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- By Rich McGee,
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So I have a character for a new campaign (I know, right? Exciting!) who has a 4d6 Aid to END. I know END counts as a defensive ability, so the total on the dice gets halved, which makes it 7 character points on average, which is 35 END. As an Aid, that can put the target above starting values, and 5 points if it fade in the post-12. But I have questions about how this works in practice. So let's say on starting Seg 12, I Aid myself +35 END. Immediately in the post-12 that fades to a mere +10 END. In my next phase, can I Aid myself again? Is repeating that possible until I reach the cap of (max that can be rolled on 4 dice, that is, 24 point…
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The Champions are based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, not Millennium City, Michigan. The base is at the Hazelwood Green test track location and consists of three buildings. The First Building Sticking out of the green roof are the hangars for the helicopter, supersonic VTOL jet and sky-cycles along with the antennae and weather instruments. 4th floor (Secure) staff living quarters, kitchen, dining room, pantry, cleaning supply closet, and laundry. 3rd floor (secure) superhero living quarters, family room, and fiction library 2nd floor (secure) security, communications/monitoring, electronics workshop, medical, r…
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Game concept includes a mentor type hero who was an Atom / Hank Pym type. He gives the heroes each a Wardrobe sized cabinet that can be shrunk to fit on a key chain or made full size. It has a limitation that living things cannot be inside it. Basically it lets characters carry costumes or equipment and set up a base. I thought of all kinds of ideas (Base with Shrinking, Base with Extra-Dimensional). Basically it's a bag of holding. What is the fairest, most economical build?
Last reply by Beast, -
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Normal people have normal pets all over the world. However, supers tend not to have animal companions in any form. While Superman had Kripto, others were not as well known. Let's give every super their own pet. This pet can be any known animal granted special powers to match the super. Superman-Kripto is a great example.
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Armor Piercing is a 1/4 advantage, while Penetrating is a 1/2 advantage. Why would Penetrating be considered better, and therefore more expensive, than Armor Piercing.
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For Champions episodes, where and what have you drawn inspiration from to create episodes? It can come from the oddest places and spur of the moment. If you say 'comic books', specify which one(s). Likewise, if you say movies/tv shows, say which ones? I will attempt to list some of where I have drawn inspiration from for my own episodes, but it by no stretch of the imagination complete. Get ready because I'm sure you'll be surprised for some of them. In no particular order... Neverwinter Nights rpg game oldies (music) ex: (You've Got) The Magic Touch by the Platters instrumental music: (MANY) example- Chase by Giorgio Moroder Charlie Br…
Last reply by Rich McGee, -
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By way of introduction, this idea came from the Storm Summoning powerset in City of Heroes, an old but beloved MMORPG some of you may be familiar with. The powerset has two powers which create "entities" that fight on their own--after creating them, the character can move on and do other things while these powers continue to attack bad guys. The net effect is a force multiplier, as the powers continue to fight while the player is free to act on their own, albeit with the upfront cost of having used actions and resources to start the powers. But it's also damned cool. 1) Lightning Storm: a cloud that hangs in the air for a while and throws out ta…
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Have any of used a villain that is on the power scale that while they may be used in the background they are never actually written up as due to their power level the heroes will never be able to fight them directly?
Last reply by Rich McGee, -
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It's been a several years since I played, but I seem to remember one of the books have a dice rolling chart for quick character generation. However I am unable to find it now. Am I imaging tnis?
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It's weird. I've been GMing Champions for....30+ years. I just can't seem to get this one together. Here are the inspirations I'm playing with: Something like Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart, which is a bit like The Boys, but I'm leaning toward Steelheart as the inspiration.(Click on the link if you want a synopsis of Steelheart.) But also, themes of alien invasion. More like an infiltration, like They Live or Marvel's Secret Invasion. I just can't seem to come up with set pieces and plotlines that draw these ideas together. I also need escalating events and a nice "Season Finale" battle or scenario My world is…
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While watching a certain annual holiday parade (default: Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade), one spots members of CLOWN marching down the parade route entertaing the watchers. Mery Andrew is on stilts, Ballon-A-Tick is floating on a balloon and tossing candy and non-magical balloons to the children, Fox is teleporting all over the place to shake children's hands (and get confused with the Car Fax fox), Tag gives out Nerf Balls, etc. They don't seem to be doing anything wrong, but.... What would your character do?
