AThousandYoung

Re: Help Me Populate A Creepy Hotel Wow. You guys are good at this!

Re: Making a character too efficient? Yeah, I felt this too. See my thread called "The Everquest Taunt".

One of Everquest's brilliances was the idea of the Taunt, in which the tough, armored guys do a ghetto sort of Mind Control to force the enemy to hit them instead of the squishy PCs. How would you build this mechanic into a Champions character? My current character was based on this theme; he started out as the silly Targetman, the hero with massive defenses, a Mind Control based Taunt, and no attacks. His constume had a big obnoxious bullseye-target on it. The game world is not silly however, but is dark and menacing instead, so Targetman became Guardian Angel, a chicano mentalist martial artist who stalked the streets like Batman, looking for bad guys. This concept led to the Invisibility power, as Guardian Angel forced others to NOT notice him with his mental powers. Now - how do you build a martial artist street fighter with two mental powers - a Taunt and Invisibility? I found this extraordinarily difficult. Having more than one power led me to Multipower, but this meant I might as well become a versatile amateur mentalist, since I could but a new mental power for like 4 or 5 points (I forget). This took away from the concept, and forced Guardian Angel into something of an archetype (or rather a combination of two archetypes). I distinctly felt the lack of flexibility in the HERO system when I made this character. How would you efficiently build such a character? A Taunt power like in EQ (or WoW, they do the same thing I understand), Invisibility, and otherwise pure Martial Arts? The Invisibility is intended for stealth, not necessarily invisible combat or invisible Mind Controlling (which is the gimmick my allies want from me); Guardian Angel is supposed to appear in the thick of the crime, challenging the enemy to fight him instead of their victim, like a true hero! I don't have my writeup handy, but it was never quite satisfactory. I found myself upgrading with Ego Blast and I'll probably move into things like mind reading and the like since the system as well as the GM's universe railroad me into the "mentalist" archetype, taking away from the concept. How would you build such a character?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFs8wTK2tfg So it's composed of "American girls, and American guys." We have a hero who fights in the memory of his father, protecting America. The team has flashy, high firepower attacks - "Light up your world like the 4th of July". There's Uncle Sam, with his List of Terrorists. There's the Statue of Liberty with her mighty Fist. They get around in the Eagle (or the Eagle is a flying member of the team) and there's also Mother Freedom and her mighty Bell. You could even try to make The Battle, with his Rage, the Big Dog, with his Cage, etc into characters. Thoughts?

Re: What Marvel hero am I remembering? Awesome, thanks. I was starting to wonder if I dreamed her up sometime I had a bad flu and fever or something.

Re: Purple Powers Sleep was my first reaction, from the Ultima computer games. Thinking scientifically it sounds like a short wavelength light blast causing burns like a laser and maybe melanoma from UV light. Or the character is a flaming homo and it could be like a "make happy and peaceful ray" that smells like lavender.

I used to have a comic collection. I had some Avengers comic books. One of them was set on the David Letterman show. I remember a superheroine who I thought was named "Captain Marvel". However it seems Captain Marvel is nothing like the character I remember. She was a Black woman with a 'fro. I remember her costume being all white with some sort of white cape or something. Her power was that she could turn into any form of energy - light, heat, electricity, etc. Who is this person? I can't find her on the internet and my friends don't know who I'm talking about.

Re: Resurrection Man, any ideas? Clever, but it does not allow for xp gain.

Re: Let's Do Lunch Well, you see, Hollywood controls our hometown of Los Angeles through the immortal Premier Schwartzenegger who is currently possessed by a sentient Martian artifact. I'd be real careful about talking to these people.

Re: Alcohol touch I, Guardian Angel, have that sort of an attack. I captured some psychic armbands in battle from a villian with a Bacchus theme and have learned to use my inborn psychic talents to harness them. They drain anyone I touch for Dex and Int.

Re: What would happen if Los Angeles County vanished? Dead LIBERAL Americans. Anti-war Americans. Tehran would be in a lot of trouble.

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Re: What would happen if Los Angeles County vanished? Who the hell is sending me to an alien dimension?! WTF man! This will not, like, stand!

Re: pigeons associate with hero They'd make stealth really hard. How do you replicate a +5 to enemy Perception rolls?

Re: Martial Arts Questions "The second move would be similar to a moonsaw in professional wrestling from the top rope. The idea being that the higher the leap is from, the more damage it does. I would imagine that there would be a disadvantage that requires the attacker take dmg pending the result of the attack." That's called a Move Through. It's already in game and requires no skills I think. You could tweak it maybe with some Flight with the Limitation - only when falling to increase falling velocity. This would accelerate your drop and make you hit the ground harder.