Superheroes of The Trust OOC Thread (Accepting Alts)

[Elric]

Elric - Actually, Inspire does look pretty good..

1 rank in Inspire doesn't do much- the bonus is based on ranks of Inspire, the number of people is based on Cha.

Also, if your charater is a "perfect man" kind of concept, shouldn't you have some attack bonus that's usable with something besides your fists and your eye beams? Obviously, this is probably sub-optimal from a point-shaving standpoint, but buying some base attack and attack focus seems more appropriate than only Accurate on everything.

Dodge Focus is similar. With 2 Uncanny Dodge senses, True Sight and high Sense Motive buying all Dodge focus is clearly better than buying any base defense. But does all Dodge Focus really make sense?

 

[Jemal]

I think the dodge focus works.. How does buying ranks of Defense make more sense? Most martial arts experts get most of their 'defense' from dodging/parrying, etc, which makes sense to me. And as for the using attack with other things, there ARE no other things he'd attack with, he doesn't like weapons.

 

[Elric]

Jemal- it isn't clear to me what "Heat Vision" represents as an AP. It may be obvious to Matt, but you should probably specify what exactly it is. Also, including a little more detail (i.e., the rank) on his Datalink AP would probably help Matt as well.

His Knowledge skills should all be +4 base, not +8.

You have still only bought 1 rank of Morph (as Humans should cost 2 pp/rank) but have calculated his stats as if he had 2 ranks of it.

Other than that, looks pretty good!

Edit- oh, you should definitely take Precise Shot, and you should consider taking Precise Shot 2 as well.

 

[Jemal]

Heat vision is just a second blast that does Heat damage instead of 'kinetic/laser' damage, though I'll probably be using it mostly like superman's.. melt metal, weld stuff, etc)
Datalink would be same rank as my blast, as it's =>the cost of Blast.
RE: Knowledge - Eidetic memory gives +4 to remembering, which is what Knowledge is.
I keep forgeting to add that second rank of Morph.

OK, round 3.

 

[DM_Matt]

Heat vision is just a second blast that does Heat damage instead of 'kinetic/laser' damage, though I'll probably be using it mostly like superman's.. melt metal, weld stuff, etc)
Datalink would be same rank as my blast, as it's =>the cost of Blast.
RE: Knowledge - Eidetic memory gives +4 to remembering, which is what Knowledge is.
I keep forgeting to add that second rank of Morph.

OK, round 3.

All that is right, except eidetic memory. It does not actually, by RAW, give +4 to all knowledge checks. Of course, since "remembering checks" aren't really a formal part of the system, I interpret it as what the flavor text says: your memory is perfect, and you can perfectly recall anything that you see/experience in game.

 

[Jemal]

Take 3 : Is this better?
(BTW, what's Matt thinking about the character, is it acceptable assuming I get the kinks worked out, or are you thinking of another character for the 8th spot?
[sblock=Optic Stats]
OPTIC, aka James Carson.
PL 11

Abilities:
STR 16 (+3)
DEX 16 (+3)
CON 16 (+3)
INT 18 (+4)
WIS 16 (+3)
CHA 16 (+3)

Combat : Defense + 8; Attack: +6 Eye Laser(+10 W/Visor), +6 Martial Arts(+ 10 W/Gloves); Initiative: +11

Saves: Toughness + 7 (+ 14 in suit); Fort + 8; Reflex + 8; Will + 8

Skills: Bluff(+10/7), Computers(+15/11), Diplomacy(+10/7), Disguise(+13/0), Gather Information(+13/10), Notice(+15/12), Profession:Management(+8/5) Sense motive(+15/12), Knowledges(+4/0)
*Situational: +4 bluff/Diplomacy (Attractive); Diplomacy Check for favours(Connected), Gather Info in 1 minute(Contacts), Gather Info auto-check first time meeting new group/individual(Well Informed); +4 Remembering (Eidetic Memory); All skills considered Trained (Jack of All Trades)

Feats: Ambidexterity, Assessment, Attractive, BenefitX2 (Status&Wealth - Vice President of Op-Tec), Connected, Contacts, Dodge FocusX8, Eidetic Memory, Inspire, Jack of All Trades, Luck, Master Plan, Precise ShotX2, Uncanny DodgeX2(Sight, Sound), Well Informed.
(Wealth Bonus = 14)

