Barton

It is a game where the heroes are built on fewer points and are teenagers in high school, still learning their powers.
 
I will PM you about this so we can talk about day/times and other details.

Would you be interested in me being the GM and running an on-line Teen Champs game?

You know you're a player when:
- you see a movie or show, and start guessing what the character's Dex, Con, PD & ED, etc. are.
- you see a movie or show, and start figuring out the disadvantages as well.

Eh, current trends come and go, gaming is long term.

I wish I could have gotten mine for only $15,000. If memory serves, the wood alone for all the shelves (I needed a particularly high quality wood due to the nature of the project) cost more than $15,000. Overall I believe the bookshelves alone were 20-25% of my budget for renovating my entire house. That's why I had to save up so long to do it -- since I intend to live in this house for the rest of my life, I insisted on getting the best materials and craftsmen available to me.
 
Unfortunately I had to sell a kidney, a lung, a leg, and my Red Ryder BB gun -- but at least I had lot to read while I was recuperatin'.

6E2 page 98, for starters...though it really doesn't have to go past Steve Long saying it should work like that.

6E2 page 98 also discusses rolling of Normal Damage...including half dice.
 
Again, Steve Long has given the rules and the cost structure for half dice of Blast (and other attacks) -- that is what HD is showing.

Barton,
 
You invited me from another thread (my intro).  I'm flattered and intere4sted, but I don't think I count as a newbie per se.  GMed for many years although that was 8-10 years ago by now.  Looking at the Champions Complete book, not that mnuch has changed from my day except the removal of "figured characteristics" (which I can see the reasoning behind). 
 
I live in Virginia so my presence would have to be virtual in any case.
 
If you do decide you'd like me to join, like if you need warm bodies, let me know and I will weigh in regarding playtime scheduling.  If not, thanks for the offer and have a great campaign!
 
 

There are several ways to do it, but it depends on what you are trying to accomplish.
 
If what you're trying to just create an origin for a character, then its a story thing and you don't need a power to do it.
 
If you want to do a long-term major change to a character (like granting a regular person superpowers for the duration of an adventure) transform is usually the best option
 
If you want to give someone powers for a little while, like a potion, then you have a few options.
1) using a focus to give someone a power like a power ring works (as long as they have the focus they can use the powers)
2) using Aid can boost someone's existing powers and abilities for a time limit
3) The usable by others advantage can grant someone powers indefinitely, within certain kinds of limits (have to be within a range, or spend END, that kind of thing depending on how it was built)

File as a jpg. Formatted as 11x8.5
 
I included a table of file types, extensions and what pages they are discussed in the HD manual.

Sorry Panpiper, but prefer newbies; also Tuesday night is a no go for me.

Instant sensation is not really true. 
In has accrued a following over the near 30 years it has been out.  But I can clearly remember it as the only RPG that would get itself banned from gamestores and cons, not because of the game itself, but because the players.  One, they didn't seem to realize that the backstabbing and infighting was a game and not real life.  And two, the 100+ average summer temperatures in the area I was living in the early 90s wasn't really conducive to wearing heavy black long coats 24/7.  I actually first became aware of the game when the store pulled it from the shelf when the players belligerence was spilling into the store and the owners had had enough. Not mention it wa the first time I had ever seen a "no shower, no service" sign at a gaming shop.
At the time I thought it was a one off, but over the next few years I found it was a semi-common occurrence. 
 
These days it appears the fan base has fixed itself and you don't see idiots knocking things over and actual fights breaking out over a brouhahahaha blood fued.  But I do know a few small groups that still play.  They all are 100 positive that the game is not player versus player backstabby.  And yet every single session I sat in on included a players PC being killed, cursed, destroyed or in some way eliminated by another player.  The entire sessions consisted of players maneuvering to take out other players.
 
Over the last 20 years this has repeated at games across the US as well as overseas. 
 
If you like it, good on you.
But I was always drawn to the cooperative nature of RPGs.  I am repelled by RPGs based on PvP.
 

Would you be interested in me being the GM and running an on-line Teen Champs game?

OK here is the proposed lineup of characters that players can choose from to play through the tutorial:
 
Blindside—Martial arts are great, but what if you could also turn invisible? (this is a placeholder for a "look what a cool idea you can build with Hero" character
Blurred Lion—The cat ears and tail don't slow this speedster down.
Dr Nope—Spiders might be creepy, but this character is just stylish with spider powers.
Princess—She’s little and she’s cute, but she can juggle Teslas and bounce bullets.
Red Raptor—A devastating fighter with deadly claws and fast healing.
Spellbinder—The eerie and awesome power of magic is at your command with this character.
Street Knight—Maybe just a mere mortal, but the gadgets and skills make all the difference.
Supernova—Flight is great, and blasting bad guys is fun, but that force field keeps you going.
Tank—Who’s big and strong and can take a ton of punishment?  Oh, and that blast is powerful, too.
Trooper—This power-armored character has amazing technology and uses it well.
Vulcan—Maybe he’s not really a god, but he can sure make and fix just about anything, and fight toe to toe with just about anyone.
 
