EclecticTastes posted:

Offensive Major: Slow Motion Control: You can engage bullet time.
-You can slow up to two people or one vehicle per level for up to a minute. Halve all damage done by those affected, as well as their initiative score (after rolling), and all attacks by them are made without any positive modifiers. 2 power per use, requires one action to set up, and can only be used once per round.
-Spend 5 power to slow time for a split second, allowing you to dodge any incoming attack. This doesn't take up an action, but will deplete your power fairly quickly.
-You can slow the metabolism of yourself or someone else for various purposes (slowing down the spread of a poison, slowing disease, etc.). 1 power per minute, no other action may be taken.
-You can slow down clocks and timers, which is handy for delaying bombs. You can even stop them outright. This requires you to spend all your concentration on it, though, so no other action may be taken until you let the timer resume.
-You age at half the normal rate.
-You're never late unless you want to be, and always know the time to within a couple minutes, without a watch.
-+16 initiative
-+1 to-hit

Offensive Minor: Bend Light: You're a human prism.
-You can split light into individual colors of visible light, or radiate colored light yourself. 1 power per minute spent doing this.
-You can bend light around yourself to become effectively invisible (includes infrared and ultraviolet light). However, if someone makes a Detect Hidden roll, they may notice the blank spot you leave behind. 1 power per round.
-You can gain a special defense against light-based attacks, including lasers. All of these attacks are made against you at a target number of 0. It requires one action and 1 power per round to maintain this. For 2 power per round, you can expand this defense to a bubble with a ten-foot radius around yourself.
-While your defense is up, if a light-based attack misses you (or anyone else you're protecting with it), you may bend the attack at a new target by spending an action. Make a Light Control (for pure light) or HTH (for lasers) attack at a target of your choice. The redirected attack is made with no to-hit modifiers, and only the attack's base damage is dealt. 2 power per redirect.

Offensive Major: Illusions: You got all sorts of mind games.
-You can make one illusion for every odd--numbered level. This illusion works perfectly against sight, sound, and touch, but anyone with enhanced smell (or taste, possibly) will see right through them at close range. Anyone with radar, sonar, or other senses that can see past the surface of the illusion will see that they're hollow and also figure out the trick. Anyone else can see through them with a saving throw on Intelligence. Damage dealt by illusions isn't real and won't kill anyone, but people will pass out if their HP is reduces to zero by illusory damage, so genuine does it seem. 2 power per round, may not take other actions when controlling these illusions. Both creatures and objects can be made this way.
-You can make illusory duplicates of yourself (up to your maximum number of illusions) that match your movements and stay within 10 feet of you. The advantage of the resultant confusion gives you +2 initiative, +1 to-hit, and -1 to your target number to be hit for each duplicate created. Costs 2 power and an action to activate, you can make as many duplicates as you'd like with this action (up to your maximum). Lasts until dismissed.
-Can create entire illusory environments as a single illusion. If not disbelieved, hostile environments (like the inside of a volcano) deal damage like the first type of illusion. If you're out of sight, you can cloak yourself in the illusion, becoming effectively invisible. When attacking while invisible, gain +3 initiative and double facing bonuses.
-+5 effective Intelligence when detecting illusions.


Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Bone): You won't believe your eyes! Not that you have eyes.
-Bone Form costs 4 power per round.
-You could either be a spooky scary skeleton, or get a bone exoskeleton like some Guyver poo poo. I rolled for it and you're a straight-up skeleton man in this form. People get real scared when they see you coming.
-As a skeleton, your weight is halved, but you gain 7 Strength. You have 10 points of invulnerability. You're immune to injections of all kinds, but you still breathe. You're able to ignore environmental extremes of heat and cold, and cold attacks deal half damage, but fire attacks deal double. Impacts and explosions of all kinds deal half damage, as well.
-You can grow sharp stuff all over your body, made of bone, including making a bone sword on your arm (functions as a normal sword, is the best option for actual weapons you can make with this ability). 1 power to manifest a given sharp thing. You could grow non-sharp, too, if you really want to.
-You can grow bone shards and use them as throwing knives. Unlike regular throwing knives, you can throw up to three of these at a time (at a single target). 1 power per bone shard, one action can make up to three at once, a separate action is required to throw them.
-You can heal broken bones by touching the affected limb and concentrating for a round. The healed person will be right as rain, but the penalties and pain from the broken bone will persist for the next 24 hours or so. 3 power per use.
-Your own bones are unbreakable and you're immune to the dreaded boneitis (also actual bone diseases), even in normal form. The half damage from impacts and explosions also carries over to normal form.

Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Shadow): Really confuse people watching the first season of Lost.
-Shadow Form costs 4 power per round.
-Physical attacks and projectiles pass through you harmlessly, but you can't pick anything up, in turn. Poison, gas, heat, cold, and other environmental effects are similarly useless against you. Magic, psionics, most other energy attacks, and the attacks of certain supernatural creatures work normally.
-You can move silently between shadows, only visible when moving from one shadow to another. You move at double your normal rate.
-You can mold your shape as a shadow to tail someone by copying theirs, scare people with spooky shadows, or just to move up vertical surfaces as gravity doesn't affect shadows. You can also squeeze through any space that lets light through.
-Shadows don't have blood, so you can stop bleeding by transforming.
-Perfect nightvision (yes, even this ability requires Shadow Form).
-By embracing someone before turning into a shadow, you can make them a shadow, too. But, they can't move or do anything as a shadow, and once you release them they turn back. Can be good for protection, or scaring people. Requires 1 additional power per round.
-Can launch a shadow bolt up to 100 feet (plus 10 per level), dealing 3d6 damage. 2 power per bolt.
-Cannot be made undead, and recognize vampires and other creatures of the night for what they are as soon as you meet them. These two benefits apply to your normal form, too.
-In shadow form, along with being unable to touch anything, light-based attacks deal double damage, and non-damaging focused lights (like flashlights) deal 1d6 damage. All penalties inflicted by bright lights last twice as long, too. Extremely bright light (like floodlights) will force you back into normal form and keep you from becoming a shadow until you get away.

Weakness: Low Self-Control: Variant 1, you have trouble controlling when and how your powers activate. Once you've worked out which power(s) to drop, I'll tell you how exactly this affects you, but getting one or more of your powers to turn on or off is going to be troublesome if you keep this weakness.

As a note, Alter Physical Structure powers are mutually-exclusive, in that you can only have one active at a time. Other form-changing powers can be mixed with them, but if they're part of the APS line, it's one or the other (though you can switch between them without going back to normal, if you want).

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Offensive Major: Negate Super Abilities: Well, at least nobody else can have the cool ones, either.
-You can negate the non-Skill powers of any target within 120 feet (plus 10 per level), or negate all such powers within a ten-foot radius per level.
The negation lasts as long as you spend an action each round maintaining it. This does not cost power.
-Does not affect magic or technological powers, either.

Offensive Major: Gem Powers: Truly, truly outrageous.
-Click here for insanely long list of gem powers

Offensive Minor: Instant Wardrobe: Become a human action figure, swap out your accessories instantly.
You can send a set of clothes/costume and a handful of personal effects (environmental gear, invented Gizmos, weaponry) into a pocket dimension surrounding your body.
You can swap your current clothes for the stored outfit using a single action. You can store one outfit per level. The switch is instant once you take the action. 1 power to swap.

Weakness: Mute: You can't talk. You can communicate in other ways, but speaking is out of the question.

professor_curly posted:

Purification in progress...

Captain Rehab posted:

EclecticTastes posted:

I was about to express my sympathies for rolling three powers, but Siembieda has smiled upon you and made those three rolls count (well, the two you're likely to keep, anyway).

Defensive Major: Reconstruction: No, no carpetbaggers here, just some Orkish ingenuity.
-You can repair any device without training or tools, as long as you have the necessary parts, but it only works while it's near you, kept functional by your powers. All repairs are automatically successful (sort of). Also, double your Invention Chance when making anything, but it will only function while in your presence. In either case, any object built or repaired using your power will break within three hours once you're more than 200 feet (plus 15 per level) away.

Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Plasma): APS powers at their finest.
-Turn into a being of pure plasma! Costs 7 power per round to maintain this form, but brings along a number of benefits.
-Constant active defense, use the better of Flame Powers or Power Blast.
-Launch bolts of plasma from your hands. Instantly ignites flammable materials, counts as Power Blast or Flame Powers (whichever is more likely to hit), range of 200 feet (plus 20 per level), deals 1d6 times 10 damage. You can instead fire a smaller bolt that deals 4d6 damage up to 50% farther, or launch a volley of 1d6 bolts at up to four enemies (roll once for all four shots, but they can still hit or miss separately depending on the enemies' defenses). Costs 2 power for any option.
-HTH attacks deal an additional 1d6 times 10 damage. You can spend an action at the start of the turn to restrain yourself and deal only 4d6. Most things you try to pick up or touch in plasma form will vaporize. Whatever you're carrying when you transform will be fine, as will magic items and anything that's indestructible in some fashion (adamantium, rune weapons, and so on).
-Physical weapons, projectiles, and basically anything denser than plasma will pass right through you, usually getting vaporized in the process. If an enemy punches you hard enough for their limb to enter your body, they take 2d4 times 10 damage from the twelfth-degree burns they suffer. Explosive force, heat, fire, and radiation do no damage in this form, and electricity and most other energy attacks deal half damage.
-You can melt through materials to get through walls and such. Each action you want to spend melting a path, roll your HTH damage, and divide it by the structural rating of the material. That's how many cubic feet of material no long exists. Force fields can stop you, but you deal 2d4 times 10 damage to the field (or more accurately, to the Power score of the person/object generating the field) every round you press against it, until it dissipates.
-You're superheated gas, so you can fly, and you naturally hover (you must spend an action every round to stay on the ground if you want to walk instead of float menacingly). Flight speed is 105 points (roughly 525 feet/round, or about 60 mph, and yes, I DID have to convert 60 mph to feet per six seconds for this number). Your flight speed increases by 35 points per level (that's 175 feet/round or about 20 mph). Maximum altitude is 60,000 feet (at which point the air is thin enough that you can't rise further).
-You get a bonus 10 HP in plasma form, and damage less than ten points just doesn't carry over at all to your human form.
-Cold and water attacks deal double damage.
-Magic deals normal damage (double if it's cold/water)
-Mental attacks work as normal.
-Take 3d6 damage per minute if placed in a vacuum (which is still probably less than if you weren't plasma).
-You're very scary in this form, your Reaction adjustments are always negative. Most bad guys will immediately attack when they see you, though some petty criminals will try to run away, or failing that, will immediately surrender. For good guys, if they know who you are, they'll just be uneasy, but if you're not familiar, they need to succeed at a reaction check or either flee (civilians) or open fire (law enforcement/military personnel). So, maybe be in human form when meeting new people.

