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Green Goblin (Peter Parker, Secret)

Affiliations Solo d10, Buddy d6, Team d8

Distinctions:
A Monster Hides Within
Wisecracker
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility

GOBLIN AUGMENTATIONS

Enhanced Durability d8 Superhuman Strength d10
Superhuman Stamina d10 Enhanced Reflexes d8

SFX: Genius. Spend a power point to step up a Tech Master or Science Master stunt or resource and recover mental or emotional stress.
SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a Goblin Augmentations power, you may move your physical stress die to the doom pool and step up the Goblin Augmentations power by +1 for this action.
SFX: Seething Rage. Step up or double any Goblin Augmentations power for one action. If the action fails, add the power die to the doom pool.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any Goblins Augmentation power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.

GOBLIN ARSENAL

Electrical Blast d8 Subsonic Flight d8
Superhuman Durability d10 Weapons d8

SFX: Pumpkin Bombs. When using Weapons to inflict an Obscuring complication on a target, add a d6 and step up Weapons die.
SFX: Goblin Tracer. Spend 1 PP or use an effect die to create a Traced complication for a target. You may track that target anywhere until the complication is removed.
SFX: Stun Grenades. Add d6 and step up effect die by +1 when inflicting a Stunned complication on a target.
Limit: Limited Ammunition. Shutdown any Goblin Arsenal power and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. doom pool to recover.

Specialties:
Acrobatics Expert d8 Business Expert d8
Combat Expert d8 Psych Expert d8
Science Master d10 Tech Master d10

Milestones:
A CURE, OR A CALAMITY?
1xp When you use humor to cover up your anger and rage
3xp When you find something new that you think might lead to a breakthrough
10xp When you find a way to modify the Goblin Serum so that you are cured, or you gain great power at the cost of even greater rage

DEADLY FOES OF THE GREEN GOBLIN
1xp When you declare a villain as an old foe.
3xp When you take trauma from your chosen foe.
10xp When you forgive your chosen foe, or they beg for your forgiveness and you refuse them.

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Elijah Snow [Public]

Affiliations
Solo d8
Buddy d6
Team d10

Distinctions
I Need To Know Everything
Icy Exterior
"Why Does Everyone Know You, Anyway?"

Powersets
Century Baby
Heat Subtraction d12, Cold Blasts d12, Cold Resistance d12, Enhanced Stamina d8, Enhanced Reflexes d8
SFX: Area Attack. Add a d6 and keep an additional effect die for each additional target when using Heat Subtraction or Cold Blasts.
SFX: Dangerous. Add a d6 and step back the highest die in the pool by 1 to step up physical stress inflicted by 1.
SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress, trauma or complications from temperature-based attacks or aging.
SFX: Frozen Solid. When inflicting a complication on a target, add a d6 and step up your effect die.
Limit: Exhausted. Shut down any Century Baby power to gain 1 PP. Recover the power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Limit: Observer. While you do not have emotional stress, step back the effect die of any attempt to inflict physical stress using a Century Baby power in its pool.

Head of Planetary
Superhuman Senses d10, Enhanced Durability d8, Enhanced Strength d8, Weapon d6
SFX: Focus. If a pool includes a Head of Planetary power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one die +1 step larger.
SFX: Boost. Spend 1 PP to step up or double a Head of Planetary power for one die roll.
SFX: The Vault. When you create a Mystic or Cosmic related resource or stunt, step up the lowest doom die to step up the stunt or resource.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown a Head of Planetary power and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs doom pool to recover.

Specialties
Business Expert d8, Cosmic Master d10, Covert Expert d8, Menace Expert d8, Mystic Expert d8, Science Expert d8, Tech Expert d8

Milestones
The Planetary Guide
1 XP: When you reveal a strange and interesting bit of trivia about something in the situation.
3 XP: When your strange or interesting trivia is actually useful, in the form of an asset.
10 XP: When you either ensure that something marvelous and wonderful is preserved despite great danger, or when you destroy something unique and beautiful because there's no other way.

The Fourth Man
1 XP: When you declare that you've worked with before as part of Planetary.
3 XP: When you take trauma to protect someone you consider part of Planetary.
10 XP: When you either bring someone in as part of your family due to their work, or when you cast them out of Planetary and refuse to forgive them.

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Green Ranger (Tommy Oliver, secret)

Affiliations:
Solo d6
Buddy d8
Team d10

Distinctions:
Teenager With Attitude
A Born Leader
It's Morphin Time!

