steriaca

True. There is the Emissary from Hell. The motorcycle driver who saved an alien spider and now has to stop an evil alien from invading Earth. He has spider powers. He has a mecha called the Marveler. His name is Spiderman.
 
And the five members of the sentai group Battle Feaver J are loosely based on the Avengers of the 70's comic books. Imagine Hulk driving a mecha.
 

Third, but I kinda like 4th myself.  Then again, I was introduced to the game with 4ed.

The invaders are the forces of an alien pharaoh named Rot Ton (if we ARE going toughen in check here). Rot Ton acts like your typical Saterday Morning Cartoon head bad guy type. He is not into making his invasion hidden or stealthy, but loud and in your face.

One of the things we talked about is that if anyone walks along the train tracks, you'll stumble across the damsel tied to the tracks alot. Each time there is a train threating to cut/crush her to death. The damsel is physical but is not a real person, as Faerie created her and the train and the tracks, because it is what the travelers from outside Faerie expect to see. Free her and she'll thank you and leave, only for the heroes to stumble across her again, when they were going in the opposite direction she left from. Let her be, and she'll get ruined over, but if you look back after the train leaves and their won't even be blood, let alone body parts.
 
The Weird Weird West will eventually reward heroes who free the damsel. Exactly how is up to the GM.

How I can see Seeker in the 6ed.
 
He is Donald Morgan. It is a name he adventures under. They call him Seeker because of the uncanny resemblance to "that comic book character they got to replace that duck guy".
 
His origin is basically the same. He either ages slowly or his adopted father didn't fight in WW2. (I doubt he would be close to 50 without good biology).
 
He has more than a few martial arts skills. Many of them taught by his father, some he learned by his lonesome. They are probably:
Taijutsu (the fighting art of Ninjutsu),
Karate,
Kenjutsu,
Shurikenjutsu,
Boxing,
Dirty Infighting,
Wrestling,
some Aborigine martial art styles (you might have to create one).
 
He probably has a VVP full of weapons he uses, with ones he normaly carries in a multipower. His body is hardened (resistant protection and Combat Luck). He knows some ki abilities, but nothing worthy of a video game (no fireballs). He is well traveled, speaks different languages and has helped many people in his time. Many people "owe him a favor".

I thought RPGs had been an international thing for quite some time?
 
Why do I have that impression...  I'm so often wrong about these things....
 
...I know D&D swam across the pond early on because one of the more famous early D&D modules, the Crystal Cave, was British...
 
... I seem to recall In Nomine was originally French, it came out in the 90s...
 
... there were a few Brazilians, on WoD forums when it was popular, and a noted on-line Mage geek was Anders Sandberg, of Sweden... still 90s...
 
...it doesn't seem that unusual that someone on an RPG forum mentions English isn't their first language... 
On ENWorld.org there's a regular who has written stuff for D&D's on-line thing... DM Guild, I think it's called... 
...MoonSong is her handle.
 
,,,Yeah, OK, my impression's mainly from on-line forums and just a few people formed that impression, that and a couple 90s games.  IDK what the current environment is, nor the market or traslation status of RPG books.

All by itself, Mexico would offer quite sufficient scope for a Champions supplement.
 
Trust me on this. No, I'm not Mexican, or have even been to Mexico. But I ended up writing a large chunk of Mexico City by Night for White Wolf (Vampire: the Masquerade). In a mere few months of research and writing I learned that Mexico City is, all by itself in the real world, more gigantic and fantastical than I could possibly do justice to. I did my best given the time allotted, but the vampire-specific material was less beautiful and horrible and strange than what I got from tourist guidebooks. If Mexico City were in a Fantasy novel, people would say it was too over the top. And anyone who thinks they've "got it" in just a few months of research is flipping insane.
 
Viva Champions could be a great supplement, but wow, it would be a challenge to do justice to the country.
 
Dean Shomshak

I have actively avoided commenting in this thread, for several of the reasons some folks have touched on:
 
Go through a list of comic book supers--
 
Spiderman
Hulk
Electro
Plastic Man
Ghost Rider
Captain Marvel
Iron Man
The Flash--
 
These are all (as far as I know) Americans.
 
Yet they aren't called "Some distinctly American spider"
Hulking North American
Plastic Bags Strewn through Cacti Man
Spirit of '76 Rider
Captain Marvelous Bald Eagle
Iron Horse
Racing Stars and Stripes
 
 
I admit (yet again) that I'm no expert, but from a few googles, Flag Suits  and country-specific themes are actually kind of _rare_ (and openly mocked, even if good-naturedly).
 
