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Category: Superheroes
This is a very broad category, often confounded with the medium of comics, often perceived as tropes which are much narrower than the historical reality. These posts concern its expression and range within role-playing.
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![“Crisis on campus!” never goes out of style [Champions Now]](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/spiderman-68.jpg)
“Crisis on campus!” never goes out of style [Champions Now]
Introducing Silverbeak! Because adding Monsanto to a welter of corporate and government ownership that already includes ICE, Blackwater/Xe, and the U.S. Army isn’t too much, no, not at all. For the system, we’re still using the very slightly altered original rules that were associated with the Kickstarter, a fair piece behind my current notes for…
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Good morning starshine
How about that other superhero game I’m working on? And no, not Vigil, but the other other one, which I’m calling Cosmic Zap. Quick review: this is work for The Chaosium, using HeroQuest as the chassis, specifically the HeroQuest SRD, itself a bit of a work in progress. Here’s the logic of the project: they…
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The New Defenders (A Very Old Campaign Document)
(First time posting here, at Ron's suggestion.) Back in the late 90s, when the only game I had time for was Champions, I was part of the Haymaker!, an APA focused on HERO System stuff. While going through some of my old Champions stuff (I have many, many file folders of hard copy and hand-filled…
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Two Premise Statements
From the Champions Now! Question Outpost: Joel Davis – Ron, if I understand the playtest document (plus everything you've said in your videos), the campaign is built around two premise statements: A defining trait of superheroes, supervillains, or powers in the campaign Campaign themes in a campaign location To wrap my head around this, I thought…
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![Um, sorry about your church [Champions Now]](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/oblate-church-2.jpg)
Um, sorry about your church [Champions Now]
This is shaping up to be a very Catholic game. Michael Solis, the Oblate, is both observant as a person and basically owned by St. Mary’s College of Law as a auperhero, in association with the Oblate School of Theology. Finn Walsh, or Crawl, is not religious but his family is Irish Catholic as well…
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![Young working heroes in San Antone [Champions Now]](https://adeptplay.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/san-antonio-skyline.jpg)
Young working heroes in San Antone [Champions Now]
Talk about backlogged. Both Champions Now and Cosmic Zap are booming through the first couple sessions of their respective first playtests, and then there were all those videos for the Kickstarter. I’ll be putting them up for public viewing after the campaign’s done, probably at the blog. And three Monsterhearts sessions behind. I know what…
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Champions Now: Strength, Blocks, Martial Blocks
A question on Strength and Blocks (or Martial Blocks) What is the minimum a character’s Strength have to be to perform a Block or Martial Block? Specifically, how low can a character drop his or her Strength and still block an attack? This is a tactical issue in terms of Endurance use. For example, a…
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Champions Now Playtest Doc questions
1. What are the costs and effects of Life Support? 2. The Ranged advantage seems to be missing. +1/2? Allen
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Champions Now! Questions outpost
Hello to backers and to interested parties! Here’s a place for asking questions and sharing notions about Champions Now, in Kickstarter crazy stage at the time of this posting. I’m currently playing a couple of games of it myself, one to continue the game set in St. Louis, which is mostly 3rd-edition as written, and…