Power Sets:

GREEN DRAGON POWER

Enhanced Strength d10, Enhanced Reflexes d8, Durability d8, Dragon Dagger d6

SFX: Counterattack! - On a successful reaction against a melee attack, inflict physical stress with effect die at no cost.
SFX: Kiyah! - If a pool includes an Enhanced Reflexes die, may replace two die of equal size with one +1 step highter
Limit: Recharge the Grid - Shutdown Green Dragon Power to gain 1PP. Recover by activating an opportunity or during a Transition.

DRAGONZORD

Enhanced Strength d12, Durability d10, Dragon Missiles d8

SFX: Pick on Someone Your Own Size! - Step up or double a power trait die when a giant enemy enters the battle. Remove the highest rolled and add three dice for total.
Limit: Trashed - Shutdown Dragonzord to gain 1PP. Take an action vs the Doom Pool to recover.


Specialties:

Combat Expert
Acrobatic Expert


Milestones:

A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE
1xp when Tommy gives someone advice about a tough issue
3xp when fighting an enemy directly related to a tough issue
10xp when Tommy makes a difference in someone's life regarding a tough issue or accepts that sometimes people have to solve their own problems

A GOOD ROLE MODEL
1xp when Tommy acts as an example to others
3xp when a teammate is inspired by Tommy's actions
10xp when Tommy decides to do what's right, even if someone else is sacrificed, or abandons his principals for the easy solution

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Affiliation: Solo d8 | Buddy d6 | Team d10

Distinctions:
Living Cartoon
Master of the genres - slave to the tropes
Mean Streak


Power Set — Anamatic Reality Alteration

Weapon: D8
Sorcery: D6
Teleport: D6

SFX: Deep Pockets. When using a Anamatic Reality Alteration power to create cartoon-like prop assets, add a d6 and step up your effect die.
SFX: Hammer Time! Against a single target, step up or double a Weapon die. Remove the highest rolling die and use three dice for your total.
Limit: Effects budget ran out Shutdown any Anamatic Reality Alteration power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.


Power Set — Cartoon form

Enhanced Strength: D8
Godlike Durability: D12
Godlike Stamina: D12
Stretching: D8
Superhuman Reflexes: D10
Shapeshifting: D6


SFX: Cartoon Physics. You may step back any doom die used in an opposing roll. After the roll, that die returns to the doom pool at its new stepped-back size.
SFX: “I’m Baaaccckkk!!!” Spend 1 PP to recover your own physical stress and step back physical trauma.
SFX: Invulnerability. Spend 1 PP to ignore any physical trauma or stress unless caused by cosmic forces.
Limit: Harsh Reality. Step up emotional or mental stress that highlights mundane, every day limitations and barriers to gain 1 PP.

Specialties

Acrobatics Expert D8
Menace Expert D8
Psych Expert D8

[You may convert Expert d8 to 2d6, or Master d10 to 2d8 or 3d6]


Distinction — Funny and Loyal
1xp — when you point out your teammates’ shortcomings in good fun.
3xp — when you use Anamatic Reality Alteration to create an asset for a teammate.
10xp — when your loyalty finally brings you to leadership and you lead the team, or you leave the team and create your own cartoon-themed team to lead.

Distinction — Mean as an old Cartoon
1xp — when you say something that shows the mean streak beneath your slapstick façade.
3xp — when you deal physical stress to an opponent using cartoon-inspired methods and dark humor.
10xp — when you either show your disregard for human life by killing an opponent, or realize that your powers are causing you to lose your empathy and ask your teammates for help in finding your humanity.

Fuzz posted:

Loved thus comic and the idea behind it, so in. Never played the system, though, so I'll have to get the book and figure it out.

LifeGetsWorser posted:

Waffleman_ posted:

You do realize that Marvel published a few Power Ranger comics back in the day.

Little Mac posted:

Aw man, are you gonna do this? I was thinking of submitting Battle Fever J, hahaha.

Hmmm, need to think of something neat...

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Affiliation: Solo d6 | Buddy d8 | Team d10

Distinctions:
Founding Father
Historical Horndog
Time-Lost Skrull Infiltrator

Power Set — Fantastic Power Matrix:
Flame Blast — d10
Flame Mastery — d10
Force Blast — d8
Invisibility — d10
Stretching — d8
Subsonic Flight — d8
Superhuman Durability — d10
Superhuman Strength — d10
_{SFX: Area Attack. Against multiple targets, for each additional target add a d6 and keep an effect die.
SFX: Fiery Body. On a successful reaction against a melee attack action, inflict physical stress with the effect die. Spend a PP to step it up.
SFX: Force Constructs. When using a Force Blast power to create assets, add a d8 and step up the effect die.
SFX: Multipower. Add more than one Fantastic Power Matrix power die to a pool. Step back each Fantastic Power Matrix in that pool once for each die in the pool.
Limit: Conscious Activation. While stressed out, asleep, or unconscious, shutdown Fantastic Power Matrix. Recover that stress or wake up to recover Fantastic Power Matrix. If emotional trauma is received, shutdown Fantastic Power Matrix until trauma recovered.}

