Richard Logue

Lex Luthor vs. Thor

I've stolen a concept or two from 7th Sea and Deadlands to help me create my Champions world. Essentially, "magic" is an underlying force that allows powers to exist. Its also a corruption that can lead to more and more villains. Sort of the darkside is easier, more seductive routine. My players haven't hit on this yet, but there is a sizable amount of heroes who have turn villainous over the years. However, I'm attempting to ease these ideas into the campaign slowly so as to draw it out. And then when the players start to put things together they can discover that, although the corruption gave them their powers, they can use those powers to try to correct the world and make it the way its probably supposed to be. Anyway, that's the extremely short form version of magic in my world. Its present and it greatly effects things. But it hasn't made a large impact in the players' perspectives yet. Richard

Shadow World I have a good 90% of the Shadow World products that were published by ICE. Over all they were pretty good. The biggest problem I had with them was the bad editing. Names or ideas of people or places often changed (slightly) from publication to publication. Sometimes within the same product. But it wasn't anything that couldn't be sifted through. On the whole, I like Shadow World and I ran a very successful and lengthy Rolemaster campaign with it. Without stepping over and checking each book, I seem to recall that most, if not all of them, were dual-stat Rolemaster/Fantasy Hero. Hypothetically, I could e-mail a list of what I have and their conditions, and one could, in theory, e-mail an offer. Rich

LoL.. I was going to call him Lunatic. But it is only a conception name. Actually I was considering making him a doctor of some sort who cracked under stress. Therefore, he'd probably just call himself by his own name when he was lucid. Of course, the character concept has him shifting from delusion to delusion with no break inbetween. A VPP or Multiform would imply a unified character no matter how diverse. If I simply made him a new and different character with the same Secret ID everytime I used him, it would be as if there were no connection between the different delusions. Thoughts on that? Richard

I thought about that, but the problem with Multiform is that if you can convince him he isn't a werewolf, he'll never use that form again. Also, he could, technically, have an unlimited amount of forms. Richard

I've got a "villain" who i am considering naming Lunatic. He's delusional but he has the power to create the abilities that he would have in a new state of mind. Note that his delusions are complete and he doesn't realize that he isn't who he believes he is. For example, currently in the campaign, he calls himself Timber Wolf, and he believes he is a werewolf. Therefore his power makes him into a werewolf. He becomes bestial with the phases of the moon, he grows claws, his hair becomes unkempt, etc... Now, how do I build this character? Do I build Lunatic and just give him a huge VPP, or do I create Timber Wolf and just know that he is Lunatic and can rebuild him as a new character later? Ideas? Richard

LoL... That's funny stuff Jm. Thanks for the answers, Derek and Jm. That leaves CLOWN open for use in my campaign. I'm going to kill half of them off in a heinous interdimensional storyline and a new, much more sinister CLOWN will emerge. What do you think? Its good to be the GM. Richard

Is CLOWN oficially part of the 5th Ed. Champions Universe? Rich