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Re: Jokes I was shopping at the local supermarket where I selected: a half-gallon of 2% milk, a carton of eggs, a quart of orange juice, a head of romaine lettuce, a 2 lb. can of coffee, and a 1 lb. package of bacon. As I was unloading my items on the conveyor belt to check out, a drunk standing behind me watched as I placed the items in front of the cashier. While the cashier was ringing up the purchases, the drunk calmly stated, 'You must be single.' I was a bit startled by this proclamation, but I was intrigued by the derelict's intuition, since I was indeed single. I looked at the six items on the belt and saw nothing particularly unusual about my selections that could have tipped off the drunk to my marital status. Curiosity getting the better of me, I said, 'Well, you know what, you're absolutely right. But how on earth did you know that?' The drunk replied, 'Cause you're ugly.'

Re: Jokes Husband and wife are lying quietly in bed reading when the wife looks over at him and asks the question. WIFE: 'What would you do if I died? Would you get married again?' HUSBAND: 'Definitely not!' WIFE: 'Why not? Don't you like being married?' HUSBAND: 'Of course I do.' WIFE: 'Then why wouldn't you remarry?' HUSBAND: 'Okay, okay, I'd get married again.' WIFE: 'You would? (with a hurt look) HUSBAND: (makes audible groan) WIFE: 'Would you live in our house?' HUSBAND: 'Sure. It 's a great house.' WIFE: 'Would you sleep with her in our bed?'> HUSBAND: 'Where else would we sleep?' WIFE: 'Would you let her drive my car?' HUSBAND: 'Probably. It is almost new.' WIFE: 'Would you replace my pictures with hers?' HUSBAND: 'That would seem like the proper thing to do.' WIFE: 'Would you give her my jewelry?' HUSBAND: 'No. I'm sure s he'd want her own.' WIFE: 'Would you take her golfing with you?' HUSBAND: 'Yes. Those are always good times.' WIFE: 'Would she use my clubs?' HUSBAND: 'No. She's left-handed.' WIFE: - silence - HUSBAND: ' . . . crap.'

Re: Jokes The Ventriloquist A young ventriloquist is touring the clubs and one night he's doing a show in a small town in Arkansas . With his dummy on his knee, he starts going through his usual dumb blond jokes when a blond woman in the 4th row stands on her chair and starts shouting: 'I've heard enough of your stupid blond jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blonds, but women in general...and all in the name of humor!' The embarrassed ventriloquist begins to apologize, and the blond yells, 'You stay out of this mister! I'm talking to that little guy on your lap.'

Character Alpha has martial arts and a couple of special attacks that have the Activation Roll limitation. In his first Phase Alpha does a Martial Strike against a foe so he gains a +2 DCV (for melee) due to the maneuver. As I understand it that +2 DCV remains in effect until his next action. On Alpha's next Phase he attempts and fails an Activation Roll for his special attack. I know that a failed Activation Roll for an attack power still counts as an attack so Alpha's Phase is over but what happens to his DCV? 1) Since the Activation Roll is an action requiring no time, his DCV remains at +2 until his next action. 2) Since he tried another action his maneuver based DCV bonus goes away and he returns to normal DCV.

Re: A Thread for Random Videos It is Sulfur Hexafluoride gas.

Re: DoA Characters My current intention is to forget about the Energy Blast. The teleport ability, for Kasumi anyway, will be sort of like the Disappearing Act from Dark Champions, p130. She will use Sleight of Hand to produce a shower of cherry blossoms (or other flower petals) and then seemingly vanish during during the split second others lose sight of her in the "mist of flowers." My intention now is to make her non-super human. However she may be of such a high point total that she could work in a supers game. I mostly run street-level Dark Champs so that's what I am building her for. As a side note, so far out of all the people I have talked to I have found no one who has actually ever played the game but one person has a cousin who he thinks has played it. Thus virtually all of my data has been due to web searching.

Re: A fistful of Comeliness rules Rep from me. Very impressive.

