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If you're using 6th Edition, don't forget about the Absolute Effect rule (basic discussion in Volume 1, page 133; a more detailed explanation plus some creative uses of it in Steve Long's "Control Powers" supplement).  This might be helpful in a basic stat-out of a "Mutant Cure" power.

If you're using 6th Edition, don't forget about the Absolute Effect rule (basic discussion in Volume 1, page 133; a more detailed explanation plus some creative uses of it in Steve Long's "Control Powers" supplement).  This might be helpful in a basic stat-out of a "Mutant Cure" power.

If your standard is going to be Silver Age Superman, fair enough.
 
 
Years ago one of our forum colleagues drew an illo of Vanguard based on that factoid and his B&W drawing in BOTD, and posted it to the forum. I saved it, but I must apologize for not remembering the artist. If anyone knows please give credit.

He also appears once in Book of the Machine, which includes the factoid that Vanguard's superhero costume was blue and gold.

The GAC Kingdom of Bohica was in my mind when I originally posted this this.  I envisioned it in parallel with a weirder WW2 instead of replacing it.
 
So, are you saying that Faerie is interstellar in nature?

On the subject of Faerie during WW II, there were other regions and peoples defined for that dimension in additional Champions 5E/6E books. One was first raised in Champions Of The North, with further elaboration in Golden Age Champions.
 
In the Northern Lights, the spirit realm of Inuit myth, there's a region called the Land of Ice or the Ice Realm, whose Ice People were ruled by the immortal King Vultok, a devotee of the great spirit of the North known as the Ice. During WW II Vultok allied with the Axis and became the greatest threat to Canada, operating out of a palace under an impenetrable dome of ice in northern Manitoba. In 1948 Vultok's minions stole a prototype atom bomb, intending to deliver it at the first United Nations meeting in San Francisco. Several Canadian heroes tracked the bomb back to Vultok's palace and confronted him, during which the bomb was accidentally triggered. The blast killed Vultok and destroyed his palace and dome, and apparently the blast carried to the Land of Ice and wiped out all the Ice People. UNTIL still maintains a watch over the radioactive remains of Vultok's Earthly base. (GAC also mentions that Vultok returned from the dead in 2008 and allied with the demon Tillingkoot, but nothing about his later activities).
 
The other new region appears so far only in GAC. The land of Bohica is inhabited by the Gremlins, a diminutive but hardy race who, unlike most inhabitants of Faerie, are fascinated by mechanical devices, and adept with them beyond most human engineers. Since the Industrial Revolution the Gremlins have covertly visited Earth to study human mechanisms, and sometimes reward inventors of particularly clever devices, or sabotage shoddy workmanship. But pre-1940, Nazi occultists discovered and invaded Bohica and enslaved the Gremlins, forcing them to build weapons and equipment for the Third Reich. Many of Germany's cutting-edge devices only functioned with assistance from the Gremlins. The crown prince of the Gremlins, Fubar  () , was freed by Allied superheroes and joined the war effort until 1944 when they liberated Bohica. At last word Fubar succeeded to the throne of Bohica and still rules it, occasionally interacting with Earthly heroes.

In Japan it was Space Battleship Yamato, adapted in English for American television as Star Blazers. "Yamato" was actually the name of a Japanese battleship commissioned during WW II, the biggest battleship ever built, sunk in 1945. In the series the original Yamato was salvaged and upgraded as a space warship.

Sherlock Holmes would be in a "period" London, because all the cities in Babylon are in their most iconic forms in the popular imagination. Victorian London, Imperial Rome, Arabian Nights Baghdad, hold a far stronger power over the mind than their contemporary iterations.

I think Faerie by this point would hold what I think of as "Inbred Lake," a backwoods region of seemingly abandoned cabins and campgrounds, haunted by near-superhuman masked psychopaths and hillbillies carrying banjos and chainsaws.

WW2 is for sure one of the most mythologized events of recent history, so I think it would have some influence. Though as a period of history, an important aspect is that it very definitely *ended.* So one question is whether one thinks the Land of Legends "replays" famous myths so visitors from Earth can participate -- like, if you visit the subrealm of Mythic Greece, can you participate in the Trojan War? It's not how I imagine Faerie, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.
 
