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  1. An update on the Champions Campaign Wiki: I imagined that the wiki would pick up in October. And here we are in October! Points to Ponder 1. The wiki is now open to any edition of Champions, not just 6e*. (Champions Now and Fuzion included.) 2. It's not a campaign wiki anymore. It's a character wiki. Please upload any characters in any edition. We no longer are going for a unified theme.* 3. Please include a picture of your uploaded character. Use Fabrica de Herois or some other character designer. 4. You don't need permission to upload to the wiki. Go for it! 5. If you get your character uploaded, I'll make sure it's linked in to the wiki as a whole (indexed etc.) 6. There is no template*. Use any method as long as it can be interpreted by Hero players. *The previous restrictions seem to be hampering it. I am confident if we let it grow naturally we will be pleased and surprised by what emerges.
  2. Post in ANY edition. Just indicate which edition it is. The wiki is mostly just a place to post a whole bunch of characters. That's 99% it. I just saw a lot of people posting great characters on this forum and thought that, if only it were cataloged, people who have never played Champions could see just how amazing it is. It will draw new people in to the system, I'm certain. Which will bring in more players, more money for the property, leading to higher-quality publications. And, most importantly, it will be super-easy to host a tabletop game because everyone will be playing it! As it stands, it's a big hassle to try to wrangle a bunch of characters together by doing searches on the forum. Wouldn't it be nice if all of that stuff was put together, like in Enemies or the Handbook of the Marvel Universe? (Answer: Yes!) So, post a character here, on this thread, or post it on the wiki. To post on the wiki, just click on "Add new page" and paste your character. I can patch it into the right place afterwards--I'll see it. PS: People keep hinting that there needs to be a template. That's in the works. But for now, post what you got. For a template-in-the-works, see https://championsrpg.fandom.com/wiki/Blastforce PPS: Try to do a pic in Fabrica de Herois (FH Animated)
  3. I'm on it. It should be up by the time you read this.
  4. I think part of the problem may be my explaining what the wiki is, and what it is not. I will explain below. This is absolutely the answer, in my opinion. Yes! Effective immediately, post in ANY edition, and indicate which edition it is. The wiki is mostly just a place to post a whole bunch of characters. That's 99% it. I just saw a lot of people posting great characters on this forum and thought that, if only it were cataloged, people who have never played Champions could see just how amazing it is. It will draw new people in to the system, I'm certain. Which will bring in more players, more money for the property, leading to higher-quality publications. And, most importantly, it will be super-easy to host a tabletop game because everyone will be playing it! As it stands, it's a big hassle to try to wrangle a bunch of characters together by doing searches on the forum. Wouldn't it be nice if all of that stuff was put together, like in Enemies or the Handbook of the Marvel Universe? (Answer: Yes!) So, post a character here, on this thread, or post it on the wiki. To post on the wiki, just click on "Add new page" and paste your character. I can patch it into the right place afterwards--I'll see it.
  5. I hear ya. But, for whatever reason, the most interest in the wiki seems to be from 5e players. And I see a lot of threads for 5e builds here on the herogames forums. I could be wrong, but perhaps there is something about 5e that lends itself more to the wiki than 4e or 6e?
  6. I see your point. And I messaged Hopcroft right after I posted the thread because I did see how he might have meant that. But in the moment when I saw the quote I was feeling frustrated and I (mis?)interpreted it to mean that 6e is a fun thought experiment but isn't meant for actual gaming. Regardless, I'm very close to changing it (the wiki) over to a 5e project. Reasoning: there aren't enough 6e players to justify moving forward in that vein. Am I wrong? The smart decision, it seems to me from the participation levels thus far, is to change it over to 5e and allow for 6e conversions. I have people wanting to post stuff in 5e. I'm not upset*...I imagined this was a possibility. My first instinct upon coming back to the forums--regarding "saving" Champions--was to lobby for a rollback to 5e; perusing the forums made me think that I may have been wrong. This experience is making me return to that original conclusion. I completely understand if this is a sore spot on this forum: how could it not be? But if everyone is finished with the debate and has no further comments, then I'll proceed with an educated guess. *TRANSLATION: I'm upset 😝
  7. Hi folks. I'm one of the curators of the wiki. I'm having the inevitable doubts. I feel like no one is using 6e. My logic for using 6e was that it was the future of Hero Games. But.... It was Michael Hopcroft's (a member here) sig file that hammered it home to me: "6th Edition is for entertainment purposes only." Should I even be building this in 6e? I had been away from the forum here for a couple of years, came back. I originally felt that the future of Hero was rolling back to 5e, and taking Michael Hopcroft's quote literally: treat 6e as a wonderful experiment, but proceed with 5e. Thoughts?