Re: DoA Characters I found some better pictures once I realized that I needed to be searching for "Kasumi" and not "Katsumi." However I am still interested to see if you have something better so a PM is on the way.

Re: Machine Class of Minds This is the ultimate solution to programming your DVR.

Re: Cool Guns for your Games Here is a link to an IMI Desert Eagle in .50 AE done in golden tiger stripes. A cool signature weapon for a high ranking crime boss or street gangsters.

Re: Order of the Stick Tastes like chicken.

Re: Beastboy Here is a version of Beastboy from the animated Teen Titans, that I got off of these forums a year or two ago. I don't remember who created it. It is done using only 232 points and is a pretty basic write-up. Perhaps it might be of some use. EDIT: What the heck, here is the whole team. All done by the same unknown author. The Starfire write-up is not my version the file is just named that way. If anybody does remember who did these versions please credit them.

Re: Weekend Warriors -- Campaign Log

Re: Help needed, I new to hero system can someone offer me some advice? The regular Champions book has been described in detail by various other posters. The 25th Anniversary edition is all that with some bonus material. It has introductions by various well known Champions authors, a chapter detailing the history of Hero games and Champions specifically and it includes a full length adventure, The Island of Dr. Destroyer, which is a reprint of the first ever Champions adventure updated to the 5th Edition rules.. It is basically the regular Champions book with a lot of added fluff. Millennium City is a sourcebook for that city. It provides an exhaustive write-up of the city that was built over the ruins of Detroit (after that city was destroyed by Dr. Destroyer). If you intend to base your heroes out of a single city it is a convenient place to do so. Personally I rarely play Champions, my group tends more toward Dark Champions (modern action using "normal" as opposed to "superhumans" and Fantasy Hero. I imagine that some of the other posters can give you a better low down on the specifics of Millennium City.

