Time of Vengeance [closed]

hero4hire said:
Okay. Definitely can see this as SFX of the Pheremonal powers. But definitely list it as Enhanced Charisma.

Using more points to spread around an array is viable, I dont have the rulebook handy but if memory serves you have to make Powers in an array Dynamic?

I will check into this later.

You're right about the dynamic thing. I'll have to re-work and post the new one.

EDIT: All right, I've added dynamic to a few powers in the array and re-worked the points. Take a look at the character on page 1 of this thread to see the changes.

[sblock=How it Works Now]
Torque cannot have more than one of the following active at any given time:

Penetrating (Applied to any Ranged Attack)
Blast
Nullify Movement
Paralysis

He can have 1 or more ranks in any of the following powers, and can use them at the same time as the above powers, or with each other (they are dynamic):

Area Trip
Area Snare
Both of the Environmental Controls
Move Object
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hero4hire said:
Shaggy and Darwin,

Concepts look okay at a glance. Will look more closely a bit later. :)

Karl please feel free to submit a concept!
Cool, I eagerly await your answer.
 

Insight said:
You're right about the dynamic thing. I'll have to re-work and post the new one.

EDIT: All right, I've added dynamic to a few powers in the array and re-worked the points. Take a look at the character on page 1 of this thread to see the changes.

[sblock=How it Works Now]
Torque cannot have more than one of the following active at any given time:

Penetrating (Applied to any Ranged Attack)
Blast
Nullify Movement
Paralysis

He can have 1 or more ranks in any of the following powers, and can use them at the same time as the above powers, or with each other (they are dynamic):

Area Trip
Area Snare
Both of the Environmental Controls
Move Object
[/sblock]

Insight do you own Ultimate Power?

I am thinking there might be a cleaner way to do this and achieve the same results.

Right now your base power is Trip which normally costs 1pp/rank so bought so with all the mods you would only have 15pp to distribute in the array.

In UP they have a Friction Control power laid out that does much of what you are trying to do.
 

Okay,

I just realized I am focusing a bit too much on the mechanics of what you guys are giving me and less on the concepts.

I am going to stop that now! When I choose the Roster I will be very hands on in the mechanics of your character, making sure that they will interact nicely with my GMing style and still achieving what you want for your character. Until then I will start focusing on your concepts and the rationale and descriptors for them.
 

Insight: I notice you want Torque to Move Objects with his Friction, sort of like Telekinesis. How is this achieved? (I am not saying know but I’d like to know the Comic Book Rubber Science explanation), also your character is 16, does his parents know he is a super, or any close friends?
How does he explain his sudden disappearences from school?

Jemal: Rumble can fly? How exactly? Through his Vibration powers? Something else? What are the SFX.

Thanee: I see the car being formed out of the fusion energy she absorbed (or somesuch) rather then coming out of her spine. What do you think? Also her Dad is a Very Rich and Powerful Man. Do you see trying to use this In Game? Are they close?

Lord Raven/Shayuri: Both of you have different Inventor types. If you are both chosen, how do you see your characters working together?

Shaggy: Gravitron is the star Graduate of Claremont and and has a Myriad amount of skills. Did he make any enemies while at school? How do you plan on using your Star Pupil status in game?

Darwin: Why is the Tendril symbiote on earth?
What are the SFX of her super-strength? (a couple hundred ton lifting capacity is a lot.)
You list your Protection as “Reactive Strike” does this mean the SFX is tendrils blocking attacks?
 

Genesis is...impatient. She has the potential for invention, but her ability to create stuff means she rarely takes the time and effort to build things -for real-. Her skills are mainly for use in comprehending things found, and perhaps in justifying complex creations.

In short, she depends on her powers for the most part. She's only an 'inventor' in the most technical of senses. :)

Oh, I'm gonna add this to her sheet too, but since I'm posting, and you expressed interests in the story and explanation of character powers...

[sblock=The Origin And Function of Genesis]The Butterfly Effect. It specifically refers to a model of weather that illustrates chaos theory, but the moral of the story is what's relevant here. Sometimes very small perturbations can have very large effects. In the case of Alexandra Davies, 'very small' means about as small as you can get. The quantum universe.