Power Set — Skrull Paragon:
Enhanced Reflexes — d8
Enhanced Stamina — d8
Mind Control — d8
Shapeshifting — d10
_{SFX: Immunity. Spend 1 PP to ignore stress or trauma from vacuum, hunger, thirst, or fatigue.
Limit: Quick-Tempered. Gain 1 PP to step up emotional stress from taunting, insults, etc.}

Specialties:
Combat Expert — d8
Cosmic Expert — d8
Science Master — d10
Psych Expert — d8
Tech Expert — d8
Vehicle Expert — d8

Distinction — A Man Of Appetites
1xp — when you name another character as a former romantic partner or reference some wild times you had.
3xp — when you help another character recover mental or emotional stress, or recover your own mental or emotional stress by flirting, partying, or socializing.
10xp — when you choose to jeopardize the team's efforts in pursuit of pleasure or give up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to complete the team's mission.

Distinction — Not Even Doctor Strange Is Safe
1xp — when you admit your attraction to a powerful person's partner.
3xp — when you come into conflict with a powerful person over your attraction to their partner.
10xp — when you have a liaison under a powerful person's nose or convince them to join in.

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Affiliations
Solo: d8
Buddy: d10
Team: d6

Distinctions
The Last Avenger
Built from Lost Technology
Man or Machine

Power Set: The X-Buster
Energy Blast d8

SFX: Weapon Emulator. If you are present in a scene where a villain is physically stressed out, spend 1 PP to choose one of their powers and add it to THE X-BUSTER. The power is removed from THE X-BUSTER at the end of the act.
SFX: Charged Weapon. Step up or double any THE X-BUSTER power on your next roll, or spend 1 PP to do both, then shut down that power. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Limit: Weapon Energy Depletion. Shutdown highest-rated THE X-BUSTER power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.

Power Set: Combat Robot
Superhuman Stamina d10
Enhanced Durability d8
Reflexes d6

Limit: Heavy Metal. On a magnetic attack, or while swimming, change any COMBAT ROBOT power into a complication and gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity or remove the complication to recover the power.
Limit: Moody. Earn 1 PP and step up emotional stress caused by doubt, guilt, or self-worth by +1.

Specialties
Acrobatic Expert
Combat Expert
Vehicle Expert
Tech Master

Milestones
Fight, Mega Man...
1 XP when you declare a villain as a former ally.
3 XP when you take emotional stress from your former ally.
10 XP when you either step up a former ally's physical trauma beyond d12, or let them escape to fight again.

...for Everlasting Peace
1 XP when you activate your Moody Limit.
3 XP when you try to convince a villain not to harm the innocent before resorting to a fight.
10 XP when you either refuse to fight at an important moment, or sacrifice yourself to save others.

Darth Doom posted:

Affiliations
Solo: D10
Buddy: D8
Team D6

Distinctions
Broken Narcissist
Former Lord Of A Space Fairing Empire
Master of the Power Cosmic

Power Set: Iron Knight
Lightsaber D10
Repulsar Blaster D10
Superhuman Durability D10
SFX: Makashi. Step up or double a Iron Knight die against a single target. Remove the highest rolling die and add 3 dice for your total.
SFX: Soresu. On a reaction against a Physcal attack action, inflict physical stress with your effect die at no PP cost or spend a PP to step it up by +1.
SFX: Ataru. Use two or more Iron Knight powers in a single dice pool at -1 step for each additional power.
SFX: Juyo. Add a d6 to your dice pool for an attack action and step back highest die in pool by –1. Step up Physical Stress inflicted by +1.
Limit: Gear. Shutdown Iron Knight and gain 1 PP. Take an action vs. doom pool to recover.

Power Set: Master Of The Power Cosmic
Cosmic Flight D8
Cosmic Push D8
Cosmic Senses D10
Enhanced Reflexes D8
Mind Control D6
Psychic Resistance D10
Telepathy D6
SFX: Area Attack. Add a d6 and keep an additional effect die for each additional target.
SFX: Emotional Outburst. Step up or double any Master Of The Power Cosmic power for one action. If the action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of your power die.
SFX: Focus. If a pool includes a Master Of The Power Cosmic power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one die +1 step larger.
SFX: Second Wind. Before you make an action including a Master Of The Power Cosmic power, you may move your Mental Stress die to the doom pool and step up the Master Of The Power Cosmic power by +1 for this action.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any Master of the Power Cosmic power to gain 1 PP. Recover power by activating an opportunity or during a Transition Scene.
Limit: Will Of The Power Cosmic. Both 1 and 2 on your dice count as opportunities when using a Master of the Power Cosmic power.

