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  6. Poison's Champions Art Thread

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    Hey there. Long time admirer, first time caller.

     

    Critical feedback on the FF:

    1) I think Reed looks a little too young - needs a few more character lines or something maybe.

    2) Ben looks fine except I feel his head looks a bit too small. It looks about the same size as Reed's and that doesn't sit right for me.

     

    Otherwise great stuff :)

  13. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    Two bits here - The Background and The Quote. The background is quite lengthy (feel free to skip it) so the summary is Kai Sun has quit the leadership, there is a mob war in Moscow, and something bad has gone down at Militia Headquarters.

     

    The Background

    The Knights of Justice have returned to Moscow to find all out war between two criminal families, with one family involving VIPER in the mix as allies. Kai Sun (martial artist from another dimension) quits being team leader as he feels he shouldn't be speaking for the Earth as he isn't from it, plus no one in the team seems to listen to him. The Knights of Justice wage a war against one of the criminal families because some members feel they should be doing something plus one crime family murdered a member of the Moscow Militia (who was selling information to the bad guys, but they did it in Militia HQ). We capture the person responsible for the murder, and incarcerate them in the Militia HQ.

     

    VIPER sends its two main enforcers, Wrack and Ruin (think slightly less tough than Viperia, but one is a telepath specialising in pain and the other an Akira-level telekinetic) to the HQ and (offscreen) level it to the ground. The Knights of Justice rescue and, in Kai Sun's case, heal those they can, but the toll is high. Wrack and Ruin appear at the scene and tell Kai Sun that they will be coming for the Kinghts of Justice in 48 hours.

     

    After the clean up Kai Sun makes a few choices, and decides to address the world.

     

    The Quote

    People of Earth.

     

    My name is Kai Sun and I represent the Knights of Justice. You probably have not heard of me or us, for we do what we have to do to keep you safe without needing praise or thanks. But I am speaking to you now because yesterday at approximately 2:30PM a line was crossed.

     

    At that time two paranormals known as Wrack and Ruin, who are operatives for the criminal organisation VIPER, totally and utterly destroyed the Moscow Militia Headquarters in an attempt to assassinate a prisoner held there. Approximately 130 people were murdered and 200 were maimed in a premeditated and callous act.

     

    The dead and injured were not costumed heroes. They were not super villains. They were not gods, super soldiers, geniuses, aliens, androids, demons or monsters. They were not even common thieves, drug dealers, or murderers. They were militia officers, cleaners, secretaries, mechanics, technicians, and telephone operators. They were wonderfully and incredibly normal. And they were murdered. By paranormals.

     

    And on behalf of all who display abilities beyond what is ‘normal’, I ask your forgiveness.

     

    They have done this before, and something similar to this happened in your past, with the one known as Destroyer.

     

    I ask… no I BEG of you, the people and governments of this planet, to show restraint. To resist the temptation to unleash your armies and weapons of mass destruction upon those responsible, to resist the temptation to restrict personal freedoms of your citizens out of fear, to resist the temptation to...** remove us – who would protect you from the dark things without and dark things within.

     

    I ask that you let us, those who are paranormal, deal with this.

     

    And in asking this I call on ALL those who wield the skills and gifts; the technology and magic; to ALL those who wield power that is beyond the norm to work together, united in purpose. I and the Justice Knights will do what we can, but in 48 hours we may be gone and others will need to take our place. Wrack and Ruin, and their master VIPER, have crossed a line that should never be crossed. They are a paranormal problem; the paranormal world should deal with them.

     

    There must be a reckoning. There must be justice. Wrack, Ruin, and VIPER must answer for their crimes. And only then will the line between the worlds of normal and paranormal be strong again.

     

    I am Kai Sun – Fist of Heaven. Leader of the Knights of Justice.

     

    ** - at this point my wife's phone rang with the theme tune to a particular 80's TV show causing the OOC line "to resist the tempation to... call the A Team" to appear on the night :)

  15. Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

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    Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group...

     

    Tulpa: I crest the last rise. I am shrouded in white. He does need to make a perception roll.

     

    Me (Rolling a 3): You crawl over the lip of the last Ice Shelf and standing there is an agent commander of some sort with a weird looking Aztec techno-headdress and a suit of body armor. He points a funny looking gun at you and indicates the eight agents in similar gear and the four large Aztec-looking robots at the four points of the helipad. "Greetings, Tulpa! As you can see, we've been expecting you."

     

    Nice line :)

  19. What Have You Watched Recently?

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    Re: What Have You Watched Recently?

     

    Now there's a depressing movie. Made me want to stick my head in an oven.

     

    Like any Australian film not starring Paul Hogan.

     

    Actually I find most movies starring Paul Hogan make me want to stick me head in an oven :)

     

    And Gallipoli is a brilliant film - hard to believe it's coming up on 30 years old. Hasn't really dated at all except for the Jean Michel Jarre music.

  21. Your "rule of X" type character building guides?

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    Re: Your "rule of X" type character building guides?

     

    I've explained mine in another thread, but will put it here for completeness:

    A rule of X I've used before for a high powered game was:

     

    OCV + DCs + Active Defense/5 + Non-dodging DCV + 2*SPD = 60

     

    What that means is a 30 DEX character with 6 SPD and no levels could have about 12D6 attacks and 30 PD/ED with 20 rPD/ED.

     

    If you wanted to lower the 60 to say 50 then you could have a 23 DEX character with 5 SPD and 2 offensive levels and about 12D6 attacks and 20 PD/ED with 10 rPD/rED.

     

    This rule of X worked really well to balance the characters, although one guy did go for a 3 SPD, 15 DEX, 100 STR Brick with no levels (or tricks even) but it was all in good fun. Gave me someone to pound on.

  24. Villain tactics and GM dirty tricks

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    Re: Villain tactics and GM dirty tricks

     

    Non-flying Bricks and Martial Artists often have trouble with flying Energy Projectors or Mentalists.

     

    Find Weakness is often a great equalizer for a villain as long as the attack's DC isn't too high - then it becomes a player killer.

     

    Mentalists often have trouble with other Mentalists.

     

    Area Effect attacks are the Martial Artist's bane. So are entangles for them and characters with Accessible Focii.

     

    Damage Reduction is a great way to give a villain staying power in a fight without making them impossible for lower DC attacks to hurt.

     

    No one likes to be Flashed or 'Darknessed'. Also Invisibility is great for keeping characters off guard.

     

    Anyone with a high level of movement will be challenging for most groups if they use hit and run tactics. Energy Projecting Speedsters are particularly nasty.

     

    Having an opposing villain team fight as a team is a great challenge.

     

    My final bit of advice is this: know which genre/comic book age you want try to simulate and go for it. Communicate it clearly to your players (get consensus on what that means) and tell them to trust you. Ignore and change the rules as you see fit to fit within this and you'll be fine.

     

    Have fun :)

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