3e: Earth-47: The New Guardians reboot (OOC)

[Aerlwyn]

Happy with the character as is now as the transform was not what i wanted it to do but as close but as was suggested it was getting off the character idea i wanted.

[timothy]

@evolucion -
interesting point about the power being possibly 'anti-heroic'. i think there's a lot of room to discuss the concept of heroic vs antiheroic in comic books.
which is more important to deciding whether a character is an antihero, powers or attitude? which characters are the most antiheroic out there and which are the most heroic? does the tone of a work make a difference (punisher vs deadpool, for example).
since this game is sort of up in the air as far as tone, this could be something worth discussing further.
anyone else have any thoughts?

(as far as magneto's power creep, i think it probably had to due with the increasing power of the x-men. the originals, though fun, were not enormously powerful. as the team evolved, the villains also had to evolve. and since magneto was there "greatest" enemy, they had to find ways to make him more challenging. and to keep him from ever being really beaten - which led to far more ridiculous gyrations than the power increase, in my opinion.)

(one last note, the magnetic properties of hemoglobin are quite fascinating. an mri, for example, can detect the difference between oxygenated and non-oxygenated blood under the proper circumstances. some nifty research going on...)

[Evolución]

Attitude is the definitory thing, but if your powers are making people's organs turn to black goo, I think you will not be using those powers at all!

[timothy]

Okay, you got me on that one...

[Plan B]

Awesomes background has been added.

[Shock]

Trissa is the daughter of an Amazon and one of the men that they periodically abduct for breeding purposes. She doesn't know who her father is and she doesn't care. Her mother is a member of the royal guards and so she received extensive training while she was growing up. Part of that training impressed on her very specific ideas on expected roles in society. One of her strong beliefs is the responsibility of the royalty to its subjects. So she found it galling that Jalihla would leave the Amazons to protect the rest of the world. Jalihla's place was with the Amazons and if she felt that something was needed to help women outside their city, a more appropriate force should be assigned.

In the fallout of the heated debates, Trissa felt that Jalihla's defenders were giving in to the royalty instead of holding them accountable. This was unacceptable to her and she left the Amazons, without permission. She knew that she couldn't find Jalihla and force her to return but she could show her that she wasn't the only one that could take on that task. After being out for a while, she found that working on her own limited her ability to effect change. So she sought out the New Guardians, who had a much more extensive reach and the resources to back it up.

Trissa - 160 points - PL 10

Abilities - 56 points
Str - 3/8 - 6 points
Sta - 3/8 - 6 points
Agi - 4/8 - 8 points
Dex - 4/8 - 8 points
Fig - 10 - 20 points
Int - 0 - 0 points
Awr - 2 - 4 points
Pre - 2 - 4 points

Defenses - 10 points
Fortitude +8 (+8 Sta +0 bought)
Will +10 (+2 Awr +8 bought)
Toughness +10 (+8 Sta +2 Defensive Roll)
Parry +10 (+10 Fig +0 bought)
Dodge +10 (+8 Agi +2 bought)

Powers - 51 points
Enhanced Physique:
-Enhanced Strength 5 - 10 points
-Enhanced Stamina 5 - 10 points
-Enhanced Agility 4 - 8 points
-Enhanced Dexterity 4 - 8 points
Bullet Deflection: Immunity 10 (Guns, Athletics check required DC12) - 8 points
Tactical Expertise: Improved Initiative 2 (Area, Affects others, Precise) - 7 points

Skills - 24 points
Acrobatics 2(10)
Athletics 7(15)
Expertise:Gahral 5(5)
Expertise:Tactics 12(12)
Insight 6(8)
Intimidation 3(5)
Perception 6(8)
Persuasion 3(5)
Ranged Attack:Thrown 2(10)
Treatment 2(2)

Advantages - 19 points
Assessment
Benefit 2 (Can use Expertise:Tactics to Feint and Trick and to resist them)
Close Attack 1
Defensive Roll 2
Equipment 1 (Brass knuckles, Javelin)
Evasion
Fast Grab
Grabbing Finesse
Improved Defense
Improved Disarm
Improved Trip
Languages 1 (English, native:Amazon)
Luck
Prone Fighting
Redirect
Set-up
Teamwork


Combat
Ranged Damage - Javelin +10 Damage +10
Close Damage - Brass Knuckles +11 Damage +9
Initiative +16

Complications
Prejudice - Men. Trissa spent a lot of time with other Amazons who feel men are inferior and this colors her
judgement at times
Power Loss - Bullet deflection requires bracelets made out of sufficiently strong metal(steel or stronger)
Rogue - Trissa is a rogue Amazon, having left the group due to a philosophical disagreements
Patriotism - Amazons. Trissa is very protective of her home and those who live there

[dreamking89]

I had an idea for a character. Basically, it's an Egyptian god in the same way Marvel's Thor is a god (With the whole Arthur C. Clarke idea that "Technology advanced enough is indistinguishable from Magic"). He's from an alternate universe where the Ancient Egyptian civilization survived and prospered for millenia thanks to the Egyptian alien 'gods'. He escaped to Earth-47 in a last ditch attempt to survive the apocalypse brought on by his universe's Set.

