Certified

Re: Confedrate Comics Wow, there is a lot of room here for CSA "heroes." Chattle Master using his mighty energy whip and impenetrable shackles to bring evil doers and escaped slaves to justice. The Darkie, by day Aryan playboy by night, detective who roams the segregated cities looking for some boy to step out of line. Okay, before I go off on a tangent of what might be considered by a modern confederate nation I guess I would like more detail on what the two nations are like. Politics, history, common values all these things play into what a cultural hero may be. Are heroes of the CSA heroes of more modern values who fight against the system or do they serve the greater good and country? This is really a broad question and setting concept you've presented I would really like more details. Now just for fun here's this:

Re: Transgendered Superperson Ahem... Hello, sorry, no mom I haven't been avoiding you. No, I, I'm just going through some stuff right now. You know Super Hero stuff. No, no mom it's not like that. No, I'm sorry. It doesn;t have anything to do with how you raised me. It just kind of happened. - - - Okay maybe it's because I do a podcast on Sexuality I find this more amusing than GM's giving me $#!^ but I have to say this would at least be a funny joke to pull on a player just to see their reaction.

Re: Hero System Good Idea/Bad Idea... As someone who runs a Podcast on Kink and Sexuality let me just say those 3 point CSLs add up quick.

Re: Super Friends Campaign "Power Levels" ahem... Sorry had to get that out of the system.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... I think it's safe to say anything from Rifts post like supplement 3. ... When you first heard about Lovecraft's Mythos you thought: Who is this hack and how did he find out about my character? More importantly. why did he tone him down and make him wear yellow.

Re: Super Friends Campaign Themes I can picture this, okay everyone make 600 Base +150 Disadvantage Heroes. Please take Analyze Combat at 20-. "Okay, looks like they have 6 PD, due to my moral code I should only use 8d6 out of 35d6 Strength on this attack." - Superman's Player As a GM, I would just enjoy watching the players squirm at all the baddassery they are not using.

Re: Reality Alteration: Welcome to the comics This maybe a Major transform with AoE Megascale, Uncontrollable, NND: Mental Defense and Limited to the one effect.

Re: Reality Alteration: Welcome to the comics Sounds like she wields raw fiatium. This is an NPC right?

Re: The Namesake Thread So I think this a fairly accurate conversion, this is all off memory from years ago and from a very different system. Something I found kind of amusing is that Certified came very close to being a starting level Superhero PC. I added a few more herocentric things in his Variable Power Pool I think by the end Certified had a fairly wide smattering of Spheres with one or two at fives and fours. I added the second VPP to represent the lingering damage of a healing spell gone wrong. It never had any numeric effect but I think it's of a low enough value it should be okay.

Re: The Movie Predator The Movie Predator: Images 3d6 1 Contentious Charge 2 Hours OAF, requires multiple Foci.

Re: Name this PC - please? Here are the first few things that came to mind. The words in parentheses are ways to modify the original title. Definition Umbra (Umbral) Traveler(, The) Horizon Walker (Umbral) Wanderer(, The)

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Can't seem to rep Pariah... can someone else hit him for us?

Re: A DC Animated-style HeroMachine Our foe here wouldn't herald from White Plume Mountain would he?

Re: WWYCD: HE is not himself. Reading the post I'm not sure it's intended to be malicious. The first thing it made me think of was the Dark Phoenix Saga. That is to say you're character has been out there heroing it up and at some point was swapped by another entity that took their place. All the actions they've taken so far have been corrupting the dark intent of the doppelganger as the nature by the simple attempt to emulate your character they have essentially shrived for salvation. More interestingly, unlike the Dark Phoenix where Jean Grey was the original character has been active fighting the good fight while trapped in a hostile (,very) location. Maybe this appeals to the writer in me since it's left ambiguous and the poster left it open to tell a new story of the adventures of the original hero while in exile. Admittedly I am looking at this from a rather analytical viewpoint and may not have the emotional investment in the character another player may have. That said, I would be highly disappointed if this was the climax of the arc and there was no follow up. What I would like to see are stories trying to reconcile the hero with his clone and confronting the source of said clone. To use the names of the poster, taking on the newest doppelganger with his predecessor who had been a hero then later confrontation Asmodous with the aid of the reformed demon imposter.

