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*[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=77037 Quasi's] Dark Champions RPG game. Using Champions 6th ED rules set in the town of New Venice! | *[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=77037 Quasi's] Dark Champions RPG game. Using Champions 6th ED rules set in the town of New Venice! | ||
*[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=546806 Recruitment ] | *[http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=546806 Recruitment ] | ||
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*[https://www.herogames.com/viewItem.htm?itemID=240443 Champions 6th Edition Rulebooks] | *[https://www.herogames.com/viewItem.htm?itemID=240443 Champions 6th Edition Rulebooks] | ||
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*[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=61490 AndrewTBP] playing [[Wraith (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] | *[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=61490 AndrewTBP] playing [[Wraith (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] | ||
*[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=18634 Toras] playing [[Chance (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] | *[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=18634 Toras] playing [[Chance (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] | ||
− | *[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=82039 | + | *[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=82039 Bluecatepillar] playing [[Snake Oil (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] |
*[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=8795 OldKentuckyShark] [[The Prestige (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] | *[http://forum.rpg.net/member.php?u=8795 OldKentuckyShark] [[The Prestige (Dark Champions - New Venice)]] | ||
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Location: Camden CountySouth West corner of Georga. | Location: Camden CountySouth West corner of Georga. | ||
− | At its worse, it is a mix of both the decaying Old South nobility and modern decadence, often clashing. At it best, it is a dynamic vibrant city full of old world charm, in the midst of an economic boom. People of every socal strata have flocked there as the rest of the country's economy nosedives. It is slowly edging out Atlanta's title of as was seen in the ugly competition beteen Atlanta and New Venice for the 1996 Olympics. With the advent of modern container shipping, New Venice port's traffic ehas increased tenfold in teh last five years. Cargo once shipped inland by train is instead of handled by longshoremen, so there's a big economic shift in a traditional working-class area. Unfortunately it is estimated that 35% of the city's traffic is due to illegal activity. Note that some of the older and hight society | + | At its worse, it is a mix of both the decaying Old South nobility and modern decadence, often clashing. At it best, it is a dynamic vibrant city full of old world charm, in the midst of an economic boom. People of every socal strata have flocked there as the rest of the country's economy nosedives. It is slowly edging out Atlanta's title of as was seen in the ugly competition beteen Atlanta and New Venice for the 1996 Olympics. With the advent of modern container shipping, New Venice port's traffic ehas increased tenfold in teh last five years. Cargo once shipped inland by train is instead of handled by longshoremen, so there's a big economic shift in a traditional working-class area. Unfortunately it is estimated that 35% of the city's traffic is due to illegal activity. Note that some of the older and hight society citizend call New Venice Greater Venice sonce it is much larger, more spread, and just culturally developed as its namesake. |
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You can have old genteel southern feel of Olde Towne, the once grand "Italian District," the bustle of the skyscrapers of downtown, and the seedy docks of Portside. | You can have old genteel southern feel of Olde Towne, the once grand "Italian District," the bustle of the skyscrapers of downtown, and the seedy docks of Portside. | ||
And of course the forest of hi-rise Condo Towers in the posh suburb of Cuore Beach. | And of course the forest of hi-rise Condo Towers in the posh suburb of Cuore Beach. | ||
− | What used to be the cuban nieghborhood | + | What used to be the cuban nieghborhood recently has an influx of Russians. |
All these are riddled by its famous canals. | All these are riddled by its famous canals. | ||
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==Culture== | ==Culture== | ||
New Venice's renaissance festival is perhaps the largest in the US | New Venice's renaissance festival is perhaps the largest in the US | ||
− | + | Anh the Yellow Fever Jazz Fest, held in mid-August, has attracted jazz headliner from aroudn the world, although only in its 4th year . | |
==Landmarks== | ==Landmarks== | ||
The main waterway is the Grand Canal. | The main waterway is the Grand Canal. | ||
− | While New Venice is affluent, | + | While New Venice is affluent, there Skidmore Row is perhaps the worse of these nighborhoods. Indeed "Skid Row" has become slang for any decripid neighborhood. |
