Character Discussions

Feel free to ask questions, reminder some of the traditional rules are not being used.

To give an example, Johnny Human Torch hits a bad guy with his flame blast, besides damage traditionally there would be an endurance cost of Johnny's blast, then a damage roll that would be versus stun and body.
We are not using endurance or body.
Also, and I will be giving another example in the other discussion so I can practice before.
90% of the time, i will tell you a target number to hit, and tell you how many hits the bad guy can take. That way you can write out the attack and the result.

Heyo folks! Thanks for the invitation. I got my hands on a copy of Champions Complete and so I'm getting caught up with 6e (I cut my teeth on FRED). It looks pretty similar overall, so I should be good to go.

I'm thinking about going for a full Mentalist. Keeping some of that legacy element that I'd considered.

Mom: Queen of Hearts was a member of of a British metahuman intelligence and counter-terrorism unit. They were primarily a trained agent with telepathy (think a little Black Widow, a little Psylocke). Inevitably, Comicbook Stuff happened and she defected, falling in league with a hero team, eventually falling in love with a team member and having a kid.

Student: Heartbreaker While pregnant with her kid, the Mom agreed to an in utero process to enhance the psionic powers she seemed likely to inherit. The results were inconclusive for a while, her powers coming in much later than her mothers (so long as you discount periodic one-off events). Her proper awakening happened after her first boyfriend broke up with her, the grief welling up and washing out of her to hit the entire school. A few hundred students and teachers balling in the aisles and clinging to each other for comfort was a bit more than anyone had expected, but since Alice was among those impacted it was easier to paint her as just another victim in the milieu. That said, it was clear that she needed training beyond what Mom's team could give her ... and so, she was enrolled into the campaign's super school

The idea is to give her a pretty standard array of telepathic and telekinetic abilities ... and some things that suggest her ceiling is way scarier that the people behind the process that boosted her powers considered. Things like Megascale Mind Scan, more classifications of mind on her telepathy, uncontrolled postcognition via psychometry, that kind of thing).

Celestine , Heartbreaker sounds good, if you would like to stat her up and then I will suggest possible changes or additions.
One thing, this is not the Champions Universe, definitely a lower tech level (real world w/one exception).

Do you have Hero Designer?
if you are building the character 400 pts with 75 matching disads. if you need more disads for your concept, thats fine within reason and if you go a few pts over the 400 thats fine as well (also w/in reason)

Forgot to add: 60 pts power limit.

I used to have Hero Designer, I could probably get it again. Isn't Champs 6 also done with Hero Lab though?

Quick question: what are we thinking for dress code? Uniforms? Costumes? Both/Niether?

i don't know the status of Hero Labs, i've had HD for a while and it has 6th Edition rules.

A quick preview to answer about dress codes . They will be given costumes the first day , blue and gray, think designed like the original 1960s x-men, with enough rpd for the pcs to not worry about bullets, built in cellular communicators. this is the one piece of super tech as i don't think nearly skin tight non-newtonian materials exist.

if you can't get HD feel free to write it up and i'll just copy into HD.

Sorry it took so long to reply, this weekend got crazy busy.

I was thinking just natural abilities for now, but magic is something he is studying, so possibly some skills in magical theory (at the beginning level). And in the future he could be able to learn actual spells to supplement his natural abilities.

He probably has something like a watcher, a mentor of sorts that found him. Possibly one of the teachers at the academy, who realizes it's easier to keep tabs on him if he's under the roof with likeminded individuals.

I'm thinking he can detect magic and demonic entitites, though it is unreliable and at short distance.

The style of martial arts is probably similar to kick boxing.

As for the healing, I'm imagining he has to touch them and that it could possibly take some time so not something to be done in encounter time.

I'm thinking he's 16. Tall for his age, with a distinctly wiry build. Short cropped hair. He could be from any american city, so let's go with the campaign city. I'm thinking he was adopted, so him being the seventh son of a seventh son was a big surprise. Suddenly he had 6 more brothers out there somewhere.

He grew up with a nice middle class family with little drama until the day he found out he was adopted (same day his powers manifested). He wasn't very scholarly before he got his powers, something of a Jock he was already good at sports before his powers manifested. Played high school basketball on his old school, and now looking to see if there's any team sport on his new school.

@furmyr , I statted out Ronan.
as you only said kickboxing, I decided his school teaches all kickboxing (American, French, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Dutch) , the maneuvers listed are only an example as a roundhouse kick (american style) uses the same game mechanics as the French finishing strike, although i did want to list an assortment of maneuvers from the different styles.
Because of the different martial arts he has basic language ability in all , although no literacy in japanese, burmese, thai, french, mandarin chinese, dutch (except English which is his native language).

I included the sense magic - you will have to define how he would detect magic: if he sees, hears, or smells magic. or if you define it as a separate sense you will have to define how he reacts if around magic.

I put the heal spell in a package. The 11<= roll is basically he is new to this, so it is difficult for him to get it right. also requires concentration - so probably wouldn't want to use mid combat. The gestures and incantations can be defined as the stereotypical wizard or something like Naruto's hand gestures, sayings.

There are a number of points still available. if you decide that he needs an additional spell mid-game, it will depend on what he is doing (might require a roll).

The character sheet can be found at Ronan

Feel free to say i got it completely wrong and request corrections.

I created the start of the adventure.

Please feel free to continue to ask questions about either one's character, the game world, or the system.

One can post in the game thread even if one is not completely done with one's character.

Thank you.

Okay, I was feeling a little self conscious about my speed, so I went ahead and picked up HERO Designer to speed up my math a bit. I more or less have everything planned out, so I should have numbers up tonight.

ty for letting me know.
Reminder 400 pts w/75 matching.
don't worry about speed or body (or really end) as we aren't using the first or keeping track of the second two.

I came up with something like this.

I think Harper is good to go. I am going to make a simple character sheet for her just to talk in her form in game
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Got thrown a bit by Complications working differently than I'm used to. I think I've got the numbers up ... but it seems like I've got no text file export option.

Edit: Given that we're not tracking Body, I didn't bother with any Resistant Defenses. I hope that's fine.

for game purposes the costume referred to in Session 1 includes enough resistant defense that one doesn't have to worry about being shot, unless related to one's complications.

and as far as sending me the character , you can copy and paste the test into this forum. or if you have a gmail account you can upload to google drive account to share with me.

If you do decide to copy and paste, I will input the text into HD, and share back the character sheet to make sure i have everything.

I have submitted the character. Took some time to get it into a Gamersplane sheet, but it's all there now.

question (just because sometimes i forget things and other times i get a bit paranoid)

can anyone see the other two threads, or did i forget to enable some option?

For the actual game sessions, do you prefer just a thread, or do you prefer a subforum?

All threads are visible 😁.

I am pretty easy on format, but sub forums can help with referencing back.

I've been in a few games that's been going on for a couple of years now, and the amount of threads can make it look chaotic. Subforums help with that. One solution is to put old threads into its own subforum as they close down.

I presume then there is a way to move closed threads to subforums, i will address that further once we have a few more, thank you.

to all, if its necessary to add the character to the library and then to the game, a quick and dirty method is to open the character in your browser and then view the source code.
The formatting is off, but apparently all the text is there.

I hope you are still interested in my game. backgrounds that i can think of that have not been used include: connected to an embassy (related to staff, the ambassador, or maybe even a royal), the bad boy/girl referred to the school by the court systems, esoteric scholar, and i am sure there are more.

as far as powers, no we don't have a stealthy martial artist, nor any marksmen, plus we still have a lot of special affects that have not been used.
We can discuss this here or in private message, depending on what you prefer.

Thanks again.