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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gamemoose" data-source="post: 293916" data-attributes="member: 6476">Cool stats!  Not sure when I'll be running a DNW campaign (just got the PDF today) or if it'll be Marvel, but I'll be sure to add some of those new rules.Scott: there are actually three versions (that I know of) of Ghost Rider.  One started out as Johnny Blaze back in the the eighties where he was possessed by the spirit of vengence named Zarathos.  When there was trouble, Johnny could transform into the Ghost Rider and ride into battle with a hellfire made gravity defying motorcycle.  He could also emit fire from his hands to engulf his enemies and had superhuman strength.  In the nineties a new version of the Rider came out.  This one was not Zarathos, but another spirit of vengence that seemed to be bound to a motorcycle, which was found by a young man named Danny Ketch.  When he was in danger, the gas cap would glow (why, I have no idea) and upon touching it he would become the Ghost Rider.  This version had different powers: no flame manipulation, but he did have great strength, a flaming chain, and his "penance stare" which turns those who looks in his eye sockets into blithering masses.  When I last read the comic, Danny Ketch was killed by Blackout, which strangely forced the Ghost Rider transformation.  @ Cybernetic: did Johnny become the Spirit of Vengence again?  I know he was hunting Zarathos, but I didn't continue reading the series after Ketch died.The third version came in the form of a robotic warrior in Marvel's 2099 series.  Some netrunner kid was killed while his brain was hooked up to the net.  His persona was a powerful broadcast through the network, which then funneled his mind into a skeletal looking robot.  This one had a motorcycle as well, great strength, and a flaming chainsaw.  I don't know much more on it, as I only read the first issue.  Whew!  It's a pretty cool character in the whole appearence and powers, but to me seemed more like a flaming, spirit version of Punisher.  Great for slobber knocker adventures, though!</blockquote>

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