Certified

Re: your pcs might be OVERPOWERED IF...

Or you're a RIFTS Vampire...

I think it's safe to say anything from Rifts post like supplement 3.

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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

This will mean, however, that the villain will be able to strike first, and you will have to use the minimum amount of force necessary to capture the villain.

 

No wonder they called it "Challenge of the Super Friends".

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.

Certified

 

 

Val Char Cost Roll Notes

8 STR -2 11- Lift 75.8kg; 1 ½d6

15 DEX 15 12- OCV: 5/DCV: 5

15 CON 10 12-

13 BODY 6 12-

23 INT 13 14- PER Roll 14-

28 EGO 36 15- ECV: 9

20+30 PRE 10 13- / 19- PRE Attack: 4d6/10d6

14 COM 2 12-

 

2+20 PD 0 Total: 2/22 PD (0/20 rPD)

3+20 ED 0 Total: 3/23 ED (0/20 rED)

3+3 SPD 5 Phases: 4, 8, 12/2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

5 REC 0

30 END 0

25 STUN 0

Total Characteristic Cost: 95

 

Movement:

Running: 6"/12"

Leaping: 1"/2"

Swimming: 2"/4"

 

Cost Powers END

21 Certified's Bible: Multipower, 117-point reserve, all slots Limited Power Power loses less than a fourth of its effectiveness (Certified's Bible is writen in six languagesintertwined. ; +0) (117 Active Points); all slots Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), OAF Fragile (-1 ¼), Incantations (-¼)

2u 1) Soul Seeker: Detect A Class Of Things 14- (Unusual Group), Discriminatory, Analyze, Increased Arc Of Perception (360 Degrees), Perceive into a related group of dimensions, Range, Sense, Targeting, Tracking, MegaScale (1" = 1,000 km; +1), Can Be Scaled Down 1" = 1km (+¼) (117 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), OAF Fragile (-1 ¼), Incantations (-¼) 0

2u 2) Spell of Resurrection: Healing BODY 9d6, Can Heal Limbs, Resurrection (115 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), OAF Fragile (-1 ¼), Others Only (-½), Resurrection Only (-½), Incantations (-¼) 11

2u 3) Calling back his love: Major Transform 3d6-1 (Vampire to Mortal), Costs END Only To Activate (+¼), Penetrating (+½), Continuous (+1) (110 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), OAF Fragile (-1 ¼), Incantations (-¼) 10

100 Magic: Variable Power Pool (Magic Pool), 67 base + 33 control cost, Powers Can Be Changed As A Half-Phase Action (+½) (116 Active Points); Spell (-½), Incantations (-¼)

Notes: (x2 number of items)

 

0 1) Ward: Force Field (20 PD/20 ED), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +½) (60 Active Points) Real Cost: 60 0

 

0 2) "Right" Hook: Hand-To-Hand Attack +13d6+1 (67 Active Points); Hand-To-Hand Attack (-½) Real Cost: 45 7

 

0 3) Aging Curse: Killing Attack - Ranged 1d6 (standard effect: 3 BODY, 0 STUN), Damage Shield (+½), Reduced Endurance (0 END; +½), Continuous (+1), Area Of Effect (5" Radius; +1) (60 Active Points); Extra Time (1 Hour, -3), No Conscious Control (-2), -2 Decreased STUN Multiplier (-½), Cannot Be Used With Multiple-Power Attacks (-¼) Real Cost: 9 0

Notes: The Aging Curse Effects anything near Certified causing chairs or electronics to break and people to feel sick.

 

0 4) Seductive Charm: +30 PRE (30 Active Points) Real Cost: 30

 

0 5) Temporal Dilatation: +3 SPD (30 Active Points) Real Cost: 30

 

Perks

3 Anonymity

1 False Identity

1 Money: Well Off

20 Certified's Apartment: Vehicles & Bases

Notes: The Apartment is a bridge to the Spirit Worlds alowing those who enter to freely pass between the gates.

 

Talents

3 Absolute Time Sense

3 Bump Of Direction

5 Eidetic Memory

 

Skills

3 Acting 13- (19-)

3 Analyze: Magic 14-

3 Concealment 14-

3 Conversation 13- (19-)

3 Cryptography 14-

3 Deduction 14-

2 Forgery (Documents) 14-

3 Gambling 14-

3 Linguist

2 1) Language: Arabic (Modern) (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 2) Language: Egyptian, Ancient (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

0 3) Language: English (idiomatic; literate) (5 Active Points)

2 4) Language: French (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 5) Language: Greek (Byzantine) (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 6) Language: Hebrew (Classical) (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 7) Language: Irish (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 8) Language: Italian (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 9) Language: Japanese (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 10) Language: Navajo (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

2 11) Language: Old Persian (fluent conversation; literate) (3 Active Points)

