bloomann

Re: What if...

what if, for once, a bad guy actually wins!

Re: What if...

Bruce Banner is exposed to gamma radiation. Thereafter whenever he feels helpless' date=' he undergoes a dramatic transformation into the Savant. His logical, rational mind takes over -- pushing aside his emotional, compassionate mind. His intellect is vastly increased and when faced with a problem his intellect is no match for, he grows ever more intelligent until he makes a breakthrough. As the Savant, Banner sometimes thinks of radical solutions to problems facing humanity -- solutions that might include mass murder, sabotage, mind control, and worse. The Savant is aware that he will eventually become Banner again and that Banner will prevent him from enacting some of his solutions. Therefore, the Savant gives his plans to others. To those called "supervillains". Banner must constantly try to figure out what scheme the Savant has cooked up, who he has given it to, and how it might be averted.[/quote']

 

isn't there a villan called the Leader who has this power in the Hulk mythos

Re: The Village Police Force!

They're from NY's Greenwich Village not SFC and Macho Man should be Macho Man II as the original has passed.

opps, San Fran, bad idea

Re: The Village Police Force!

area knowledge an francisco CA.

good idea!

Re: The Village Police Force!

Base: The YMCA, 40 Points

 

Contact: The US Navy, 8 points, 11-

I mean OF COURSE, these perks are so obvious!

Re: The Village Police Force!

Vuln: 2d6 dex drain from high radio signals

 

 

lol

well it seemed logical at 4 in the morning when I wrote it. have to revise.

Re: The Village Police Force!

you must've been a village people fan back in the day

yeah I even knew the YMCA dance, when I was about 7years old, that and KISS!

I found this unlikely hero group on my hard disk, among other things, and I'm just wondering what the hell I must have been smoking at the time

The Village Police (Special Forces)

Psi-Cop, Billy Bulldozer, Path Finder, Macho Man, Lightning Lewis, G.I. Jackson

Psi-Cop

15 Str 5

18 Dex 24

18 Con 16

13 Body 3

20 Int 10

21 (+10) Ego 14

20 Pre 10

18 Com 4

3 (+3) Spd

6 PD 3

7 ED 3

36 End

35 Stun 5

7 Rec

Powers :

Multipower / Mindpowers, all are OIF (Psi-helmet)

* 50 end reserve - only for helmet's mind powers, battery

* 12d6 Mind Control, area effect 10" radius, only specific "cop" commands,

"Freeze", "Drop your Weapons", "Come out with your hands on your head", 3 charges

* Mindscan, (only to find crooks), can use as target sense, 3 charges

* 12d6 Telepathy only to discern the truth, 3 charges

* 10d6 Ego blast, 3 charges

* clarestience all senses, x325” (retrocog only), must be at the "scene of the crime", or while holding evidence (crime weapon, bloody cloth, billfold...etc), 3 charges

+ 10 ego OIF (Psi-helmet)

+ 12 ego defense OIF (PSI-helmet)

+3 speed (mind powers only) OIF (Psi-helmet)

Danger Sense 11- only against major criminal acts (3 kilometer radius), OIF (Psi-helmet)

armor 2rPD, 2rED, 8 or less, OIF (Psi-helmet)

armor 4rPD, 4rED, bullet proof vest

5 Flash defense OAF (cop shades)

1d6 RKA, 380 Walther, OAF, 6 charges

3d6N Billy Club, OAF

+2 to perception rolls, all 5 senses OIF Helmet

Skills / Talents :

Policeman Package deal

Fam / small arms

Fam/ w/ billy club

Perk : Law enforcer

CK: Campaign city

Bureaucratics 14 -

Persuasion 15-

Forensics 16-

+2" running

Martial Arts (cop karate)

Strike

Head Butt

choke hold

bloc

disarm

dodge

Universal Translator OIF Helmet, modern human languages only, extra time

+2 w/ helmet PSI Powers

+1 w/ martail arts

+1 overall skills

Contacts : Psi-child, psionic street kid, low level

Perks : campaign city's Police Department, legal structure, records, etc..

