Christopher R Taylor

I wouldn't allow Haymaker against a physical Entangle either.  I don't think an escape attempt is a type of Strike maneuver; I think it's an application of STR (or EGO, in the case of a mental Entangle).  Again, the right SFX might sway me, but in general, in my brain, I think most reasons someone might say they should be able to Haymaker are actually just rationales for why it makes sense for them to Push their STR/EGO.

Yeah and that's the idea I had that led to posting this thread: what was once amazing and super powered stuff is now mundane and ordinary.  I wrote both The Island of Dr Destroyer and the upcoming Champions Begins with the assumption that every superhero is also carrying around a smart phone of some sort (probably a cheap disposable so they can't be tracked in their secret identity, but still)
 

Crusader and Starburst were always iconic heroes in my book. Particularly Crusader. But then I used him in a ton of games. 
 
On the villain side of things, the Iconic Villains were the bad guys in the main books, as they also got a lot of use from me in the past. Armadillo, Cheshire Cat, Pulsar, Bluejay, Brick, Icicle, Howler, Mechanon, Dragonfly, Shrinker, Ogre, Green Dragon... they all went through a bit of redesign the more I used them, but let me tell you, when Pulsar and Ogre team up, the poop hits the fan.

Thrash your throat doing that voice for long, though

OK here's my rough for the intro to Chapter One, the first scenario bit ("Memories")  Its just a rough overview of combat and interaction with the environment
 
I haven't gotten to the NPCs yet, I expect Viper Agents will be very simple and have basic gadgets.  I grabbed the 5th edition VIPER book and looked it over, its hard to find an actual VIPER agent write-up.
Chapter One GM.pdf

Yeah, I don't care about some spreadsheet of demographics, its just more interesting to have variety.
 
 
Flare is the only one that comes to mind, and not necessarily in a good way.  That's based only on the comics that made her more and more into a tart in order to drive sales (and because its fun to draw sexy girls).  But Iconic is Iconic, even if its not necessarily a positive icon.  Power Girl's costume is iconic for the "boob window" which isn't necessarily a positive thing.
 
The story behind why she looks that way is hilarious, I cannot remember which episode of Explain This Comics Guys! its in, so you'll just have to listen to them all.
 

Hostess episode is hilarious and fun, great job guys
 
Here's Frank Miller's offering mentioned, with the Ice Master.  Great art for a Hostess ad.
 

So, villains should all be male, because it's wrong to hit the weaker sex?
 
Villains are villains, and heroes punch, energy-blast, move-through, and generally try to stop them, not because of who they are, what they look like, or where they fall in some Venn diagram of demographics, but because they're doing something wrong, generally involving immediate threat to innocents.
 
We don't need more villains in the dragonlady, femme fatale, and certainly not in the seductress mode, but female master-minds and heavy-hitters, sure, women are human beings, human beings are capable of wielding extreme power and of depths of violence and evil, as well as heights of nobility and heroism.
 
So.  Female iconic Champions! Universe heroes, you'd nominate?   

Yeah and that's the idea I had that led to posting this thread: what was once amazing and super powered stuff is now mundane and ordinary.  I wrote both The Island of Dr Destroyer and the upcoming Champions Begins with the assumption that every superhero is also carrying around a smart phone of some sort (probably a cheap disposable so they can't be tracked in their secret identity, but still)
 

Probably the best way to handle a Cell Phone is to treat it as normal equipment for non-combat use (like a telephone) but a character has to spend points if they are going to use those abilities in odd situations, in combat, or in places where something like that would not ordinarily work or be available.
 
 
Maybe you should build it as a Variable Power Pool instead!

Don't expect actors to resemble who they play. Appreciate them for their performance, and leave it at that. Elevating them as persons just because of their talent usually leads to disappointment. Same advice for professional athletes.

Foxbat has featured in a number of silly adventures in past Champions campaigns of mine.
 
There's the one where he decided to kidnap Adam West and Burt Ward at a mall opening, and had his group (the Foxbat Five) dress up as various villains from the 1960s Batman TV show.  He also had the Photonic Optiocal Waveform (POW) hologram generator to produce visual sound effects (POW!  BAM!  CRASH!) throughout the fight.  Before even running into the Foxbat Five, the heroes had decided to ALSO dress up as Batman foes, and managed to pick the exact same 5 characters.
 
There's also the time he broke into the Federal Reserve - not to rob it so much as to replace the money inside with bundles of FoxbatCash with his face, and the faces of his Foxbat Force teammates, replacing the presidents.  Another "update" included the replacement saying "In Foxbat We Trust".
 
Had a non-Foxbat adventure where a group of vampires were trying to steal something that would have made them very powerful.  For the minion vampires, I included one who had been an Elvis impersonator before getting bit.  I rewrote the lyrics to a number of Elvis songs - Don't Step on My Blood Red Shoes, Undead Hotel, etc. and sang one of on each of his Phases.  Keeping in mind this was a minion, not the big bad or even one of her major minions... but half the hero team ganged up on Vampire Elvis just to shut him up. 

The comic that inspired Foxbat is going for auction. He realizes it's HIS comic...the one from when he was a kid and MUST get it back...

Foxbat is kidnapping cosplayers to try out his new fashion line, that or he's doing a miss Foxbat contest - rather they want to participate or not.

I agree that the people at the top of WB aren't fit for leadership (in the movie business), but not for the reasons Ray Fisher is going on about.

Giant.
 
Bear with me, here; I can explain.  
 
