired by villainous female millionaire Pauline VonDerDroom. Each member decided in honor of their benefactor they would rename themselves after various deathtraps. It should be known that publicly they are only known as The Perils.

5 hours ago, Gauntlet said:

 

Yea, my daughter made me do it. 😁

 

But seriously, I have thought that even villains should have real thoughts and feelings, those type of villains are much more interesting as they respond to heroes and don't just fight them.

Sounds like you and @tiger have similar idea on an all woman's villain team. He just had to create one when most of his players took limitations about striking women and such. The players were just asking for an all female team (else got free points from being so chivalrous).

Talking about horror, anybody seen the new Thanksgiving trailer?

"Pligrim,

Pilgrim,

dressed in gray,

Where will you be

on Thanksgiving day?"

I would love to see his take on the Jason template (undead slasher guy).

Faceless

Frances Lecter was a minor YouTube celebrity with a channel all about horror movie reviews. The chemical have brought the horror film character he has started writing a screenplay about called "Faceless" to life. When he transforms into Faceless, he is a super humanly strong and durable being without a face nor need to breathe and a violent streak which makes Jason Voorhees look like a quire boy.

Even when not transformed, Frances has become more antisocial, rairly posting his reviews on YouTube anymore, and quick to anger and resort to violence. Faceless' trademark is to rip off the faces of the people he has killed.

20 hours ago, Lord Liaden said:

Shatner got into lazy habits under the time pressure of a Sixties TV series filming schedule. Look at some of his other performances, he's actually a very good actor. Heck, his early Star Trek work was fine drama.

 

And that's probably as far as this drift should go.

True, but his pregnant pauses are a low hanging...fruit.

But now back to the subject of the thread. Which horror themed villain are you actually excited for?

On 10/15/2023 at 11:27 PM, Duke Bushido said:

Beware the wrath...  Of... The...  Canned Ham!

 

 

Prehaps....The Over....Actor might....just be....the better name.

On 10/12/2023 at 11:23 PM, DShomshak said:

Which is when I wrote him, "Make Lamplighter look like Patrick Stewart. He looks and sounds totally like Patrick Stewart.")

 

Dean Shomshak

And which....supervillain....looks...and acts...like William....Shatner?

I would use Summon as opposed to a straight duplication. If a duplicate dies you can never get it back. While summon allows you to regain them when they die.

Duplication can also be a special effect of various other powers (stretching, extra limbs, area of effect physical Blast, ect).

I'm waiting for his take on Professor Pomegranate. 

2 hours ago, death tribble said:

The most infamous example is Dr Lirby Koo who is mentioned in various books but you never saw the stats for.

Don't tell that to @tiger. I seen his stats on Dr. Lirby Koo.

Try a Triggered Healing or Aid.

8 hours ago, Grailknight said:

The real worry is a supposed campaign mastermind that gets trounced by beginning level PC's because you didn't make them powerful enough on their first character sheet.

An easy fix. Just say the one that they faced was someone set up as a scapegoat or strawman pretending to be the major villain. 

14 hours ago, Marcus said:

Might be interesting!  We could use an Evil Ghost (tm).

 

Ill also note that while we have Vampires, we don’t have any on the scale of a super-menace.  A proto-sumerian blood-god type might be an interesting thing to have lying around.  Long running subtle-layered undead plots, but with something sufficient to challenge the whole party at the end.

Sounds like the Pillar Men from the second storyline of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure (Battle Tendancy).

Humm...

I can see Brother Bone wanting full behind the scenes control over the world's medical system. It's more out of his delusions about his magic actually dealing with healing as opposed to creating undead.

Surrounded by illusions he probably has multiple other identities.

Standard Brother Bone plot (with apologizes to the very late Hershel Gordon Lewis).

Brother Bone, using illusions to disguise himself, opens a health resort of the rich and important. The person goes there for a couple of months then comes back seemingly healthy and fit. Then they start doing odd things with their fortune.

They actually died at the resort but was made into a zombie who can't do anything except what Brother Bone orders. To make matters worse, the zombie is covered by illusions and anti-rot magic so his true nature can go unnoticed. Eventually when Brother Bone sees no use for him, the zombie dissapeared (presumably to instantly rot to dust).

What Brother Bone needs the victim for is up to the GM, but it should be noted that Bone might like the sheen of gold and gems, he doesn't actually need money. But if the zombie can convince more people to visit his resort of health...

15 hours ago, DShomshak said:

I do indeed. Most of these characters were beyond the capabilities of basic pseudoplasm, but if the Great Beast was trying to patter it from mutants in attempts to port mutant powers into his "research sjubjects," why, anything becomes possible. I won't crib anyone else's characters, but a new character of such ilk is possible, And I will view the New Flesh as the bar I must meet.

 

Dean Shomshak

Quite understandable. It is quite possible for the Great Beast to accidentally try his pseudoplasm experiments on a mutant subject, or maybe something more supernatural influences the shape the psuedoplasm takes without the Great Beast noticing (which might explain why he can't repeat the success of certain human experiments he has done). Like you said, anything is possible. 

Humm...

None of my heros have anything to calm down a crowd.

John Roberts (the man who was the teen superhero Sunburn): Will try to use his media skills as SSN reporter and infamous exsuperhero to calm the crowd. And if that fails, help coordinate the heroes. 

Elenjar (Tenchi Morosoto): His main focus is to protect his DNPC (she made a wish on the Goddess Help Line for someone cool like Elenjar to protect her forever, and the Ultimate Force WILL enforce the wish, no matter what). Once she is safe (and kept safe), he tries to call his mother Beldandy and his aunties to help calm the mob down.

Note: Elenjar is still just a concept, considering his origin as Beldandy's son and how bleeping powerful he should be but probably can't be just yet...

Me? I don't have a campaign per say. But I'll say yes. I would love to see an expanded The Great Beast, especially what his actual beast form looks like (a humanoid variation of the biblical Great Beast maybe, complete with multiple heads?). And remember my tribute to Crongberg in the Create a Villain thread ("The New Flesh"). I'm sure the Think Tank needs to be out there under It's new name. I would love to see Brother Bone again, this time as a semi-indpendant necromancer "healer".

21 hours ago, Duke Bushido said:

 

 

Good luck!

 

Every one I have seen for the past 30 years has been either plastic or vinyl.   

 

 

Ask Sevnghoolie where he gets his.

On page 16 of the Advance Player's Guide 2 has Universal Orator, which cost 17 points and is built as Telepathy 4d6, Area Of Effect (Voice Range:+1), Reduced Endurance (0 END, + 1/2), Brodcast Only (- 1/2), Extra Time (Full Phase, - 1/2), Incantations (throughout communication, - 1/2), No Range (- 1/2).

It's all depending on what type of story the GM wants to tell. There are evil "pro mutant" villains in Champions as well as evil "anti mutant" villains, along with third path guys like Holocaust who talk a good game but is only concerned about himself.