Interrogation 14-

Criminology 15 -

Deduction 14-

Combat driving 14-

Tactics 14 -

KS : PSI Helmet 15 -

Police issue Motorcycle

Disadvantages :

Normal characteristics maxima

Dependent : 1d6 ego drain when helmet removed, instant + once per minute afterwards

Dnpc : wife and 2 kids 11 or less

Distinctive features : cop look and attitude , common, minor

Private life compromised by hero occupation , worried about family’s safety very common, major

Protective of innocents, common, strong

Reputation : cop with Mind Power Helmet 11-

watched : Campaign city's PD

watched : US government

Hunted : Mafia 11 or less

Hunted : Knights In Satanic Services 11-

Public ID

Billy Bulldozer

16 str 6

20 dex 30

15 con 10

15 Body 10

18 Int 8

12 Ego 2

15 Pre 5

18 Com 4

4 Spd

PD

ED

End

Stun

Rec

Powers :

30 pt Low fi gadget pool, OIF utility belt, only with material on hand

+1HA OAF wrench

2 RKA OAF nail gun, reduced range, rapid fire clip

10pt, dispell darkness, OAF, hand held flood light

4d6 flash, OAF paint gun, sticky, 1 charge

Find weakness in structures only 17-

2PD, 2ED: Hard hat, head only, 8-

3PD, 1ED : heavy vest 11-

3 pts flash def, Shades

Side kicks : Girder, the giant robot, Bully the Bulldozer

Skills / Talents / Percs

+3 move through (Bully’s ram)

Climbing (structures only)

Structural Engineering 14-

Civil Engineering 14-

Electrical engineering 14-

Demolitions 13-

Mechanics

+2 w/ engineering skills

Inventor 16-

Combat driving 17-

KS radio controlled robotics, Bully and Grider

Perc : Construction Worker's Union

Perc : legalized deputy

Disadvantages:

Normal characteristic maxima

DNPC : crazy uncle Wilbur 14 or less

DNPC : ex wife and daughter 8 or less

DNPC : Sister, Path Finder’s wife 8 or less

Code against killing

Watched by Campaign City's PD 11-

Hunted : Knights In Satanic Services 11-

Hunted : Mafia, 8 or less

Public ID

Girder (20 ft tall side kick robot)

Growth

Armor, Resistance DEF, 10ED, 10PD, OIF, Metal Body

Multipower OAF, 3 meter long stainless steel girder, only in open areas

* +4d6 HA OAF, steel girder

*4" stretching OAF, steel girder

*4d6 RKA, OAF steel girder, 1 recoverable charge

Iron turbine shield : 10 PD , 10 ED, OAF, 11 or less

9d6EB + 5d6 Entangle bucket of bolts bola, 1 charge

Automation, does not stun or bleed

Disadvantages:

Vuln: 1 1/2 body from magnetic attacks

Vuln: 2d6 dex drain from high radio signals

Bully the bulldozer

80 pts reserve, IAF, Bully’s gas tanks

2 levels growth

+30pts strength

20” running (tread wheels)

Armor plating 10PD, 10ED 14 or less

5d6 Entangle 3” area effect - Steel mesh net, 1 charge

20pt dispel darkness, flood lights,

10pt dispel mist or gas, big industrial fan

Multipower : Bully’s ram

*10d EB 3” wide area effect, reduced range, 6” maximum, 4 charges

*force wall, 10PD, 10ED frontal attacks only, 14 or less

*50pts TK, only to push, 6”maximum

Wrecking ball canon 15dEB, 2” area effect, x2 knock-back, 1 charge

15pts Lack of weakness

Path Finder

30 str 20

24 dex 42

26 con 32

20 Body 20

16 Int 6

17 Ego 14

16 Pre 6

18 Com 4

6 Spd 36

15 PD 8

10 ED 5

56 End

50 Stun 2

12 Rec 2

Powers :