Powers:
Blast 8 (21 pts) - Eye lasers, AccurateX3, Alternate Power: Heat Vision(heat damage blast), Alternate Power: Datalink(Perception, Machine control)
Strike 5 (8 pts) - Martial Arts, AccurateX3
Protection 4 (4 pts)
Device 5 (Hard to take away, 20 pts) - High-tech Supersuit/Power Gloves :
-X- Morph 2 (4 pts) - Any Human (+10 disguise)
-X- Protection 7 (7 pts)
-X- Feats(5 pt): Quick ChangeX2(Suit stored in belt, expands and covers), Improved InitiativeX2, Evasion
-X- Enhanced Strike 4 (7 pts), Mighty, AccurateX2
Device 4 (Disarmable, 12 pts) - Visor:
-X- Super Senses 10 (10 pts) - True Sight.
-X- Enhanced Blast 4 (10 pts), AccurateX2
Super Senses 12 (8 pts) - Analytical(Sight), Radius(Sight), Extended(sight), Darkvision(noticeable eye glow), microscopic vision(DNA, Distracting, noticeable eye glow), X-ray Vision(not lead, Distracting)
Speed 1 (1 pt) - 10mph speed.
Quickness 6 (2 pts) Flaw: Planning Only(Master Plan).

Drawbacks: Weak Point (1), Vulnerable: Sonic damage [Moderate Intensity, Common frequency](4 pts)
Trade-offs: -3 Def/+3 Tough, -1 Atk/+1 Save DC
COST: Abilities 38 + Skills 16(64 ranks) + Feats 25 + Powers 76 + Saves 15 -5 drawbacks = 165/165

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[sblock=Optic Fluff]
The 28 year old James Carson is near the peak of human perfection.. Strong, fast, healthy, smart, charming. He's a well-known, respected, and admired businessman with contacts everywhere, The vice president of Op-Tec, a company that specializes in fiber-optics and computer technology, specifically with regards to Military contracts. He has been involved in numerous athletic competitions. He's also not entirely Human... James Carson is, in his off-time, the mutant super-hero known as Optic.
Optic has been fighting crime in one form or another for over a decade. He's a 2nd generation mutant and super hero, son of Bendy-Girl(Deceased) and a computer technician named William Carson(Retired Businessman, founder of Op-Tec). With his current status and contacts in the company his father built, he was able to gain access to an experimental super-suit of very light-weight material, and a custom-made visor which enhances his allready impressive array of eye powers. For the past several years, he's been splitting his time between helping to run the company alongside his older sister (Claren, no known mutation) and using a combination of his skills, mutant super powers, and enhanced technology to fight terrorists, super-villains, and general all-around bad guys. Recently he has become rather depressed by the apparent abundance of badguys and lack of organization amongst the few super-heroes that are known. There has to be some way of contacting the other Heroes, but he's been unable to do so yet. There's something he isn't just seeing, and for someone who sees as much as James, that is the most frustrating thing of them all... This was the mood he was in when he got home from a late night, tossing his visor on the table in front of him, he lay on the couch and absently turned on the TV, willing to let the ambient noise send him off to sleep... But the TV seemed to be mirroring his thoughts, and as he sat up after changing the channel several times, trying to find a station that WASN'T giving him bad news, he received the message. He didn't bother writing down the license plate, his memory had always been good... "photographic" he always liked joking, and he pictured the van in his mind, exactly as he knew it would look. He'd recognize it. And he'd be there. This was exactly what James Carson.. no, what OPTIC, was born for.

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[Jemal]

All that is right, except eidetic memory. It does not actually, by RAW, give +4 to all knowledge checks. Of course, since "remembering checks" aren't really a formal part of the system, I interpret it as what the flavor text says: your memory is perfect, and you can perfectly recall anything that you see/experience in game.

OH.. damn. Oh well, i'll fix it then.

 

[Elric]

Datalink would be same rank as my blast, as it's =>the cost of Blast.

Hmm, there's no limit that an AP needs a lower rank than the base power in an array (if this rule is in the core book anywhere, it has since been errata'd). Plus even then this statement would only make sense if Datalink had <= the cost of Blast per rank. Plus, see below.

4. Perhaps squeeze some tech control into the or other tech component, maybe as ap: percetion datalink w/mechnical control on your blast, since its an important power no one has?

Matt, I'm not sure how you get a Perception Range Datalink Power out of this system. In particular, Datalink is Range: Extended, and there's no particular mechanism for converting a power from extended range to any other range that I can see. For Datalink you always need to accurately sense the computer you want to link to.

 

[DM_Matt]

Take 3 : Is this better?
(BTW, what's Matt thinking about the character, is it acceptable assuming I get the kinks worked out, or are you thinking of another character for the 8th spot?
[sblock=Optic Stats]
OPTIC, aka James Carson.
PL 11

Abilities:
STR 16 (+3)
DEX 16 (+3)
CON 16 (+3)
INT 18 (+4)
WIS 16 (+3)
CHA 16 (+3)

Combat : Defense + 8; Attack: +6 Eye Laser(+10 W/Visor), +6 Martial Arts(+ 10 W/Gloves); Initiative: +11

