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  2. Tribute Game to Darren Watts

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    On 3/8/2023 at 2:06 AM, Lord Liaden said:

    If I may offer an opinion, I don't think you need to link every character genetically to a Golden Age hero. There's a long tradition in comics, and certainly in the CU, of people who were proteges, or friends, or simply admirers of veteran heroes, to take up their identity after the hero retires or dies. None of the first three Meteor Mans were related to each other, and there's no suggestion the fourth and current one Darren mentioned in GAC, Owen Henry, is related to any of them either.

     

    I would also suggest that since time on Champions Earth passes at a comparable rate to our world, there's probably a Black Mask 11 at this point. Jennifer Ward, aka Black Mask 10, was born in 1970, so is probably too long in the tooth to continue as a street-level crime fighter. It would make sense for her to have passed the identity on to her own younger partner Nocturne (see Champions Universe: News Of The World), until her son Ben is old enough to take up the family legacy (he was born December 2006). It wouldn't be the first time the identity had temporarily passed to someone other than the Ward lineage.

     

    You make good points, although I think I'll change their ages for the game that I have prepared (I'm adapting a scenario that I did in 2018 and 2019 at Origins and U-Con).  Totenkopf will have combined forces with Dr. Destroyer to effectively alter the timeline of World War II so that the Axis won.  So the heroes will be in a "Man in the High Castle" situation at the start of the game, only to discover that it's the work of a spell after noticing discrepancies in their memory and the environment around them- then travelling to the (secret) memorial/base of the Defenders of Justice, where they remember their true identities, heritages, and restore their powers.  They then have to confront Totenkopf and his forces.  Upon defeating them, Dr. Destroyer shows up to finish off the heroes when all of a sudden everything freezes- revealing that this was all the work of...Incubus.

     

    The game ends with the PCs tricking Incubus into undoing his spell and restoring everything as the way it should be.

  3. Gen Con 2023 - Darren Watts Memorial

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    On 3/13/2023 at 4:56 PM, mattingly said:

    For those who'll be at Gen Con this year, I'm helping host a Darren Watts Memorial game room on Thursday night. An entire room will be filled with friends of Darren, and dozens of game tables.

     

    If you'd like to run a game in Darren's honor, sign up at:

    https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfV3YQ7vvjDft-lEB2qj2ob9tYwtZHGn4feCNnx70J362-jOw/viewform

     

     

     

    Responded, thank you Dave!

  4. Tribute Game to Darren Watts

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    On 3/6/2023 at 4:42 AM, Lord Liaden said:

    First, I want to commend you on your very honorable gesture. :hail:

     

    Most of the super characters in his Golden Age Champions source book were created by Darren or his players for his playtest campaigns, so that might be the best place to start. Darren often wrote in that book about the descendants or successors to those characters when noting their history after WW II, particularly during the Silver Age.

     

    If you follow the link in my signature to my "Unique Character Origins" thread, you can scroll down to "Golden Age Legacies" and "The Vita-Man Clan," both firmly based on what Darren created for GAC. You could easily derive several present-day heroes from them.

     

    All right, looking at his notes in both versions- it looks like we have:

     

    Black Mask X (granddaughter of Black Mask VIII)- gadgeteer/martial artist

    Prince Marus (son of Princess/Queen Mara)- aquatic

    Dr. Ka (great-nephew of Dr. Twilight)- mystic
    Meteor Man IV (great-grandson of Meteor Man I)- telekinetic

    Liberty Lady (great-granddaughter of Vita-Man, great-grand-niece of Captain Patriot)- flying brick

    Faultline (grandson of Quake Kid)- earth elemental

     

  5. Tribute Game to Darren Watts

    in Champions

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    Hello everyone,

     

    I'm going to do a Tribute game for the late Darren Watts at Marmalade Dog, a local Michigan convention.  Do any of you have a list of the characters he made for Champions? Any pictures?  The intention is that these characters will be descendants of his Golden Age Champions team.

     

    Please let me know.  I enjoyed gaming and talking Champions with him even if we had a regrettable falling out over politics.

