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  2. Designing a show stopping villain

    in Champions

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    Re: Designing a show stopping villain

     

    Wikihow has an article on creating credible villains.

     

    It's good to give a villain a quirk or two, some sort of mundane obsession.

     

    Gonna beat the Buffy horse a bit more and mention Major Wilkins from Season Three. He was an immortal sorcerer, one who was going to let nothing get in the way of his ascension to powerful demonhood, but he also discouraged his minions from using profanity, and had an odd phobia of germs. He was like a wacky sitcom dad, even when ordering his lackeys to murder those who oppose him.

  5. No way to win...?

    in Champions

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    Re: No way to win...?

     

    I think a mature group of players shouldn't be flipping tables over a plot like that. That's just the kind of thing that would happen on a TV show or in a comic book, and as long as they eventually have the chance to set things right in some way, they should be happy.

  7. Urban Fantasy Recommendations

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: Urban Fantasy Recommendations

     

    There sure are a lot of recommendations in this lengthy thread.

     

    If I were to put up a simple database for Steve's benefit (and ultimately our own benefit), would any of you be willing to stop by and populate it with your recommendations?

     

    If so, Steve could just print out the list or even just add each book to his Amazon "Wish List."

  9. Halloween Themed Session...ideas?

    in Champions

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    Re: Halloween Themed Session...ideas?

     

    I'd say go for the classic, the Halloween Party Episode.

     

    The PCs attend a costume party in their secret identities, a party being thrown by Brendan Zingapan, a successful corporate CEO one them knows, and wackiness ensues.

     

    The setup is that the Zingapan tells his PC friend (in his secret identity) to dress up as him for the party, since that would be a great gag.

     

    By a funny coincidence, Zingapan comes dressed as that PC's costumed hero identity.

     

    While the PCs are standing around trying to guess whether or not Zingapan knows any of their secret identities, a group of VIPER agents crashes the party hoping to take Zingapan hostage and gain access to a secret military defense system being developed at Zing Labs.

     

    The agents are convinced by the PC's "Zingapan" costume, and attempt to herd him into a waiting armored vehicle.

     

    Will the PCs ditch their pirate and ninja costumes and fight the agents in the street, or will they let their teammate be taken away to the agents' nest and bring the fight to them there?

  11. Jumper

    in Champions

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    Re: Jumper

     

    Looks like he's got a lot of points in Teleport... I mean, look at the mass multiple he's got, teleporting semis around.

     

    I'm almost always up for a superhero movie, although more than half of them suck.

  13. Coming To A Western Front Near You

    in Pulp Hero

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    Re: Coming To A Western Front Near You

     

    DULCE ET DECORUM EST

     

    Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

    Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

    Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs

    And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

    Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots

    But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;

    Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

    Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

     

    Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,

    Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;

    But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,

    And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .

    Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,

    As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

    In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,

    He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

     

    If in some smothering dreams you too could pace

    Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

    And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

    His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;

    If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

    Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

    Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

    Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,

    My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

    To children ardent for some desperate glory,

    The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est

    Pro patria mori.

     

    -- Wilfred Owen, 1918

  14. cost of membership

    in Champions

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    Re: cost of membership

     

    Some folks and I discussed a while back that a nice idea for a supplement would be one that details how various organizations are structured, such as armies and militias, non-profit and government agencies, churches and cults, colleges and universities, partnerships and corporations, criminal enterprises and gangs, and so on.

     

    There could be exact Rank Perk charts for various positions within those types of organizations, and tips for GMs on how to use such hierarchies to add flavor to a campaign.

     

    How 'bout it, Steve?

  15. Help get the heroes to the kidnapped

    in Champions

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    Re: Help get the heroes to the kidnapped

     

    The PCs find out from a street contact that an unusual amount of a material and equipment of the kind used in the the PC's father's research was stolen from a corporate storage facility by a group of local thugs (VIPER, maybe?) under the command of some creepy guys at a waterfront warehouse.

     

    The government people might not get their hands on this lead, but the PCs do.

     

    They get to the warehouse, start poking around, and BAM, there are heavily-armed agents everywhere, and even a couple of villains-for-hire!

  18. Urban Fantasy Recommendations

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: Urban Fantasy Recommendations

     

    Is there going to be a thread going on this supplement in regards to suggestions for sections or topics? I have some ideas about it that have been rattling around in my head as I try to come up with a homebrew urban fantasy campaign setting of my own. Whether I ever get to run it, well, that's another matter.

     

    I can tell you one thing, though, it won't have friggin' Jedi in it.

  22. Vikings?

    in Fantasy Hero

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    Re: Vikings?

     

    You actually used the forum's infraction system against me for that?

     

    Why don't you just delete my post?

     

    I could see using the infraction system in the case of something truly offensive, like posting another user's full name and cell phone number, or making a racist or otherwise inflammatory remark, but for posting a tiny screencap from a Python movie?

     

    I feel like I walked into a restaurant unwittingly wearing the wrong color of tie and promptly got tossed out into the back alley.

  24. Negative STUN and Body

    in HERO System Discussion

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    Re: Negative STUN and Body

     

    HERO System was originally conceived to simulate 4-color comics, and often in comics, especially older ones, heroes and villains would be pummeled into complete obliviousness but would otherwise be intact and unharmed, getting up after being unconscious and complaining of a slight headache and not much more.

     

    And on TV shows, characters are beaten senseless without breakage of bones or shedding of blood all the time.

     

    A house rule to bloody things up a bit would be fine with me as long as it were being applied fairly.

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