PHOENIX (Jean Grey-Summers)TYPE: Psionic
PL: 10
POWER POINTS:Abilities: 42 pointsPowers: 123 pointsAdvantages: 15 pointsSkills: 35 pointsDefenses: 24 pointsTotal: 234 points
ABILITIES: 42 pointsStrength (Str) - 2
Stamina (Sta) - 3
Agility (Agl) - 2
Dexterity (Dex) - 2
Fighting (Fgt) - 2
Intellect (Int) - 3
Awareness (Awe) - 3
Presence (Pre) - 4
POWERS: 123 pointsAstral Projection*:Alternate Form (Astral Spirit): 48 points, Activation -2, Side-Effect -2 (physical body is left vulnerable while in Astral Form),
10 points-Insubstantial 4,
20 points-Concealment 10 (all sense types),
20 points-Astral Senses: Senses 8 (Visual/Mental; Accurate, Acute, Awareness (Psychic Powers), Counters Concealment, Counters Illusion),
8 points-Astral Plane: Movement 1 (Dimensional [Astral Plane]),
2 points*This power could be applied as an Dynamic Alternate Effect of Jean's Telepathy powers if GMs/players wish, and cost less points.
Telepathy: 47 points-Mental Blast: Damage 10 (Perception Ranged, Resisted by Will, Dynamic, Subtle),
42 points-Mind Control**: Affliction 10 (Resisted by Will; Dazed/Compelled/Controlled, Dynamic, Perception Ranged),
1 point-Mind Reading 10,
1 point-Telepathic Communication: Communication 3 (Mental; Area, Dynamic, Rapid, Selective, Subtle 1), Comprehend 2 (Animals, Languages),
1 point-Sense Other Minds: Senses 3 (Mental, Accurate, Awareness [thoughts/minds]),
1 point-Telekinetic Range***: (Dynamic, Extended Range to Move Object [see below]),
1 point**This effect can be used in power stunts for various mental effects, such as take away/control people's natural bodily functions and senses, or even mutant powers (forms of
Affliction or
Nullify).
***This effect is made to allow Jean to grasp objects in orbit and pull them down, and could be a power stunt instead.
Telekinesis: 46 points-Move Object 12 (Damaging, Dynamic, Precise),
39 points-Move Object 12 (Sustained, Dynamic, Precise),
1 point-Move Object 12 (Improvised Weapon/Thrown Mastery, Dynamic, Precise),
1 point-Flight 12 (Aquatic, Concentration, Dynamic),
1 point-Force Field: Protection 12 (Area [Shapeable], Dynamic, Impervious, Precise, Sustained, Concentration),
1 point-Telekinetic Blast: Blast 12 (Penetrating, Precise, Selective),
1 point-Telekinetic Burst: Blast 12 (Area [Burst], Selective, Tiring),
1 point-Telekinetic Sensitivity: Senses 8 (Mental; Accurate, Acute, Analytical, Microscopic Vision 4 [Ranged], Dynamic),
1 pointPower Stunts: When Jean started out with the X-Men, all of her Alternate Effects were power stunts. Even later on, after gaining more experience, her Alternate Effects still had reasonable limits related to her Telepathy/Telekinesis. If she is ever connected to the Phoenix Force, she can perform more wildly varied power stunts, as befiting someone with cosmic powers at their command. Other known power stunts:
-Using her Telepathy to boost mutant powers in others.
-When gaining Psylockes specific mental powers, Jean could visibly manifest her telepathic powers in firebird form, whose attacks could do both physical and psychic damage.
GEAR/EQUIPMENT (10 points):In the field, Jean will have equipment on her as needed, from an X-suit costume, medical gear, some device Beast has cooked up, or whatever the mission requires. However, the most important piece of equipment she has ever had access to is Cerebro and, later, Cerebra. These highly specific devices are used to enhance a psychic's telepathic powers and range for the purpose of locating mutants around the world, as well as other purposes involved with powers of a psychic/telepathic nature.