Kasumi Background Data Here is all the background data I have managed to dig up on Kasumi. Until now I have been spelling it Katsumi but apparently the “t” is omitted to spell her actual name. The data below is the result of extensive Google-fu and comes from many different sources. Can any of you add to this background data? Can you see something I have wrong? Kasumi (last name unknown) Aka the “Kunoichi of Destiny” Birthday: February 23rd Age: 17 (at the time of the first DoA tournament, presumably they are held yearly so by the time of the fourth tournament she would be at least 21). Hair Color: Red Eye Color: Brown (sort of a golden brown) Height: 5’-2” (152 cm) Weight: 106 pounds (48 kg) Blood Type: A (I assume A+) Measurements: 35”-21”-33” (89 cm – 54 cm – 85 cm) Profession: Kunoichi (female ninja) Hobbies: Origami and Fortune Telling Background & History Dead or Alive: Kasumi is a former member of the Mugen Tenshin clan. She ran away from the clan in order to enter the first Dead or Alive tournament and they by confront Raidou, the man who crippled her brother Hayate, his spine was cracked and he was put into a coma). In this she succeeded, she fought and killed Raidou. However by leaving the secretive ninja clan, and taking her brothers sword with her, she became nukenin (runaway shinobi). Her nukenin status means that she must live everyday on the run as the members of her former clan seek to silence the traitorous kunoichi. Dead or Alive 2: After winning the first tournament (and killing Raidou), Kasumi was captured by DOATEC (the Dead or Alive Tournament Executive Committee). This is/was a very shady organization that apparently used the DoA tournaments as a means to further their own experiments aimed at making the ultimate fighter. They captured Kasumi in order to obtain her DNA so that they could clone and genetically engineer the ultimate fighter. Kasumi managed to escape their custody (defeating her clone in the process) and sought to return to her village. However this was not allowed because a dishonored ninja can never return home. Dead or Alive 3: Kasumi lives on the run from the ninja of her former clan. Not a day passes without an attempt on her life. Despite the danger she enters the third DoA tournament since she knows that her brother (Hayate) will be there and she still wishes to meet with him one last time. She encounters Hayate who is now healthy. He is more that recovered, for a time he too was captured by DOATEC and was modified making him more powerful. He hates DOATEC and wants them destroyed just as much as Kasumi does. Hayate was always very close to his sister Kasumi but he is now the clan leader and reluctantly hunts her in keeping with the clan rules. However during the tournament he makes no effort to kill or even fight her. Kasumi’s half sister Ayane hates Kasumi so she does her best to fulfill the clan’s vengeance which makes it hard to Kasumi to have any sort of lengthy discussion with her brother. Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball: Kasumi is invited to the fourth DoA tournament but this turns out to be a hoax. She and many of the other female contenders are stuck for two weeks on a tropical resort island (Zack Island). This leads to all sorts of inexplicable behavior; the girls frolic extensively in swimsuits, play volleyball, sunbathe, and generally get along well with each other (many even give pole dancing a try). This despite the fact that many of them would normally attempt to kill each other on sight Ayane and Kasumi are prime examples of this behavior. It must have been something in the water. Dead or Alive 4: The Mugen Tenshin ninja clan is now at war against DOATEC, as a result they will certainly be at the fourth tournament. Kasumi still wishes to see her brother and so goes to this tournament as well. She finds him and tries to convince him to stop the war with DOATEC and to take the clan back to their secret village. Hayate remains silent during her appeal which is soon interrupted when Ayane arrives and attacks Kasumi but is defeated. Kasumi pursues Hayate to the DOATEC tritower. There she confronts Helena, the current reluctant head of DOATEC, who says she wants nothing to do with the ninja fighters (this includes Ryu, Ayane, and Hayate) and mentions that a clone of Kasumi - codenamed ALPHA-152 – is about to become active. Kasumi fights her way past Helena and then heads down to the lab to destroy ALPHA-152, who resembles Kasumi in form and fighting style, but seems to be made up of pure energy. Kasumi fights her clone to her best efforts, but in the end it appears ALPHA-152 escapes in the chaos of the destruction wrought by the Mugen Tenshin invasion. Kasumi is last seen watching Helena entering the blazing helipad. When trying to interfere Kasumi is prevented from doing so by Ayane, who by doing that saves Kasumi's life as the building starts exploding mere seconds later. Dead or Alive Xtreme 2: This seems to be a reboot of the original storyline. Personality: Kasumi is highly honorable and for a ninja seems to be reluctant to fight if it can be avoided. She is also very merciful for a kunoichi often sparing her enemies' lives. She is fully capable of killing as her slaying of Raidou shows. She is sad about her fate and inability to return to her village but still possess a strong will to live. Fighting Moves – Most of these are based on watching YouTube videos of the character fighting. I am guessing that some of these moves are specific to certain versions of the game. I have seen the following moves: Legsweep Strike/punch (martial strike) Martial Block Martial Dodge Perhaps a Flying Dodge (based on how she avoids a storm of shuriken while fleeing her hunters in a cut scene) Full Move Strike Martial Throw Chop-like strike (Killing Strike) Somersault Kicks (a forward flip which ends in the opponent being kicked down hard from above) Spinning kick Side kick Scissor-throw (I would call this a form of sacrifice throw; she gets her usually male opponent in a head lock with her thighs and then throws/flips them into the ground). Multi-head stomp (my favorite from the videos, she jump on to an opponent’s head and stomps them in the head four times as they fall to the ground. “hut, hut, hut, hut”). Juggling kick (she lays on her back and as the opponent attempts to attack she kicks them up and then sort of juggles them with her legs as she kicks them. It ends with a final hard kick as she jumps back to her feet). She carries what was her brother's ninjatō (aka ninjaken or shinobi katana) which she is skilled with (certainly a weapon element) though she rarely uses it in combat due to her reluctance to kill. Other Notable Skills & Abiliities Kasumi has all of the classic skills of a Ninja but certain abilities appear to be exceptional. She is a very skilled acrobat. She appears to be very fast runner, perhaps not super-human but on par with Olympic-level competitors. She can leap further than normal humans, she can vertically clear at least seven feet but when it comes to jumping down she is especially skilled, in the game footage she is shown easily leaping down as many as five floor and landing on her feet unharmed. In one cut-scene she is shown to run up a tree to do a jumping flip and in doing so she appears to run up to a height of perhaps 25 feet. She is also shown to catch three shuriken which are thrown at her in rapid succession. In the Dead Fantasy I and Dead Fantasy II videos that I have seen, Kasumi seems to display some sort of teleporting ability and energy blasts. Is this from the games or just a bit of creative license used by the creators of those videos? EDIT: Added more details that occurred to me.