While the idea of someone introducing himself as "Wom-Batman" tickles me to no end, That very same list-- Spiderman, Hulk, Electro, Plastic Man, Ghost Rider, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, the Flash-- even their power sets-- would be just as at home and proper on an all-Australian cast as it does on an all-american cast.
 
Sure-- I had that momentary flash of a telepath / illusionist hybrid "I will show you your worst nightmare!" based entirely off a photograph of a wet koala I once saw, but immediately I saw all the problems trying to give him an "Australian" name or theme.  Such things just don't really seem to happen, and certainly aren't important to the validity of character "belonging" in a particular setting.
 
I'm not saying you're wrong for trying; it might be just me.  I just really felt the need to mention it.   And remember: it _could_ just be me; I don't do "theme teams" either, for very much the same reasons.
 
 

Technically if the PCs are not going to get their hands on this, you can hand wave it and not use a writeup for it.
 
If you must have a writeup, then it is a Major or Severe Transformation (person without powers to person with powers) and have it heal normally.

Agreed on that. I just wanted to note that regardless of what you use, the other way exist.

The Ledgerman
 
The Ledgerman was Henry James Agallon, a mutant with extendable arms who abducted street orphans and young women. He believed himself the first of a new breed of humans he called The Superiors, and he believed that they should rule over mankind. 
 
The local papers started to refer to this mysterious abductor as The Ledgerman because it sounds good. Eventually Scotland Yard caught up with him, and he was supposed to be hung until dead...eyewitness started that all it did was stretch out his neck. His current whereabouts are not known.
 
 

They no longer support Spoiler tags.
 
You got the next team Opal.

Paradox

"... we're so sorry for your loss  ..."
           "... take all the time you need ..."
                         "... if you need anything  ..."
"... they're in a better place  ..."
              "... not your fault ..." 
                          "...  just an accident ..."   
                                  "...  random chance  ..."
                                                          "...  it's God's will..."
                                                                    "... uncarring universe ..."
                                                                               "... no one to blame ..."
"... Lina, we haven't heard from you in so long, please, don't do any-"
 
"That's odd!   I've never pulled in a quantum alternate before.  In every other case I've switched universes with the alternate - of course, you'd see me as the alternate - but, there's just no way it could have happened, I may have to revise quantum theory, entirely.  If there is a Lina Bachmann in the alternate, we must swap places, if there isn't, I shouldn't be able to reach it, at all.  Oh, I'm sorry, you look confused.  I forget that not all of me went into theoretical physics.  What did you?"  "Oh, experimental, well, that's important too, why I'm doing experiments now, I couldn't *get* an experimental physists to help me on this project, it's too radical, but I guess you were-"  "No?  Particle physics?  Now I was never interest -"  "Why, no, of course I never married, my work is far more..."  "Now, don't get upset, this takes some adjustment..."  "What?  Who?  No I... oh, that jock I tutored in colllege who killed himself?  Why I'd almost forgotten about it, tragic of course, but what's it got to do wi-"   
 
Lina Bachmann, controversial quantum physicist, was found strangled to death, her lab was ransacked.  Some investigators consider her to be the first victim of the supervillain known a Paradox.  Paradox is a non-humanoid robot or small piloted 'mecha' it has two long leg that bend 'backward' at the knee and several much smaller manipulative and weapon-mounting limbs attached to or housed within it's oblong main body.  It  has something of an improvised appearance.   It appeared suddenly and began a campaign of theft, focusing on high-tech components and materials.  It seems able to vanish (presumably teleport a long distance, or shift to another dimension) or to exist in two places at once or occupy the same space as other objects.  It's purpose remains unknown.  Scientists and engineers have assured investigators that the technologies it is trying to acquire are no more dangerous than the robot itself, indeed, probably much less so, and would only be of interest to a physicist searching for the Higgs boson...
 
 
 
 
 
 

Technically if the PCs are not going to get their hands on this, you can hand wave it and not use a writeup for it.
 
If you must have a writeup, then it is a Major or Severe Transformation (person without powers to person with powers) and have it heal normally.

Technically if the PCs are not going to get their hands on this, you can hand wave it and not use a writeup for it.
 
If you must have a writeup, then it is a Major or Severe Transformation (person without powers to person with powers) and have it heal normally.

A strange but workable option is a VVP usable only to buy Multiform. Why? Because BB has so many formes, from mouse to elephant to whale to fly, any everything in between. It would be imposable to simulate him any other way.

Another great place for replacements for villains you don't have yet is the Hero System Book Of Templates.
 
