Here is my british heroes who form the team ROYAL GUARD.


Conductor and Hummingbird are from PES (one of the worst modules - I think I modified nearly everything in it except for these two and Soulburner).

Exchalibur is from the Rulebook. Though I can't for the life of me remember his name Stormy or something.

Elemental is Fortress from Trouble for Havoc.

Godiva and Shadowbird are both my chara.

Favorite Moments:

Royal Guard vs. the Devil's Demon Horde!

After both the Crusaders and Royal Guard battled the Demons at Stonehenge.
Royal Guard joins the Crusaders and enter the gateway with them.
As the two powerful teams deal with the Domain! (I had expanded it quite a bit) and start to head towards the Devil's retreat. The Devil sends a huge mass of demons after them.
Knowing they have to beat the Devil, but won't be able to if he is constantly sending his minions against them. Exchalibur and Royal Guard sent the Crusaders on as they dealt with the demon horde.
I let the PCs puppet Royal Guard - cause one of the PCs asked if they could play out the battle. It was cool and they all said they had a ball playing those characters.
Ofcourse the PC that had Exchalibur had an 11th lvl character to play, who had weather control abilities and the sword Holy Exchalibur - same sword from DotD.
You know, This...

Holy Exchalibur: The sword of King Arthur.
It is a highly magical sword and has the following attributes:
to hit: +8, Dam 3d10 + hth, grants user 15 pts of invul., can heal 40pts of dam. a day, Awe ability save vs Chr or stand dumbfounded.

Kick butt weapon.

Anyhow... Puppeting NPCs became a normal thing, when players couldn't make it during an ongoing mission (and their characters weren't avalible due to being locked in a mission).
So I would let them play heroes of their choice. Keeping it mainly to the action sequences. This was always a fun thing.

G7

Nice work, and I love the sketches. Any chance we'll get to see more of your stuff? Or some character sheets for these guys?

We're looking forward to you posting you stuff. And I'd love to see some FC material.

Some full color artwork.

Either way we look forward to more of your work.

Guardian7 wrote on Sep 7^th, 2009 at 11:24pm:


Very nice work G7. I can barely draw stick figures, so I'm impressed.

Put it in the Member Art Thread!

Sure, I understand. I've known artists who didn't feel comfortable having their work compared to others.

Nice stuff!

I like your Motivatrix!

I decided to move the images from the WELCOME NEWCOMERS! to here.

So here is Madam Crystal Fridgia... in my world primary foe of the Justice Patrol.

This character was made using the video game FREEDOM FORCE. The background is actually from a background avalible for most computers (Though cropped). I just thought it looked so cool with her coloration. Almost looks like she is standing in a more colorful Fortress of Solitude.




Here also is a mock cover to the "LOST" Most Wanted Vol 2.
It features the character called Magnet Man (as can be read on the folder he appears on/the image is also from the game of FREEDOM FORCE).

MOST WANTED VOL 2: Cover featuring MAGNET MAN!


There ya go.

Cya
G7

I thought... maybe you guys would get a kick out of some of the covers I did for some of our games (and yes I did give each adventure a title of some kind)... now granted... I redrew them and with the aid of my trusted steed the computer... was able to emulate a cover logo assembly... unfortunately... these are not modules. Just excepts from my games (Cause I drew a cover type illo - with crudely remade V&V upper logos for them - no... I will not show you my art from back then. LOL).

Here they are...



The guy in the green cloak above is someone you know (V&V players that is)... and no he isn't Doom... He's worse!




Ahhh this villain... He was so wonderfully wicked!... and yes... he is throwing barbwire!
It was a one time fight... but he had virtually the entire team of the Crusaders (my Crusaders that is...) all on the run. It was my Halloween game. My players all knew... when October came... so did at least one monster!!! *G7 laughs like Vincent Price!*

Hope you like.
Maybe sometime I will do some write ups to go with these (semi-Mods I guess *shrug* who knows?).

G7

Nice work!

Harvest King was the name of my villain from the (MOCK) cover of HARVEST OF EVIL!!