  6. Multipower and multiple items

    in HERO System 6th Edition Rules Questions

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    What is the rule for multiple items in a multipower? It looks like all of the canonical HERO/Champions characters have the multiple items outside of a multipower but a player of mine thinks that it's legal.  Basically he wants to be able to have this:

     

    Weapons Pool:  Multipower, 60-point reserve; all slots OAF (-1)

    Dual MP-7 SMGs:  Killing Attack - Ranged 2d6, +1 Increased STUN Multiplier (+1/4), Autofire (5 shots; +1/2); OAF (-1), 30 Charges (+1/4); Notes: x2 number of items

    Dual Katanas:  Killing Attack - Hand-To-Hand 1 1/2d6 (2d6+1 w/STR); OAF (-1); Notes: x2 number of items

    Twin .50 with Depleted Uranium Shells:  Killing Attack - Ranged 2d6+1, Armor Piercing (x2; +1/2) (52 Active Points); OAF (-1), 4 clips of 7 Charges (-0); Notes: x2 number of items

    Twin .45 autos:  Killing Attack - Ranged 2d6+1, Autofire (3 shots; +1/4), +1 Increased STUN Multiplier (+1/4) (52 Active Points); OAF (-1), 2 clips of 12 Charges (-0); Notes: x2 number of items

     

    I'm disinclined to give him this as it makes him more powerful than canonical Champions characters and seems like an abuse of the rules.  I can't find the official rules though. What is the official ruling?

  7. U-Con Returns in October 2022

    in Conventions

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    On 10/9/2022 at 12:16 PM, BoloOfEarth said:

    Played in the Battle of Detroit.  We beat Destroyer's low-level minions pretty handily, had a harder time with his lieutenants but we won in the end, though Detroit still ended up getting a few billion dollars' worth of urban renewal.

     

    I played Solitaire - no surprise that I got KO'd, as everybody knows that you "first kill the mentalist."  Some great roleplay from most of the other players.  The bits with characters snarking at each other gave it a good feel like an stablished superteam, even though I don't believe any of the players had played with each other previously.  A few of them hadn't played Champions in decades (I'm not sure, one may not have played Champions at all before), but gmGM did a great job explaining how things worked in Hero and I think it went pretty smoothly.  All in all, I believe a good time was had by all.

     

    Having grown up in the suburbs of Detroit, though, I was a little disappointed that Destroyer didn't get mugged as soon as he crossed the city limit.  :winkgrin:

     

    Glad you had a great time @BoloOfEarth!  Seeker at least was able to come through and heal you.  And Dr. Destroy does the mugging, he doesn't get mugged! (obviously it's a bad idea to even try to mug a dude in cybernetic armor unless you have the weapons to take it out)

  11. Unable to print to PDF

    in HERO Designer

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    1 hour ago, Simon said:

    That functionality was removed years ago due to incompatibility of required libraries with current versions of Java.

     

    Use the export functionality - whatever format you export to, the native renderer on your system (e.g. Word, browser, etc) will allow printing to pdf.

     

    Is there any way for it to put in as an export format?  Or has anyone come up with a way to export to a similar to pdf as before?

  15. Player looking for a Champions 6th Game

    in Player Finder

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    11 hours ago, KX_Mushashi said:

    It has been a while since I have been in a pen and paper, and have recently been inspired to make a new character that I would like to find a game to play them in.  Weekends are my best days for games since I have about 10am-10pm(GMT -8) free though I haven't had to work overtime in a while so I can probably open up Weekdays 5pm-10pm.  I am looking for an online or play by post game and I do have discord if the group plays with that for voice.

     

    We do have room in a current online HERO-Champions game. It's X-Men centric.  Sadly we've had the past 2 players flake out so you might need to chat with the GM.

  16. U-Con Online 2021

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    9 hours ago, mattingly said:

    Time Zone is... Central?

     

    Eastern

    11 hours ago, Ninja-Bear said:

    Per chance grandmastergm, what I your Savage Worlds game?

     

    Sure, I'm running:

     

    X-Crawl (Friday)- urban fantasy gladiators

    Deadlands Hell on Earth (Saturday afternoon)- post-apocalyptic

    Deadlands (Saturday evening)- weird western

    Rippers (Sunday)- victorian monster hunters

  24. Charlotte, NC area players?

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    22 hours ago, MareNovum said:

    Hello, all...as a long time Champions player, and fan of Hero in general (4th ed most recently), I am wondering if there are any games in the Charlotte, NC area, preferably south Charlotte, near Pineville (NC). I know we're not playing face-to-face now (covid and all), but I'm looking forward, hopefully. I'm good with most any Hero-based system: Champions, Dark Champions or Fantasy Hero (or something else?). Any other players in the area?

     

    I do hope to attend MACE this year.  Did you attend MACE back in 2019?

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