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Re: Why are so many people upset that Cryptic is only using the Champions IP? Ive wanted to play a Champions MMO for years, and have given alot of thought to how the mechanics might be ported over and simplified a bit, but Cryptic did a good job with CoH so I wont go negative on their ideas. For me Champions and the system were the same for so long I still think of them that way, but honestly the Champions themselves were among the least interesting characters in their universe. PSI, VIPER, Dr D, CLOWN, PRIMUS, DEMON, Stronghold, UNTIL... Man, dont you feel a little warm and fuzzy just thinking about them? Ok, maybe not PSI. Those guys are plain evil. The one problem with CoH was that they didnt have half the missions they needed so we all ha to redo the same ones over and over. I hope there will be a way to submit plot ideas maybe, or else custom them for the game in a Neverwinter Nights module way. I had frankly awesome GMs for Champions.

Re: Name for an elemental mage Flint. Or Flint Emberstone if you need a full name

Re: Dimension Brainstorming: The Dimension Of Lost Stuff I would look up the greek word for Memory and name the dimension that. Mneme perhaps. The head mistress would be perhaps the goddess of memory, Mnemosyne. Mnemosyne was the Titan goddess of memory and the inventor of words, daughter of Uranus and Gaea. She is one of the three elder Muses. By Zeus she became the mother of the nine younger Muses. That seems to be all that is known of her, perhaps she has been forgotten as well. I think that along with the Amelia Aerharts, that there would be many homeless people in this dimension, and a river named Lethe that removes memories. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mnemosyne It might be interesting if the main water source of the dimension is the river, that the properties of it are inherent throughout the water cycle, in rain and fog as well. Slowly sapping Int and Ego (Drain) if you stay too long. In time you only remember the memories associated with the items you brought, and the lost items you refind here.

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... From a Dr Who game early on as I was learning to DM. "Magnum in boot" and (no words, just a slow head shake clearly understandable as "Dont do it. He'll survive, come out and kill you with his bare hands.") and "What did you bring me?" "Beam me up theyre aftrer me!" "So.... nothing for me?" "No nothing! Beam me up!" "No, I dont think so..." I had allowed my players to up their stats too high and so we had Scott Smith, with a hugely maxed out Dex who liked to carry an axe, Tsyabyarus the Time Lord with a hugely maxed INT and Drake (not so smart with his points, just a guy with a huge gun and hatred of Scott Smith) Tsy was a klepto who also had a dislike of Scott for making him give back some of the items, but was smart enough to know not to confront Scott directly. Drake just didnt care, so when Scott went down a ladder into a long narrow pipe Drake pantomimed to Tsy pulling out a grenade and dropping it in, leading to Tsys head shake. Magnum in boot was during a firefight. His big gun was damaged and he needed a new weapon so asked to borrow a pencil, wrote "magnum in boot" on the character sheet, handed the pencil back and then claimed he had Magnum and was going to shoot with that... The last quote came much later. They now had a spaceship with a transmat, run by a female monk NPC from a Cult that worshipp plants. Eventually she got tired of Drakes treatment of her and demanded he bring her back a plant everytime she beamed hom down to a planet. After she hung up on him Drake looked around and found a small weed nearby, ripped it out of the ground as the pursuers are almost to him and called her back. She beamed him up and when he got abusive she kicked his ***, gently but firmly. The transmat room was covered in plants in no time.

Re: Reality TV For Superheroes You could pair each hero up with a normal human, and they have to do all challenges together using teamwork. Particularly if any Survivor Challenges involve blindfolding the hero, and have the human guide him by voice only. Alternately, make it a bit like the Legion of Superheroes, the original Survivor to get on the team. Have a group of Wanna-Be Sidekicks with low level or quirky powers (150 points?) compete to become the sidekick of a popular hero. Call it Apprentice III. Challenges include infiltrating a high society dinner party and determining who among the guests is actually a villain (with a desperate yen to be on tv, or after some easy money if noone guesses right). Or a bomb is on the premises and must be found. Designing the perfect costume. Trivia about the hero they want to partner with. A croc is seen in the sewers, send in the Sidekicks! Could be some good opportunities for product placement as well. Getaway vehicles are a hot new SUV. "Robbery" at the diamond store downtown.