Re: WWYCD: HE is not himself. Mind if I ask why?

Re: The Namesake Thread Certified Background PT 1: Once a normal man like everyone else the man that would become Certified would first have to loose the two things he cared most for. Somewhere on the streets of Manhattan a couple drifts from bar to bar oblivious to the world. As the moved along an ally to a nearby club they were attacked. The man had phenomenal strength and speed smashing the man's body before taking the woman's life. Gnashing at her throat the night turned red as the assailant fed. Panicked her lover wasn't sure what to do. Smashing a bottle of gen across his back he set fire to the attacker using his lighter. The assailant fled into the night, but not before snapping the woman's neck. The police found them the next day. The man was catatonic wrapped around her. It was too years before he spoke again. Confined to a little white room the man was plagued by visions of that night. Slowly though they began to change, to evolve. Answers began to come to him when before there were none. From his cell his mind began to drift out through the walls into the world where he saw the world for what it truly was. Death had passed him by and opened his mind to new realms but he wanted none of this. Two years to the day he spoke: I'm ready to leave now. It was another year before the doctors believed him. On the outside he drifted using his new eyes to prove that his asylum dreams had been real. At each dark corner they proved to be worse than what he envisioned. With each revelation he could sense himself changing and this frightened him. Was it a madman's haze, coincidence alone could no longer explain the events that seemed to shape to his will. From the halls of academia to the receded stores of Chinatown Certified studied these phenomena he learned of traditions and rotes and a name for his will, an old name, magic. It was somewhere between a pint of bourbon and the Ars Magica he realized this was not his world and he could never return to the place he one knew. Consigning himself to death he began to study those what had taken his love. Again he finds the old names and the legends. Soon though he finds the place that would surely bring him a fitting end. A vampire bar on the coast overlooking the sea. here he could be done in and forgotten without a second thought from their clientele. this however was only the beginning of a new story.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard. There is only another fist. There is no chin behind your beard only a Chuck Norris.

Re: Make a Green Lantern Oath ... Ahem... In the heat of the night In the heat of the day When I close my eyes When I look your way When I meet the fear that lies inside When I hear you say In the heat of the moment Say, say, say Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Come a time Some day, some day, some day, Dominion Some say prayers Some say prayers I say mine

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... You look at this thread and think: Amateurs.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... You have agreed to house rules that all their damage dice are counted as 2's as the standard effect rule was still too powerful.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... Thousands die as collateral damage form your low end attacks. Which is okay since you can simply bring them back to life on your next action.

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF... You have a belt pouch of mentors that enlarge to full size when you launch them. (I think that character was actually in the back of the 3rd ED Champions book.)

Re: The Namesake Thread I think rewrites are cool. Updating characters after years of inactivity can be a nice look back at what major events shaped them. Some other people have posted that their character's were not originally for the hero system but other games. Post them anyway and maybe one of the creative minds here would be willing to take a crack at putting them in Hero terms. I mean the stories don't change just what the numbers look like. To that effect I originally started using the name Certified back when HTML chat rooms were were king. Unable to come up a good name I looked at my keyboard trying to think of something when I saw Windows Certified listed at the bottom of it. For whatever reason I decided that Certified sounded cool and that I would run with it, since almost anything or anyone can be Certified. The Character evolved from this. Also from the realm of White Wolf, not Aberrant like Black Ops but their main line World of Darkness. A chat room I had been visiting opened a role playing room and everyone seemed to be all about Vampire and posting absurd stats. So I decided to have a little fun and Certified became a starting level mage just to see how long he could survive in the proverbial lion's den. I had no clue that in his inception he would become both a regular patron part of the in crowd and completely loathed. Over the course of a couple of years the character evolved as they do into something that was fairly competent, but I'll put all of that in the bio when I finally finish the hero conversion.

Re: The Namesake Thread

Re: The Namesake Thread This was tried before.