ADVANTAGES: 15 pointsAttractive 2, Benefit 1 (Security Clearance [X-Men]), Close Attack 4, Connected, Eidetic Memory, Equipment 2 (10 points), Improved Initiative 1, Ranged Attack 2, Teamwork
SKILLS: 35 pointsExpertise (Psychology) +9(+12), Expertise (Education/Teaching) +6(+9), Insight +6(+9), Intimidation +4(+8), Investigation +4(+7), Perception +8(+11), Persuasion +8(+12), Ranged Combat (Telekinesis) +4(+8), Stealth +4(+6), Technology +4(+7), Treatment +7(+9), Vehicles +6(+9)
OFFENSE:Initiative +6
Ranged +4
-Telekinesis +8
Ranged Damage --
-Telekinesis--Move Object 12
--Telekinetic Blast 12
--Telekinetic Burst 12
Close +6
Close Damage 2
DEFENSE: 24 pointsDodge +8
Parry +6
Will +12
Fortitude +8
Toughness +12*/+3
*With Telekinesis (Force Field).
COMPLICATIONS:-ACCEPTANCE: As a mutant, Jean Grey is sometimes feared and hated by normal humanity. As a student of Professor Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters, she fights with the X-Men for the acceptance of mutant kind everywhere by the rest of the human race.
-DOING GOOD: Jean has always had a strong sense of right and wrong, and sometimes tends to be a moral compass for her teammates, even keeping Wolverine from going too far in his berserker rages. Don't let that fool you, though, for she can be just as strong willed and tempered in combat as her flaming red hair!
-RESPONSIBILITY: Since Jean's powers first manifested, she has lived her life learning to control her powers, for fear of harming others, or being harmed by them (such as when her Telepathy first manifested when her friend died inside her mind). Even more so when her powers have increased to uncontrollable levels or outright changed, leading her to further learn how to keep control of them at any given moment. Also, Jean has at some points had other responsibilities, such as teaching at the Xavier School for Gifted Youngsters.
-ENEMY: Over the course of her career being an X-Man (including her stint with X-Factor), Jean has encountered many enemies of both mutant kind in the form of evil mutants and mutant hating humans (among many others!), and has valiantly fought against every foe along with her fellow X-Men. In that regard, the X-Men have ranked up a long list of enemies.
-IDENTITY: Sometimes, the X-men have kept their identities secret from the public to protect themselves and their loved ones from the hatred people feel against mutants. Also, during her time with X-Factor, her and her teammates purposely used different identities as the X-Terminators to further their cause.
-PREJUDICE: As a mutant, Jean is a part of a hated minority of humanity.
-RELATIONSHIPS: Jean had a long romantic relationship with Cyclops, that eventually culminated in marriage, which had failed by the time she had died. She also had an attraction to Wolverine, but this never developed into anything further than close friendship (in the mainstream universe, anyway). She also has close ties to many of the X-Men, as close friends, or even family, and is closest with her fellow teammates of the First Class, Professor Xavier and Wolverine. Jean also has a family, her parents and sister (who were killed by the Shi'ar during the storyline "End Of Greys"). She also has connections to Cable (son of Cyclops and Madelyne Prior, and spent twelve years in the future raising him with Cyclops) and Rachel Summers (daughter of her and Cyclops from an alternate timeline).
-REPUTATION: Jean has a reputation due to her connection to the Phoenix Force, and the Shi'ar both respect and fear her....more fear, I think.
-RIVALRY: Before her death (and after), Jean's relationship to Cyclops came into conflict with Emma Frost, who had started an affair with her husband when he was at an all-time low point in his life (come on, the guy had been bonded to Apocalypse for over a year, that really screws a person up!). She had been busy with both her teaching responsibilities and her powers going into Omega-Level status, while Cyclops had no outlet for the psychological aftermath of the events he had been through. Also, during the events of X-Men Phoenix Endsong, Jean Grey returned to life, and her relationship to Cyclops and the X-Men was put to the test yet again (with a pleasant kind of finality to it, I might add). Also, Jean at one point had a sort of rivalry with Psylocke, who was "flirting" with Cyclops.
