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Lord Fyre reacted to dan2448 in League of Champions
A very accurate point, generally. But Iron Man was never a Korean War victim. Originally, it was Vietnam.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Christopher R Taylor in League of Champions
Right, Iron Man has gone from a Korean War victim to Vietnam to the now nebulous war recently in the past in the middle east. DC does the same thing, its some war in Corto Maltese. Every character's origin is a floating few years before the current year, no matter when that might happen to be.
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Lord Fyre reacted to dan2448 in League of Champions
Here's a bit of insight on that topic from that 2006 issue of "Back Issue" magazine. In it Dennis explains that Flare's original character concept as a Champions RPG PC was that she had obtained her powers as a kid when her mother fed her "super cereal." For the comic book, Dennis himself invented an entirely different back story for her involving former Nazi scientists in South America, etc...
As a result, the 'original' Champions character sheet for Flare reproduced in that article makes no mention whatsoever of aging. That said, the character sheet for Flare published in the "Champions" comic books does mention it. Coincidentally, this 2006 article also reproduces a type-written page, which is apparently Dennis' original background for Flare, written by him in preparation for the original comic book mini-series from 1986. And it, of course, gets into all of that ex-Nazi scientific experimentation in detail.
Last weekend, I also went back and looked over the issues of "Champions" and "League of Champions" published by Dennis Mallonee himself (and a few by Innovation) from 1987-1994 (-ish). Two things struck me that I thought might also be of interest to some reading this thread.
1. In an editorial in a January 1993 issue, Dennis explains that they are changing the name of the "Marksman" character to "Huntsman," and will be changing "Foxbat" similarly in the near future, because their creator had refused permission to allow Dennis to continue to use those characters going forward. (This, you may recall, was not long after the editorial in "League of Champions" #1 from December 1990, which I referenced above in this thread, wherein a text piece explains that Heroic Publishing had "cut the last ties to the gaming parent" and therefore had to alter the title of the "Champions" comic book to "League of Champions." So it's probably not surprising that, in another editorial in the March 1993 issue, Dennis writes, "The concept of cross-promotion was (and still is) a good idea. Unfortunately, along the way, the distinction between their game and our comic book was garbled. While we were hard at work fashioning a fascinating new comic book universe that, by the way, only incidentally featured several exciting characters based on concepts originally created for a role-playing game..." I can understand why he would've written that in that moment. But I don't think it was entirely accurate, as they story of the genesis of the "Champions" comic book had already been written about in prior issues of "Champions" and "League of Champions" years earlier. As the story goes, it originated when, at a panel about the Champions RPG at the 1985 San Diego Comic Con, a fan asked the panel of the game's creators if Hero Games would ever publish a Champions comic book. Dennis stood up from the audience and, impromptu, volunteered to do so, and then he subsequently had multiple more meetings with Steve and George to agree on an approach. And then, of course, Champions RPG stats were published in many issues of the "Champions" comic book published in the late 1980s, even in many issues published by Dennis himself in 1987-1988, after the Eclipse mini-series. But it does seem clear to me that, at some point, their visions diverged and Dennis did prefer to approach the comic book as its own creative work of his own storytelling featuring many characters and concepts of his own creation, and not to make it a comic book adaptation of the Champions RPG.
2. As I mentioned above, even once Dennis was publishing the "Champions" comic book under his own imprint in 1987-1988, he continued the practice of including Champions RPG stats for various characters regularly. I had forgotten that he had done so. I was also surprised that he re-published game stats for several of the central hero characters, including Flare and Icestar and Rose, maybe just a year or so after they were already published in the Eclipse mini-series. I very briefly juxtaposed those stats, and I saw only very tiny differences in the Flare and Rose stats and no difference that I could discern whatsoever in Icestar's stats. This left me wondering why he decided to do that? But he did publish game stats for many other characters at that time, including for one of my personal favorites among his characters: Sylvia the vampire. But he also published game stats for Mechanon. This puzzled me, because anyone playing Champions would already have game stats for Mechanon, as they were in the Champions rulebook. I didn't bother going back and juxtaposing those stats: maybe they were materially different?
