Welcome to the July Dial Design Contest! These are the general rules of the contest are simple:

Anyone can submit and/or cast votes during any of the three rounds. Each round features a new design parameter and participants have a week to complete, submit, and edit their single-dial (unless otherwise specified) entry right here in the thread, after which the community will vote on their favourite dials. At the end of the voting phase, the most votes win the round, and the most votes after three rounds wins the contest. Constructive comments are always welcome. Language not conducive to the current PAC (including updates from SMBA) may affect a judge's voting consideration, so please avoid use of retired terms and symbols. Character selection may come from any medium unless specified, but references for non-mainstream characters should be included. Please use the Dial Generator provided in the Units section.
As a meta rule, during voting phases, please do not quote entire dials when making comments, to make things easier to read.

Round deadlines will be the following:
ROUND 1:
ENTRIES JULY 1 – 7, VOTING FROM JULY 8 – 14
ROUND 2:
ENTRIES JULY 8 – 14, VOTING FROM JULY 15 – 21
ROUND 3:
ENTRIES JULY 15 – 21, VOTING FROM JULY 22 – 29

With the final winner being announced JULY 30. (Extra day due to board technical issues!)


SPECIAL SCRIPT: HEROCLIX COMMUNITY THEATRE
Each entry this month will have a weekly prompt, but the overall theme of your characters should be “novice”, “amateur”, low production, or generally anything pre a finished product. Take any of that to mean whatever it means to you and run with it!

ACT 1: Horror!
Design a dial for a character with a horror theme
-or-
Design a dial for a character with the “monster” keyword

Good luck!

Unique Count Dracula
Real Name: Vlad Dracula Tepes
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 4
Points: 50
Keywords: Castlevania, Monster, Mystical, Past, Ruler

7 11 19 3

7 11 18 3

7 10 18 3

6 10 17 2

6 10 17 2

6 10 17 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Vampiric Power: Count Dracula begins the game on click 3. // Steal Energy, when he uses it he may heal past his starting line.

Lord of the Night: Mind Control, only on friendly characters with the Castlevania, Monster, or Mystical keywords. When he uses it, he is not given an action token after actions resolve (But may not take another non-FREE action this turn).

DESIGN NOTES: I'm going to try for a Castlevania theme this month, parameters permitting, and round 1's idea of the month theme is a "Budget" Dracula. One that won't break your point bank to play him, even if it means he's not representing full power Dracula to do it.

Man-Bat
Real Name: Dr. Kirk Langstrom
Team: Batman Enemy
Range: 4
Points: 75
Keywords: Animal, Arkham Asylum, Monster, Scientist

7 8 15 1

12 11 18 3

12 11 18 3

12 11 18 3

10 10 17 3

10 10 17 3

10 10 17 3

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Predator: Stealth, Charge. When using Charge, don't halve speed, and modify attack +1 for each action token on target.
Zoologist: Defend, Empower, Enhancment, Outwit, Perplex, and Support, but only affects other characters with the Animal Keyword.
Man-Bat Serum: POWER: Choose a friendly character within range and lline of fire (X). Until you choose again, even if this power is lost, X has , the Animal keyword, and the standard powers on this card (except Earthbound/Neutralized). If X is Man-Bat, instead deal this character 1 damage.

SIGNIFICANT APPEARANCE: Batman #655 (2006)
CHARACTER BACKGROUND: Dr. Kirk Langstrom's attempt to derive sonar sense from the DNA of a bat succeeded—at the cost of his own humanity. As the monstrous Man-Bat, Langstrom satiated his new thirst for blood by feasting upon cattle and, eventually, humans. Although time and again restored to his human state, and remorseful for his murderous frenzies, the troubled scientist never fails to repeat his experiment—with the same disastrous results.