Weakness: Diminished Senses: One of your senses is messed up in some fashion, describe how it makes life difficult.

*For those who haven't perused the rules, you only get experience from arresting bad guys, killing them doesn't get you anything.

EclecticTastes posted:

If it helps your decision-making process, if you take the latter option, despite it being less overtly powerful, and given that you rolled super low on number of powers compared to everyone else, I'll throw in Heightened Intelligence B from the V&V rules. It'll boost your Intelligence, which will give you both better chances at inventing, and more Invention Points, so you can create more Gizmos. While you can use Invention to solve transient problems, you can also spend your Invention Points permanently to gain Gizmos*, which are like the little doodads on Batman's utility belt. They're not as powerful as a full Power, and often have limited uses, but they diversify your options. They also include custom weapons (basically, minor improvements over the basic weapons in the book). That way, even if you forgo Vortex, you'll still have combat options that don't force you to vaporize the opposition with APS (Plasma). Funny as that would be, it wouldn't do much for your reputation. Hopefully that balances out the choices so you don't feel forced to pick one or the other.

Dachshundofdoom posted:

College dropout gets stoned, big surprise there.

Antivehicular posted:

It's kinda messed-up that only APS Fire gets the actual welding torch flame, but who needs welding when you have some gum and paper clips?

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Offensive Major: Transmutation: Turn lead into gold! If only it were that easy.
-You can turn any inanimate object into a single pure element, or common compound (like carbon dioxide, rubber, glass, water, etc.). This transformation lasts five minutes per level. You can make it permanent by sacrificing a point of Endurance that you will not get back. If an object is broken while as a different material, it will be broken when it turns back (so making it a liquid or gas will destroy it). Most items with mechanical components will cease functioning while transformed, as their parts get fused together. 2 power per transformation, range is touch.

Offensive Minor: Heavyweight: Melee damage being largely influenced by weight makes this power much crazier in V&V.
-You are 80 pounds heavier, all muscle. You are built like Terry Tate, office linebacker.
-+10 to all melee damage.
-+5 Endurance, +5 Strength.
-Your running speed is reduced by one-fifth.

Offensive Minor: Earth Empowerment: Might want to shop around for a ground-floor apartment.
-Touching the ground or street, or anything rooted into the ground (trees, buildings, etc.) gives you the other powers here. Being more than four stories up inside a building, or in a vehicle, among other technicalities, breaks this connection and turns this power off.
-You can summon a rock outta nowhere and shoot it at an enemy. You can make a big ol' rock for 2d6, a ball of packed dirt for 1d4 damage as a warning shot, or a ball of mud for a single point of damage and messing up whatever it hits (good for blocking windows and the like). In any case, 2 power per rock/ball summoned.
-You can summon some earth to make a little bridge or other transport across chasms and other impediments. 1 power each.
-+10 Strength
-5 points of Invulnerability.

Weakness: Vulnerability: Cold Iron. Classic Fairy weakness. He’s not a full fairy so it doesn’t kill him, but it does disrupt his ability to call upon the power of the earth, so his Transmutation and Earth Empowerment are right out.

OscarDiggs posted:

Next, you'll say, "Wow, you did a really great job on my character!"

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Defensive Major: Monstrous Form: You can become the giant purple people eater.
-Turn into Monster Form for 3 Power per round.
-Has a monstrous, ape-like face (the face was randomly-determined), you're very muscular and hairy and generally it's impossible to tell you were human at all. Skin's a weird color (purple, orange, whatever), too, your choice. Also any recognizable tattoos, birthmarks, etc. vanish in this form. +15 Strength.
-You have claws (as the Natural Weapon power, +2 to-hit and +4 to damage with HTH attacks). Climbing is easier (skill checks are handled holistically, so you'll see the benefit during play, not so much in hard numbers here).
-10 points of Invulnerability (you ignore this many points of damage every round)
-You become violent and cruel, make a successful intelligence saving throw whenever the temptation to finish off a downed opponent or take advantage of a situation to steal or otherwise do bad stuff arises, in order to not give in to your base impulses.
-+3 to hit with attacks, -3 from the target number to hit you, due to animal reflexes.
-Regenerate 3 HP per round, and regrow lost limbs within 24 hours (only in monster form, though, so if you lose an arm, I'd recommend not changing back for a while).
-Your feet and toes are completely prehensile.