Specialties
Acrobatic Expert D8
Combat Master D10
Cosmic Expert D8
Menace Expert D8
Mystic Expert D8
Science Master D10
Tech Master D10

Milestones

Cause Of His Own Problems
1XP when you speak of how you ruined your life and your universe.
3XP when you first take emotional stress in a scene.
10XP when you resolve to let go of the past and move on with your life or you give in to your despair and become consumed and worthless.

Shattered Ego
1XP when you speak of how you were once great and powerful.
3XP when you lose control and lash out in insecure rage at someone.
10XP when you either come to terms with your fallen status and seek redemption and humility or you do something horrid and irreversible to prove your worth to yourself and others.

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Affiliations: Solo d10, Buddy d8, Team d6

Distinctions: Agile Acrobat, Bulletproof Bruiser, Innocent Schoolgirl

Power Sets:
A Healthy, Athletic Girl
Superhuman Strength d10, Superhuman Stamina d10 Superhuman Durability d10
SFX: Invulnerable. Spend 1 PP to ignore physical stress or trauma results.
SFX: Shrug It Off. Spend 1 PP to recover your physical stress and step back your physical trauma by -1.
SFX: Collateral Damage: Any use of superhuman strength leaves the surrounding area all banged up: broken windows, crushed roads, smashed walls, etc.
Limit: Exhausted. Shutdown any Generic Set of Special Super Hero Abilities power to gain 1 PP. Activate any opportunity to recover.

Specialties:
Acrobatics Master d10
Combat Master d10

Milestones:
A Quiet, Normal Life
1 XP When you spend some time not having to save your friends from constant danger, and can relax to enjoy your carefree teenage years
3 XP When you get an entire day without any sort of violence happening
10 XP When you make a friend who isn't at all connected to the constant craziness of your life.

C-Ko's In Trouble Again
1 XP when you protect your friend(s) from harm.
3 XP when you put yourself in harm's way to get your friend(s) something they want or need.
10 XP when you are either able to save your friend's life/lives, or fail to save your friend(s) despite your great power.

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Gwenage (Gwen Stacy, Secret)

Affiliations:
Solo d10
Buddy d8
Team d6

Distinctions:
Nancy Drew, Girl Detective
Your Friendly Neighborhood Symbiote
Of Two Minds

Power set: Symbiote
Enhanced Durability D8, Enhanced Senses D8, Shapeshifting D6, Superhuman Reflexes D10, Superhuman Stamina D10, Superhuman Strength D10, Tentacles D8, Wall-Crawling D6,

SFX: Spider-Sense. Spend 1 PP to add Enhanced Senses (or step up if already in your pool) and
reroll all dice on a reaction.
SFX: Sharp Objects. Step back the highest die in an attack action pool to add a D6 and step up physical stress inflicted.
SFX: Envelop. When inflicting a restraining or immobilizing complication on a target, add a D6 and step up the effect die.
SFX: Multipower. Use two or more Symbiote powers in your dice pool, at –1 step for each additional power.
Limit: Symbiote Vulnerability. After making a reaction against fire-based or sonic-based attacks, take emotional stress equal to the attack’s effect die, regardless of physical stress taken.
Limit: Separation Anxiety: Shut down one symbiote power to gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity or participate in a transition scene to recover that power.

Specialties:
Acrobatics Master D10, Science Expert D8, Menace Expert D8, Covert Expert D8

Milestone:

Insert Pop Culture Reference Here
1XP: When you joke or quip while inflicting stress or complications
5XP: When you deflate the tension in a situation by pointing out an absurdity
10XP: When you are stressed out from Emotional stress and have a mental breakdown, or when you help someone else recover from their emotional breakdown.

Join Usssssss
1XP: When you act disquietingly inhuman.
5XP: When you preach to the public the benefits of symbiosis.
10XP: When you either make a symbiotic convert or you separate voluntarily from your own symbiote.

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Affiliations: Solo d6, Buddy d8, Team d10

Distinctions:
Survivor Of A Dead World
“I’ve Fought Bigger”
Agent Of (A) SHIELD

Iso-8 Enhanced Gear
Enhanced Durability d8, Enhanced Stamina d8,
Enhanced Strength d8, Weapon d8
SFX: Nano-Nurse: Add Enhanced Stamina to your dice pool when helping others recover physical stress. Spend 1 PP to recover your own or another’s physical stress or step back your own or another’s physical trauma.
SFX: Rebuilt Arsenal: Add a d6 to the doom pool to step up a Combat or Covert-related resource
SFX: Versatile Loadout: Replace Weapon die with 2d6 on your next roll
Limit: Gear: Shutdown an Iso-8 Enhanced Gear power to gain 1 PP. Take an action against the Doom Pool to recover.

