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Wow! Now I'm sorry I sold all my Champions books! Heromachine is a great Flash utility that allows you to draw your characters, even if you are a no-talent artist like myself.

I've made a few portraits of some of my favorite Champions characters.

Iron Horse is a brick, who was magically melded with his Harley. In this, he became incredibly tough and strong, and acquired a taste for motor-oil.

Inferno is my obligatory angst-filled mutant. His skin temperature hovers around 200 F, and he can project focussed bursts of heat that cause almost anything to combust. Alas, he can't turn this his body heat down, which is a bit of a bummer when it comes to dating.

Gadget is probably the oldest of the three. I think he was first designed under the second edition rules, when the idea of Variable Power Pools came around. Gadget started as a sidekick to another character, and can jury-rig anything. He's actually dead now, he had to grab two very high voltage lines to close an inter-dimensional rift. (Yes, they found the body.) The real story is that I was leaving for the Army, and wanted a dramatic exit from the game.

I'm going to have a lot of fun with this site.

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Ok, more fun with Heromachine.

This is a character I designed for a low-powered campaign that never got off the ground. All the characters were supposed to be people who owed their lives to the government, and were paying off that debt by serving in The Guard, a state-run set of hero teams.

My character, Shield, was a former SFPD officer who had been mauled in a car wreck during a high speed chase. The government rebuilt her, made her much faster, and issued her a shield that was transparent and extremely tough.

I've done two renderings, let me know which one you think is better:

Shield_1

or

Shield_2