No offense, Dsumner... but I doubt I would ever use pumpkin as part of a name of a villain... My players would have a hey-day with that... and they were already calling him names  trying to taunt him in the original game (Til he kicked their collective butts... Then all of a sudden his flaming pumpkin head wasn't so funny!).

Harvest King was a MAJOR foe.
He was cool... his appearance in the Sabin, Iowa (fictional town - Biggest corn producing state) was utterly wicked.
This is probably one of my favorite stories (Because he is one of the few villains, I actually made up and didn't template him off something from the game - or historic myth). From the environment (perpetual night) I created to what was really going on and why. The powers and abilities of the Harvest King and how just punching him wasn't the answer.

I started doing my occasional horror stories because I was never impressed with anything that FGU did in that department (Which I am sure I will cover in the polls section for each module).

The PC hero Speed Demon was from Iowa… which made it that much more fun (Though not from that town… though he had heard of the Legends of the insidious Harvest King - Devil in the Corn - Horror of the fields - Screaming Scarecrow). My games were rarely unelaborated.
Not that we didn’t do the typical “Bank robbers! GET EM!” stuff.

Because in my created Universe of V&V (Where everything was there from the Mods - though most were altered to a more serious level of game play)… Master Zero with Madame Frigia couldn’t freeze the world (Personal mod.: RETURN of the ICE AGE!!)… without drawing the attention of not only Nations and Heroes… but there were some villains who would and did interfere (Particularly in most cases - Motivator and Doctor Apocalypse - you should have seen them in action during my version of DAWN OF THE DEVIL).

Back to the Mock Mod…
Though I think the story of the Harvest King is cool… I don’t believe that Horror Mods for V&V did all that well. I believe they probably were the weakest in sales (though I am not absolutely sure) and that they probably should have tried to stick to a reoccurring villain here and there as opposed to doing them.

This just gives you all a glance into My world of V&V.

Cya
G7

Guardian7 wrote on Sep 21^st, 2009 at 2:08pm:


Lord Pumpkin, was the Spirit of Halloween, and he was far from a joke. He has the ability to alter reality, summon demons, and generally cause much havoc. If I do convert him over, I'll have to work out how he'd function in V&V terms.

G7, your art style really reminds of a lot of Tod McFarlane's early work, especially his Infinity Inc. work.

Guardian7 wrote on Sep 21^st, 2009 at 10:43pm:


G7, hopefully my comments didn't offend you, as I like your style, and hope to see you post more of your stuff. 

Sorry Dsumner. I just knee jerked. I am an ass for responding like that. IT has absolutely nothing to do with you or even for the most part what you meant (I know it was meant as a compliment).

Let me show you my full pencils. Hopefully you will see the George Perez and John Byrne influence on my work (Though I am not nearly as talented as either of them).
Here is an image I did of MIGHTY MAN and SUPER-ANN of the Centaur Heroes (Obscure heroes predating many others from the late 30s & early 40s)


Okay... so that image is puny... LOL.

Try this.

There we go... MUCH better... ahhh I love this woman. MS. MARVEL is my favorite super-heroine (granted.. this is a 98 pic, I have certainly improved since then).

Hope that gives you a clearer indication of what I am capable of. *wink*

Nidd...
What "debacle"? Did it have something to do with religion? LOL... (Please... don't anyone start). Cause frankly I don't remember (musta been pretty traumatic for me! LOL).

People knock-heads. Oh well!... I am sure it will happen again when I finally get to the Poll going on Mod 2026. LOL

All that aside... thank you very much. THIS forum is a wonderful site... with some incredible people in it (who by all indications seem to appreciate my efforts).

So hi again Nidd (I do remember the name... but, sorry if I don't remember much about the conversations... you'll have to remind me. *wink*)

G7

wow very nice!  excellent work!

I love your artwork, G7!

And yes, I can see the Byrne influences (one of my favorite artists).

Have you ever done any markers for V&V?  Or did your group not use them?

By the way, I love your art Guardian.

