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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Set" data-source="post: 3336646" data-attributes="member: 41584">For a super-hero game, someone that ruptures blood vessels or causes Con damage might not be quite as in-theme.  Some sort of ranged 'sap vitality' attack, based on a Blast with the Vampiric Extra (in M&M terms) would be neat, with an appropriate colored special effect (perhaps a the target feels a wrenching pain and experiences bruising at the point of 'impact' and a reddish pulse of misty force spirals to the outstretched hand of the 'energy vampire,' healing him of damage equal to what he's inflicted).  Even that isn't terribly 'heroic,' but it's about on par with Rogue's life-draining touch or Ghost Rider's penance stare.Normally he'd just attack with his blades, striking to do non-lethal damage against human foes (as the Defender Valkyrie would say, 'striking with the flat of my blade, you are not worthy of the edge...'), trusting in his undead vitality (Super-Con, Immunity 12 (life support, aging, need for sleep, hunger / thirst)) and when he does get hurt, 'topping off' with a quick life-stealing attack.  Being able to sense the presence of living foes, perhaps to the level of having Blindsight (detect living) would be a logical side-effect of his powers.  He'd be really strong and fast, but not exactly superhumanly so, just functioning more off of willpower than his actual physical body, which is kinda...  dead.  (His physical strength is no longer a function of those muscles and his reaction speeds don't have anything to do with his long-disused nervous system!)High ranks in skills like Stealth and Disguise would seem necessary, given his nature, and he might even have some limited super powers in these areas, allowing him to 'clouds the minds of the living' or something.  (Represented by the Hide in Plain Sight feat, or a level of visual Concealment (Flaw: Partial or Flaw: only in shadows).)Regeneration might initially make sense, but it might be more thematic to give him a custom Strike (Vampiric extra) power that only triggers when he is unconscious / disabled.  He takes a massive hit and falls over defeated, but some hapless henchman steps up and nudges him to see if he's dead, only to suffer a vampiric attack as the unconscious undead's wounded body instinctively drains vitality from the poor guy to reawaken the Undead Avenger!For an even more durable version, he might even have Regeneration (ressurection) that only triggers when his 'corpse' is touched by a living person, and he has a source of life-energy to jump-start his undead 'metabolism.'</blockquote>

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