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Re: Your FIRST Super Hero Character I was lucky, my first superhero was thought up back when the most consistent exposure I'd had to superheroes was watching a few reruns of The Incredible Hulk. It was also the first character I ever made for anything ever! The thing that most influenced me was the sad piano at the end of every episode. Hence my character being kind of maudlin. Not emo, just maudlin. I love that word. Maudlin. Anyway, He was called John Mackenzie. He didn't have a superhero name because I thought of a couple and then realised that he wouldn't use a secret ID even if he could. John worked a cash register at an organic supermarket. He and his coworkers lost their jobs because a faceless corporation bought the building to use as a lab for animal testing. John and his friends were very liberal and they were fine with losing their jobs but they had to protest the animal testing lab. Rather than hang around outside, John led them right into the main building, arriving first, with a placard, on a gangway above the lab floor and its vats of animals being kept alive but unconscious in green goo of some kind. A security guard tried to convince them to leave, without speaking, by grasping John's placard and pushing him back towards the exit, while the scientists looked on with concern (Note how no one in my origin is really to blame, they're all nice guys, even if they happen to be opposed in opinion). Unfortunately,John didn't want to leave without making his point, so he stepped slightly around the guard, at which point they both stumbled, John let go of the placard so as not to drag the guard down with him as he fell backwards over the safety rail. (It was perfectly safe as a rail, but John was quite tall, and caught his lower back on it in a position that let him slip over.) He fell, landing in the green goo on his back, by coincidence, landing on the eagle that was also floating in the pool. The goo knocked him out, (It was high tech goo or something) and only the fact that he was floating on the eagle, whose wings were spread and thus provided greater surface per weight or something, kept his face out of the goo. When they finally managed to safely shut down the vat and drain it, to get to him, it was too late. He woke from a coma a week later. He was in a hospital. His back felt very funny. A doctor came over and explained that there had been a reaction of human DNA to the goo. He had fused with the eagle. Its wings were now his wings along with almost the eagles entire muscle structure, so his wings were strong enough to carry him. He had another shock when he was shown his new taloned birds feet. They were luckily strong enough to support his weight. This was was the time he chose to open his second eyes and squawk. Yup, the eagle's face, feathers beak and all, had fused with the back of his head, leaving him with eyes in the back of his head, a superstrong beak, and a dual brain, one half of which was ruled by an eagle's instinct. From then on he grew to love flying, regularly brooded about his condition (but only when he was alone and, for some reason, only when he was perched in a tree) and couldn't stop feeding his eagle face with live mice(sometimes right in front of people, forgetting that this was a bird thing, not a person thing) and making mating calls at people he hated or squawking harshly at people he disliked, even if it would be better not to let them know. He wasn't exactly a powerful superhero. The limit of his ability was flying around, slightly over a roof to stop people spotting him, then if he saw a mugger, he would swoop down from behind (he wasn't bulletproof or armoured and he definitely wasn't a masochist) and grab them with one hand under each arm. Then he flew up high to scare them, sometimes leaving them dangling from a steeple of flagpole or something, letting someone else phone the police when they saw the crook. Mind you, he lived and worked in a nice american suburb, so there was hardly any crime besides teen vandals. And the fact that he was a winged man who saved people and lived in an area that I think I saw as a southern suburb, meant that there were probably people who saw him as an angel, even though he said he was still just John Mackenzie.

Re: How would Stronghold imprison your character? Going back a bit to Mega-Evil. His lawyer is getting him a nice, regular cell, arguing for the dismantling of all high pressure prisons and generally appealing on his behalf, right? What kind of moron breaks out and slaughters a bunch of kids then? Either he wants to be sent to a high pressure prison, because it will be a challenge to break out of or something, or he is a complete idiot and therefore surely not intelligent enough to have escaped, so someone (probably a person trying to get high pressure prisons instituted) set him loose. If any of my superheroes thought that if they turned in their supervillains then they would go to a high pressure prison, then they would likely do one of a few things. A) Just stop arresting bad guys. Sir Killalot is kidnapping the mayor's daughter's history class? Then I'll knock him out and drop him off somewhere far away from other people. Very publicly protest the high pressure prisons, and stop doing anything superheroic at all, at least in the countries that had high pressure prisons. Powerball is stealing all the gold in Fort Knox? Well, I guess that high pressure prison idea wasn't so cheap in the long term, now was it? Do something about it? I will when you will, bub! C) Join forces with nicer/more logical/honorable supervillains and other like-minded heroes to actually break supervillains out of these prisons safely. Only some of my heroes would turn them back in at the next police station, and keep repeating this till the supervillains were sent to a normal prison. Ah, Seargent! Here, I have Onyx-Sabre back in custody! You didn't know he was out? Of course not. I only broke him out an hour ago. D) Build prisons in their secret pocket dimensions/space stations/etc and keep prisoners there, with some of the team on guard at all times. Yes, Mayor we did get Octo-blast. Yes, we caught him red-handed. Your custody? Oh, I couldn't allow that. We're superheroes, not supersoldiers, sir, your orders don't mean a thing. On the other hand, my superheroes would spend at least as much time working on humane ways to imprison supervillains as they do on stopping them. Also, I would note that because Tony Stark had Shulkie injected with Gamma-suppressing nanobots, stopping her from transforming to be a superhero, she took him to court and had a ruling made that depriving a super powered person of their powers without permission was a violation of their human rights. This meant that when Leader was captured, instead of using Tony's suppressors to turn him back into a nice, but average, guy, they had to allow him to stay as the Leader, which in turn allowed him to escape. Shulkie and I maintain that having the power suppression outlawed was the right thing to do.

