[d20 Modern / 4CtF] Windy City Mutants OOC

[Keia]

I like the Idea of a hero points template. Especially when we are starting out at first in D20 Modern. If we had to take hero levels we would be extremely underdeveloped in the skills department.

Keia

 

[perivas]

Yep. I think using the Hero class works best when not everyone has powers, or when some people have more powers than others. But if everyone has them, then I think it's simpler just to tack them on top of your regular abilities. I guess think of it like a template that grants you 8 HrPs per character level.

I like this latter idea more. It allows late bloomers and also emphasizes the cost/benefit of superpowers. I feel that in an extended campaign, getting free HrPs will lead to too many miscellaneous and, possibly, incongruous superpowers for characters. Just my 2 cents.

 

[Krizzel]

The Rogue's Gallery is now up. Find it here.

You can have a bonus action point if you copy the formatting I used for this character.

 

[Krizzel]

More notes:

Skill Emphasis can be taken as a feat. It gives a +3 bonus to any one skill of your choice, and can be taken more than once (once for each skill).

 

[Jemal]

OK : I've got several concepts I want to try, so I'ld like to get a little more info on what the other people are doing with their characters.

I don't want to pick one of the things I'ld like only to find someone else taking it, too, so I'll wait a little while untill I see some more of what we've got.. That should help me narrow it down.

BTW - Current concepts include :
A) Alen O'brian, a hyper energetic Irish kid who ends up producing and/or absorbing energy in various forms (Bishop, Gambit, etc)
B) Jonathon Windsor, a Loner who's been picked on all his life and eventually his body starts phasing in and out, so that he can pass through things to get away, or get bulkier to fight back (Jessie from Mutant X, Vision from Avengers)
C) Jackson Sledge (JackHammer), a street-fighter who's used to using his fists to get out of trouble, and develops powers that turn his body into an even more efficient weapon (Enhance Str, Speed, maybe change body to Metal like Colosus, Enhanced Healing, lots of possibilities)

 

[KitanaVorr]

Kewl hehe I like them all Jemal, but I think I like B and C about equally the same.

Since none of your guys are going to be hackers, (unless you are going to go ahead and make one of your guys a hacker, Jemal) I think I'll add that speciality to Lana since it fits her smart heroine thing.

I changed Lana to this...

Savant(Computer Use)
Skill Emhasis(Computer Use)

 

[Krizzel]

Looks good so far everyone

Another thing (I should develop a sheet somewhere of my standard house rules):

Languages -

Your native language is free, and you can both read/write and speak it.

Additional languages cost one point to read/write or speak, so two points if you want to do both. You get one point for each skill point put into the language skill, and one point for each point of INT bonus.

For example, a character with INT 16 wants to learn two languages (beyond her native language) that she can both speak and read/write. She needs to spend one skill point to do this (she needs 4 points, 2 for each language - she gets 3 from INT, and 1 from the skill point). If she only wanted to learn to r/w/s one language, she wouldn't need to spend any skill points since her INT bonus alone lets her do that, plus learn to either read or speak one more language.

Hopefully that's not too confusing If there's any trouble just email me and I'll sort through it for you (put [ENWorld] at the start of the subject though so I don't delete it when I see an address I don't recognize).

 

[loxmyth]

BTW - Current concepts include :
A) Alen O'brian, a hyper energetic Irish kid who ends up producing and/or absorbing energy in various forms (Bishop, Gambit, etc)
B) Jonathon Windsor, a Loner who's been picked on all his life and eventually his body starts phasing in and out, so that he can pass through things to get away, or get bulkier to fight back (Jessie from Mutant X, Vision from Avengers)
C) Jackson Sledge (JackHammer), a street-fighter who's used to using his fists to get out of trouble, and develops powers that turn his body into an even more efficient weapon (Enhance Str, Speed, maybe change body to Metal like Colosus, Enhanced Healing, lots of possibilities)

Personally, I like B. Though I think so far we have only one person who might be a melee tank (Keia), so maybe you want to choose C?

 

[Shalimar]

I would go with B to, but I am partial to that power because i was thinking of going with that one before I dedcided on kinetic control. I also think the guy who plays Jesse on Mutant X(Forbes March) is scrumptious. Besides that power does not preclude you from being a fighting wizz.

I mean think of the side effects: Jesse usees it to get so dense that bullets bounce off of him, I don't think that punches will hurt him when he is that dense. And think of the power of the punches that someone that dense can throw.

 

[loxmyth]

Okay, I see. I haven't seen Mutant X, and when he said phasing in and out, I thought he meant turning incorporeal like Shadowcat rather than density control. In that case go with B

Oh, and I like your profession, Shalimar