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NOTE ON POWER LEVEL AND GAME BALANCE: This write-up is made to show Jean as her most powerful with her Telepathy and Telekinesis before going into the Phoenix Force itself (coming in a future entry), having rank 12 Telekinesis, with a trade-off of +8 to hit with it. This is done to show how Jean has, in the past, had a lot of power output, but not as much ability to hit compared to other fellow X-Men.
If this version seems too powerful, simply reduce her Telekinesis to rank 10, adjust her Attack to match, but everything else is pretty much fine the way it is (unless GMs/players have their own different views).
If GMs/Players wish to have her match up with Cyclops (which I did as a PL 11), simply raise her to PL 11 or 12, as there have been many moments in comics where she has shown such power.
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VARIANTS:THE PHOENIX FORCE: Jean's powers have changed many times throughout her existence, either rising or falling in power level, or at any given time having only Telepathy, Telekinesis, or both. Jean has always been at her height when tapping into the Phoenix Force, which makes her an "Omerga-Level" mutant, having limitless potential for her powers. During times like this, she begins to exhibit further degrees of variety in her powers, such as Power Stunts that are more varied than Telepathy and Telekinesis would permit. If the Phoenix fully manifests itself, her power ranks may increase dramatically when tapping into the Phoenix Force, reaching PL 15/16 easily, and being able to challenge the likes of Galactus himself! This is more a plot device for GMs, who should not allow players to play such a character (though the Phoenix Force could be used as an Uncontrollable Flaw in her powers for gameplay instead to allow play of the character). This write-up of Jean Grey reflects her at her most powerful self just before her death, and powers such as Telekinetic Sensitivity are signs of the Phoenix Force manifesting (as she did not have this power before then).
DARK PHOENIX: The Dark Phoenix was the corrupted form of the Phoenix Force (thanks to the Hellfire Club). In this form, Jean's powers were nearly uncontrollable, and the Phoenix would manifest any time she lost control, driven by base desires like hunger. In one moment when the Dark Phoenix gained control, it flew off into deep space to a star system in Shi'ar territory, devoured that system's sun, causing it to go nova and destroy a colonized world with five billion lives on it, as well as a Shi'ar vessel in the system and all crew on board.
REVOLUTION REVAMP/POWER CHANGE: During the Revolution revamp by Chris Claremont around 2000, Jean and Psylocke had swapped their powers; Jean gained much of Psylocke's specific telepathic powers, and Psylocke gained Jean's telekinesis. To represent this, remove Jean's Telekinesis, keep the Telepathy and Astral Projection; her Telepathic powers have the "
Affects Corporeal" Extra added to her powers, as they could do harm both mentally and physically. They may also have an Extra for requiring a different resistance check (such as Will AND Toughness).
X-MEN IN THE 90s:: By this time, Jean and the First Class had rejoined the X-Men, and made much use of the experience they had gained over the years. Jean is easily a PL 10 from this era onwards (though the Phoenix Force has altered this at times).
X-FACTOR: After seemingly coming back from the dead, Jean and the rest of the First Class formed their own team, the first X-Factor. They officially hid their mutant status and portrayed themselves publicly as mutant hunters to find other mutants in need of help. In combat, they wore different outfits and portrayed themselves as villains. Eventually, they dropped this guise, as it did nothing but fan human/mutant hatreds. At this stage, Jean would be a PL 9, with the usual powers.
FIRST CLASS: When first joining the X-Men, Jean had only Telekinesis, and was a PL 8 character.
by Hellstormer1 » Sun Aug 28, 2011 6:51 pm 
