Mark Rand

One idea is that Coyote the Trickster gave a number of people at an area comic book convention the abilities of the people they were costumed as. One was Rosemary, who attends the area comic book convention as Catwoman from Batman: The Animated Series (the claws on her costume’s gloves are rubber). She could be the mentor.

This might be the Willow homage. Sharon Ten Bears, who has been to Space Camp, is, like her parents, a member of the Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh (AAAP) and her high school Stage Crew lead techie. She wears her Space Camp flight suit to star parties at the Wagman Observatory in Deer Lakes Park and the Mingo Creek Park Observatory in Mingo Creek Park. The cheerleaders and “popular” girls have dubbed Sharon “Pocahontas”.

The queen bee of the school is probably like Cordelia Chase from Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, who enjoys ridiculing those she sees as inferior and dismissing some of her classmates as “losers”.

I'm not sure if all of these count as helpful NPCs. Any can be deleted. Thomas Avery is an occult expert and retired mystic whose power has waned and has health issues. He can provide background info and serves as a contact with the Trismegistus Council. Detective Eve Belding is with the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Burglary Squad. Helen Davenport is the superhero team’s helicopter pilot and a former AH-64E Apache Guardian pilot. Andrea Winslow is a pilot of STAT MedEvac 4, the H145 STAT MedEvac keeps at Allegheny County Airport. Melody Samuels, RN, CFRN (Certified Flight Registered Nurse), is her usual flight nurse. Bonnie Knight, a mechanical and electronics genius, and Christine Valentine, an IT genius, are the superhero team’s main technical people. Jeannette Barstow is the superhero base’s head of housekeeping. Detective Lieutenant Samantha McDonald is with the superhero team liaison the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police. Margo LaFleur is the superhero base secretary.

What do you think of my above-mentioned characters? Since Helen has, at least, basic first aid training, Andrea and Melody might call on her for an assist, if they're at the same scene, even if it's just to help carry gear or a stretcher.

One idea I had for a beginning team was that they meet in the living room of Thomas Avery's house, and, when needed,use his front lawn as a rally point. Of course, they might be replacing a team that, for some reason, vanished and are using the team's support base and support staff.

I chose the H135 because it’s often seen in the skies above Pittsburgh. Both STAT Medevac and AHN Lifeflight use this helicopter. Additionally the H135 also has a Fenestron or shrouded tail rotor. All seats have headsets racked above them. The pilot and front passenger have binoculars and explosion-proof flashlights in their front door compartments. The other passengers have them under their seats. The rear section holds emergency supplies and tools for opening manhole covers. Helen Davenport pilots of team’s copter. A former army captain, she piloted an AH-64E Apache Guardian. Her copilot/gunner, Andrea Winslow, now a pilot of the H135 STAT Medevac keeps at Allegheny County Airport. Melody Samuels, RN, CFRN (Certified Flight Registered Nurse), is Andrea’s usual flight nurse. Bonnie Knight, a mechanical and electronics genius, and Christine Valentine, an IT genius, are the team’s main technical people. Jeannette Barstow is the head of housekeeping. All four live at the base.

And the superhero team's support staff?

The coffee shop could actually be a diner. B/G, a former area diner chain, could be revived and one located there. Any ideas on the support staff? Which ones live in and which ones commute? If they have their own helicopter it might be an Airbus Helicopters H135. It needs only one pilot and can hold up to seven passengers.

I like the layout you came up with and option two the best. In fact, anywhere in the brownfield might be good.

Any ideas about where in the city the base is or what it, generally, looks like? Keep in mind that the Port Authority works on a hub and spoke system. Most bus routes begin and end in the Central Business District.

There have been a few changes in the Champions' support staff. Bonnie Knight is now the base technical expert. In the original, Captain Joanna “Jo” Amos of The Guard, who is on very-detached duty, is secretly Quantum, the leader of the Champions. In this version, her identity recently became public. Her friend, Captain Dwight Macready, the regional commander of the Bay City/Norcal Region, sometimes calls her in to consult with her.

I'd leave the Proprietor War where it was. Yes to COVID, possibly as the result of a lab experiment that went horribly wrong.

Slapshot and Puck share the hockey theme in their garb, including hockey jerseys, gloves, and old-style hockey goalie's masks that have built-in eye shields. They also have nose filters on under their masks. Some of Puck's trick hockey pucks are simply hard rubber, usable for blunt damage. Others spray smoke, tear gas, or sleep gas or act like flash-bang grenades.

Obi-Wan "Ben" Kenobi said this to Luke Skywalker in Star Wars episode IV - A New Hope. A landmark that I forgot to put on the list is the Star Wars Pepsi machine outside Fire Station 27 on Mount Washington.

I can see Slapshot wearing an old-style hockey goalie's mask and wielding a hockey stick as his principal weapon. His sister, Puck, uses trick hockey pucks.

The 4E Champions Headquarters could also work as the base for a local team. It would have to be changed to include a basement.

Snowflake might be female. Skids likes to create patches of ice under those that offend him, like bicyclists that ride on the sidewalk and drivers and motorcyclists that run red lights or cut people off.

Nice.

I might use the map of Champions Headquarters in New Millennium books with some adjustments to what goes in the rooms. A swimming pool on an upper floor doesn't make sense when right below it are living quarters. The staff might also get some changes.

I think most of the changes would be in the people in various places. There would also be both players' and GMs' maps for the city as well as its various areas.

I think they're in a cave system.

The Strip District might be a good place for it. Construction is going on in places there and there are a number of parking lots there which could be converted into parking garages and buildings.

I was considering using Coastal City as a campaign city. From the description, it's a deep-water port city with a swank hotel, a fine art museum, an overcrowded freeway system, a power company, a nearby air force base, a nearby NASA telemetry station, and a factory-lined channel, which may be a river coming from nearby mountains. From the term "freeway system" I think it's on the west coast. If so, the power company is probably Pacific Gas and Electric and, in the real world, REACH Air Medical Services would by the main medevac helicopter provider.

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