Multipower : IAF magic charmed necklace, can only use one charm at a time, ½ phase to change

Bear : 1 level growth (200kb, +5str, -1KB, +1 body, +1stun), 2d6 aid strength and con, +2 grab and choke hold, 45pt end reserve for Bear powers

Wolf : tracking scent18-, +4 smell Per, stealth18-, shadowing18-, 3 one turn charges

Eagle : +6 sight, microscopic sight, offset for range modifiers, bump of direction 18-, 3 one turn charges

Coyote : 3d6 luck, mimic voices18-, disguise18-, sleight of hand18-, gambling18-, 3 one turn charges

Buffalo : 10 pt density increase (400K, +10 str, -2 KB, +2 PD, +2ED), 2d6 aid to End, +4” running, +4 move through

50 end reserve for buffalo powers

Deer : 5d6 Spd Aid, danger sense 17-, +8 running, 10” super leap, +6 dodge

40pt end reserve for deer powers

Multipower : Tomahawk, OAF

1d6 ½ KA

3d6RKA, 1 charge recoverable

6d6 EB, 1 charge recoverable

2d6 RKA Hunting Bow, OAF, 6 charges

Skills / Talents / Percs

+3” running

+3” swimming

MA native American style

Grab

Bear hug (choke hold)

Martial escape

Martial throw

Martial strike

Dodge

Art w weapon

+1 w/ tomahawk

+1 w/ bow

+2 w/ MA

+1 overall levels

3d6 Aid stun and body, 3 charges, IAF - medicine bag, extra time

6d6 Telepathy OAF, peace pipe, must share pipe smoke

Skills / Talents / Percs

Perc : legalized deputy

KS : Geologist

Paramedics

Climbing

Breakfall

Survival

Animal handler

Acrobatics

Lightsleep

ambidextrous

Tracking

Riding

Bump of direction

Navigation

Knowledge skills – wood lands / plain lands / desert

Language English, Lakota is native,

Contacts : Lakota tribe and other tribes

Contact : Whisky Jack, (medicine man, greater power)

Perc : Lakota gods

Side Kick : Willpower the amazing Horse

Disadvantages

Distinctive features : American Native, common, minor, easily concealed

DNPC : various tribe members 11 or less

DNPC : Wife, Billy’s sister 14 or less

Strident environmentalist

Nervous in city or urban landscapes

Enraged against polluters 11 or less

Watched by Campaign City's PD 11-

Hunted : Knights In Satanic Services 11-

Hunted : Mafia, 8 or less

Secret ID, Jack Lone Stone

Macho Man

16 str 6

26 dex 48

65 con 110

35 Body 50

15 Int 5

25 Ego 30

19 Pre 9

18 Com 4

5 Spd 14

25 PD 22

20 ED 7

130 End

75 Stun

24 Rec 4

Powers

75 % damage resistance, physical only, doesn’t work against his “glass jaw”

25 % damage resistance, energy only

2d6 Regeneration once per turn

5d6 NND “hurting hands” (force field, armor), x2 end

5d6aid to body, stun, end, “healing hands”, x2 end

Armor 4PD, 4ED leather outfit 14-

5 pts Flash defense OAF biker shades

15 Ego defense “tough mind”

20 power defense “tough guy”

10 pts. Lack of weakness

Immune to disease, aging, extreme weather conditions

Skills / Talents / Percs

MA Dirty Infighting:

Punch

Roundhouse

Low blow

Disarm

Kidney blow

Defense maneuver 18-

Combat sense 18-

Danger sense, in combat only 17-

Resistance (stubborn) 16-

Find weakness : all attacks 18-

Perc : legalized deputy

Filthy Rich

KS : seedy areas, world wide, major cities

High Society

Conversation

Street wise

Seduction

Modern Greek (native)