In the quantum universe lots of rules we take for granted are turned upside down. For example, we know that matter and energy can't be created, nor destroyed. But that's not true here. Matter and energy are -routinely- created, AND destroyed. The catch is that you can't create matter or energy WITHOUT then destroying them...and on scales of size and time that are not only unknowable to human senses, but are so minuscule that the very universe itself seems not to really 'care' about them. Nevertheless, this constant flux of creation and annihilation forms the basis of measurable effects. The Casimir force, or so-called 'vacuum pressure.' The evaporation of singularities. And the remarkable abilities of one female human being (mutant? psychic? who knows?) to assemble unliving matter from what appears to be nothingness, by an act of will.

What she does is not hard to explain. How she does it defies all theories of physics to explain. When she creates an object there is a massive asymmetric, localized increase in vacuum energy level, culminating in a spontaneous manifestation of whatever it is that she was trying to create. What this means is that the area of space that is to contain the new object suddenly experiences an enormous increase in the rate of "virtual" particle/antiparticle pair production...or would. But those pairs, in which a particle and its opposite normally form at the same time so they can mutually annihilate almost immediately (and by almost, I refer to Planck time; the smallest unit of time possible...essentially a 'particle' of time)...are asymmetric. The particle forms without any antiparticle. Thus, there is no annihilation. The total mass of the universe increases measurable for a measurable period of time. This should not be possible. The other shoe falls later on. The delayed antiparticles form, and the creations dissolve back into the background energy they came from.

Because nothing she creates can be permanent, Alex refers to what she makes as 'fakematter.' In her own words, she describes the process as 'fooling reality into thinking there's something there.' The only limit to the ability is twofold: She can only create unliving matter. While she can create complex organic chemicals...even reproduce exactly the atoms and particles associated with, say, a frog...it would be a dead frog, even if biologically there was nothing wrong with it. This means she can create edible food...but since the molecules of that food would eventually vanish regardless of what stage of digestion they were in, or what cells currently incorporated their proteins and nutrients, it's recommended that nothing she creates be eaten. The second limit is simply...her ability to focus her will on her imagination, to translates what she wants into what is. The visualization of complex materials and understanding of their components and structures would be impossible without an incredibly intelligent and developed mind. Whether these traits are further deviations from the human norm for her, or if they surfaced because of the 'exercise' her power gives her the opportunity to practice, is not and perhaps cannot be known.[/sblock]

Yay pseudoscience gobbledegook!
 


hero4hire said:
I am pretty familiar with Power Pack. Indeed Alex once gained (read: STOLE) all the powers of his Siblings and joined New Warriors as Powerpax.

As others have shared, indeed all of the Pack's powers are doable.

I am concerned about the concept however. While homages are commonplace in hero games, I would like to see a bit more then "I am Power Pack".

An original spin on it, a different take...Something like that.

Yes, I heard about that. The majority of the group didn't really want to be superheroes after they got their first real taste of it. I believe it was somewhere in the Marvel crossover series of Inferno that really hit them hard. Especially when they found out how cracked their parents went over finding out about their abilities. I don't really know what led to Alex learning he was actually a mutant all along and how the rest of the kids lost their powers. I stopped reading after they changed artists somewhere around issue 45 or something. The artist saw it fit to give an 11 year old girl a six pack, wild 80's hair, and rippling muscles. Ugh.

Anyway, I was actually only going to rip off their powers and borrow some of the quirks from Julie and Jack (my two favorites). But the entire character himself (or herself, I haven't decided on the sex yet) is going to be an impulsive dreamer type - probably fresh out of college, with a penchant for blurring the lines of reality with fantasy. I plan to construct the character in such a way that s/he will be independent of the Power Pack - preferably s/he never met them and probably doesn't know they exist.

I'm still not so sure of her concept yet, but as soon as I have her numbers I'll give you the bio. I think you'll like it. Just let me know if there is anything about it you'd like me to change. If it feels too much like Power Pack I'll tweak it.
 

Shayuri said:
Genesis is...impatient. She has the potential for invention, but her ability to create stuff means she rarely takes the time and effort to build things -for real-. Her skills are mainly for use in comprehending things found, and perhaps in justifying complex creations.

In short, she depends on her powers for the most part. She's only an 'inventor' in the most technical of senses. :)

Oh, I'm gonna add this to her sheet too, but since I'm posting, and you expressed interests in the story and explanation of character powers...

