Monitor Duty (Freedomverse OOC)
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hero4hire
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Linking the powers is not an issue. However, it is not worth a limitation. Perhaps a Power Loss Complication.
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jonathonhawke
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ok. How about this version:
PROMETHEUS
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[TD]POWERS: All from Mystical Helmet (Removable)
(Powers in green are not available, they are listed to indicate future advancement only)
Forethought (Array)
ADVANTAGES
SKILLS
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[TD]OFFENSE
DEFENSE
CHARACTER POINT TOTALS
[sblock="Equipment"]As Detective: smart/camera phone, handcuffs, flashlight, light pistol
As Prometheus: comm-link[/sblock][sblock=Background]Police cadet Luke Papadopoulos was on vacation, climbing in the Caucasus mountains, when a boulder rolled out from under his foot, pulling loose from the cliff face, and bouncing down the side of the mountain. In the space where it had been, he found an old bronze helmet, green with age. Later, when he tried it on, he found himself transformed into a titanic Figure: a foot taller, incredibly muscled, and he could fly! But where were his clothes? Removing the helmet returned him to his former self, clothes included. Luke smuggled the helmet back home, and became a full police officer the next year. Over the next few years, he worked his way up through the ranks, just recently making detective. During this time, he experimented with the helmet, and the powers it granted him, ultimately devising a costume moonlighting as the hero Prometheus.[/sblock][sblock="Complications"]Motivation: Doing Good.
Defenseless against Magic
Identity[/sblock][sblock="Appearance"]Prometheus stands 6'6”, with curly black hair and short beard. He wears a greek-style bronze helmet, long red cape, brown leather boots and bracers, and a short white kilt over leather briefs.
Detective Papaopoulos is rather short, only 5'6”, with wavy brown hair, clean-shaven. He wears a dark suit, and carries his detective's shield, along with a notebook and pencil.[/sblock]
PROMETHEUS
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STRENGTH
2 (10)
STAMINA
2 (12)
[/TD]2 (10)
STAMINA
2 (12)
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AGILITY
3
DEXTERITY
3
[/TD]3
DEXTERITY
3
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FIGHTING
2 (6)
INTELLECT
2
[/TD]2 (6)
INTELLECT
2
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AWARENESS
1
PRESENCE
1 (6)
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PRESENCE
1 (6)
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[TD]POWERS: All from Mystical Helmet (Removable)
(Powers in green are not available, they are listed to indicate future advancement only)
Forethought (Array)
Prescience (Default)
InvulnerabilityEnhanced Dodge 3
Enhanced Fighting 4
Evasion 2
Senses 4 (Danger Sense - Mental)
Uncanny Dodge
PrecognitionEnhanced Fighting 4
Evasion 2
Senses 4 (Danger Sense - Mental)
Uncanny Dodge
Accurate Prediction: Perception 12 (+20), Limit: Only with Precognition
See the Future: Senses 4 (Precognition)
See the Future: Senses 4 (Precognition)
Enhanced Stamina 10
Enhanced Will 7
Immunity 12 (Life Support, Critical Hits)
Immortality 0
Impervious Toughness 6
Light-BringerEnhanced Will 7
Immunity 12 (Life Support, Critical Hits)
Immortality 0
Impervious Toughness 6
Divine Nimbus: Environment 2 (Full Daylight, 60' radius)
Radiance (Array, Complication: Only while Divine Nimbus is active)
Quick ChangeRadiance (Array, Complication: Only while Divine Nimbus is active)
Dazzle: Affliction 10 vs. Fort [Vision - Impaired, Disabled, Unaware] (Cumulative)
Fiery Strike: Damage 2 (Strength-based, damage type: fire)
Enhanced Presence 5 (Default)
Fiery Strike: Damage 2 (Strength-based, damage type: fire)
Enhanced Presence 5 (Default)
Feature: Transforms into costume when putting on the helmet (free action)
Super-SpeedFlight 9
Improved Initiative 1
Quickness 2
Super-StrengthImproved Initiative 1
Quickness 2
Enhanced Strength 8
Enhanced Strength 2 (Limited to lifting)
Power Attack
Enhanced Strength 2 (Limited to lifting)