Yes, that's a great way of explaining it

Doctor Death
Real Name: Dr. Karl Helfern
Team: Batman Enemy
Range: 0
Points: 100
Keywords: Gotham City, Scientist, Monster, Past

8 10 17 3

8 10 17 3

8 10 17 3

9 10 17 3

9 11 17 3

9 11 18 3

7 11 18 2

7 12 19 2

7 12 19 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Ossification: When Dr. Death would take damage from an attack, after resolutions, give him Bone Growth tokens equal to the amount of damage he took.Protected: Pulse Wave.
My research was always about strengthening your body, making it tougher!: Regeneration. Dr. Death can reduce penetrating damage. When Dr. Death is hit by an attack, you may remove any number of Bone Growth tokens, and reduce damage equal to the amount of tokens removed.
My body blooms with each attack!: Giant Reach: 3, Blades/Claws/Fangs. When Dr. Death uses Blades/Claws/Fangs, you may remove up to 3 Bone Growth tokens and increase the d6 roll by the number of Bone Growth Tokens removed.

Design Notes: This is from my Detective Comics set, where he is meant to be a chase. I'm a little unsure if the wording on his powers works, so let me know if anyone sees a problem. He's from the Batman: Zero Year storyline, about the earliest days of Batman and his battles against the Red Hood. If that makes him count as a "novice" I'll take it. He could also count as not being a "finished product" as his experimental bone treatment doesn't quite work right yet.

#701 Veteran The Priest
Real Name: Unknown
Team: Mystics
Range: 5
Points: 100
Keywords: Monster, Mystical, Past, Future, Cenobite

6 11 18 3

6 11 18 3

6 10 17 2

5 11 18 2

6 11 18 2

5 10 17 3

6 11 18 3

5 11 18 2

6 11 17 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

But the box, I leave in yours: At the start of your first turn, an opposing player may choose to equip the Lament Configuration to a character on their force, unequipping it from any other character.
Explorers in the further reaches of experience: Stealth, Sidestep. If an opposing character is equipped, The Priest can use Phasing/Teleport.
We have such sights to show you: Precision Strike, Incapacitate. Hit targets that are equipped are dealt 1 penetrating damage after actions resolve.
Enough is a myth: Exploit Weakness, Steal Energy. If the Priest hits an equipped character, after resolutions they may heal 1 additional click.

Accept the pain you have wrought: Exploit Weakness
Greater delights await: Precision Strike
We wish to see you proceed: Perplex
We will not be denied: Invincible
Our gifts are boundless: Impervious
Feed it. Mind control
Their pain. Penetrating/Psychic Blast
Our power lies in dominance: Toughness
You'll feel it all before we're through: Sidestep
All you can do is search for greater thresholds: Phasing/Teleport




Lament Configuration
Equip: Any
Unequip: KO
20 points
Keywords: Cenobite
Effect: If the Lament Configuration was equipped due to a trait, the equipped character has: At the beginning of your turn, you must deal 1 unavoidable damage to an adjacent friendly character. Choose 1 effect to gain until you choose again.
Lament: Support
Lore: Outwit
Lauderant: Mind Control
Liminal: Super Senses
Lazarus: Regeneration
Leviathan: Close Combat Expert

If the Lament Configuration was equipped at the beginning of the game, Attack and Defense +1 and Cosmic Energy.

Design notes: The Hell Priests of the Hellbound Heart/Hellraiser series have always been my favorite movie monster. Keep your Draculas, your Kruegers, your slashers. These things are cultured, aware, brilliant on a level humans can't touch. And while Doug Bradley will always be the best, Jamie Clayton's portrayal from last year is hauntingly good. Fun fact-the character is only known as Pinhead thanks to the movies. In the books and even the movie script, they are just "the Priest."

For the box, I wanted to give it a lot of oomph. You can offer it to your opponent, and they get a buff, but it bleeds them every turn. But if they don't take it, The Priest goes off.

I consider Dorothy to be a horror character. A child capable of manifesting any sort of bogeyman, but without control of or consistent decision in what gets made? Eat your heart out, Carrie. Just in case, her bystanders get the Monster keyword. Finally, her imperfect control of her power should qualify her as an amateur or unfinished version of a hero, especially since her chance to grow into her power was denied.



