BASH! Creator character design website launched

DevastatingWeakness · Mon Oct 03, 2016 11:04 pm

I've launched a spanking-new BASH! character design website at: http://www.bashcreator.net

Hope everyone finds this useful. It supports about 95% of the BASH! UE rules (and I'll get the remainder done soon). Design characters, save them as text or as a link, share them around, pick from a couple of different character sheet formats (including BBCode format), and featuring an internationally-ignored blog.

As a taster, here's Champion of Justice: http://www.bashcreator.net/#/load/1hcgw

And here's Armadillo Girl: http://www.bashcreator.net/#/load/31l30

It's free. It contains genetically modified organisms. Take it for a spin.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:47 am

thank you !

DevastatingWeakness · Post by **DevastatingWeakness** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 8:58 am

No worries, Darren.

Hope you find it useful. Give it a try and let me know what you think.

Next release (due end of week), I'll add a much-improved printable character sheet print format. After that, I'll have to tackle Result Bonuses, because those are needed for a few powers like Growth and Heightened. I think being able to include an image URL would be a nice extra for the character sheets.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 9:02 am

The Poltergeist
1st try. It is a very good app , thank you

The Poltergeist
24 points (14 Stats, 12 Powers , -2 Weaknesses)
Description...

Brawn 1 Agility 1 Mind 5
x1 Defence, x5 Mental Defence, x1 Soak

Powers

* Ghost Form 3 (Insubstancial form; take and inflict no damage with physical attacks. Pass through matter.) (3pts)
- * Enhancement: Second Nature (Sustained) (Makes a Maintained power Sustained.)
  * Limitation: Always On (Only applicable to Sustained powers. Power can never be turned off.)
* Flight 1 (Fly 5 squares per panel.) (0pts)
- * Limitation: Personal (Power only affects yourself.)
* Hovering 1 (Hover 4 squares per panel, 3 ft off ground.) (0pts)
- * Limitation: Always On (Only applicable to Sustained powers. Power can never be turned off.)
  * Limitation: Personal (Power only affects yourself.)
* Telekinesis 5 (Attack using Mind 5 vs Agility, inflicting 5DM damage.) (4pts)
- * Limitation: Only Affects Others (Cannot affect yourself with this power.)
* Mind Spikes 5 (When anyone uses a mental attack (or mind reading) against you, they take 5DM damage, soaked by Mind and Mind Shield (instead of Brawn and Armor).) (5pts)

Weaknesses
Negating Weakness (Exposure): When exposed to sun light and UV lights lose all powers, and Brawn and Agility become 1. (-2pts)
Skills
Mental Skills: Investigation/Finding Clues, Questioningx5,Medicine/Paramedicx5,Streewise/Crime, Gather Informationx5
Physical Skills: Stealth/Shadowingx1
Advantages & Disadvantages
Immortality: You can't die (or can come back from the dead).
Frightening Presence: +2 dice bonus to intimidate or frighten others.
Freak: semi transparant ghost of a decomposit man in a Paramedic's uniform.
Duty: fight street crime , protect the inocent.
Other
Defence: 1, Mental Defence: 5, Soak: x1, Hits: 100

Lift: 50lbs, Run: 3 squares, Jump: 1 squares, Climb: 1 squares, Hover: 4 squares, Fly: 5 squares, Swim: 1 squares

DevastatingWeakness · Tue Oct 04, 2016 10:47 pm

Pretty cool

- and nice to see the BBCode formatting from Bashcreator.net works properly.

One thing that looks a little odd is having Personal on Flying and Hovering. The 'Personal' limitation is only a limitation if the power is normally designed to affect others. It's an odd spot in the rules how some powers (like Armor and Immunity) are specifically tagged with Personal, but other powers (like Flight, Hovering, and many of others) seem to be intended only to affect the owner of the power, but are not tagged with Personal.

Similar sort of thing probably applies to putting Only Affects Others on Telekinesis.

Darren · Post by **Darren** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 5:52 pm

a good point. I would not normal do it , I only did because this PC can not carry anyone due to his nature, BUT a good argument could be made that this is covered by the Ghost form limits all ready.

below I redid him without those two limits. makes him spot on 25 point and I am a lot happier with him. He is powerful for a 25 point Hero

The Poltergeist
25 points (14 Stats, 13 Powers , -2 Weaknesses)
He was a Paramedic in life. He was killed in the cross fire of a gang fight while trying to save the life of a little girl , herself gunned down. As the life faded from his eyes his last sight was the child bleeding out while behind her the uncaring gangers fought on. He died with Love , regret and hate in his heart......He come back.