Specialties:
Combat d8, Cosmic d8, Covert d8, Medical d8, Psych d8, Tech d8

Milestones:
Unshielded
1XP when you talk about how much better your home dimension was.
3XP when you help clean up a mess this universe’s SHIELD caused.
10XP when you either decide to stay behind in a dimension to help the local heroes get their act together or start an interdimensional spy agency to help all of them.

Avengers, Assembled
1XP when you ask someone for aid based on your history with them in another dimension.
3XP when you give someone assistance in the hopes of getting them to help you.
10XP when you either convince someone truly improbably to aid the forces of good or have your faith in someone utterly betrayed.

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Affiliations: Solo d6, Buddy d10, Team d8

Distinctions:
Sorority Queen
Missing My Triplets
My Alien Partner

Venom Symbiote:
Superhuman Reflexes d10
Superhuman Senses d10
Siren Song d10
Cat's Pounce d6
Wall-Crawling d6
SFX: Hey! Listen! Emotional complications inflicted with Siren Song step up the damage die.
SFX: Multipower. Use two or more Venom Symbiote powers in your dice pool, at –1 step for each additional power.
SFX: Area Attack. Target multiple opponents. For every additional target, add d6 and keep +1 effect die.
Limit: Fire and Sonic Vulnerability. When making a reaction against fire-based or sonic-based actions, she takes emotional stress equal to the effect die of the attack, regardless of whether she also takes physical stress. If she’s stressed out by emotional stress, she flees immediately.

Specialties:
Acrobatic d8, Combat d8, Menace d8, Psych d10

Milestones:
Avengers, Assembled
1XP when you ask someone for aid based on your history with them in another dimension.
3XP when you give someone assistance in the hopes of getting them to help you.
10XP when you either convince someone truly improbably to aid the forces of good or have your faith in someone utterly betrayed.

John Smith Is Dead
1 XP when you encounter the dimensional counterpart of a loved one.
3 XP when you reveal your relationship to the other version.
10 XP when you either decide that the alternate means just as much to you, or cut off contact.

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Name: Anna Marie X (Secret)

Affiliations

Solo d10
Buddy d6
Team d8

Distinctions
Listening to the Voices
Southern Belle
Untouchable

Powersets

Omega Class Telepath

Mind Control d10, Psychic Blast d10, Telepathy d12, Psychic Resistance D10

SFX: Versatile: Split any Omega Class Telepath power into 2d at –1 step, or 3d at –2 steps.
SFX: Unleashed: Step up or double any Omega Class Telepath power for one action. If the action fails, add a die to doom pool equal to the normal rating of your power die.
Limit: Mutant. When affected by mutant-specific complications or tech, earn 1 PP.

Power Absorption

Leech D10, Mimic D12

SFX: Drain Vitality. When using Leech to create a Power Loss complication on a target,
add a d8 and keep an extra effect die for physical stress.
SFX: Memory Flash. Spend 1 pp to use any SFX or Specialty belonging to a target on
whom you have inflicted a Power Loss complication for your next roll.
SFX: What’s Yours is Mine. On a successful reaction against an action that involves
physical contact, convert your opponent’s effect die into a Power Loss complication.
If your opponent’s action succeeds, spend 1 pp to use this SFX.
Limit: Mutant. When affected by mutant-specific complications or tech, earn 1 pp.
Limit: Uncontrollable. Change any Power Absorption power into a complication to gain 1 pp. Activate an opportunity or remove the complication to recover that power.
Limit: Zero Sum. Leech requires skin-to-skin contact with the target.Mimic only duplicates powers of those on whom you’ve inflicted a Power Loss complication. Mimic-based assets created based on the target’s power are limited in size to the Power Loss complication affecting the target.

Specialities

Acrobat Expert d8, Combat Expert d8 Psyche Master D10 Covert Expert D8

Milestones

Get Out of my Head Old Man!
1 XP: When you first take emotional or mental stress in a scene.
3 XP: When one of the personalities you've absorbed gives you some useful advice or information that helps with the current situation.
10 XP: When you manage to integrate the disparate parts of the personalities you've absorbed into a cohesive whole or when you finally crack and become totally insane.

Southern Rebel
1 XP when you offer someone sass, attitude, or Southern charm.
3 XP when you disobey orders from a prominent leader and go your own way.
10 XP when you either lead a team of your own or accept that you're not really cut out of leadership and let someone else take the lead without criticism.