  8. UPDATE: We'll give this a couple more days. What we need is a complete team, including 6e write-ups and pics. I think the superteam has to be submitted fully to qualify. Because: based on my experience with the wiki thus far, people will only work on their own characters. What I mean is, if we pick a team name and describe the characters only, no one will step in and build the chosen characters. This is not a complaint. It makes total sense. My experience with Hero players is that we want to do it all: the character concept right through to the build. No one wants to build someone else's concept, no matter how highly voted. So, basically, if you are the only one to submit a fully completed team on this thread, it will be the campaign world's superteam!
  9. You're in! ;) I'm not currently running this campaign, but once it gets up to speed (i.e. 75+ characters or so) I will probably run a Play-By-Email in this setting. Note: This world is wide open at this point development-wise. I set design parameters sometimes (e.g. this thread) but I try to only referee and just let the campaign setting develop a life of its own. (I set the parameters so that people can comfortably participate. I decided to use Marvel's Avengers as somewhat of a template to give people a starting point. I'll probably set another thread that says something like, "Design the Wiki's Teen Titans" at some point if this one works!)
  10. I like "Second Chances" (s06e24). The concept blew my socks off when I first saw it and I still love it. Commander Riker comes face to face with an exact duplicate of himself, created years earlier by a transporter phenomenon. "Tin Man" (s03e20) is also one of my favorites: Telepath Tam Elbrun (Harry Groener) joins the crew to investigate a bio ship detected near a star about to go supernova. As the crew investigates, the Romulans threaten the Enterprise and the creature, Gomtuu, and Elbrun boards it with Lt. Commander Data. Honorable mention: "The Outrageous Okona" (s02e04) because of Billy Campbell (didja know he was in the running to play Riker?). And Teri Hatcher is also in it. As the Federation starship Enterprise, under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, passes through the Coalition of Madena, it detects a small cargo ship, under manual control by its single occupant. The crew makes contact with the pilot, Captain Thadiun Okona (Billy Campbell), who requests help to repair a part on his ship. Captain Picard agrees, and the Enterprise tows Okona's ship while Okona is brought on board. The crew soon finds that Okona has taken a keen interest in the women on the ship, beginning with Transporter Chief Robinson (Teri Hatcher in an uncredited role) and is in no rush to effect repairs. I also enjoy any Ensign Ro episode. I just really like her character.
  11. I think we could possibly use "Champions" for the superteam name. We/I could look into that. But....let's see what everyone thinks first. It's not a bad name, and I understand the spirit of it, but it might not be where we're heading. My feeling is that, given the nature of this project, we would be able to use it. But there's also a good chance that it won't be the name chosen by this thread. I'll personally investigate if it's looking promising. Still, there seem to be some moments where we're veering back into using things that already exist. My feeling is: we should avoid that anyway, not for legal reasons but just for the sake of being creative. VIPER is awesome. Dr. D is the bomb. But we're building something new here!
  12. We're fine mentioning VIPER etc., but in my mind I think we should be aiming at designing our own villains and organizations. VIPER, like COBRA, is based on snakes. Can we make an evil agency based on something else? (I love VIPER, but the point of the wiki is to make a whole new campaign world!)
  13. (I did put a "copyright steriaca" blurb on your pages, but we can remove that. I want to leave it for now so people can see how it's done.) Yes, I see it the same way. It's just like the old Enemies books: there were characters I used all the time and some I almost never used. But it was nice to occasionally have the rare ones show up and catch everyone off guard.