Re: cannonball, from new mutants The write-up I posted was not made by me. I don't know the character well enough to even have a starting point. A couple of our players, who were much more knowledgeable of the character than me, did the write-up I posted. I believe it was Eosin and 1EyedJack who are both members of these forums. And again this was a version from the early 1990s or late 1980s, things have probably changed since then.

Re: cannonball, from new mutants Long, long ago (over 10 years ago) we did a write-up for Cannonball for our X-Men Hero game. The attached file is an excel spreadsheet that has been converted into pdf format. This version is for the character as he was back in the early 1990s so he may have changed some since then. It is also a 4th Edition write-up and probably used some house rules. I know we used a house rule for STR but since he's not a brick that is probably not relevant. Hopefully it can be of some help to you.

Re: Weekend Warriors -- Campaign Log That would be nice but many of them have jobs and families that limit their gaming time. We game every other Saturday because that is all life will allow. One of our regular players (who rarely misses a session) drives from Tulsa to my house in south OKC specifically for the game. That is about a 115 mile drive one-way. I don't want to think about the fuel costs and turnpike fees he incurs just to play.

Re: Weekend Warriors -- Campaign Log Currently our group has a rather odd situation. We actually have almost too many players. Eight of us, if everyone shows up. The problem is we usually have two or three missing for any particular game. The old WW crowd is still there and we have three newer players. Since we face the problem of having to have a very flexible game schedule we are currently doing a Stargate Hero campaign. This works well for our arrangement since, if people don't show they are considered to be on other assignments (off testifying to oversight committees, taking leave time etc.) while those players who show have their characters carryout the current mission. It will be at least a couple of months before WW can get restarted. And in addition to that our Fantasy Hero GM (Eosin) has hinted that he'd like to get back to his Last Dominion campaign (it is a blast so no argument from me). It boils down to our typiical problem of too many games and not enough time. I still have all the WW campaign logs and such and certainly want to continue it. But as to how far in the future that lies, it is hard to tell.

Re: DoA Characters I have been studying the Katsumi character (watching Youtube videos of her fights and such) to get some ideas of what sorts of powers/abilities she has. I have also collected quite a bit of background data on her history and such. If I don't find a write-up of her I will probably do my own. I'll have to look over the Bayman and Helena Douglas write-ups to if their design jives with my building philosophy at all. Since I an only interested in Katsumi I may go my own way and make a version that works best for my campaign instead of doing a generic (for mass consumption) version. BTW: It is also really hard to find a good picture of her that would work good on a character sheet. Most images I find are covered with logos, game capture stills, or eye-candy shots. I haven't found a good fighting pose with her standard blue or white costume that I like.

Re: DoA Characters Surbrook's Stuff has the write-ups for Bayman & Helena Douglas from the DoA setting but none of the others. There are a lot of Final Fantasy write-ups though.

Re: DoA Characters I have actually never played any of the DoA games, I don't even have a console game. I initially learned of the character throught Youtube videos of the game and then read some of the storyline and history of the character. At some point I would love to run the old 4th Ed Adventure Watchers of the Dragon and I think she would be a cool NPC participant for the game.

Has anyone done some write-ups of the Dead or Alive characters? Specifically I am looking for a write-up of Katsumi, everyone's favorite red-headed Kunoichi.

Re: Still looking for original character sheets The last three.

Re: Still looking for original character sheets The next two.