Offensive Minor: Nightstalking: You're also Blade.
-You can hide in shadows or darkness, and halve the Detect Hidden/Detect Danger ratings of anyone rolling to sense you (normal people standing in the same place as you wouldn't even require a roll to notice, usually).
-Sense the exact moment the sun rises or sets. You can also detect vampires and other creatures of shadow on sight, even if they're disguised as human or hiding in shadow (so you can see other people with Nightstalking when they're in shadows). Unnatural or magical darkness does nothing to hide anyone from your sight.
-You cannot be made into the undead.
-+1 initiative.
-Perfect night vision.
-Tracking is easier for you (another thing that will be evident when you use the skill rather than being numerically defined).
-+2 damage at night.
-5 extra HP at night (those points of damage, if taken, do carry over to your daytime HP, but if it would leave you with zero or less HP, it instead just leaves you at 1 HP).

Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Fire) Flame on!
-Flame Form costs 5 power per round.
-Constant Flame Powers defense (obviously).
-You can generate a continuous stream of flame of any size up to 15 feet long (plus 5 per level), down to the size of a welding torch. As an attack, it deals up to 2d6 damage (and is a Flame Powers attack, of course). You can drop down to 1d6 for more of a warning shot. You can fire two streams simultaneously (from both hands) at a single target as a single attack (requires a special attack roll rather than normal, however), dealing double damage. 2 power per usage (4 for a double)
-You can launch a long-range fireball up to 300 feet (plus 30 per level), dealing 3d6 damage, and you can reduce the d6s as much as you like to deal less damage. 2 power per ball.
-Create up to a five-foot wide, 25-foot tall wall of flame around up to a 20-foot radius (40 feet for a half-circle, if you get someone against a wall, or 100 feet for a straight wall) to encircle or ensnare. The wall can be up to 100 feet away (plus 10 per level). Anyone passing through the wall takes 4d6 damage. 3 Power per round to maintain.
-Can radiate heat, or increase the heat within the confines of the wall of fire, basically the same as Control Radiation up above, but without the chance for radiation sickness. However, when it's just you radiating heat, you have a maximum of 140 degrees (fire isn't as hot a nuclear hellfire, sorry). Costs 1 power to keep the heat going, and an additional point each time you increase it.
-You can breathe fire (this power can be used even in human form, which is nice). Range of 5 feet (plus 1 per level), dealing 1d6+3 damage. 1 Power per breath attack.
-Super Nova! Yeah, Palladium's just straight-up stealing from the Fantastic Four. When you use this power, you risk losing APS(Fire), losing all your powers entirely, or just losing all your body molecules (you could also mutate this power into a new one and, at the same time, go insane). In any case, you blow the hell up and make a 700-foot blast radius. Up to 100 feet takes 10,000 damage, 5,000 out to 200, 1,000 to 300, then 500 out to 500 feet, and then 100 damage for the remaining area. No power cost because it technically costs all your remaining power.
-You can fly (you actually had a 50% chance not to have this ability). 2,000 feet maximum altitude, speed of 105 (60 mph, see APS Plasma above), speed doesn't increase with level. -1 to target number to hit you while flying.
-Fire, plasma, and heat do nothing to you, even in human form.
-Unarmed attackers take 4d6 damage on contact because they touched fire.
-Requires large amounts of oxygen to maintain this form, is a liability in airtight spaces.
-A vacuum will turn your power off for you within a minute.
-Cold, ice, water, and firefighting chemicals have a 40% chance of putting you out and reverting you to human and keeping you from flaming on for 2d4 minutes.
-Touching things can set them on fire.

Defensive Major: Mimic Because that's what we needed, two guys with Control Radiation.
-Copy all the non-Skill superpowers from anyone within 100 feet. If the mimicked person leaves that radius, the copied powers will fade. The copied powers temporarily replace all of your powers except this one. You copy their powers at their level (however, V&V doesn't do level scaling with powers, so that part only applies to Heroes Unlimited fare). As long as they remain in range, you can keep them copied indefinitely.

Offensive Major: Directed Force

Weakness: Lowered Intelligence: This could have gone very badly for you, but as it is, on 3d6, you only lost 5 points of Intelligence, so you're probably fine.

EDIT: By the way, Monstrous Form and APS(Fire) can be used together to create a terrifying flame beast.

Werewhale posted:

At least this monkey breakout didn't cause a zombie apocalypse.

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Defensive Minor: Heightened Sense of Balance: Just be glad it's not Heightened Sense of Time. Your balance and coordination are always top-notch.
-Will never lose balance, preventing any penalties that could arise from such a situation.
-+2 when making called shots
--2 to target number to be hit


Offensive Minor: Conduct Electricity: It's like Control Lightning, but harder to use!
-Immune to damage from electricity less than 60,000 volts, one-third damage from anything greater.
-By holding a live wire or other electrical source, shoot Lightning Control bolts dealing 3d6 damage, or improve HTH with 3d6 electrical damage (HTH attacks made this way are Lightning Control attacks). 2 Power to conduct electricity this way.
-Gain a passive Lightning Control defense while conducting electricity.
-Can sense nearby electrical devices, and by channeling their power away from them, can shut down all nearby electronics. 1 Power per round to maintain.
-Can create 10-foot diameter field that grounds out all electric attacks passing through it, to protect others. 1 Power per round to establish and maintain.


Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Vines): I loving love APS powers. Just look at this goddamn mess of powers.
-Become vines, necessary to access any of the other abilities. Requires 4 power per round to maintain this form, but the following passive effects are available: weight is tripled, height increases by two feet, Strength +8, and loses half Power from staying up too late (1 point per hour rather than 2)
-Can grow thorns, anyone grabbing you while your body is covered in thorns takes 1d6 damage. Thorns can be grown on your hands to add 2d6 to your HTH damage. Usable at will while in vine form.
-Use Vine Whip! Can make a HTH attack up to 15 feet away. 1 Power to extend the whip as a free action, costs nothing to attack with it.
-Can extend vines to Spider-Man around. Costs 1 power per minute of use. Can carry up to 100 pounds beyond your own weight while swinging through the city.
-Make a special HTH attack to lasso opponents with a vine. Ties up one limb, 55% chance of pinning both arms to the torso. Costs 1 power. Range is 10 feet (plus 5 per level).
-Create a vine ladder by touching the side of a building, five feet wide, grows by ten feet per round you spend concentrating. No maximum height. Lasts fifteen minutes per level from the moment you stop concentrating, but you can make the ladder wither and fall away sooner by willing it. Ladder holds up to your weight plus 600 pounds. +5 to any checks made to climb the ladder by your allies. 1 power per round spent making the ladder.
-As long as there are sufficient places to attach the corners, can make nets of vines, to catch falling people, block passages, etc. Makes 10 feet in diameter per round spent concentrating, up to 50 feet. Lasts two minutes per level or until dismissed. Vine nets have Structural Rating 3 (same as Hard Wood). 1 power per round spent making the net.
-Can shoot a vine net out that's big enough to entagle a single person or hold a door shut. Same stats as the larger nets. Hitting a person requires a special attack using HTH. Costs 1 power.
-While in vine form, recover HP at a rate of 8 per hour. Only applies to damage taken in vine form, and only during the current transformation (any damage carried back over to human form must be healed normally). Lost limbs will regrow within five minutes. If you return to human form after losing a vine limb, your human limb will still be there, but will feel numb and heavy for 24 hours, imposing various penalties.
-While in vine form, you breathe carbon dioxide and exhale oxygen, which can have applications if a villain tries to bury the team alive or something. You also breathe using your whole body so you won't suffocate as long as any part of your body remains exposed to open air.
-You can't be seen using infrared or thermal vision while in vine form.
-You're also very bouyant and float on water.
-Your HP in vine form is doubled (after adjusting for the increased strength and the lowered agility due to higher weight). You only retain half the damage you took when you return to human form.

Defensive Minor: Super-Vision (Night Vision): See in the dark.
-See perfectly in the dark

Defensive Minor: Heightened Sense of Awareness: You can always tell when someone's sneaking up on you, and are just generally very aware of yourself and your surroundings.
-Enemies get no to-hit bonus from facing.
-+2 initiative
-Willpower as active defense (passive)

Offensive Major: Control Radiation: You can give everyone cancer!
-Immune to all radiation, heat, fire, and molten substances (well, aside from possible suffocation if you're caught inside).
-Can accurately tell current radiation levels.
-Generate deadly radiation in up to a 50-foot radius up to 200 feet away. If an area is exposed for more than five minutes, the area will remain irradiated for 4d6 minutes afterwards. Deals 3d6 damage to any who are in the field for any length of time, and have a 30% chance of getting radiation sickness (which is horribly lethal and unpleasant). Costs one action to establish the field, and you can't do anything else while maintaining it. 5 Power per round.
-Can dampen all radiation in 100 feet (plus 10 per level), making an otherwise hazardous area safe. Cannot be used to absorb the radiation of a nuclear blast, though, but reduces the radiation level of the explosion by 5% (plus 1% per level). Cannot attack or do any other strenuous tasks while dampening radiation. 2 Power per round.
-Can detect sources of radiation within 200 feet (plus 20 per level), even underground. Includes nuclear power systems. Doesn't tell you the amount.
-Can generate bright light to brighten a dark area, or a very bright light so enemies have a hard time looking right at you. In the latter case, -2 to target number to hit you, and -1 to the target number to hit anyone close to you. Light extends up to 500 feet at the brightest, to-hit penalties extend up to 200 feet (but only at angles where you're in the attacker's field of vision) People within 100 feet (maximum, reduces with lower light levels) have a 30% chance of contracting radiation sickness. Requires one action to start glowing, 1 power per round.
-X-Ray vision lets you see through anything except lead and lead-based alloys.
-Shoot nuclear fire from your hands like a flamethrower (this is a Flame Powers attack). Deals 3d6 damage, but you can freely adjust how many d6s you roll. Range is 100 feet (plus 10 per level), costs 2 power per blast. 30% chance of causing radiation sickness.
-Increase the heat in a 20-foot radius by 50 degrees Fahrenheit every round up to a maximum of 2000 degrees, and starting at 100 (requires one action per round to keep up, as well as 2 power). Grants you Flame Powers defense while active (the heat right around your body is extreme). 30% chance of causing radiation sickness from getting microwaved. Warning: This power will melt your armor right off, if you're wearing any.
-Can fire heat bolts for 1d6 damage(range of 100 feet plus 5 per level), 1 power per shot. The extreme heat deals double damage to any Armor the target is wearing from melting. 30% chance of, you guessed it, giving a dude radiation sickness.
-Constantly emitting small amounts of radiation unless you spend an action every round suppressing it. Effects are gradual and minor enough that it's more of a long-term story thing than a mechanical thing.

