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Neue Kaffees des Jahres von Melitta am Start

Im Januar bringt Melitta zwei neue Kaffeesorten auf den Markt: die BellaCrema Selection des Jahres aus Nicaragua und den neuen Kaffee des Jahres aus Indien. Die BellaCrema Selection des Jahres von Melitta überzeugt mit Bohnen aus Nicaragua und einer feinen Note von Milchschokolade, der Kaffee des Jahres besticht mit Bohnen aus Indien mit einer Note dunkler Schokolade. Gleichzeitig unterstützt…

Neue Kaffees des Jahres von Melitta am Start

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The public domain 4C System free of residual copyrighted content.

A free retro-clone of a popular 1980s superheroes roleplaying game.

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Create-A-Character Challenge: Vortexia, Queen of the Z-Dimension

Vortexia, Queen of the Z-Dimension A Technologically Enhanced Superheroine for use with the 4C System. Check out the character creation process here.

Backstory: The royal empress of a parallel universe, renowned for its remarkable technological advances and crushing gravity, Vortexia was transported to our world when the Grand Energy Converter malfunctioned (secretly in an act of sabotage), creating a massive wormhole between universe. Now, working with Ace Hawkfield, the star reporter assigned to cover her case, as well as various world leaders, Vortexia attempts to find a way home, all while battling various paranormal threats.

Primary Traits Melee: 40 (Low Superhuman) Coordination: 3 (Below-Average Human) Brawn: 20 (Exceptional Human) Fortitude: 10 (Above-Average Human) Intellect: 50 (30+20 for Technologically Enhanced) (Superhuman) Awareness: 6 (Average Human) Willpower: 20 (Exceptional Human)

Secondary Traits Damage: 73 Fortune: 76 Lifestyle: 50 Repute: 31

Skills/Contacts Politics Ace Hawkfield, Star Reporter

Powers Flight (Equipment, Rank 10) Super-Leaping (Innate, Rank 10)

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Create-A-Character Challenge: 4C System

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Description from RPGNow:

The Four Color (4C) System is an emulator of an older game system. With the Four Color System not only can you create new super-heroes, world, universes and adventures but you can plug and play the old games and new Four Colors materials.

Four Color is a complete super-heroic role-playing system in 34 pages (including the cover) that is waiting for you to create your own worlds and universes for play.

So we’re looking at a Marvel Superheroes emulator. This’ll be interesting, since I have Marvel Superheroes to look at later on.

We begin by rolling a d100 for our origin. 84—Technologically Enhanced.

The character’s powers are the result of devices and gadgets. Intellect & Lifestyle +20.

Alright, definitely in my wheelhouse, most of my characters hew towards the Artificer model.

Now, we determine our primary values. Roll 1d100, and consult a chart. (Not a huge fan of Number+Chart rolling, in general; I prefer to streamline results whenever possible, but I’m giving this one the benefit of the doubt.)

Primary Traits:

Melee: 40 (Low Superhuman) Coordination: 3 (Below-Average Human) Brawn: 20 (Exceptional Human) Fortitude: 10 (Above-Average Human) Intellect: 50 (30+20 for Technologically Enhanced) (Superhuman) Awareness: 6 (Average Human) Willpower: 20 (Exceptional Human)

Secondary Traits:

Damage (Melee+Coordination+Brawn+Fortitude): 73 Fortune (Intellect+Awareness+Willpower): 76 Lifestyle (Roll on Rank Table, +20 for Technologically Enhanced): 50 (equivalent to a Small Nation… interesting.) Repute (d100/3, round up): 31

Number of skills (rolled on a table… which seems to give a distinct possibility of wildly unbalanced characters…): Two skills/contacts. Appear to be freeform, interesting. Going back to this small nation thing, I think “Politics”—I’m thinking my character is the monarch of some forgotten country, rich with technology and very strong, but clumsy (maybe a mole-man, well, no, obviously a mole-man). With that in mind, my contact will be the plucky reporter who discovered my country and brought me to the world at large.

Number of Powers (still random… still rubs me the wrong way): 2. Flight (Rank 10, or 4 sectors/turn) and Super-Leaping (Rank 10, or 4 sectors/turn). That seems… redundant, but the dice fall where they will. Also not particularly mole-manic, so instead I think we’ll veer towards Tom Strong territory; raised in a high-gravity environment (hence the superhuman strength and jumping), and taught to be a super-genius from a young age, eventually bestowing her with an arsenal of self-made technology, including an anti-gravity belt (the flight power).

And… that seems to be it!

Likes: I like the relative speed of it, and I’m a sucker for randomized characters, especially in superhero games.

Dislike: It comes with random character generation, but there is way too much power disparity for me. Like, if I had rolled better, I could have Magic, which simulates every other power. Maybe it feels better in play, but man, that seems like a fun-killer. Also, like I said, still not a fan of Dice+Table. I feel like it adds a step.