If any of that doesn't work for your universe, please tell me. I'll post him after I finish a paper for school.

[Neo-Paladin]

It could be interesting...especially since all the ancient gods are aliens in this universe, the Gahral, who indeed have tech that is almost indistinguishable from magic...

[dreamking89]

Thoth - PL 10
Strength 0, Stamina 0, Agility 3, Dexterity 0, Fighting 2, Intellect 13, Awareness 6, Presence 5

Advantages
Artificer, Assessment, Beginner's Luck, Eidetic Memory, Equipment 4, Jack-of-all-trades, Skill Mastery:
Expertise: Magic, Speed of Thought, Well-informed

Skills
Deception 4 (+9), Expertise: Magic 1 (+14), Insight 5 (+11), Perception 7 (+13), Persuasion 4 (+9),
Ranged Combat: Magic: Magic 10 10 (+10), Technology 2 (+15)

Powers
Comprehend: Comprehend 3 (Languages - Read All, Languages - Understand All, Languages - You're
Understood)
Flight: Flight 5 (Speed: 60 miles/hour, 900 feet/round)
Force Field: Force Field 8 (+8 Toughness; Impervious)
Glaive (Easily Removable): Strike 5 (DC 20)
Immortality 2 (Return after 1 week; Limited: Only works after Thoth is brought back to his
tomb on Heliopolis)
Immunity: Immunity 11 (Aging, Life Support)
Magic: Magic 10 (DC 25)
Dazzle: Dazzle 10 (Alternate; Affects Sense: Sight, Resisted by: Fortitude, DC 20)
Element Control: Element Control 10 (Alternate; Element: Earth, 25 tons; Limited Material: Sand)
Illusion: Illusion 4 (Alternate; Affects: All Sense Types, Area: 15 cft., DC 14)
Mental Blast: Mental Blast 5 (Alternate; DC 20)
Remote Sensing: Remote Sensing 10 (Alternate; Affects: Visual Senses, Range: 4 miles)

Equipment
Heliopolis

Offense
Initiative +13
Dazzle: Dazzle 10, +0 (DC Fort 20)
Grab, +2 (DC Spec 10)
Magic: Magic 10, +10 (DC 25)
Mental Blast: Mental Blast 5 (DC Will 20)
Strike: Strike 5, +2 (DC 20)
Throw, +0 (DC 15)
Unarmed, +2 (DC 15)

Complications
Enemy: Set, the only other god to escape the destruction of Thoth's former home, was lost when Thoth
activated the dimensional gateway on Heliopolis. As far as he knows, the dark god is lost in the space
between worlds, or he could be on Earth-42, plotting the destruction of yet another world.
Motivation: Responsibility: Thoth is unbelievably protective of his new homeworld. He saw his old world
burn at the hand of it's worst supervillain and doesn't want to see the same thing to happen again to his
adoptive world.
Prejudice: Thoth is an alien and rarely disguises himself. He takes pride in his alien heritage, so when he
leaves his headquarters (even when he's not crimefighting), he always looks like he's 'in costume'.

Defense
Dodge 3, Parry 2, Fortitude 0, Toughness 8, Will 6
Power Points
Abilities 58 + Powers 73 + Advantages 12 + Skills 17 (33 ranks) + Defenses 0 = 160

Background: When his kind, the Khemetar, descended to Earth thousands of years ago, Thoth was there
to help bring the people of the Nile into greatness. The wisest of their kind and a great scientist, Thoth
taught the Egyptians how to write and gave them the gift of laws. As such, he and his bretheren were
worshipped as gods, and thus they lead the pharoahs to spread their influence across the globe. He saw
the human race as his children and treated them as such
The Golden Age Egyptian Empire lasted thousands of years, and soon surpassed even the greatest of
civilizations on Earth Prime. It only ended when the god Set desired more power. Set gathered a group
of followers and, using hellish creatures of his own design, started a war that spread across all of Egypt,
which now spanned several planets.
Thoth did everything he could, but once Set released the great beast Apep, there was no hope. As he
watched the gods fall one by one to the monstrous serpent, Thoth knew he only had one chance of
escape. Flying to the Heliopolis, The God's floating City of Light, he alone fought Set. Despite Thoth's
great power, Set's brute force and treachery quickly overpowered the god. Knowing his world was lost,
Thoth overloaded the dimensional gateway in the palace of Amon-Re, sending the city flying through time
and space. When Thoth woke up again, Set was nowhere to be seen, and the Earth he saw below him
was not his own. Nevertheless, Thoth saw the so called 'superhumans' at work defending the innocent
and vowed to make sure this Earth did not suffer the same fate as his own.
Thoth lives in the same city he dwelled in on his home dimension, yet it is a much lonlier life. All his
fellow gods were killed when the great beast Apep tore through his home dimension, and now the only
beings occupying Heliopolis (other than himself) are the Ushabti, the mindless robots that keep the city a
shining home fit for the gods that no longer exist.
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Heliopolis - PL 10
Toughness 10, Size Awesome
Features:
Concealed 5, Dimensional Portal, Fire Prevention System, Isolated, Library, Living Space, Personnel,
Power System
Power Points
Abilities 6 + Powers 0 + Advantages 0 + Features 12 + Skills 0 (0 ranks) + Defenses 2 + Equipment 0 (0
ep) + Weapons & Armor 0 (0 ep) = 20

[Walking Dad]

Is this still recruiting? One of my games just got canceled and I have some time to spare and I have a shadow/darkness controller build without a home.