Defensive Minor: Hyperdensity: It's basically the Tanuki Suit. You harden and harden until even your cells stop moving.
-For up to one minute per day per level, become indestructible statue, incapable of doing anything, but impossible to harm, move, or otherwise affect by any means. Costs 5 Power to activate, costs nothing to maintain.

Offensive Minor: Energy Expulsion (Cold): You can shoot beams of pure cold out of your hands. It's not ice, per se, so no freezing dudes, but it'll certainly chill them out.
-Ice Powers attack, range 60 (300 feet), dealing 2d6 damage. You can reduce it to 1d6 to regulate the damage dealt, or divide the dice in half to make two simultaneous attacks (see the rules on making multiple attacks in a round in the rules doc, but the benefit here is that if one of these blasts miss, the other can still hit). 2 Power per shot.

Weakness: Reduced Charisma: Turns out people don't much care for radioactive, electrified plant-men. -5 Charisma.

IPlayVideoGames posted:

SPACE CRIME: NOT EVEN ONCE

Epicurius posted:

ET, give me a mulligan! I like options!

Go RV! posted:

I will go with either option 2 or 3, depending on whichever book you feel like rolling through

Go RV! posted:

Old woman yells at cloud; yanks cloud from sky.

Tyrannosaurus posted:

Mulligan!

EclecticTastes posted:

EDIT: Here's what the book uses as the example image of someone with Techno-Form active, as an example:

Mykkel posted:

If you are still accepting apps, I'd go for Option 3. If not that's cool, I'll just follow the thread. Villains and Vigilantes was the first rpg I ever played.

EclecticTastes posted:

EDIT: I'll just roll you a mulligan now. Six powers.

Offensive Minor: Energy Expulsion (Particle Beam): Loses fights to Triangle Beam. But real talk, you have the fuckin' Spaceship Yamato Wave Motion Gun in your hand.
-When using this power, compare to both Disintegration and HTH attack columns. Range is 400 feet. Costs 3 power per shot.
-If you hit on the Disintegration column, but not HTH, you've nicked the target, and deal 4d6+4 damage.
-If you hit on the HTH column, you have scored a direct hit against the target, and deal 6d6+16 damage.
-You may not hold back on the damage this power does.
-If you deal more than a target's maximum HP in damage with a direct hit, the target is atomized on the spot (nicking the target does not have this effect).
-Destroys structural rating of materials regardless of damage threshold, like Disintegration (so, to destroy a cubic foot of iron, you'd normally need to deal 10 damage, but if you deal 5 damage with Particle Beam, that'll destroy half a cubic foot).

Defensive Major: Sonic Speed (Running): You had the quills, now you have the speed. Chili dogs not included.
-Your run speed is 1233 (about 700 mph, or mach one).
-+31 initiative.
-+10 Endurance
-+1 to-hit, -3 from target number to be hit while running.
-Enemies receive no facing bonuses against you when you're on the ground.
-Super Speed Defense is available (use Stretching Powers defense row, but with HTH at 0). Costs 1 power per attack dodged, but requires no actions to set up.
-+4 damage for every 20 mph of running speed (as with Mega-Wings above).
-Can jump 60 high for a distance of up to 100 feet.
-Swim speed 528 (exactly 300 mph), maximum depth tolerance of 350 feet.
-Can reach maximum speed instantly by spending an action, otherwise takes a full round, moving the maximum number of squares. Going from zero to mach one instantly costs 1 power and causes a sonic boom.
-Can stop and turn on a dime.
-Clear vision up to a mile away.
-Perfect night vision.
-Stopping from extreme speeds takes one action.

Defensive Minor: Impervious to Sound and Vibrations: You're not picking up good vibrations, or any other kind.
-Sound-based and vibratory attacks deal no damage.
-You cannot be deafened permanently, and temporary deafness lasts half as long. This only applies to loud noises, continue using Q-tips with caution.