Dorothy
Real Name: Dorothy Spinner
Team: Outsiders
Range: 0
Points: 30
Keywords: Doom Patrol

5 9 16 1

5 9 16 1

4 8 15 1

4 8 15 1

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Imaginary Friends!: POWER: Generate a Friend bystander (MAX: 3) in an unoccupied square within four squares of Dorothy. // When a friendly Friend bystander would be KO'd by an opposing attack, you may instead deal Dorothy 1 unavoidable damage. Protected: Pulse Wave.

Imaginary Gun: POWER: KO a friendly Friend bystander (it is scored as if it was opposing).

Sheltered From The Outside World
Shouldn't Be Left Alone
Clawing To Survive
There's Nothing Wrong With Me!



Friend
Real Name: Various
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 4
Points: 5
Keywords: Monster

8 10 17 2

The Games We Can Play!: When this bystander is first generated, choose a standard attack or damage power. This bystander can use the chosen power this game.

Imaginary

Significant Appearance: Doom Patrol vol. 2 #25 (1989)

Ben
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 5
Points: 20
Keywords: Survivor, Past

5 10 16 2

5 10 16 2

4 9 15 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Surviving The Night: When Ben is adjacent to at least three squares of blocking terrain, he can make a second RANGED attack at no cost.

(Running Shot) Only Gun In The House
(Sidestep) I Ought To Drag You Out There And Feed You To Those Things!
(Toughness) If You Stay Up Here, You Take Orders From Me!
(Willpower) The Will To Survive
(Exploit Weakness) These Things, Just Backing Away From It
(Leadership) You Can Be The Boss Down There, But I'm The Boss Up Here!

Significant Appearance: Night of the Living Dead

Unique Horror Movie Monster TM
Real Name: Rough Draft, NOT FOR PUBLIC VIEWING
Team: No Affiliation
Range: 4
Points: 80
Keywords: Monster

6 10 17 3

6 10 17 3

6 10 17 3

5 10 16 3

5 11 17 3

7 11 17 3

6 10 16 3

6 10 17 3

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Just A Sketch: Phasing/teleport // If Horror Movie Monster TM occupies water terrain at the end of your turn and doesn't have deal it 1 unavoidable damage
Conflicting Ideas: At the beginning of your turn roll a d6 and Horror Movie Monster TM can use the following effect until the beginning of your next turn.

• 1. Maybe A Slasher?: Blades/Claws/Fangs, Stealth, Steal Energy // If Horror Movie Monster TM occupies hindering terrain, modify its attack by +2.
• 2. Acid Blood? We Can't Just Rip Off Alien: Poison, Combat Reflexes, Exploit weakness // When Horror Movie Monster TM is dealt damage, deal 1 penetrating damage to each adjacent character
• 3. A.I Is Pretty Scary, Right?: Invulnerability, Perplex, Outwit // Horror Movie Monster TM can't be healed by other characters and its combat values cannot be replaced or modified by other characters
• 4: I Don't Really Understand Cosmic Horror: Cosmic Energy team ability, Probability Control. Mind Control as FREE.
• 5-6. : Choose any result.

Just Make It Fly Or Something I Don't Know: The first time this click is revealed, STOP. When this click is revealed, you may choose , or ; Horror Movie Monster TM can use that symbol for the rest of the game, even if this power is lost.
WHY IS IT A KAIJU NOW???: The first time this click is revealed, STOP. Impervious, Close Combat Expert. . Horror Movie Monster TM ignores penetrating damage from characters that are lower than 100 points.
Finished Product: The first time this click is revealed, STOP, IMMUNE until the beginning of your next turn. When this click is revealed choose an effect from the 'Conflicting Ideas' trait, Horror Movie Monster TM can use that effect for the rest of the game and do not roll again; then choose 2 combat values and modify them by +1. The first time Horror Movie Monster TM would be KO'd turn it to this click instead.

