# Russian RPG Superhero--can't recall **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** rpg-dnd-wargames\ **Created:** [December 20, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333 "2021-12-20T01:12:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/1 "2021-12-20T01:12:37Z")
Once upon a jillion years ago, in the 1980s, I happened to read a Superhero RPG suppliment, which included a WW2 Russian hero, who wore powered armor. It was based on the T-34 Tank. I think it was Palladium, or Champions, but I cannot be certain. Gamers :Anybody remember this? ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/2 "2021-12-20T04:50:05Z")
In Champions Online there is a Soviet supervillain group called Red Winter. One of the characters is a giant tank-like cyborg called Red Dawn. He’s the big guy in this picture. [![](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/championsonline/images/7/7b/Red_Winter.jpg) ](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/championsonline/images/7/7b/Red_Winter.jpg) Since most of the NPCs in that game came from the tabletop books, I figure he might be from the original RPG. Does that ring a bell? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/3 "2021-12-20T11:02:52Z")
I dunno. I was looking for the book ref. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2022, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/4 "2022-04-18T01:19:33Z")
Folks–not an on-line game. paper & dice. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2022, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/5 "2022-04-28T22:32:16Z")
This rings a bell. Was the armor basically just the tank turret, with his head and shoulders sticking out the top hatch, and his legs sticking out the bottom? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/6 "2022-04-29T16:30:48Z")
Uncertain. Probably champions, though. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2022, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russian-rpg-superhero-cant-recall/956333/7 "2022-04-29T20:10:46Z")
I doubt it was Palladium. I played a lot of Heroes Unlimited, Ninjas and Superspies, and so on in the 80s/90s. (As well as TMNT, their fantasy game, Robotech, Rifts, you name it I probably have it in a box in my garage somewhere.) It doesn’t ring a bell at all for me. Champions, I think I played that a couple of times tabletop. Most of my exposure to that game is via the MMORPG, which borrows from the original pen and paper, but isn’t the same, I understand that.