Brawn 1 Agility 1 Mind 5
x1 Defence, x5 Mental Defence, x1 Soak

Powers

* Ghost Form 3 (Insubstancial form; take and inflict no damage with physical attacks. Pass through matter.) (3pts)
- * Enhancement: Second Nature (Sustained) (Makes a Maintained power Sustained.)
  * Limitation: Always On (Only applicable to Sustained powers. Power can never be turned off.)
* Flight 1 (Fly 5 squares per panel.) (1pts)
* Hovering 1 (Hover 4 squares per panel, 3 ft off ground.) (0pts)
- * Limitation: Always On (Only applicable to Sustained powers. Power can never be turned off.)
* Telekinesis 5 (Attack using Mind 5 vs Agility, inflicting 5DM damage.) (4pts)
- * Limitation: Only Affects Others (Cannot affect yourself with this power.)
* Mind Spikes 5 (When anyone uses a mental attack (or mind reading) against you, they take 5DM damage, soaked by Mind and Mind Shield (instead of Brawn and Armor).) (5pts)

Weaknesses
Negating Weakness (Exposure): When exposed to sun light and UV lights lose all powers, and Brawn and Agility become 1. (-2pts)
Skills
Mental Skills: Investigation/Finding Clues, Questioningx5,Medicine/Paramedicx5,Streewise/Crime, Gather Informationx5
Physical Skills: Stealth/Shadowingx1
Advantages & Disadvantages
Immortality: You can't die (or can come back from the dead).
Frightening Presence: +2 dice bonus to intimidate or frighten others.
Freak: semi transparant ghost of a decomposit man in a Paramedic's uniform.
Duty: fight street crime , protect the inocent.
Other
Defence: 1, Mental Defence: 5, Soak: x1, Hits: 100

Lift: 50lbs, Run: 3 squares, Jump: 1 squares, Climb: 1 squares, Hover: 4 squares, Fly: 5 squares, Swim: 1 squares

xBlackWolfx · Post by **xBlackWolfx** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 6:08 pm

Is the 'second nature' enhancement really necessary on ghost form? I didn't do it for Noctis, who also has ghost form with 'always on'.

And why put a limit on telekinesis that he can't affect himself? I would assume that was part of the power, otherwise it would effectively also give you the flight power for free.

DevastatingWeakness · Post by **DevastatingWeakness** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 7:31 pm

Ghost Form is Maintained by default, which means if you take damage the power turns off. That doesn't seem right for a specter. The Sustained enhancement makes the Ghost Form stick around even if you take damage.

I agree that Only Affects Others on Telekinesis is redundant. There's no indication that you're meant to be able to use that power on yourself.

Solarblast · Post by **Solarblast** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 10:09 pm

Here is a brick character I made once. He's a country boy who got transformed into a man made out of a diamond like substance. He is super strong and tough and able to survive in almost any environment.

Diamond Jim
25 points (14 Stats, 11 Powers )
Description...

Brawn 5 Agility 1 Mind 1
x1 Defence, x1 Mental Defence, x8 Soak

Powers

* Armor 3 (+3 to Brawn to Soak damage.) (3pts)
* Special Attack (Hand to Hand/Thrown) 2 (Agility +2 to Hit and Brawn +0 Damage; total +3DM to hit, +5DM damage.) (2pts)
* Immunity 5 (Immune to 5 sources of harm.) Suffocation, intense heat and cold, toxins, low pressure, high pressure (5pts)
* Fleet of Foot 1 (Run 4 squares per panel. Jump 6 squares. Does not stack with other forms of super movement.) (1pts)

Skills
Mental Skills: Technology/Repairx1
Physical Skills: Drive/Steeringx1
Advantages & Disadvantages
Frightening Presence: +2 dice bonus to intimidate or frighten others.
Freak: You look very obviously weird.
Other
Defence: 1, Mental Defence: 1, Soak: x8, Hits: 100

Lift: Hundreds of tons, Run: 3 squares, Jump: 25 squares, Climb: 5 squares, Swim: 5 squares

DevastatingWeakness · Thu Oct 06, 2016 11:04 am

Nice - very straight-forward Brick. It's tempting to question the very low Mental Defence, but then sometimes interesting characters are defined as much by their weaknesses as by their strengths. Diamond Jim would have a hard time facing off against a mind-controlling psychic, but then that sets up a Brain vs Brawn dynamic that might be interesting.

Solarblast · Post by **Solarblast** » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:56 pm

Here is a blaster character that was based on my first Villains and Vigilantes character. I am really having a lot of fun with this generator.