3 Lipreading 14-

5 Persuasion 14- (20-)

11 Magic: Power 19-

3 Research 14-

3 Scholar

2 1) KS: Abnormal Psychology (3 Active Points) 14-

2 2) KS: Alchemy (3 Active Points) 14-

2 3) KS: Arcane and Occult Lore (3 Active Points) 14-

2 4) KS: Herbalism (3 Active Points) 14-

2 5) KS: Metaphysics (3 Active Points) 14-

2 6) KS: Occult History (3 Active Points) 14-

2 7) KS: Philosophy (3 Active Points) 14-

2 8) KS: Psychology (3 Active Points) 14-

2 9) KS: Secret Societies (3 Active Points) 14-

2 10) KS: Theology (3 Active Points) 14-

2 11) KS: Undead Lore (3 Active Points) 14-

3 Seduction 13- (19-)

3 Streetwise 13- (19-)

 

Total Powers & Skill Cost: 262

Total Cost: 357

 

200+ Disadvantages

20 Hunted: Pick Someone He's Met... 8- (Mo Pow, NCI, Harshly Punish)

10 Psychological Limitation: Introverted (Common, Moderate)

10 Psychological Limitation: Somber and Melancholy (Common, Moderate)

15 Psychological Limitation: Nightmares (Common, Strong)

15 Psychological Limitation: Alcoholic (Very Common, Moderate)

15 Reputation: Bad Omen, 14-

25 Social Limitation: Aura of decay (Very Frequently, Severe)

Notes: Those around Certified can feel the strangeness of the man. It is a tangible sensation. In addition to this things around him seem to simply break down, chairs collapse, batteries die don't try to play a CD.

20 Social Limitation: Secret Identity (Many Enemies) Frequently (11-), Severe

20 Social Limitation: Harmful Secret (Frequently, Severe)

7 Experience Points

 

Total Disadvantage Points: 357

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

One of the nastier villains my first Champions GM threw at us. Not only was his sword sharp enough to cut through just about anything' date=' including the barriers between dimensions, it also fed on the life-force of its target whenever it drew blood. And to top it off, the wielder of the sword, who took its name as his own [i']nom de guerre[/i], was my character's long-estranged older brother. He is:

 

 

Blackrazor!

Our foe here wouldn't herald from White Plume Mountain would he?

Re: WWYCD: HE is not himself.

Same reason as if he told me, "Oh, by the way--your character was killed in his very first combat in the first game session. Everything he thinks he's experienced since then was a dying delusion."

 

Or, "Your character doesn't exist. He's a fantasy in the mind of a guy named Fred who's confined to a mental hospital for having killed twelve people during a psychotic break when he thought they were 'supervillains'."

 

For the same reason the GM might be a bit peeved to learn that his players have been getting together regularly to mock his NPCs, his plots, his "acting" out of NPC characters, etc. They don't actually play in his game because it's an exciting series of adventures; they're doing it to laugh at him.

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.

Step 1) Locate large blunt object.

 

Step 2) Pummel GM repeatedly with said object.

 

 

 

If something like this was done to one of my PCs without my knowledge, it would be grounds for instantly quiting the campaign. (And yes, I've got a character who has been in play long enough fot this scenario; I've been playing Zl'f - albeit originally under a different name - since 1992).

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

You could always rewrite the character. That's what the posted write-up of my character (above) is.

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

Naanomi isn't a superhero... but she could be! I'll come up with something and post it.... Naanomi is a Navajo word for 'Something without a name'' date=' used to name people secretly or because the person being talked about is 'banished'. Super Anonymous eh?[/quote']

 

Mind Control limited to just making people forget them?

Re: The Namesake Thread

real life stats pls

 

This was tried before.

It seems a lot of handles/user names on this board are based on Characters they currently or at one point played. So here's the thread. post your namesake character and bio you would like to include and lets see what comes up.

Cheers!

Re: Five Innovative But Impractical Handguns

Somehow I must working a revised version of the Apache .... that is too much whoopass in a small package not to see the gaming table.

Re: Golden Girl

Strangely when I clicked on this thread I was expecting Bee Arthur as a super heroine.

Re: Holding the end of the world

Apollyon (Mystic): At some point this device was created so one must lean how to unmake it. Wrapping the shard to his chest Apollyon whould make sure he could sleep without fear of it coming loose then begin the long process of research, calling in any favors he may have earned from other mystics over the years.

Fallout (Self Contained Ball of Living Radiation): Not understanding magic and not really having anyone to turn to for advice on the matter Fallout would place the crystal inside it's body then begin the slow journey towards the nearest black hole. This may take him several years and he may need some help to break away from orbit but not having any bodily functions it can survive in the depths of space. Hopefully someone smarter than him would find a solution long before he had to cruise through a black hole.