But there are other forms of influence. One thought: Were the various pantheons affected, or at least interested in, what their associated mortal cultures were doing? Like, did the Norse-Germaninc, Greco-Roman and Japanese Gods care about the Axis? White Wolf's Scion game (think Percy Jackson for gamers who think they're too grown up for Percy Jackson) included a setup for a World War Two campaign in which the three pantheons backed the Axis for various reasons unrelated to mortal politics, leading to war against other pantheons. (And yes, the "Axis Pantheons" ended up regretting their choice very deeply.)
 
On a much smaller scale, there's that trope of the Japanese soldier who got lost in the jungle and never learned the war was over until decades later. The soldier could perhaps slide through a portal to the Land of Legends as a modern addition to one of the mythic islands of Brendan, Odysseus or Sinbad.
 
Dean Shomshak

Nope.  As you're traveling along the track, you encounter a woman tied to the tracks.  Another mile or so away is a train coming this way.  You untie the woman and get her off the tracks just in time; the train passes by without harming her.  You continue in the direction from where the train came, and in another mile or so, there's another woman tied to the tracks, and another train coming.  
 
As long as you keep moving with the tracks, this happens.  And if you turn around and go the other way, exactly the same thing happens.  The train is always coming from the direction you're moving toward, and even though you might be passing by a section you've already passed by and rescued a woman from, there's another living woman tied there, with another train coming.  And there's only one track; it's not double-lanes where trains can pass by either direction.  

This is a better example of your point than you realize.  The central tenet of Special Relativity (the speed of light is constant in all reference frames) falls out quite naturally from certain solutions to Maxwell's Equations.  Physicists for half a century didn't figure this out until Einstein came along.
 
BTW, the snippet between the Mandaarian researcher and the Champions was brilliant on so many levels!  I'd buy that story in a heartbeat if you ever finish it (hint, hint...)
 

SUCK IT, Michelson and Morley!!!

The world most of us perceive and interact with apparently runs according to Newtonian mechanics, and they describe and quantify such things just fine.
 
However, your example would explain why the technology of the more advanced alien races in the CU was mostly not impacted by the loss of magic. Over their much longer period of civilization they discovered more of the principles governing the physical universe, on which they could build a path to even more discoveries. But without understanding the foundation of that path, there would be no way forward. OTOH the change in physics due to magic/splunge/reflections/whatever created alternative paths that sufficiently gifted scientists could perceive and exploit based on their existing understanding of science.
 
In the Champions Universe the technology of the Gadroon and the Malvans is illustrative of that gap in understanding. Captured Gadroon gravity-based tech has defied human analysis, because it appears to operate on principles even super-scientists have never imagined. While human scientists trying to understand the non-functioning Malvan devices in their hands has been likened to Neanderthals trying to reverse-engineer a supercollider.
 
Another example from fiction would be Hugo Danner, the prototypical superman of Phillip Wylie's novel, Gladiator. Danner's superhuman strength and durability was the product of a treatment invented by his biologist father. That invention didn't fit conceptually with mainstream biology, which the elder Danner said was based on a mistaken assumption; but that assumption was so logical, so reasonable, that it could be generations before the mistake was discovered, if ever.
 
For my part, I keep thinking of the theory of dark matter. To explain the difference between the measurable mass of the Universe, and what we can actually see in the universe, we invented something with the properties necessary to fit. But no one has found dark matter yet, and we have no idea if it exists or if something completely different is happening.
 
Holy Crap! What if dark matter is actually ether?!
 

 

Hmm... this is really interesting to contemplate. Perhaps "splunge" (to use the term we're currently operating with) is the power wielded by the conceptual entities, transcending other distinctions: and those entities, or other agencies, "refine" it into magic, cosmic power, ch'i or psionics. But the quantity and balance of splunge is what affects the properties of each universe.
 
I'm reminded of Dean's discussion of Atziluth, the highest of the planes in the Hero Multiverse, on p. 9 of The Mystic World. Let me quote what I think is the passage most relevant to this discussion:

Atziluth contains three sephiroth, each considered a single plane by mystics. They call BINAH (or Understanding) the Dark Sea of Being. It is an infinite reservoir of power for creation or destruction. CHOKMAH (or Wisdom) is called the Bright Sea of Forms. It contains every possible archetype of objects, actions, ideas, structures, or any other category you could name. Mystic tomes say the light of Chokmah shines on the dark waves of Binah — form combines with substance — and the sparkling reflections off the waves forms the Multiverse.
 