Guardian7 wrote on Sep 26^th, 2009 at 9:08pm:


Wow!  As talented of an artist as you are, it would seem like a no-brainer to put that skill to use with markers.  I guess I'm just so used to them that I have a hard time imagining playing the game without them.  It gives such a clear picture of who has behind facing, how and where somebody goes when they get knocked back 30", who can see who, and the like.

I've grown so accustomed to using markers that I pretty much do it for every RPG game I play.  It's actually rare when I don't use them.  I only really have time to make each and every marker for one game system, so the only one I carefully do every single marker for (often drawing them or finding images on the web) is V&V.  For other game systems (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, etc.) it's a simple matter to take my 1" counter cutter and quickly snap out markers using old CCG cards.

To each their own, but for combat I find that markers add a multi-dimensional and visual element that enhances games a thousand fold!   

Guardian7 wrote on Sep 28^th, 2009 at 1:39am:


The published rules actually suggest creating an NPC superhero strong-arm in case player-characters get out of line, making the vision behind V&V intrinsically antithetical to unlawful behavior.  I was very fortunate that even the Wolverine wanna-be in my early GM-experience wanted to stay on the up-and-up. I pity the  GM left in the position of using NPCs--or side conversations--to remind player characters that the game is about acting the part of the superhero (in spite of what read one might have on the term 'vigilante'). Word up.

Here... did a little justice for our resident girl in black from Most Wanted Vol 1.

I still can't believe I forgot her in my heroines illo...

So here she is... all dark and lethal looking...



Cool... huh?

G7

I mentioned in the post  Re: Character Death about how the Hero PC Titan (Brick) had over punched a MUCH weaker foe (a simple flaming girl) and did massive damage to her (unintentionally - He honestly thought she could take it and the look of surprise on his face was quite genuine). ANYHOW... Imperial (of Devil's Domain) showed up to do an inquiry... He chastised Titan for what he called his flagrant disregard and use of his abilities. This of course upset the PC Titan a lot (Though not the Player... he totally understood Imperial's position)... long story short, it all turned out all right. Though this is a minor example of "Stepping in"... it is the same principle.

We also had a time where clues to a case led the Crusaders to a secret Military base, where the people there were being mind controlled by the villain who Headhunter would eventually consume (A VERY important villain in my universe).
The Crusaders ended up in a big ole whoppin fight with American Military forces... They called in the Guard (Which at this time was the nearly every Goverment hero - Imperial, Telecomm, Meganaut, Molecule Man, Vortex, Steel "formally Stigmata" and the solo govermental hero Resonator).
Thinking the Goverment heroes were also being mind controlled (Which some of them did fall sway to the villain's psionic abilities) the obligationary hero vs hero fight broke out (only one villain... so someone had to fight).
ANYHOW... after the fight the Crusaders were investigated by the ASA... The Crusaders fell on the defense that they were not sure who they could trust.
This satisfied the ASA and their East Coast director Mr. Scarlet (Who had dealt with the Crusaders previous in the Assassin Mod).

G7

G7

The biggest "problem" power that I've found in our games is Gravity Control.  Numerous heroes have found the effective (but lethal) combo of making somebody weight negative (say, -18 times their weight) so that they go flying way up high in the air (until out of the character's range), and then they go falling to the ground (sometimes helped along by the gravity-wielder, perhaps now making them 18 times heavier!).

Needless to say, this can cause quite the splat! (and kill even a big, tough, super villain).

It hasn't taken long for a few of our characters to figure this out.  One PC (I think he was the first) was actually charged criminally (and found guilty), I believe of reckless endangerment or manslaughter, and he actually went to prison for a bit (he ended up getting out and doing a special black ops mission for the government to earn a pardon).

Hammer wrote on Sep 30^th, 2009 at 7:48pm:


Yes, it is a cool (and versatile) power; honestly it's one of the most powerful in the whole game, when used effectively.

Just to give an example (with Mongo), let's suppose a PC has a Strength of 12 (just above average).

