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bubba smith

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    4 minutes ago, PamelaIsley said:

    Hi,

     

    I'm back to playing Champions Online and that lead me to re-read most of my 6E and 5E Champions books (or at least skim them).

     

    In Teleios's write-up, it says that he got the inspiration for his knowledge from handwritten notes in a writing other than his own (a clear, confident hand is how it is put).

     

    Is it ever revealed who was behind this?

     

    For some reason, I thought it was in the GM section of both 5E and 6E Champions Universe, but I appear to be wrong.

     

    Thanks!

    perhaps HERO games wanted a player's character to be behind the notes

     

  2. 13 hours ago, Michael Hopcroft said:

    I wonder what Miles would have done had he ended up in the MCU, where my understanding is that their Peter is early in his career and tied to Tony Stark much more closely than the mainstream comics version would even tolerate. Miles has issues with authority -- not "tear down the system and rebuild it in my image" issues, but more a mutual lack of trust that restricts both sides. I doubt he'd be receptive to taking orders from anyone, even Tony Stark. And with the MCU's "native" Spider-Man around and close to his age, the question is whether he would still need a mentor (even a mentor as irresponsible as Peter B. Parker) or whether he has enough to eventually have to fight a technologically-superior Spider-Man to get home.

     

    There's a Champions scenario in there somewhere.

    Defender  might fill the iron man but who would fill Miles in a Champions scenario ?

  3. 11 hours ago, Gnome BODY (important!) said:

    Looks solid. 

     

    I'd personally also mention that a Champions character starts strong and gets minor improvements whereas as D&D character generally starts weak and gets significant improvements.  What you start with matters, since you'll be using it for the character's lifespan.  This is also a significant part of why a Champions character takes longer to make: It's like starting at high level. 

     

    I'd also suggest setting up your tone.  If you're going Silver Age, things like "Fights aren't to the death.  Killing people is bad and wrong and not heroic.  Heroes knock the villain out and arrest them, not shoot them and dump their body at the police office." in the introductory document can go a long way towards establishing the tone you want.  There's a bunch of takes on superhero out there, the last thing you want is somebody bringing The Gunisher to your idealistic Justice League-esq game. 

    amen to that

  4. 20 hours ago, DShomshak said:

    Since Oversight wants humanity to advance to Malvan standards, it might invest in diverse high-tech fields, not limiting itself to supervillains. This could add another layer of mystery. One standard plot (thank you, Iron Man/Tony Stark) is the techno-hero whose company is going under, in part because its genius founder spends so much time fighting crime instead of managing the company. Sometimes this is the prelude to a takeover attempt by a villain (Obadiah Stane) or government body that wants to control policy (SHIELD). But maybe instead the company is saved by a surprise "angel" investor... who is just a front for a shell company... and when you try to follow the money further, you hit a brick wall. A hero with business connections might find this sort of thing has happened several times, including funding for various transhumanist/techno-utopian groups. Someone seems interested in pushing human advancement. Though the fringe technologies show a distressing tendency to be stolen or independently(?) be re-invented by villains.

     

    Dean Shomshak

    that sounds good to me

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