steriaca

Re: Title for the next HERO villains book

Now why is it again that the cool "Enemies" name has been dropped? I would have vastly preferred a name like:

 

Enemies: Conquerors, Killers & Crooks

 

to the current version. The name "Enemies" was a cool brand.

Well, all is fun till someone sergets Enemies: Mr. Roger's Neberhood.

But you do have a point. There are many untaped theam ideals which would of made good Enimies books. Like, say...:

...Enemies Americana (villians from the fifty states of the Uniited States Of America, and prehaps Canada and Mexico also)...

...Enemies: Thay Came From Sheboygan (an entier book of comidic enimies to toss at your heros...or have Steve toss in the curcilar file, since the only comidit villiand he likes are Foxbat and Caption Cronos that we know of)...

...Enemies: Leftovers (the tons of villians which ICE said to Steve "We Have No Room For Them" duuring the ICE/HERO era)...

...Enemies: Arcadia (original viillians which were supose to be introduced in the now canceled Champions Computer RPG (Remember that one? With Red Devil burning up a Mario clone?))...

...and much MUCH more!

Re: We're Gonna Need Guns

Oh, and the "Z-Group" ability to shoot at a hex instead of a person, and then cause eveyone in the hex to basicly jump up. Prehaps an Explosion, Stun Only, Does Knockback/Knockdown attack?

Re: We're Gonna Need Guns

What I would love to see is a gun kata where the hero shoots three thugs with one bullet. I don't remember, thoe, does Charges count as each 'burst', or as each individual bullet?

This also requiers a limitation to repersent that the three targets must be close together to each other relativitly. How much of a lim is that?

Re: from little plot seeds, mighty games do grow: Share you ideas!

Steriaca, while I do appreciate your enthusiasm, several of your plot seeds are near-unreadable due to typos. Could you take the extra minute to edit them?

 

Sorry...there is no spell checker on this computer (which is not my own, BTW), and there is no spell checker program for the bulitian board program Hero uses.

Re: The Harmons endure!

Frankly, I think James probably has at least a cousin or two.

 

And don't worry about him begatting, apparetntly virility runs in the line, given James' father was in WW2, it would seem James father was middle aged or so when James was born.

Wasen't this also a trate in the Henderson line? (Acualy, it IS a trate in the Henderson line...especaly cause The Marksman has the Longevity: Reduced Ageing form of Life Suport). This begs to question, are the Harmans related to the Henderssons?

Re: from little plot seeds, mighty games do grow: Share you ideas!

The Champions (it is about time thay gain there own plot seeds)

1) Enter...The Chalengers: A group of solo villians which have a real beef with The Champions decide to get together and form a super villian group dedicated to the uter destruction of the Champions. Can thay survive this major threat?

For the group, I recoment Taislman (who hates her sister Witchcraft) and Hurclean (who hates Ironclad).

For the rest, I acualy have to create them. The leader of my version of the group is Blackbird, a martial artest inclined crinimal who got stoped one to many times by Nighthawk. So he had a costume and a more bird theamed weapions created in order to 'out bird' Nighthawk.

Sapfire's nemisis is the Harpy, a mutant with bird-like wings and a powerful, sonic singing voice. She locked in the attic for years, while her twin sister used her singing voice to a rapid rise to fame as a singer. She hates the music buisness, and is insain enougth to kill anyone asociated with it.

Defender's nemisis in this group is called Snacher. He was a man who created a tractor beam weapon. He originaly wanted to sell his invention to Harman Enterprises, but he felt he was laffed away by the staff, so he created a costume and decied to 'prove' that his weapion is a feasabul one.

2) ...My Sourses Tell Me...: This one is so simple. Basicly, have someone plant evidence that the Champions are, in reality, a villian group, then let the fists fly. Or, beter yet, have the Champions be convince that YOUR HEROS are villians. Eather way, the results are the same.

Re: The White Rabbit

More ideal termology.

Mockturtle: Something which appears to be something it is not (illusion, disguise, actors, ect...)

Twiddel (Or, more properly Twiddeldee and Twiddeldum): Two things in a sort of simbiotic relationship. One can say that this universe and Otherside have a Twiddel relantionship of sorts.

Carpner: Someone who colects Rabbithole Tech, and/or builds/modifies Rabbithole Tech.

Vorpel: Something which affects both worlds. Or, bairring that, a corupted version of Rabithole Tech (as if thecnology can somehow be Jaberwakied...the name comes from the hero's Vorpel Sword, which he means to kill the Jaberwaocke with one cut).