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Miss Fury
Patricia "Patsy" Walker (Secret)



Affiliations: Solo [D10], Buddy [D8], Team [D6]

Distinctions:
Thrill-Seeking Socialite
A Regular Hellcat
Nothing Bad Ever Happens to Me

Cat Suit:
Magic Resistance: d8; Enhanced Reflexes: d8; Enhanced Speed: d8; Enhanced Strength: d8; Leaping: d6; Swingline: d6; World War Weapons: d6;

SFX: Cat Claws. Step back the highest die in your attack action pool to add a d6 to your pool and step up physical stress inflicted.

SFX: Focus. If your pool includes a Cat Suit power, you may replace two dice of equal size with one stepped-up die.

SFX: Miraculous Mantle. Step up or double any Cat Suit power for one action, or spend a PP to do both. After the action resolves, add a die equal to your effect die to the Doom pool.

Limit: Twice Cursed. Count 1s and 2s on dice as opportunities when using a Cat Suit power.

Limit: Gear. Shutdown World War Weapons and gain 1 PP. Activate an opportunity to recover World War Weapons.

Specialties:
Acrobatic Expert: d8; Combat Expert: d8; Covert Expert: d8; Crime Expert: d8; Vehicles Expert: d8;

Milestones
Miss America
Gain 1 xp when you flaunt your looks and charm in a support action, by flirting.
Gain 3 xp when you use your civilian alter ego to create a resource.
Gain 10 xp when you rebuke the flirtations of another hero, or decide they deserve more of your attention.

The Black Fury
Gain 1 xp the first time in a scene when you inflict physical trauma on an opponent.
Gain 3 xp when you use a covert asset to eliminate an unaware opponent.
Gain 10 xp when you either suffer trauma at the hands of an opponent, or are captured by the enemy.

Lager posted:

Okay...So I promised I would post a bit about the system and how to use it. This is a very story-based system, with a lot of freedom to use your abilities in different ways. As long as the action makes narrative sense for you to use those abilities you're golden. So first things first. You've gotten into a combat and you are ready to roll some dice. The first step is to decide what you're going to do. You have three main options - inflict stress, inflict a complication, or create an asset for yourself on your next roll or another player on their next roll. Stress is basically damage, and you can choose between physical, emotional and mental stress. Basically think of these as beating them up, making them want to abandon the fight and curl up into a sock drawer in a depressive fit, or using telepathy or brainwashing on them to potentially turn them to your side. Anybody can inflict any of the damage types if they can justify it but that's the important part. In Marvel Heroic everyone has to learn to be the best bullshit artist possible.

Complications are really similar to stress but they're a bit different and sometimes more useful. They can be stacked with stress to allow you to make your pool grow, they disappear after the conflict is over whereas you'll have stress lingering after a fight is over (we'll get to that in a moment) and they can make an opponent waste an action to get rid of the complication. If you plan it right, for example, Spider-Man can start a round by webbing up the opponent with a d10 complication, allowing Wolverine to stab him in the face with an extra d10 die for the complication, and then the villain uses his turn getting rid of the webs, allowing Spider-Man and Wolverine to attack him again (albeit without the d10 complication unless Spider-Man is a dick and rinses/repeats).

Assets are kind of similar, they're basically one-time bonuses to a followup action that you can get. There are ways to make them last longer than a single action that we'll get to very shortly...

When you know what your action is going to be, it's time to build a dice pool. You can use one die from each of the various categories on your datafile. 1 affiliation (solo, buddy or team depending on how many other players are hanging out with you in the fight), 1 distinction, 1 power from each of your powersets like super strength or elemental blasts, etc, and 1 specialty like combat expert/master, etc. If you have a useful SFX you can activate one for each powerset your character has. You can also add the opponent's stress or complications, or any assets that other players (or you yourself) have created. Roll that big pile of virtual dice and add two of them together. That's your attack score. Then pick the biggest die type left over (doesn't matter what that die rolled) and that's your effect die (how hard you hit, for example). A d12 that rolled a 4 is just as good as a d12 that rolled a 12 when you're picking your effect die so if you rolled 2d12 and 1d10 and wound up with a 10 on the d10 and a 12 and 11 on the d12s, you might consider using the d10 and the higher d12 for the total attack, leaving the lower d12 for your effect. That makes a 22 with a d10 effect instead of a 23 with a d10 effect. Overall the d12 as an effect die is more awesome.

The opponent rolls a reaction to your action and the higher total attack wins. Ties are in the attacker's favor. Having a bigger effect die on defense can be beneficial because even if you lose the roll you can take less damage as a result because you step the attacker's effect die down one die type if you have a bigger effect die. Also of note is that if your attack roll beats the reaction roll by 5, you get an extraordinary success. The attacker's effect die gets stepped up by one die type for every 5 points by which they beat the reaction roll.