I dropped the Captain America clone because I couldn't come up with a good one that felt reasonably unique (plus that would make 13 and some people are really superstitious about that still).  I could add in Crusader from Champions 4th, with a new name, and another (maybe a shrinker or stretcher?).  I really wanted to do a Magic Girl type character (from many, many Japanese comics and cartoons) but I couldn't get the build simple enough for our purposes here.
 

Yep, all slots designed and pre-approved by the GM 'before' the game, should be absolutely mandatory. That is certainly a rule I impose on myself if a player.

Would you be interested in me being the GM and running an on-line Teen Champs game?

Players must PRE-define the powers and have them approved BEFORE play starts. No creation when your phase is up.

Players must PRE-define the powers and have them approved BEFORE play starts. No creation when your phase is up.

Folks, keep current/real world politics to the Political Discussion thread, please.

Teen Champions - Meyerson Academy - Make a Character and Play
 
Do you have any friends, spouses, children, or friends of your children who should learn how to PLAY Champions and DESIGN a character? 
This game is designed to teach complete newbies, even those who have NEVER played a RPG.
 
You will make a teen-aged superhero character . Characters will be designed using modified Champions Character Creation Cards.
Then the character will go to the danger room and you and your classmates will have to fight A.I. controlled robots and other robotic dangers.
Bring your imagination, a character concept, and be ready to roll some six sided dice.
 
 
Saturday, June 20, 2020 -  12 noon Central
6 Hours
Using: 6th ed Hero System rules.
 
Will run with as few of two players and up to 5 players. Children ten years and older are welcome.
Please respond to this by posting below. 
We will use Lifesizecloud to meet online, I will have two cameras; one on me and one on the map.

When face to face just roll behind the screen.
When on line I just roll real dice, and in both cases try not to let the players see the rolls.

Yosemite Sam? I mean, c'mon, he's the rootin'est, tootin'est, gosh-darn shootin'est . . . .

For Rules, there are no current export tags. Probably the closest I'd be willing to go would be to give a Rules container (e.g. <!--RULES--> ... <!--/RULES-->) that would allow you to use ATTRIBUTE_VALUE tags to go through the various getter methods in the Rules object. You'd need to run through the javadoc for the actual method names.
 
Notes (the last column on the characteristics table) are accessed via the appropriate _NOTES tag  e.g. <!--STR_NOTES-->
 
The color/color burst was never intended for use in HD -- it was part of a brief integration with the ill-fated HeroSphere. You can get at the value by using ATTRIBUTE_VALUE, but it's pointless as there's no place that it is set within HD.

You could redefine/override the LANGUAGES container itself in the template, but the familiarity chart is not for the faint of heart...

My Dallas/Fort Worth local gaming store has a bunch of out-of-print supplemental (NO rulebooks) HERO 5E/6E printed books on clearance, most of them for single-digit prices.
 
The books listed below were there when I left, (presume 1d6 copies of each, didn't have time to count & price all).  Willing to pass them along for $5-10 + shipping if there is interest.  Post requests on this thread if you wish; will take to PMs for arrangements.  Will update when any sell out.
 
Alien Wars, Asian Bestiary, Arcane Adversaries, Atlantis, Book of the Destroyer, Book of Dragons, Book of the Empress, Book of the Machine, New Millennium Bay City,  New Millennium Alliances, Invaders from Below, Champions Battlegrounds, Champions of the North, Champions Universe, Champions Worldwide, Conquerors Killers Crooks, Cops Crews Cabals, Dark Champions, Dark Champions TAS, Day After Ragnarok, Demon, Everyman, Evil Unleashed, Fantasy Battlegrounds, Foxbat for President, Gadgets and Gear, Galactic Champions, Combat Handbook, Vehicle Sourcebook, Hidden Lands, Lucha Libre Hero, Masterminds Madmen, Millennium City, Monsters Minions Marauders, Mystic World, Ninja Hero, Post Apocalyptic Hero, Predators, PS 238, Reality Storm, Scourges of the Galaxy, Shades of Black, Sharper than Serpents Tooth, Spacers Toolkit, Stronghold, Teen Champions, Terran Empire, Thrilling Places, Tuala Morn, Turakian Age, Ultimate Brick, Ultimate Speedster, Ultimate Skill, Ultimate Vehicle, UNTIL, USPD 1 & 2, Valdorian Age, Vibora Bay, villains Vandals Vermin, Villainy Amok, Viper, Worlds of Empire, You Gotta Have Character.
 
Chris.