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Re: One-Trick Pony Campaigns I guess this is a timely topic for me becuase I'm playing in a (non-champions) campaign right now that has a bit of this issue. We're playing Vampire: Dark Ages. While I love my characters personality-wise, and the powers that they do have, it strikes me that everyone in the group (not just my characters) have two standard actions, and therefore very few options. A fight breaks out, I've got to pick whether to use one power or the other. If one fails, you better hope you can take them in Hand to Hand. One of the two characters in the big fight was disabled in the first round by a villain, and the other was unable to succeed at power #1, so I wound up going all hack n' slash. It worked, mind you, but I really hate the lack of depth. Of course in that system you either have a bunch of really weak 1 or 2 dot powers or one power you keep paying XP for until it becomes useful. It's sorta why when my players build champions characters I tell them they'll want DEF, Resistand DEF, and at least 3 attack forms (Like EB, Drain, KA; Martial Arts, KA, Ego attack; etc.) or they can run into people they have no hope of helping out on. Rest of their defenses, I tell them, are "as appropriate" to the character.

Re: Does Champion's Sidekick have all the same rules? Hero System Sidekick leaves out "Optional" rules (Hit location charts, bleeding, some of the combat options).

Re: One-Trick Pony Campaigns If I were the type of person to design scenarios based around the heroes' powers, then this would create a big logistical issue; Because not all players show up for all games. The group could be without what they need to complete a scenario. Fortunately I don't do things that way. The big reason I would not want to run a campaign like that anyway is that having only one thing to do (generally) is pretty boring for players. There's something to be said for trying to improvise a new and creative move with the same old powers. But this really does have a ceiling at which you wind up doing the same old thing.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... And now a very dirty exchange between two of us who play gangrels in Vampire. My friend, Joe, has a vampire with a panther as a ghoul, while mine has a crow. Me: "The crow swoops down out of the sky and into position behind the wolf and burns blood to grow his claws." Joe: "My Panther has been just waiting all this time for that bird to come down. He's dying to eat a little crow." Me: "That's alright, my crow eats p****." Joe: "No wonder Moira is so happy."

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Epic - Faith No More

Re: Comics you loved...but apparently no one else did I tooo had Shogun Warriors, but it's been so long that I don't remember much of the comic themselves. I did however own the Rayden toy while my brother owned Mazinga.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Woman - Wolf Mother (Dang. Think they're big Deep Purple/Black Sabbath fans?)

Re: Steve's Chat Tonight (Thursday, April 27) Tighter badger control; That's the democrats for ya!

Re: I can't wrap my head around a.... Nothing specific. It's more a matter of not being able to make the character live up to my designs during play; I usually can make whatever I want. It's an RP issue.

Re: Now Taking Preorders For the Champions 25th-Anniversary Special Edition! Now I'm really curious to see, since I haven't specified a number, exactly what will be left over

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread All I got was this lousy T-Shirt

Re: WWYCD: If there was a unified WWYCD thread? Irrelevant. Another forum isn't gonna happen, and a single thread with hundreds of such individual topics would be unreadable. But I do wish there were only a few on the front page at a time. Like 2 to 3 at most.

Re: Now Taking Preorders For the Champions 25th-Anniversary Special Edition! I hear original Steve Long stick figures go for plenty of $$ on E-bay.

Re: What Would Your Character See? Anthem would see the city in flames, all the innocent people dead in the streets alongside the heroes who tried to save them. Uncle Slam would find himself in another war, having to do unspeakably nasty things in order to keep American soldiers alive as they blindly ignored him and rushed headlong at the enemy. Audra Blue would be back in Honduras, in the isolated facility where she was granted her cybernetics, and the nazi doctor who is responsible would be there, grinning maniacally as he always had.

Re: The "Nice Happy" Thread And they're so conveniently located. I mean if they were on your butt you'd have to stand up to hear what people say.

Re: Collateral damage from missed attacks Collateral damage is a function of four things: Heroes being ignorate of others; People and property can get hurt How dangerous the environment is (Fighting on an oil rig, in a chemical warehouse, in a sub underwater, etc.) How much unluck the hero or the villain have How much I feel like bothering with all this on a given day. If there's too much going on in the fight I may ignore collateral damage

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Are We the Waiting (Live) - Green Day

Re: WWYCD: A spooky ghost I wait to see what the GM rolls on his PRE attack.

Re: Anywhere but your own country Probably Lucha Hero, Mexico. My players don't seem like they're up for the idea, unfortunately.

Re: Steve's Chat Tonight (Thursday, April 20) Even after I was warned to leave my badger in the barrel at the door on my way out, I was in such a hurry that I took it with me. Don't worry, I'll feed it until next chat.

Re: WWYCD if their reflection suddenly winked at them? Anthem backs up. She does a few moves to diagnose that she is indeed in synch with her mirror. When the reflection does nothing else, she decides she's been working too hard and takes the day off. Uncle Slam would assume this is like one of the other times. He would pull the proper research books and contact the thaumaturgist his people keep on retainer. Audra Blue would verify that she is not jacked into the net and experiencing this there. Then after checking out the mirror to make sure it's the same polished piece of steel that's used in all the other rooms throughout the base, she'd make sure she took her meds. But she'd keep an eye on that mirror, just in case.

Re: I Here this game is no good Yep, if you check his posts as recently as 4/12/06, he's speaking articulately and on topic about the system. I reccommend a password reset and notification of the account owner.

Re: I Here this game is no good I remember atlascott from around the boards quite a while ago. Don't remember the wonderful speech pattern though. So I'm guessing that account be haxx0rs.

Re: What Are You Listening To Right Now? Don't Cry - Guns-n-Roses

Re: Not quite a WWYCD: YWUA your PC... Cry. "Whaaaaah! I'm a fat middle aged guy!" Seriously, they'd all be so bored. But assuming they now have the ability to affect the universe they came from the way that I used to, they'd probably make some alterations.