Christopher R Taylor

I figured 10-20 because characters started at 10 and 20 was a reasonable max for human strength - lifting 800+ lbs over your head is someone who is in really terrific shape.  It seemed to make sense if you extrapolate from STR to the other stats.

Figured was a bit less clear, since there were no benchmarks, but you could just use max stats to figure from and see what you got.

Yeah I like both of those better, good designs.

As for the Myth of Points Bloat

 

Its no myth, its easily traced through each edition from 4th onward.  I mean, its obvious that each edition suggested more points for your superheroic characters (even if some GMs like me ignored the increase). Whether that represents a real increase in power for characters is debatable, but there's not really any way to label that increase as "mythical."

Ask Magnus, Robot Fighter!

Damage Shield in 5th edition was really, really awful.  It cost a zillion points to get virtually no effect.

Nah, I've been of the opinion that ain't nobody gonna turn this ship around, no matter who they are.  We're past the point of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, its almost vertical.

The starting points are just suggestions.  In my experience, a 250 point 4th edition character translates into about 300-325 points in 6th edition.  There are more options so you can make them have more stuff, but its not necessary to spend 400 points.

I like that a lot, got a kind of modern knight feel

Why not just buy DCV?

Yeah the more I think about it, the less triggered DCV makes any sense at all.  Its either just plain DCV or levels of DCV against specific kinds of attacks.  If you want your character to have better DCV against something, just buy that.

During your combat do you apply the rule to not exceed twice the DC of a weapon.

I have a house rule where you can continue increasing, but it doubles the strength minimum.

so: 3 damage class weapon (1d6 KA) can be doubled for 5 points over the STR min each damage class; +15 STR gives you 2d6.

To get the next d6 takes 10 strength per damage class; +30 strength gets you 3d6.

and so on.

And, of course, the weapon is damaging its self.

I dunno, he always seemed really helpful and cheerful when someone used the batphone.

STREET KNIGHT

The Batman/Moon Knight/Daredevil type.  The costume will have to be pretty "Batmanny" to get the point across I think, because the name is not exactly clear.  At least dark armor with maybe a cloak.  He's mostly skills with gadgets with light body armor, and I gave him a collapsible staff to fight with instead of a billyclub, for example.  He's not an independent billionaire, rather a private detective. He's got martial arts but when presented right that's not particularly difficult to play even for a beginner, its like picking skills from a list.

BASIC STORY: The Street Knight has no special story to tell or trigger event.  Growing up in the city exposed this character to corruption in the wealthy and crime in the poor, and the Street Knight always had a basic need to see justice done and wrongs righted.  Time spent in the police department in their youth just proved to the Street Knight that justice was all too often not found there, either.  Becoming a private investigator, Street Knight tried to fight for justice, but quickly realized something more had to be done.  After a particularly big payoff from recovering a stolen painting, Street Knight purchased and had built equipment that enabled them to take to the city and more directly bring justice to its streets.  Now, working days as a PI and nights as Street Knight, this character is a scourge on crime at any level and in any place.

The male and female stories are the same.

Street Knight.hdc

But did it ever happen? Did any criminal ever tap into said line? Why not?

 

Because that would ruin the entire premise.  Because the rules of the campaign were that nobody ever finds out secret identities.

I am the terror that flaps in the night, I am the fingernail that scrapes the blackboard of your soul

The only thing about picking a DCV bonus and putting a trigger on it, you need some sort of limitation to make it worth it.  Because as it is, I can take DCV without Trigger and it just applies all the time.

This is true, although since its so situational, you can buy very small combat levels and use them which is much cheaper than straight 8 point DCV levels.  3 point "only for trigger" levels seems pretty appropriate.

When I built premade characters for a Champions campaign, I had a little meter of bars on the top of each indicating their difficulty to play on a scale of 1-5.  That gave people an easy reference to the complexity of a character immediately upon looking at the sheet.

For Dodge, pick the bonus DCV you believe their defensive act should grant and put a trigger on it.

For dive for cover, pick either a teleport (only to places he could run to) to a specific maximum distance and then the trigger takes care of it.  You'll probably need some kind of "to a nearby clear area" advantage to make the teleport go somewhere useful.

For roll with a punch, I'd call it a damage reduction, 25% or maybe 50% depending on how significant you figure it is.

To make sense to me, all the triggers would require limitations of "must be conscious and aware of attack" 

Second to 4th was a major PITA in places.

 

Yeah those are the ones I have the most trouble converting because the basic rules changed more between 2/3 and 4 than between 4th and later editions.  Lots of added skills for one thing.

Yep, I find that converting 4e to 6e there's no real effort required. Just mapping abilities across.

 

There aren't really too many changes, on occasion I find one of the 4th edition builds can be done better with 6th rules, but most of the time for me after several hundred is that its just a matter of recosting a few things.  The real problems come when a power like missile deflection or find weakness/lack of weakness shows up and you have to re-model it.

The high skill character is still a bit of a problem for Hero, just less so than it used to be.  Batman's List o' skills and resources pretty much requires a power pool or he's more expensive than Superman

If you're a Hollywood exec, apparently yes

It got some good reviews at first, too.  Then word of mouth started to get around about misery fest, murdering Batman, lousy Luthor, etc.

Now a 3-hour R rated version release is being planned.  Because Superman needs naked breasts and profanity.

Nuff said