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  14. Dream Books for Champions

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    Strike Force is what you want

     

     

    I own this book. It doesn't do what you suggest it does, and the new one doesn't either. No. I'm talking about a book that isolates the mathematical sweet spots of the game and shows you how to use those to run any type of campaign you desire. 

     

    What you're talking about is a supplement that shows you the roleplaying side. I'm talking about writing a supplement from the perspective of manipulating the numbers so that the storytelling can be predicted within a few major facets. And I know this is possible. Because I've been doing it that way for 30 years. Can I write this book? Sure. But I'm worried that I'll get booed for it. Champions is a toolkit system. What this book would do is show people how to A) Shape the toolkit and B) how to manipulate that shape to run different types of games. All those charts at the beginning of 6e1 only scratch the surface, and furthermore, don't address a lot of the system's real core math.

  16. Non-human Sapients and their rights

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    There wouldn't be a federal oversight committee.  That's not how it would work.

     

    Currently, in the real world, non-humans have no rights.  There are laws against animal abuse, but an alien who came to Earth, or an intelligent robot, or anything like that would have no rights.  Of course, on real world Earth, we don't have any examples on non-human intelligent life.  You could argue dolphins or chimps, but none of them have been afforded anything like civil rights that humans enjoy.

     

    So, what you'd probably see (barring a Champions Universe arrangement where this type of stuff already happened decades ago) is something like what happened with gay marriage.  Your more liberal states begin recognizing android rights, or alien rights, and then eventually it goes before the US Supreme Court, and they make a decision.  At that point, all lower courts fall in line.  But you could still have individual states and counties fighting against the federal decision, just like today.  They'd just lose.  And then there's always the chance that you'd get a federal civil rights bill passed that extended protections to certain groups.

     

    A federal oversight committee would have zero authority to prevent state legislatures from passing whatever laws they wanted.  It doesn't work that way.

     

    Emphasis here. Genetically manipulating creatures and releasing them into the world, for whatever reason, is a federal offense, not a state one. So yes, you can have a federal oversight committee.

  17. Imperial Throne Process Thread

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    Dark Falcon is done. In addition, we are down to only 11 pictures. I had a discussion with the artist last night, and he told me he didn't quite have a good handle on the Doomsday Beast.

     

    "Just send me a picture of Strudel (This is my cat). She's very destructive."

     

    Me: Just draw a big giant snake and kirbyize it. By the way, how did you know I put Strudel into the credits as a Doomsday Beast?

     

    No. Really. I did that. He did not read that section. :)

  19. Non-human Sapients and their rights

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    In my game the clones don't get rights, because of multiple attempts to take over the country/city/world with armies of clones. If the fingerprints are the same and the signature is the same, your clone can live your life with no one the wiser and there's no way to prove it. Therefore, if you're a clone, you have big problems. And yes, there are characters concealing their cloniness from the government.

  20. Non-human Sapients and their rights

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    This is a really tough question. You have to have a federal oversight committee created by the government in order to insure that the states don't run around passing crazy laws about what people can and can't do to them. If you're really serious and into deep roleplay moments, create some NPCs and have the PC"s BE the federal oversight committee for a session. Let them decide what kind of rights these creatures should have. 

     

    Technically, the American Civil Liberties Union would probably step in at this point on behalf of the Moreaus, and address mistreatment of the creatures. Other Moreaus would flee to other nations with more liberal laws, while still others would rail against "The Humans that Created Us" and seek to punish, destroy, or replace them. 

     

    You've got a whole mess of options. That's really the point of this.

     

    Your focus should be

     

    1) How much do the players want to be involved in dealing with these creatures? If "Hell no", handwave it until you want Moreaus to be supervillains.

     

    2) If yes, find out just how much they want to be involved. You have a responsibility to let everyone enjoy themselves without Law and Order: Special Metaanthroplogy Victims Unit taking over the game. 

     

    3) What kind of world are you interested in having this turn out to be, and how are things going to be changed? If these creatures are ONLY in California, they'll probably be granted full rights within a year. If they're all over the US, a federal oversight committee will likely be created. 

  23. Suggestions on running Champions at a 'convention'

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    It depends on how competent you are with the rules. I am so familiar with the characters that I use, because my players run them, that I can be pretty sure, with the exception of raucously bad die rolls, how things are going to go. It's reached the point where the convention scenarios become playtests for the group at home occasionally. And I'm cool with that.

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