Re: We Need More....CHAINSAWS!!!!

LOVE the stats....great job.

 

So what bonus to Interrogation rolls would you give for having another PC in the room revving a chainsaw while you ask the questions.

Let me think (I don't have Fred or Lil' Fred with me right now)....

About +1d6 for a 'violent action'....

...about another +1d6 or +2d6 for the victom being helpless (I am asuming that the thug is, at least, handcuffed, and this, can not properly defend himself except for running away like a scaird kid in a haunted house...remind me to tell you my scared kid in a haunted house story...I was the kid)...

...about +1d6 for a 'vary aproperate setting' (guy hancuffed, prehaps legs tied to a chair, while your asking questions and your friend is reving a chainsaw)...

...just watch out for that pool of yellow *ahemm* juce on the floor. Your friend dosen't WANT to slip when holding a chainsaw in his hands, reved up or not.

Re: Title for the next HERO villains book

Watch your Mouth!!

 

(Sorry, someone had to say it)

Just talking about Shift.

(LOL...bad homage to Shaft, based on a charater I sorta helped name).

Re: from little plot seeds, mighty games do grow: Share you ideas!

Lady Heart (From CHS)

1) The Other Cards Are Drawen: When patroling the city one day, she finds three teenage girl superheros who look similer to her fighting a VIPER bank roberie plot. She learns thay there names are Lady Club, Lady Diamond, and Lady Spade. Are thay what thay apear to be, or is something more sinister going on that John Rogers/Lady Heart does not know about?

2) The Charity Date Caper: Lady Heart agrees to a 'win a date with a superhero' prize for a super orientated teen magazeen (with some cash by the company being given to a charity of her choice). Thay pick there winner, then sunenly the winner is kidnaped. Can Lady Heart save the pore lovestruck teen?

3) A Secret Admierer...: Valentimes Day is just around the corner, and someone is giveing her creepy valentimes day cards (for example: If you think my love a pain...then you shall be under a TRAIN). Is there anything to this? Is it some sort of joke? Or is there someone out there who defently thinks "If I can't have you, nobody will"?

Re: Eurostar, CKC, and then some.

Hello all,

 

I just picked up CKC and started reading through it. I was very shocked/disappointed with the Eurostar revision (omission?) Did I miss something, or were both White Flame and Pantera omitted from Eurostar history? Was this accidental, a legal issue, or are they mentioned elsewhere? I noticed that Ultrasonique was Le Sone renamed. Man, Pantera was the only member I didn't mind thrashing my character (strange, isn't it?). I guess I'm okay with Scorpia and Feuermacher being in, but what happened to Giganto?

Yes, White Flame and Pantera are gone from Chapions history. For the reasion for White Flame being gone, well, why have TWO flame projectors in Eurostar. As for Pantera...the only reasion is Steve dosen't like the charater. There is a lot of that going around (just look at CLOWN).

As for Giganto, well, he is somewhere in the San Murtie forest, mutating (see Champions Universe). Look for him to return sometime in an enimies book, or prehaps Champions Worldwide.

I'm not the only one that thinks Gravitar's story just doesn't go well with Master Villain, am I? Her powers don't even seem to represent gravity other than their special effects. Her write-up says she's not a wanton killer, yet she has three killing attacks. Even her plot seeds don't seem that "realistic." I don't know, but to me, Deadweight from Enemies of San Angelo is a much better gravity villain.

Hay, who said Champions is realistic? We are talking about people who wear there underwhare on the outside.

Oh, and since Deadweight is not a true Champions villian, he is not in the Champions Universe. So you might have to use Gravitar, if only when writing articals for Digital Hero (what you use in your own campain is your buisness).

Also, do we have to keep having the Ultimates? (Great, I'm ranting.) Some I can like as individuals, but I don't care for the team as a whole.

Yes, we have to keep the Ultimates. Besides, what's there to hate about a group of second tear villians getting together and acualy having a chance to be a first tear villian group.

And I'm pretty sure I'm in the minority here, but do we need Istvatha V'han and Takofanes? The first is a low-point (surprise there, actually) dimensional conquerer. Why do dimensional conquerors always have a hard time here? And why always Earth? Why don't they start on the moon or another alien planet? Takofanes seems to me like this: Here is an uber-villain that you can't possibly destroy, have fun. I much prefer the Crowns of Krim. My eyes really glazed over The Warlord section.