Re: Game Maps and Counters Exchange When I played D&D I made custom decks of cards that featured Initiative numbers, intended actions and a few blanks for truly weird moves. They sped up combat quite a bit, at a glance everyone knew who went and what they were doing. I could do something similar for Champions I guess. Phase Numbers, Maneuvers, basic power sets, like Flight and Dodge. My group doesnt play Champions anymore, and it was 4th Ed though. You could also take a deck of old playing cards, spraypaint the face white and use a marker to write down numbers and actions, laminate a few as blanks and have wipe off markers or grease pencils handy.

Re: Gentlemen Start Your Engines Probably the most interesting method I've tried was to use one of the character's backgrounds so that he had just stolen a high tech device from his bosses, after finding out they had criminal intent. He crashed his car into one driven by another pair of heroes in secret ID. The last hero had instant change and so was the only one in costume and able to act heroic for a good hour. Another time everyone was staying at the same hotel on the same floor and began to notice one of the hotel guests acting strangely. He too was on their floor, let the midnight stealth rolls begin.

Re: Things a wise super hero should NEVER say Hes only got a __d6 attack, I can soak it...

Re: Things a wise super hero should NEVER say "Ok, let me warm up my dice.... 3 6 7 4... cool lets start!" "Roll to hit..." 18....

Re: Things a wise super hero should NEVER say "Don't worry... We're perfectly safe up (or down) here..." "I don't care WHAT Cult you belong to..." "Maybe if we destroy this pillar, the ceiling will fall down on the enemies!" "I'm Invulnerable!" "Whew...glad that's over. I'm taking my armor off." "There! It's finally stopped moving!" "What's that smell?" "We got them now, rush them into that little room." "You guys go ahead, I'll be right behind you." "I'll take the lead!" "Let the new guy cover us." "No we're not allowed in here, and I forgot our disguise. Just fake it, nobody will know the difference." "Can't we all just get along?" "I can jump that pit, no problem!" "It's only an illusion..." "They've got to run out of magic soon." "I'll save you!" "What's that sound? I don't know, lets check it out." Oh how difficult can it be? It's not like it breathes fire or anything. We come in peace! "There are gryphs carved over the portal" "I open the door" Danger -- I laugh at danger hahahaAAAAAAAAAAAA...

Re: Quote of the Week from my gaming group... After a beloved NPC was given a mild concussion and robbed, two characters got into an arguement. Turn The Other Cheek: "But hurting him does not make Tamrin well. It does not bring back the money that was lost. It does not correct anything." Vengeance Is Mine: "It prevents him from hurting others, as he's hurt her." Turn the Other Cheek: "But it does not correct anything." Vengeance Is Mine: "Bah! *turns away* go pet a sheep Father. Tell them that when the wolves come, it'll be alright, they'll go to heaven."

Dear Abby, My son is a good boy but he still needs a mother to bring him a hat when it is cold, and remind him to wash his hands and not to go into the water after eating for at least one hour. A few weeks ago I was collecting his costume for the wash and found a piece of paper that read, http://www.foxbatsmasterplan.com. I went to see the site and am hooked. My son refuses to let me donate the remainder of his college tuition fund to Foxbat, or to read the personally autographed copy of Foxbat's autobiography that I bought him for his birthday. He even raised his voice, to ME, when I put the "I Fight For Foxbat" bumper sticker on his jetcar. He used to call me his little DNPC when I would fix his favorite breakfast but now he comes in late and leaves early without even a hug. What is a mother to do? Sincerely, FIGHTING FOR FOXBAT

Psst. Use Mentalists to take them out.

Dear Grieving, True love never dies. If your girlfriend does not return soon there are steps you can take to hasten the process. Consult the Super Scum Magazine advice columnist ( http://herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=140&highlight=quark ) for advice, and conduct a thorough Internet search. Somewhere there is a girl with amnesia who looks just like yours, and she will grow to love you given time and opportunity. You are not a stalker, you are Lancelot. Paris seeking Helen! Down Under But Not Dead

Wow. I cant recall EVER a game that didnt end before the end. Never ended them just before a climactic battle or anything, but none where we could say "My leige, here is your daughter safe returned" and ride into the sunset. All of our games are on hiatus, IE dead.