Located just off the Grand Canal on Blakely Plaza, is the New Venice Museum Of Modern Art (NV-MOMA) A hideous monstrotrocity that everyone hates. It incorporates all of the worst features of modern art. It looks like it was designed by a lunatic, because it was. Some visitors even complain of nightmares. Its designer Johnson Debuque, went insane and has been a resident of the hopeless case wing of the St. Regis Asylum for the last 45 years. The truth behind it is an ugly story... | Located just off the Grand Canal on Blakely Plaza, is the New Venice Museum Of Modern Art (NV-MOMA) A hideous monstrotrocity that everyone hates. It incorporates all of the worst features of modern art. It looks like it was designed by a lunatic, because it was. Some visitors even complain of nightmares. Its designer Johnson Debuque, went insane and has been a resident of the hopeless case wing of the St. Regis Asylum for the last 45 years. The truth behind it is an ugly story... | ||
Far more popular is the St. Blaise Cathedral. Built as a labor of love buy the orginal Italian stonemasons who settled in New Venice, it put many old world churches to shame. Its crowning touch is an exact copy of the bell tower from St Mark's Basilca in old Venice. (Interesting piece of trivia. When the orginal San Marco bell tower collapsed in old Venice, 1902 they used the New Venice tower as a reference to rebuilt the orginal from scratch. So technically, the belltower in Plaza San Marco, Venice, Italy is a copy of the one here in New Venice! True story.) | Far more popular is the St. Blaise Cathedral. Built as a labor of love buy the orginal Italian stonemasons who settled in New Venice, it put many old world churches to shame. Its crowning touch is an exact copy of the bell tower from St Mark's Basilca in old Venice. (Interesting piece of trivia. When the orginal San Marco bell tower collapsed in old Venice, 1902 they used the New Venice tower as a reference to rebuilt the orginal from scratch. So technically, the belltower in Plaza San Marco, Venice, Italy is a copy of the one here in New Venice! True story.) | ||
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=The Story Thus Far= | =The Story Thus Far= | ||
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Why risk everything with some crazy plan to rule the world when your stock is already selling for $120 on the NASDAQ and is set to split once news of your latest goverment contract is made public at your next stockholders' meeting? | Why risk everything with some crazy plan to rule the world when your stock is already selling for $120 on the NASDAQ and is set to split once news of your latest goverment contract is made public at your next stockholders' meeting? | ||
− | However, that does not mean Viper is above corporate espionage under the cover of | + | However, that does not mean Viper is above corporate espionage under the cover of supervillany or terrorism. Since they have flashy costumes and guns, no one questions what their true motivations are. |
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=Game-Specific= | =Game-Specific= | ||
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Possibilities include | Possibilities include | ||
Mind control dugs and gas (Drugs and gases have a great number of possibilities.) | Mind control dugs and gas (Drugs and gases have a great number of possibilities.) | ||
− | + | Telekenesis up to ten pounds. | |
Shapechanging into other people. (Disguise skill or al la Darkman) | Shapechanging into other people. (Disguise skill or al la Darkman) | ||
Ability to copy skills by watching someone do it. | Ability to copy skills by watching someone do it. | ||
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Green hornet, The Shadow, Wolverine, Batman, Joker, Captian America, Bane, Bullseye, Roxy Rocket, Catwoman, Jedi Knight, Pyro (who may not be able to create fire, but can control exisiting flame)Cutey Honey and Shadow Lady from their respective manga, Phantom Lady, Nemesis, pretty much anyone from the Secret Six (except Knockout) or Suicide Squad. Street Fighter characters like Guile, Cammy or Chun-Li | Green hornet, The Shadow, Wolverine, Batman, Joker, Captian America, Bane, Bullseye, Roxy Rocket, Catwoman, Jedi Knight, Pyro (who may not be able to create fire, but can control exisiting flame)Cutey Honey and Shadow Lady from their respective manga, Phantom Lady, Nemesis, pretty much anyone from the Secret Six (except Knockout) or Suicide Squad. Street Fighter characters like Guile, Cammy or Chun-Li | ||
− | We allow some low grade mutant, psionic, and magic powers. They definitely fit in the film noir feel. Also remeber that motif is everything. Even soemthing as telepathy can be bought as just being real good at body language, cold reading, or truth drugs. | + | We allow some low grade mutant, psionic, and magic powers. They definitely fit in the film noir feel. Also remeber that motif is everything. Even soemthing as telepathy can be bought as just being real good at body language, cold reading, or truth drugs. |
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==Equipment== | ==Equipment== | ||
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Banned powers include: | Banned powers include: | ||
*Magically/genetically Tranforming your target into a different creature. | *Magically/genetically Tranforming your target into a different creature. | ||
− | * | + | *Tranferings life, intellect viatlity. |
*Growing or shrinking (more than a two feet) | *Growing or shrinking (more than a two feet) | ||
*Copying superpowers. | *Copying superpowers. | ||
*Shapechanging into things or animals. | *Shapechanging into things or animals. | ||
*Projecting energy such as lasers, gamma rays or electricity from your body in defiance of all the laws of physics. | *Projecting energy such as lasers, gamma rays or electricity from your body in defiance of all the laws of physics. | ||
− | * | + | *Gadeets that defy the laws of physics. (Gadgets can bend them though) |
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==Origins== | ==Origins== |