Power Attack
ADVANTAGES
Benefit 1 (Police Powers)
Close Combat 2
Equipment 2
Ranged Combat 2
Close Combat 2
Equipment 2
Ranged Combat 2
SKILLS
Athletics 1 (+3/+11)
Deception 0 (+1/+6)
Expertise 5 (+7): Police Detective
Insight 5 (+6)
Intimiation 0 (+1/+6)
Investigation 5 (+7)
Perception 7 (+8)
Persuasion 1 (+2/+7)
Ranged Attack 1 (+6): Throwing
Stealth 1 (+4)
Technology 1 (+3)
Vehicles 1 (+4)
[/TD]Deception 0 (+1/+6)
Expertise 5 (+7): Police Detective
Insight 5 (+6)
Intimiation 0 (+1/+6)
Investigation 5 (+7)
Perception 7 (+8)
Persuasion 1 (+2/+7)
Ranged Attack 1 (+6): Throwing
Stealth 1 (+4)
Technology 1 (+3)
Vehicles 1 (+4)
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[TD]OFFENSE
Initiative +3 (+7)
Punch:+4 (+8), (Close Damage 2 (10) bludgeoning (+ 2 fire))
Throwing:+6, (Ranged Damage 2 (10) bludgeoning)
Dazzle: +6, (Close Affliction 10, cumulative [vision])
Pistol: +5, (Ranged Damage 3 piercing)
Punch:+4 (+8), (Close Damage 2 (10) bludgeoning (+ 2 fire))
Throwing:+6, (Ranged Damage 2 (10) bludgeoning)
Dazzle: +6, (Close Affliction 10, cumulative [vision])
Pistol: +5, (Ranged Damage 3 piercing)
DEFENSE
DODGE +4 (+7)
PARRY +3 (+7)
WILL +1 (+8)
FORTITUDE +2 (+12)
TOUGHNESS 2 (12, Impervious 6)
PARRY +3 (+7)
WILL +1 (+8)
FORTITUDE +2 (+12)
TOUGHNESS 2 (12, Impervious 6)
CHARACTER POINT TOTALS
ABILITIES 32
POWERS 95
ADVANTAGES 7
SKILLS 14
DEFENSES 2
TOTAL 150
[/TD][/TR][/TABLE]POWERS 95
ADVANTAGES 7
SKILLS 14
DEFENSES 2
TOTAL 150
[sblock="Equipment"]As Detective: smart/camera phone, handcuffs, flashlight, light pistol
As Prometheus: comm-link[/sblock][sblock=Background]Police cadet Luke Papadopoulos was on vacation, climbing in the Caucasus mountains, when a boulder rolled out from under his foot, pulling loose from the cliff face, and bouncing down the side of the mountain. In the space where it had been, he found an old bronze helmet, green with age. Later, when he tried it on, he found himself transformed into a titanic Figure: a foot taller, incredibly muscled, and he could fly! But where were his clothes? Removing the helmet returned him to his former self, clothes included. Luke smuggled the helmet back home, and became a full police officer the next year. Over the next few years, he worked his way up through the ranks, just recently making detective. During this time, he experimented with the helmet, and the powers it granted him, ultimately devising a costume moonlighting as the hero Prometheus.[/sblock][sblock="Complications"]Motivation: Doing Good.
Defenseless against Magic
Identity[/sblock][sblock="Appearance"]Prometheus stands 6'6”, with curly black hair and short beard. He wears a greek-style bronze helmet, long red cape, brown leather boots and bracers, and a short white kilt over leather briefs.
Detective Papaopoulos is rather short, only 5'6”, with wavy brown hair, clean-shaven. He wears a dark suit, and carries his detective's shield, along with a notebook and pencil.[/sblock]
Another question. I'm working on yet another character concept, sort of a man made of metal, sort of like T1000 from the terminator movies. One thing I want him to the able to do is absorb metal. He would then use this absorbed metal to fuel many of his powers, such as growth, which makes him stronger and more dense, or having a create ability so that he can use that extra metal to create objects. Or even, if he has enough extra metal in his metal reserves, he can even summon a duplicate of himself, though tat depletes him of all his metal reserves.
However, I'm trying to figure out how I would go about adding the ability to absorb the metal, and then using that to fuel his powers. Basically for every unit of metal he absorbs, he is able to add that to whatever his power is in the Array. So if he only has one unit of metal, then he can only have one rank of growth, up to his maximum. It's basically adding a limitation to all of the powers in that array, that he has to have enough metal reserves to use them. Some of the powers use up the metal, like regeneration which is activation and he uses the metal reserves that he has to regenerate himself if he gets damaged. Other powers, like growth, don't use up his reserves, he is just able to make himself bigger or more dense.