Saves: Toughness + 7 (+ 14 in suit); Fort + 8; Reflex + 8; Will + 8

Skills: Bluff(+10/7), Computers(+15/11), Diplomacy(+10/7), Disguise(+13/0), Gather Information(+13/10), Notice(+15/12), Profession:Management(+8/5) Sense motive(+15/12), Knowledges(+4/0)
*Situational: +4 bluff/Diplomacy (Attractive); Diplomacy Check for favours(Connected), Gather Info in 1 minute(Contacts), Gather Info auto-check first time meeting new group/individual(Well Informed); +4 Remembering (Eidetic Memory); All skills considered Trained (Jack of All Trades)

Feats: Ambidexterity, Assessment, Attractive, BenefitX2 (Status&Wealth - Vice President of Op-Tec), Connected, Contacts, Dodge FocusX8, Eidetic Memory, Inspire, Jack of All Trades, Luck, Master Plan, Precise ShotX2, Uncanny DodgeX2(Sight, Sound), Well Informed.
(Wealth Bonus = 14)

Powers:
Blast 8 (21 pts) - Eye lasers, AccurateX3, Alternate Power: Heat Vision(heat damage blast), Alternate Power: Datalink(Perception, Machine control)
Strike 5 (8 pts) - Martial Arts, AccurateX3
Protection 4 (4 pts)
Device 5 (Hard to take away, 20 pts) - High-tech Supersuit/Power Gloves :
-X- Morph 2 (4 pts) - Any Human (+10 disguise)
-X- Protection 7 (7 pts)
-X- Feats(5 pt): Quick ChangeX2(Suit stored in belt, expands and covers), Improved InitiativeX2, Evasion
-X- Enhanced Strike 4 (7 pts), Mighty, AccurateX2
Device 4 (Disarmable, 12 pts) - Visor:
-X- Super Senses 10 (10 pts) - True Sight.
-X- Enhanced Blast 4 (10 pts), AccurateX2
Super Senses 12 (8 pts) - Analytical(Sight), Radius(Sight), Extended(sight), Darkvision(noticeable eye glow), microscopic vision(DNA, Distracting, noticeable eye glow), X-ray Vision(not lead, Distracting)
Speed 1 (1 pt) - 10mph speed.
Quickness 6 (2 pts) Flaw: Planning Only(Master Plan).

Drawbacks: Weak Point (1), Vulnerable: Sonic damage [Moderate Intensity, Common frequency](4 pts)
Trade-offs: -3 Def/+3 Tough, -1 Atk/+1 Save DC
COST: Abilities 38 + Skills 16(64 ranks) + Feats 25 + Powers 76 + Saves 15 -5 drawbacks = 165/165

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[sblock=Optic Fluff]
The 28 year old James Carson is near the peak of human perfection.. Strong, fast, healthy, smart, charming. He's a well-known, respected, and admired businessman with contacts everywhere, The vice president of Op-Tec, a company that specializes in fiber-optics and computer technology, specifically with regards to Military contracts. He has been involved in numerous athletic competitions. He's also not entirely Human... James Carson is, in his off-time, the mutant super-hero known as Optic.
Optic has been fighting crime in one form or another for over a decade. He's a 2nd generation mutant and super hero, son of Bendy-Girl(Deceased) and a computer technician named William Carson(Retired Businessman, founder of Op-Tec). With his current status and contacts in the company his father built, he was able to gain access to an experimental super-suit of very light-weight material, and a custom-made visor which enhances his allready impressive array of eye powers. For the past several years, he's been splitting his time between helping to run the company alongside his older sister (Claren, no known mutation) and using a combination of his skills, mutant super powers, and enhanced technology to fight terrorists, super-villains, and general all-around bad guys. Recently he has become rather depressed by the apparent abundance of badguys and lack of organization amongst the few super-heroes that are known. There has to be some way of contacting the other Heroes, but he's been unable to do so yet. There's something he isn't just seeing, and for someone who sees as much as James, that is the most frustrating thing of them all... This was the mood he was in when he got home from a late night, tossing his visor on the table in front of him, he lay on the couch and absently turned on the TV, willing to let the ambient noise send him off to sleep... But the TV seemed to be mirroring his thoughts, and as he sat up after changing the channel several times, trying to find a station that WASN'T giving him bad news, he received the message. He didn't bother writing down the license plate, his memory had always been good... "photographic" he always liked joking, and he pictured the van in his mind, exactly as he knew it would look. He'd recognize it. And he'd be there. This was exactly what James Carson.. no, what OPTIC, was born for.

[/sblock]

With the kinks worked out, this character does a lot more to round out the party than Brimstone would, and thus he would likely be chosen.

 

[Raylis]

Matt, I'm not sure how you get a Perception Range Datalink Power out of this system. In particular, Datalink is Range: Extended, and there's no particular mechanism for converting a power from extended range to any other range that I can see. For Datalink you always need to accurately sense the computer you want to link to.

n/m didn't realize datalink went off the extended table, remembered it as a 10ft/rank power