[Neo-Paladin]

Sure.

[Plan B]

Any thoughts or feedback boss?

[Walking Dad]

GLOOM



STR 0
STA 3
AGL 3
DEX 3
FGT 3
INT 0
AWE 3
PRE 1

ADVANTAGES
Accurate Attack, Daze (Intimidation), Language (English, native: German), Move-bye Action, Power Attack, Ranged Attack 2, Startle, Take Down 2

SKILLS
Ranged Combat: Energy Control 3 (+8), Intimidation 10 (+11), Investigation 4 (+4), Perception 7 (+10), Stealth 4 (+7)

POWERS
Phantom Blast: Ranged Damage 12, Affects Insubstantial 1 • 25 points
• Shadow Constructs: Create 6, Continuous, Affects Insubstantial 1 • 1 point
• Obscure: Ranged Full Visual Concealment 4 Attack, Cloud Area, Precise, Selective • 1 point
• Shadow Grip: Move Object 12, Precise • 1 point
• Steal the Light: Affliction 11 (vulnerable/dazed, defenseless/stunned) (Will), Accurate 3, Extra Condition, Limited Degree, Cumulative • 1 point
• Independent Shadow Construct: Summon Shadow Creature 5, 2 creatures, Controlled • 1 point
Shadow Affinity: Immunity 5 (Darkness) • 5 points
Shielding Shadows: Enhanced Defenses 8 (Dodge 4, Parry 4); Protection 8 (Impervious), Sustained • 24 points
Shadow Sense: Senses 1 (Darkness Awareness) • 1 point
Shadow Form: Insubstantial 3 (darkness) permanent, Activation (Move Action, -1 point) • 14 points
Transmit: Teleport 14 (60 miles), Medium (presence of shadows) • 14 points
• Shadow Floating: Flight 7 • 1 point
• Shadow Portal: Teleport 3 (250ft), Portal, Standard Action, Accurate, Sustained • 1 point

DEFENSES
DODGE +9
PARRY +9
FORTITUDE +9
TOUGHNESS +3/+11
WILL +11

POWER POINTS
Abilities 32 Skills 14
Powers 90 Defenses 14
Advantages 10 Total 164

Complications:
Power Loss: Shadow less area (Brightly lit from all directions (GM interpretation))

Personality/Descriptions:
Arrogant and snobbish person who likes to bully "low-lives". Speaks nearly without accent unless highly agitated, but uses German terms sometimes. He is still new to the side of the angels and the personality and attitude will quickly change once exposed to the right people, his arrogance only hiding a loneliness.

Background:
Gerald von Nachtburg is the last descendant of an impoverished German noble family. He inherited the secret birthright of the oldest living descendant of his line. Nobody knows the source of this power for certain. Rumors range from strange meteor radiation to pacts with unspoken powers.
But he certainly knows how to use it and made continuous advancements during his carrier. Starting as a simple thief by shadowstepping into bank vaults, he later learned to give the darkness substance, forming tendrils and even becoming one with it. Lacking any natural stealth skills, he is less a ninja and more a thug in elegant clothes, using most peoples uneasiness with darkness to intimidate them.
Finally caught, a psychic profile and other evidence revealed that restrained himself much in taking out a single guard, taking care to do no permanent damage and never assaulted anyone on purpose. With the need for new heroes, a former "villain" with a malleable personality might be just the material they needed.
He accepted their offer to suspend his sentence in return for joining a newly formed hero team.

Shadow Constructs PL8 • MR5
STR 0 STA — AGL 2 DEX 0 FGT 0 INT — AWE — PRE —
Powers: Phantom Blast (Ranged Damage 8 ); Energy Form (Flight 8, Insubstantial 3 (Shadow), Permanent, Innate); Unliving (Immunity 30: Fortitude Effects)
Skills: Ranged Combat: Phantom Blast 8 (+8 ), Stealth 2 (+4)
Offense: Initiative +2, Phantom Blast +8 (Ranged, Damage 8 )
Defense: Dodge 10, Parry 10, Fortitude Immune, Toughness 0, Will Immune
Totals Abilities –36 + Powers 78 + Advantages 0 + Skills 5 + Defenses 18 = 65

[Neo-Paladin]

Any thoughts or feedback boss?

Looks decent enough. I like simple builds. By the way, recruitment will be open till next Monday...also, if anyone else sees a problem or miscalculation in their stats, let them or me know. I got a bit of a numbers problem sometimes and do appreciate any help.

[EPIC]

I'll try to get Gelignite up tonight.... failing that, something else. (It will probably mean Gelignite was prooving to not be working out for me)