How About a Zombie? (Sidestep)
More Creative? A FAST Zombie (Hypersonic Speed)
No, That's Too Fast (Charge)
Stuck In Development Hell (Plasticity)
It's a Studio Mandate, There's Nothing I Can Do (Running Shot)
Hurry, We Have To Meet the Deadline (Flurry)
That's A Little Better, But We're trying To Keep It Grounded (Super Strength)
They'll Add The Lasers In Post (Penetrating/Psychic Blast)
The Whole Monster Is CGI Now? I Quit! (Quake)
Focused Design Philosophy (Precision Strike)
These Ideas Just Aren't Synergizing (Energy Shield/Deflection)
Let's Relax and Start Over (Regeneration)
We Finally Figured Out What Color It Is (Super Senses)
If We Never Let the Audience See It, We Don't Have to Design It! (Shape Change)

Significant Appearance: The Studio Didn't Greenlight The Movie

We really should've gotten some Scooby Doo monsters to go with the Mystery Inc gang in that team up set.




Black Knight
Real Name: Mr. Wickles
Team: Underworld
Range: 0
Points: 75/50
Keywords: Monster, Past

9 12 18 3

9 12 18 3

9 11 18 3

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8 11 17 2

8 10 17 2

8 10 17 2

8 10 17 2

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

And I Would've Gotten Away with It: Shape Change. When an opposing charater uses Perplex choose one: Remove an action token from Black Knight -or- choose one of Black Knight's combat values to modify by +1 until the end of your next turn.
Elaborate Chase Scene: Side Step. Willpower. Once per turn, when Black Knight moves adjacent to an opposing character, after actions resolve you may deal that character 1 penetrating damage.
Comes Alive When the Moon is Full: Stealth. Charge, but do not half speed if occupying hindering terrain.

Somebody sure is a messy house keeper.....(Super Strength)
Tall, Tin, Dark, and Creepy....(Invulnerability)
Arrrgh!.....(Battle Fury)
Arrrgh!.....(Close Combat Expert)

Significant Appearance: What a Night for a Knight (Scooby Doo, Where are You!, 1969)

Look there were many great things about the first Scooby Doo series, but you would be hard pressed to call it a high production value show. In any case not only does this bad guy come from that first series, but is in fact from the very first episode.

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Well, there’s always next set. Personally, I hope that it happens just because I want to laugh at the outrage that it causes.

Let's lord some rings!



The Balrog
Team: Mystics
Range: 0
Points: 100
Keywords: Monster, Mystical, Brute

7 11 18 4

7 11 18 4

7 11 18 4

7 10 17 3

7 10 17 3

6 10 17 3

6 10 17 3

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Durin's Bane: At the beginning of the game, choose a keyword. Characters with the chosen keyword modify attack -1 when attacking The Balrog.
Dragged Down With It: STOP. Invulnerability. // When this click is revealed, place the character that last damaged The Balrog adjacent, then roll a d6 and deal them unavoidable damage equal to half the result.
Lash Of The Balrog: Giant Reach: 3, Exploit Weakness, Battle Fury.

Design Notes: I had a hard time trying to make this guy fit the theme of novice or amateur, so I went with the idea of keeping him lower cost to go for low production since he only appears for a few scenes in the movies.

Mothman
Team: Quintessence
Range: 0
Points: 50
Keywords: Monster, Herald, Animal, Celebrity

8 9 16 2

8 9 17 2

7 9 17 2

6 10 17 3

6 11 18 3

5 12 18 4

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

KO KO KO KO

Movement: Charcters
Silver Bridge, West Virginia: POWER:Choose a square of Blocking Terrain or a terrain marker within 4 squares and line of fire. Destroy it, and deal all characters adjacent and occupying it 1 penetrating damage
Harbringer of Disaster: Red Rally: 6. Probability Control, Remove a Rally token, Critical Hits and Critical Misses can not be rereolled by characters within 4 squares of Mothman
Strange Sightings: Point Pleasant, 11/15/1966: Energy Shield/Deflection, Super Senses. When Mothman is attacked, after resolutions you may move him 1 square.
(Stealth) From the shadows to darkness
(Sidestep) Tragedy Lurks. . .
(Flurry) It's too late!
(Precision Strikes) It can't be avoided!
(Invuln) Chicago, 10/28/2017
(Shape Change) Is that an owl or some kind of bird?
(Perplex) What is that?
(Battle Fury): It wasn't a warning!

Sorry, done!