Re: Make Starblaze for me. That's kind of the problem I realised while writing it. I wanted to imply that either Aliens, Asgardians or Olympians, or some combination thereof, had a hand in his origin. In the end, though, I just wound up implying that the ancient Gods were just really High-tech aliens. Any ideas? Even if it is just the Loki the rogue Asgard from Stargate reaching into my super-verse and making a Superhero like all the ones on my planet Earth. I just really can't decide what to make for my first real Champions character.

J. Quincy was a normal, everyday person. Went to high school, then college, got a job with the military, transferred to the secret R&D project codenamed 'Genesis' and switched often, between gate security, lab assistant and training exercises. One night, however, a beam of light appeared in the lab. Seargent Quincy disappeared. No one could find the seargent for three days. Exactly three days later, Quincy reappeared in the same spot, with no memory of the last three days. However, Quincy did now remember the equivalent of a degree in Greek & Norse Mythology and another in Astrophysics, far beyond anything known on earth. Quincy also seemed to be superpowered, and had stopped aging, feeling hunger or thirst. The project diverted half of it's funds to researching Quincy. The superiors in charge decided not to waste good fortune, from any source, and proposed that Quincy become a superhero, not fighting wars for the army, but fighting powerful villains who were a threat to the entire world. Quincy agreed, so they used the advances made by project Genesis to give him all the support they can. Quincy chose the codename Starblaze because it sounded appropriately cool. Now you guys get to pick the rest. Is Quincy male or female? Does s/he still have a gender, and has s/he still got a human appearance? What powers, besides full life support, does s/he have? Are Quincy's powers the result of Aliens, Greek Gods, Norse Gods, or a mix of the three? And why did they give Quincy powers? Is s/he related to them? Or are they testing humanity's ethics? Is the codename a Secret ID or just a cool codename? Please finish my backstory, filling the gaps, and stat out the character for a 400/-100pnt Champions 5th edition game.

Re: Wait - you punch WHAT?!? (or what would the damage from an atomic bomb be?) Look, if you want a realistic game about nukes and how to stop them/not die from exposure to them, why are you looking in a Champions board? Just give them all -1 Str, Body & Con, then double it the day after exposure, then leave it. If they get cleaned thoroughly within a week then they are fine. Any kind of residual radioactivity, such as them giving someone radiation poisoning an hour from now with a handshake, doesn't happen because they're Superheroes. This is the kind of stuff Superheroes do. (And if you don't mention the 'clean up within the week and your stats go back to normal' then remember-the players are entirely capable of electing a new GM and keeping the game running without you. But I'm sure you're not so foolish as to do that.)

Re: Unique, interesting powers I would make Gangsta as, to start with, the very powerful version. Then give the powerful version DuplicationX16 with limitations on all his other abilities of -1/-5/whatever per duplicate. I love the 'This (object) Is A Bomb!' idea but wouldn't the fact that he's drawingh attention to the object make it an obvious focus?

Re: Teen Champion Concept Since his older self is aware, couldn't he just have an alias in his older form? Also, I think he should set up some things to make life easier/better/cooler for his young alter-ego. Booking things that his young self couldn't get and leaving himself a note explaining that it's from 'an anonymous patron'.

Re: Longest Running Thread EVER What point? There's no point! This whole thread is pointless! (Hides sharpened pencil) No point, no point at all (Shifty eyes)

Re: league of extraordinary PULP HEROs Okay, I'll go first. Dr Clark Kent. A.K.A. Codename Superman. The American government, in an attempt to stop the coming war before it happens, created a team of top scientists to create supersoldier technology. Dr Kent developed prototypes of an antigravity forcefield generator that extended one centimeter off the human body. It even provided the support needed to lift a car completely off the ground. Unfortunately, the generator required a very rare radioactive material called 'kryptonite' that was only available in small amounts. Because it is so rare, the government couldn't make one for every soldier. So they were covered up, the prototype was left in Dr Kent's hands, since he knows the device well enough to make field repairs, and he was recruited to the Allies new group the 'Just Societies of the Allied nations' or 'JSA' for short. They were people of immense power, who travelled the world, helping people, while working as propaganda both showing how benevolent the Allies are, and how powerful they are, in order to avoid a great war of the entire world. To seem more impressive, Dr Kent was given the codename 'Superman' (partly to mock the growing popularity of the Nazi movement and their suggestion of 'Aryan Ubermensh' and their anti-semitism since Dr Kent is Jewish) and given a colourful costume. A billowing red great coat, very american blue jeans, and a blue tshirt with a strange S on the front. The strange S is actually there to hide the bulge of the generator that he wears underneath, to make it seem more like he really is bulletproof.

Re: Netbooks & Fanbooks Links Thanks, Guys. Sorry about the mis-posted thread. Any idea whether I can move it myself, somehow?

Re: Is a Jedi reasonable in a Marvel Avengers campaign? Actually, if you are going to have a jedi, make him a real jedi. Don't make him a delusional fan. That smacks of religious intolerance. (Yes, jedi'sm is an officially recognised religion. It bears strong similarities to a branch of Zen Buddhism.) Secondly, I have to point out, especially to the naysayers: Official word from Marvel is that all fictional universes, including Buffy/Star Wars, are existing alternate realities in the Marvel multiverse. As a matter of fact, when gatekeeper, the aboriginal teleporting mutant from the Xmen storylines, showed Bishop a vision of a group of alternate reality versions of himself, one of them was recognisably a Jedi in the Star Wars Universe. He was of some species with green skin and a bunch of short green tentacles for hair. His lightsabre was blue. I would recommend an alternate reality version of another NPC who happens to be an Alien Jedi, fleeing the Empire. Good Universe, by the way. Love Xovers like that.

Can I get a link to any sites with fan made rules for Hero versions of things like Buffy, Dr Who, Charmed, Stargate and so on. Especially the new Dr Who. Thanks. (I presume that this is the right place for this thread.)