So for example, if he has 10 units of metal, then he automatically has 10 ranks of growth. In this case I'd rather the growth be more density than size, which has a precedent in the powerhouse template. So while he has these metal reserves, he has 10 growth. But let's say he gets damaged, and he needs to use a unit of metal in order to heal himself. Now he only has nine units of metal, so his growth is only at rank nine. Then let's say he needs to build himself a bridge to get across the cover, that takes a unit of metal. Now his growth is only eight. He would have just absorbed the bridge again, but the bad guy blew it up. Unless he can find a new source of metal, and absorb that to refill his Power, then he will just get weaker.
So basically his weakness is not having access to metal. He has other powers that don't have anything to do with how much metal he has at his reserves, such as being able to turn into liquid metal as well as being immune to various things, and I'd give him some decent fighting ability because none of his powers are actually damaging. But he becomes a powerhouse when he has access to metal.
So how do you think I should do something like that? I already have almost the entire character written up now. I just need to figure out how he absorbs metal.
P.s. I was actually thinking that he is made up of a certain kind of metal, like silver, though silver is pretty weak so I probably would rather do something like titanium. So then he has to absorb titanium in order to use his powers. In that case I would just give him a power that allowed him to transform metals into titanium. Of course he can only transform so much at a time, because transform is so limited, so it would be an emergency top off so to speak. I thought about making it gold, but pure gold is just so soft. I suppose I could just say he's an unusually strong alloy, but still.
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However, I'm trying to figure out how I would go about adding the ability to absorb the metal, and then using that to fuel his powers. Basically for every unit of metal he absorbs, he is able to add that to whatever his power is in the Array. So if he only has one unit of metal, then he can only have one rank of growth, up to his maximum. It's basically adding a limitation to all of the powers in that array, that he has to have enough metal reserves to use them. Some of the powers use up the metal, like regeneration which is activation and he uses the metal reserves that he has to regenerate himself if he gets damaged. Other powers, like growth, don't use up his reserves, he is just able to make himself bigger or more dense.
So for example, if he has 10 units of metal, then he automatically has 10 ranks of growth. In this case I'd rather the growth be more density than size, which has a precedent in the powerhouse template. So while he has these metal reserves, he has 10 growth. But let's say he gets damaged, and he needs to use a unit of metal in order to heal himself. Now he only has nine units of metal, so his growth is only at rank nine. Then let's say he needs to build himself a bridge to get across the cover, that takes a unit of metal. Now his growth is only eight. He would have just absorbed the bridge again, but the bad guy blew it up. Unless he can find a new source of metal, and absorb that to refill his Power, then he will just get weaker.
So basically his weakness is not having access to metal. He has other powers that don't have anything to do with how much metal he has at his reserves, such as being able to turn into liquid metal as well as being immune to various things, and I'd give him some decent fighting ability because none of his powers are actually damaging. But he becomes a powerhouse when he has access to metal.
So how do you think I should do something like that? I already have almost the entire character written up now. I just need to figure out how he absorbs metal.
P.s. I was actually thinking that he is made up of a certain kind of metal, like silver, though silver is pretty weak so I probably would rather do something like titanium. So then he has to absorb titanium in order to use his powers. In that case I would just give him a power that allowed him to transform metals into titanium. Of course he can only transform so much at a time, because transform is so limited, so it would be an emergency top off so to speak. I thought about making it gold, but pure gold is just so soft. I suppose I could just say he's an unusually strong alloy, but still.
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Hehe, you're welcome. M&M 3rd edition likes to not sweat the small stuff. It tries to follow the 'comic booky' type rules, where things like 'what metal and how much' and 'how many bullets do you have' and 'what magic words must be said' only matter when drama demands that they matter. 
Which is, I think, for this genre very good.
Which is, I think, for this genre very good.
I suppose I could just say he has a reserve of metal equal to his Growth rank, and his Growth power, along with his metal reserve array, have a power loss complication where he must absorb metal to keep Growth active and to activate his Array Powers. The assumption can be that he always finds enough metal around him to recharge, unless the GM says otherwise, in which case he is weakened, and gets a hero point! That's much easier.
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hero4hire
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Busy work day today. I am going to try to finish the characters up tonight.
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