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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hand of Vecna" data-source="post: 1709416" data-attributes="member: 755">Heh, that's why I said "maybe."  My main point was that, like the Joker (and to a lesser extent The Creeper), he's irredeemably insane; worse, Madcap's purposely trying to spread his insanity; even worse, he sees nothing at all wrong with it (in part b/c, at times, he seems to think everyone's as indestructible as himself).It's the only possible Weakness I could think of that Madcap would have, and it seemed to fit (i.e. I'm really not looking for more points).  How 'bout having it at the Minor (+2 point) level?Check out <a href="http://www.classicmarvel.com" target="_blank">Classic Marvel</a> for a bunch o' Marvel Super Heroes RPG stats (including <a href="http://www.classicmarvel.com/cast/madcap.htm" target="_blank">Madcap</a>).The <a href="http://www.chronologyproject.com/" target="_blank">Marvel Chronlogy Project</a> is handy for looking up issues of character appearances; here's <a href="http://www.mycgiserver.com/servlet/marvels.MCPDBServlet?figure=4008" target="_blank">Madcap's appearances</a>.Oh, yeah, he's got Regeneration out the wazoo -- as you can see in the above link, he's got ShiftY/200 Regeneration & Recovery (Wolverine only had Monstrous/75 or Unearthly/100) -- he can be brought down to 0 Health and be regenerated back to full Health in 3 rounds.  He has sawed off limbs just for fun, and he has been repeatedly beaten to death & come back from it (Daredevil heard his heart stop, then start back up again on its own); he's been burned beyond recognition and regenerated back from it just fine.  The only thing it doesn't seem he can regenerate is the damage done to his nerves that prevents him from feeling pain (assuming that his immunity to pain is a wholly physical thing).  It's also unknown what'd happen if he were decapitated (my money's on his body getting up, walking over, and re-attaching it).  I tihnk pretty much the only way to permanently kill him would be to atomize him and spread the bits over a very wide area.He was also immune to being Stunned -- if a hit would stun him, it would instead slam (i.e. do Knockback to) him.  I don't see how that could be worked out in M&M, though...Actually, I don't think Damage Save has anything to do with Knockback, only Protection does; I think Knockback is determined by the DC of the attack, and Protection changes the DC, but AmSv/Dmg doesn't.  But, I could be wrong, it's been ages since I've looked at the Knockback rules.How'd you feel about him having Protection (described as I did before, not bulletproof skin but the ability to instantly heal from 'lesser' wounds), with a Flaw that makes it so it does nothing to Knockback (or would that be enough of a flaw to truly be a Flaw)?  Another reason I thought of this -- the bit about converting M&M to a more D20 game sez to treat AmSv/Dmg like extra hp's, and Protection like Damage Reduction.  Extra hp's doesn't seem right, but Damage Reduction (which can be described as "immediate-healing wounds") does.I'm planning to take off Super-Constitution, anyway -- I realized (with some help from Kenson) that Super-Con & Regen won't stack when regrowing limbs or resurrecting.</blockquote>

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