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I cap minuses to skill rolls at -10 since that's the point where it's considered 'making an impossible' roll. Forgot which book that was in.

Including this one, Hero Games has had 1,421,199 posts as of this post and its probably already changed. That is an amazing amount of posts, don't you think?

This is the second time this has been brought up in the campaign so I'm throwing it out to you. A character has a focus that allows him/her powers. However, the character must transform into their hero ID to use their powers but it's also through the focus. So, what to do in building this?

Let's see variations of Prof Muerte's power-level, like this did in the Dr. Destroyer book: low-level power, medium, high-powered versions of him.

I tried the Tri-stat system; even tried some combat to see how it would work out. Seems to me combat is very fast and doesn't allow for any extended combats. Didn't care for it and didn't go back - stuck with Champions.

I don't see the need to update it. I mean, the government is still using 3.5" floppies. If someone doesn't know what microfilm is, just say the government used to keep pictures of secrets on small film in the past. Boom, done, continue episode.

Fiacho's goal is, as AlgaeN said, a united and ideally preeminent Europe. He is not out to destroy Europe. I disagree with the majority of the posts about their goals of blowing up bridges, torture, etc. Their main attacks would be against the government, to tear it apart and reassemble as Fiacho sees it. Actively attacking areas of the public would turn the public against him, which would strengthen the resolve against Eurostar. The idea of them getting nukes is ridiculous as it goes against his ideology. I'm sure I'll get rebuttals but that's how I see them operating.

Movie-wise, the public also knew the Avengers saved them from an alien invasion. Writing-wise, the writers set up the situation for the Avengers to become 'bad guys'. It could've been written many different ways but there's alot of bad writing that goes for movies nowadays. Here's the split: some writers like to look at real life and use it to bash heroes because the writers have become jaded, other people like to look at real life and write to lift the viewer up to give hope; too many writers go the first route. As for the original discussion, it depends on the campaign. A great many of the heroes in our campaign have strong Code vs killing, one of mine has a total CvK.

Just a point: the family didn't sit in there refusing to move, they were too scared too move. If they refused to move in that scene, it's because they felt nowhere was safe. But yeah, there's alot of bad writing in movies, like when the the writers make the Avengers public enemy #1 because they wanted them as fugitives, etc etc.

I write up all my sessions in Word and keep any pictures or soundbites in a folder designed for everyone for that episode. After I'm done with an episode, I ask if everyone liked the episode and sometimes explain the reason behind the episode, something that only the GM might know and the players will never know unless they're told; it's sort of an optional thing. By doing that, it also lets the players know my thoughts on a particular episode. Sometimes I ask for feedback and other times I give players suggestions for the hero; something that will make life easier for GMing like a hero buying the Streetwise skill. Any props or minifigs are moved to a cabinet; battlemaps are cleaned. After the players have gone, I move my computer session folder into my "Ideas - Done" folder.

GMs often have to make up NPCs, villains, heroes, episodes and sometimes props to make a particular game episode work. After all the work is put in and the players have gone through your episode, what do you do then? Do you keep your episodes around for later referencing? Do you toss your (paper?) props away? Do you keep track of each and every single episode and make comments on what happened? What do you do?

I'm going with Fedi and Christopher here. The rules for CE specifically say you can increase temperature or lower it. If the temperature is too high, you take damage; if it's too cold, you take damage. CE allows you to make it nice so you don't take damage. The same goes for the radiation. Since Fedi is creating the game, he has every right as GM to say what goes.

I'd like to know as well.

There's a supervillain from V&V that I use called F.I.S.T. with a very nice acronym: Fighting Infantry Shock Troop. Some time ago for fun, I decided to run an episode where he had recruited more villains with similar acronyms: F.I.S.T. (already mentioned) F.O.O.T. (Fearless Overly Optimistic Trooper) S.P.L.E.E.N. (Super Powerful Likeable Easily Exasperated Nerd. Yeah, it's bad but at least I did it.) E.Y.E. (Ever Youthful Egoist) H.E.A.R.T. (Highly Explosive and Rude Trooper) A.R.M. (A Rough Mercenary) Yeah, I'm most likely not going to run this episode again but it was fun trying it one time.