  14. Thank you for realizing that I appreciate your efforts very much! I have been updating your contributions--you may have seen that Mister Wicked now has his pic. I feel like people might be looking at all the great stuff you have contributed and feel like, "Well, this isn't my campaign style, so I'll not participate." But I imagine the wiki as having thousands of entries where you can pick and choose your favorites. So...get in there, everyone! My only agenda is to get it done. I try to listen to what people are saying and steer the flow. My ideas do sneak in--I see myself as a curator--but I'm trying to be more of a GM than a player in this project.
  15. Hello, folks. The wiki is moving along slowly but surely. Link: https://championsrpg.fandom.com/wiki/Championsrpg_Wiki I'd like to design the wiki's main superteam, together, on this thread. Proposed Guidelines: 1. We need a name for the team. We can go to a vote if necessary. 2. The team needs to be written up in 6e, at least for starters. 3. They are set in NYC, so they need an HQ location etc. (I don't think we need to design the HQ, but that could definitely be something for later.) 4. We'll need pics made in Fabrica de Herois, so if you have those skills, we need you! 5. steriaca--has been doing a lot, but I also don't think one person should set the whole tone, even though his efforts have been amazing! So, while steriaca should participate, it shouldn't be "The Steriaca Show" on this thread! (I'm ribbing you, steriaca. Your efforts are appreciated!) I feel as though we should use an Avengers vibe...what I mean is, a team that is set in a building and is well-known. We're designing the #1 team in the world. (Many other teams can be added later--you could even add a whole superteam yourself--but I think this first one needs a collaborative effort.) PS: Some people post frequently and some people post less often. (I'd hate to miss out on some genius ideas just because someone has RL obligations.) Let's try to slow this thread down a little. It's easy for someone to dominate with multiple posts, but I'd really like to hear many people chime in. So....anyone reading this, please help us out! Please post your 2 cents but be mindful of others! I won't rush this thread: let's leave it until Sunday, August 23, 2020 before we move forward at all!
  16. I like what you're doing fdw3773. I'll help out in any way I can. 👍
  17. I posted the image. Link: https://championsrpg.fandom.com/wiki/Mister_Wicked Things are picking up at the wiki! PS: If anyone has trouble posting images, just post them here and I can upload them. But if you can post them yourself on the wiki, go for it!
  18. My vote was thumbs down. I vote to port the 5e version verbatim.
  19. Yes. When I started playing D&D the DM only had the 1st edition DM guide and the OD&D brown books. So I was playing "0.5 edition," I guess.
  20. Cowboy Bebop is really good. For me, anime has always been hard to get into, but for some reason Cowboy Bebop was just amazing. I would argue that it's the most non-anime anime ever. I have tried to watch several recommended anime series but couldn't get past the first 10 minutes. Ever. But then I heard that Firefly was basically stolen from Cowboy Bebop, so I gave it a try. (I would say that Firefly did not steal from Cowboy Bebop, in my final analysis. But I am grateful that the accusations led me to this great series.) I can't put my finger on what makes it special. I'd love for you to watch two episodes and post here what it is that makes it unique, cuz I haven't been able to puzzle that out. To me, it just feels like it knows what it's doing. Like, there's a confidence in the series and a genuine feeling of satisfaction from watching every episode. Plus, you grow to love the feeling of being in that universe--that elusive escapist experience definitely exists for me in Cowboy Bebop. I also want to say that the characters seem very developed. I bet if you approached the writer and threw a hypothetical situation at him, he'd immediately just know how the characters would respond. The characters seem very well-drawn I guess is what I'm getting at. It reminded me in some respects of Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets taken to the next level by a really smart writer. The original Teen Titans series borrowed a lot from Cowboy Bebop, not directly but...aesthetically is what I think I mean. If you liked the original Teen Titans you'd probably love Cowboy Bebop.
  21. My FBI agent after I "Liked" this post
  22. I have these comics...in storage, unfortunately. Does this thread help? Link: https://www.herogames.com/forums/topic/83329-the-guardians-project-lets-build-the-original-champions/
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