Ancient Greek

Latin

Arab

English

Harley Davidson Motorcycle

+3 w/martial arts

+2 overall levels

Disadvantages

distinctive features : flamboyantly gay, “leather man”, common, easily concealed

Vuln: Glass Jaw – 2x stun from punches, jaw only

DNPC : boyfriend of the week 14 or less

Code against killing

Reputation : Tough as nails Gay Hero

Watched by Campaign City's PD

Hunted : Knights In Satanic Services 11-

Hunted : Mafia, 8 or less

Secret ID : Stratis Mikos

GI Jackson

13 Str 3

21 Dex 33

15 Con 10

16 Body 12

25 Int 15

12 Ego 2

15 Pre 10

16 Com 3

4 Spd 10

4 PD 2

4 ED 1

36 End 3

35 Stun 6

6 Rec 2

Powers

Multipower : Ghost Belt, OIF,

Invisibility

Desolidfication

Teleport

15pt gadgets pool (spy kit)

9 mm automatic

Skills / Talents / Percs

martial arts jujitsu

Perc : US army

Cryptography

Electronics

Shadowing

Computers

Security systems

Electronics

Mechanics

Bugging

lockpick

stealth

KS: Ghost Belt

Jeep

Lightning Lewis

15 Str 5

40 Dex 90

12 Con 4

10 Body

15 Int 5

16 Ego 3

15 Pre 10

16 Com 3

5 (+4) Spd

4 PD 2

4 ED 2

30 End 3

27 Stun 6

9 Rec 10

Powers

+4 spd hand manipulation only, ex drawing guns, tying ropes etc…

quickdraw

ambidextrous

20pt TK only to push, or tilt things with guns

2 Guns,

rka clip, rapid shot

area effect

area disarm

rubber bullets stun only

Rope : entangle, stretching, swinging

Side kick Lucky the horse!y

Skills / Talents / Percs

Riding

Range skill levels

Perc : legalized deputy

Re: an overview for a classic X-Men Campaign

Hey I'll buy that! I actually like the MSRPG in a weird way, it allows for creative use of powers, you are not locked into "buying" the use of the power (not very clear it's getting late here), also I think you are very right about giving x-men characters high def, they get blasted and smashed up all the time and heardly ever end up in the hospital! I'll tweak it for my uses, thanks a lot!

Re: an overview for a classic X-Men Campaign

wow! what a site! it's very complete, I just had a quick look, some observations : Colossus has 95 str?! I didn't know he was that strong, also he has a psycological disadvantage to space travel, from a very early episode, his brother died in a space mission, wolverine has about as much mental defense as Jean Grey ?!? seems too much to me, also a wolvie at spd 6 is a little too fast, but then again he is always the first to get blasted in any fight, makes me wonder about his vaunted combat skills!!! you might want to give Cyclops the same jujitsu that Colossus has, it's been stated that Cyclops trained Colossus. otherwise this is an EXCELLENT base to start an x-man campaign, thanks fr sharing!!!

Re: Heroclix - Avengers vs JLA

long live family game night!

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I think that the Thomas Covenant/Linden Avery books are a lot like Atlas Shrugged of anything else by Anne Rand (sp?). They're books you read when you're young and when your brain is crying for gross overstimulation in the form of radical departures from ordinary morality. You enjoy them more at a time of your life when subtlety is a couple of four letter words mashed together.

 

Regarding the Thomas Covenant books in particular, they are mostly a case of suspense being maintained by the character's continuous resistance to the "call to adventure." Resisting the call is part of the usual progression of the hero's journey, but it's usually dispensed with somewhere in the first third of the story. Thomas Covenant drags it out for three whole books. It's like watching someone stuck in the denial stage of grief.

exactly, I remember my best friend when we were 17 year old nerds (as opposed to 40 year old nerds?) swearing by this novel, he went on and on how great it was, but I was in my Dune period and just never got around to reading the Covenant books until now. I probably would have liked it better then. angst angst angst

Re: an overview for a classic X-Men Campaign

this is all I have had the time to do, I'm hoping that some GM's might be interested and take the ball from here. I'd just like to know how it worked out, I'm really curious concerning dice mechanics, player interventions, compared to the power of the writer, like I said it's an experiment.

