Zenith Comics Presents: Sunman & Arachnaman 27/02/11

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:00 pm

Actually they JUST finished the fight, they did win, but it took over 20 Hero Dice and three of them still went down!

Back to the session I go

Good fight

Post by **BASHMAN** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:12 pm

I did notice a possible mistake- you cannot use "Weapon Technique" combined with "Special Attack". So if he used his energy sword with Weapon Technique, it would count as a "regular" energy sword (x3+15 Dmg assuming it's one-handed, x4+15 if it is 2 handed)

Of course, you could always make His Special Attack 5 = +4DM +1 Hit, or keep it +5DM, +1 Hit and have it be a Level 6 power- clearly this guy is near the cosmic bracket anyway, so no guilt for breaking the level 5 "cap".

Does the energy sword come out of his hand, btw- I'm just wondering why it's not easily taken.

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:21 pm

The sword is meant to be a +5DM so I would drop the Weapon Technique.

Also since he is 61 points before the weakness, I figured he rated as Cosmic.

Post by **BASHMAN** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 6:36 pm

Oh yeah. he's cosmic then! Give him Special Attack 6 then!

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 7:06 pm

BASHMAN wrote:Oh yeah. he's cosmic then! Give him Special Attack 6 then!

My players say...

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!"

MrJupiter · Post by **MrJupiter** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:39 pm

Hey AslanC, Mysterious Origin and Battle Arrogance are two more awesome Disadvantages. Also, characters are awesome; as usual!

therealtony · Post by **therealtony** » Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:12 pm

I really dig the colour scheme used for Prince Zorrin...very striking!!!

AslanC · Post by **AslanC** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:41 pm

Here is a test build for a possible Lady America respec/retconn;

Thoughts?

BillionSix · Post by **BillionSix** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 9:59 pm

The Immunity seems a bit much. Firstly, Illness and Disease could be one thing, unless you have a * GM who likes to * you with semantics, and there isn't Immunity to * GMs.
Immunity to Aging seems like a waste of a point.
If I were GM, I would let a character be unaging for free, unless he wants the full-on Immortality advantage. The reason is, it only has an effect on your background story, and has little to no effect on most campaigns.

Lindharin · Post by **Lindharin** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:11 pm

I like it! The concept feels pretty archetypal, which I think you are looking for.

I do have a couple thoughts about specific elements.

First, I'd say immunity to illness and disease are redundant. If 1 pt of immunity can cover Fire, I don't think of it as being so specific you'd need to differentiate between illness and disease.

Second, you could do the "linked" thing, and save a point by linking your immunities to your Armor. Whether that is character appropriate or not is something I can't answer. Could one be nullified without affecting the other, or are they both part of the same physical enhancement? If they are part of the same physical enhancement, then I'd link them and save a point.

Depending on your concept, you could put your eye beams and x-ray vision in a multipower, again saving a point (since the powers are in different categories, it is 2 pts for the alt slot). Whether I would do that or not depends more on concept than the point optimization.

Lindharin · Post by **Lindharin** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 10:23 pm

If you agree illness and disease are redundant, would immunity to poison be an appropriate replacement for that point?

Post by **BASHMAN** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 12:06 am

I actually like the original Lady America better. Marvel tried giving Captain America Super Strength back in the 70s, and I didn't like that- he lost the thing that made him cool (the fact that he had no "powers").

CometMan · Post by **CometMan** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 1:28 am

Well it was limited super-strength...

Did you ever figure out what that meant? I know I didn't!

Post by **BASHMAN** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 2:24 am

I don't know. I have the Essential Avengers which is every Avengers since issue 1 for like ten years. I'm reading it and Cap says "ever since I got my new super strength, yada yada" it nev said how he got it and a few issues later. They acted as if it never happened!

CometMan · Post by **CometMan** » Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:59 am

I love those Essentials! 500 pages of comics...just picked up a handful of them at a local bookstore at 1/2 off.

The reference I most remember was in the Avengers/Defenders War... Namor said something like, "I heard you have limited super-strength now. Well, my strength is unlimited..."

I think Steve Englehart was writing both titles then, and maybe he was trying to amp Cap up a bit, with all the other heavy-hitters in the Marvel Universe.