Next mechanic is Plot Points. You get these by rolling a 1 on your actions or reactions, and they're super awesome. I'm lazy so I'm quoting Defiance Industries, the Watcher for the Civil War game on here and one of the guys who taught me to play.

Defiance Industries posted:

The other major mechanics that go on are plot points and the doom pool. I group them together because they are kind of the same thing. You earn plot points by rolling 1s (at which point the watcher "buys" them from you with a plot point and gets to add a D6 to his doom pool), using your distinctions as a D4 instead of a D8 (which is in situations where the distinction is a disadvantage, like Iron Man's "billionaire playboy" distinction might be a disadvantage when trying to persuade someone who is very serious), or activating your limits. 

The Defiance Industries Guide to Using Plot Points! 

Plot points can do a lot of things. They're pretty versatile and exist mostly to help you get awesome. Your choices can be grouped roughly into four categories. 

Activating SFX is pretty obvious. Most characters have at least one SFX you spend a PP to use. In the case of a Limit saying you need to "activate an opportunity" to regain a power, that also requires a PP, and uses up that opportunity. 


Before the Roll you can use PP on the following things: 

Add a D6 push die. Use this when you can't think of something better. Generally, though, you want to... 

Add a stunt die. A stunt dice is like a push dice except better because it is D8, not D6 (D10 if the Watcher rolled a 1 that you are using). There is a catch, though: a push dice requires nothing extra, while a stunt dice requires you to tie it in to a power or specialty your character has. You are also, and the rulebook does specify this, required to describe the cool thing your character did, whether it's Iron Fist snap-kicking a keg into someone's dick or using Tony's tech mastery to make every screen in the room play a sex tape he made of him and the bad guy's daughter. 

Use more than one die from a set. When I had Iron Man shoot a giant fuckoff laser at the Shark Man and the Armadillo Man, I used two SFX from my powered armor set at the same time so I had to spend a PP to do that. You could also do it if you wanted to use two distinctions or expertises or whatever. 

Add your stress die to your roll. This is a more unusual one. You can add your own stress die to your dice pool "when it makes sense." So we want to do things more in line with "add my emotional stress to my roll to see if I am strong enough to stop a train!" rather than "why yes my d12 mental stress makes me even better at repairing the Quinjet engines that are exploding in mid-flight, why do you ask?" Keep in mind two things: first, that the Watcher can use your stress dice in his pool, as well, and that it steps said stress up +1 after that action ends (so, if you have D6 stress and use it, it's still D6 when I add it to my pool, too, but after that you go to D8). 


After the Roll 

Add an extra die to your total. You know about this one. 

Add an extra effect die. Functions basically like AoE except you pay one PP for each effect die. You can't use two effect die on the same target, though, so you can either hit multiple enemies at once (or multiple members of a mob of enemies, to knock out several dice at once), like you kicked two dudes into each other. OR, if you can come up with a good description, you could use the second effect die to create an asset or complication, like if Spider-Man were to swing and hit a bigass robot, and it ends up crashing into some pipes and steam starts going everywhere as a result, confusing the robot's thermal scanners. It doesn't specifically say you can do this, but it doesn't say you can't. Have a good description and make it sound cool, that's the important thing! 

Change the stress to a different type. You can make your attack any type of stress (physical, emotional, mental) you want, if you can come up with a reason. Beast might try inflicting emotional stress by intentionally pulling punches he could connect with to demoralize an enemy, or he could inflict mental stress by confusing and disorienting an enemy with well-placed strobe lights. However, for a PP you can redirect stress to a different pool. You might decide that a physical attack didn't hurt you, it just MADE YOU SO GODDAMN MAD, for example. A mental attack might not harm you mentally, it might make you lash out and injure yourself. 

Use an effect die on a reaction as an asset/complication. On a successful roll, you can use a PP to turn your effect die into a persistent effect; again, I assume you will describe it somehow and make it sound cool. If some random dude tries to take out She-Hulk with a flying double-leg dropkick, She-Hulk might decide that the kick not only didn't hurt, but the guy broke both his legs doing it, and spend a PP to turn the D10 effect die into "D10 Broke His Legs Like a Dumbass." 


In transition scenes 

Use a PP to create an asset associated with an expertise. This can be useful in a lot of ways. It can dictate the direction a plot takes by showing which types of leads the PCs get (a team like ours, which is loaded with stuff like Tech and Science, will gather different info than a team of Covert/Crime people, for instance). You can also use it to create a resource for the next scene that represents preparation beforehand. A resource created with Expert skill is a D6, while a resource created with a Master skill is D8. So if Dr. Strange wanted to cook us up some protection beforehand for our journey into the literal Sphincter of Hell, he could spend a PP to put a D8 Mystic resource on us that could represent a persistent spell to repel rear end-bats. If we were headed into the Great Purple Galaxy, though, he could only give us a D6 Cosmic resource. 