Mongo falling normally is just as you said.  He weighs 5400 lbs, which means that he has 108 BH.  If he went up to 13" high (because 12" up in the PC's range) and then fell, he would take:

Damage = √ object's BH x number of " fallen this turn

Damage = 10.39 (√ of 108) x 13

Damage = 135

Now imagine that said PC (with a S of 12) kept control of that character and increased Mongo's weight by a factor of +12!

Suddenly Mongo weighs 64,800, has 1,296 BH, and he's taking 432 points of damage!  If his Invulnerability was gone that turn, he's splattered and most definitely dead!

If the PC has a 17 S like your son, and even if you make him fall at 17", your damage is still going to be 177 (and 728 if he  increases his weight by 17!).

You can see how quickly (and easily) Gravity can be a killer, even in a game where it's normally VERY hard to kill someone (where Aunt May would often not be killed by a small nuclear bomb blowing up in her face!)   

Thank you all for the nice compliments.

Yeah the last two certainly have a Byrne flair with Perezy touches.

Though the Ebony Angel one looks damn fine, I think. It really captures the atmosphere she is usually seen in (at least by description - ala Batman).

I am actually writing the Module to Project: Ultimatum (Not sure if I will do that with Harvest of Evil and Terror of the Zodiac - both of which were more geared towards my world of Villains and Vigilantes... but who knows).

My only problem is... It is difficult to write simplistically.

*Shrug* oh well! LOL

More artwork to come.
I did some sketches of the Crusaders I might post them. Not sure. More design work than anything.

Cya
G7

The Second:Human torso,eagle head and feet/legs,Wings on back also dressed in Native American garb

If anyone can suggest or lead me to some help I would appreciate it

Minotaur in most respects yes, hac cloven hooves.
The shark guy has a universal form with webbed feet and hands also has a fin on back of his head  I think the eagle one is clear (or at least it is on my browser, lol)
the head is an eagle, the torso a man, the legs and feet are eagle, large wings on his back.
again thanks for the help my artwork is almost as old as me 

K. I will get on this as soon as I am able.

Do you have a site with images of these chara on it?
If not making them up is not a problem.

G7

Cool characters (and I like the art for them, too).  G7, that's super cool that you're willing to help out with characters like this - your art rocks!   

I posted the pics that i did for these characters on this thread pleas let me know if you cannot see them cause i do on my computer

Anyone have any suggestions so that i can post my pics? I have them on a drive i could e=mail them to some of you guys with the appropriate programs. I dont know if they are just to big to be on the site.  I would like any help i can get on this. I've been playing this character for a while

Thanks Hammer

Fantastic work sir!

I love the Jeff Dee influence, but if I must say your style is a bit more polished/refined than his.

Do you take commissions?

Hey my native american character died this session. I am putting together a new character does anyone know where i can hire an artist?

Cool, will you posts links here? let me know when and who. I doubt this character will be as tough to draw as the last one

Avatar wrote on Apr 14^th, 2010 at 4:32pm:


I'll post them to another thread, that will clearly be marked.

Avatar wrote on Apr 14^th, 2010 at 4:34pm:


I only read a couple of issues. I keep claiming I'm going to order the TPB collections so I can read the whole series through.

Avatar wrote on Apr 14^th, 2010 at 3:19pm:


Hey! Don't forget about AMG who sometimes haunts these boards. I'm sure he would be interested and he has done a few pictures for me as The Dark Warrior. The sketch he did for John of Silent Fury was just from a basic description I gave him. Yeah, I push his work because I like it. Shoot him a PM.

iggy rock wrote on Apr 16^th, 2010 at 9:19pm:


G7 is a board member, and artist, who's contributed a lot of artwork, and ideas, to the boards. If you look around, you can see some of the stuff he's posted.

What's the characters name? I like the reflective mask. What catch phrase will he use when the villian sees their own frightened reflection in it????

Or how about

"Look into the eyes of fear"

I like this concept you've come up with, Avatar.  The character sounds really cool, and I too can picture the first issue with this guy!