Defensive Major: Matter Expulsion (Bone):
-Create bone claws, which deal HTH+2d6 damage. Costs 2 power to create, lasts until dismissed.
-Fire bone shards, range 100 feet (plus 50 per level). 1d6 each, up to a volley of four, one from each finger. 1 power per shard fired.
-Create a bone spear that can be used at melee range or thrown. Treat as a spear (see rules document), but damage is HTH+2d6. 3 power to generate, can be dismissed and reabsorbed at will, but if lost or broken, requires 24 hours to recover.
-Can generate bone armor with 75 Armor Rating. 3 power to generate.
-Cracked or damaged bones heal within twelve hours.
-Immune to all bone diseases.

Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Void): And now you're Universe Man.
-Become Void Form, which makes you look like a person-shaped starfield, for 6 power per round.
-Breathe without air, immune to cold, radiation, pressure differentials, zero gravity, and the terrible secret of space.
-Can survive indefinitely in space, in fact. You don't even need food, you are, and I quote, "nourished by starlight".
-Lasers (and only lasers, not other energy beams) deal half damage.
-10 Invulnerability.
-Fly at speed 177 (about 100 mph). Cannot reach escape velocity unaided, but can survive reentry on your own.
-Can speak in space.
-No penalties for zero gravity.
-+5 initiative, +1 to-hit, -4 from target number to be hit while flying around.
-Difficult to see, only the star flecks of your Void Form are visible in the dark. Others must make a Detect Hidden roll to see you in the dark or at night.
-In space, others must make a Detect Hidden roll at -50% to see you, and if you're not moving or moving at less that 12 speed, gain the benefits of full invisibility (+1 to-hit, -1 from target number to be hit, stacks every round until you give away your position, then resets to 1, enemies may attack in wrong direction entirely and automatically miss).
-Anyone that touches you is touching space, they take 1d6 damage from the cold unless they're wearing protective gear.
-Can see perfectly in both absolute darkness (including black holes) and bright light (including looking directly at the sun), immune to ill effects from either.
-Can launch a bubble of depressurization at enemies, range 100 feet (or touch). Uses Gravity Control as attack type. Causes various nasty penalties for the target. 2 power per shot.
-Can pull the oxygen from a fifteen-foot globe around yourself, suffocating anyone caught within. Requires one action per round to maintain, as well as 2 power.
-Can throw a bolt of pure space at enemies up to 500 feet away (plus 30 per level), dealing 4d6 damage. Is a cold attack, but uses Power Blast column, and still deals half damage to characters immune to terrestrial cold (beings immune to the cold of space, like yourself, still take no damage). 2 power per bolt.

Defensive Major: Bio-Armor: It's the Guyver suit, plain and simple. Kevin Siembieda never met an idea he didn't want for his own.
-Generate 125 points of bio-organic Armor Rating with an action for 5 power, or 60 points of partial armor for 2 power. When the armor is broken, it can't be created again for 24 hours (8 hours for the partial armor). Covers clothing (the full armor can serve as a costume, due to helmet piece).
-When you decide to create the armor during combat, you do so immediately, spending your next action, regardless of the initiative order.
-Half damage from heat/fire and cold while armor's up. Heat signature is lower than normal humans, as well, which can obscure identity.
-While armor is up, unarmed attacks deal +1d6 damage (does not stack with bone claws), +5 Strength. Full armor increases weight by 30% (this effect is removed once armor is reduced below 60 AR). No agility penalties from this weight increase.
-No protection against psionic or magic attacks (unless they use a physical medium, such as fireballs or lightning bolts). No defense against gases or disease.
-Armor is metallic, use Bionics defense while full armor is active (remove when reduced past 60 AR).

Weakness: Prejudice: Well, you still have people that really have a problem with you, probably because you're some kind of chitinous spaceman with death rays. On the plus side, you don't have a bunch of powers pumping your Charisma into the stratosphere (which makes Prejudice infinitely worse, you want as close to 10 as possible).

Tyrannosaurus posted:

One more mulligan. But mostly because dropping 1 of 3 powers kinda sucks

EclecticTastes posted:

Go back and keep the set with Techno-Form, and I'll roll you two additional powers to go with Techno-Form and whichever other power you keep. The choice is yours.

Tyrannosaurus posted:

ROBOTMAN IS THE ONLY ANSWER

L0cke17 posted:

Im having a hard time making a cohesive character out of all the zany and disparate powers I got for mine. Can I get a new option 3 to see if I get something that maybe pulls together more cohesively? And at worst I can go back to the first set if that fails.

Mykkel posted:

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of man?

EclecticTastes posted:

Defensive Major: Alter Physical Structure (Techno-Form): Transform and roll out. You become a walking, humanoid pile of machinery.
-Techno-Form costs 5 power per round.
-Robotic Body defense is used in this form.
-Immunity to mind-affecting powers, drugs, toxins, disease, and other things reliant on being made of meat.
-Powers that explicitly affect machines affect you. Control powers must succeed at a Mind Control attack (Robotic Body defense does not apply in this case), however.
-No sense of taste or smell, diminished sense of touch, enhanced sight and hearing. Perfect night vision and clear sight up to two miles away. Can hear whispers at 200 feet. Enemies get no facing bonuses when attacking you unless they are truly and completely silent.
-+11 Strength
-HP recovers at half rate, but you can eat 10 lbs. of metal to recover 4d6 HP instantly.
-+10 Endurance, 10 points of invulnerability
-Physical attacks deal half damage, cold attacks deal no damage.
-You can transform into any vehicle you desire with one action. You are considered to be skilled in driving or piloting yourself, but you may allow others to take the controls. Costs no additional power.