[sblock=The Origin And Function of Genesis]The Butterfly Effect. It specifically refers to a model of weather that illustrates chaos theory, but the moral of the story is what's relevant here. Sometimes very small perturbations can have very large effects. In the case of Alexandra Davies, 'very small' means about as small as you can get. The quantum universe.

In the quantum universe lots of rules we take for granted are turned upside down. For example, we know that matter and energy can't be created, nor destroyed. But that's not true here. Matter and energy are -routinely- created, AND destroyed. The catch is that you can't create matter or energy WITHOUT then destroying them...and on scales of size and time that are not only unknowable to human senses, but are so minuscule that the very universe itself seems not to really 'care' about them. Nevertheless, this constant flux of creation and annihilation forms the basis of measurable effects. The Casimir force, or so-called 'vacuum pressure.' The evaporation of singularities. And the remarkable abilities of one female human being (mutant? psychic? who knows?) to assemble unliving matter from what appears to be nothingness, by an act of will.

What she does is not hard to explain. How she does it defies all theories of physics to explain. When she creates an object there is a massive asymmetric, localized increase in vacuum energy level, culminating in a spontaneous manifestation of whatever it is that she was trying to create. What this means is that the area of space that is to contain the new object suddenly experiences an enormous increase in the rate of "virtual" particle/antiparticle pair production...or would. But those pairs, in which a particle and its opposite normally form at the same time so they can mutually annihilate almost immediately (and by almost, I refer to Planck time; the smallest unit of time possible...essentially a 'particle' of time)...are asymmetric. The particle forms without any antiparticle. Thus, there is no annihilation. The total mass of the universe increases measurable for a measurable period of time. This should not be possible. The other shoe falls later on. The delayed antiparticles form, and the creations dissolve back into the background energy they came from.

Because nothing she creates can be permanent, Alex refers to what she makes as 'fakematter.' In her own words, she describes the process as 'fooling reality into thinking there's something there.' The only limit to the ability is twofold: She can only create unliving matter. While she can create complex organic chemicals...even reproduce exactly the atoms and particles associated with, say, a frog...it would be a dead frog, even if biologically there was nothing wrong with it. This means she can create edible food...but since the molecules of that food would eventually vanish regardless of what stage of digestion they were in, or what cells currently incorporated their proteins and nutrients, it's recommended that nothing she creates be eaten. The second limit is simply...her ability to focus her will on her imagination, to translates what she wants into what is. The visualization of complex materials and understanding of their components and structures would be impossible without an incredibly intelligent and developed mind. Whether these traits are further deviations from the human norm for her, or if they surfaced because of the 'exercise' her power gives her the opportunity to practice, is not and perhaps cannot be known.[/sblock]

Yay pseudoscience gobbledegook!

That's freakin' sweet.
 

He flies the same way as Superman.... He just DOES.
The Vibration powers aren't the whole of the character, just part of it. His Phenomenal Strength and toughness are also not based off the vibration powers.

I've had two ideas on how to describe his past, when(if?) he finally does find out about it.:
[sblock]
#1 : He's an Alien from a high-gravity, high-density world. His species are all very big, dense, strong, and can fly. THe vibration power was something strange in him.. like a mutation for a human.
#2 : Second Generation Super-Hero. He has some aspects of both of his parents (Flight/Strength), as well as powers of his own.(The Vibrations)

Either way, Rumble wouldn't know any of this, of course, since he woke up dazed and fighting a monster one day. When I decide on one of the backgrounds I'll flesh it out a bit more.
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RE: Permanent growth/density - well that really sucks.. It says in the book that the permanent flaw is often applied to growth and density to account for characters who are naturally larger or Heavier, and doesn't mention having to pay more for it, so I assumed that's all there was to it.

[sblock=Earthquake Pricing Breakdown]
Vibration Control 10(2/rank), Area:Burst(+1), Duration: Concentration(+1), Touch Range(-1), Limited: Only affects those in contact with a solid surface(-1)= 2/rank = 20
Progress Area 2(25'/rank) 2 pp
Indirect (From Surface)] 1pp
*Linked Environmental Control[Hamper Movement 6, 250'](1/rank), Limited: only affects those in contact with a solid surface. [ground, building, etc](-1) = 1pp/2 ranks. = 3pp.
20 + 2 + 1 + 3 = 26.
5 Alternate Powers at 1 pp each = 5 pp
26 + 5 = 31 pp.
did I miss anything?
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