Champions/Hero System Lore and Feats Discussion

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Champions is a role-playing game published by Hero Games designed to simulate a superhero comic book world. It was originally created by George MacDonald and Steve Peterson in collaboration with Rob Bell, Bruce Harlick and Ray Greer. The latest edition of the game uses the sixth edition of the Hero System, as revised by Steve Long, and was written by Aaron Allston, and was released in early 2010. Though the first version was published in 1981, and was one of the first tabletop role-playing games in which character generation was based on a point-buy system instead of random dice rolls, in which the player would decide what to play, and use a given number of character points to determine how powerful or how many abilities or skills a character has. Champions does not use character classes, but many of its available powers allow players to create characters based on many superhero archetypes, or to even create characters which fall into multiple archetypes.

Much of the setting within Champions takes place within a fictional world full of superheroes, and primarily within an alternate version of Detroit known as Millenium City, in which after its destruction by Dr. Destroyer, Detroit was rebuilt using the newest technologies and renamed. It's the standard superhero setting featuring radiation superpowers, alien civilizations, superpowered aliens, energy projectors, magic, and organizations with advanced technology. Pretty much any trope you'd expect to see in a superhero comic is present here. Notably, it also features the Champions superhero team, with its own established superheros and even rival villains.

A MMORPG based on the license was developed by Cryptic Studios, who had previously developed City of Heroes, and was working on a Marvel Universe MMORPG before turning it into a now defunct Diablo clone, and turning the original MMORPG pitch into Champions Online, released in 2009. The game takes place in the established Champions universe and features classic Champions heroes and villains as NPCs. It should be noted that almost nobody plays this game anymore except those in it for its character customization, but feats and lore stuff from Champions Online will also be looked at in this thread.

 

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Doing some non-scaling stuff/generic stuff that comes naturally with Hero System.

With just the Strength characteristic, characters are capable of lifting heavy amounts of weight and dealing a similar level of damage.

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It should be worth noted that 'Average' is variable depending on the power level of the campaign in question, meaning it could be anywhere from Strength 10 to Strength 20 or beyond.

Characters can move up to their full movement within a single second, or half their movement and perform another action during that time. The default movement speed for running is 12 meters.

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Characters can apply the MegaScale advantage to multiply the effects of their powers and abilities, allowing them to drastically effect the range and area of effect of their powers.

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This advantage can even be applied to movement powers, and even very little levels of the ability can cause characters to travel at hypersonic speeds.

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FTL Travel is its own dedicated power.

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Next post I make will start dealing with feats and lore stuff specific to the Champions setting.

 

[Flowering Knight]

Some in-universe stuff that can be good for scaling.

Characters such as Defender are capable of flying at 10 km per second, or about Mach 29.

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Gigaton's body was infused with a nuclear explosion, causing all of his cells to "burst with bio-nuclear energies", whatever that means.

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Even weaker villains such as Green Dragon aren't far behind Gigaton in terms of potential attack power.

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Baron Nihil's body is made of Nihil energy, which by itself is a thousand times more powerful than a split atom.

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Firewing (and many other characters from space) is capable of FTL travel.

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Eclipsar once blotted out the sun, and during times of solstice can have enough power to destroy the sun altogether.

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Stormfront is capable of controlling the weather and using cloud-to-ground lightning. Oddly enough his gimmick is that he's a mutant conman.

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Some cosmic stuff.

All Galaxars are extremely powerful and wield cosmic power. More importantly, all of them can move 250 light years in one second.

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Two other Galaxars, The Geometer and Geon, don't have stats, but they should likely be comparable to the others. The former has been capable of destroying and creating planets and stars, and the latter is capable of creating "personal planets."

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Valak the World-Ravager is capable of taking down entire teams of superheroes and even destroying entire planets. It's also mentioned he was weakened to only a fraction of his original power.

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Astron is a living asteroid belt that consumes entire planets. Its hands and feet are the size of Earth and it can lift 25 zettatons.

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Xarriel is a being capable of destroying entire planets and galaxies, and is stated to be as powerful as a Galaxar.

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Kigatilik is strong enough to cause even other supervillains to potentially team up to face him, and is capable of freezing the Earth itself.

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Grond is considered the (physically) strongest being in the world, though few are capable of exceeding his strength temporarily.

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Doctor Destroyer is explicitly considered more powerful than any superhero, superhero team, or even supervillain on Earth, and his basic weaponry is even stated to be capable of harming or even killing supervillains such as Grond.

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Shadow Destroyer is a separate being who is much like Dr. Destroyer, but combines technology with magic in place of only technology. Shadow Destroyer is also the only character who has explicitly defeated Dr. Destroyer and even locked him up. Shadow Destroyer also intends on manifesting the Qliphothic beings known as the Presences Beyond outside their realm, which alone can potentially destroy the multiverse.

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Shadow Destroyer is currently considered the most dangerous supervillain on the planet. So it's safe to say he scales up from pretty much everything.

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The multiverse in the Champions Universe is infinite.

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