Perhaps this is the power -- which I will now call Reflections of Atziluth -- which conceptual entities convert into magic, cosmic energy, matter, life, everything. But major actions by mortals like the Walpurgisnacht Working or the Kolvel Event can accidentally break through to Atziluth and tap the Reflections, changing the balance of properties in a world, galaxy, even universe.

I don't much care for "magic causes super-powers," either, because it seems to privilege one mode of power over others. If it were up to me, but I was bound to preserve past published statements, I'd present something like this:
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The Mandaarian shook her head and smiled. "No, I express myself badly. Your languages do not have the words. So often you use 'magic' to mean anything you do not understand. But Witchfire, you understand the spells you cast, yes? Or think you do, just as Defender thinks he understands how and why his armor works. You are not wrong, but your understanding is insufficient." She paused. "I came to study your history, how you made the transition from complete ignorance to partial understanding. Defender, let me use an example from the history of your science. The first scientists to study heat thought it was a fluid, which they called 'caloric.' This fluid could flow, diffuse, condense. This theory was wrong. There is no caloric: heat is motion of molecules. But the large-scale result acts like a fluid. The caloric theory was enough to create practical technology. For a steam engine or internal combustion engine, the theory is right enough. But eventually it will give wrong answers.
 
"That is why your armor, and your spells, became less reliable in that other time. They both rely upon another factor that you do not know about. Your present science cannot encompass it, because it involves consciousness. But it is not magic, either. Neither of you" -- the Mandaarian nodded to the two heroes -- "could create an instrumentality to detect it.  So call it... splunge."
 
"Splunge?" Kinetik interjected from the side. "You know about Monty Python on Mandaar?"
 
"We recorded it on our second visit," the Mandaarian said. "Monty Python's Flying Circus is, you would put it, huge on Mandaar. A product of one of your most advanced plexic entities. I have developed a silly walk -- but you do not want the distraction." She shook her head.
 
"Yes, call the underlying factor 'splunge.' It is why your armor works, why you can cast spells by thought instead of long rituals, why accidents that should kill instead give powers, and much else besides. But before you ask: I cannot tell you how to detect it, let alone manipulate it. It requires concepts as fundamental as mathematics, which you do not yet possess. It would be like explaining calculus to those tribes who count one-two-three-many."
 
"But you understand it?" Defender asked, a slight edge in his voice.
 
"Mandaarians understand it," she said calmly. "I do not. I am a historian, not a... splunge-worker. But our instrumentality makes full use of splunge, yes. It is not subject to changes in the level of ambient splunge. This is why we take such care not to leave any of our instrumentality behind. Not because yu would learn things for which you are not ready. Only because you could hurt yourself, as a child who does not understand electricity should be prevented from sticking things in wall outlets."
 
There was a long silence. Witchcraft finally asked, "So why does splunge change? Why is the... splung level now high, and low at other times?"
 
The Mandaarian shrugged. "It is complicated and -- as I said -- I am not a specialist. In this case, humans caused it. The group of humans who called themselves 'RSvKg' performed actions in your year 1938 that caused intensification of splunge. They thought they were doing magic; they did not, in any way, understand what they truly did, or what effect it would have. This I may say with certainty. Time travel was authorized to investigate the event, and I was part of that inquiry."
 
The Mandaarian tapped her fingers together. "That is the limit of what I may tell you. I would not have told you this much, except you saved me life and I do not believe you will misuse this information by -- say -- letting your attempts to detect splunge go beyond the bounds of prudence. Thank you again. I hope I have shown reciprocity." She clicked her tongue, and vanished.
 
No one spoke for several seconds. Then Witchcraft said to the group at large, "Do you believe her?"
 