Last reply by Scott Ruggels, -
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Hypothetical: NeoMephisto, a resident of another dimension that we shall hereafter refer to as "Inferno", enters into a written contract with a certain Enrico "Little Caesar" Banducci, citizen of Victory City, USA, wherein party A(NeoMephisto) provides certain goods and services to party B(Banducci) in exchange for 1)regular cash payments, 2) use of discreet "office facilities", and 3) occasional human services barter. In the event of the expiration of said contract term(after a period of 20 years or Party B's untimely demise) or a material breach, party B is required to pay, in consideration/damages, their "immortal soul". In the event of such a breach, what cour…
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I'm curious if anyone has bought their hero Duplication. I've thought about creating a hero with the power but want to hear other's opinions first. I'd like to know how it played out because with Duplication, the GM potentially has to deal with 1 (or more) extra characters. As such, for myself at least as a GM, I'd have to think about that if one of the players bought it for their character. I know there are villains with the power and not interested in that aspect.
Last reply by Christopher R Taylor, -
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Last month I enjoyed the fall game convention (Nuke Con) and am slowing building up the desire to revitalize Champions and run it at the next major game event. The challenge remains, though, is to take something that's very rules heavy (Hero System) and make it easy enough for brand new players to pick up and be interested in like the rules light superhero game ICONS that I typically run, while still providing the details (e.g. "crunch") that existing Hero Systems players enjoy. I came up with what I call, "Simplified Sixth" where I combined powers, skills, talents, and perks under the generalized category of, "Skills & Attributes" (I got the idea from Sil…
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Power Armory 1 2
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I was playing around with a few ideas and was wondering how folks build a Power Armory akin to what Iron Man has. Would you use Multiform to represent the various armors?
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When I first started making characters (by hand, this was even before Heromaker) I thought that you added up all the advantages on a power, then subtracted the limitations and the result was what applied. So if I had +2¾ and -1¼ of limitations, then the end result was a +1½ advantage. If it was +½ advantage and -1½ limitations, then it ended up a -1 limitation! I had a weird understanding of Multipower too, but I cannot remember how I did the math on that one. Anyone else have any stories of misunderstandings or confusion from their early days?
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Has anyone done writeups for modern pharmaceuticals, like aspirin and similar? Like, I could see "energy shot drink" be a 1d6 Aid END, Drain (5 points/6 Hours). I wonder what clever ideas people might have for others.
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Has this happened to you as a player-hero? Could your character punch over a hundred people in the mouth? Or could you find a better way to handle the matter?
Last reply by Scott Ruggels, -
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The Champions are based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Their headquarters is ob a former brownfield site off Second Avenue in the Hazelwood neighborhood that's close to two UPMC parking lots. Their aircraft take off and land close to the Monongahela River and can be seen taking off and landing from the Hot Metal Bridge.
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Just saw this on Twitter. Get over there and have your say...
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Can anyone think of a way to create Regeneration in 6th Edition that regenerates characteristics other than BODY. There is no option to upgrade Regeneration to allow this, it will do BODY only. I had thought of using Healing, but you cannot make healing continuous as it states that you must use Regeneration for that. I am creating a character whose power will even regenerate damage done by some drains, such as poisons, or some types of cellular decay, or other things like this. I don't want to use Power Defense as that will just make her immune to it, and she is not. She still takes the drain fully, but can get it back faster than a normal person.
Last reply by Christopher R Taylor, -
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Like the Marvel and DC universes, the Champions Universe is a pretty busy place. I’ve been doing some thinking, wondering how far to strip it down for a future campaign, to get down to the core elements. For example, instead of thousands of superhumans across the globe with a multitude of origins, the pool shrinks to a few hundred or maybe less. Instead of a multitude of superteams, there are very few. Instead of a multitude of alien races and invasion armadas every few years, there are only a handful of races and no mass invasions. The same thing for mystic stuff. The occasional demon shows up, but not the legions of hell. …
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X-men characters 1 2 3
by Agent333- 2 followers
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A little while back I started making HERO versions of the x-men as a mental exercise. This grew into doing a few solo-rpg sessions and running a few full scale combats. I've had so much fun I thought I'd share my write-ups with you guys and maybe give a little of my inspiration energy to my fellow heroes and heroines on the messageboard. (Originally I intended these writups for new players who want to play a character "like" wolverine or cyclops. Think of these as quick-start templates) A few things to take note of, these X-men have no connection to any established continuity save one of my own making. I've included the disadvantages I used for each, but they are by …
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The heroes are teen vigilante heroes in Pittsburgh, either in the 11th or 12th grade in Taylor Allderdice High School or undergrads at the University of Pittsburgh.
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https://www.npr.org/2023/09/22/1200803124/nasa-osiris-rex-mission-bring-home-asteroid-rocks-returns-utah The RL news story: On Sunday, the OSIRIS-REx space probe swings past Earth to drop off a capsure holding material collected from the asteroid Bennu. Pretty good origin material right there, but one of the scientists mentions a few odd dreams about the mission. One sounds straight out of a comic book, lacking only the super-powers one would inevitably gain as a result of the described object and action. (The text of the linked story gives more information, but the "listen" draws more attention to the dream.) Enjoy. And if you end up c…
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