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Re: Baseball-related characters in comics/games? GURPS had a character collection that included the team of Fastball and Chain.

Re: Villains & Vigilantes for Champions I still roll up random characters in V&V to get new ideas for characters to design. I never would have thought of the evil healer who enslaves the souls of those she brings back to life without it.

Re: Villains & Vigilantes for Champions I do. They have great floorplans and usually good characters in the scenario books.

Re: Order of the Stick Apparently she's a sea-troll.

Re: Elseworlds A couple of years back my previous incarnation started a thread about how marvel comics was really several different not especially compatible universes held together with baling wire and duct tape and suggested it might be interesting to have alternate more consistent versions of the marvel universe. Among the spin-offs were: X-Men: The primary power source is mutation, although there is also some super-advanced technology, much of it created by mutants. There are no characters with magic and no radiation accidents. Thus, Reed Richards is a scientific genius who has three mutants who he has been studying, Ben, Johnny and Susan. Iron Man's armour was created by Forge, who works for Stark Industries. And so forth. Iron Man: The power source is technology, so the heroes and villains of this world have costumes/armour that gives them powers or are robots cyborgs and androids. Thus the X-Men are a team of runaway robots gathered together by the AI Cerebro and the Fantastic Four are obedient androids based on the Human Torch's technology, while the Avengers are mostly humans with gadgets. Thor: Characters are either mythological beings, or have been endowed with power from mythological beings or their artifacts. Thus, Spider-Man is a black man who got his powers from Anansi and Iron Man wears a suit of armour crafted by Hephaestus. Doctor Strange: Characters are wizards, martial artists and supernatural entities who operate in secret. Thus, Reed Richards is a dabbler in wizardry who accidentally summoned the four elements into himself and three others. And so on. You could make some interesting variants on the default Champions universe by picking restricted origin types and then modifying the official characters to fit.

Re: Realism vs cynicism The world's reactions to superhumans

Re: 'Divine' Characters I am reminded of the encounter where the deity in question explained, "I have millions of worshippers. I don't need your worship. I want you to do a job for me."

Re: Elseworlds

Re: WWYCD: Dead before your time... The Wizard of Oz Incorporated: Calls his lawyer. Obviously he's going to have to get the courts to acknowledge his identity before his estate finishes probate. Hellfire: Hellfire actually had a secret identity, so she returns to it. Depressed and demoralised, she won't fly back into action until she loses her temper. Seeing the bad guy who killed the man she loves will however cause her to lose her temper. Riptide: Riptide pretends to be dead while he waits to see if his powers return to normal. If it doesn't happen pretty soon, he'll swim down to his father's city and let their sages have a look at him and see what can be done.

Re: Elseworlds They had something called "Skrapers", but I never looked inside, because, dude, "Palladium".

Re: No way to win...? I would say "Oh look. A paradox. Go fig."

Re: WWYCD: By Any Other Name Oops, wrong forum

Although your character probably didn't know it, once upon a time in the Golden Age, there was a character who had the same name, or nearly the same name. The first guy disappeared way back when, but now in a fit of comic book author nostalgia he reappears out of a timewarp still young enough to be in action. And he's a little annoyed that some Johnny-Come-Lately has come along and taken his name just because he's been out of operation for some 40 or 50 or so years. Does your character return the irritation, ignore the not-so-old fart, or consider whether he should be polite to his elders and think of a new name for himself?

Re: WWYCD: Harem Comedy from Hell Where's the Celestial who comes to kill you but falls for your inexplicable charms?

Re: WWYCD: Halloween From Hell 2007 Hellfire would simply go to a party dressed like a sexy angel. If something big happens, they'll call. There's no way she'd be able to find the little stuff in that confusion. The Wizard of Oz Incorporated works Halloween at the HQ, monitoring the security alert board. He wasn't in a game where supernatural things were a concern anyway so far as he knew. Riptide will keep a radio handy and zip off to check out reports of problems. Poet would spend his time on Halloween scaring the bejesus out of people on behalf of the wronged dead. Fortune Teller would do nothing. That's not her kind of problem.

Re: Wings of the Valkyrie update Knowing the consequence of letting the CoH do it makes it not a moral dilemma at all. The right answer is forcefed to you. No, what would really be a moral dilemma is, when faced with the CoH trying to steal the time machine and knowing what they plan to do, do you let them?

Re: No way to win...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qliphoth

Re: Pre-Interstellar Terran Empire History

Re: What Are Your Hero's Most Embarrassing Moments? The GM gave you experience points for killing people accidentally?

Re: No way to win...? Just the opposite. If you make it about saving the little girl from Istvatha V'Han then the characters have failed. If on the other hand, the little girl is rescued from DEMON, goes back to the mother and the players leave it at that, it's just the return of an old character when the little girl reappears. It's not the fault of the characters that the mother made some odd choices about where to send her daughter to school. They haven't failed. On the other hand, if the players take a real interest in the child's future of their own initiative, then give them a chance to persuade the mom otherwise and if they do well, change your plans.

Re: Plainclothes Champions Note that Heroes is apparently about to introduce their first costumed hero...

Re: Bleach-anime Are the shinigami able to walk through physical objects? They're invisible, but the Hollow Ones seem to do a lot of damage to the physical world just by moving around.

Re: Bleach-anime If you just want to chat about anime then that's General Discussion. If you want to talk about how to represent it in game terms that would probably be Other.

Re: What were the best Marvel titles of the 70's?

Re: WWYCD Genocide - or Genocide?