Tuesday, July 29, 2025

"Killshot" for High-Five!

 Okay, I didn't set out to do this, but this new character for Jeff Moore's High Five RPG scratches an itch that I didn't know I had:

"What if Hawkeye and Black Widow hadn't become good guys?"

So, from the random creation system I came up with, came this villainous version of my second favorite Avenger (my number one is the Wasp)....check it out!



Saturday, July 19, 2025

Dr. Sparks! for Jeff Moore's "High Five" RPG!

 As some of you may know, I'm a big fan of the RPG output of Mr. Jeff Moore, whose work and thoughts you can keep up with at https://comicbookheart.blogspot.com.

Jeff's most recent game is "High Five," a superhero game that, much like his "Hi-Lo Heroes" game before it, has totally captured my imagination.

In fact, I like both of those games so much that I kind of came up with a mash-up of the two, at least as far as "random character creation" goes.

I call it "High-Lo Five Heroes." I know. I'm so clever.

Anyway, the details of the mash-up are as follows:

  • Take 5 playing cards from a standard deck, numbered, get this: 1 through Five.
  • Shuffle the cards, place them down, and draw one at a time.
  • Each numbered card is associated with a Grade for your Hero's Details:
    • 1 = A
    • 2 = B
    • 3 = C
    • 4 = D
    • 5 = X
  • Yes, the lower the card number, the higher the Grade.  Switch it the other way round if you want.
  • Draw one card at a time, and assign the associated Grade to your Hero's Details in order:
    • Attack
    • Defense
    • Move
    • Craft
    • Connection
  • Based on your Hero's Level (though I would start most Random characters at Level 1), those Grades will set a Score for each of your Details.
  • When it comes to generating random Flavors for your Details, this is where the Hi-Lo Heroes book really comes in!
  • Attack Details:
    • Roll a D6: 1-3 = Roll under Mundane Attacks, 4-6 = Roll under Fantastic Attacks
  • Defense Details:
    • 1-3 = Evasion Powers, 4-6 = Barrier Defense Powers
  • Move Details:
    • Roll under Movement Powers ( I may create a second Table for this, too)
  • Craft Details:
    • Roll 1-6 for Career Type, then 1-6 for Specific Career
  • Connection Details:
    • Roll 1-6 under Charges
Now, for any of those Details results, you are not strictly bound to the wording of the result in the Hi-Lo Heroes book.  These are just random prompts for your imagination.

Using this "system" of prompts, I created...Dr. Sparks!  Check him out!





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