There was another pause before Sapphire spoke. "I... don't know science or magic or anything like that. But I know performance. And I think she was pretending to be more human that she is." Her voice firmed. "That was staged."
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Dean Shomshak

The Stronghold source book, in addition to extensively detailing that super-prison, also explores at significant length how the Champions American legal system has adapted to the presence of superhumans, extra-terrestrials, supernatural creatures, etc. Below are the relevant passages from p. 30 of that book:
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The second and more important issue is the rights of so-called "non-humans": alien and extra-dimensional life-forms; artificially intelligent computers, androids, and robots; human mutants; the undead; clones and genetic constructs; and so forth. The Supreme Court dealt with this question in 1978 in six consolidated cases: One Unname-able Alien Life-Form From Tau Ceti 11 v. United States (alien being), Mechanoid-5 v. New York (artificially intelligent android), Ohio v. Julesz the Kind (vampire), Gordon "Powermonger" Lowder v. California (mutants), Phillip "Infrared" Cowling v. United States (mutates), United States v. The Lizard-Thing (extradimensional beings), and Number 32 v. Central Intelligence Agency (human clone with genetic enhancements), 428 U.S. 1471 (1976) (collectively, Tau Ceti 11). The Court stated:
 
The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees of due process and equal protection extend to all persons within the United States or its territories. But... the term "persons" means humans. Neither alien and extra-dimensional life forms, nor artificial intelligences, nor the undead are "persons," and hence they have no rights under the Fourteenth Amendment.
 
Mutants, mutates, clones, and genetic constructs from human stock are a different matter. Essentially, they are "subspecies" of humanity. In many cases, even the most thorough examination of them cannot differentiate them from humans. The are so close to being human that there is no legal justification for considering them not to be human. We hold that free-willed mutants, mutates, clones, and genetic constructs, from human stock, are 'persons" under the Fourteenth Amendment and are possessed of all rights thereunder.
Id. at 1480-1483 (citations omitted).
 
In response, Congress passed the Android, Artificial Intelligence, and Alien Life-Form Rights Act of 1979 (usually known as the "Triple-A Act"). The Triple-A Act grants civil rights to most "sentient" beings who can prove that they are independent and free-willed. The law defines "sentience" in various ways, usually relating to the capacity for creative and philosophical thought, not just problem-solving capability. Most states have also enacted laws or passed their own constitutional amendments granting "alternate sentiences" various civil rights. However, this law and all related laws, state and federal, make one exception: the undead do not have civil rights. The legal ramifications of that, particularly the question of who owns the formerly deceased's property, combined with the typically evil or destructive nature of such beings, has kept them outside the ambit of the laws.

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That'll be page 97 in Champions Complete

Segerge hits it. Damage shield though I would say that it should have No STR bonus limitation but that’s my opinion. 
 
@Danomite41, just outta curiosity what edition/rule set you using? Just so we can point to correct page.

Easy.  Define that particular Killing Attack as a Damage Shield (in the likely event you're using 6e, you want page 321 of Book 1).    It's a special type of Area-effect attack which is also defined using the Constant and Personal advantages as well.  The page reference goes into far more detail than I can summarize here.

Easy.  Define that particular Killing Attack as a Damage Shield (in the likely event you're using 6e, you want page 321 of Book 1).    It's a special type of Area-effect attack which is also defined using the Constant and Personal advantages as well.  The page reference goes into far more detail than I can summarize here.

Variations of the Champions Universe in the TASK FORCE version:
 
1. I made Awad an island proximate to the Yemen/Oman border off the Saudi Penninsula.
2. Guamanga is what used to be called "British Nicaraugua" until the Iran-Contra Affair in the late 1980's, its capital is Bluefields.
3. Taquiristan is the central Asian desert south of the the reborn Tethys Sea (Caspian + Aral seas) north of Iran and would have otherwise been part of Turkmenistan and Kyrghistan.
4. Unadi (4e Champions, "The Mutant File") is south central Africa including Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, and Zambia.

Buy your arrow multipower/charges/whathaveyou. Buy the bow as the range effect on the arrows.

Similar to the Star Hero reference that Armitage mentioned, in the Advanced Player's Guide 2 (pg. 114) there is a section titled Attacking And Destroying Large Objects which covers destroying not just the Earth but large objects in general such as mountains.  The section gives multiple options (in terms of rules) for attacking large objects that might be of interest.