Well, Steve COULD of writen up Tyron, but that would be about 25 pages of just him and fasets of him. As for Takofanes (it is so hard to spell his name), he was ment to be a 'link' charater. A villian who is both a Champions villian and a Fanticy Hero villian.

To not just be a rant, I liked most of the rest, especially Black Paladin, Bulldozer, Foxbat, Grond, Howler and Ogre. I'm undecided on Esper. And I REALLY liked the plots seeds for the people. I wonder if my next GM will let me be a Grond clone, or a low-level mutant Grond-hybrid.

 

Now, has there been any other villain and hero sourcebooks? There are some I'm looking for, especially VOICE, Seven Horsemen, Protectors, Freedom Squad, Dr. Wu, etc. (The only other books I have for 5E are: Hero Sys 5E, VIPER, and Champions Battlegrounds.)

 

Thanks for your time.

Well, chances are, no VOICE, no Seven Horsemen, no Protectors. There will defently be a version of Dr. Wu, and Freedom Squad MIGHT be in Champions Worldwide.

Anyways, if you dislike a villian, you can always not use them. Or, beter yet, change them into something you CAN use. It is your campain. You can change it and still play Champions the HERO WAY (unlike many other RPGs out there).

Re: Title for the next HERO villains book

Bushwhackers, Burglars & Bandits

Sounds like an excelent title, for a book of "black hats" for a Western Hero game.

Re: from little plot seeds, mighty games do grow: Share you ideas!

Sons Of Rise, Destuga, Rise

1) Rise, Destuga, Rise Part Two, Invasion Gateway: The heros finaly got Destuga into orbit near Gateway, and a couple of weeks have passed. UNTIL has been examinating the artifical island for a while, but trigered no boobytraps which Dr. Destroyer could of left for them. Then, sundenly, without warning, Destroids start phasing out of the base from a secret room with no way into it. Thay elimenate all the scientist scrounging aboard Destuga, then start attacking Gateway. UNTIL sends for the heros to join with UNITY to defeat the Destroid threat before thay send Gateway crashing into Earth.

2) Rise, Destuga, Rise Part Three, Fall, Destuga, Fall!: Thay helped UNITY repell the Destroids from Gateway, and now there seems to be no problems with the eggheads scrounging over Destuga. Then, frome outside, Black Tallons can be spoted. With special tractor beams, thay start pulling Destuga down into Earth's gravity well. While it is calculated that Destuga will burn up most of it's mass in the astrosphere, a good size chunk of it can still do massive damage to a well populated city. And what a cowencidence, it's projected trajectorie is such a city. Not to mention the scientist still inside Destuga which need an exit out of there before thay burn up also. Can the heros do it?

Re: Nightwind?

oh sounds great I'd love to see the stats when your done

I would also like to see the stats when I am done also. I don't know, should I make Don as a computer? She can defently use Don's skills. Prehaps I should do her sorta like Firestorm...a "double multiform", one with Donna Morgan as the controler and Don as the 'computer', then also one where Don is in control of Donna's body and Donna is the 'computer'.

Basicly, she can give up control of her own body to Don, and when she is in control, Don is around to advise her.

And the name Seeker, well, she is seeking the answers of why she has some crazy australian running around in her mindscape, messing with her life.

Re: We Need More....CHAINSAWS!!!!

Thank you, Susano, for that writup.

Now, anyone for a sander? Nail gun? Power drill?

That also reminds me, some movie studio is going to release a remake of the bad 70's splater film The Toolbox Murders this fall. Just how many difrent weapions can a toolbox hold anyways? And woulden't the power coard get in the way? I guess, in a pinch, you could blugen your victom to death with the toolbox (or choak them with the power cords), but that dosen't realy make for good splater, does it?

Re: Nightwind?

I never cared for Seeker at all. I believe I am part of the minority who prefers Nighthawk over Seeker. The only advantage which Seeker had over Nighthawk was more years of exposure. Seeker was just the Champions punching bag with little real substance or power' date=' in my opinion.[/quote']

 

I have no true opinion ovr eather Nighthawk and Seeker. I LIKE Seeker, and missed him, but I can easly create my OWN NEW version of him for 5th edition on my own.

 

I DO NOT hate Nighthawk. The people who DO hate him are the guys who think Change=Evil. Thay are use to the 4th edition Champions, and don't want to see them replaced just because Steve is tiered of most of them. I kinda agree that Steve being tiered of them SHOULD NOT be the reasion to dupm them and add a new cast of charaters. But, then again, who id editor and cheif of Hero Games? Not me.