Complain. Okay, can I get a diff format?

I was the GM and the most recent one is the hero team is in Norway searching for a villain with a powerful artifact in the series of 3 epic episodes and they're warned by a local to watch out for any giants but "not to worry, it's only myths". They're in the forest now and feel the ground vibrating. The vibrating stops and everyone makes a PER roll to see an entire large tree hurling through the air and now spiraling down at them. They all yell, "TREE!" and dodge, except for the brick who takes alot of damage but handles it. At any time, if I simply say, "TREE", they know what I'm talking about.

Whether being a player or being the GM, there are moments when a scene in an adventure becomes so fantastic, so memorable, that you remember it years later. In the first few years of our group playing Champions (and that's a long time ago), the heroes are escaping the villains base as it is blowing up behind them. They see a helicopter and run to it, start the engines and start flying towards a military ship. My hero is in the pilot seat. At this point, one of the heroes calls out, "Does anyone know how to fly this thing?" Everyone says, "No." My heroes shrugs and says, "Oh well. Live and learn. Now let's see if we can get this on that ship." All the other heroes yell in dismay and with luck, the helicopter someone lands on the ship with only some damage to the copter and no real damage to the heroes. My hero says, "See? That wasn't so bad." (By the way, the scene actually set up how I would play my character from then on.)

Oooo, I like this! Gotta do this episode.

I agree Christopher. Of course it depends on the campaign, but on the supervillain side, not everyone should use that many points. I've got alot of supervillains roughly around 250 pts fighting experienced heroes who've hit total points of 500+, 600+. Not all the villains should be able to be a threat but sometimes being a nuisance gives the hero(s) a chance to show off. Properly done, my 250 pt 2-team baddies can cause quite the stir with heroes. Recently, had the experienced heroes fight a team of villains where none of the baddies cost more than 187 pts.

I was wondering if someone would catch that.

(tongue in cheek) As everyone knows, gadgeteers and mages are the same thing. The mage pulls out his wand and says, "Taste the fire of volcanus, villainous one!" whereas the gadgeteer pulls a blaster and says, "Eat hot photons, martial slime!"

It's rare but there are a few times in the past when I told the players "I want the episode to go a certain direction at some point so yes, I'm railroading you. That ok?" Each time, it's been a "sure". Since then, though, I've developed a style where I don't have to railroad them; it comes with experience.

Beast Boy's forms are definitely superpowered. No gorilla is going to jump around like Spider-man, get pounded on repeatedly by a creature that can damage concrete and come back swinging afterwards, or survive a 30 foot fall and get back up fighting (ala Teen Titans cartoon series).

As the title says, do you have silly adventures occasionally for the players? In the campaign I'm in, definitely yes. I'll tell you some of them: - If you've seen the silly movie 'Inframan', the PC's had to fight various monster baddies eventually ending up fighting Princess Dragon Mom. Yeah, that name is horrible. - I doubt you've ever seen the very old cartoon series 'Clutch Cargo' where just the lips moved, I had Foxbat make a cartoon series with himself in that style. The heroes (and players) joked about that for a couple of weeks. - If you've ever seen the old tacky series 'The Banana Splits', Foxbat had 4 supersuits make to look like the four, um, characters... and he was the fifth! "The Foxbat Splits!" - The old Thundercats cartoon series was used: the heroes went to a different dimension and fought Mumm-Ra, defeating him with finality. - He-Man's Skeletor has shown up a couple times; got trashed both times. The last time, I suddenly ended up having in midgame to beef up his PD, ED & Stun but it didn't make him last much longer; the heroes were just on a roll. Those are just a few. I often use Foxbat for fun episodes because now & then, the players need something like it.

Rouge or Rogue (X-men)? My brother tried a shapeshifter like Beast Boy. The character didn't last long. A Multipower can be made larger over time but you need to ask yourself, "What will I do with my XP gained after 100 pts, 200 pts, etc" A multipower properly done can grant you enough powers so you don't need anything else to buy. You end up saying "what do I do with my points?". However, many years later, he tried another one but with Multiform. That one's lasting. It's not a pain to create each form; it's fun!