Prophets Sneak Peeks (upcoming characters)

[prophet118]

heres a few characters im working on converting from City of Heroes to Godsend Agenda..

of course you guys are going to be able to use em no troubles..lol


the first guy is named Sigul, on city of heroes he is a Trick Arrow/Archery Defender, in GSA he's probably going to end up being a gadget character, and as in the game will not actually possess any real powers, except his gadgets (trick arrow being things like glue arrow, flash arrow, entangle arrow etc)

http://www.jamesandjennifer.net/SOF/xtras/Sigul.jpg
Sigul is an ex military figure.



http://www.jamesandjennifer.net/SOF/xtras/Epitomy.jpg
the next preview is a new character i created in COH, his name is Epitomy, hes designed to be a hero in the same styling as Hyperion, or Aryan Superior.. or Superman even... the quintessential good guy, in COH he is a Fiery Aura/Energy Melee tanker.. my plans for him is to either come up with an actual energy melee attack power, or (and probably the easiest) just use elemental sheath: Energy and restrict it to his hands... the firey aura part is easy of course, if you'll remember back, the character Mattox also had Firey Aura, i chose not to convert the power precisely on him, but on Epitomy, i think i might try...

in game, Fiery Aura has these effects/powers:
Blazing Aura: does damage, plus has a taunt componant, it is not a true shield, as it doesnt protect you from any sort of damage at all
Fire Shield: this is your standard shield
Healing Flames: the power set has a healing power built into it, presumably the super heated fire heals you... maybe promotes healing, who knows, iots not nearly as powerful as a true healer (empathy defender) but its a nice boost.
Temperature Protection: pretty standard, likely built in to the Ele sheath power
Consume: this one might be hard to convert, the game uses endurance as a way of fueling your powers, this power draws heat (in the form of damage to the baddies) from your oponants and it replenishes your endurance
Plasma Shield: a stronger form of fire shield, that offers much stronger protection (probably will just get blended into BA and FS)
Burn: this is the power to ignite the area around with you on fire, again something that ele sheath can already do
Fiery Embrace: this power boosts your damage output for a short amount of time in game, this is something ele sheath can already do, but because i dont want to overlap as much, i'll probably not even worry about putting this power in.
Rise of the Phoenix: this is the lvl 32 power that is kind of odd, you have to be dead to use it, it is a fairly stout heal, basically a mega regeneration, or mega heal that can only be activated when you die, it allows you to get back up and fight some more


now the easy things here: BA/FS/PS would be simply combined to form the basis of the actual ele power, since its what it can do already, i think the only things im going to add would be the healing, and obviously the rise of the phoenix.

i'll keep you posted.

[Silverlion2]

Kinda neat. I wish, REALLY wish COH people would get the idea of selling JUST the character tool/art elements of it out--after all, they could sell it easily for 30 bucks for gamers and others who just want to make characters but not play the game.

Most of my heroes and villains are "mine" no Godsend Agenda translation simply because I'm the GM.

If I can get my players together again. I may go with the new players I've got after Christmas and use GA.
Really want to do more exploration of the mythic gaming meme.

[prophet118]

ive typically got a buttload of characters laying around from other games, just part of GM'ing for 12 years i guess..lol

[Jerry D. Grayson]

The character creation tool in COH is neat and useful for creating character “sketches”

The characters seem really cool and Id like to the right ups. I’m curious how they would look written up using the ruleset.

[prophet118]

yeh im kinda curious too... lmao, my printers outta ink, so i'll probably just scratch sheet em

Epitomy might be pretty easy...in theory

the only catch of course is a balance issue, see by giving him 2 ele sheathes, im in effect giving him 2 times the damage, although i think theres something in the rules about not bewing able to use both forms at the same time

for epitomy to work right, id have to use both forms at the same time, however, this can be worked out... the simplest way is to flaw ele sheath fire so that it does not add anything to melee damage

now that blazing aura thing i told you about, does do damage to things in melee range (which in the game equals about 2 foot away form the character in all directions)

what i could work on is give the ele fire sheathe the ability to have a ranged like attack, make it an activation roll or something (still having the flaw that it doesnt add to melee attacks)

with a standard D&D mat/map youd have center sqaure (our hero) and 8 sqaures around him kinda like:

OOO
OHO
OOO

now i could in theory have epitomy have some sort of limit/enhancement for the ranged effect that lets him distribute half his rank in ele fire in damage dice around him... so say he has 12 dice in it thats 6 dice to distribute around him... or i could just do 12 dice to distribute.

thoughts?... opinions... especially from attis.

[prophet118]

saw a few ideas last night before i went to bed...

probably do a misc limit on ele energy to flaw it so that it only adds damage to melee brawling attacks (thats a misc flaw -3 and the one that (cant remember name) makes it only brawling attacks...

for fire.. hmm

possibly something like

ele fire
limit damage has to be activated (or use ka)
limit can only cause damage on above


theres an enhance i was looking at for it, but i cant recall the name.. basically it changes the range from point blank (i think thats the one i wanted) to a few feet out, but that'd only be on the damage

id add in body armor as well, and health, both activated rolls

[prophet118]

i was incorrect, it was Peristant Effect that i was looking at for the ranged burn like effect

something im surprised that ele fire sheath doesnt have built in..lol

[prophet118]

thinking over it last night, i'll probably drop the fire aura from the gsa version of epitomy... just give him some body armor or something..lol

[prophet118]

ok so some more updates, Sigul's bow is basically created similiar to the Sunbow that Nadeera has in the book, minus the orichalcrum though.

and of course its a recurve, not a longbow.

as far as the energy melee is concerned..

take elemental sheath energy, limit its use by location (hands/feet only)

im hoping that D6 supers will have much more information on this, allowing more melee powers of this nature... for instance in COH a fiery melee character can form a sword out of fire to weild..

perhaps this falls more into fire manipulation, im not really sure.