Otherwise how many points do you think they should start with? I have some old write ups that Surbrook did many years ago for his excellent site and for the most part he has his X-men in the 400 pt to 800 pt range.

Let me know if you try getting a game together, I'll try to help writing up some characters, and villans, we can keep it low powered if you want. thanks for the interest

Hello,

this is something I was kind of dying to do but since I don't have a group I'm posting it here. This is an overview for a campaign starring the classic (new) x-men from issue 94 to 138, I call it a great experiment to see how things might have turned out for the X-men in "real life" with unpredictable dice rolls and players' er, creative playing. I tried to list the plot (some are really silly) and the villains giving a brief resume of their powers and actions. Of course there is still a LOT of work to be done on it, but if you ever wanted to do something like this, here might be a good starting point.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Oh yeah, for sure. But again, it helps if you think of Covenent not as the hero of the story, but as the POV character. He's surrounded by the heroes (Mhoram, Foamfollower, Bannor, etc), but he himself is just along for the ride. People keep expecting him to be the hero, and he's always like, "Nah uh! Not my problem!" I dunno. I find that particular idea kinda refreshing. I've read a ton of "Nobody gets told he's the chosen one, and he jumps into the role and suddenly he's a great warrior and leader of men" books. I liked the whole "Nobody gets told he's the chosen one, and he tells everyone to go screw themselves 'cause he ain't getting involved in any of this weird magic crap."

 

But, you know, that's just me. I'm contrary that way.

I can understand being bored by standard heroic fantasy fare, "a nobody turning into the savior" which happens to be the foundation of about 80% of these types of books, the thing that got to me about the Covenant book (that I read) is the fact that the stories real heroes (every body else in the book) come across rather flat and 2 dimensional (Morham, Foamfollwer..etc I did like the horses though). I didn't get into it, I even felt cheated. and the Covenant character is just too loathsome to like, let alone waddle through 500 pages of badly written text where he is the obvious HERO of the story, I think it MIGHT have been a better story if the narration was told from somebody else's point of view, or perhaps each chapter could have been a different personage's impression of just who this Covenant character really is, I think that could have lent at least some drama to the whole affair. but then again your point of view is interesting.

YO!

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Watchers.

 

I haven't read any Koontz.

 

I web-search therefore I am.

You won the NO PRIZE!!! go throw your self a party

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I couldn't even finish the first one. Found his style of writing to be just... blah.

The only Koontz book I remember reading had something to do with a genetically modified dog that had human intelligence and his "rival" a kind of hybrid baboon killing machine. I really liked that book a lot, a bona fide NO Prize to anyone who comes up with the title of this book.

Re: Apocalypse Hero

My first baby steps as a GM were all done under Gamma World, and to this day, post apocalypse settings are my favorites.

 

For a look at the ways the world could end, I strongly recommend: Exit Mundi.

I've surfed this site VERY SCARY, especially the CATapacolypse

Re: Apocalypse Hero

For an unusual' date=' and rather disturbing take on the fall of civilization, you might see if you can find a copy of the supplement [i']Champions in 3-D[/i] and take a look at the "Horror World" section. Even though it was written up for Champions, the threat in this world is more environmental and not really defeatable through brute force, so the power level of the PCs is much less of an issue.

 

Remember those investigators in H.P. Lovecraft's stories who barely prevent the evil cultists from summoning the unspeakable Horrors from Beyond? In this world, they failed. Rather than immediately ushering in the Apocalypse, though, these monsters subtly insinuate themselves into the human population at first, working to tear down the fabric of society and any potential resistance before bringing in larger numbers of their fellows. By the era that Ci3D describes, the process is almost complete: true humans are a dying race fighting a losing guerilla war, our cities have become vast nests of nightmares, and the planet's native ecology has been decimated by imported monstrosities.