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Lord Fyre reacted to Stanley Teriaca in League of Champions
As for the subject of Flair's rapid ageing, may I remind you that most comic books operate on a floating timeline. Heroic Publishing is no different.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Gauntlet in Printing Character sheets 8.5 x 11
You do realize that you sending this out means that I will bug the F&^% out of you? 🙃
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Lord Fyre reacted to Gauntlet in Printing Character sheets 8.5 x 11
Width yes, height no. I have been in the process of creating one that puts the character sheet in Excel format which works much better than Word for character sheets. Problem is my knowledge of JavaScript is a bit small, kinda learning as I am doing.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Gauntlet in Figured or Not-Figured, That Is The Question...
Shhhhhh, gosh are you crazy, they are everywhere and see and hear everything.
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Lord Fyre got a reaction from Stanley Teriaca in Champions Next
Possible. Many of the Monkey King's "tricks" were about leading the "victim" to enlightenment.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Stanley Teriaca in Champions Next
Well, that would be up to the writer of the adventure, and just how mellow out he became over the centuries of following the Buddha. He is still a force of chaos, but not evil, so it is quite possible he allowed it to happen as a 'teaching moment' ("Don't get attached to things. Things are only temporary. Even body parts are temporary.")
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Lord Fyre reacted to Stanley Teriaca in League of Champions
I can see why. Even Psyche gets the Good Girl Art treatment.
(For the ones who don't know, her original handle was the first Rose, because her mental powers smelled of roses. The second Rose was a inner circle Morbane from DEMON for 4ed Champions.)
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Lord Fyre reacted to Stanley Teriaca in Pittsburgh in the CU
And a perfect target for Foxbat's Master Plan (tm).
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Lord Fyre got a reaction from Khymeria in Wizards of the Coast Announces One D&D
Link? I'm having trouble finding it.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Khymeria in Wizards of the Coast Announces One D&D
The newly announced setting Khymeria on the Hero Games Patreon is aimed precisely at that. I’ve created a setting with the ability to handle the random weird character (like the latest thing in D&D) without needing a whole species setup. I converted standard races, improved on many others, include several different types of magic (that don’t all work the same). It’s what I’ve used over the years to bring many players to the Hero System, since it’s often easier to grasp and more popular than supers. Working on 5E D&D gave me insight into how the sauce is made, and I knew I could do it better with Hero System, and here we are.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Old Man in Wizards of the Coast Announces One D&D
Where do I send my resume? D&D fandom will love it when I switch their game over to Hero.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Wizards of the Coast Announces One D&D
Hey, when you're a corporation, your only value is "more". They have to show more growth every year or heads will roll.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Champions Next
whoah. I know Kung Fu.
I mean, um yeah this sounds great. I bet we can brainstorm up some great adventures together, especially starting adventures for new GMs. The idea of having a book of "here's a campaign starter" adventures would be really useful and welcome.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Christopher R Taylor in League of Champions
Because the artist and writer wanted another female character to draw. I mean, let's be honest here.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Stanley Teriaca in League of Champions
Ah...
I'm sure this Morbane didn't name himself Jew Stinko or anything silly like that...
...at least let's hope not, unless you actually want to make Rumiko richer then she currently is...
...and the part of his name might be a bit to much, even for a bad pun.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Lord Liaden in League of Champions
Yeah, that sounds like Dennis Mallonee's writing.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Christopher R Taylor in Champions Classics
OK here's a quick mockup of the cover to one of the adventures, Battlezone. In theory that's the basic template for how they'll all look, probably with some tweaking
https://postimg.cc/qtx5WDyv
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Lord Fyre reacted to Lord Liaden in New title be worked on at Tiger Paw Press
The setting's history is swarming with great adventure scenarios.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Christopher R Taylor in New title be worked on at Tiger Paw Press
If the whole campaign path idea takes off for Champions it might be worth going through the Champions Universe and doing a historical campaign run where they play out the major events of the universe, perhaps with different outcomes and changing history.
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Lord Fyre reacted to Lord Liaden in New title be worked on at Tiger Paw Press
In rereading this remark, I suddenly noticed who you referred to, which seems a little odd to me. Two of the old Terror Inc. villains, Scorpia and Feur (now Feurmacher), were republished for 5E and 6E as members of Eurostar. There have been several Hero publications reviving Prof. Muerte, including one of my own.