Armadillo replacement:
Any hero with an unusual movement and/or protection ability, like:
Acrobatic Ape Man (p5),
Arachnid Guy (p6-7),
Immovable Man (p15),
Steel Man (p24),
Stone Guy (p25),
Teleporting Demon (p28),
Winged Flyer (p31)
 
Vibron replacement:
See Armadillo replacement list, but only focus on movement.
 
Lazer replacement:
Focus on ranged damage attackers like:
Fabulous Gal (p10),
Fiery Teenager (p13),
Fire Controller (p14),
Queen of Weather (P20-21),
Snowman (p23),
Uncontrollable Eye Blast Man (p30)
 
Of course, shifting is required. You'll probably want different skills and disadvantages for a more villainous take.

Steve, any form of Super Magic matches the powers of anime/manga style magical girls?

The Macronaut

The universe was doomed. Every scientist, ever theologian, every leader agreed. It was inevitable. Afterall the universe was a closed system, even if it was an astounding 1.775e+25 times the radius of the one known inhabbited world within it, and it's central core was inherrently unstable, once the unimaginably masive core split, the cataclysmic energies released would erase existance as everyone knew it. Perhaps some other universe or universes might follow after it, but surely no sentience would survive the transition.
But there was one particularly outre physicist - or perhaps, philosopher, at his level the distinction was often moot - who disagreed. He theorized that the universe was neither finite nor closed, but made up of a potentially infinite number of parallel, separate but similar universes, and that travel out among them, in some vastly greater Macroverse, might be possible. Not for a being as infinitessimal as a person, but for beings, themselves, composed, each, of many usiverses, unnamable beings vaster and older than time itself. To prove his theory, he set out to become one of them, expanding his mind to encompass the whole known universe and slowing his thoughts until whole lifetimes slipped by in an instance, he waited for the inevitable end and harnessed that release of energy, riding outward, ever outward, ever expanding his mind and building for himself a form unimaginably vast...
... Macronaut appears, in our universe, as a transparent, midnight-blue humanoid with brilliant points of lights - almost like stars or galaxies - suspended within it. It is less cohesive than normal matter ( cf: https://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/101181-a-variant-density-decreasealternate-desolid-idea/ ) and can expand it's form eventually becoming intangible, then invisible, then ceasing to exist (X-D move to the next-greater 'macroverse,' perhpas), or compress itself (Shrinking +DI), eventually dropping back into a 'microverse' (XDM again). Unfortunately, it's diffuse body is made up mostly of fissionable atoms, and it needs a steady supply of more to sustain itself, and, even more dangerously, if it chooses to compress itself while feeding, can trigger a fission chain reaction. Thus it is a villain, or at leat a danger. From it's point of view, our world is a place of elder beings of alien form and hideous complexitiy possessed of ponderous, calous, incomprehensible mentalities - to the Macronaut, we are not just monsters, but Lovecraftian horrors.

Absolute 0
 
The Universe will end in either Fire or Ice it has been said. For Absolute 0 it needs to be ice. He is attuned in one way or another to every atom and every molecule, everyone of them, everywhere. It can feel when a sun goes nova, when one mortal does harm to another, when a planet is poisoned and corrupted. It knows when the fabric of time or space are torn asunder by powerful interdimensional beings. It can not escape this pain, these feelings. The only thing it wants peace and quiet, an end to all the endless noise that is existence. The only way to do that is the way it did it in the last Universe it was in : stop all the motion in all the atoms so that everything dies, everything becomes silent, all the buzzing and humming and thrumming finally stops and it can once again know peace until the next Universe starts.

What do you do when the Eater of Worlds arrives on your planet and starts to destroy it ? If you can you flee to another world. Only the Eater turns up again and tries to devour that one. Again and again you flee only for the Eater to come and start eating this world until there is only one world left and then the Eater comes for that one and you all die screaming........
The psychiatrists and the other patients say you are mad but you know it is coming for this universe as well so destroy the world so it can't eat it is the only way.
Allyria The Dark is like a female Superman including cape and it is figure hugging one but it is not very explicit or graphic. Some heroes have tried using her long(ish) hair or cape to thwart her.

The Burning
 
Some universes end in ice...others in fire.
L'uok was a scientist and explorer in his universe. It was he who discovered that the stars were converging, he who realised that soon they would coalesce into a primordial monobloc. Recognized as the greatest of his people, they sacrificed for him, provided him with age-eliminating drugs, and he lived a million lifetimes in his search to find a way to prevent the elimination of his people and all their long history from effectively having never been.
He failed.
At the end he drove his ship, the last ship, straight into the coalescing monobloc, hoping to explode it early, prevent the formation of another doomed universe.
He Failed.
Instead he found himself here, in this universe, empowered by heat...eternal, unbearable heat. He has sought many ways to end his existence and eternal torment.
HE FAILED.
Now, as The Burning, he believes that only by being within another dying universe can he cease to be. He will do anything to accomplish this - after all, nothing actually matters.

