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Another gamer group from the other side of town claimed their campaign was better, thus Avengers vs. X-Men was born.

"henchman university"? Are they accredited?

I always thought Terminus would be awesome on screen (I believe he was introduced in the FF comic).

I suppose the Thor player would be the power gamer/cheater in the group? Characteristics through the roof (except boring ones like INT), a gi-normous VPP associated with Mjolnr, and he even designs his build so no-one else can use it, or even pick it up! "Lemme see that character sheet so I can double check the math, buddy. I set the campaign level high, but not that high."

Dunno, he was originally infatuated with Black Widow, the real baddie.

Wonder Man was a villain/NPC introduced by the GM, but now he hands the character out as an 'extra' PC anytime a guest player wants to join the group.

I recently got back into Champions and this confused me a bit, also (I now have CC in hard copy and the other two as pdfs). The HERO veterans can weigh in, but yes the 6e Champions is a genre guide, sort of a GM manual and basically an update of Aaron Allston's classic 5e genre book of the same name. Champions Universe is (as you would think) a tour of the many events, locations, organizations and characters in the game universe. CC has a chapter that distills the advice in the Champions genre book. There is minimal duplication of Universe as afar as I can tell, only some of the character write-ups are in CC.

I personally feel her proteges, Dr. Phil and Dr. Oz, are much more evil. Probably went to Evil Medical School. They just need some uniformed minions!

For some reason, the alien-y shows on History Channel seem obsessed with the Nazi Glocke ('Bell'), a supposed craft able to bend time and space. No evidence it ever existed of course, but in a comic book universe, definitely! They can travel forward to our own time to start the Fourth Reich, or backwards to try and prevent their defeat.

I loved the Avengers: Earth's Mightiest series also, especially how they introduced 'guest stars' such as Spidey, the FF, and Wolverine, and reassembled them for the final battle in the last episode. Various heralds of Galactus, in various parts of the world, setting up interdimensional beacons, if I remember, a sort of mini-campaign in itself. The DC animated universe could provide a model for assembling the team - I remember in the first episode of Justice League, the various characters are investigating the odd doings of shape-shifting aliens (White martians), which leads them to the same facility. Shape-shifters are a classic comic trope, after all! And once their disguise is revealed, beginning PCs should be able to take them down. And they dropped the martian storyline for the most part after it achieved its purpose of bringing the characters together - you can save even hints of the big bad for later episodes. Batman Beyond had an old, infirm hero intentionally training someone to take over his mantle (and providing a base, equipment, advice along the way) - that might be the easiest, perhaps a team of ailing heroes as mentors? Or maybe they programmed the base AI to activate in the future when suitable replacements are found? I know we have both commented that Champions needs a 101 beginner set. Structurally, the first adventure could be carefully prescribed 'railroading', but even new players will soon start to deviate. It's been a long time since I've run a supers rpg, but I tend to think that the genre is even more conducive to players going 'off track' than most - some gamers recommend designing villains and settings but letting the actual plot develop at the table, with only the bare minimum of pre-conceived ideas. Balancing that seems like a core challenge - incrementally introducing choice and collaborative storytelling as the players and GM progress and get comfortable with the game, so by the time they finally achieve the campaign goals everyone at the table is. . . 201? 301? Ready for grad school?

That is one match I would pay-per-view.

I think Mr. Gygax just wanted to end the example of play on a dramatic cliffhanger. Earlier they encountered a mama giant spider and her baby spiderlings, a much more 'level-appropriate' encounter. Always felt sorry for those little baby spiders. . . .

It's your game, obviously you can handle it as you choose. But based on your description (a world where supers are extremely rare/not established) I was imagining the chaos that would erupt in a live studio if someone teleported in! They would kill the cameras, call security, possibly evacuate the audience, etc. Even if Oprah wanted to read the statement, not sure she would have the opportunity.

I'm looking forward to Center of the Earth also!

I know one thing - Oprah and her producers wouldn't have been satisfied with the 'blink and out' appearance. They would make a public appeal and pursue the PCs relentlessly for a special hour-long interview with the entire superteam so that their existence and story could be told in full. Tit for Tat: you get your publicity if Oprah gets her ratings!

I knew it! I knew as soon as I bit the bullet and tracked down the original on ebay, this would happen. So please, give all due credit to my karma. Seriously, very exciting news and I'm happy to pitch in to the current KS if it helps make this happen!

That seems a good way to look at it. All the recent books are 'powered by' Hero, the 6E books encompass all genres as the engine, ready for tuning - an awesome thing. I know the subject has been done to death in other threads, but if 6E is to be considered the advanced/reference manual, I think of Complete as 'intermediate'. The line lacks an easily digestible 'basic' Champions with a step by step guide to making a character - the existing material imho seems targeted/written for people who already have a good understanding of how the system works.

Definitely a cool name for a vehicle, whatever it was. Made somewhat less cool by the teen sidekicks and pet monkey.

Didn't Space Ghost have a jet he flew around in? Seems redundant. This costume guy here, I'm thinking he just shaved the ears off a Batman mask- necessity being the mother of invention and all that jazz. . .

We all know He-Man could crumple Supes, Wonder Woman, Thor, the Hulk and any other nearby metahumans into a ball and toss them into the next solar system.

Ah, but I just checked my copy of the Basic Rulebook and that chart is reproduced on page 21. And I guess that's my problem, Hero is kind of a jigsaw puzzle at the moment.

I'm switching sides temporarily, but those are the weird alternate universe versions settling a blood feud - Aquaman seemed up-powered and utterly ruthless in that reality (Namor-esque, really). With all this timmiverse stuff, it would be nice if we could put up some animated She-Hulk! I vaguely remember her in an episode of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends but may be wrong about that.

I suppose I'm an unnuanced layperson, but to me the 6E material and CC are the same edition; no major (and apparently only a few minor) changes to the rules were made, they were simply repackaged. D&D 4.0 and D&D Essentials would be the closest analogy off the top of my head. Doubt I would bother with the APGs and other supplements, I'm thinking with Hero Designer and my collection of 5e stuff I would get by!

Following up somewhat on another thread where we find the oop Vol. I of 6th edition going online for thousands of dollars (at the very least hundreds). As a latecomer to this edition, I have: Hardcopies: 6E vol. 2, Champions Powers, Champions Complete (plus the villain books) PDFs: Basic Rulebook (print copy on the way), Champions Universe & Champions genre book Is there a rational reason that I need vol I, or do I basically have all the content already? Like many gamers, I'm a bit of a completist, and the spot where it should be on my shelf bugs me.

Mole Man would be my pick, as others have said, he should be in the first movie. But he could be followed up by Blastarr and Annihilus - true to the comics the FF could trick them into fighting each other.