Solarblast
25 points (8 Stats, 19 Powers , -2 Weaknesses)
A mutant superhero Kevin Mallory lived in South Florida for most of his life. He was a son of a single mother who never knew his father. He was a typical surfer, beach guy. Did school when it was necessary and his only oddity was how the heat of South Florida never bothered him. In fact the hotter it got the better he felt. He loved running, playing basketball and partying. It was while partying during his 16th year summer break that his powers activated. He got into a fight with a football jock over a girl that the jock was mistreating. He was about to get his * kicked when he started to generate intense heat from his hands. He then burned the jock, and scared instinctively flew away! Things could have gotten worse until while flying away he saw two thugs trying to mug a bystander. He flew in a fired a blast of solar energy at one of them. When the bystander told the press they dubbed his the new superhero Solarblast and the name stuck. When the parents of the jock initially tried to sue Kevin's mother the police discovered that girl was indeed being abused and the charges were dropped. But the jock wanted revenge...

Brawn 1 Agility 2 Mind 1
x2 Defence, x3 Mental Defence, x3 Soak

Powers

*Solarblast Multi-power: (7pts)
* Special Attack (Ranged) 5 (Agility +0 to Hit , Mind +5 Damage; total +2DM to hit, +6DM damage.)
- * Enhancement: Multi-power (Pick a power worth up to 5 pts. Powers can not be used together.)
  - * Sunburst : Confusion 2 (Attack Mind 1 vs Mind to cause target -4 Dice Penalty to Agility, until target makes 20 Mind Check or 3 pages elapse.) (3pts)
    - * Enhancement: Area (Small Burst) (Affects 2x2 square area.)
* Flight 4 (Fly 20 squares per panel.) (4pts)
* Personal heat shield : Armor 2 (+2 to Brawn to Soak damage.) (2pts)
* Skillful 2 (Gain 4 extra skill slots.) (2pts)
* Strong willed : Mind Shield 1 (+2 to Mind to resist mental attacks.) (1pts)
* Immunity 1 (Immune to 1 sources of harm.) Intense heat (1pts)
* Solar heat field : Force Field (Damage Shield) 2 (Damage shield has 40 hits. Soaks 10 damage when hit. Inflicts 1DM on contact.) (2pts)

Weaknesses
Vulnerability: Take damage cold attacks (-2pts)
Skills
Mental Skills: Sailing/Pilotingx2,Streewise/Gather Informationx2
Physical Skills: Athletics/Runningx3,Perform/Play Instrumentx3
Advantages & Disadvantages
Versatile: Once per issue you can perform a Power Stunt without spending a Hero Die.
Public ID: The public knows your personal identity.
Other
Defence: 2, Mental Defence: 3, Soak: x3, Hits: 100

Lift: 50lbs, Run: 6 squares, Jump: 1 squares, Climb: 1 squares, Fly: 20 squares, Swim: 1 squares

DevastatingWeakness · Post by **DevastatingWeakness** » Sun Oct 09, 2016 3:23 pm

That's a nice, well-rounded Blaster. The background is very 'Stan Lee neighbourhood hero'.

In the new update to www.bashcreator.net I implemented the Skillful power, so you should have those extra 4 skill points to use. Not quite sure if you had them right on the version posted above.

Here's a link to SolarBlast's build: http://www.bashcreator.net/#/load/30fwi

And it'll do a nice character sheet for you if you need one:

Sijo · Post by **Sijo** » Thu Oct 20, 2016 10:36 pm

@DW: I have a suggestion regarding the Powers (and other traits, such as Advantages) that you are reluctant to add from the Awesome Powers books. You could add Customizable Options (like the ones already included with the Enhancements and Limitations) to those lists as well. That way the owner of the books just write them in himself or herself, or even just invent their own.

DevastatingWeakness · Post by **DevastatingWeakness** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:01 am

Yup, custom Powers, Advantages, Disadvantages and Skills are on my To Do list. (There are already custom Enhancements, Limitations and Skills Specialities.)

I'm also talking to BASHMAN about getting permission to add the new Powers from the AP line (like Absorption, Imbue and Trample from AP1). I want to hit the right balance between providing a useful character design and play reference, without hurting sales of the AP books. (Ideally, BASHCreator should help sales, not hurt them.)

xBlackWolfx · Post by **xBlackWolfx** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:43 am

You could just not have the program detail what the powers actually do. Yeah, mentioning to hit bonus and DM is fine, but describing how a power like absorption works should definitely not be in there. Really, I think it should only show the powers like people on this forum do. They just list the power, point cost, and how they decided to arrange the points of say special attack. That way, you can mention the absorption power without making it so a person could use that power in their game without buying the book.