Borrow an expertise from another player. Beast and Dr. Strange, who do a lot of our healing people up, could do this to collaborate on a medical project. The PP that gets spent in this way doesn't go back to the Watcher, though, but rather to the player who you request help from. It also doesn't have to be the same skill, in some cases. If the team got hit with a nano-virus in an action scene, Beast might use his science mastery to isolate it, and then he could give Iron Man a PP to use his Tech Mastery to help him design and deploy a countermeasure. 

The Doom Pool is kind of the same way; I can use the dice in it as Watcher to make my rolls better or to activate things. It also represents a general opposition for rolls that aren't against a specific person. A good example is the attempts to pull Thor's hammer up last scene, where they had to beat my Doom Pool roll because they weren't actively fighting Dr. Doom while they were doing it. 


Hope this info is helpful for any new players! Once again, feel free to PM me with any questions about the rules or applications you've posted or are considering.

John Dyne posted:

tl;dr - http://nerdnyc.com/tmp/marvel/Hero-Cheat-Sheet.pdf

I think that's about all the same info Lager wrote out but in one handy official cheat sheet.

Lager posted:

Elijah Snow

I was very happy to see a non-traditional Marvel character get apped so quickly. A potentially supremely powerful character, but I like things like the Observer limit. How much do you think Elijah knows about the Exiles? Does he have awareness of universe blinking out before they're "supposed" to? Why did he decide to fake his way to the Nexus?

Lager posted:

Darth Doom

This is bonkers, and hilarious. I appreciate your willingness to adjust the sheet based on my notes in Discord. How are you planning to balance the character between Doom and Vader? The bio blended their origins and stories fairly well, but as far as voice/character goes I feel like both those guys are pretty distinctive. How much Doom is in this guy, and how much Vader? Is he Vader in a Doom mask, or Doom with a lightsaber? Or how are you planning to strike that balance?

Lager posted:

Ben Franklin - Super Skrull

Very nice. So what was Ben trying to accomplish in the past? Was he just winging it, hoping to get a signal to the Skrulls somehow to let them know that he was there and ask for orders? Or did he have a plan of some sort? How would Ben react to the knowledge of the multiverse, and of the destruction of other worlds? What would skin in the game look like to him?

Lager posted:

I like this combo a lot. How long was Luke the Iron Fist after his time stone tomfoolery? You said he watched Danny grow up, what kinds of adventures did Luke have in the meantime? Or did he pretty much just stay in K'un-Lun?

Lager posted:

Slapstick

I have to admit that I have a serious soft spot for Slapstick. There are a few typos in your app, such as the Invulnerability SFX, which make it a little hard to read. I know what you mean in most of it, but if you get the chance to clean it up that would be helpful. Has your Slapstick worked with a team before? The bio makes me think she's a mostly solo character since nobody was willing to believe her, but with a Team d10 I feel like she must've. Any details there you've thought of?

Flashback posted:

"Oh god help us. It's Slapstick!"
"How did she get onto the ship!?!"
"Someone grab her quick!!"
"AHHHHHH! We're crashing! We're going down!!"

quote:

In other news, due to the sheer number of apps I've decided to change it up a bit. See, in the original comics, there were actually two teams. One were the Exiles, formed to save worlds and fix time. The other was Weapon X, who were put together to do the dirty deeds that were deemed necessary - assassinations, coups, etc. I was originally planning to shamelessly rip off Defiance Industries's gimmick from the old Civil War game of having each player that was chosen eventually choose a second character to form up the rival Weapon X team. But with this many apps, I'm going to go ahead and accelerate my plans for the Weapon X storyline and start them concurrently. This means I'll be recruiting for both teams, with different players. Each team will have their own thread and there will be potential crossovers, though the two teams will have no knowledge of the other team's existence at the start. This way, I'll be able to include more characters (and players) from the start.

In addition, due to a schedule change on my side, I'm going to shut down recruitment on the 10th and make my picks known on May 11th, in order to put the posts up over the weekend to start the threads. I have a conflict on May 14th now and I don't want to keep everyone waiting until that clears up. If anyone lurking the thread was counting on that weekend to finish an app, feel free to PM me or something and we'll try to work it out.

I'll make another post with reactions to any additional apps that are posted sometime early next week.

Lager posted:

Green Goblin

Good, well put together application. If I remember right, this character was used in the Secret Wars game from a couple years back, right? Are you considering that to be canon? Does your character remember those events at all? Are they familiar with the idea of a multiverse?