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Originally posted by Pteryx

A license, or direct ripoff, of the better of the two old Sonic the Hedgehog cartoon from the early 90's. You know, the one with Sonic, Princess Sally, and the rest of the Freedom Fighters struggling against Robotnik, who wanted nothing more than to turn the world into a polluted metallic hell under his control. (A ripoff would probably be a better idea; Sega has shown time and again that it doesn't really "get" that universe...) -- Pteryx

Well, if you PM me, I might be able to get one of my players to give me his Sonic the Hedgehog stats for the characters.

He GM's in our multi-GM campaign and once in a blue moon, we still meet Sonic.

It was 'way past cool' to see our incredible powerful armored hero get crushed by Dr. Robotnik.

(read read read. nod. read more. nod. read)

Interesting. I think any points I may have wanted to say have already been covered. Still...

1) I rarely have it come up in a game.

2) No, it doesn't cause problems when it does come up.

I'd say the most common situation somewhat releveant to this I run into is when a hero delays because a villain is delaying. They both continue to delay to the point where neither one does anything that phase, effectively negating both of their attacks.

Otherwise, yeah, I don't really have anything else to add.

Bump. Yes, dah bump. Bumpity bumpity.

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Wide coverage of thoughts

I'm going to jump from points to point. Thinking of the original post where a GM says, "You wouldn't have thought of that" can be greatly argued. Unless it's very obvious a character couldn't have thought of something in particular, such as a player recognizing a villain's modus operanti but he's playing a new hero - that new hero will not recognize it, unless it's obvious, the GM should let the player be creative. A GM has to be careful not to be subjective on what a character will or will not do/know. After all, the players are creating in their head the world the GM's built and creativity/fun is the game's goal.

I believe Champions II (correct me if I'm wrong) said that if in a game the chandelier looked too weak to swing on it and a player wants to try to swing on it anyways, if it adds flavor to the game, let the character swing on it! Don't nitpick or have an argument on such a little thing. It detracts from the game as well as game time.

I want to avoid getting on munchkinism in game but I did say I'd jump around. I run a campaign with seasoned players (and multiple GM's). As someone mentioned, seasoned players might do some munkining simply to create more thorough characters, or something to that train of thought. I did that with one character when I created a power called "Ulimate Healing". It comes out over 200 active pts. The GM's had no problem with it. I've used the power twice and neither time did it cause any problems, either. There are other cases where a power is blatantly going to hurt the game, such as a hero having a 20d6 EB, Armor Piercing x2, Affects Desolid, etc., or Invisibility with Invisible Ego Attack, blah blah.

It really depends on the players and the GM to work together and trust each other. If the GM is too strict, the game will die. I was in one of those once. On the other hand, a little overhandedness in a power, if carefully handled, can add spice and not hurt game balance.

You could always try something like this:

Start the program while saying aloud, "I think I'll make a low-level villain." Once it's started, then create the big bad-guy.

Sometimes machines need to know their master. In college, the xerox machine would be commonly out of order, with lotsa students around it pondering what to do now. I'd walk in the room, ready to xerox and of course, get the line "It's not working". I'd proceed to xerox my papers, much to the glee of the other students. I'd leave, only to hear the same students say "Hey, it's broken again." I'd be able to do this time and again and don't know why.

Nice structure of the stats. Overall, nicely revised.

Of course, the stats would be way different if the Gnoll was in Star Hero...

"To boldly go where Gnoll one has gone before"

Re: Another One

Originally posted by cbv

This is my mystical good guy gone bad martial artist.

A truly COOL pic! Well done.

Just one of our house rules for a perfect 3 attack is to add 1 to the damage per d6 of the attack.

ex. a 10d6 attack adds 10 stun.

A killing attack gets the option to either increase the Stun Multiplier or add Body. We're not firm on this part of the ruling yet.

The fun part is a perfect 3 on Autofire. So far, the attacker has 2 choices: all the shots hit or on the # of shots that did hit, those are a perfect hit.

Not perfect but it works.

Not having time to check this right now but is this one (if not the) #1 most viewed forums?

On other thoughts, with all the cool art you draw Storn, do you ever play a Hero Games game?