Offensive Major: Teleport: And you don't even need to travel through a hell dimension to do it. You're gonna wish you had the V&V version, though.
-Can teleport as an action twice every fifteen minutes, taking up to 1,000 lbs. of people and/or stuff along with it. 3 power per teleport.
-Range is 5 miles.
-Teleportation has a failure chance based on familiarity (or lack thereof) and visibility of the destination. Unsuccessful teleporting carries a flat 15% chance of telefragging yourself and dying instantly, and another 25% chance of teleporting yourself a few hundred feet in the air, which isn't so bad for you because you can turn into a helicopter.

Defensive Minor: Longevity: Live long and prosper.
-You age two years for every ten that pass.
-Guaranteed to age exceptionally gracefully.
-+5 Endurance, +5 Charisma

Offensive Minor: Gun Limb: Now your robot man can have gun hands!
-Transform a limb into a gun. Requires an action and 1 power, and you can replicate a pistol or a rifle.
-See the weapon lists in the rules document for the stats on pistols and rifles, as well as rules for shooting.
-Gun limbs generate 2 bullets per round for free, 1 power can be spent for an additional 3 bullets (this does not require an action, you can do this as much as you want until you have enough bullets).

Offensive Major: Natural Combat Ability: You were born ready.
-You get a massive pack of bonuses that only function properly in the world of Kevin Siembieda's fever dreams, so I'm gonna just convert it as best I can.
-+16 intiative.
-+5 Strength, +5 Endurance, +10 Agility.
-+4 to-hit with all weapons and attacks (including superpowers), -2 to target number to be hit.
-+1 damage (to everything) per level.
-+2 to-hit and +4 damage to unarmed attacks.
-Enemies don't get facing bonuses against you.
-Willpower defense is active at all times.
-Can make two independent attacks per action (additional attacks still use the rules about multiple attacks).
-May not choose the "trade three level-ups for a Skill-type power" option when leveling up, except for Heightened Intelligence A, Heightened Charisma A, or Pet, due to being convinced you don't need any training to get awesome at fighting (and you're absolutely right about that).

Weakness: Reduced Charisma: Turns out turning into a machine doesn't help the social skills. -6 Charisma.

EclecticTastes posted:

Here's what the book uses as the example image of someone with Techno-Form active, as an example:

Tyrannosaurus posted:

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. If you can't meaningfully prevent gun violence, become a gun.

Epicurius posted:

Because I REALLY like variety, give me a third roll!

EclecticTastes posted:

Sure, maybe a more compact set will be better, because you rolled four powers.

Defensive Major: Multiple Beings/Selves: Send in the clones.
-You can make exact replicas of yourself that have the exact same abilities and powers (except this power, specifically), and see you as their leader, following you without question. You can create one duplicate per level, up to a final maximum of fifteen.
-Your gear isn't replicated, they need their own clothes and such. I'll say your costume is treated with some sort of technobabble quantum filament that lets it get duplicated so they're not actually naked.
-All of the multiple beings have a general sense of all the others' location and current state (mood, health, and so on).
-Duplicates will vanish if you die, but will remain active if you're knocked out.
-You can reabsorb duplicates at a range of 100 feet, and may want to if they're hurt, because if they die, Very Bad Things happen to you. Duplicates fully heal over 48 hours while reabsorbed.
-When a duplicate dies, you and the other duplicates will know it, but you won't know what killed him, as those final experiences are lost. You also permanently lose 1 Endurance and 1 Charisma, and that duplicate is gone forever, reducing the number of duplicates you can make.
-Creating as many copies as you want, up to the maximum, can be done in a single action.
-Duplicates can roam as far afield as you're comfortable allowing them, and last as long as you feel safe leaving them out.

Offensive Minor: Energy Claws: Hey, at least's it's clear what they are.
-You can create a set of energy claws six to twelve inches long. They add +1 to-hit and 2d6 damage to your HTH attacks. 1 power per round to maintain, one action to summon.

Offensive Minor: Energy Expulsion (Force): Punch a dude from across the room!
-Fire a nearly-invisible bolt of pure force (Force Field attack). +2 to-hit as enemies have a hard time seeing it to dodge. Range is 200 feet, damage is 2d6. 2 Power per bolt.

Offensive Minor: Multiple Limbs: You're just multiplying all over the place.
-You have an extra set of limbs (based on your roll, you have another set of arms). The bonuses are very Palladium specific, so I'll make something up.
-One extra attack per action.
-+5 Strength, +5 Endurance.

Weakness: Low Self-Control: I don't even need any further details. You can't keep your extra selves inside you, as soon as you're able to produce a new duplicate, you do so. You can only reabsorb duplicates with less than half their HP, and as soon as they're healed, they're forced right back out. Remember, all of you need to eat, and your family history doesn't mention you having any identical twins...