 

As for my redone of Seeker, she is Donna Morgan, a normal teenage girl liveing in Milimumen City when she started hearing a voice in her head. That voice was a friendly sounding Austrailen guy. Soon, she was haveing odd dreams where she was fighting side by side with The Champions, except thay were not quite the ones she knowes. Then, one day some thugs wanted her purse. She ended up kicking them all to lala land, and replied with "Goodbye, mates."

Re: Behind Bars

Marvel's Punisher 2099 comic book had the title character building and maintaining his own little prison' date=' complete with death chamber for those the Punisher decided really were guilty of capital crimes.[/quote']

 

DC Comics also had a short run comic book about three costumed do-gooders who ran there own privet prison out of Gothem City. Unforcently, the first costumed villian thay cought was The Joker. And it was the last one thay caught, as he killed each and evey one of them (if I remember corectly). It was called Chain Gain War (the group caled themselves The Chain Gain).

Alright fokes.

How many bloodthirsty vigs do you know who use power tools as a weapion? Chainsaws? Headge Clippers? Wood Chipper? Nail Gun?

Will any of theas 'workmen' weapions be writen up for Dark Champions? Would you let Mr. Bloodthirsty Vig-Man to carrie around a battery operated chainsaw for free?

Yes, this is sick, but so am I.

Steriaca.

Re: Nightwind?

and Seeker should thus be adapted to 5th as an about 600pt character.

And when Seeker gets updated for the 5th edition, expect to hear reports of Steve reciding in a nice room with the walls covered in padding.

Re: Megaman's Mega Buster

Hey, that can be a tricky roll. Don't worry about it.

 

 

 

 

Oh and to Ben, if you ever need playtesters for Megaman Hero...Drop me a line.

Thanks.

Now tthen, what about MegaMan NT Warrior? "Battel Chip...IN!"

Re: Title for the next HERO villains book

I don't cair if thay call it Ralf, as long as thay remember to keep thoes "What Some Other Villian Thinks About This One" quotes like in CKC.

Re: Nightwind?

Nightwind does have some errors and design flaws in the write up so be prepared to make some minor changes when you get the book.

As someone from Microsoft would say "Thoes are not design flaws, thoes are features!"

Anyways, there are no published charaters which are totaly right stright from the book. This is doubly true with Hero. Thank Steve (yes, he is tthe protental Hero writer's god) that in the 5th edition, we get Campain Use hints for modifications.

Re: That Mechanon fella jest ain't right: a roleplay question

See' date=' I've been saying we need a Giant Mechanon Head plush for months now, and they call me crazy. Crazy! But throw in, say, Grond, Silverback and Harbinger, now you've got a line! ("He's the Harbinger... of adorableness!") dw[/quote']

 

ell, at least your not asking for a stuffed King Of Edons. (Ah, just look at that lovly puke green plush...and thoes fifty cute button eyes...and thoes plush tenticels...and OW! Get It OFF ME! IT'S IN MY BRAIN! IT'S IN MY BRAIN!)

Re: Champions, where are they?

Hello all,

 

I'm new to the 5E Champions, but I do have a few books (5E, VIPER, and Battlegrounds). I have some questions about the Champions drawn from other posts and the pictures in the Champions Battlegrounds book.

 

Who are the champions now? What I've seen they seem to be:

 

Powered armor: Defender?

 

Raven/Crow/Blackbird/Magpie: Looks like either a detective or sorcerer

 

Flying girl in the halter-top/half shirt w/leather jacket?

 

Alien looking lion guy: Has ridges on forehead and shoulders.

 

Maybe a female that looks like a sorceress: Solitare?

 

Who are these new people and basic make-up? What happened to Seeker, Obsidian, Jaguar, and Quantum (and others if Defender & Solitare aren't in)?

 

Thank you for your time.

The "bird dude" is named Nighthawk, and he is sorta a "Batman" of the birds, if you will. Basicly a Martial Artest with a touch of gagetear.

Flying Girl In The Halter-top: Ex-singer, and now superpowered mutent and teen sensation Sapfire.

Alien looking lion guy: Um, he is covered in metal. And his name is Ironclad.

Sorcerous: Defently right. Her name is Witchcraft.

What hapened to Seeker, Obsidien, Jaguar, and Quantum? The rights to theas charaters reverted to there owners. That is what happened. Since Steve Long created Defender(I think), he was the only one who survived.

Should I alowe a charater with Mental Awairness the ability to mentaly block and dodge mental attacks? Also, is it posable for him to buy mental martial arts (using UMA, modified by comon sence)?