Funny, that's so close to one I actually used *many* years ago.  The last two where Command Hierarchy.

They were a high tech (alien tech, since their leader was the exiled dictator of planet Medusa) rather than supernatural group, and wore uniforms in black & periwinkle. 

Yes, periwinkle. I was a teen, I cut teen-me some slack.

Decades later I found out black & purple are the colors of anarco-feminism.

Around the same time a less young GM I gamed with also used the acronym, but it was supernatural, each word meant 'witch' in a different language Hexe is the only other one I still remember. 



 
I was also trying to think what WARLOCK could stand for.... and I realized, well, WAR may or may not stand for anything (WITCH Auxiliary.... ?), but they'd certainly be /locked/ ....


 



On 3/20/2021 at 1:30 PM, steriaca said:

I'm kinda stuck on the "man-be-gone" designer disease. That of course can be the ultimate end game. But they need stuff to do before unleashing that. Also, they want to know if there afterplan of one gender reproduction is possible and will work first.

In the meanwhile, plots about upsetting man's dominance of the world should happen. Rob banks and give the stolen loot to women shelters. Threaten politians for the passage of a "woman friendly" bill. Murders of known women beaters. Murder of known child molesters. Kidnapping young boys to be a slave to a mystical dominates goddess of semi-Celtic origin. A prison raid to scrounge up new members (female only).


Hmm... so, as far as killing off all the men, why not enslave them, instead? But, if you're going to, maintaining population shouldn't be too hard. It's far more practical to clone females than males, and the male genetic contribution is abundant and can be efficiently frozen. So you harvest a generous selection of diverse genetic material and you're fine for many generations, until you perfect cloning or become immortal or whatever.

My version of WITCH just wanted to conquer the world and have women rule. Such a modest goal, IDK why there was such resistance to it. ::shrug:: Of course, they did so through terrorism they were particularly fond of assassinating leaders when there was a fair chance of their replacement being female. They agressively recruited supers, hero or villain, too. And, thanks to the alien technology, they'd already conquered and united two countries in Central America and started trying to implement their program... turned out, not the best choice of cultures to try to invert gender roles in, but, when you're an alien dictator sent hurtling through interstellar space, you can't always control where you land. And, it was ultimately all so their leader could uplift humanity and re-conquer her homeworld, anyway. If Earth had already been matriarchal, she'd've come up with some other rationale.
Utlimately, of course, WITCH in my world worked against the 2nd-wave feminism of the day (being actually about equality), and WITCH was just extreme sexism from the other side, entirely counterproductive.
And, yes, as someone said up-thread the whole idea was very 70s "battle of the sexes" the 70s hadn't been over that long. ;)

No they are not the same group. The Sisterhood is a group of women I created a long time ago due to all the heroes in the playing group seemingly to all have the complication, disadvantage at the time, "Won't fight / harm a women". I figured a all women group would be a interesting concept.
 
On another note, I was talking with Jason and he has given me permission to write-up WITCH. I'm torn in what direction to take the group, I haven't decided if I'm sticking to the terrorist theme or more of a supernatural theme. This is what I have found out about the group, all is from the background of the villain Gremlin.
 
Linda Shane was not the prettiest girl in high school,
and a number of bad experiences with men drove her into the arms
of a radical female terrorist group called WITCH.
 
The WITCH organization is a loose alliance of a few radicals.
They believe that it is morally just for violence to be used against the
enemies of the woman's movement, be it bombing video stores that
stock pornography, terrorizing prominent politicians that are seen
as anti-woman's movement, etc. Legitimate women's groups
unanimously condemn WITCH, but WITCH doesn't care. WITCH
doesn't employ magic; the name represents what its members
believes is the pinacle of radical feminism; witches are persecuted
(as they believe they are), and are powerful enough to need no one
but themselves (WITCH condemns anyone who doesn't agree with
everything they believe).

Ok. Point wise, assuming a 60 active point cap.
 
144 Pulling Stuff Out Of My Magic Pocket: 60 point Variable Power Pool, Powers Can Be Changed As A Zero Phase Action (+1), No Skill Roll Required (+1), Silently Limited Class Of Powers (objects only: -1/4)
 
30 Control Cost (60 Active Points in pool).
 
30 The Pocket: Extradimensinal Spaces (36 Cubic Meters)
 
40 The Kitchen Sink: Object Creation, Extremely Complex Object, 2PD, 2ED, 2 BODY. 4 END per use.