Would anyone be willing to color in the pic of Lady Blue from Classic Enemies? I think that is the best pic of all the Lady Blue pictures I've seen.

Re: Blitz

Originally posted by Avatar

Our current speeder, who has adobted this sad name and costume cause he is hunted by most of the worlds police forces for joining Menton for awhile.

Nice pic of Blitz. Thought I'd mention it.

Originally posted by WhammeWhamme

Yep. Until that comic comes out, there never has been (and still isn't) ANY entity known as Supergirl.

 

'Leastways, as far as I know.

Sorry but there has been a comic series featuring Supergirl, the Supergirl who was the cousin to Superman. I still have some of the comics from that comic series. So, yes, there was a Supergirl.

Roger would want peace on Earth, traditional Christmas presents under the tree, with Christmas dinner later. Oh yeah.. and a kazoo.

Re: Symbols, Team Name, and Calling Cards

Originally posted by Hermit

Do any of you try to design symbols for your Champions' characters to go along with the names and costumes? Or for that matter, leave calling cards? What was the in character reason for it?

 

Why did your team pick their name? Or did they even have a choice? Again, I'm speaking more of in character rationale than out of it.

One of our groups hands out cards with their team name on it. It's a gold embossed card, which surprisingly, is taken by almost every villain simply because it's the only group the villain(s) have seen to do so. Of course, with such a weak rep, they need it. When I GM, I have the police roll a INT roll to see if they've even heard of them. It's hilarious. I don't recall why the team name was picked. Hmmm, I'll have to ask the other players.

On the other hand...

Originally posted by BishopofB&W

You either like Seeker or hate him.

Sorry, Bishop, but I'm gonna have to disagree. I can't say I either like him or hate him. I'm neutral regarding Seeker.

Originally posted by Redmenace

No need to apologize,

it was my misunderstanding.

Soooo, any other cool pics you might have? Can you give me a general idea of what kind of stats you might've had for this guy?

Originally posted by Rechan

Who is this Lobo?

If I'm not mistaken, Lobo is an alien bounty-hunter. He's huge but not much taller than Superman, talks like a biker and rides an alien space-cycle.

I bet on Popeye. As KA stated, Lobo is sorta like Bluto. Regardless of how many times or how hard Bluto tries to win, Popeye can almost fight him at his level without Spinach. Once he gets his spinach, for all practical purposes, he can't be beaten. Once having consumed spinach, he can easily bounce bullets and tankshells off his chest, can have superspeed, supersight, superstrength, superleaping, superswimming, survive tons of explosives without a scratch, etc etc.

Originally posted by Redmenace

I'm not sure what you are asking, but, I drew and inked a black & white then did a quick and dirty photoshop color job.

Sorry. Thought my question was obvious. I was asking if you were the one who drew the picture or if someone else did. You answered my question. Again, cool pic.

As of this moment, I don't know if she has a write-up. Anyone else?

Souljourner, I don't much more to add. I've run into situations where I've had a high Dex character wait alot because a brick was trying to smack my character around. However, don't forget the DCV is in itself a form of defense. If you strongly feel that you need some form of combat option as you speaking about for your game, talk to the GM. Try a game but be open: I've tried many 'new' options to combat only to drop every single one of them (I think). An idea in concept may sound like a good concept to be able to have your character do until you realize what's good for one is good for the other - villains will get this, too!

Originally posted by Redmenace

Another Mob goon from my home campaign.

Cool pic. Did you draw this?

Originally posted by Mayday

Mayday: Rescue the hostage and minimize destruction of the city with intent to capture both if possible.

I'll give a hearty 'Me, too!'

You should talk to the player first - no sense getting hard feelings. Make the player realize what's going on with not RPing the disadvantage and the repercutions of the death. If the player won't accept the responsibility, make him realize you'll be doing something about it. Changing the disadvantage to a surprise Vulnerability, have a respectable hero hunt the 'hero' down, the hidden camera seeing the act or even a homeless man who comes forth are good ideas.

Just because he fled doesn't mean someone or something else didn't see it.

Generally, everybody gets the same amt of experience. Exceptions are made for incredible roleplaying, well though-out plans, hilarious moments making the game more enjoyable overall (but these have to be very exceptional), etc etc.

Oh yeah... way cool pic!