No; actually I can't.  But everything from his brown and yellow costume to the lack of a signture crest or logo....  I dont really have the words for it, but to someone featured in a roleplaying game of "make anything you want, how you want," I was positively in love with just how uninteresting he was.   
 
no; I really mean that.   I thiught it was just wonderful.

I decided to take a crack at it:
 
Cell Phone Multipower: 30 Active Points, Common limitations: OAF -1, Cost End -1/2, 1 easily recoverable charge, lasts 6 hours (+0, because otherwise it is cheaper to get rid of "Costs End" but the phone's use should be limited by battery capacity)
real cost: 12
 
Mind Link 5cp, No Line of Sight +10, up to 16 participants (Conference Call) + 15 = 30 Active Points, Only to others with a cell phone & requires knowledge of their phone number -1,
real cost: 1
 
Radio Perception and Transmission, Active Points 10, 
real cost: 1
 
Navigation App: Navigation skill at 14-,  9 Active Points 
real cost: 1
 
Translation App: Universal Translator Active Points 20 (OAF -1)
real cost: 1
 
Video Recording App Eidetic Memory Active Points 5 (OAF -1)
real cost: 1
 
Images Sight and Sound to replay video recording,  Active Points: 5 -The images are too small to fool anyone and they do not fill a hex. (OAF -1)
real cost: 1
 
Change Environment, +1 to light level, one hex only, Active Points: 3, OAF -1, No range -0.5
real cost: 1
 
So, I am already at a real cost of 19 and I did not include any games!  If your character is regularly somewhere with sketchy cell phone service then that could also be a limitation...  
 
I just find it unlikely that a typical normal person would all walk around with a 19 point device that superheroes would have to pay for. 
 
That said, in some places it might be "normal" for people to carry a gun but that does not mean I would allow heroes to use a gun except as a prop unless they paid for it. 
 

I do too.  There's no central popular and beloved magazine or website for gaming any more.  There's nowhere to go to show off your ideas except each little niche around the internet and there's scores of them around, Hundreds.  Reddits and discords and twitter feeds and facebook groups and forums and individual websites and on and on.

OK. This thread reminded me of the old Replaceable Limitation from the original Star Hero.  (As opposed to the indiependent limitation f/Fantasy Hero)
 
It'd be a way of recognizing a 'power' that wasn't that super anymore, because of commonplace technology making it somewhat redundant.  
 
Anything like that make it into 6th?

It's a power, just not a very useful one anymore.
 
Most writeups for team "radios" are Mind Links so they don't have to worry about eavesdropping. 
 
Most heroes on patrol no longer bother to specify that they're listening to the police scanner but seem to find the action regardless.
 
If I were doing a new campaign world, I'd either do retro before smart phones or have some company create Super-Phones which could stand up to the pounding of a superhero battle. Having to buy a new phone after literally every battle is far too punishing for low wealth heroes and not limiting at all to high wealth heroes.
 
And I'd expect in a superhero/supervillain world that there'd be a lot of legal and illegal smartphone apps that you don't see on real world phones:
 
Police Scanner: so the good guys and bad guys know what the police are responding to. The app not only let's you listen to the scanner but also puts it in text so you can read what's been happening.
 
Pokemon Go: an app which shows where all the police cars are in real time. Also alerts you when a police car is near.
 
HeroWatch: collates local social media sightings of superheroes and their team vehicles in real time. Gives autograph hunters and villains a fair idea of where most heroes are at any point in time. And shows patterns of behavior if people are obsessive enough to dig into the available data. (Could be countered by spoof accounts uploading fake sightings.)

I guess its still worth some points, its just interesting how a modern era superhero is different than even just a few years ago.  Stuff that used to be a Batman Gadget, everyone is carrying around in their pocket.

I've never played urban fantasy. A world where military-grade hardware exists but the PC's don't use military-grade hardware or attempt to get military-grade hardware is just weird to me.
 
OK, Buffy was a bunch of high school then college kids. But when they knew they were going after a vampire, none of them carried even a handgun when they knew handguns could knock down the vampire if not really mess him up with a head shot?
 
I'd be doing kevlar vest, holy water, Uzi, wooden stakes, road flares, garlic mace, noisemakers...basically festooned like a budget Batman.
 
And when possible, I'd rescue the money out of the vampire's wallet before I dusted him: waste not, want not.

To the extent this takes place, its probably due to the idea that gadgeteers are creating something the GM is familiar and comfortable with: they can understand the limitations and concepts of technology because they're around it in real life.  They can place absolute limits on it: you cannot do that with tech in my game.  But with magic, its likely they are uncomfortable with it conceptually, feeling it has no limits and can be abused more, plus its unknown and unfamiliar.

You can combine powers in a slot as long as the active cost does not go over the cost of the pool.  So what you are looking at would be something similar to this.  Don’t link the stretching to the HA and you can use them separately.   You can also use a fixed slot for them because the combined cost is less than the pool cost.    Don’t bother with the Climbing bonus as the stretching allows you to pull yourself up 5M  and your swinging should also allow you to get up places.  STR  Min is usually not used in a champions game so don’t bother with that.  
 
15 30 point multipower OAF
1f 30” Swinging
1f 5” Stretching +5d6 HA
1f +6 DCV
 
Bouncing can be done with a ranged attack but your stretching should cover that without having to actually bounce things. That is what Captain America does.
 
You can do a ranged grab but unless you are letting go of your weapon it will not persist if you shift the points in pool.  That makes sense because unless you are disarming yourself to grab someone they will not stay grabbed when you use the weapon for something else.  

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