The NPCs that mindlessly throw themselves at us even though they cant win and have to climb up a hill of their defeated brethren just to get to us, forcing us to spend another hour tediously taking THEM out too. Just panic and RUN for once. Please. As an occasional GM, my biggest problem however is the NPC that wont keep to his place. My method of character generation takes 3 days. On Day 1 I filter trough basic concepts like "I want to play a dried up hag" or "I want to play someone casual." I jot down some basic powers and maybe work up some points and skill lists for a few hours. Day 2, the character now has siblings and parents, friends, tastes in music and a hobby. Erase about a third of yesterdays work and revise the character accordingly. Day 3, I know EVERYTHING about this character down to his grades in school, and worst of all, I now realize that my dried up bitter hag has become a strong willed architect working for the Greater Goal, or some other thing that wasnt at all what I had had in mind. But its too late because the character is now set in stone and I cant play it any other way. This happens even with NPCs. If they exist long enough they develop all the traits of the PC and I have a hard time keeping that N on them. :-(

Rip off almost every Sci-Fi show ever. The students wake up fully invisible one day, trapped slightly out of phase or maybe just invisible and no idea what happened. Powerful Being takes over the instructors, and now the kids have to defeat them, or else. Infect them with alien pods/C4 jackets on a timer. Show up for class, but the teacher is late, very late, in fact he never shows up. Theyre all gone in the night with no word. (Could take them awhile before they notice the teacher is late tho) While the teachers are away on a mission, the teachers arch villains show up at the school and try to take it in order to surprise them upon their return.

I love to photo Edit but lets not forget Google! http://www.engin.swarthmore.edu/~dmiller1/pictures/IMAG0013%20car%20wreck.jpg http://www.norcalmovies.com/TheRock/jones-pacific1.jpg http://www.cnn.com/interactive/world/0010/spain.explosion/car.frames.ap.jpg http://www.augustachronicle.com/images/headlines/062899/CAR_WRECK1.jpg

I like to paint miniatures also, but have a hard time photographing them. Re the grays, try running the pictures through a photo editting software and play with Contrast/Bright or Saturation if Auto Equalize doesnt help. I think alot of the problem would be solved with a light source focused on his shady areas more but in any case these are nice. Which techniques do you use? Oh, as a last resort you can try putting the miniature directly on the glass of a scanner and scan it.

Champions = Friends Dark Champions = The Shield

So how does Web RPG work?

Start the ceremony and wait for the heroes to arrive, then go down on one knee and propose marriage to the prettiest heroine that shows up with the caveat that you will cease and desist if she says yes. Have holy person on hand to do the ceremony and vouch for your good intentions. If it doesnt work out, demons like having Holy People sacrificed to them. Bring along the church choir too. Hordes of screaming panicking Spd 2 normals add ambience. Oh and don't forget to hire an old woman to play your mom and cry the whole time. Then at the pivotal moment reveal that the wedding decorations are actually magical enhancers and you've made the spell Area Effect. Everyone inside the ring of decorations (and isnt everyone?) except you and the nukular babe, are headed to Midas Land.

Strangest I've encountered in our games was a 3 foot tall alien mushroom with a barbed tail, flight and a cape. He was world famous and mobbed by beautiful women wherever he went. I think he actually took that as a disad. Weirdest I ever did was the not-so-weird-compared-to-the-troll sentient necklace that Possessed its wearer and was Evil. My fave was for a pickup game, a Ravnos vampire thief that had been shapeshifted into the form of a scottish wolf hound as punishment. Fleas loved him and became powerful ghouls after many generations lived and died off of him. He hung out for awhile with a gangrel that thought he was a normal dog and had a habit of stealing things and burying them. Made a great spy too.

Fake your death this time and sacrifice a sumo wrestler next month.

Song & Dance Whine & Roses The Brave & The Beautiful (an indian and a High COM female) The Quick & The Dead (I think someone said it already)