 

I have to add, though, in all seriousness, that this world is not for faint hearted players.

Hey I just had to say THAT was one of my all time favorite supplements of any game.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Covenent's deal is that' date=' throughout most of the trilogy, he's [b']certain[/b] that he's in a fever dream. He does horrible things (like raping Lena) because... well, he's in a dream. Who hasn't done things in a dream that they'd never even consider in the real world? He believes that his actions are without consequence. He just lets everyone else drag him along because he feels that he has no investment in the world -- it's all just a soap bubble that will pop the minute he wakes up. This world is fake, but in the real world he knows that he's just suffered a terrible accident, so he's less concerned about what happens to these dream-figments than he is about waking up so that he can, you know, call for an ambulance or something.

 

But along the way, he begins losing his conviction that The Land is just a figment of his imagination. He witnesses acts of amazing heroism and sacrifice, as well as great depravity, and it starts to have an effect on him. He learns that even if The Land isn't real, it's still important, and what he does in it is also important. By the end of the third book, he's willing to make his own sacrifice to save it (even though he's still not 100% convinced that it's not just a dream).

 

It helps to think of The Land and all its people as metaphor, as splintered aspects of Covenent's own personality (which ties into the "Is this really real or just my brain making it all up?" aspect of Covenent's journey). Lord Foul is so powerful in part because he represents the most dominant part of Covenent -- his own despair. And his eventual victory over Lord Foul is actually a victory over himself. He embraces those aspects of his own personality that are good (Morham's resolute steadfastness, Lena's unconditional love, Foamfollower's unquenchable joy, and so forth) and rejects the despair that has ruled his life for years.

 

But, I'm not trying to tell anyone that they have to like the book. It's certainly not for everyone. I'm just suggesting that there's another way to read it, which makes sense of the question, "Why's Covenent such a little c***?

I know, but I like to believe that if I found myself in the same situation I would be at least a little more heroic.

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Here's an example of what I want to read:

 

1. Take Harn

2. Remove Annoying Tolkein Elements

3. Rationalize Religion

4. Integrate Subtle Noir/Hardboiled Sensibilities

5. Style ala James Ellroy/Dashiell Hammett

 

A series of short stories linked by character, theme, or plot; or a dark opera of the kaldoric succession crisis of shakespearean magnitude would do it.

Ha! nothing less will do!!!

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

I liked Soon I Will Be Invincible myself' date=' minding it to be a fun romp. And to be fair, it's also Grossman's first book.[/quote']

 

you're right, it's not that bad, it just could have been something...beyond! you know what I mean?

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

Actually I've been quite disappointed overall with the SI FI Fantasy books I brought back this summer, when I'm in the states I tend to stock up on comics and books written in English, but so far everything I brought back has left me unsatisfied : Micheal Moorcock's Skrayling Tree or the adventures of a group of albinos traveling across an America before Columbus discovered it, it just rambled in all directions and wasn't very interesting... Fredreck Pohl's the coming of the quantum cats, not bad but not that good either... Austin Grossman's Soon I will be invincible, it had it's moments, for example the first chapter and Dr Impossibles take on things, the first super fight is also rousing, but the characters never go beyond their contrived archetypes, frustrating.. Also DR Impossible goes on and on about how much of a genius he is but tells his story using idioms a forlorn love struck 18 might use, the end is also a let down but I'll give Grossman 3 stars for the effort.

I'm just mad that I opted for these books and didn't buy the huge Conan omnibus that recently came out. Maybe next summer...

Re: Watched too much DBZ when I was little...FrED

Chessex makes those in all sorts of colors.

 

I also have 40d6 in just loose D6s.

That's one BIG bag o' dice! it must put fear into your gaming partners when you amble up to the table, Ha!

Re: What Fantasy/Sci-Fi book have you just finished? Please rate it...

It took me a long time to work through Lord Foul's Bane when I read it. Something like 4 months. The story gets better and easier to read.

well I'm not even going to try. Anybody want my copies? half price plus postage!